RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract) wrote: So, who's using these clients, and how effective have you been finding them? Any gotchas? How cool is it? Do they just plain suck? And more to the point, which one(s) should I start with on the short list? snip I've used the rdesktop client for connecting to a Windows 2003 Server (/usr/ports/net/rdesktop). I wasn't that impressed but then again it could have been a PEBKAC situation. I could not get the screen resolution of the Windoze 2003 server to go anything beyond 640x480 and it looked horribly grainy. Other than that, it did actually connect and allowed me to do all that I needed to. I just couldn't handle the graphic element, which again may have been more a user issue than an issue with the program. Other than that, I have used the Windows RDC programs and they work ok. Thad I use rdesktop regularly to administer some of our Win2003 Servers, and it works well. Special trick is, that I need to hop first on a jumppad, where an extra NIC is attached to the dedicated management VLAN of the Win boxes, and then hop on them via X-forwarded rdesktop- works well, despite that jumppad is a small old crappy Pentium-II, which is also busy doing some other things... so: ssh -X jumppad rdesktop -g 1024x768 win-server That shall give you some window in 1024x768, normal is 800x600 in standard mode. when its smaller, I guess you havent configured the Graphics driver, or its set to standard VGA. Win (also for remote connections) sometimes looks after that settings... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Servers
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, dev web wrote: Hi, The company I work for use mainly FreeBSD servers, we are currently investigating investing in a new server with the following specs: HP ProLiant DL380 G3 - Xeon 3.06 GHz snip Has anyone had any experiance running FreeBSD on a system such as this, My main concerns are really the Raid Array, ILo and Insight Manager, I know that FreeBSD has the Smart Array 5i supported through ciss, but we dont currently use either HP or Raid, The reseller has been as helpful as possible (bar giving us a server to play with) but support for FreeBSD at HP is obviously limited at best. Hi! Have some of them here, that are deployed with Win2003, and I had some time to make some short tests. results: Hardware is supported quite nicely, a tape drive (which we don't need because of central tape library) should always be hooked up to a different non-RAID card IMHO, iLO also is working nice, but: For some management functions those boxes rely on SNMP, and AFAIK there are no FreeBSD agents avaiable for FreeBSD. WIth them (Insight Manager) installed, I do hardware monitoring for defective HDD, fans, etc. with a nagios box. I had a short glance at the RedHat SNMP agents, but even unpacking them on FreeBSD was a major pain, so I assume you have to live without deeper insight in what your box does. IIRC the iLO in its event log relies upon those information, so it might occur that not every information (when ECC errors occur etc.) might end up in the iLO log. Otherwise, they are in the process in integrating ssh access in the iLO (have 1.62 running here), so that you can remote powercycle/light the uid LED remotely via ssh, and may forward a text console via ssh and there is no need to use the java applet in a webbrowser for that. I used FreeBSD 4.8 on a 360G2 some time for netsaint monitoring, and there the ciss was quite stable, no hassle at all (ok, it was quite slow with lots of small files, because the writeback enabler was not installed) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Seth Henry wrote: Guys, I am trying to decrease the amount of traffic going through my cable modem. Presently, I have a FreeBSD 4.10 system acting as a gateway router. It runs ipf/ipnat for filtering, and acts as a dhcp server to the internal network. I also run ntpd, and have pointed all of my internal machines to the router for time services. I plan to add a caching web proxy, and a private DNS server - which is where my question comes in. I want to run a private DNS server which is visible internally only. Comcast doesn't like servers, so I don't want to broadcast any DNS information upstream. (this would also be kind of dumb, as the entries would point to non-routable addresses) Hi! Hm, basically you set up BIND (or one of DNS demons of your choice) and tell them to a) take queries from clients and get the resolution stuff done b) tell the named that he is primary server for certain domains, like foo.bar.homezone a) ist done automatically after named ist started, that BIND is a caching nameserver, for easy you should put a forwarders clause in your named.conf so that BIND always tries to ask your providers DNS first, will also help to reduce traffic. b) Well, if you want to propagate DNS upstream or only on a local network is the same setup, when you have a primary DNS running- its the same named.conf, where named is responsible for a certain zone. As you are running a firewall, I assume that every port that is not needed to be visible from outer space ist closed, so there is no problem with that. Or you could tell named to only listen on the internal interface, which is the technically correct solution. All that stuff should be covered within the handbook, as pointed out, in my named.conf on a 4-stable the comments in the named.conf are also sufficient to create a primary DNS... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: namp usage ? (bug?)
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, stan wrote: I'm trying to use nmap to check for all hosts that are up on a subnet. I'm using this syntax: nmap -sP 170.85.113.0/25 Bit, I'm getting the follwing error messge; Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-10-05 07:22 EDT sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0, 170.85.113.0, 16) = Can't assign requested addres Here's the approriate NIC config: fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 170.85.113.56 netmask 0xff80 broadcast 170.85.113.127 ether 00:01:fa:ff:fa:bc media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active Am I using this incorectly? Yes I'm loged in as root, when I try this. I't on FreeBSD STABLE built a couple of weeks ago. Well, I had this with nmap 3.50, too. Upgrading to a later version of nmap solved that problem. I am running nmap 3.70. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 433au
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Mike Cochran wrote: To one of the old DEC nerds: Will an old digital personal workstation take a standard power supply, or do they require a custom one? I have a 433a, and judging from the setup of the inner parts, I assume that they have proprietary PS. Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I need every .iso file?
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Doug wrote: Ja, for FreeBSD, do I also need in addition to the disc1 and disc2 isos, for I386, do I need to use the i386minilist.iso file, or can I do without? Thanks. Hi! The miniinst.iso is a disc1 minus several pre-compiled packages, such as X etc. So if you already have the full disc1, you do not need the miniinst. Also on disc3/4 are only precompiled packages, when you have a good internet connection, use of the ports tree is way simpler IMHO. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing on Compaq DL380 with IDA RAID
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem installing 5.3-BETA2 on this box with a Compaq Integrated SMART Array Controller. The install CD detects the array and I can partition, label, and install 5.3-BETA2 through the post- install configuration. However, when I reboot, the OS tells me, something to the effect, OS not found. Hi! I assume you have the Generation1 of the DL380 running, white case, dual Slot1 CPUs up to ~800MHz, 4U chassis, 4HDD available. The smartarray SCSI Controller sits on a dedicated PCI card, Configuration of that puppy is made via the Compaq Smartstart CD. I've tried installing the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard boot record, and to leave the MBR untouched. I've also tried 4.9-RELEASE just to see if there was a problem with 5.3-BETA2. No matter what I try, I cannot get the Compaq BIOS to recognize the OS I just installed on the drive array. I had a machine with FreeBSD 4.8-R happily doing netsaint monitoring for some months, so we can assume that there are some settings wrong. Clasical candidates for this are: OS Type in BIOS (respectively the corresponding part to be set up via Smartstart CD) should be set to NT 4.0, at least this worked for me. I had the HDD set up as RAID 1, after that I installed 4.8-R from CD as the only OS on that HDDs. Try swapping your PCI cards into different slots, its some known issue regarding PCI Interrupt routing on those Compaq designs. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3Com Etherlink III ISA support [was Question]
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, stheg olloydson wrote: I used that card in 2.2.2. (My first FBSD install!) As I remember, I had to run a 3Com DOS utility to set the physical parameters manually. Then I configured FreeBSD to use those settings. I would think later versions would support that card, as well. You probably just need to do what I did. If you don't have the 3Com disk, you can download what you need from their site. Hello, Please keep the list in the loop. Hold on there! I didn't say to run 2.2.2. It was nice back in the day, but if you were to run it now, the Huns would sack your village. What I meant to communicate is you should use the 3Com software to configure the NIC manually and then enter that configuration - if needed - when setting up your interface. Hi! Well, I once also used an old 509b, it had to be manually set up via DOS bootdisk, it turned out to be best practice to set it to manual IRQ configuration, so that you know what you have turned, you also had to set IIRC the right connector manually. those cards are supported via the ep(4) driver, xl(4), as stated in another posting, is for PCI cards. These cards can be a pain, they only support half duplex and can easily hook a system when the get lots of broadcast... Otherwise, in recent versions of FreeBSD the ep driver should have been improved, so I suggest trying a recent 4.10-Release on that box. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [UPDATED]sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jorge Mario G. wrote: the laptop (Linux/FreeBSD) has the same hosts file and linux can ping to the outside world ALWAYS. so can do it the Windows boxes. somthing like this icmp echo request freebsd.org (my DNS servers) here then it tries freebsd.foodamain.org then after like 2 mins I get coulnt lookup host or something like that here are the actual files ### resolv.conf nameserver 200.13.224.8 nameserver 200.75.78.78 3 host ### 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.mosca.linopryne.com 192.168.0.254 mosca mosca.linopryne.com 192.168.0.1 a a.linopryne.com 192.168.0.2 b b.linopryne.com 192.168.0.10diana diana.linopryne.com ##333 diana is using those DNS server and is working ok mosca is the conflicting machine a is the gateway b is teh WIFI AP Hi! Well, to clarify a bit: You have diana and mosca, both workstations, which you are logged on. on mosca (the FBSD box) you have above /etc/resolv.conf. So when you are also having problems to connect to the outside world, then I suggest you check the following things in order: on Mosca: netstat -rn #check if mosca really has a default route via the gateway to outside world ping 66.94.230.46 # thats one of the IPs from yahoo.com ping www.yahoo.com # check if DNS actually does something - When we have come until here without failures, then your inet connection is functional and running, and we have to debug the local setup. Please do these commands, and paste/post the _full_ output especially the part about the icmp replies with ping. BTW: host/nslookup use different routines for resolving Names, they directly use DNS and will not look into files, applications like ping, ssh etc. will do name lookup via the gethostbyname(3) or getaddrinfo(3) syscalls, that include looking up the /etc/hosts file. so a : nslookup dianawill not bring you a correct answer. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning mp3's
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, dave wrote: Hello, Simple question probably, i want to burn about 690 mb of mp3's to disk. To date i've only used cdrecord to make either audio .wav disks or data disks, make an iso, then burn that iso to disk. I'm wondering if there's a howto on mp3 burning? Do you want to burn them as .mp3, so that any application like xmms or winamp can play them? Then its simply mkisofs/cdrecord, as you already know. When you want to listen to them in an ordinary CD-Player, well, you need to convert the mp3 to .wav format first, then burn an audio CD. I use xmms to write mp3 -wav , simply hit the button on top left, then choose options, audio i/o-plugins, theres a disk writer plugin similar to that in winamp. then: cdrecord -dao -pad ~/BURN/*wav or similar... But: be aware that 1 MB of mp3 roughly equaly 10 MB of .wav HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun Fire V65x Support
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Richard Cotrina wrote: Hello : Is anyone running FreeBSD-STABLE in an intel based Sun Hardware (Sun Fire V65x) ? I need running it in a production environment and I prefer FreeBSD rather than RedHat Enterprise Linux or Solaris X86 (they are the recommended OS). Well, some time ago I had the opportunity to put a 4.9R IIRC on a V65x with the RAID card installed. Played nicely, Raid was an iir, so anything went fine. Had to give the box next day to an other project, where it was deployed for production... So it works, but I have no figures with long-term stability etc, but given that it is a re-branded Intel OEM box it should play well. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can i make a CD of the Ports Collection
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Peter Ryan wrote: I am very new, and have been reinstalling FreeBSD many times to clean up whatever mess i make and start again. I recently used cvsup to update my ports collection for the 4.10_RELEASE. Now, when I reinstall, it takes much longer because i bring in the updated ports collection rather than the ports collection on the install CD (which i burnt from an ISO file) The whole portscollection is also available via ftp: on ftp2.de.freebsd.org: ftp pwd 257 /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports is current directory. ftp ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (134,76,11,100,141,111) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 25760 drwxr-xr-x2 emoenke ftp 4096 Aug 3 01:53 . drwxr-xr-x 11 emoenke ftp 4096 Jul 29 2003 .. -rw-r--r--1 emoenke ftp 1006 Jun 19 01:49 README.TXT -rw-r--r--1 emoenke ftp 26332175 Aug 3 01:26 ports.tar.gz 226 Transfer complete. simply download the tar.gz, and extract it to /usr/ports On each ISO of a release, like the 4.10R-CD #1, they take a snapshot of the ports tree when the make the assumption that it ist quite consistent. So when you download in say, 3 months a 4.10 ISO, the ports tree therein will be more than 3 months old. In that case, use whether cvsup or method above to get a recent ports tree. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) under FreeBSD?
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Central management of our servers runs under HP SIM (HP Systems Insight Manager), formerly known as CIM (Compaq Insight Manager). HP on its website says it's supported for Windoze, HP-UX and Linux. Has anybody out there got this software running under FreeBSD (possibly using Linux emulation)? Well, I once had a look at it, but it was way cruel, the installation package (at least the one I was aware of) was a rpm, that IIRC needed an /opt, and there was lots of binary code and other stuff, so it is not the thing of: lets put it under linux emu and let it run... Gave it up quite frustrated, because it has its own installer that was not so easy to fool around. *sigh* Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SNMP MIBs for HP Proliant?
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, For a HP Compaq Proliant DL360 I'm looking for the SNMP-MIBs that cover the following items: o) Disk-IO o) Disk-usage (capacity used) o) Memory usage o) Compaq/HP Smartarray (Compaq Smart Array 5i), esp. disk failure etc. o) CPU Usage (two Xeons running SMP (hyperthreading to 4 virtual CPUs) o) Network-IO Does anybody know where I can get hold of the respective MIBs? Somewhat related to the above question: Is it possible to make the respective MIB variables available via net-snmp in order to either poll them (snmp read) or send traps when reaching certain thresholds? I esp. thought about sending traps when e.g. the smartarray reports a problem, disks become full etc. The MIBs (basically translation from numerical OID - human readable description with comment field) as such are freely available from HP, they are supplied on the CD that comes with every box, or downloadable as softpaq. What you probably mean, is the SNMP Agent, which is responsible for collecting the data as such, and supply those to the snmp package (in this case, net-snmp) for further treatment. AFAIK those agents are binary only, and it should be quite difficult to get them run even under linux emu. At work, I have a couple of 360/380 running Win2003, that are being monitored by a FreeBSD box with net-snmp/nagios. Also have to use the HP MIBs there, works like a charm. But you are looking for a solution to have native agents with FreeBSD, and that is going to be difficult. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + Dell PowerVault NAS
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Joseph Koenig wrote: Hi, Has anyone used FreeBSD with a Dell PowerVault NAS (Windows-based)? We are considering moving some servers to a facility that uses PowerVault NAS machines with Windows to do backups. Is there any issue with this? I should be able to connect via NFS or SMB and just tar directly to the NAS machine, correct? Thanks, Well, I've seen one of those providing NFS to a Solaris8 box, and it worked so far. IIRC there is the Windows Storage Server installed, which has Services for Unix as NFS-Provider, rumors go that lots of that code had beed derived from OpenBSD... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Gateway???
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | | 10/100? There are less Gigabit types that are supported, yet, | but then the reason for that should be pretty obvious. | | Anyway, you generally can't go wrong with 3Com. That said, | I've never had trouble with 3Com, SiS, DEC/Intel, even RealTek | and the onboard VIA/Rhine stuff (drivers, respectively: xl, sis, dc, | rl, vr). | | That covers quite a few chipsets. There are plenty more. The | only problem I have answering your post is that I don't know what's | *not* supported. Also, some users have reported issues with watchdog | timeout errors using 5.X FBSD and one of the drivers mentioned above. | You could probably spot which one on Google ... Hi! Well, I personally prefer the Intel Etherexpress in 100MBit Scenarios. (fxp) You also could look at ebay, sometimes they show up in bundles of 5 or so, and then are below those 30$ list price... Or you could have a look at a Znyx or Adaptec or Intel dual/Quad card, I also noticed some Adaptec quad ones on german ebay recently. In Gigabit world, well, Intel or Broadcom (em or bge) cards are nice, but given the scenario you have, they are overkill and quite costly compared to some fxp or xl. Do _not_ go for Realtek or Via, they impose a far heavier load on the CPU than Intel or 3COM. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Single Xeon
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, freebsd_daemon wrote: Dear list; will all Xeons also run if no second CPU (Xeon) is available? I need to know as i am building a system to be used by a small number of people, but don't know how many it eventually will become. I therefore would like to keep the system as scaleable as possible and would like to use a dual board but start with only one CPU. Hi! Well, a single XEON will work fine, no problem. Depending on your Mainboard, you will need a Terminator for the (empty) slot 2, if there is only one CPU installed. The GENERIC kernel will come up just fine, and later, when you have an additional CPU installed, under 4.x just recompile the kernel with SM P switched on, under 5.x ist shall autodetect the second CPU. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Aaron Peterson wrote: hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I couldn't think of any other way to copy it. I put the install cd in for FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately instead of going to command prompt. in the Kernel Configuration menu, I just skip and boot the default kernel. It finds devices that scroll accross the screen, network cards: This is a Compaq DL380 server (dual P3 733s and ECC RAM). I've swapped out each memory module with a known good memory module one by one, and every configuration still generates this error. OpenBSD and Redhat seem to run just fine on this machine too. What can I do? I don't understand what is generating this error exactly so I don't know where to start. Hi! Well, ok, I assume that you got a Dl 380 Generation 1, with the white case, and also 4U form factor, that has an ida RAID controller as PCI-card. I had one of those running with FreeBSD 4.7, later updated to 4.8-stable with cvsup. Ok, I had only one CPU in, and I had the OS type in SETUP set to NT4. Do not set to linux or SCO, that could impose problems. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus PSCH-L
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, freebsd_daemon wrote: Dear list; does someone have good or bad experiences with ASUS PSCH-L motherboard? Colleague of mine bought it, ist quite satisfied with it, but had with a 5.2.1 several acpi-related problems with his ICP-Vortex SATA Raid, which are fixed in -current Otherwise he told me its a fine board. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: even get the image file. But then the problems start. A second scan seems to hang (well, how long am I supposed to wait?). I killed the app, restarted it; again hanging. But I was patientafter 5 or 10 minutes suddently the window popped up. I clicked on Scan, which hangs the application again. Hi! Just checked some archives to get the grasp... Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work (also a 5200c) with my notebook. I had 4.9 running, and used xsane together with gimp to aquire the pictures. Due to laziness, and because I only needed a handful of scans, I decided to do everything as root, also running X11 as root (I know, bad idea, but this was just for testing only). I think the warm-up of the device is a bit slow, before it actually will do something. Well, I think I will be there tomorrow @work, so if the issue still persists, I think I can put sane again on my notebook and have a few tests. Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: Just checked some archives to get the grasp... Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work (also a 5200c) with my notebook. Could you give me a pointer to this discussion? Since I do understand German, I could learn from this without reinventing the wheel. http://www.freebsd.de/archive/de-bsd-questions/de-bsd-questions.200312/0542.html A side effect of this is (I believe), that sane doesn't work as a plugin with Gimp. I think Gimp first tries to probe the scanner devices, it doesn't get any, so the plugin doesn't work. Or something like this. (Yes, I have compiled sane with WITH_GIMP=yes). IIRC you have to compile GIMP also with the option to use sane, but I'll check it out... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: do not read if OT annoys you group coding standards
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Goodleaf, John wrote: the hell out of programmers, but which ensure that legibile, maintainable code is left? style(9) comes to mind there... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory used by caching name server?
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: No change at all in memory usage. If named keeps its cache in memory, why do I not see any changes of available swap space when starting named? Or does named claim memory on the fly, as it is caching? If so, how can I find out what is the maximum it can claim on my machine? Hi! named claims memory on the fly. On Solaris, I have bind 8 seen claiming about 800MB RAM for its caching database, being the resolver for the machine that creates from http-logs colorful pictures and other fancy things... I also don't know what the exact default is, IIRC named takes all memory it gets. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory used by caching name server?
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: named claims memory on the fly. On Solaris, I have bind 8 seen claiming about 800MB RAM for its caching database, being the resolver for the machine that creates from http-logs colorful pictures and other fancy things... Waaauw, that sounds rather dangerous to me. I have a caching nameserver running on an old Pentium-I with 32 Mb of ram (48 Mb swap). I am still using it in a testing enviroment, moderately using the named's cache. So far total memory usage by the OS is very low (swap is hardly used). I wonder if named would eat up all the ram in a production enviroment. Can't imagine that, actually. Nowhere I have seen warnings against such disaster. But then there is this option for the named configuration file, that limits the cache memory usage. Well, some colleagues have some Machines with 512MB RAM running, also bind 9, but with no given limit on size. They serve as resolvers to several thousands of dedicated servers (customers servers) and use more than 200MB RAM without being limited. The example on Solaris is in a scenarion where a dedicated host has to chew more than 30 GB http logs a day, does reverse lookups and then does some statistics on them, so the named has to look up pretty much domain names... This special host has more than 10 CPU in it, so you can imagine the power needed... On other hosts, where I also run named as caching resolver, I have about 3-4 MB memory footprint for normal use... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Ethernet card not being detected
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, I just bought a server from DNUK . It claims to have the following Ethernet card combination: Intel PRO/1000 / 1000 Mbit / integrated Intel PRO/100 / 100 Mbit / integrated I've installed FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE onto the box, and all I see is em0, I don't see an fxp0 device. I've tried installing SuSE Linux on the machine, and it detects both cards. For the 100Mb, I see the following in dmesg after boot: e100: selftest OK. e100: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection Hardware receive checksums enabled cpu cycle saver enabled Well, I could imagine some special version of a 100Pro/VM integrated one, or some special (latest version) 82550 or so. Could you post a pciconf -lv from a FreeBSD system? Would help to identify the parts... Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifconfig in rc.conf network problems
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Marco Beishuizen wrote: I used to have two ifconfig lines in my rc.conf: ifconfig_dc0=DHCP ifconfig_dc0=media autoselect The first to enable DHCP and the second to set my networkcard to 100BaseTX full duplex. Now after an upgrade to 4.10-release this doesn't work anymore. When I put both lines in rc.conf only the second line is effective and overrides the first, but I want to use both DHCP and 100BaseTX. I need to use the media autoselect because the networkcard defaults to 10BaseT but I want to use 100Mbit. When I don't use DHCP the network is unreachable. Pinging then gives a no route to host. There are two solutions: 1) (Untested by me) ifconfig_dc0=DHCP media 100baseTX 2) put the media change in a separate shell script, and throw it unter /usr/local/etc/rc.d, so that it will be executed later on something like: cat dc0-speedchange.sh #!/bin/sh ifconfig dc0 media 100baseTX HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with a routing issue
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Leon Botes wrote: I have a freebsd 4.7 box at a client. The box has an ip of 192.168.254.22 The default gateway is 192.168.254.1 which is the inside interface of the gateway. The outside interface of the gateway is 196.25.37.18 and it also has an alias of 196.25.37.19. When i ping 196.25.37.18 from the clients box (192.168.254.22) i get this. mmrserver# ping 196.25.37.18 PING 196.25.37.18 (196.25.37.18): 56 data bytes 36 bytes from brandford.trusc.net (192.168.254.24): Redirect Host(New addr: 192.168.254.1) Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 0054 08f4 0 40 01 c9ca 192.168.254.22 196.25.37.18 64 bytes from 196.25.37.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=66.616 ms 36 bytes from brandford.trusc.net (192.168.254.24): Redirect Host(New addr: 192.168.254.1) Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 0054 08f8 0 40 01 c9c6 192.168.254.22 196.25.37.18 When i ping 196.25.37.19 i get this. mmrserver# ping 196.25.37.19 PING 196.25.37.19 (196.25.37.19): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 196.25.37.19: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=5.445 ms 64 bytes from 196.25.37.19: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.630 ms 64 bytes from 196.25.37.19: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=5.226 ms That is correct the way it should be. Could you provide the output of ifconfig -a of the gateway box? Should shed some more light about the issues, also the parts of /etc/rc.conf, where the cards are configured, could be interesting. Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - sendmail forwarding for entire domain
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: Is it possible to configure sendmail to forward mail for an entire domain to another mail server, identified by ip address rather than domain name, keeping the original To: headers intact? Hi! DIfferent ways to do this: I assume that the domain example.com is already added to /etc/mail/local-host-names. Then, depending on your preferences, whether use the virtusertable: @example.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] or the mailertable, which should be the better approach to your setup: .example.com smtp:[172.16.0.1] HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to abtain FreeBSD source code
On Fri, 14 May 2004, frank wei wrote: Hi FreeBSD, I'm a software engineer in the networking industry. I'm very intersted in the the implementation of IP routing in FreeBSD. Two questions here: 1. Can I get FreeBSD source code without any charge? Yes. (well, your usual ISP's fees for download, but no charge from FreeBSD project) 2. If so, how can I get them? Whether you install FreeBSD on a box, then under /usr/src you have the complete Sourcecode for the whole system, or you take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ For a web interface to it. Or have a look at a freebsd.org mirror ftp server, usually under some directory like: /FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/src (substitute i386 for the architecture you want) the source in splitted format resides. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SNI RM300
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hi I have old machine Siemens Nixdorf RM300 CPU R4400 And i wont install freebsd on this. It is possible? Have anyone working freebsd on machine like this? Hi! Should be a MIPS CPU, so FreeBSD will not work on it. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient and host resolution
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Killermink ! wrote: Hello, I have a Apple PowerBook running Panther and have set it to share my modem internet connection over the Ethernet port. FreeBSD is connected to this and should get all config via DHCP. When dhclient runs, it successfully gets an IP Address from the Powerbook, and I can ping between machines... A quick look at the leases file also shows that it has the Powerbook as the Gateway and as the DNS server. However, I can only get to the Internet from the BSD box using IP addresses, trying a url such as www.google.com always fails as it cant resolve the host, plus the response is immediate as if it hasn't tried or waited for a response. Well, sound like DNS prblems. What is the content of your /etc/resolv.conf? then, when there is an entry like: nameserver 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1 being the IP of the MAC), then check if the DNS on your MAC is working by: nslookup - 192.168.1.1 set q=any freebsd.org Well, then your MAC should resolve some IP and mx data, when not, the DNS on your MAC is misfunctional. You also can specify DNS in the /etc/resolv.conf that are on the outside, or you could run named as caching resolver. Therefore, populate /etc/hosts with the IP/name of FreeBSD box, run /etc/named/make-localhost and then start named. In /etc/resolv.conf put a : nameserver 127.0.0.1 as first nameserver statement, and FreeBSD will directly resolve... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient and host resolution
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Killermink ! wrote: #echo nameserver 192.168.2.1 /etc/resolv.conf (this is the correct IP for the Mac) then #ping www.google.com And it worked immediately! Thanks very much, I feel pretty stupid with such an easy answer, but shouldn't this info be provided by dhclient? If I move to another network, say with a gateway of 10.x.x.x or other, will I have to change resolv.conf again? Is there anyway to get this automatically or is it a feature of FreeBSD/dhclient? Hi! Well, you have to tell the DHCP server to also provide to the client gateway and DNS information explicitly. My notebook gets its /etc/resolv.conf entries also from DHCP @work, respectively when I work @home from my DSL provider. So dhclient is able to do that, resp. the ppp when it comes to the DSL Line... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky?
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: When I read about problems with early adoption of 5.X, I mainly encounter risks related to extremely large RAM, multi processors, or very new hardware. My simple and old Pentium-1 PC may therefore a very low risk system for installing 5-Current. Is that right? Or am making a big mistake here? Hi! Well, -current is always bleeding edge, and even on standard hardware it might produce weird results. OTOH, I have a 233MHZ Pentium-MMX (Socket7)-dual CPU as Workstation here, with 5.2.1-R, and its running fine for everydays application. The critical issue here is RAM, I have 128MB in it, and well, its enough to have firefox running, but in most cases, I only need some xterms... So I would say, that your hardware (given that there are more than 16MB RAM in there) will run fine. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky?
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: For bumping it up to 5-current, would a cvsup of the sources with tag=. be sufficient? Or is an install from scratch recommended when moving from 4-stable to 5-current? Bear in mind that these are going to be my first steps into 5-current! Hmm, no. In theory yes, when you go to some really painful steps (read UPDATING), but due to the nature that even within 5.x were some changes, its easier to wipe the system, do a blank install of a 5.2 system from scratch and then cvsup it to -current. Will simplify a lot. Just my 0.02 EUR Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting from external Hard drives
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Rob Justen wrote: Is it possible to boot Free BSD from a external hard drive Well, depends on the type of external disk. Of course, external SCSI enclosures are quite standard in Server environment, and single disk cases are quite cheap on ebay... So SCSI will work without problems. Booting from other external disks depends on the technology: When there are enclosures, that map themselves as SCSI, like some IDE things, yes. With Serial ATA, we also will see some external storages, once fitting controllers are widespread. But what you have in mind, is probably USB and firewire. This depends on 2 things: 1) The BIOS of the PC has to know about these devices, and has to try to bootstrap from them. 2) the OS has to know, that it is run from a different device like traditional IDE/SCSI, because USB looks different. As far as I know, FreeBSD is not capable of fully booting from external USB storage, but I haven't followed the development in the last few months there. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I eliminate resolver delay??
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: The ed1 is when I am at work. The wi0 is at home. I just checked resolv.conf, and found this: search winnt.net nameserver 10.100.20.70 nameserver 10.100.20.76 So maybe I need to replace these when I connect to my wireless network? Yes, because in that case your notebook tries to reach your DNS server at your workplace, and times out. You also should choose another domain for home use, batcave.org is registered in the internet, so there are replies for that, also for a root name server its a legit domain, so it forwards the query to the approp. NS in the net, and there you get some results back you surely will not want to get. Or you run named as a caching-only NS, and add nameserver 127.0.0.1 first place in /etc/resolv.conf. pris 18:57 host batcave.org batcave.org has address 64.12.47.237 something like batcave.home or so will be fine... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I eliminate resolver delay??
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:06:48AM -0700, peter lageotakes wrote:
: FYI: If I remember correctly, running dhcpd
: overwrites the resolve.conf.
That's what caused my problem. I need a way to restore it when using the
other network with assigned IPs.
In your /etc/dhclient.conf you can use default/prepend statements, see
dhclient.conf (5)
You can rather finetune this, or have other ways:
When you have @home some kind of server, have him also playing DHCP with
assignment of gateway, dns etc.
when it comes to dns, then you could setup named with split forward.
So make sure that you have @home a different network than that from your
work.
Steps to do:
in /etc/namedb, run ./make-localhost after /etc/hosts is populated with
reasonable name for your box.
make sure that a recent named.root is available.
in named.conf:
zone . {
type hint;
file named.root;
};
zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA {
type master;
file localhost.rev;
};
then comes the magic:
//Aufsetzen des split forward fuer intern
zone 0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders {
192.168.0.1;
};
};
zone example.de {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders {
192.168.0.1;
};
};
Add forwarder statements where approp.
I use this setup in a production environment on a box running nagios for
monitoring several subnets, all VLAN with their own DNS in those
VLANS...
named will act as a caching nameserver only, when it comes to private
VLAN, it will use those other DNS, anything not in those forwarders
clauses will be resolved on his own, generating queries himself up to
the root Nameservers.
That would be the smart way of dealing with this, when you want, you
could add a default forwarders statement to the ns of your ISP @home...
HTH
Olaf
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Re: Remote Single User Mode.
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Grant Peel wrote: Happy Easter all! Here is an off-the-wall question I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most admin I can do remotely of course, but I was wondering, if there exists a software/hardware solution that might actually allow one to reboot any one of the machines remotely and alllow access in single user mode. Obviously, that machine would not be accessable via the normal netwrk method, but again, is there a KVM - software that would allow local access in single user mode VIA a network connection to one of the other servers, or the KVM directly? Hi! Well, as long as you can set up a serial console to them (whether in software, like described in the handbook, or via hardware BIOS redirection like Dell, HP and so on), then you could simply buy a remote console switch off-the-rack, and be happy. I worked a lot with the cyclades-TS series, you simply connect via ssh to them (they run embedded linux), and they forward this connection to the specific serial port. The also do other nifty things, you can have the console output of the servers logged via nfs to a remote machine etc. www.cyclades.com, they are not cheap, but are working well (once you got he right firmware, I'd go for 1.3.9 at the time of this writing, the 1.3.10 has other hitches I dislike) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware on FreeBSD 5.2.1
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Banana Flex wrote: hello! i have a little problem, can u help me? i would like to buy a new server called HP Proliant ML310 the hardware on this machine for the ethernet is a Compaq NC7760 this is working on FreeBSD 5.2.1? i have not seen this number on the hardware notes HP relabels Intel and Broadcom chips. I havent't looked yet, due to some lack of time, but they should be gigE chips, and then its whether bge(4) or em(4) which will work. (have tested on 380G3 with similar cards) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with MySon Ethernet Nics
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, GiTi wrote: Hello Olaf Hoyer and list, i want to thank you for your help. I have resolved this problem. I also succeed to move server from Redhat box to freeBSD too. Hi! well, just for the archives, what did you do? I looked around the driver source, for identifying the chipset, as it seems a realtek in disguise, but am a bit busy at work right now... cu Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Dave wrote: We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive PostgreSQL database usage. Well, have had some 2650 under my fingertips for deployment, but due to specs from the projects, no one of them actually runs BSD in production. Some short tests revolved no problems with a 4.9, RAID working fine, but not tested on really high loads. The only problem I ran into ist the mechanical mounting of that box in a standard Rack. Dell (at least in Europe) uses 4-post Racks, with square holes. The rails only have some length adjustment of less then 2 inch, so when the distance of the front and rear posts is too far apart, or too close together, then it won't fit. The VersaRails are used for mounting in Racks with round holes, and have similar limitations. On their Website Dell have some diagram with exact measurements for VersaRails, check this out before ordering. To make the whole stuff more bizarre, I asked Dell what the front/rear-distance of their own (mostly OEM-relabelled Racks like Rittal with fixed posts) is, no answer yet. Also some rails from a 2550 fitted in one rack, but the rails of a 1750 (the new 1Ubox) were 2 mm short :-(( Another try would be the new Intel or relabelled Sun boxes, like the V65x from Sun, also verry nice hardware inside... Well, apart from mounting (check your racks!) I see no disadvantage... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with MySon Ethernet Nics
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, GiTi wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: Well, do you mean with compiled its driver that they provide some own driver? yes, my Nic has own driver but ... only for Freebsd 2.x and 3.x. And this is its instruction Hi! Ok, so there are sources, but the driver structure from 4.x and 5.x differs a lot from 3.x, so they cannot work. pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pci3: network, ethernet at device 4.0 (no driver attached) ok, these were the lines that were important. when i run command pciconf, i also met such error: Operation is not permitted Probably you weren't root, pciconf -lv needs root riviliges. With a 4.9-stable, it looks like this: pris 14:03 pciconf -lv pciconf: /dev/pci: Permission denied pris 14:03 su - Password: pris# pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x chip=0x1a318086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82845/E/MP/MZ Brookdale CPU to AGP Bridge' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI In the case above, the entries of: pcib2 and pci3 are important, could you post them? Also please post a uname -a string of your system. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with MySon Ethernet Nics
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, GiTi wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:09, Olaf Hoyer wrote: Ok, do you have any Information about the chipset used on these? What is needed, is the dmesg output, at least those lines where the nic is probed. should read something like: pci2: unknown card foo bar dmesg print out something like: pci2:Ethernet Carddriver not attached My Nics is: SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter i have tried to rebuilded the kernel and compiled its driver (basing on the instruction) into kernel several times but I have not succeeded It is said that freebsd 5.2 supported MySon Ethernet Nics and ... i am surprized . Maybe I have missed somthing? Please help me to solve this problem Hi! Well, do you mean with compiled its driver that they provide some own driver? Ok, in order to be able to help you, we need at least a dmesg with the card, and the _exact_ message, and also a pciconf -lv will be helpful. Because of rebranding of network chips one can never be sure what chip-revision you get with those relabelled products. Please boot a kernel.GENERIC and post that dmesg. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with MySon Ethernet Nics
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, GiTi wrote: hello list I have just upgradated to freeBSD 5.2 but My freebsd box does not recognize Nic (Myson Ethernet Nic). Please help me to solve this problem Ok, do you have any Information about the chipset used on these? What is needed, is the dmesg output, at least those lines where the nic is probed. should read something like: pci2: unknown card foo bar and the output from pciconf -lv regarding that device will be helpful in identifying that thing, and perhaps, when its only a matter of some PCI IDs, to add them to the driver... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Tillman Hodgson wrote: Howdy, I found a few threads on this topic in google, but they were from a while ago (-stable and hardware are both moving targets, after all). I'm interesting in seeing what low-cost gigabit cards are supported under -stable and which cards might be recommended. I'm looking specifically at the Linksys EG1032, D-Link DGE-530T, Intel Pro1000MT, and the Micronet SP2612R. All are relatively cheap (Can$64 and lower), are easily obtained in Canada via the popular online merchants, and would be within reach a typical (though geeky) home network. Hi! I ran successfully bge(4) and em(4) based cards. So the Intel Pro1000MT seems the way to go for you, regarding availability. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gphoto2 segfaults
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, mj001 wrote: Has anyone been able to use gphoto2 with a Canon A70 camera, under FreeBSD 5.1? I tried it, with what I believe is the correct command line, but it segfaults after detecting the camera and turning off the LCD display. Command line is: gphoto2 --usbid 0x4a9:0x3073=0x4a9:0x3056 --camera \ Canon Powershot S40 -P --debug as suggested at http://pto.linux.dk/Canon_PowerShot_A70_Linux Hi! Well, FWIW, I have an Canon A60 (basically the same, the A70 only has 3 Megapixel, the A70 2 Mpixel) and its running fine with a 4.9-stable. Even on my Compaq notebook with some weird stuff, gphoto2 autodetects the camera, camera must be set to playback mode (the switch beneath the LCD must point to the blue playback icon) A colleague uses a A40 with FBSD 5.2, but IIRC it also worked with 5.1... What does gphoto2 --auto-detect say? (I'm @work now, will have a look later with my camera to compare things) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gphoto2 segfaults
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, mj001 wrote: Has anyone been able to use gphoto2 with a Canon A70 camera, under FreeBSD 5.1? I tried it, with what I believe is the correct command line, but it segfaults after detecting the camera and turning off the LCD display. Command line is: gphoto2 --usbid 0x4a9:0x3073=0x4a9:0x3056 --camera \ Canon Powershot S40 -P --debug as suggested at http://pto.linux.dk/Canon_PowerShot_A70_Linux The debug output is posted on my web site, at the URL below, if anyone has time to take a quick look. Thanks in advance. http://members.rogers.com/mike.jeays/gphoto.txt Hi! well, had a quick glance at the debug output, it seems that the camera itself is found, but whilst file operations there is some kind of hiccup. pris# pkg_info |grep photo gphoto2-2.1.4_1 A command-line frontend to libgphoto2 libgphoto2-2.1.4_1 A universal digital camera picture control tool these are my versions of the tools in question, also : pris# uname -a FreeBSD pris 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Fri Feb 6 23:50:25 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SOUND3 i386 For me, the download works, but erasing the CF card etc. with gphoto2 is also unseccessful. Please have a look at the version of gphoto you have running, and try it again with autodetect... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: second eth card gives errors at config
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm setting up a router/firewall to measure bandwidth on our co-located customers and when i try to configure the second eth card with a new ip adress but the same details as the first card(except that it has it's own ip)with the /stand/sysinstall utility i get an error when i press ok, it says. Invalid gateway IPv4 address specified All the settings are the same except the ipv4 address which is one d-class higher then the first eth card. Hi! could you post a bit more verbose information? ifconfig int0 and then the output, as you try to configure the second NIC, eg: ifconfig fxp1 ip netmask and the output from the route add command... respectively netstat -rn With kind regards Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP access
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: At 05:04 PM 2/21/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marty Landman wrote: looks like arp is unreliable for a canonical list of plugged in ip's. Curious about what would work. nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 should do it %nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Target host specification is illegal. QUITTING! Hi! The syntax to ping a whole /24 segment would be: nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24 this will work. after this you will also have some output from the arp -a command, because the arp cache has to be filled somehow. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP access
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: At 09:42 AM 2/22/2004, Olaf Hoyer wrote: The syntax to ping a whole /24 segment would be: Hi Olaf. Could you please explain what is meant by '/24 segment'? I'm new to networking as you can see! Hi! Well, what is formerly called a Class C network is now in the new CIDR-notation a /24, meaning that there are 256 IP's in that network. A class A is a /8, a class B a /16. Yes, there are some subtle differencies about how a router addresses this, but for size they are the same. # nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0, 192.168.0.8, 16) = Can't assign requested address Sleeping 60 seconds then retrying Seems to be a bug with nmap V3.00 I use 3.50, and it works. Solution could be an upgrade or exclusion of your own box from the scanning range. after this you will also have some output from the arp -a command, because the arp cache has to be filled somehow. swamisalami# arp -a ? (192.168.0.0) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on ep0 permanent [ethernet] delliver (192.168.0.1) at 00:08:74:c0:5e:69 on ep0 [ethernet] woody (192.168.0.3) at 00:a0:cc:40:3e:9b on ep0 [ethernet] swamisalami (192.168.0.7) at 00:20:af:4d:24:b7 on ep0 permanent [ethernet] ? (192.168.0.8) at (incomplete) on ep0 [ethernet] penguin (192.168.0.160) at 00:a0:24:75:04:49 on ep0 [ethernet] eileen (192.168.0.240) at 00:a0:cc:40:55:cf on ep0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.0.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on ep0 permanent [ethernet] swamisalami# Ok, not sure why the output was broken up into two portions but it has now captured all the nodes on my box. Furthermore a subsequent arp -a gives a more usable output e.g. snip Did you mean then that I should run the nmap followed by the arp -a to get a look at all nodes on my class c network? In this case it seems the only thing needed for me to put this into a shell script is a way to not have to manually interrupt the nmap which seemed to want to keep trying, after sleeping for progressively longer periods of time. Unless there is a glitch to be worked around somehow on 192.168.0.8 (never in use on my network afaik) and that what happened here was not typical behavior. Ok, some basics beforehand: anytime some hosts wants to contact another host, it yells with some broadcast on the local collision segment (arp-request) that the Station, which has IP-address a.b.c.d. sprays the answer (the MAC-Address on the other station) back throughout the segment. This answer is cached by the OS for a short time, that for future use no unnecessary lookups have to be made. This means, that, if you hook up a station to a LAN, which did not participiated in any of the LAN traffic, the arp cache on that station is of course empty. One way to fill it, is by simply pinging all other hosts on that segment. like: #!/bin/sh ping 192.168.0.1 ping 192.168.0.2 . . . ping 192.168.0.254 nmap -sP does exactly the same above, but with less typing effort ;-) For each station that is up and running, you get a MAC address back, and therefore the arp cache is populated. It would be a nice utility for me to have and perhaps run off cron - i.e. to test each connection on my network and report back so I know on a steady basis that everything's up and running (or at least reachable). Yes, would be practicable. You should consider updating nmap, though... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP access
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: Seems to be a bug with nmap V3.00 I use 3.50, and it works. Solution could be an upgrade or exclusion of your own box from the scanning range. Could you explain how I can do either - or preferably both? My experience with ports btw is strictly limited to make build make install Well, you need to update your ports skeleton (anything under /usr/ports) to an actual state. Whether you use cvsup, to poll from a cvsup server near you the latest updates, or you download a tarball from a ftp site near you. This tarball is about a bit more than 20 MB, so beware with a slow line, cvsup is normally preferred. Then you install portupgrade from the ports, and after that you do simply a: pkg_version -v to get a list of ports that need updating, then you simply do a: portupgrade name to have it updated... For using cvsup, there is a great section in the handbook, and in the archives there should be some looong threads about ist, so don't be frightened, its easier than it sounds... So the arp cache doesn't have nodes on it which it hasn't had activity from for a time? This makes sense since I tend to work off my windows workstation which is also my gateway. Yes. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compaq RAID on 4.9-RELEASE?
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Tim Pushor wrote:
Hi all,
We are going to be replacing one of our older systems here with a new
HP/Compaq server and want to buy a (cheap) supported hardware raid
adapter. Compaq/HP used to be so easy.
The system we are looking at has either a Compaq 532 or 641 depending on
the processor speed (!). I see the 532 is supported, any word on the 641?
Hi!
BTW:Which server model do you plan to buy?
In $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/ciss/ciss.c,v 1.2.2.13 2003/12/13 07:56:28 ps
Exp $
both models appear:
ciss_vendor_data[] = {
{ 0x0e11, 0x4070, CISS_BOARD_SA5, Compaq Smart Array 5300 },
{ 0x0e11, 0x4080, CISS_BOARD_SA5B, Compaq Smart Array 5i },
{ 0x0e11, 0x4082, CISS_BOARD_SA5B, Compaq Smart Array 532 },
{ 0x0e11, 0x4083, CISS_BOARD_SA5B, HP Smart Array 5312 },
{ 0x0e11, 0x4091, CISS_BOARD_SA5, HP Smart Array 6i },
{ 0x0e11, 0x409A, CISS_BOARD_SA5, HP Smart Array 641 },
{ 0x0e11, 0x409B, CISS_BOARD_SA5, HP Smart Array 642 },
{ 0x0e11, 0x409C, CISS_BOARD_SA5, HP Smart Array 6400 },
{ 0x0e11, 0x409D, CISS_BOARD_SA5, HP Smart Array 6400 EM },
But I cannot comment on stability fo the models mentioned above...
I have some boxes here, that use the smartarry 5 and 5iplus with 2003
Server, and I had some old 360 g1 and g2, the g2 having the SA5 onboard,
and those were rock-solid.
But with the PCI ones I have no hands-on-experience, but it should be
the same like the onboard ones. Regarding terms of data security, they
are not the fastest, but reliable.
(OK, could be that 5.2 and GEOM still have some rough edges, I had mine
running 4.8-stable)
HTH
Olaf
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Re: Making an ISO fails
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Loren M. Lang wrote: I have been trying to make an iso of some dvds, an cdroms by just copying the file /dev/acd0c, but most of the time it seems to fail with an i/o error. I underestimated the size of a 6G dvd and ran out of disk space before it was through, though it got to nearly 4G. After freeing enough diskspace an trying again I couldn't copy more than several hundre megs before it got an i/o error. Removing and reinserting the dvd doesn't seem to help. I can successfully copy the dvd by mounting it and copying all the files, but I'd prefer a straight copy of the iso image. I've had various problems doing so with different cd/dvds, and I also had a similar problem on linux. Since some cd/dvds work fine, and I can always successfully read it when it's mounted, why don't all cd/dvds allow a straight copy of the iso image? Hi! Because of such subtleties like region code, and additional scrambling. Also there are CD's with copy protection, multisession etc. when you want to have an exact image of a cd, then you simply use dd with a blocksize of 2048. This will give you an exact image, that can be written with cdrecord or burncd onto the next CD. With DVD I don't know, never tried personally. The question ist, what you want with a DVD-rip. in case you want to copy it, there are some tools in the ports, have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=dvdstype=all copying simply the rawdevice is a bad idea, because it does not necessarily know about some subtleties that can hinder you... if its a movie DVD, have also a look at mplayer, with mplayer --dumpstream you can also dump a .vob file onto your HDD... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unrecognized hardware with 5.1
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:17 am, Jackie S. McCracken wrote: I'm trying to build a Dell 1750 with 5.1. After the kern and mfsroot floppies have loaded and the system starts to come up it reports an unrecognized chip set then once I try to run the ftp utility to load a minimum configuration it cannot see the NIC interface i.e. it's not part of the choices for the download. The system came with a driver disk for the Broadcom NIC which is a 5704 gigabit interface but it only has drivers for Windows, Linux, and some other OS's but nothing for FreeBSD. According to the Dell info it is a ServerWorks GC LE Chipset with 2:1 memory interleaving. How do I get the system to run? I need to get it up and running ASAP. HI! The driver for the bge 5704 was introduced shorty before 4.9-Prerelease. So you have to upgrade your sources, so that basically the bge driver knows about the particular different pci id of the 5704 chip. I had 4-stable on it, so I installed 4.8-R, put in a 3com 905 (which was lying around, any 3.3V-Card will do) and cvsup'ed to 4.9-pre. After make world anything was fine, and i pulled the 3com. I don't know about 5.1, if tracking releng_51 will do the job. Or you take the relevant pieces of the bge driver from -current, merge them into your sources for 5.1. I never did it, so YMMV. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble booting 4.9 on Compaq DL360
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Matt Reinhart wrote: Hello, I recently did a standard (Developer, no X) install of 4.9-RELEASE on a Compaq Proliant DL360. Everything went smoothly. Hi! Which model of the Dl360 do you have? ida is normally used on the Generation 1, which is a completely white box, wheras the G2 has a black outfit, and uses the ciss driver. But I've never seen an G1 with 1266 MHz, or were those very late series? After the install finished copying files, I tried installing a standard MBR, but when it didn't work I assumed I made a mistake and tried the same install again with BootMgr. After the second errorless installation, I rebooted and removed the CD from the drive. Upon reboot, the boot manager and its familiar F1 prompt shows on the screen. However, when it tries to continue I receive the following message: Error Booting System Partition. (This is the same error I received without BootMgr.) I googled for this message to no avail. FWIW, in my former company I worked, I had some Dl360, G1 with 933 MHz running. As OSType in the Setup tool I set Win NT4, which is sometimes important for irq routing. I created a standard RAID 1 Volume, with no diag partition whatsoever involved, and then 4.7-R and 4.8-R installed without problems, I chose not to use bootmgr, but a standard mbr. worked right out of the box. Do you have a chance to try again with perhaps a 4.7-R disc? Kind regards Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent explanation why. Kind of short on information there. Maybe that is because I am not registered on that site. Anyway, is that being deprecated sort of a LINUXy thing? Does it apply to BSD, especaily FreeBSD too? Hi! deprecated means, that this program has a successor (in this case dig(1) ) and it may happen, that it disappears in a future release. So you get that warning, so that you have time to get familiar with it, that you may re-write some of your scripts still using nslookup etc. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom kernel config for Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/RAID
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Eivind Hestnes wrote: Hi, Anyone out there with a complete custom kernel config for the Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/PERC4 RAID-controller (one of those pizzaboxes :-) Well, the GENERIC will work fine, just strip out the surplus bits of drivers ;-) You will need at least 4.9-pre to get the bge's to work properly, support for those was merged in somewhere between 4.8 and 4.9-pre. (New Chip revision with different PCI ID) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid: dell perc 4/dc support amr queries
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, colm ennis wrote: hi, i'm considering purchasing raid controllers bundled with some dell 1750's. the current raid controller's offered by dell with these devices are: perc 4/di perc 4/dc the perc 4/di seems to be an embedded megaraid device which is supported by the amr driver: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html Hi! Well, just had these days a stock 1750 to play with for one day, and FreeBSD 4.9-pre installed without hassle, the RAID was recognized fine. (After it, it went to our linux guys for final deployment...) Yes, the 4/Di is onboard on the 1U machine. Don't know about management utils, for the 3/Di there should have been some adaptec stuff around... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow boot when not plugged into network
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody know of a workaround for this? When I'm not connected to my ethernet network, it takes an extra 90 seconds to boot my FreeBSD laptop, as it hangs on this boot message before timing out: Doing initial network setup: hostname I'm guessing it has something to do with DNS lookup and can't reach the server(s), but I'm not sure. Hi! Will most likely be the dhcp request, which of course does not find any dhcp server. When you are sitting at the console, simply press CTRL-C after Doing initial network setup: hostname ist displayed and the box is sitting there. The process dhclient will then be terminated and the boot process continues. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I read digital camera on USB port with hppsmtools?
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ken Seggerman wrote: I have a USB port on my old laptop running FreeBSD 4.3 Release. usb0: OHCI version 1.0 usb0: NEC uPD 9210 USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0 usb0: NEC uPD 9210 USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 I plug the camera into the USB port, turn on the camera, it beeps and says it is connected to a computer. When I use the hppsmtools-1.0 command psmdir -port /dev/usb0 all, or change PSM_DIR to /dev/usb0 (the default is the serial port), and issue the command psmdir all, I get Error raising DTR. Errno 22. hi! Well, seems like problems with the software, that thinks it is still a RS232 serial... otherwise, have a look at: /usr/ports/graphics/gphoto2 BTW, since 4.3-R is a bit old, there might also be a slight possibility, that in case gphoto has problems, whether your camera is not supported by gphoto, or you should upgrade to 4.9, since there were some works in the usb stack between 4.3 und now... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netgear nic
Hi! To clarify up a bit: Netgear manufactured the FA310, which had 4 revisions. the first two, IIRC, hat genuine digital chips on it, the last two revisions hat digital-clones on it, therefore the handling by the dc(4) driver. the Netgear Fa311 has a different chipset on it, that is driven by the sis(4) driver. BTW: the sis ist supported since 4.1.1-R HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with FreeBSD/uncorrectly umount after reboot
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, orlandina wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I have one problem with system. Always after rebooting it says that file systems was uncorrectly unmounted and i have no way to recovery system without reinstallation. Can you help with solving this problem? May be problem is in compatibility with processor (Athlon 850)? Hi! Well, the cpu is the last thing to look after in these circumstances. Please give data about the following things: Your hardware setup (Mainboard, IDE/SCSI-Controller, Hard drives) post your /etc/fstab and the output of mount just before shutting down. How do you shut down? Do you issue a halt, or do you use the shutdown -h now sequence? Just wondering Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Feroz F. Basir wrote: Hi, My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to resolve mail.domain.com to ip. Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9 just to resolve odmain.com if I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! You can also tell sendmail to resolve hosts first through /etc/hosts, and then try DNS. default is DNS first. angua 17:19 cat /etc/mail/service.switch hosts files dns HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI Disk not found
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER wrote: I've worked with ProLiant servers and with FreeBSD RAID, but not on the same box. Basically, as I understand it, you should use the Compaq SmartStart Array Configuration Utility to create the RAID1 (mirror) array. The array controller will then present the RAID set as one logical drive to the OS. The total logical size will be the size of one (1) of the drives. Using a Promise RAID controller, dmesg listed the device ar0 for the logical RAID set and the devices ad4 and ad6 for the low-level RAID components. The ar0 partition is what is carved up and installed to. Hope this helps... Hi! Sorry, haven't followed the beginning of this thread closely enough, but which compaq machine/revision of it are you running? I also had some old 1850, which wasn't nice in regard to the software based RAID in old days... Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SLIP connection to Cisco CONSOLE...
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Xpression wrote: Hi all, I'm under FreeBSD-4.5, I've to made changes to a Cisco2509 router, I've checked the handbook and I can get any clues using the serial port to connect to the router, anyone using it, or can give me any clues ??? Hi! Well, in normal cases you have two async (RS-232) Ports on the 2509, which are used to connect to a standard serial line. Most Ciscos use roll-over-cables (the supplied blue ones), you can also use a 9-pin rolling adapter from cyclades or sun netra on the Pc, and connect a standard straight CAT5-cable. Then use a standard terminal program like cu, tip, minicom or kermit to connect at 9600 8N1 to the cisco. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple RealTect adaptors
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Peter Rosa wrote: Dear list, I already have found MAKEDEV all in /dev folder. Started, finished, no progress. The card is physically OK. While trying to reconfigure eth card via ifconfig rl0 create inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 it returns err: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid agrument. What do I do wrong? And how could I make the card work ? Hi! Well, as the output states, your arguments to ifconfig are incorrect. to check if the card is recognized: dmesg |grep rl0 when it appears, do a: ifconfig -a to see, if a rl0 interface is there. to simply configure it, do: ifconfig rl0 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 shall be sufficient. To make it permanent during bootup, insert in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell PowerEdge 1750 with PERC 4/Di on 4.7-REL
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with a PERC 4/Di . Unfortunately it does not locate the drives when attempting a CD install from 4.7-REL . My best guess is that the PERC 4/Di was not supported in 4.7 (I am assuming it is supported in 4.9 or 5.x though?), however, I have seen some people saying they got it to work. With that said, I just wanted to get a consensus. Hi! Well, just had a little time to test a 1750 with 4.9-prerelease. it works, dmesg attached below. The Controller is a LSI based one, and looks like this: amr0: LSILogic MegaRAID mem 0xfcb0-0xfcb3,0xf000-0xf7ff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci4 amr0: LSILogic PERC 4/Di Firmware 4.04, BIOS B109, 128MB RAM amrd0: LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive on amr0 amrd0: 69116MB (141549568 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) pass0 at amr0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a You will need at least 4.9-pre, because the bge's are quite new, 4.8-R will not find them. HTH Olaf Some infos on Dell are also available here: http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~gregory/FreeBSD/ -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: unrecognized hardware with 5.1 and Dell 1750
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jackie S. McCracken wrote: Kent and Olaf, thank you for the suggestions! I believe that the root of the problem is the ServerWorks GC LE chipset. Hi! Well, I just installed a 1750 a few weeks before under 4.9-prerelease, running fine. I forgot to mention that the system reports during initial startup that the Host to PCI bridge chipset is unrecognized which leads me to believe that it cannot see the NIC interface at all which is integrated into the motherboard. It is initialized ok, at least for 4.9. The PCI ID is unknown to FreeBSD, so it cannot display the right name in dmesg, but anything else works. This is one of Dell's newest servers and I'm feeling that the hardware is just newer than what FreeBSD supports and I need some help working out the issue. Well, not really. It is fully supported by FreeBSD 4.9-R, 5.1R is a bit older. Basically the drivers will work, but due to the fact that they do not know the PCI ID of the onboard NIC, the chips are not initialized. I have a Dell 1650 (recently discontinued model) running just great at the moment and I'm checking to see what the differences in the motherboards are other than the 1750 is about twice as much server speed wise and will supply that info shortly. Any help would be extremely appreciated, I am not a programmer but a test engineer by trade and I want to see FreeBSD take its rightful place as THE open source operating system and I'm pushing it as hard as I can to our customers. BTW: For production environment, 4-stable is recommended... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Essay.
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. Hi! salon.com had a nice article in around late 2000 or early 2001, I already used it to found some parts of my speech at Linuxtag 2001 in Germany. http://dir.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html my (german) speech can be found here: http://hydra.linuxtag.uni-kl.de/~spindler/talks/Hoyer/ HTH Olaf Hoyer -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard not responding, Dell PE2650
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Russell P. Sutherland wrote: I have a fairly reproduceable problem with a new Dell PowerEdge 2650: After the machine has booted in a headless state (no keyboard or monitor) and then one inserts a keyboard into either the front or rear PS/2 plugs, there is no communication input from the keyboard to the server. The monitor/VGA port communication is fine. I believe the keyboard repsonse is _normal_ if the keyboard is plugged in while the machine is powering up. Has anyone else experienced this problem? And if so how was the issue resolved? Hi! Well, I just had a bunch of 2650's (german version) on the desk, that were deployed under Redhat advanced server. during tests, the machine was rebooted, and keyboard was plugged in later. No hassle. I had a short time slot to play with it under FreeBSD, but did not run in such an issue. does not mean much, I had short time... I ran into a similar thing on a HP/Compaq Proliant 380 G3, with a -current from yesterday. Build a custom kernel, and after the bootloader kicked it, the keyboard was dead. Build of new kernel (basically a GENERIC with SMP support activated) worked then... Which is the OS type in BIOS? (I remember that there is sometimes the option, at least Compaq has it) Also, you have the opportunity of a serial console redirection to com1 via BIOS hardware, works like a charm. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote: I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. Hi! Well, the old Compaqs have some quite rough edges, and 5.1R (or do you use a -current snapshot?) is also in some things not that nice... Sometimes you have to set it to NT4-OS Type. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including the Full table - Mapped and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts but no luck. I had in my former company a 1850 running SMP with a 4.8-stable. The onboard SCSI is basically a Symbios one, and it was recognized without hassle. (Ok, it needs the compaq tool partition to do RAID stuff, but... well, broke it during installation) I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. That ist strange indeed, my box (dual PIII-500) went fine. But perhaps there is also a different Mainboard in, with some undocumented change in the series. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Process priority
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way ho to assign priority (cpu time) for each process ? I'm using Samba server for PDF printing and in case of big printouts it could eat whole cpu time for few seconds, so i'd like to control it and give to this process lower priority. Hi! nice and renice are the commands to give the process lower priority. in particular, whilst operating, you will want to check out renice(8). HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.8-RELEASE: Gigabit Ethernet support on Dell PowerEdge 1750
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andrew Cleland wrote: Hello all, I'm trying and failing to get 4.8-RELEASE to recognise the two Broadcom 5704C based NICs on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server. Hi! Known issue, the 5704C PCI ID wasn't known to the bge-driver around 4.8-R. take a FreeBSD 4.9-PRE, there it will work. Or install a 4.8-R, and update it somehow (put in a third NIC, cvsup, and make world, or copy over the /usr/src from another machine via CD) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Burn an ISO image
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: Well, after the bug of the day drill, I'm replacing windows with Freebsd. I want to install the most recent stable version of 4.8. I downloaded the mini.iso (as per the instructions), but I am still on windows (with the Roxio burner software - yeah crap). How do I burn the iso image to CD such that I can boot up the install ? Hi! Roxio (i Think thats the adaptec supplied software) has IIRC the option to burn raw CD images. There shall be an option to specify that you want to burn a raw data image, usually a .raw or whatever data type, simply fit in your .iso and fire the program up. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unrecognized Broadcom 570x Chip on Dell1750
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, william paul wrote: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Olaf Hoyer had to walk into mine and say: HI! Got @work a new Dell 1750 machine, serverworks Chipset w/Xeon CPU, also dual gigE Broadcom chipsets. FreeBSD 4.8-R failed to recognize the chip, but Knoppix 3.2 (Linux Distro, based on debian iirc, recognized the broadcom chips, iirc as 5704 ones) Yeah yeah yeah. Try a FreeBSD 4.9 snapshot. Support for the 5704 was added after FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE came out. 4.9 should also support the 5705 chips. Hi! Thanks, I put in an xl, cvsupped, and built world, and now it runs... Someone could add the Dell 1750 as being compatible with FreeBSD 4.9-Prerelease, also being mentioned in the bge(4) manpage. With kind regards Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.1 Compaq Smart Array
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Raphaël Marmier wrote: I'll give a try on a Smart Array 532 with FBSD 5.1 as soon as I can (days or weeks). It is working fine with 4.8 now. Raphael Hi! Generally the compq smartarrays are supported. But due to quite poor ACPI in the newer machines, 5.x is no fun there. (Typing this on a compaq evo N610c notebook with 4.8-stable, also no fun with acpi etc) Which exact Compaq box / generation do you have? On 360/380 G3 there are some reports that ACPI etc. is broken with 5.x HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I/O Flooding
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to work out a good way of stopping one process flooding the I/O. Basically I have a multuple user machine and would like to try to stop one person taking it down... Hi! You will basically use login.conf to put user in user classes (set via chpass $USER) and then restrict the number of simultaneous processes as the simple way to do it. You can also limit the total CPU time a user is allowed to handle. But then you'd also have to look for processes that are allowed to run as root... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Host name for sendmail.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.8 box, I run it for my local small home network I use it as a router. My DSL-modem has a NAT feature, and FreeBSD does not have any routable ip-address, only the modem does. My sendmail always complains about the domain name every time I start my FreeBSD, and the system is hanging for 2 minutes, until the sendmail finally starts. What I want to do, is to keep my own sendmail (I use it as my smtp-server), but I do not want the system to wait 2 minutes until the sendmail starts. What can I do? Hi! Well, do the following: in /etc/hosts, enter your domain name. then, edit the file: /etc/mail/service.switch (or the corresponding file location defined in sendmail.cf) with the values : files dns to make sendmail first look in /etc/hosts and then try to resolve via DNS. Alternatively, in sendmail.cf there is the option to specify the own host name in case sendmail cannot determine it automagically. BTW: sendmail wants some FQDN, like cnts.local or something. Missing dots are iritating to sendmail. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Host name for sendmail.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: I also use a 4.8 box as DSL Router via PPPoE, and there is a sendmail on it. Ok, I'd have to check whether he can relay directly, and what IP in the HELO appears, but the box itself can identify its IP without probs. I'm also using the tunnel interface to connect... But I'd recommend using a smarthost. Is better and cleaner. Olaf I have a cable modem with nat, so the FreeBSD box itself does not has any routable ip-address (the ip, that is connects the box to the internet is 192.168.1.2). What can I do in this case? And actually, I started up my own SMTP-server, because the one that was provided by my ISP was in some spam-blocking programmes, so I was unable to send some messages through it. So, as I understood, smarthost will not work for me. Uups. Well, ok, you get a private IP. Ok, AOL users get this too, for surfing only its ok, but for anything else its debateable. The question is, why was the mailserver of your ISP rejected? Was it on any blacklists, and why? When the Mailserver of an ISP is for a longer period, or repeatedly, on some rbl lists, this is a sign of very poor service. In that case, I'd change my provider... Ok, you should in those cases register with a freemail-service, or any other independent mail-provider, which gives you the possibility to: a) Identify yourself with SMTP-Auth with his server b) and send mails with any from: address In the FreeBSD-handbook there is a chapter for using sendmail with SMTP-Auth as a client, shall work then. Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Host name for sendmail.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: Ok, you should in those cases register with a freemail-service, or any other independent mail-provider, which gives you the possibility to: a) Identify yourself with SMTP-Auth with his server b) and send mails with any from: address In the FreeBSD-handbook there is a chapter for using sendmail with SMTP-Auth as a client, shall work then. Olaf Okay, that seems to be too complicated to do, and my idea is not to use any third-party smtp-servers... The provider is Earthlink DSL, and the problem I was having, is that some mail-servers in Russia do not want to accept any mail from one of the Earthlinks' smtp-servers (207.217.120.122). The IP-address of my modem (the address of the FreeBSD box visible to the internet) stays constant usually within a week or so, so I believe there should be some more neat solutions for the problem... Hi! Well, the IP 207.217.120.122 is not in rbl Lists, as I checked it quickly, so there must be another problem. Do you have a copy of those messages, resp. the mailerdeamon? When its a private IP, then it is regardless of being several minutes or a week, because the remote system only sees the public IP of the system... Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP or Compaq servers.
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:57:17PM +0200, Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote: That would be good to have a webpage with server configurations that run under FreeBSD. Don't you think so? Keeping the list of supported individual components up-to-date is a significant challenge. Trying to keep a list of complete system configurations available is exponentially more difficult, but you're welcome to try. You first might want to compute the number of permutations from choosing, say, 6 components per system out of 1000 components. I hope everyone will help to keep this list up to date. I hope you too. Components are listed in supported hardware but I will ask people to send me the updates. I will do it as soon as I get my new servers done. Hi there! I have done the page. Here is the link: http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~gregory/FreeBSD/ Anyone who wants to share his/her experience is more than welcome the send me the hardware spec and few words on experience. I have few HP servers, three Sun workstations. I guess we need Dell, IBM, and ?. :) Fujitsu-Siemens is sometimes quite popular, and the servers are quite reasonable. (Typing this mail from an old Primergy 351, 200MHz) Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP or Compaq servers.
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Kevin Berrien wrote: The real key is, getting BSD popular/requested enough that it's tested/supported officially by HP et. al! That would be good to have a webpage with server configurations that run under FreeBSD. Don't you think so? Hi! Well, I was at Linuxtag in Germany the last few days, and also spoke to HP and Seagate Staff. HP :well, only sales guys there told me, as I asked for further info on RAID management tools that are currently developed for Linux, that perhaps the Linux driver guy has some more information whom to contact with HP... Seagate: The channel sales guy told some interesting stories about how you have to deal with the distributor to get your drives sold, and how development and testing works. He liked the idea to give some decent harddrives away to developers for testing for standard compiance etc, because he said, that this is way cheaper than some advertisements, but Seagate USA has the thumb on it, and testing is only done officially with some choosen labs etc. And as long as the people wearing big ties don't think different, it won't change... The other point: I think its well worth the idea, that we simply extend the hardware notes page on the installation infos page with a list of known working systems from certain vendors. example: Vendor and type, Single/Dual CPU FreeBSD Version short Hardware list, notes so: Compaq DL360, 1CPU, FreeBSD 4.7R 933MHz, first Generation (white box), Intel 82559NIC (dual), SmartRAID SCSI Adapter (dev/ida) or: Compaq DL360 G2, 1CPU, FreeBSD 4.7R 1,4GHz PIII, grey box, Broadcom NIC (bge), SmartRAID (dev/ciss) there shall be only systems from vendors that build systems like above, with defined hardware. (Yes I know, that Compaq especially on cheaper systems put anything in, what could be obtained for cheap price...) Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
