ntp problem
Hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3 IN /etc/ntp.conf I have: server time.nist.gov prefer server tock.gpsclock.com driftfile /etc/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log If I run ntpdate from a prompt, I get the following error message: # ntpdate 20 Apr 12:02:08 ntpdate[50109]: no servers can be used, exiting But if I type: ntpdate time.nist.gov it will update the time. Is there something wrong with my /etc/ntp.conf file? Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ntp problem
Thanks guys, I did have ntpd and ntpdate confused. I have things working now. Lisa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Question about entry in auth.log
Hi, I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this: Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from 89.123.165.3 po rt 55185 ssh2 There is a user michael on the system, but whoever was doing this was not him. I am assuming someone tried to break in using a valid username (michael) but with an incorrect password. So I just conducted an experiment to see if I could replicate that log entry using another valid username: mandy. I ssh'ed into the server, gave mandy as the username with an incorrect password. The auth.log entry for that attempt is this: Nov 14 19:44:54 mail sshd[96194]: Failed password for mandy from 72.155.127.223 port 51919 ssh2 and when I used something called keyboard interactive as the primary authentication method in my ssh client, I get this: sshd[96348]: error: PAM: authentication error for mandy from 72.155.127.223 Nothing about Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam. What does Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam mean? Also, in my ssh client, for authentication methods I have a choice of password, publickey or keyboard interactive. I've always used password, and never even noticed that keyboard interactive before. What is that? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about entry in auth.log
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: Or michael is vacationing in Romania. Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it along with chklastlog and chkwtmp. Nothing was found. Pehaps this was a harmless enough prank? Anything else I ought to look at? Fortunately the michael account did not have te ability to su to root. Lisa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: procmail/joe job question
Hi, I know this is a FreeBSD group but a lot of you use procmail and I need some help in a hurry if I can get it. My domain evidently got joe jobbed yesterday, and my customers are getting hundreds of MAILER-DAEMON type messages. Needless to say, they are not happy. I figured I could use procmail to temporarily discard MAILER-DAEMON messages until whatever's going on stops. I don't know much about writing procmail recipes, but I can google for them. I've tried a variety of things in /etc/procmailrc, but none are working - MAILER-DAEMON messages are still being delivered to mail boxes. This is what I've tried: :0: * ^FROM_MAILER /dev/null :0: * ^from.*mailer.*daemon /dev/null :0: * ^From:.*MAILER.*DAEMON /dev/null :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ^From:.*MAILER-DAEMON /dev/null What am I doing wrong, and is there a better way than this to deal with the back scatter fromn this joe job? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daylight Savings time
Hi, I suspect my FreeBSD 5.2 system isn't going to handle the change to Daylight Savings Time correctly next weekend: zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2008 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 6 06:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:59 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 6 07:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 03:00:00 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Oct 26 05:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 01:59:59 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Oct 26 06:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 Could someone help me remember the steps I need to take to correct this? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Daylight Savings time
Hi again, - Original Message - From: Erik Trulsson To: Lisa Casey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Daylight Savings time Install the misc/zoneinfo port, which will install an updated zoneinfo file on your machine, and then run tzsetup(8) to update /etc/localtime. I think that's the info I was looking for. I ran tzsetup, but of course that did no good. I'll install the port first. Thanks. Lisa Casey -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Webmail
- Original Message - From: Satria Bramana To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:44 PM Subject: Webmail Can anyone who had experience running a web-based e-mail give suggestion what package to use? I will only use it for study purpose, so I need one that easy to configure and help me understand the big picture about mailserver.. Thank you very much.. I've used Null Web Mail (http://nullwebmail.sourceforge.net/webmail/) for several years. It's a very basic webmail program written in C, and it's pretty simple to configure and install. It doesn't have all of the features that some more sophisticated web mail programs have, but what I like most about it is it just basically works well. We encourage our users to POP their mail anyway so we don't need the bells whistles of some of the more full featured web mail programs. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc?
Hi, This is kind of off topic for this list, but I know a lot of FreeBSD Admins use Procmail, so hopefully someone here can help. I'm running procmail 3.22 on FreeBSD. I verified that procmail does work on my system by following the testing your procmail installation in the ii Procmail Quick Start. Procmail worked flawlessly in processing a .procmailrc file in my home directory. Problem is, I can't seem to get it to do what is in my /etc/procmailrc file. Either procmail doesn't recognise the /etc/procmailrc file, or my syntax in that file is wrong. I'm using spamassassin, and I want to send email that gets a very high spam score to /dev/null. In the headers of these high scoring emails, there's a line like this: X-Spam-Score: 25.762 (*) My /etc/procmail.rc file looks like this: mail# more /etc/procmailrc # Directory for storing procmail configuration and log files # You can name this environment variable anything you like # (for example PROCMAILDIR) or, if you prefer, don't set it # (but then don't refer to it!) # PMDIR=/etc/Procmail # LOGFILE should be specified ASAP so everything below it is logged # Put ## before LOGFILE if you want no logging (not recommended) LOGFILE=/var/log/pmlog # To insert a blank line between each message's log entry, # uncomment next two lines (this is helpful for debugging) LOG= LOGABSTRACT=all # Set to yes when debugging; VERBOSE default is no VERBOSE=yes # Replace $HOME/Msgs with your mailbox directory # Mutt and elm use $HOME/Mail # Pine uses $HOME/mail # Netscape Messenger uses $HOME/nsmail # Some NNTP clients, such as slrn nn, use $HOME/News # Mailboxes in maildir format are often put in $HOME/Maildir # # IMPORTANT: Upon reading an instruction that contains MAILDIR=, #Procmail does a chdir to $MAILDIR and #relative paths are relative to $MAILDIR # MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # Make sure this directory exists! End Variables section; Begin Processing section :0: * ^X-Spam-Score: [2-9][0-9] /dev/null :0: * ^spam,[2-9][0-9] /dev/null # INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing # INCLUDERC=/etc/rc.testing INCLUDERC=/etc/rc.renattach When I receive an email with a spam score above 20, it is delivered, not sent to /dev/null. Also, procmail is not logging at all, even though with this procmailrc it ought to be logging verbosely in /var/log/pmlog By the way, the permissions and ownership of /etc/procmailrc is-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel and of /var/log/pmlog: -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel How can I figure out why this isn't working? Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc?
Hi John, As with most FreeBSD ports, procmail on FreeBSD looks under /usr/local/etc for its configuration information. Just use that path instead of /etc in any non-FreeBSD documentation you encounter and you should be fine. Thanks - procmail's cranking along now! I appreciate it. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBsd e-mail question
Hi, I'm running Sendmail and Qpopper on FreeBsd. (And perhaps I ought to be asking this on the Qpopper list, but hopefully someone here knows an answer). We have all of our mailboxes in mbox format in /var/mail. When a customer pops his mail for the first time it creates a file .username.pop in /var/mail which never goes away, it remains as a zero byte file. It's quite useful as we can tell from the timestamp on it when the customer last popped his mail. The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file, removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't a problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge: -ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc. If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc. -rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15 .jjvc.pop Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
passwd file and user accounts
Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway... I have a Red Hat Linux system I need to get rid of. It is currently doing e-mail for approximately 700 users and is also doing radius authentication. I have setup a new FreeBSD computer to take it's place. I have everything setup now on the FreeBSD computer except for the user accounts and mailboxes. The mailboxes aren't a problem, I've used tar to move mailboxes before. I suppose I cannot simply copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /home from the Redhat computer to the FreeBSD computer due to the password hash in /etc/passwd. Am I correct on this? Would it be possible to copy /etc/passwd then (before the new system goes live) reset all the passwords with the passwd command? That might be easier than adding in close to 700 accounts using adduser. Does anyone have a better idea of how I might go about doing this? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding a new command
Hi, Once I get this new system going I promise I'll quit pestering you folks :-) Got another question. This should be simple to answer. I've done this before but can't seem to replicate it this morning. I have a few scripts my employees use to do things such as add a new radius user, restart the radius server and tail the radius log file. The most simple one is radlog. The file radlog contains the line: tail -f /var/log/radius.log I need to be able to type radlog from anywhere on the system and have it work. I put the file radlog in /bin (/bin and /sbin are all in my shell's path). Ownership is root/wheel permissions are 555 (I've tried 700 and 777 - these don't need write access though). But when I type radlog I get command not found. I can type ./bin/radlog and it works but I don't want that. I thought if the file was in my path and if it was executable just typing the name of the file from anywhere would work but evidently I'm overlooking something. What? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New FreeBSD installation
Hi, First, thanks for the help I got from this list when I was having problems getting FreeBSD to install on a new system. Hard drive cabling was the problem - got that fixed. I have FreeBSD up and running now. I have a couple of questions. When I installed FreeBSD, it automatically installed Sendmail 8.13. I installed cyrus-sasl2 and cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd from ports because I need SMTP auth. Sendmail is running on the box: # ps waux | grep sendmail smmsp 20613 0.0 0.1 3440 2800 ?? Is2:53PM 0:00.00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) root 20615 0.0 0.2 4400 3692 ?? Ss2:54PM 0:00.03 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) but I cannot send mail through this server using Outlook Express on the Windows computer on my desk (I get a generic error message about the connection to the server has failed nor can I telnet to port 25 on this server. I have noticed that there isn't anything in /etc/rc.conf regarding sendmail (no SENDMAIL_ENABLE=YES etc.) but since sendmail is starting from rc.d perhaps there shouldn't be anything in rc.conf? I'm not sure where to begin trying to figure out why I can't send mail or telnet to port 25. What am I overlooking here? Also, when I installed FreeBSD, I installed SSH. Unfortunately, at first I put the wrong IP address on this machine (it conflicted with another server I currently have running). I fixed that. In /var/messages, however, I'm seeing this every 10 minutes or so: Jul 4 16:12:14 mail inetd[423]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use I don't know if this is because I initially setup this server with the wrong IP address on the ethernet interface (and ssh is trying to bind to this wrong IP) or if I'm getting this message because ssh is being started from both rc.d (there is a script in there for ssh) and from /etc/rc.conf (/etc/rc.conf contains sshd_enable=YES) Thanks for the help, Lisa CAsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem installing FreeBSD 5.3
Hi, I am attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3 (because that's the latest distro I have CD's for) on a brand new system with a 80 G harddrive and 2 G RAM. I boot from Disk 1 of the 5.3 disk set and choose to begin a standard installation. Next is the fdisk utility to partition the drive. The first thing I get is a message which states: WARNING: A geometry of 155061/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or if you are unsure whether or not it's correct, please consult the hardware guide in the documentation submenu or use the (G)eometry command to change it now. Even if I go to bios and use the values bios gives for the harddrive (38309/16/255) I still get the same message about incorrect geometry. I can choose OK and get past this. I choose to devote the entire disk to FreeBSD, and install the FreeBSD boot manager. Next I need to partition my drive. The defaults won't do at all (this machine is to be a radius server mail server and the default size of /var is too small). I chose 2000M for /, 4000M for swap (using 2 x RAM), 200M for /tmp, 20,000M for /usr and the remainder for /var. Next I chose to install full sources, binaries docs and to install the Ports collection. I chose to install from CD then hit OK to start copying files but I get this error: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev. The creation of file systems will be aborted. ad0s1b is my swap partition. I changed the size of swap to 2000M thinking perhaps it was too large but I get the same error about unable to find device node. I've googled this but haven't found anything that helped me resolve this. Any body on this list know what I need to do to get FreeBSD installed on this drive? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deleting old mails
Hi, I've used archmbox for a long time on a Sendmail server with no problems at all. Dunno if you'll have the same experience with Postfix, but as far as I'm concerned, archmbox works very well. Lisa Casey jellico.com, Inc. - Original Message - From: Thierry Lacoste To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:21 PM Subject: deleting old mails I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I also tried mail/archmbox but I'm wondering if it is safe to use it while postfix is running. Quoting the manual: A few words about locking. There has been a discussion about archmbox handles file locking. The answer is simple: no mailbox is ever locked. The reason behind this behavior is that I want archmbox to be as least invasive as possible, so other kind of checks are performed to ensure that no data is lost (mailbox has changed/mailbox is in use by another program). I will surely add some locking mechanism in the future. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Thierry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.4/825 - Release Date: 5/30/2007 3:03 PM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD
Hi, I just read through this entire thread and I have a couple of questions. I have several FreeBSD 5.4 systems. I did the date -r commands as suggested on one of these systems and it doesn't appear to switch over to daylight savings time on Sunday March 11 at 2 AM. I looked in /usr/ports/misc but there isn't a zoneinfo port (on this system). I searched a bit and found this: radius# find / -name zoneinfo -print /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/compat/linux/usr/share/zoneinfo radius# find / -name tzsetup -print /usr/sbin/tzsetup Here's my question. tzsetup seems to already be on this system. I have not used it before, so am unfamiliar with it. Can I just run that now and make whatever changes are necessary to fix this system so that it recognises daylight savings changes? Or am I going to have to download some updated zone files first? In this thread, someone suggested doing the following: cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz tar -zxvf tzdata2007a.tar.gz make make install cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime chmod 444 /etc/localtime I have attempted that, but when I unzip/untar tzdata2007b.tar.gz (there isn't an a file there anymore, just the b one), I get several files but there is no target for the make command. Are there any special considerations any of you might be aware of depending on what function my freebsd servers are serving? One does radius authentication using Free Radius, another is our web server (Apache2) and primary DNS (Bind 9), a third is a mail server (Sendmail). I'm sorry - I'm just kinda confused as to how I ought to handle this issue. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with my server
Hi, I'm running freeradius on FreeBSD 5.3 I noticed a problem in my radius logs a little while ago. In my messages log I saw the following: Dec 28 03:11:42 radius kernel: pid 53251 (cp), uid 0 inumber 8 on /tmp: filesystem full Dec 28 03:11:55 radius kernel: pid 52711 (perl), uid 0 inumber 7 on /tmp: filesystem full I rebooted the system and it seems to be OK now. I am comcerned though because I don't really know what might cause /tmp to fill up and what I might do to prevent that. I don't know what df showed before the reboot, but the /tmp file system is fine now: Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a253678 124276 10910853%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e253678 22 233362 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 36493196 2114040 31459702 6%/usr /dev/ad0s1d396526 47528 31727613%/var devfs 1 10 100%/var/named/dev I realise this might be a pretty vague question, but what might cause /tmp to get full? This server is used for radius authentication, email for a few (~ 50) users and it runs bind as a slave DNS server. Thanks for any input. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving /var/mail
Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving /var/mail
Hi Phillip, I'm a little confused... if you want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail why are you messing around with /home at all? As I said - that was a dry run to see if this would work the way I thought it would (it didn't). I'ld rather practice with a users home directory that isn't important than risk screwing up people's mail boxes. This is what I would do... ... stop your smtp program ... stop your pop/imap program tar zcvpf /tmp/varmail.tpgz /var/mail mkdir -p /usr/var mv /var/mail /usr/var/mail ln -s /usr/var/mail /var/mail ... restart your smtp/pop/imap programs... Thanks. I'll try this tomorrow. On a users home directory first... Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail
Hi, Unless you can find a way to keep anyone else from sending mail to this list, I don't reccomend doing this. We tried this several years ago as a way to send an email to all of our ISP customers at once and quickly discovered that if one (or more) computer on the list had a virus then everyone on the list started receiving virus containing email. Now, of course, we stop viruses at the server level before they reach the mail boxes but even so, you can see how problems can crop up doing a mailing list this way. There are better ways. Someone mentioned Mailman. Also, do your students pop their mail? If so, do you use Qpopper as your POP3 server? If you do, you might look at Qpopper's bulletins feature. That is how we solved this problem. Lisa Casey - Original Message - From: P.U.Kruppa To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 7:40 AM Subject: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail Hi, I am experimenting with a simple mailing list setup for some (15 - 20) of my students, i.e. I put a line like this maths: user1, user2, user3, ..., /var/mail_archive/maths into my /etc/mail/aliases . The last entry produces a kind of archive file. Does anyone know an - equally simple - method to exclude/block everyone else from using this list? Of course, Sendmail users different from maths shouldn't be affected. Thanks and regards, Uli. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: e-mail from cron
Hi All, Thanks for all of your help. Creating /etc/periodic.conf with the appropriate data did the trick. I appreciate it. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e-mail from cron
Hi, This ought to be a fairly simple question, but I've googled and can't really find the answer. I'ld like to have the reports from the system cron jobs (daily run output, security run output, weekly run output and monthly run output) sent to an e-mail address other than root, but I want all the postmaster stuff (mailer-daemon emails, etc.) to continue going to root (so I don't particularly want to just forward root's mail somewhere using the aliases file). In /etc/crontab, I changed this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly # to this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] # but all I get is a blank email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the best way to accomplish this? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuning FreeBSD
Hi Folksm I'm getting these on a FreeBSD 5.3 box: Aug 19 15:46:32 radius sm-mta[12850]: k7JJk1rt012776: SYSERR(UID0): fill_fd: disconnect: cannot open /dev/null: Too many open files in system Aug 19 15:46:40 radius kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7). Aug 19 15:46:40 radius kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7). Aug 19 15:46:35 radius sm-mta[12784]: k7JJk7F0012784: SYSERR(UID0): queueup: cannot create queue file ./qfk7JJk 7F0012784, euid=0, fd=-1, fp=0x0: Too many open files in system I checked, and the system shows: radius# sysctl kern.maxfiles kern.maxfiles: 1416 radius# sysctl kern.maxusers kern.maxusers: 43 I googled and read that kern.maxfiles is dependent upon kern.maxusers and that I shou;d raise maxusers which I tried to do via sysctl: radius# sysctl -w kern.maxusers=50 sysctl: oid 'kern.maxusers' is a read only tunable sysctl: Tunable values are set in /boot/loader.conf My /boot/loader.conf is a zero byte length file. How can I fix this too many open files problem? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tuning FreeBSD
Thanks. I set kern.maxusers in loader.conf and that seems to have helped. I hated seeing stuff like that on a weekend! Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rsync on Freebsd 5.3
Hi, I am trying to transfer all files in /var/mail from one Freebsd 5.3 machine (oldfreebsd.com) to another (newfreebsd.com). I decided to use rsync for this since it would preserve ownership, permissions, etc. I made sure rsync was installed on both machines. Neither machine had an /etc/rsyncd.conf or /etc/rsyncd.motd file. On newfreebsd.com I created /etc/rsyncd.conf thusly: motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd max connections = 1 hosts allow = 208.44.xx.xx (The IP address is that of oldfreebsd.com) On newfreebsd.com, I created rsyncd.motd with the words Authorized Users Only in it. as a test, I'm just trying to rsync /var/mail/lisa from oldfreebsd.com to newfreebsd.com. When that works I'll do all of /var/mail/ on oldfreebsd.com I cd /var/mail, then type: rsync lisa newfreebsd.com:/var/mail/ and get this: connect to host newfreebsd.com port 22: Connection refused rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(348) Anyone know what might be wrong? Or can anyone suggest a better way of moving these mail boxes? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bind problem
Hi, The installed bind is not in /usr/local/bin that is where the port is installed. You might want to do a: # which bind and set rc.conf to the right value for the program. -Derek At 04:34 PM 7/10/2006, Lisa Casey wrote: - Original Message - From: Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Bind problem Did you remember to add: named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named to /etc/rc.conf? Yes. /etc/rc.conf has the following lines for named: named_enable=YES named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named named_flags=-u bind -g bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf Lisa Casey This actually didn't quite answer the problem, but it did lead me in the right direction to solve it. which bind, of course, doesn't work and which named just gives me the path to the named executable as given in /etc.rc.conf But, this got me to thinking so I did a find / -name named -print And found something interesting. I have named executables in both /usr/local/sbin and /usr/sbin So I changed the line in /etc/rc.conf that read: named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named to named_program=/usr/sbin/named and rebooted the box. So far, so good. named -v gives me BIND 9.3.0 and in /var/messages the reboot info shows the same when named loads: Jul 11 13:40:50 netlink kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a Jul 11 13:40:50 netlink named[293]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -u bind -c /etc/namedb/n amed.conf -t /var/named Jul 11 13:40:51 netlink named[293]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 (It's also picking up the command channel, so I guess I did that right). I have one last problem (or at least I hope so!). I maybe ought to ask this in a bind newsgroup, but there are enough folks on this list running bind on FreeBSD that someone ought to know. Evidently Bind 9 doesn't like my zone files whereas Bind 8 was OK with them. A little background: My main domain name is jellico.comI also host several virtual domains using IP based virtual domains in Apache2. So each of my virtual domains has been assigned an IP address out of my Class C. In /etc/namedb/M (the directory where I keep my zone files that this DNS server is master for) I have (among other zones) jellico.com.db which is my forward file for the domain and 26.44.208.in-addr.arpa which is the reverse zone file for the domain. I have always had my virtual domains configured into my forward file (jellico.com.db) so as to enable forward DNS resolution on those. They are configured into jellico.com.db like this: jellico.tn.us. IN A 208.44.26.225 multi-226 IN A 208.44.26.226 multi-227 IN A 208.44.26.227 multi-228 IN A 208.44.26.228 multi-229 IN A 208.44.26.229 multi-230 IN A 208.44.26.230 tspma.com. IN A 208.44.26.231 copperhill.com. IN A 208.44.26.232 multi-233 IN A 208.44.26.233 www.jellico.net.IN A 208.44.26.234 multi-235 IN A 208.44.26.235 stair-way-to-heaven.com.IN A 208.44.26.236 multi-237 IN A 208.44.26.237 kcsvo.com. IN A 208.44.26.238 multi-239 IN A 208.44.26.239 multi-240 IN A 208.44.26.240 wingsofvictorychurch.org. IN A 208.44.26.241 multi-242 IN A 208.44.26.242 multi-243 IN A 208.44.26.243 There are a few others, but you get the idea. I have also always had my virtual domains setup in my reverse file so as to enable reverse DNS resolution on these. This section of my reverse file looks like so: 225 IN PTR jellico.tn.us. 226 IN PTR multi-226.jellico.com. 227 IN PTR multi-227.jellico.com. 228 IN PTR multi-228.jellico.com. 229 IN PTR multi-229.jellico.com. 230 IN PTR multi-230.jellico.com. 231 IN PTR tspma.com. 232 IN PTR copperhill.com. 233 IN PTR multi-233.jellico.com. 234 IN PTR www.jellico.net. 234 IN PTR multi-234.jellico.com. 235 IN PTR multi-235.jellicocom. 236 IN PTR stairway-to-heaven.com. Bind 9 is OK with my reverse file, but it doesn't like any entry in my forward file that ends in a dot (so as not to append jellico.com to it). When I rebooted the box, as soon as the nameserver loads I get these error messages in /var/messages: Jul 11 13:40:51 netlink named[293]: M/jellico.com.db:222: ignoring out-of-zone d ata (mail.campbellcounty.com) Jul 11 13:40:51 netlink named[293]: M/jellico.com.db:224: ignoring out-of-zone d ata (campbellcounty.com) Jul 11 13:40:51 netlink named[293]: M/jellico.com.db:522: ignoring out-of-zone d ata (jellico.tn.us) Jul 11 13:40:51 netlink named[293]: M/jellico.com.db:528: ignoring out
Bind problem
Hi All, I seem to have a bit of a problem with my Bind installation on FreeBSD 5.3. When I first setup this box, I installed the Bind 8.4 from the ports. Soon afterwards, I decided to go with Bind 9 so I installed that from the ports. Now Bind seems to have an identity problem. When I boot the box I get this in /var/log/messages: Jul 10 15:05:32 netlink named[292]: starting (/etc/namedb/named.conf). named 8. 4.4 Thu Sep 22 14:07:24 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/dns/ bind84/work/src/bin/named Jul 10 15:05:32 netlink named[292]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024) Jul 10 15:05:32 netlink named[292]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:104: Ignoring BIND 9 inet control clause Jul 10 15:05:32 netlink named[293]: Ready to answer queries. When I do a named -v to see which version of Bind is running I get this: netlink# named -v BIND 9.3.0 ndc (a Bind 8 program) doesn't work, I get this error: netlink# ndc Type help -or- /h if you need help. ndc help (builtin) start - start the server (builtin) restart - stop server if any, start a new one ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): No such file or directory ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/var/run/ndc) And rndc doesn't work either: netlink# rndc stop rndc: connect failed: connection refused netlink# rndc start rndc: connect failed: connection refused netlink# rndc status rndc: connect failed: connection refused I'm not exactly sure how I created this mess, but what would be the best way to fix this? I really want to be running Bind 9. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bind problem
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Bind problem Did you remember to add: named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named to /etc/rc.conf? Yes. /etc/rc.conf has the following lines for named: named_enable=YES named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named named_flags=-u bind -g bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Updating ports
Hi Folks, I might be a bit confused here. If so, I'm sure you'll tell me about it ;-) I'm running FreeBSD 5.3. I want to update my ports. So I went to the FreeBSD handbook and started reading up on how to do that. According to what I read, I need to install cvsup then create a supfile. OK, so far so good. I just now installed cvsup-without-gui (I'm not running any kind of gui - this is a server). I don't want to update my entire system from FreeBSD 5.3 to something else then do all the make world stuff (although it would be a good idea for me to learn how to do that someday - I just want to update my ports). I got started on this because I wanted to install webmin but I noticed that, in my ports collection the version of webmin is 1.150 whereas the current webmin port at Freshports is version 1.260_2. I figured it would be a good idea just to go ahead and update my ports first before installing webmin so I could install the latest version from ports rather than downloading the tar.gz and installing it that way. Next I need the supfile. I took a look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile (I think that's what I want) but that looks like something that is going to upgrade the entire system (as I said - probably a good idea but I just don't want to do that now, I just want to update my ports). Can't I just update the ports without updating the entire system? If so, am I going about it the right way or am I just plain confused? If I am going about it the right way then I think there's something about the supfile that I obviously don't understand. I'ld appreciate it if someone on this list could straighten out my thinking. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating ports
Can't I just update the ports without updating the entire system? Yes. Look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile You _are_ on the right track, and you can do what you want. Thanks Bill. Duh, I was looking right at that and didn't see the ports-supfile. I'll go take a look now. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating ports
Hi again, One last question and I think I'll be good to go: In my ports-supfile, I've changed the host to one that is local to me in the USA. Do I need to make any changes to *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix Or can I just leave these as the defaults? I understand everything else in ports-supfile. Thanks again, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating ports
Hi, Nope, you're good to go It worked. Now I have an updated ports collection and I'm feeling pleased with myself :-) Thanks guys. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting a new server
Hi, My company (a medium sized ISP) has decided to replace one of our mail servers. We need more CPU power, memory, etc. My boss is talking about getting 2 good size hard drives with a raid card to mirror these. I was planning to install FreeBSD 5.3 (because that's the latest distro I have CD's for) unless anyone has a good reason why not. I'll be installing Sendmail, mimedefang/spamassassin (somewhat CPU intensive), bind (for a caching name server), Qpopper, procmail. We currently have 500 - 600 mail accounts on the current server, and plan to move these to the new server plus use the new one for growth (I don't know how quickly new mail accounts will be added, but say 20 to 50 accounts per month. What would you folks reccomend as far as hardware goes? Hard drive size, CPU type, amount of RAM, etc.? Thanks for the input. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting a new server
Hi Gabor, I'd suggest using courier-imap or something else instead of qpopper. Afaik, qpopper supports only the mailbox format, which is slower and less secure than the maildir format used by modern pop3/imap servers. Courier-imap has a pop3 and an imap part, both of them have SSL support and are easily configurable. Your company migth benefit from running an imap server too. It has a bunch of advantages over pop3, so this might make your users feel more appreciated. I agree you have a pointg here, my main concerns are: 1) I'm used to Sendmail/Qpopper. I'm used to installing these, maintaining these and troubleshooting these. I also want changing over the mail server to be as seamless as possible for our customers. So I don't really want to add a Courier-imap learning curve (for both myself and my customers) right on top of things. 2) I also am used to (and kind of like) having all of the mailboxes in one location on the system (/var/mail/). How much of a performance hit is there in mbox mailboxes vs mdir format mailboxes? Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about Bind
Hi, Thank you all for putting up with me. Everythings working now and both bind and apache start on boot up. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question about Bind
Hi Folks, I seem to have basically screwed things up, so maybe I can get some help getting straightened out. For a long time, I ran apache 2 and bind 8.2.5 on FreeBSD 3.2. Granted 3.2 is old, my server was getting older, so I set up a new box and installed FreeBSD 5.3 I did not realise installing FreeBSD would automatically install Bind 9.3. I figured if I needed to run bind I'ld have to install it. I didn't want to make too many changes at once so I installed bind 8.4 from ports. Now I seem to have both bind 8.4 and bind 9.3 installed. Probably not a good situation. What I suppose I ought to do is to uninstall the bind 8.4 and keep the bind 9.3. How do I do that? I have never worked with ports before (although I think I'll like it once I get used to it). Also - and this is a biggie. named and apache do not start on bootup and I NEED this to happen. I have asked for help on this on this list and on the bind usenet group and implemented the syggestions I got but if I reboot the box named and apache do not start. I have to start these manually. My /etc/rc.conf looks like this: # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Created: Thu Sep 15 14:11:28 2005 # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Sep 15 09:29:00 2005 # Created: Thu Sep 15 09:29:00 2005 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter=63.162.128.1 hostname=netlink.jellico.com ifconfig_fxp0=inet 63.162.128.4 netmask 255.255.254.0 inetd_enable=YES linux_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES apache_enable=YES named_enable=YES named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named named_flags=-u bind -g bind -c /usr/local/etc/named.conf When I reboot I see this in /var/log/messages: Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: starting (/usr/local/etc/named.conf). named 8.4.4 Thu Sep 15 16:42:34 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/dns/ bind84/work/src/bin/named Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024) Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: can't open '/usr/local/etc/named.conf' Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: can't open '/usr/local/etc/named.conf' So I log on, start named manually and it starts: Sep 21 17:02:14 netlink su: lisa to root on /dev/ttyp0 Sep 21 17:02:52 netlink named[495]: starting (/usr/local/etc/named.conf). named 8.4.4 Thu Sep 15 16:42:34 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/dns/ bind84/work/src/bin/named Sep 21 17:02:52 netlink named[495]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024) Sep 21 17:02:53 netlink named[496]: Ready to answer queries. What is wrong here? I'm sorry to keep bugging you guys but I need to get this fixed. Also: I have the Complete FreeBSD third edition, but I don't think it is going to be as useful for FreeBSD 5.3 as it was for FreeBSD 3.2. Reccomendations for a good book to help me with the 5.3?? Thank you so much, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bind not starting on startup on new system
Hi, I migrated my web server and DNS server from a FreeBSD 3.2 box to a new FreeBSD 5.3 box last week. I think I have most of the kinks worked out but I just ran across a biggie. The old box was running Bind 8.2.x. On the new box I set up Bind 8.4. I'll migrate to Bind 9 soon, but not now during this transition. We shut the system down so we could move it back to our equipment closet. When it came back up, named did not start up automatically (I NEED that to happen). I looked in /etc/rc.conf on the old 3.2 box and copied the entries pertaining to Bind into /etc/rc.conf on the new 5.3 box. These entries in rc.conf are: named_enable=YES named_program=/usr/sbin/named named_flags=-u bind -g bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf (I adjusted the path in that last line, evidently on 5.3 named.conf is in /usr/local/etc). But named still does not restart on a reboot. What needs to go into /etc/rc.conf for this to happen? I looked in /var/log/messages but saw nothing from the reboot. There are entries in /var/log/messages from when I manually started it after the server booted. It shows this: Sep 20 17:26:59 netlink named[557]: starting (/usr/local/etc/named.conf). named 8.4.4 Thu Sep 15 16:42:34 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/dns/ bind84/work/src/bin/named Sep 20 17:26:59 netlink named[557]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024) Sep 20 17:26:59 netlink named[557]: db_load could not open: localhost.rev: No su ch file or directory Sep 20 17:26:59 netlink named[558]: Ready to answer queries. Where should localhost.rev be? On my 3.2 box it is in /etc/namedb and this is where I have it on the 5.3 box. It is obviously looking for it elsewhere. Thanks, Lisa CAsey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.0/103 - Release Date: 9/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bind not starting on startup on new system
Hi Jeff, - Original Message - From: jdyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Bind not starting on startup on new system The only place it should be looking for it is in the path that named.conf is pointing to it. which if its the default is /etc/namedb/master. Is it there, or if not, where is named.conf looking for it. This seems obvious and i'm sure you've looked, but i hit a very similar issue a few days agoand it was pointing to not path, which would be /etc/namedb. Thanks, that solved that problem. I had overlooked the obvious answer. named.conf 's default directory is /etc/namedb but I had localhost.rev in /etc/namedb/M (which is my master directory). I copied it to /etc/namedb, that should fix that. Appreciate it. Lisa CAsey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.0/103 - Release Date: 9/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I do this?
Hi Erik (and everyone else who has responded to this thread), Thanks for all the help. I think switching the boxes will go pretty smoothly. Erik asked: Regarding your previous questions: Are you installing bind from ports? bind9 is in base on 5.x. It has slightly different config syntax. Yes, I installed bind from the ports. I noticed the ports had bind8, bind84 and bind9. I thought about going with the 9, but since I'm currently running bind 8.2.5, I decided I'm making enough changes now as it is so I went with the bind84 in ports (still an upgrade to what I had, albeit a minor one). Thanks again, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.0/103 - Release Date: 9/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I do this?
Hi, I want to replace a computer running FreeBSD 3.2 with one running FreeBSD 5.3. The 3.2 computer is currently used as a web server and a DNS server. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 and am currently adding the Apache2.50 port. Once I add the Apache web server and Bind, can I then just copy config files from the old system to the new one? With Apache: can I copy httpd.conf from the old system to the new then move my htdocs directory to the new system? For Bind, could I just copy named.conf from the old system to the new then copy my zone files over to the new system? Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.0/103 - Release Date: 9/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I do this?
Hi, I posted earlier today about setting up a FreeBSD 5.3 box to replace a 3.2 box. I've got the 5.3 set up on a different IP address (for now) and apache and bind seem to be working OK. All the web sites and DNS zone files are transferred over. Tomorrow I need to change the IP address of this box to the IP that the 3.2 box is currently on, remove the 3.2 box from the network and make sure the new one actually does OK in production. What's the quickest easiest way to change the IP address on the new 5.3 box? Should I do it via /stand/sysinstall or should I change it in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts (or do I need to do something with ifconfig - which I'm least comfortable with). Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make kernel fails
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 3.2 on this particular box (yes, I know it's old, I know I should be running 4.x or 5.x but that's beside the point). I'm rebuilding my kernel to include pseudo-device vn support. I modified the GENERIC kernel, config ran OK, make depend ran OK but make stops with this: make: don't know how to make ../../sys/param.h. Stop My kernel configuration is below. By the way - any other comments on what I might have wrong here or how I might improve this kernel any are welcome - I haven't rebuilt a kernel in a number of years so I feel a bit rusty here. Thanks, Lisa Casey # # GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks # # JELLICO kernel built 9/14/05 with vn support (Vnode driver) # # For more information read the handbook part System Administration - # Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel - The Configuration File. # The handbook is available in /usr/share/doc/handbook or online as # latest version from the FreeBSD World Wide Web server # URL:http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is present in the ./LINT configuration file. If you are # in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first in LINT. # # $Id: GENERIC,v 1.143.2.12 1999/05/14 15:12:26 jkh Exp $ machine i386 # cpu I386_CPU # cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU # cpu I686_CPU ident JELLICO maxusers48 options MATH_EMULATE#Support for x87 emulation options INET#InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT#FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MFS_ROOT#MFS usable as root device, MFS req'ed options NFS #Network Filesystem options NFS_ROOT#NFS usable as root device, NFS req'ed options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660#ISO 9660 Filesystem options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root. CD9660 req'ed options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=15000#Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device options UCONSOLE#Allow users to grab the console options FAILSAFE#Be conservative options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor config kernel root on wd0 # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed #optionsSMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel #optionsAPIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O # Optionally these may need tweaked, (defaults shown): #optionsNCPU=2 # number of CPUs #optionsNBUS=4 # number of busses #optionsNAPIC=1 # number of IO APICs #optionsNINTR=24# number of INTs controller isa0 controller pnp0 controller eisa0 controller pci0 controller fdc0at isa? port IO_FD1 bio irq 6 drq 2 diskfd0 at fdc0 drive 0 diskfd1 at fdc0 drive 1 options CMD640# work around CMD640 chip deficiency controller wdc0at isa? port IO_WD1 bio irq 14 diskwd0 at wdc0 drive 0 diskwd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1at isa? port IO_WD2 bio irq 15 diskwd2 at wdc1 drive 0 diskwd3 at wdc1 drive 1 options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC#Don't do it as an LKM device acd0#IDE CD-ROM device wfd0#IDE Floppy (e.g. LS-120) # A single entry for any of these controllers (ncr, ahb, ahc) is # sufficient for any number of installed devices. # controllerncr0 # controllerahb0 # controllerahc0 # controllerisp0 # This controller offers a number of configuration options, too many to # document here - see the LINT file in this directory and look up the # dpt0 entry there for much fuller documentation on this. controller dpt0 # controlleradv0at isa? port ? cam irq ? controller adw0 # controllerbt0 at isa? port ? cam irq ? # controlleraha0at isa? port ? cam irq ? # controllerscbus0 # deviceda0 # devicesa0 # devicepass0 # devicecd0 #Only need one of these, the code dynamically gr ows # devicewt0 at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 5 drq 1 # devicemcd0at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 10 # controllermatcd0 at isa? port 0x230 bio # devicescd0at isa? port 0x230 bio
Re: Web forum tools -recomendations please
- Original Message - From: Vizion To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Web forum tools -recomendations please Hi I need to install a community forum system running in a apache/freebsd environment. Any software suggestions ideas and or experiences to share? All contributions appreciated I like YABB (yet another bulletin board). Easy to install and setup, it's in widespread use and there's support available. Lisa Casey No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 8/26/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail relaying from network
Hi, I have three computers networked together - one Freebsd 5.4 and two WinXP boxes. I cannot get Sendmail to relay messages from the two WinXP boxes. I continue to receive an error message that relaying is not allowed. The only way I can get it to work is to use the FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay') directive. That is risky, and therefore I do not want to use it. The two WinXP boxes are 192.168.0.3 and 192.168.0.2 respectively. The FreeBSD box is names 'ges.seibercom.net' and the main WinXP box is 'gerard.seibercom.net'. What sort of directive should I be using to allow the WinXP box to send mail through Sendmail and still have a secure system? Add the IP addresses of the WinXP boxes to /etc/mail/relay-domains See http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.27 in the Sendmail FAQ Lisa Casey No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.4/66 - Release Date: 8/9/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftpchroot
- Original Message - From: Denny Jodeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: ftpchroot Hello, I'm trying to restrict an ftp user to a particular directory. I've written an ftpchroot file, as follows: Username /var/spool/ftp/ ./Username/photos After I write the file and restart inetd, I am not able to login to ftp with this user account at all. I have RTFM and evidently don't get it... Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. Denny Maybe you're trying to do something more complicated than I am, but I have ftpchroot working. My /etc/ftpchroot file just consists of a list of usernames, one per line. This effectively restricts the ftp user to his/her home directory on the server (the home directory, of course, is owned by the user in question). On your system does the user own the directory you are trying to ftpchroot him in? Perhaps that is a requirement... Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.5.2 - Release Date: 6/3/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
moving /var/mail to another machine
Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using scp, but it doesn't preserve uid/gid I found this page: http://www.unixguide.net/ibm/faq/faq1.604.shtml which says I can do either: $rsh RemoteHost cd TargetDir; tar -cBf - . | tar -xvBf - or rcp -rp host1:/dir host2:/dir I'm trying it using a users home directory first just to make sure I can get this right, but so far I'm not having much luck. Could someone here suggest the best way for me to move these mailboxes (and perhaps help me out a little with the actual syntax of the command I would use)? I realise that there will be a problem with mailboxes that don't have usernames on the remote system (the system I'm copying the mailboxes to) but most of the users currently exist on the remote system, it will be easy enough to do a adduser to add in those that aren't already on there. I hope I'm explaining myself clearly here, it's been a long day already :-) Thanks, Lisa -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.16 - Release Date: 5/24/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Migrating to a newer version of FreeBSD
Hi Folks, I have had a Redhat box that was running my radius authentication and sendmail. Several weeks ago the hard drive in this box crashed. Naturally :-( I didn't have a backup. This created an emergency - my users could not get authenticated and could not get email. I didn't have time to solve this problem nicely, so this is what I did. I had another computer that I had installed FreeBSD 4.6 on some time ago but wasn't using for anything. So I hastily installed a radius server, sendmail and qpopper on it. Fortunately I had a copy of my radius users file, but we had to recreate all of the users on the box for mail. Right now my problems are: 1) The version of FreeBSD is just too old. The ports are old and I just cannot seem to just download newer ports and install them. 2) The hard drive on this box is too small. I never intended to use it as a mail server wehen I set it up, so my var is just way too small. I have a new large hard drive I purchased. I intended to install this drive as a slave drive in this box and copy everything over to it using dump restore following the procedure at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK I need to think about this and do it right this time. Doing things in a hurry on an emergency basis just causes grief. I don't want to keep the FreeBSD 4.6 for obvious reasons. I'm pretty sure I cannot install a 5 version of FreeBSD on the new drive then dump/restore things over to it. So here's what I was thinking about doing I just ordered a copy of FreeBSD 5.3 I can install the 5.3 on the new drive and get radius authentication working on that one quickly and easily. The email is going to be more of a problem since users currently have mail in their mail boxes on the 4.6 box and, of course, new mail comes in all the time. I can go ahead and get Sendmail and Qpopper set up on this new 5.3 box. What do you think will be the best way to migrate the mailboxes over to it so as to cause our users as little grief as possible? Since that old redhat drive crashed our users have experienced a fair amount of problems and I'ld like to minimize that as much as I can on this new transition. Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.9 - Release Date: 5/12/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel: file: table is full
Hi, I am getting this error message ( /kernel: file: table is full) on my FreeBSD 4.6 box just before the system seems to freeze or lock up. I googled it then went to the handbook and read that I need to tune kern.maxfiles in my kernel. My question is: Is this something I can adjust using /etc/sysctl.conf? If so (and I think I can) what is the syntax I would use (I have not had a need to mess with sysctl.conf before). I am using the generic kernel. How can I know what the value of maxfiles is currently in my generic kernel and how high might I want to raise it? Thanks, Lisa -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 5/6/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD
Hi,
Ok but this basically sucks. I'm sure I should be installing from ports. But
I don't seem to be able to do that, and I do know how to install source
files.
When I try to do a pkg_add to install the mimedefang port that I've
downloaded from freebsd.org, I get this:
radius# pkg_add -r mimedefang.tar.gz
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4
-stable/Latest/mimedefang.tar.gz.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not
found, no
access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch
`ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-
4-stable/Latest/mimedefang.tar.gz.tgz' by URL
So I moved the tarball over to /usr/ports/distfiles, extracted it and ran
make. That resulted in:
radius# more distinfo
MD5 (mimedefang-2.51.tar.gz) = 9c4df4ec349e414f893c940ff563bea5
SIZE (mimedefang-2.51.tar.gz) = 302006
radius# make
Makefile, line 53: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} 500601)
Makefile, line 53: Need an operator
Makefile, line 55: if-less endif
Makefile, line 55: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
At this rate it'll be forever before I get mimedefang installed and in the
meantime I have customers upset because they are receiving unacceptable
levels of spam. Surely someone can help me out with installing mimedefang
from source and getting this sendmail stuff I have questions about working.
Of course, if someone wants to tell me what I'm doing wrong in trying to
install this as a package and howe to do it right, that would be OK too :-)
I'm going to CC this to the FreeBSD list in case someone on that list might
be able to help.
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
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From: ADNET Ghislain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD
Lisa Casey wrote:
Hi,
I need to install Mimedefang on a FreeBSD 4.6 system as the Redhat
system I was running my mail server on crashed. I've upgraded perl to
5.8.6 (it was 5.001 or something like that) and installed the
necessary perl modules for mimedefang. I have a couple of questions
though about installing on FreeBSD (this is different from the way my
Red Hat system was).
I have Sendmail 8.13 on here. According to the Mimedefang instructions
I need to make sure I have a queue runner. Does anyone know if
Sendmail 8.13 will do this automatically? In the mimedefang
instructions I was reading it said to do this by adding sendmail -Ac
-qp5m to the init script for Sendmail. On my Red Hat system this was
in /etc/init.d. I can't find where I should specify this on FreeBSD.
When I installed my radius server on this FreeBSD system, I put the
init script for it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (there's no sendmail script
therre). Is this where I should put my mimedefang init script? How
will I know if this stops starts mimedefang at the right times? I
believe mimedefang should start up after Sendmail does and should be
stopped before Sendmail is.
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
Hi lisa,
You should use the port system to install it on freeBSD, think of it
like the rpm for redhat... :)
regards,
Ghislain.
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Moving /var
Hi, I could have sworn I've seen some info on moving var onto it's own hard drive but I vcan't seem to find it now. Would anyone happen to know a url? Thanks, Lisa -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 4/25/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help with a swap file
Hi, I think I screwed up. Perhaps someone here can help me. I need more swap space on my FreeBSD 4.6 box. I followed the directions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html for Creating a swapfile for FreeBSD 4.X. The example given in the handbook was for a 64 MG swapfile. I wanted to create a 200 MG swapfile. So for the command in the example that says: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=64 I typed instead: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=200 I put the swap file info in rc.conf: swapfile=/usr/swap0 # aux swapfile and enabled the swap file (as per the directions) by typing # vnconfig -e /dev/vn0b /usr/swap0 swap Before I created the new swapfile, swapinfo gave me this information: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/ad0s1b 115296 11588 103708 10% Interleaved Now swapinfo gives me this: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/ad0s1b115296 8136 107160 7%Interleaved /dev/rvn0b 720 72 0%Interleaved Total 115368 8136 107232 7% When I look at the size of the swap0 file I created in /usr, it is not the 200 MG I thought I was getting: -rw---1 root wheel 204800 Apr 27 15:58 swap0 How can I undo this and redo it? What do I need to do to do it RIGHT this time?? Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 4/25/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
