Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers
Quoting herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl: All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any ad for month.. I'll second this endorsement, i've been using it for a good few years now and I just works :) Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity
Quoting Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com: El Snippo 13. Not for all, though. 1945 - 1933 gives 12. Do I have to start a calculator now? Its 13 INCLUSIVE. You're calculating exclusive All i'm saying is, Iron Sky. :D Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: little things
Quoting Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com: As far as network traffic info, ifconfig is used for configuring interfaces, not monitoring them. The netstat -ib command will give you total bytes sent/received per interface, but the best solution is probably to poll them with snmp. Having just been looking into this on this very list I can confirm that snmp is the way to go, netstat uses 32bit counters and as a result the counter resets far to often to be of any real use (given that i'm calculating throughput so amount/time), net-snmp can be configured to use 64bit counters and is thus far proving *far* more useful! Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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
Network throughput
Hi guys, Been a while since i've had need to post to the list :) I'm trying to gather network throughput information on a box of ours and I'm having a little problem, the throughput is to be measured on a per-minute basis and i've been trying to use netstat for this (count now - count before/timeperiod) however netstats byte counter resets far too quickly to be usefull (this is a busy gb link), i've had a look at vnstat but this only seems to operation on an hour or higher and I need to get down to the minute, does anyone have any suggestions of a tool better suited to this ? Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: Network throughput
Quoting Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: ntop? I considered this but what I really need is something I can run purley from the command line one shoot like netstat (but without counter resetting problems) Also, Googling for 'netflow freebsd' produces a lot of interesting looking pages. I've had a quick look and that might be usefull, I still need to figure out how to get the data out in a form that's usefull to me but it has promise :) Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: Network throughput
Quoting Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: On 11/01/2012 13:47, Mike Woods wrote: Also, Googling for 'netflow freebsd' produces a lot of interesting looking pages. I've had a quick look and that might be usefull, I still need to figure out how to get the data out in a form that's usefull to me but it has promise :) Another possibility -- net-mgmt/net-smtp compiled with the 64bit interface counters. Ott Köstner made a similar suggestion, I'm going to have a look into it, it might be a little more work writing the script for it but it might well be a good option! Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: Thousands of ssh probes
On 05/03/2010 13:26, John wrote: Ah, I should have added that I travel a fair amount, and often have to get to my systems via hotel WiFi or Aircard, so it's impossible to predict my originating IP address in advance. If that were not the case, this would be an excellent suggestion. What about the option of vpn access ? Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: Securing cgi scripts
Nathan Vidican wrote: Check out suExec, (assuming you're using Apache)... Please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#user and/or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html You can make an entire VirtualHost directive run as a different user/group. A more up to date version :) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html Also have a look at itk, http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/ Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: Fax Solutions
David Allen wrote: This is a wide open question, but if anyone has any experience or comments with respect to using FreeBSD for sending/receiving faxes, I'd be grateful to hear them. Hylafax is available in ports, and the website makes mention of some compatible hardware, but I thought I'd ask here first. A few years back I setup a system using hylafax for the office i was in at the time, it was connected to an old 33.6k fax modem (and then an ata :p) and worked perfectly, it was a bit of a pain to get it setup intially but once it was all going we had fax to email and using jhylafax cross platform faxing from any of our machines! Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: USBserial port convertor
Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51:28AM -0500, stan wrote: I need to support 5 RS-232 streams with my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. I just purchased UTS-408A-S1 8 port adapter. When I plug it in, I get the following in dmesg: uhub3: vendor 0x0409 product 0x005a, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub1 uhub3: single transaction translator uhub3: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ucom0: FTDI FT232R USB UART, class 0/0, rev 2.00/6.00, addr 3 on uhub3 ucom1: FTDI FT232R USB UART, class 0/0, rev 2.00/6.00, addr 4 on uhub3 Looks like it works. :-) the ucom(4) driver attaches. Ah, but I *think* the point he's getting at is that he only seems to have 2 ports for an 8 port adaptor! Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: USBserial port convertor
Roland Smith wrote: If I read ucom(4) correctly (see BUGS), it should create /dev/cuaU? and /dev/ttyU? devices, and you should use those. It does, but my personal experience of those devices is that there's a ucom instacne associated with each device (though I may be wrong!) Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ 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: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4
Deepak Naidu wrote: Hi, I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4. I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux box. How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm. What is the alternative on FreeBSD I dont want the server, I just wnat to monito my FreeBSD 5.4 host. I know this has already been addresses by others but i have another answer :) If im reding you right you have a linux box setup with nagios and you want to monitor services on a remote freebsd box ? SMTP wont be an issue, that can be monitored with check_smtp as someone has already suggested, local stats like disk usage can be monitored a number of ways, personaly i've found nrpe (nagios remote plugin executor), nrpe basicly allows you to execute nagios check plugins over a network/the internet, it's in ports (2 versions depending on which version of nagios you have installed) and it'll install the nagios-plugins package as a dependancy, once it's installed you can configure the commands nrpe will answer and these commands in turn call a nagios plugin. Jobs-a-goodun :P -- Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4
Deepak Naidu wrote: If I want to monitor load, disk space, http etc service I have install entire nagios package or nagios-statsd, or plugins ? SMTP, http imap etc can all be monitored over the internet by the nagios box since the check plugins for those are tcp/ip based, things like disk space will require the nrpe setup (or one of the equivilent) which only needs the plugins, I use nagios and nrpe extensivley to monitor our rack at redbus, network services are just another service definition, checks for disk access call the nrpe check command on the nagios server which connects to the nrpe service on the remote machine which in turn runs the nagios check plugin and returns the results to the nagios server! Basicly you'll need the nrpe package and the nagios plugins package but since the nagios plugins are a dependancy of the nrpe port all you'll need to install yourself is the nrpe package (assuming you're using ports), you'll also need to install the nrpe package on the linux box in order to get the check command for nagios! --- Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4
pete wright wrote: You can also monitor disk load and activity via net-snmp. I use net-snmp to monitor large networks of heterogenous hardware and OS's (*BSD/Linux/IRIX/Solaris/etc..) along side nagios. Granted SNMP may not be a viable protocol to use on the public internet... Indeed, with all the security flaws found in snmp it makes it fine in a controlled local network but for the internet it's almost asking for trouble, I actualy use snmp to monitor a our PIX's, tis a shame the pix gives out so little trafic information else id find far more use for it in our nagios setup. --- Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pam and multiple requiste satements!
Im trying to configure pam to auth *twice* with pam_ldap (since pam_ldap seems incapable of using multiple filters), anyway i have the pam conf file listed below but even if I set either of the queried attributes to false (basicly using 2 queries for access control) it seems that as long as one of them authenticates properly then it goes through as ok, I had looked at using pam_if with pam_deny as another way of doing this but pam_if seems to have gone away long ago. So, the question, is there any I can force pam to authticate against both of these and fail if either does ? - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pam and multiple requiste satements!
Im trying to configure pam to auth *twice* with pam_ldap (since pam_ldap seems incapable of using multiple filters), anyway i have the pam conf file listed below but even if I set either of the queried attributes to false (basicly using 2 queries for access control) it seems that as long as one of them authenticates properly then it goes through as ok, I had looked at using pam_if with pam_deny as another way of doing this but pam_if seems to have gone away long ago. So, the question, is there any I can force pam to authticate against both of these and fail if either does ? authrequisite /mail/pam_ldap/enabled/lib/pam_ldap.so debug authrequisite /mail/pam_ldap/imap/lib/pam_ldap.so debug use_first_pass account required /mail/pam_ldap/imap/lib/pam_ldap.so no_warn Both instances of pam_ldap are configured to use seperate config files with different pam_filter settings. - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: monitoring and alerting software ????
Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote:
Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me
while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my
infrastucture/network/servers?
In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my
FreeBSD servers go down, but also if the router, firewall or switches
go haywire.
Here's something I wrote recently on setting up Nagios on FreeBSD:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/nagios.pdf
Nagios is a good choice indeed, i've recently implemented a monitoring
system for our rack at redbus using Nagios and i'm rather impressed with
how well it all works!
I've picked up a couple of tricks while doing this, the first one is
simply to make very good use of service templates, most of the services
we monitor in our rack are websites (using check_http) so that becomes a
somewhat repeating entry in the config, to minimize this i have a
template defined for website checks containing all of the static values
which looks an awful lot like this
define service{
use generic-service
namewebsite-service
is_volatile 0
check_period24x7
max_check_attempts 5
normal_check_interval 1
retry_check_interval1
contact_groups admins
notification_interval 240
notification_period 24x7
notification_optionsw,u,c,r
register0
}
since the check command will be different for each site since the site
address to query is included that gets specified in the site description
resulting in an entry that looks a lot like this
define service{
use website-service
host_name ServerName
service_description ServiceName (I use sitename)
check_command check_site!http://SiteName
}
which greatly reduces the size of my config files and makes them a whole
lot easier to maintain!
The other trick i've picked up is split all my host definitions into
individual files for each host then add an entry for them in the main
Nagios config (much as i do with vhosts in apache), again this makes it
far easier to maintain and has the bonus that removing a host is simply
a matter of commenting out/deleting a line in the master config file.
Last two things, firstly, nagios -v is your friend, it will give you
concise and quite useful information on any errors in your config files
and saves you loosing the system because of a typo, secondly, for
remote checks nrpe is a godsend, it can be used to allow Nagios to check
pretty much any local information on a remote machine and is quite easy
to configure, for example I have it monitoring the capacity of the /usr
mount our Solars machine (along with a few other bits).
Hope that's helpful to someone :)
-
Mike Woods
Systems Administrator
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB GPS Receiver
Alexandre Biancalana wrote: usb in my kernel: # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device usb # USB Bus (required) device ugen# Generic device uhid# Human Interface Devices device ulpt# Printer device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da device ums # Mouse device ucom device uplcom is what you need for that particular adaptor. -- Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation? Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world? As the installation messages would have said you need to edit your make.conf and add the line NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE to stop the system building sendmail when you do a build world. - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portmanager loop?
cali wrote: The same thing happened to me. Not sure where it was stuck but I was getting a distinct sense of deja-vu watching the output (I don't really mean deja-vu but I can't think of a better way to say it). I left it for 30 hours, and then cancelled it. I'm going to try and run it again today, I'd like to know also if it will eventually get out of the loop, i.e if it is really a loop or something different. I get that whenever I install X, there seem to be chunks of X that produce an effrct like watching a looping tape! - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xerox 6250 USB
I've been having a battle with a xerox phaser 6250dp for a good few months now with some bizziare printing issues. The problem, if i push more than one job into it's buffer at once i get one job out and on some large jobs i get corruption, Xerox have no idead what this is, the Cups people could offer no answers (although i've since managed to rule cups out) and any other usb printers connected to this machine work perfectly. The machine in question is a FreeBSD 5.1 Release machine, connection to the printer is via usb, the printer has the latest firmware and all printing is being handled through cups with the ppd driver from the xerox website. So, the question is does anyone have one of these beasties working properly on FreeBSD and would care to share the details with a man at the end of his whits! Help! - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
Anthony Atkielski wrote: At least someone is thinking of it. There are a lot of PCs out there that are still in perfect working order, but are too slow to run the hugely bloated desktop operating systems (and the server versions thereof) that are popular today. Efficient operating systems like UNIX can give these machines new life and purpose and save tremendous resources in the process. We have here at work a whole load of p3 450's, tad old and not of great use as student machinesodd's where a lot of them where ultimatley desined for the bin, however a little while ago a getleman from our LRC asked me if it as possible to configure a printer to behave in a certain manner, intialy i said no but after some thought i got back to him and told him i might be able to develop a unix based system to do the job and here i am several months later in the process of producing a boot cd for the first release and having 5 print stations and a one development station all running freebsd, all the previously doomed p3 450's and hopefully i'll have about 10 more deployed before i go to my new job. The server too is a Recycled machine, the only new parts are it's raid controller, drives and raid cage and psu (old one was too small for the 4 drives), most everything else came from an old p3 600 the boss was playing with and the case came from an old p2 300 server that was decommisioned when i was a student :) I think it's fair to say *nix oses in general reinforce the idea that just because it's not bright spangly and new it doesnt mean it's useless but freebsd moreso purley because of it's superb hardware support and the fact that generaly it's just a case of install it and go :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid question
Jason Lieurance wrote: I installed everything on 'ad4' but it I think I wanted to install it to 'ar0'. Am I right? Thanks. Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid question
Mike Woods wrote: Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) s/Atapi/ata/ Less haste, more coffee, the key to better typing. -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid question
Why does the os even detect the individual drives when the raid card made it a single drive and the os install is after the raid bios??? Because the chipset provides means to control both single disks and arrays thus you get both, just the way that card chose to do things :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Printing
gabriel wrote: It is said that HP has good support for nix on its printers. I'm about to purchase a printer thats listed on linuxprinting dot org but it utilizes usb. I'll be setting it up with cups, how smart is this? I'm gonna set it up in a network environment. Odds are it'll show as a usb parallel port (most usb printers do this) and being a HP it shouldn't pose any compatability problems (most use pcl/pjl) However if you let us know what printer it is you'll get a better answer :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing mailserver address
Martin Hepworth wrote: for virus scanning you need something like ClamAV, amavis is wrapper application that can call anti-virus programs AFAIK. Amavis is a combined spam/virus scanner, it uses external programs for this and is able to use multiple programs also so you can say run sophos AND clamAV for virus scanning while using spamassassin AND dcc for spam filtering, works very very well in my experience. I used it both on my personal mail server and the student mail server there at work (along with mimedefang for attachment pruning and a boiler plate). I would highly recomend it. - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Disk failure
Dean Hollister wrote: Yep, the kernel reports it cannot read a couple sectors at bootup. Is it just a case of fdisk'ing/label'ing the new drive with a standard MBR, setting up the filesystems and copying to them. Then the new drive should just boot normally? Pretty much, i've done it a few times and never had a problem, tis also a good time to make any changes to your partiton structure :) Remember to make any changes to the fstab that might need doing like moved partitions or differing device names! Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID performance
Yui Sakazume wrote: Hello, I have installed FreeBSD-4.10 to NEC Express5800 120R. I attached LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-6 with six SATA disks. And configure RAID 5 LUN. But, I/O prformance is poor(about 5MB/s). Is amr suitable for MegaRAID SATA 150-6 ? Please tell me newfs parameters if there is recommendation. Write operations on raid 5 take a massive performance hit, most controllers will try to compensate with caching tricks but i suspect this could well be the cause of your problems. -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor that can easily be adopted to editing plain text email messages, theses in LaTeX, or even to browse the source code of an operating system... why would you want to torture yourself with a strange, difficult to use editor? I think for a lot of people, myself included the choice of editor often comes down to the KISS principle, all I really need from an editor is a means of putting data in and changing it around in a comfortable manner, I tend to spend most of my time using easy edit (default editor if you didnt know) quite often even while in X although I also use gedit, it has all the functionality i need and syntax highlighting to boot which makes it handy for perl work but since i do a lot of my editng over ssh sessions it doesnt get used that often :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIC and RPM of a hard disk
Ajesh John wrote: Hi, How can I know if there is an in-built NIC in my mother-board? And How can I know the RPM of my hard disk?, Is it possible to know both these in FreeBSD?, I'm using FreeBSD5.1 - Release, For the NIC, ifconfig will show all the network devices installed on a machine but if you want to confirm if it's onboard.. look at the back of the machine, often above the usb ports. As for the hard drive the only way to find the rpm is to grab the model number and look it up :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which class 2 smard card reader works under FreeBSD 5.x
Michael Bohn wrote: Hi, could any body tell me which class 2 smard card reader is supported by FreeBSD 5.x. If you're looking at smart card readers you might want to see if you can get a wedge reader, wedge readers sit between the machine and the keyboard and pump data directly into machine as if i was typed. Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to begin ???
Bill Moran wrote: If you're looking to start understanding the FreeBSD codebase, probably the best thing for you to do is buy and read _The_Design_and_Implementation_ _of_FreeBSD_. It seems the register have a special offer on that very book atm :) http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/bookshop/detail.asp?affid=TREt=59item=210066 Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with USB Still...
Thomas Moyer wrote: It seems to me that when the device is forced closed like that the script doesn't run. Any ideas? It's a kernel bug :) I had this same issue a little while bad and after a great deal of searching i found this http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46488 The patch worked flawlessly for me, so you should try either the patch or simply updating your source and building a new kernel :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usbd detach event
Im having a small problem with usbd and the detach event on a
5.1-Release system, simply put it's not running the detach event when a
usb printer/parallel port (ulptX) is removed.
my usbd.conf entry for it looks like this
---
device USB Printer
devname ulpt[0-9]+
attach /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/print/perms.pl ${DEVNAME}
detach /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/print/remove.pl ${DEVNAME}
---
As far as i can see there's nothing wrong with that entry and usbd is
running the attach event however i rather need the detach event to
maintain a list of printers available for load balancing!
Any help would be apreaciated.
-
Mike Woods
IT Technician
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question
Vulpes Velox wrote: I know it can easily handle 160GB drives as I have some. It should handle 200GB just fine. I've got a 250gb happily running in my fileserver, has been for a good while now :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anything like ftpmount on freebsd ?
Those people I remember from my Amiga days will know exactly what im asking but for the rest of you let me elaborate, ftpmount is an old Amiga filesystem that allowed you to access ftp sites trough a standard AmigaDos device, now try as i might i cant find anything like it for freebsd so im wondering does anyone know of anything that can provide this functionality ? - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recomendations for a USB2 card
Can someone recomend me a usb2 pci card, the MSI one that came with my K7D Master-L (ironicly to correct usb issues with the board) is giving me no end of problems with umass devices and frankly i've had enough so if someone can recomend me a known goood usb2 card id be greatfull, it needs to have 4 external ports and at least one internaly. Ta Muchly in advance. - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mini itx
arden wrote: im collecting some bits to start a mini itx project http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp i have the need for a small silent pc has anyone used these boards with bds? I've got an m10k sitting next to me with 5.1 on, runs fine :) If you're looking for silent the hush range is a good but slightly more expensive option, ignore the travlar cases as while they are good cases the inbuilt psu is cooled by a 60mm fan and it makes a fair noise so you'd need to swap it out :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maximum Storage
Dew Ediho wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.8 running on a proliant server. My box currently has 60GB space and I plan to add a Network Storage of up to 1000 GB (1 Terrabyte) 1tb should be a problem (although for the record 1tb=1024gb not 1000gb :D). Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: losing disk space
synrat wrote: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/vinum/data 67G 2.0K62G 0%/data Does this look weird or what ?? Nope, looks fine to me :) This is a mirrored vinum volume created from 2 partitions fully taking up 2 73gb drives. vinum shows this as 68gb volume, which I guess is ok considering kbmbgb calculation rip-off, but losing 10gb after newfsing is something new. The only other thing I did is turn on soft updates, but I wouldn't expect that too 'steal' 10 gb also. anyone ? 5gb :) UFS keep x% of the drive unavailable from anyone but root as part of the filesystem optimisations, you can turn this off if you want with tunefs but expect a performance hit from it. Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine
Damon Butler wrote: Sound functions under FreeBSD only if I boot into Linux first and then reboot the machine into FreeBSD. This sounds rather incredible (to me at least) but here's what I've done to confirm this. Initialisation :) Your soundcard needs initialising before it'll function in some way that linux understands and FreeBSD does not, once linux has done the dirty the card is then alive and kicking. I have a similar issue with my wifi card and FreeBSD/Win2k dual booting, when i boot into bsd from cold all is well, if i boot into windows first and then go back to freebsd without a shutdown the cards isnt there, windows does something to my cardbus controler that stops it initialising properly under bsd, good thing i only boot win2k for ghosting :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: losing disk space
synrat wrote: is this true though that soft updates use additional disk space ?? No, softupdates are just a different way of handling writes iirc, they dont have any space overheads afaik :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine
Damon Butler wrote: Hurm. That's all well and good, I guess, but *why* is Linux initializing the on-board sound while FreeBSD is/can not? I admit my understanding of PC hardware to be limited, but I had thought that the purpose of the BIOS was to initialize the hardware for the OS to recognize. Doesn't it hand out IRQs and so forth? The bios is more like a wakeup call, it tells things that need to be told to wake up and say hello, anything after that is up to the hardware, more than likley it's a quirk in the particular peice of hardware, something about the way it works that differes just enough from the norm to need special attention to get it going. Is my problem indicative of a general driver deficiency in FreeBSD? Is there some module I'm not aware of that, were I to load it, take care of this mysterious initialization ? No, this looks like a device specific quirk, like how the 3com 905c will always try and share irq's with my soundcard in my home machine regardless of anything i do yet in other machines it behaves itself :) With the sheer amount of hardware and variations on hardware available these things are to be occasionaly expected :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IDE hard disk recoms
Chuck Swiger wrote: Sure. I'd pick up a 7200 RPM ATA drive with 8MB of cache, such as the Western Digital WD1200JB. Pick another size (40GB, 80GB, probably through 200GB) if you like. Seconded, but id get the sata version and a caddy for a server, makes like easier with changes etc and caddies can be had with extra cooling fans installed which should help lengthen the life of the drive. Seagate and Maxtor are also pretty good names; the former tends to be more expensive and higher performing, the latter are quiet, a little slow, but generally reliable and cheap. I dont know about today but seagate drives used to have real longevity problems years ago (back in my amiga days :)) The IBM UltraStar models are quite good, whereas the DeskStars have dubious reliability, and Quantum made the term stiction famous more than a decade ago with the Q105 SCSI drives that wouldn't spin up, so I wouldn't rely on that vendor either. IBM fixed the problems with the deskstars long ago (with the gxp120) and all the drives since have been known to be reliable drives with good preformance for a nice price, also hitachi own the deskstars now. As for quantum, you've recomended them above :) Maxtor bought quantums hard dive division years ago and most maxtor drives since are basicly quantum designs or derivertives off them :) Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hardware compatability list query (of d00m)
Ignore the of d00m too much invader zim does odd things to you. Anyway, to the point, is there a big hardware compatability list anyway, i dont mean like the one on freebsd.org rather a site stating actual tried and tested cards and the like as opposed to chipsets and controllers ? Just wondered :P Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?
On Sun, 30 May 2004 02:43:37 -0500 adp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious how this problem is being solved. I cant say i've ever looked into it myself but id susjest an easy solution would be to have a cron script store run every now and again to ping the servers and change the mounts depending on what the responce is. also if your backup system is bespoke and can be modified you could use amd and have the script read stored data on nfs server availability so it can decide where to backup the data. -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vinum query
Ok, the query is this, whats the proccedure, is any for upgrading a drive used in a vinum volume, i mean could i have a vinum volume with a 20gb disk in, change it for a 40gb alter the vinum configuration accordingly and have it work (after mirroring the data over of course). -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spam removal
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:18:39 -0500 (EST) matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also check spamassassin, razor2, dcc. procmail too. or maildrop. amavisd and the uvscan binary. I'll second spamassassin, dcc and amavisd (which also does virus scanning), i've just setup spamassassin via amavisd (Milter atm, minor issues with dual-mta for me) and dcc to provide a spam lookup, so far the content of my inbox has droped by a fair few hundered emails and founs five viruses (3 days :D). -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA
Whats the current state of play with sata in 5.2, I know it's supported and I Know some have had issues, but overall whats the general view on it, what controllers have people had the most luck with, how well supported is SATA Raid ? This may seem random but some time this year I intend to upgrade my file server and im quite possibly going to move to sata (im looking at a 2u case with inbuilt caddies, so it's one or the other) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Soundcard query
Does anyone know of any soundcards with multiple line level inputs (and i dont mean on a breakout box) and support under freebsd ? Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )
I wonder Does anybody use SMP Support without Problem . Because SMP is very important things ... http://geofront.co.uk/cgi-bin/geo-stats.pl That box has happily been running SMP under 5.0 for well over six months now without a single glitch :) Mike Wood IT Techncian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with perl version
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 06:50:51 -0600 (MDT) RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with perl versions I need to use perl 5.8.0 but everytime I install from ports a application which depends from perl 5.6 something is overwritten and perl 5.8.0 is not avalaible and I have to make reinstall perl 5.8.0 every time. Is there a way to set a system variable for perl5.8.0 as default? If your doing what i think your doing you'll kick yourself :D Now, assuming perl5.8.0 installs a link to /usr/bin/perl 5.6.1 would overwrite that with's verion of perl BUT perl5.8.0 should still be there at /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 :D Now, the fun comes with modules :D Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question about apache
I've just installed the apache2 from /usr/ports/www, and I want this to run everytime when I reboot the machine. How do I do it? It sets itself up to launch at startup automaticly, you shouldnt have to do a thing. -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey General Dogsbody Amiga North Thames Webmaster Games Co- ordinator --- World Of Amiga SE - http://www.worldofamiga.com Amiga North Thames - Http://www.AmigaNorthThames.co.uk HomePage - Http://www.planetheck.co.uk/~damnation Micronik Busboards Support - Http://www.microniksupport.n3.net ICQ uin - 86410172 MSN Addy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MP3 Conversion Port?
I prefer 192k, personally. Disk is inexpensive. ;-) I had fun this past weekend and ripped/encoded ~150 CDs from collection. With any luck I'll be able to finish the rest this weekend. I love buying CDs, but I hate dealing with them. Everything goes right to hard drive now. VBR anyone ? When i encode mp3's i generaly use VBR, it keeps the file size down but gets good qualty, and mpg123 can handle playing VBR's with a 320-32 kbps range on a p133 so im good :D -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey General Dogsbody Amiga North Thames Webmaster Games Co- ordinator --- World Of Amiga SE - http://www.worldofamiga.com Amiga North Thames - Http://www.AmigaNorthThames.co.uk HomePage - Http://www.planetheck.co.uk/~damnation Micronik Busboards Support - Http://www.microniksupport.n3.net ICQ uin - 86410172 MSN Addy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MP3 Conversion Port?
I generally don't use VBR, to keep compatibility with the consumer devices that I might want to play the files in. Sure, some might support VBR but I ll stay on the safe side. True, but since my Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 supports VBR flawlessly it's not realy an issue for me, i suppose when it comes to mp3's it's a matter of for each their own. Again, disk is cheap. :-) hehe, i've got 100gb on my fileserver with another 80 going in later today cheap it might be, but not when you buy it like i do :D -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey General Dogsbody Amiga North Thames Webmaster Games Co- ordinator --- World Of Amiga SE - http://www.worldofamiga.com Amiga North Thames - Http://www.AmigaNorthThames.co.uk HomePage - Http://www.planetheck.co.uk/~damnation Micronik Busboards Support - Http://www.microniksupport.n3.net ICQ uin - 86410172 MSN Addy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 80GB IDE Drive Compatible?
Setting up a new P4 1.7Ghz system, Maxtor ATA100 80GB HD. The BIOS see's the drive fine, size is correct. When I try to install 4.6Release, I am receiving the following: WARNING: A geometry of 155114/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or you are unsure as to 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. etc Any suggestions? Try the G command and just specify? Any possible problems with this down the road? Stick with the Geomerty it wants to use, although the BIOS will display the correct size most bios's will only ever detect 8gb and simply use LBA addressing to get arround this, since Freebsd essentianly bypassed the bios for a good deal of these disk operations it shouldnt be a big issue, i have a 40 and 60gb drives in my file server on a mobo which only supports 2gb drives, both happily working as 40 60gb. -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey General Dogsbody Amiga North Thames Webmaster Games Co- ordinator --- World Of Amiga SE - http://www.worldofamiga.com Amiga North Thames - Http://www.AmigaNorthThames.co.uk HomePage - Http://www.planetheck.co.uk/~damnation Micronik Busboards Support - Http://www.microniksupport.n3.net ICQ uin - 86410172 MSN Addy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
