Re: Slightly OT - steaming data server software?
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:32 -0700, John Pettitt wrote: Slightly OT but since I'm going to run this on FreeBSD 7 I figured I'd ask here .. I have an application where data arrives in what is effectively continuous stream (actually NMEA messages from an AIS receiver) and I'd like to have a server where an arbitrary number of clients can connect to a tcp port and receive a copy of the stream.I could probably write this in perl without too much work but somebody has to have done something similar already - does anybody know of code that does this? (and yes I know sending the messages as individual udp packets would be easier - I'm already doing that internally but it doesn't work for opening up the data stream to the public). nc -lk port for original data | tee /var/ais/data nc -lk port for copy data /var/ais/data see nc manpage for details. I may have syntax wong. This is my initial thought on how you can do this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble Upgrading gvfs
System: 6.3-STABLE as of 1300 UTC today. I've been having trouble with the gvfs port. First it started with libcdio: test -z /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig || /usr/ports/sysutils/libcdio/work/libcdio-0.78.2/install-sh -d /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig install -o root -g wheel -m 444 'libcdio.pc' '/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/libcdio.pc' install -o root -g wheel -m 444 'libiso9660.pc' '/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/libiso9660.pc' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/libcdio/work/libcdio-0.78.2' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/libcdio/work/libcdio-0.78.2' install-info --quiet /usr/local/info/libcdio.info /usr/local/info/dir === Running ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib === Registering installation for libcdio-0.78.2_1 This was failing, claiming that libcdio was already installed. I 'fixed' this by setting FORCE_PACKAGE_REGISTER. However, when it then goes on to do the gvfs upgrade, I get an installation of what appears to still be a broken port: === Returning to build of gvfs-0.2.3_3 Error: shared library cdio_paranoia.0 does not exist *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gvfs. *** Error code 1 The installation is forced at this point, but I suspect the port is broken. Ideas? -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble Upgrading gvfs
Michael Johnson wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System: 6.3-STABLE as of 1300 UTC today. I've been having trouble with the gvfs port. First it started with libcdio: run 'make config' in libcdio and select PARANOIA then reinstall libcdio Yup that did it ... many thanks. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question About Ports Update Cycle
Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I get/respect that. I'm just curious if there is some window you have to hit to get stuff in. Just curious, not beefin', Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 210, Issue 6
-- Message: 16 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:24:58 +0200 From: Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache22 Port Install Problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tim DeBoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Tuesday 08 April 2008 07:11:47 Tim DeBoer wrote: The install goes fine, no obvious errors anyway, when I do apachectl configtest, I get # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 117 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not snip Is this line present and active? LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_host.so -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. No. I do have LoadModule auth_basic_module libexec/apache22/mod_auth_basic.so though. I tried recompiling again without auth_basic, and used the authz options instead, but it's not actually installing them for some reason. # make deinstall === Deinstalling for www/apache22 === Deinstalling apache-2.2.8 pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_authz_dbm.so' doesn't exist pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_authz_default.so' doesn't exist pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_authz_groupfile.so' doesn't exist pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_authz_host.so' doesn't exist pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_authz_owner.so' doesn't exist pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_authz_user.so' doesn't exist pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) It looks like it never really tried to install to begin with? I'm selecting my options via 'make config', then I run make, make install. In theory it should read the new config each time. -- Tim DeBoer Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you move the wall. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache22 Port Install Problem
Message: 16 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:24:58 +0200 From: Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache22 Port Install Problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tim DeBoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Tuesday 08 April 2008 07:11:47 Tim DeBoer wrote: The install goes fine, no obvious errors anyway, when I do apachectl configtest, I get # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 117 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not snip Is this line present and active? LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_host.so -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. No. I do have LoadModule auth_basic_module libexec/apache22/mod_auth_basic.so though. [snip] Problem solved. I had to delete the package from distfiles. After I did that make read the config file correctly, downloaded a new tarball, and installed what I needed. Thanks for the help :) -- Tim DeBoer Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you move the wall. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache22 Port Install Problem
I wasn't sure if I should post here or on the apache list, but since it's an issue with the port version, rather than the tarball, hopefully this is the right place. The install goes fine, no obvious errors anyway, when I do apachectl configtest, I get # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 117 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration This is the related section in httpd.conf that it's complaining about: # Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect # to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that # directory (and its subdirectories). # # First, we configure the default to be a very restrictive set of # features. # Directory / AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all /Directory I've tried re-compiling without any extra options at all, and I've tried it with auth_basic enabled. I made sure to use the fresh httpd.conf, each time but it made no difference. I'm really not sure how to proceed here. Could someone point me in the right direction, please? Thanks :) -- Tim DeBoer The other day, I dropped a piece of bread and it fell butter side up. I was convinced that I'd buttered the wrong side of the bread. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
updated solid-state article?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/ This article is circa FreeBSD 4.x, is there any updates floating around, even if they're incomplete? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keyboard initialization in freebsd
Jim Stapleton wrote: Can anyone give me information on keyboard initialization during boot-up related to my issues listed below? In 6.2, my system booted up, and worked fine. [alt][ctrl][f#] would switch consoles, and I was happy. In 7.0, the same would not happen. After googling, I found some multimedia keyboards, like mine, had keys to switch F# to a special key. I hit a few keys that had weird pictures that didn't really describe what they'd do, and I turned my F# keys, back into F# keys. Were there any changes between 6.2 and 7.0 that would cause 7.0 to start up the keyboard in the alternate F# mode? Note, xev didn't recognize a keypress from any [F#] key when it was in the alternate mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Microsoft keyboard that places functions like Save Open Reply Reply All in the Function row keys F#. There is a Function lock key I have to use in order to use F# keys as F# keys. Annoys the crap out of me because it's no longer a keyboard and just a headache. Do you have a key on the top right of the keyboard that is labeled like a white F surrounded in a black square? That's my Function lock key, and it displays an LED saying that I can now use my F# keys as F#. Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keyboard initialization in freebsd
Jim Stapleton wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Can anyone give me information on keyboard initialization during boot-up related to my issues listed below? In 6.2, my system booted up, and worked fine. [alt][ctrl][f#] would switch consoles, and I was happy. In 7.0, the same would not happen. After googling, I found some multimedia keyboards, like mine, had keys to switch F# to a special key. I hit a few keys that had weird pictures that didn't really describe what they'd do, and I turned my F# keys, back into F# keys. Were there any changes between 6.2 and 7.0 that would cause 7.0 to start up the keyboard in the alternate F# mode? Note, xev didn't recognize a keypress from any [F#] key when it was in the alternate mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Microsoft keyboard that places functions like Save Open Reply Reply All in the Function row keys F#. There is a Function lock key I have to use in order to use F# keys as F# keys. Annoys the crap out of me because it's no longer a keyboard and just a headache. Do you have a key on the top right of the keyboard that is labeled like a white F surrounded in a black square? That's my Function lock key, and it displays an LED saying that I can now use my F# keys as F#. Good luck. Yeah, mine is MS too. As I said I got it working by pressing one of the buttons also. I was just wondering what changed between 6.2 and 7.0. There were no issues in 6.2 -Jim Stapleton I haven't used my MS keyboard on 7.0 yet. the box it's hooked up to is a test box and i'm going through a torture session quickly. :P I'll check it soon though. Are you looking for any feedback, any special specific feedback? --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A general purpose LDAP solution?
Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: I asked this on freebsd-net@ but got no replies. So now I ask the same question here. Hi list! I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do it. I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-Release with some different server applications - Samba PDC - Virtual mail server (Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP) - VPN (currently with mpd4) - Apache-2.2.8 web server (with PHP and MySQL) I would like to implement LDAP for: - authentication of UNIX/login users - authentication of Samba users - authentication/authorization of virtual mail users For the first part, I got useful information from a previsous thread (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-02/msg01047.html) and for the second part, i guess there is sufficient howtos to make it work. My biggest question right now is if is possible to combine all three things in one data structure. And which in which order I should make the different implimentions. Excuse my total lack of understanding, but is it possible to have a structure with a superior unit such as OU=some organization which could contain several virtual domains and the actual doamin for my PDC? -- Jon Theil Nielsen Oh, i forgot one more thing: I would also like to be able to authenticate VPN users the same way. -- Jon Theil Nielsen It's easy to find out if LDAP is a global solution for you. See if LDAP is an available option in each port's config. I just finished setting up a LDAP-based email system. Samba is capable, unix logins are capable. There's a good chance everything is. I liked the virtual part of everything, so I stopped after getting email working. I didn't want to open up my system to all sorts of unix/samba logins that might exploit or give me problems. The email system I documented isn't ready for publishing. I'm having some select friends review it and proofread it first. If there's any interest here, I will provide a 2nd publishing to the general public as a draft. Not to be used exclusively yet. Jon, you should be able to get most if not all of it working though. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tinybsd ports (dhcpd3)
Sys Admin wrote: I suppose this is more a question on ports than on Tinybsd. I'm trying to build a Tinybsd 0.9 system with DHCP-server (isc-dhcpd3) and included it in tinybsd.ports file. When the system builds though, there is an on-screen configuration menu for the dhcpd3 port. This screen appears, but is not able to take keyboard input. Ultimately, it wasn't possible to configure anything, and the only thing I could do was to hit enter and continue with the defaults. Is there any way to circumvent this onscreen menu? Thanks Ashant Running make config in the port dir before making Tinybsd should prevent it. The config is saved under /var/db/ports. If Tinybsd is doing standard port system commands (cd net/dhcp3-server; make install), it should pick up the existing config and go with it. Or, running tinybsd with the enironment BATCH=yes will skip the port config, and build what is default if no config file exists. This one you probably don't want, but if the above doesn't work, this is something else to try. This may affect tinybsd in a way that is unpredictable though. Good luck, -Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sudo mkextcache?
Jeffrey Ellis wrote: Hi-- I¹m trying to make a bootable clone of my startup drive, and read Mike Bombich¹s instructions on how to do this. He includes the following line as the last step in the process: Finally, recreate the kernel extension cache for the CD: sudo mkextcache -t ppc -d \ /Volumes/Rescue/System/Library/Extensions \ -o /Volumes/Rescue2/System/Library/Extensions.mkext That doesn¹t look like a command to me. Anyone know what he¹s trying to do here? Thanks :) /Volumes looks like a OSX layout. posting the URI might help others looking too. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ANN: 'tbku' 1.115 - Backup And System Imaging Tool
'tbku 1.115 is released and available at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tbku/ What Is 'tbku'? === 'tbku' is a utility for producing tarball backups of some- or all of your files. It is useful both for producing incremental backups or for systemwide images or snapshots. The tool can be run either from the command line or, more typically, as a cron job to automate system backup tasks. 'tbku' can also be used to capture system images which can then later be used to (re)provision other machines. The distribution includes explanations of how to image systems from a tarball produced with 'tbku', using FreeBSD and SUSE Linux as examples. 'tbku' uses standard utilities common on Unix-like systems, like 'tar', 'sed', and 'uname'. It uses no other special or custom tools. For this reason, it is highly portable across many variants of these systems. 'tbku' was originally developed as a backup tool for FreeBSD servers. Since then, it has been updated to also work with SUSE Linux, both servers and desktops. 'tbku' should work with little- or no modification on any other Unix-like system. For example, 'tbku' will run without modification (other than default locations) in a cywgin environment under MS-Windows. There is no charge for the use of 'tbku', but please take a moment to read the licensing terms. WHATSNEW For 'tbku' 1.115(Wed Mar 19 18:29:31 CDT 2008) -- First public release of program and docs. Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.3 And VIA 8237S Controller
I just bought a new MSI P4M900M2 mobo. It works just fine with both Windoze and SUSE Linux. When I tried booting 6.2 on it, it refused to set the drive (ad0 - I tried several different drives) into the higher speed UDMA modes. So, I downloaded 6.3, and it *seemed* to be fine. The drives come up as UDMA 100 or UDMA 133. But ... under long disk operations - say untaring a 2G tarball stored on a USB drive - I start to see this: ad0: WARNING WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR And eventually: ad0: FAILURE WRITE_DMA Status=51 Error=84 g_vfs_done():ad0s1f ... What's going on here? Is there a known driver problem with the VIA chipsets? I took the two drives I tried this with, and stuck them in another machine - no problem, so I kind of doubt this is a drive problem. I have replaced the IDE cables as well. Again, this same mobo and drive combo worked flawlessly doing the same thing under SUSE Linux, so I'm thinking this is a software problem. Any help much appreciated... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.3 And VIA 8237S Controller
Tim Daneliuk wrote: One point of clarification I neglected to mention in the description below. I have not actually installed FreeBSD on the disk. I paritioned/labeled the disk with the install disk, then rebooted the install disk, went into the Fixit environment and manually mounted ad0x under the various /mnt directories. I then insert the USB drive into the system that has a full image of FreeBSD from another machine on it, stored in a tarball, and mount it under /mnt/mnt. I then start to untar it (to load that image onto my newly labeled disk), and that's when I see the errors. The OS running at that time is the FreeBSD 6.3 Fixit environment. I just bought a new MSI P4M900M2 mobo. It works just fine with both Windoze and SUSE Linux. When I tried booting 6.2 on it, it refused to set the drive (ad0 - I tried several different drives) into the higher speed UDMA modes. So, I downloaded 6.3, and it *seemed* to be fine. The drives come up as UDMA 100 or UDMA 133. But ... under long disk operations - say untaring a 2G tarball stored on a USB drive - I start to see this: ad0: WARNING WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR And eventually: ad0: FAILURE WRITE_DMA Status=51 Error=84 g_vfs_done():ad0s1f ... What's going on here? Is there a known driver problem with the VIA chipsets? I took the two drives I tried this with, and stuck them in another machine - no problem, so I kind of doubt this is a drive problem. I have replaced the IDE cables as well. Again, this same mobo and drive combo worked flawlessly doing the same thing under SUSE Linux, so I'm thinking this is a software problem. Any help much appreciated... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.3 And VIA 8237S Controller - Also USB Drive Problem
Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just bought a new MSI P4M900M2 mobo. It works just fine with both Windoze and SUSE Linux. When I tried booting 6.2 on it, it refused to set the drive (ad0 - I tried several different drives) into the higher speed UDMA modes. So, I downloaded 6.3, and it *seemed* to be fine. The drives come up as UDMA 100 or UDMA 133. But ... under long disk operations - say untaring a 2G tarball stored on a USB drive - I start to see this: ad0: WARNING WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR I have resolved this and thought I'd share with the class in case anyone else runs into the problem. It occurred to me that this chipset has been around long enough that it was very likely not a driver problem. I went back and replaced the IDE cable with another one known to be good and, voila', problem solved. What's weird about this is that the bad cable is a more-or-less new low profile round IDE cable I got from Tiger Direct a while back. It is the 20 variety which may be contributing noise to the problem. Weirder still is that neither Linux nor Windows seemed to have problems with it, though I did not test as thoroughly with those OSs. I'd guess that the FBSD driver is perhaps trying to squeeze the last bit of optimization out of the controller and thus drives the IDE bus to its limits, hence the problem shows up there. Either that, or I just didn't pound on the machine hard enough with Linux especially to see the problem. I should have guessed cable problem right away, but given the relative newness of the cable, that seemed unlikely. In a related note: I also discovered that the FreeBSD install CD Fixit environment does flakey things when you try to untar a large file from a USB drive plugged in through an external hub. Plugging the drive directly into one of the mobo ports made that problem go away. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk
I would like to use the CD install menus to only prepare the hard disk (Partition, Label, Format) without actually installing anything on the drive. Can this be done? There seems to be no None option for Distributions, and I cannot find the right magic to make the installer go ahead and prepare the drive w/o resorting to at least a minimal install. I assume if the answer is no then that means this has to be done manually from the fixit command line Thanks, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 13, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I would like to use the CD install menus to only prepare the hard disk (Partition, Label, Format) without actually installing anything on the drive. Can this be done? There should be a (W)rite option on the various pages which let you at least partition the drive without installing the software. Yup that was the magic - I missed it entirely. The option appears in the label editor menu... Thanks! -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: telnet and rlogin problems
Grammas, August wrote: Rel: FreeBSD 6.2 Summary: I am unable to get either telnet or rlogin to function Details: To several of my PCs, that had been running 4.11, I have installed release 6.2. To the rc.conf, which was used for 4.11, I added: rcpbind_enable=YES rpc_lockd_enable=YES rpc_statd_enable=YES nfs_server_enable=YES nfs_client_enable=YES mountd_enable=YES ftpd_enable=YES Don't believe any of these are relevant to your stated problem. To hosts.allow, I added: rpcbind | ALL | allow Again, I don't think this is relevant to your stated problem. try adding: telnetd: whatever : ALLOW Note the use of ':' - I have no idea whether the wrappers will allow you to use '|'. As a general matter, service: ALL : ALLOW is very bad if your machine is connected to the internet. You really do want your allow statements to be in the form: service: exact list of machines or networks that should be allowed :ALLOW Now then ... one last thing: DON'T USE TELENT AND RLOGIN - get out of the habit of using them even on local networks. They are painfully bad security holes. Learn to use ssh instead. HTH, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting from Memory Stick
I made a bootable system on a stick a few months ago. I used it to dd clone a WinXP image to some Gateway desktops in a lab. I think I just plugged the stick into my FreeBSD laptop fired up sysinstall and treated the stick as a da drive that needed a full install. Tim Derek Ragona wrote: At 03:23 PM 3/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier way to do this? Thanks, Jay I don't know how to do this myself, but know it is available using FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD. FreeNAS information is at: www.freenas.org -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So How Hard Is Moving From 6.3 To 7.0?
I have a stable 6.3 production server. If I buildworld/kernel for 7.0, install them, and reboot, will everything pretty much work the same as it did under 6.3, or have file locations, userland configuration, etc. changed? Will my 6.3 binaries run unchanged on 7.0 as well? TIA, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
p5-Mail-Tools-2.02 Seems To Break MailScanner
Has anyone else run into a problem with MailScanner failing to start up properly after p5-Mail-Tools gets upgraded to Version 2.02 ? I forced the port to go back to p5-Mail-Tools Version 1.77 and all is well. 'Just wondering if this should be submitted as a PR to the MailScanner maintainers/authors ... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thankee, thankee!
William Bulley wrote: According to Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python as an implementation language. If what you're doing involves text and string manipulation, Python is loaded with good modules that will make your task a snap. Having coded extensively in many assemblers, C, BASIC, ... I now find myself reaching exclusively for Python when writing applications and utilities unless the task at hand must have the performance of native C. Try it ... you'll be shocked how fast your program comes together. Might the same not be said for Perl? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You bet, Perl is terrific. But, Perl is also harder to maintain and less readable in the long run (IMHO and many others' too). Language wars are silly, of course, one uses the right tools for the right job. But as I said, having programmed fairly widely over the years, I find Python the single most productive language I've ever used. I never ceased to be amazed at how quickly I get to a correct and finished program. I am further amazed when I pick it up a year later and it still is crystal clear and understandable. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thankee, thankee!
Gary Kline wrote: Giorgos, Joe, Paul , and Tim, Thanks for your insights today, gentlemen. I began on what may be a very worthwhile [ and reasonably small, *thankfully*] program that may benefit everybody who reads text online. Or off, for that matter. I was using a shareware version that kept annoying me to shovel $$$ their way when I finally got PO'd enough to do my own version. The algorithm comes first, naturally. Then the data structs|classes|whatever. ---I do prelim coding while I'm planning; helps me figure things out. GUI: yes, I will need help with eventually; for now, going back and forth from that tts app, KTTSmgr(?) and the other shareware, I kept improving the dickens out of my thesis.S see what happens. No offense to those of us who have hacked out man pages or other docs, but I'm pretty sure that using these tools will inddeed help improve the online documentation _considerably_. gary Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python as an implementation language. If what you're doing involves text and string manipulation, Python is loaded with good modules that will make your task a snap. Having coded extensively in many assemblers, C, BASIC, ... I now find myself reaching exclusively for Python when writing applications and utilities unless the task at hand must have the performance of native C. Try it ... you'll be shocked how fast your program comes together. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thankee, thankee!
Gary Kline wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 08:16:57 Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:20:47AM -0500, William Bulley wrote: According to Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python as an implementation language. If what you're doing involves text and string manipulation, Python is loaded with good modules that will make your task a snap. Having coded extensively in many assemblers, C, BASIC, ... I now find myself reaching exclusively for Python when writing applications and utilities unless the task at hand must have the performance of native C. Try it ... you'll be shocked how fast your program comes together. Might the same not be said for Perl? Yes . . . and Ruby. I prefer both over Python, for different reasons, personally. Gotta laugh at most of this considering that I understand that we tend to favor what we're most familiar with. I've been lazing along for several years since I've gone back to school--sort of. During my last lifetime I was trapped into learning perl and forced myself to get into C++ because much of my work required these languages. Can you guys, or anybody else, point me to some comparison sites for python and ruby? I just found one abandoned freeware suite in ruby that may be just what I'm trying to do. The deal is: do I want to invest months (from 2 to 3) in learning another language/ or port from ruby to C? or take the Java functions and re-write or translate them to C? Still, first thing is to get the algorithm down and tested. http://blog.ianbicking.org/ruby-python-power.html Basically, you'll discover that Python and Ruby do many of the same things in similar, but different ways. The OO purists like Ruby because it tends (as I understand it) to be more academically pure as an OO language. Many web apps folk also like Ruby because of the well-received Ruby-On-Rails framework. OTOH, Python is highly regarded because of its very rich library support, excellent cross-platform consistency, and ability to switch programming paradigms in mid-program. The last bears a bit of explanation. Most languages have you programing in one paradigm: imperative/procedural (Algol-derived), functional (Haskell), list processing (LISP), Object Oriented (C++, Java), etc... But here in the Real World, a single paradigm is not always a good idea. (With slight modesty, may I suggest a read of something I did a while back on this subject: http://www.tundraware.com/Technology/Bullet/ One of Python's great virtues is that it lets you switch gears paradigmatically in the middle of a program to use the model that best suits your problem. So for, instance, you can be doing OO programming, but quickly switch to procedural programming when the code needs to do DBMS access - a place where there has always been an OO/DBMS impedance mismatch in the past. As to the learning curve. If you are an experienced programmer in any decent language (C, BASIC, Java, Perl, Ruby, ...), you can learn the essence of Python in an afternoon, not weeks or months. As I said, I've been doing this for a while. Moreover, my graduate work was in languages and automata. This means I am a language dork. In several decades of fiddling around with languages, I have *never* seen one as elegant, expressive, maintainable, and efficient for the programmer as Python. No, it's not as fast as native C, but unless you're doing real time or systems programming, with good programming style and design modern hardware doesn't require you to write applications in C. In any case, you can profile Python code, figure out the small portions of it that are slow and replace them with callouts to C functions. In short, and IMHO, Python is an (almost) perfect applications/utility programming language. And I'm not alone in thinking so. The Python community is full of people who were/are C/C++, Perl, Java, LISP, ... experts who wouldn't go back to their old languages under any circumstance - Python is that good. Having said this, there is, and always will be a place for many kinds of programming languages because there are many kinds of problems and even more kinds of people. Again, with slight modesty, may I suggest this: http://www.tundraware.com/Technology/How-To-Pick-A-Programming-Language/ Cheers, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there an easier way?
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
To my fellow C nerds,
It's been a great manny years since I wrote this appended
snippet. Now I can't remember why (of if ) I need all the
strcpy() calls. Is there a simpler, more logical way of
printing a bunch of string by snipping off the left-most?
In short,, can anyone 'splain why strtok needs all this?
tia,
gary
I don't think you need the copies. This works just as well:
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
main()
{
char *bp, *tok;
char *delim= , s1[256]=abc def ghi jkl mno.;
bp = s1; /* Now both point to the literal string to be tokenized */
while ((tok = strtok(bp, delim)) != NULL)
{
bp = NULL;
printf(tok = [%s]\n, tok);
}
}
Ooops ... wasn't paying attention. While the printed output is the same, doing
it this way is destructive to the original s1 string - which may matter (or
not)...
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Re: is there an easier way?
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
To my fellow C nerds,
It's been a great manny years since I wrote this appended
snippet. Now I can't remember why (of if ) I need all the
strcpy() calls. Is there a simpler, more logical way of
printing a bunch of string by snipping off the left-most?
In short,, can anyone 'splain why strtok needs all this?
tia,
gary
I don't think you need the copies. This works just as well:
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
main()
{
char *bp, *tok;
char *delim= , s1[256]=abc def ghi jkl mno.;
bp = s1; /* Now both point to the literal string to be tokenized */
while ((tok = strtok(bp, delim)) != NULL)
{
bp = NULL;
printf(tok = [%s]\n, tok);
}
}
Ooops ... wasn't paying attention. While the printed output is the
same, doing
it this way is destructive to the original s1 string - which may matter
(or not)...
So, to protect the original string, you do have to copy the original
string to a new buffer:
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
main()
{
char *bp, *tok, buf[256];
const char *delim= , s1[256]=abc def ghi jkl mno.;
bp = strcpy(buf, s1);
while ((tok = strtok(bp, delim)) != NULL)
{
bp = NULL;
printf(tok = [%s]\n, tok);
}
}
So, at least we eliminated the first strcpy in your code:
char *bp, buf[512], *tok, tstr[512];
static char *delim= , s1[256]=abc def ghi jkl mno.;
bp = strcpy(buf, tstr);
This accomplishes nothing and may not even be safe - strcpy() copies
until it hits \0. I do not recall if the declaration of tstr[512]
intializes it to \0. If not, then the strcpy() is going to keep
running until it finds one, overwriting the end of buf[] and probably
causing core dumps or other evil...
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Re: is there an easier way?
Gary Kline wrote:
To my fellow C nerds,
It's been a great manny years since I wrote this appended
snippet. Now I can't remember why (of if ) I need all the
strcpy() calls. Is there a simpler, more logical way of
printing a bunch of string by snipping off the left-most?
In short,, can anyone 'splain why strtok needs all this?
tia,
gary
I don't think you need the copies. This works just as well:
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
main()
{
char *bp, *tok;
char *delim= , s1[256]=abc def ghi jkl mno.;
bp = s1; /* Now both point to the literal string to be tokenized */
while ((tok = strtok(bp, delim)) != NULL)
{
bp = NULL;
printf(tok = [%s]\n, tok);
}
}
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openLDAP - Mozilla clients asking for password
OK, I'm at wit's end. Every doc I read is telling me that the default openLDAP installation provides the rootdn as write access, and the rest are read only, with no access control changes. However, when I installed openLDAP, mozilla seamonkey address book keeps prompting for a password. I'm not sure what password it might be asking for, since the base dn and search dn don't have any cn's (am I using the write letters? lol) to work from. I found out how to search locally (as in 127.0.0.1 or sockets) on the server, returning the strings and data I want. But I can't figure out how to do it via client. As I'm writing this, it may be an issue of the source IP address (when using a client, it's not on 127.0.0.1 or the server IP it's bound to). Would the remote IP cause a password prompt? Google is only returning results of default configuration isn't to prompt for password, read only access type of hits. But the search terms are the same as this sentence, with no value in those terms. So now I'm lost. Please help, --Tim If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system
Joe Demeny wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:04:11 pm you wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: [...] Use fdisk to find out how it sees the drive. Do fdisk ad1 and check out what it says. Especially look to see what slices that fdisk thinks it has. Maybe there is only an s1 active with anything in it. That would be easiest and very common. Then use bsdlabel to look at what partitions are defined in any of the slices. do ad1s1 (for slice 1, ad1d2 as well if there is a slice 2 being used, etc) From root, do bsdlabel ad1d1 and see what partitions are defines. Remember that partition 'c' is not a real partition, but a label to define the whole slice to the system (it will have a type of 'unused') and that in most cases partition 'b' is used for swap (and will have a type of 'swap'), though it does not have to be swap. The other partitions; a, d, e, f, g, h, could be real partitions with something on them. Almost certainly the 'a' partition will be root on a bootable slice. It turns out that I mixed up my drives. I found the boot drive - it could not boot with my old custom kernel (unknown processor class...). I fell back on kernel.GENERIC, which booted - to a point. It seems to bog down when it tries to recognize the keyboard. I guess at this point my choices are: 1) build a new 4.x kernel on the new hardware 2) find a working old computer and try my boot drive. Thank you all for your help... Another possible path: Boot Freesbie or PC-BSD from CD-ROM and mount your old drives from there. It might take running an fsck to clean up the old filesystems (depending on whether or not you clobbered them while trying to get this all to work). 'Just a thought - I take no responsibility if you hose your data though :) -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question on DSL signal
David Banning wrote: SNIP e drop-in drop-out problem. To any average computer user, these lines might appear normal - when a page stops loading for a minute they just live with it, and forget about it. So here's my question: 1. is there anyone who has a lot of experience monitoring DSL lines that can tell me how common this is? I cannot speak to the frequency of connection loss, but I have seen huge variability (over months) in *speed* if the premise is far away/at the limit of the DSL connection distance. DSL is quite fussy about the distance between the CPE and the phone company CO locations. But distance here is logical or electrical distance - almost always greater than straightline between the CO and the premsise. Why? Because phone company lines run in raceways (usually underground) that do not take the shortest path. Moreover, as construction and other changes in the neighborhood mandate, trunks are changed, lines spliced, pairs moved and so on. So... the electrical distance from CO to premise is typically further than the straight distance. This constant fiddling with the phone company infrastructure causes all manner of sins including intermittent electrical noise, disconnection, modem retraining, and just plain poor signal-to-noise ratio. And - in my experience - it can vary all over the place, from as low as 30% to 100% of claimed channel capacity. Welcome to DSL - where you are once again at the mercy of the phone company. 2. Is there any way to avoid it? Yes - switch to different fabric. I live near a large metro area, and the local cable company finally figured out that there was money to be made offering their very fast/reliable cable service to businesses. For $10/mo *less* than I was paying for 1.5/384 DSL with 8 static IPs, I now get 6.0/1.5 w/5 static IPs from Comcast. My only regret is that I could not continue to do business with Speakeasy, which is hands down the best ISP I've ever seen. The Comcast package has thus far (about 4 months) been flawless. They have a separate support group for business customers, they handled my reverse DNS perfectly and promptly, and - if I remain on the local backbone for testing - the system actually peaks to over 20Mb/sec. If you're not too far away from the CO you can try adsl2, but if your copper is lousy for dsl, it will be lousy for that as well. The real answer is to get your ISP to light the fires under their phone company provider and make them fix their copper properly. Good luck with that. The phone company - at least in the US - isn't particularly obligated to make DSL work. They only have to hit some signal-to-noise standard. After that, it's up to your DSL provider to make it happen. 3. I have used three different DSL modems, but the are all home quality: an Alcatel Speed Touch, a Speedstream 5260, and a Westell Wirespeed. Would spending more money on another type of modem help? If so, what is recommended? Maybe not more money, but trying different devices can help. The Broadext modems I used were twice the speed of the old Speedstreams on the same circuit. Newer chipsets should be more noise immune, but they cannot fix lousy copper in the phone system. Any comments would be helpful. One other thing to check. There should be a grounding wire coming off the NID (the box on the side of the building where the phone co terminates their copper). The wire is typically clamped to a stake in the ground. Make sure that the wire/stake surfaces are clean, and the clamp is tight to ensure the best possible earth ground connection. Once you cleaned/tightened this, it's not a bad idea to cover it with grease to keep moisture out. A small bit of electrical resistance on an earth ground can translate into very nasty noise spikes when there is an inductive noise source (like an electrical motor starting) somewhere near you. Good luck. The phone company was built around a voice model with a 300-3000 Hz bandwidth design criteria. That's been vastly improved as the phone backbones went all digital in the past 40 years, BUT, the last mile copper is/was the last thing to change. Oddly, even when they build new buildings (as was the case in my premise), they often don't do a great job with the copper. P.S. If all else fails, there's satellite and/or cellular internet. However, these are both rather expensive, not that fast, and have significant latency problems. Latency isn't that big a deal for data downloads, but it rears its ugly head when you want to stream audio/video or any other kind of quasi real time data. I feel your pain ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly
vittorio wrote: Il Monday 07 January 2008 03:18:21 Benjamin Close ha scritto: vittorio wrote: Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly SNIP wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly. last message repeated 30 times wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb wpi0: [ITHREAD] wpi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps wpi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps wpi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54 /SNIP Therefore I'm unable to make wpi0 work at all. Could you please tell me what should I do? Ciao, Vittorio The bus_dmamem_alloc message is harmless in your case. Due to limitations in the freebsd allocator, sometimes requesting a 16k aligned block of dma memory fails. As a temporary work around the wpi driver reattempts the allocation. If it truely does fail you'll not get a wpi0 device showing up, which clearly you did :). These warning messages will go away when I sync the next lot of updates to the driver which aren't quite ready yet. Can you describe a little more what you mean by wpi doesn't work? Cheers, Benjamin wpi driver maintainer Ben, here you are a longer explanation Context: Router ZyXEL ADSL+2 with dhcp up and running Laptop HP Pavillion Entertainment DV6000 intel centrino duo 2GB of memory hpbsd# uname -a FreeBSD hpbsd.vic 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Thu Dec 27 22:18:53 CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP03 i386 hpbsd# all wpi's necessary devices are compiled in the kernel device wpi device pci device wlan device wlan_amrr device firmware /var/log/messages kernel: wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 kernel: wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb kernel: wpi0: [ITHREAD] kernel: wpi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps kernel: wpi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps kernel: wpi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps the line legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 is in /boot/loader.conf BUT 1) it seems that sysctl is unable to find it and I have to set it via kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in a shell. Shouldn't this variable be set by either sysctl or by loader.conf (that is is a system variable) OR is it supposed to be set via kenv only? 2) dhclient is unable to get an IP address (BTW trying to set wpi0 up with a fixed IP makes wpi0 not associated to any AP) Here it is a session log SNIP hpbsd# sysctl -a|grep legal hpbsd# hpbsd# kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 hpbsd# kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack 1 hpbsd# ifconfig wpi0 ssid my_wireless weptxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x1f7b0a5a0d hpbsd# dhclient wpi0 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. hpbsd# ifconfig wpi0 wpi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps) status: associated ssid my_wireless channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:02:cf:61:81:fd authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS /SNIP Even giving an ip fixed address to wpi0 doesn't seem to work, - that is - I cannot ping anything and for netstat -rn wpi0 doesn't seem to exist. Please help Ciao from Rome ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vittorio, Do you have a line just like the below in your /etc/rc.conf? I've found DHCP a little tricky to set up on wireless laptops, and after a Lot of testing, I got mine to work. (This is getting a dhcp address from a Linksys router) ifconfig_wpi0=ssid [your network name] nwkey [your network key] DHCP Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Paging Matthew Seaman
Paul Schmehl wrote: I figure if anyone knows the answer to this off the top of their head, Matthew will. I've been reading the man pages for du and df, but I can't find the right combination. I'd like to get the type of output that df -h gives you but only for one mount point or even one directory. Is there a tool that can do that? (IOW, I'd like to run du -h but only get the totals for directories.) du -hd1 -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix
If you vi /usr/ports/UPDATING and search for fearless, it comes right up: 20070519: AFFECTS: users of Xorg AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome, fearless user! You are about to embark upon a mystical journey to the world of xorg 7.2. Eric Crist wrote: On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Mon Si wrote: Dear list, I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. The port can't be deleted by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port? Thanks in advance, Simon If nothing else works, you could try rm -rf /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3 If I remember correctly, there are detailed instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING -- go back to notes for sometime in May of 2007, and there's a really long entry on upgraded to Xorg 7.x from 6.9. I think the entry specifically mentions 7.2, but it should work for 7.3 as well. HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
I have 18 brand new Gateway towers at work (I can supply the model numbers after school restarts next week). I wanted to clone them using dd and an external usb hard drive. I couldn't boot 6.x or 7.x CDs on any of the boxes, but I was able to install 7 (I didn't try 6.x) on a usb stick, set the BIOS to boot from the device and run FreeBSD (and dd) from there. These machines have CDRW/DVDR drives installed. I've had no problem running any content based media from them at all, but I haven't tried booting any other media (like WinXP) from them, either. Tim David M. Patronis wrote: Not in this case. As I mentioned in a prior post, I tried booting with the 7.0-BETA4 ISO and got the exact same results. Response: Yes, sorry about that; was in too much of a hurry and missed the later posts. David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
NetOpsCenter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a new server out of both older and brand new components. It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z mobo. The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very low hours on it. So ... here's a fun one: I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD) or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the DVD. But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and 6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot. The loader gets as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily spins to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine just sits there. There is some further activity on the optical drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit. I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt this is the problem since I can load the other OSs. I've tried removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey memory problem - no change. I've tried removing the only two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW - no change. I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode. But that's it. I am stumped. Ideas anyone? If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO trick may work). Also, 7.0 ran extremely well for me back in Sept., you might try it as an alternative. HTH Aloha, I had the same problem with a couple of older mobo's . I ended up loading 6.* on a hd on a different machine that I knew worked. I physically moved it to the problem box and it Worked. I think the issue could be the size or the type of HD in my case. Some older mobo bios jam up when a HD is more than 60 gig I have found. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol This was a brand new Abit LG-95Z mobo. The solution was to return it and get an Intel mobo instead. Problem fixed. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
David M. Patronis wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a new server out of both older and brand new components. It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z mobo. The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very low hours on it. So ... here's a fun one: I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD) or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the DVD. But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and 6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot. The loader gets as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily spins to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine just sits there. There is some further activity on the optical drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit. I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt this is the problem since I can load the other OSs. I've tried removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey memory problem - no change. I've tried removing the only two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW - no change. I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode. But that's it. I am stumped. Ideas anyone? If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO trick may work). I just swapped out the optical drive with a CD-RW - exact same symptoms. Fiddling w/BIOS, seems to make no difference, though I am still poking at it. I am utterly lost - never seen very standard hardware like this that FreeBSD could/would not boot and run on ... Response: Its probably an issue with the 6X series. I have experienced something similar and just spoke to someone via this list with a similar problem. In all cases thus far we were able to install using the 7X series. David Not in this case. As I mentioned in a prior post, I tried booting with the 7.0-BETA4 ISO and got the exact same results. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
I am building a new server out of both older and brand new components. It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z mobo. The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very low hours on it. So ... here's a fun one: I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD) or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the DVD. But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and 6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot. The loader gets as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily spins to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine just sits there. There is some further activity on the optical drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit. I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt this is the problem since I can load the other OSs. I've tried removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey memory problem - no change. I've tried removing the only two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW - no change. I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode. But that's it. I am stumped. Ideas anyone? TIA, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a new server out of both older and brand new components. It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z mobo. The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very low hours on it. So ... here's a fun one: I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD) or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the DVD. But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and 6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot. The loader gets as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily spins to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine just sits there. There is some further activity on the optical drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit. I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt this is the problem since I can load the other OSs. I've tried removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey memory problem - no change. I've tried removing the only two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW - no change. I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode. But that's it. I am stumped. Ideas anyone? If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO trick may work). I just swapped out the optical drive with a CD-RW - exact same symptoms. Fiddling w/BIOS, seems to make no difference, though I am still poking at it. I am utterly lost - never seen very standard hardware like this that FreeBSD could/would not boot and run on ... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a new server out of both older and brand new components. It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z mobo. The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very low hours on it. So ... here's a fun one: I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD) or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the DVD. But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and 6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot. The loader gets as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily spins to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine just sits there. There is some further activity on the optical drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit. I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt this is the problem since I can load the other OSs. I've tried removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey memory problem - no change. I've tried removing the only two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW - no change. I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode. But that's it. I am stumped. Ideas anyone? If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO trick may work). Well ... no amount of BIOS fiddling fixes this problem. Also, 7.0 ran extremely well for me back in Sept., you might try it as an alternative. I downloaded 7.0-BETA4 and burned the CD - This exhibits the exact same boot time behavior as the earlier 6.x releases. In summary: 1) I can boot 4.x or Linux install CDs. I cannot boot 6.x or 7.x install CD - system hangs at the beginning of loading the kernel and the video cursor starts jumping around - presumably because the program has lost its way. (I am assuming that the program having trouble is the loader itself, since the kernel is not yet loaded at this point.) 2) Changing optical drives made no difference. 3) Reordering/removing memory sticks made no difference. I am running a memory test ATM just to be sure, but so far, the memory seems fine. 4) No amount of poking around in the BIOS settings seems to help either. I am starting to suspect the MOBO. If I stick a couple of cards in the two available PCI slots, the system has trouble taking me into the BIOS screen. I have to remove the cards to reliably get into the BIOS settings menu. I wonder if this is one of those situations where there are not enough IRQs to go around. I remain confused ... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: SNIP If your MB is new it should work. Older MB's have problems with the new way to boot off an optical cd. You can try BIOS/CMOS updates from the motherbard mfg if they are available. Sometimes even back-flashing to older BIOS fixes it. This is a brand new ABIT mobo w/latest bios on board. 3) Reordering/removing memory sticks made no difference. I am running a memory test ATM just to be sure, but so far, the memory seems fine. 4) No amount of poking around in the BIOS settings seems to help either. I am starting to suspect the MOBO. If I stick a couple of cards in the two available PCI slots, the system has trouble taking me into the BIOS screen. I have to remove the cards to reliably get into the BIOS settings menu. I wonder if this is one of those situations where there are not enough IRQs to go around. If it's a new MB the PCI cards are probably too old/slow to work right. I thought that even modern PCI busses would fall back to the old speeds. I've had not trouble with any of my other rather new mobos, running, say, old Adaptec controllers. Another thing to check is if the MB has any overclock settings turned on, these will screw up booting, going into BIOS, and some PCI cards. Go to BIOS and select reset to factory settings which turns off all the go-fast stuff. And make sure you confirm the CPU speed in BIOS with the actual speed stamped on the CPU. I've reset the BIOS to the most conservative mode, no overclocking, etc. Sometimes you just got to stick a floppy disk drive on the thing and boot from the 4 boot floppies then do an FTP install. I have about a dozen servers among the collection I manage that are like this - some are even newer ones. I would *love* to know just where boot is getting lost. In the case of your servers, do you see the same symptoms I am seeing: The kernel loading progress prompt gets painted (most of the time, sometimes it does not even make it that far) and the booting seizes up? Thanks for your time, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating/patching network card driver?
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Nomad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my computer but the network card (bge) wasn't detected properly. On troubleshooting the problem I found the driver for this family of NICs isn't appropriate to my particular release. I would prefer to stay with the RELEASE branch but found an updated driver. In updating the driver, is it sufficient to replace the contents of /usr/src/sys/dev/bge with the updated version and then rebuild the kernel? It might be; trying it may be the easiest way to find out. If you're going to use unsupported upgrades, though, there isn't much reason to stick to release codebase. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have the windows .inf, .sys and (maybe) .cat driver files for that network card, you might want to look into ndisgen(8) I haven't used it on wired network interfaces, but it works very well on the NetGear and Linksys wireless cards that have no FreeBSD drivers under 6.2. Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Still Seeing A Problem Building dmx
Has anyone found a work around for this? It's been a problem for several months: ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x774): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_set_device_removed' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x78b): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_find_device_by_capability' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7b8): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_free_string_array' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7c3): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7e2): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7ed): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x819): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_new' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x853): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_shutdown' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4/hw/dmx. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4/hw/dmx. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4/hw. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.14826.101 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=xorg-dmx-1.2.0,1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.2.0,1 make BATCH=yes -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dreaded '__mb_sb_limit' Error And What To Do About It
On one of my FBSD 6-STABLE machines, I have the system cvsup the latest sources nightly and rebuild (but not install) the system and all relevant kernels. Every week or so, I go to single user and install what was last built (assuming the build worked OK). My last such venture was on 11-20-2007 without problems. Tonight, I tried to do this again, and immediately got hit with the libexec '_mb_sb_limit' symbol missing problem. I fell back to the 11-20-2007 system image, and all is once again well. So, here's my question. Is this a temporary problem that will be resolved at some point before 6.3 is released, or do I have have to rebuild the entire system applications set to get new binaries that don't depend on this symbol? Also, if it is going to be fixed, how will I know it has been before trying another update like this again? TIA, P.S. Rebuilding the apps on this system would be a REAL pain. Here's hoping the fine FBSD developers can find it within themselves to make this symbol once again appear so old binaries will run unchanged. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unimpressive buildworld time
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:45:07 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Impressive ;-) My main machine (with an Athlon XP @ 2GHz) takes ~2 hours to build kernel and world (I use a script to do that). My other box is running -CURRENT and takes ~11 hours to build kernel and world (Celeron 500...). Just to supply some numbers that go the other direction :-) With no -j and running gnome and doing other things in the foreground (watching a avi) 1 hr 3 mins on a e6850 w/ 4 gig (amd64) p4 540 3.2GHz, 1GB ram: -- World build completed on Thu Nov 15 19:15:05 CST 2007 -- real63m8.635s user102m44.096s sys 10m44.889s [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# heh, i have appropriately renamed the thread. :) with -j 8 cheers, My Pentium-D 3G DualCore w/2G memory and a pretty vanilla SATA drive does buildworld and 3 different kernels in 68 minutes wall time building 6.3-PRE (aka -STABLE) using -j20. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where Is The Kernel Build Number Derived
When I do a make buildworld/installworld, where does it find the last build number to increment? More particularly, how do I reset this so that the next kernel build will be #0? make clean doesn't do it, so I'm guessing I have to delete/populate some counter file. TIA... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?
I subscribe to the digest, so below is a copy/paste of the question/mail i'm replying to: - QUOTE: Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular which has been written which would be useful to read? T.I.A. - /QUOTE You will get differencing opinions, views, and methods to FreeBSD. What seems to be generally recommended as a good and very true info is http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php A few more, such as onlamp.com, oreillynet.com and a few more pages really focus, and have a dead-on correct view, implementation and view of the BSD systems. Personally, I see FreeBSD the most mature, OpenBSD the most secure, and NetBSD as the most portable. DesktopBSD and PC-BSD on the desktops. I run FreeBSD on my desktop, but I'm willing to spend the little more time to have the name FreeBSD there. :) FreeBSD's 7.0 release is just around the corner, and on one of the developer's blogs (search this mailing list archives for the link) -- FreeBSD 7.0 is wanting to be released before the new year. Lots of people are dying for it to be released. I'm downloading the BETA1 right now, and gonna start throwing it on machines to help them test. Donovan, the most important thing that I can help you in your transition to FreeBSD is the fact that it may look like, feel like, and play like XYZ Linux distribution. But under the hood, is an entirely different engine. Take your time, it IS a different world and you WILL have to re-learn many things. Keeping this in mind, should make your FreeBSD transition one of the most entertaining, and useful transitions you could do. So the fact that your subject is a question, my answer is not likely, if you have the time for it. --Tim If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [stupid question] setting env variables globally
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:14:12PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Is there any way to set the default value of a enviromental variable globally. Specifically I want JAVA_VERSION to default to 1.6 unless the user sets it other wise. By global I mean no matter how something is invoked (command line, script, GUI, IPC trigger, etc.) if it checks the value of the var it gets the same value (and I want to do this system wide) For userland stuff that is invoked after a login (i.e. In some user's login context), I have a master profile I keep in /usr/local/etc/.myprofile. I then source this from the .profile or .bashrc in a given user's account. If you need this for cron jobs, there is a way to set environment variables in the crontab entry IIRC... HTH, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minimal install is too big
Hi all, Recently, for pure entertainment and a little bit of a experience thing, I have been looking and/or finding many devices that have linux embedded. While in of itself the fact that it works, I'm not discounting. But I'd like to expand it or get it running on a system that I am familiar with. So I was playing with the idea of using FreeBSD on such devices, and I would deal with the individual hardware specs if I could get the general system small enough. The minimal install of FreeBSD as from the developers is about 130MB. I want to get something working on a 8MB flash. (For those curious, it's a ethernet NAS device) picobsd is discontinued, nanobsd claims it can fit in 64MB. I'd even go with some NetBSD flavor, as long as it's not linux. I've done some research and would like to see this happen, but may just end up using the GPL code from Linksys to get it working as I need it to. Thanks for any update/idea/clue. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545469 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade to imap-uw 2006j Breaks Logins
As part of a portupgrade, one of my servers just picked up the latest version of imap-uw (2006j). Now users can no longer login as imapd claims they are providing incorrect passwords. I manually copied the version I was using (2004g) to /usr/local/libexec/imapd, and all is well, so it is definitely the new release. I did try manually reinstalling the imap-uw and cclient ports using the make option to enable both SSL and plain text passwords. Still no joy. 'Anyone else seeing this/have a workaround? -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP Server compatability
I thought e would be purchasing a Dell 2950 to use as part of our FreeBSD 6.2 server farm, (and thanks to everyone for their informed replies), but due to other circumstances, our client wants to purchase a HP ProLiant ML350 G5 SAS LFF - Rack Server. The only experience I have with HP is their printers and I know nothing about their server compatability with FreeBSD. Does anyone know if this unit is compatible with FreeBSD 6.2 or has anyone actually installed it on one? Any pointer to pitfalls and/or workarounds would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell Servers and FreeBSD
Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it with something that will support FreeBSD 6.2 and have enough horsepower to host a substantial (50 or so) number of concurrent Moodle logins. The database (pgsql) is already on another server so I won't be chewing up server resources by hosting a database, too. Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD
Thanks! I plan on using RAID 5 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Tim Kellers wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? Hi, I've got 860, 1435, 1600, 1950, 2950 all running 6.2-relelase-p7 with custom kernels. Watch out though the RAID-1 write speed on w/ FreeBSD is known to be pathetically the worst thing ever with this raid card: SAS 5IR internal RAID adapter, PCI-Express Read speed seems fine though. mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.12.0 da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Dell VIRTUAL DISK 1028 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da0: 300.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 237464MB (486326272 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30272C) My other RAID cards doing RAID0, RAID5, and RAID1+0 are all stellar. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD
Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. This is very good information to know! Tim Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: [snip] real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB) avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 5 cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6 Philip, Why are only 6 CPU's shown, Because I did a 'head -25 .. ' there are correctly 8 listed and in use sorry for the confusion. I'm actually not sure why real memory is 9GB -- The box is an 8GB box so the avail is correct. and also correctly reported in 'top' and other things. and why is 1GB of memory not available for use? - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Override ports security restrictions?
I'm trying to install /usr/ports/graphics/png === png-1.2.12_1 has known vulnerabilities: = png -- DoS crash vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/4cb9c513-03ef-11dc-a51d-0019b95d4f14.html = Please update your ports tree and try again. *** Error code 1 While I can appreciate the attempt to protect me from doing something stupid, I really do need to get this installed, and from what I've read, it looks like a non-issue for me. Is there a way to get force ports to install this package? Thanks! -- Tim DeBoer Just once, I'd like it if someone called me Sir. Without adding You're creating a scene. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Override ports security restrictions?
On 9/25/07, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:27:05AM -0600, Tim DeBoer wrote:
I'm trying to install /usr/ports/graphics/png
=== png-1.2.12_1 has known vulnerabilities:
= png -- DoS crash vulnerability.
Reference:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/4cb9c513-03ef-11dc-a51d-0019b95d4f14.html
= Please update your ports tree and try again.
*** Error code 1
While I can appreciate the attempt to protect me from doing something
stupid, I really do need to get this installed, and from what I've
read, it looks like a non-issue for me.
Is there a way to get force ports to install this package?
Yes. Use 'make -DIGNORE_VULNERABILITIES install'
(This is documented in the ports(7) manpage.)
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Hmmm, it seems to want to work, but I end up with a bunch of errors.
# make -DIGNORE_VULNERABILITIES install
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2294: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2294: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2294: Malformed conditio
nal (((${OSVERSION} 504105 || (${OSVERSION} = 60
${OSVERSION} 600103) || (${OSVERSION} = 70 ${OS
VERSION} 700012)) ${PKGORIGIN} != ports-mgmt/pkg_ins
tall) || exists(${LOCALBASE}/sbin/pkg_info))
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2295: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2295: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2295: Malformed conditio
nal ((${OSVERSION} 504105 || (${OSVERSION} = 60
${OSVERSION} 600103) || (${OSVERSION} = 70 ${OSV
ERSION} 700012)) ${PKGORIGIN} != ports-mgmt/pkg_inst
all)
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6100: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6100: Need an operator
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6103: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6103: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
Any thoughts?
Thanks, I really do appreciate the help :-)
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Re: Override ports security restrictions?
On 9/25/07, Tim DeBoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Hmmm, it seems to want to work, but I end up with a bunch of errors.
# make -DIGNORE_VULNERABILITIES install
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2294: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2294: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2294: Malformed conditio
nal (((${OSVERSION} 504105 || (${OSVERSION} = 60
${OSVERSION} 600103) || (${OSVERSION} = 70 ${OS
VERSION} 700012)) ${PKGORIGIN} != ports-mgmt/pkg_ins
tall) || exists(${LOCALBASE}/sbin/pkg_info))
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2295: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2295: warning: String co
mparison operator should be either == or !=
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 2295: Malformed conditio
nal ((${OSVERSION} 504105 || (${OSVERSION} = 60
${OSVERSION} 600103) || (${OSVERSION} = 70 ${OSV
ERSION} 700012)) ${PKGORIGIN} != ports-mgmt/pkg_inst
all)
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6100: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6100: Need an operator
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6103: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6103: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
Any thoughts?
Thanks, I really do appreciate the help :-)
Never mind that. I'm an idiot.
I was trying to build on the machine I'm going to replace.
Observation skills FTW.
make DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes install
Did the trick.
Thanks for the help!
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Questions about passwd files
Hi everyone, I'm building a new FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system, and I need to move a ton of users from the old FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE system. I was hoping it would be as easy as copying the master.passwd, passwd, and group files to the new box and rebooting, but No. It's not. Is there a way to migrate users from the old box to the new one? I don't care so much about migrating all their home directory contents or mail, I just want a method to add all the old users passwords and groups to the new machine, and create the user directories in a batch operation. Thanks! -- Tim DeBoer Just once, I'd like it if someone called me Sir. Without adding You're creating a scene. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
increasing maximum connections in PGSQL
If I need to raise the maximum connections to a PostgreSQL server (v postgresql-server-7.4.17) on FreeBSD 6.2 -STABLE, Ineed to raise the available semaphores to increase connectivity. After doing a man -k on sem and reading through the man pages that see relevant, I'm still unable to determine the correct method, though it does look like it may involve loading a module in /bot/loader conf. Can anyone point me to some How-to documentation on raising this value to increase postgresql connections? Thanks Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xorg 7.3 Works Fine Now - But .. A Few More Questions
The patches we've been waiting for apparently made the ports tree and we have joy on Xorg 7.3. I do have a couple of questions about stuff that was happening prior to this (and still is). When I to a portupgrade, I always see some grumbling about xorg-macros no longer being in he ports tree. Can I safely pkg_delete these? I also wonder if anyone has a workaround for this longstanding problem. The only thing I've been able to do successfully is run the VESA driver instead: X.Org X Server 1.4.0 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD ozzie.tundraware.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #33: Thu Sep 13 08:04:21 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OZZIE i386 Build Date: 14 September 2007 06:29:38PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Sep 15 16:13:47 2007 (++) Using config file: xorg.conf.new (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) (II) Module ddc already built-in (II) Module ramdac already built-in (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your VideoRAM set too low ?? Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 TIA! -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem Building xorg-dmx After The 7.3 Upgrade
to `libhal_free_string_array' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x3f4): In function `device_added': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x476): In function `device_added': : undefined reference to `libhal_device_get_property_strlist' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x502): In function `device_added': : undefined reference to `libhal_free_string_array' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x601): In function `device_added': : undefined reference to `NewInputDeviceRequest' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x660): In function `device_added': : undefined reference to `libhal_free_string_array' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x6a4): In function `disconnect_hook': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_init' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x6af): In function `disconnect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_shutdown' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x6b8): In function `disconnect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x6c0): In function `disconnect_hook': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x6f2): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_init' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x716): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_set_dbus_connection' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x730): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_init' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x74a): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_device_property_watch_all' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x765): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_set_device_added' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x774): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_set_device_removed' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x78b): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_find_device_by_capability' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7b8): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_free_string_array' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7c3): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7e2): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x7ed): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `dbus_error_free' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x819): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_new' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x853): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_shutdown' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4/hw/dmx. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4/hw/dmx. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4/hw. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx/work/xorg-server-1.4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-dmx. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.3773.73 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=xorg-dmx-1.2.0,1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.2.0,1 make BATCH=yes ** Fix the problem and try again. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems With xorg 7.3 After A Port Upgrade
I just did a port upgrade on one of the servers here. When I tried to start X on the console, I got this: X.Org X Server 1.4.0 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD ozzie.tundraware.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #33: Thu Sep 13 08:04:21 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OZZIE i386 Build Date: 14 September 2007 06:29:38PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Sep 15 00:08:37 2007 (==) Using config file: /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf (EE) module ABI major version (1) doesn't match the server's version (2) (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module requirement mismatch, 0) (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). OK, so we'll go rebuild the drivers from the port. Hmm, not really: /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-driversmake -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install === Installing for xorg-drivers-7.3 === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so - found === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so - found === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so - found === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so - found === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so - found === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so - found === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vga_drv.so - found === xorg-drivers-7.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/via_drv.so - found === Generating temporary packing list /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/libdata/xorg /usr/bin/touch /usr/local/libdata/xorg/drivers === Registering installation for xorg-drivers-7.3 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pixman-0.9.5_1 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package xorg-libraries-7.3 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pixman-0.9.5_1 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package xorg-libraries-7.3 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pixman-0.9.5_1 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package xorg-libraries-7.3 So ... what is causing these dependency loops and does anyone have a fix yet? Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shutting off sendmail
Bill Banks wrote: Hi all, I need to install qmail and shut down sendmail. In my /etc/rc.conf file I dienalbe sendmail, but when the box reboot sendmail starts up Why --- Put this in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable=NONE Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache 2.0.61 and SSL start
I portupgraded my apache 2.0.59 to 61 today with no errors, but on restart, SSL wasn't loaded. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2 start starts the server (I have apache2enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf), but ssl isn't loaded. apachectl -k start -DSSL prompts me for my sslcert passphrase, and, after I enter it, allows https access on port 443. When started with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2 www# ps -waux | grep http root 61279 6.3 6.3 25624 15928 ?? Ss8:23PM 0:00.80 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61280 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61281 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61282 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61283 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61284 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd root 61286 0.0 0.1 372 216 p2 R+8:23PM 0:00.00 grep http When started with apachectl -k start -DSSL www# ps -waux | grep http root 61310 12.1 6.4 25868 16304 ?? Ss8:25PM 0:01.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61311 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61312 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61313 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61314 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61315 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL root 61317 0.0 0.1 372 216 p2 R+8:25PM 0:00.00 grep http Any ideas where I am going wrong? Tim Kellers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache 2.0.61 and SSL start
Thanks Dave, I tried that, no luck. Tim Dave wrote: Hello, Try adding the line: apache2ssl_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf that should do it. Hth Dave. - Original Message - From: Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 8:27 PM Subject: Apache 2.0.61 and SSL start I portupgraded my apache 2.0.59 to 61 today with no errors, but on restart, SSL wasn't loaded. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2 start starts the server (I have apache2enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf), but ssl isn't loaded. apachectl -k start -DSSL prompts me for my sslcert passphrase, and, after I enter it, allows https access on port 443. When started with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2 www# ps -waux | grep http root 61279 6.3 6.3 25624 15928 ?? Ss8:23PM 0:00.80 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61280 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61281 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61282 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61283 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd www 61284 0.0 6.3 25624 15944 ?? S 8:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd root 61286 0.0 0.1 372 216 p2 R+8:23PM 0:00.00 grep http When started with apachectl -k start -DSSL www# ps -waux | grep http root 61310 12.1 6.4 25868 16304 ?? Ss8:25PM 0:01.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61311 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61312 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61313 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61314 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL www 61315 0.0 6.4 25868 16312 ?? S 8:25PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL root 61317 0.0 0.1 372 216 p2 R+8:25PM 0:00.00 grep http Any ideas where I am going wrong? Tim Kellers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring
Amitabh Kant wrote: On 9/8/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd already guessed the RX don't get bigger than 30~40% of the expected bandwidth. I performed the test with some other files and there was no difference. Thanks, Bahman The bandwidth being advertised by your ISP would be the maximum thoughput allowed on your DSL lines with multiple DSL users sharing the same bandwidth, something that is generally known as contention ratio. See this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contention_ratio Amitabh But you should be able to hit the advertised bandwidth. To the best of my knowledge, DSL itself is NOT a shared medium. It is a point-to- point technology from your premise to the Central Office. The bandwidth *behind* the CO may be shared, but should be so large as to not be a bottleneck. My provider (Speakeasy) advertises 1.5/384 ADSL for my circuit and that is *exactly* what I get whether moving a single file or multiple files simultaneously. There are only two reasons I can think of that would prevent you from hitting full advertised bandwidth: 1) You are too far away from the CO to hold up the circuit a full speed. Most DSL bridges/routers are adaptive and will downshift to a speed where the error rate is reduced to an acceptable level. Even if you are not far away from the CO, you will also see this if the copper pair is noisy for some other reason: bad grounding, bad splicing, old wire, etc. 2) Your premise wiring is hosed. Home telephone wiring is typically utter crap for data, even on newer homes. A new run of Cat 3 cable directly from the Network Interface box on the side of the building to the jack where the DSL bridge plugs in can do wonders. Also make sure that the cable from the bridge to that jack is good - I just had one go bad and wreak havoc for a while in my office. HTH, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring
RW wrote: On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:27:38 -0500 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amitabh Kant wrote: On 9/8/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd already guessed the RX don't get bigger than 30~40% of the expected bandwidth. I performed the test with some other files and there was no difference. Thanks, Bahman The bandwidth being advertised by your ISP would be the maximum thoughput allowed on your DSL lines with multiple DSL users sharing the same bandwidth, something that is generally known as contention ratio. See this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contention_ratio Amitabh But you should be able to hit the advertised bandwidth. To the best of my knowledge, DSL itself is NOT a shared medium. It is a point-to- point technology from your premise to the Central Office. The bandwidth *behind* the CO may be shared, but should be so large as to not be a bottleneck. It depends on your circumstances. Some people are constrained by contention ratio some aren't. Some ISPs offer a better ratio for a more expensive accounts. I don't understand this. If the actual DSL circuit is point-to-point - i.e., not shared between the premise and the DSLAM in the CO, just exactly *where* is the contention occuring? I would think (and could be wrong) that the only other place would be in the bandwidth behind the DSLAM - the actual phone network. But this is typically very, very high capacity stuff, at least here in the US, and I sort of doubt it couldn't deliver the stated bandwidth. Not arguing here, just wondering... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand this. If the actual DSL circuit is point-to-point - i.e., not shared between the premise and the DSLAM in the CO, just exactly *where* is the contention occuring? Inside the ISP's router. However even cheap ISP routers you can buy off Ebay for a couple grand have enough bandwidth to route between multiple 100BaseT connections. For example the 7206 has 2 800Mbt backplanes. That would mean you could run 500 1.5Mbt DSL customers at full bore to a server on your local network before contention would set in. And an ISP with that many customers can afford a more powerful router than a couple K used 7206. The upshot is his ISP doesen't know how to troubleshoot DSL. Ted That's more-or-less what I figured. When I switched from XO to Speakeasy, I got nearly twice the speed - i.e., What the circuit was actually supposed to do in the first place - and both use the same CO and ISP (Covad). The only other difference was that XO had me using a Speedstream and Speakeasy a Brightport bridge. No matter what XO did, they could never hold up the circuit at full speed, but Speakeasy has no problem doing this. In exchanging bridges, there is some difference, but there's no question that the provider (and their relationship with the DISP in the CO) does make a difference. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot
Ivan Voras wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several minutes while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but it takes a lng time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the problem go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal soltion. Have you tried adding hint.fd.0.disabled=1 and hint.fdc.0.disabled=1 to your loader.conf (or device.hints)? I don't know it it will work, it's just something you could try. I have not. If I do this, will it actually disable the floppy/controller? The issue for me is that I want to be able to actually use the floppy when I need it, I just don't want to have wait multiple minutes while the kernel figures out there is not floppy in the drive at boot time... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot
I recently noted this problem and thought it was related to a new MOBO I'd just installed. I've now seen the exact same problem with an old MOBO when I loaded FBSD 6.2. IOW, the following appears to be a 6.2 artifact: During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several minutes while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but it takes a lng time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the problem go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal soltion. I DAGS and saw that others have seen this same problem but could not find a solution anywhere ... TIA, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
failed to create swap_zone 6.2-STABLE SMP Kernel
I note that this problem has appeared in the past and am wondering if there is a resolution: Running 6.2-STABLE on a machine that ran 4.11 flawlessly. I am seeing the message failed to create swap_zone right after the 2nd CPU gets enabled on a Dell PowerEdge 1300. The system blows out and reboots therafter. This same configuration works fine on a more modern Intel MOBO with a Pentium D, so I'm guessing the problem is hardware dependent. Booting a generic kernel works fine on the PowerEdge. The source code is latest STABLE as of earlier today. Has anyone else seen this and/or is there a workaround? My exact kernel config is: include SMP options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT options VESA # System console options options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT # disable reboot key sequence options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=200 # number of history buffer lines options SC_PIXEL_MODE # add support for the raster text mode # The following options will change the default colors of syscons. options SC_NORM_ATTR=(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK) options SC_NORM_REV_ATTR=(FG_YELLOW|BG_GREEN) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_RED|BG_BLACK) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=(FG_BLACK|BG_RED) TIA, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash
Jona Joachim wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0200 Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: Hello, can I ask you for help, how to set up flash in Firefox natively, step by step? The only native solution I know of is gnash but last time I tried it it was very unstable and very slow. gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet. It features some great improvements. It can for example play YouTube videos without too many problems. I heard very promising things about gnash last week. gnash has already a lot of advantages compared to the 'real thing' from Adobe. For example it runs on many platforms where Adobe's Flash doesn't run. It will also perhaps soon hit the iPhone. Useless to say Adobe are not so happy about it ;) Best regards, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I built and installed gnash 0.8.1 this evening. The only additional dependency not installed by the 0.7.x version that I needed was agg (/usr/ports/graphics/agg). Interestingly enough, while the new plugin choked Firefox 2.0.0.5 and Seamonkey 1.14 on pages that had embedded flash files, Konqueror 3.5.7 handled most embedded Flash that was = 7. I built (and ran) it on a GateWay laptop running 6.2-STABLE: FreeBSD access 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Thu Jul 26 00:54:56 EDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACCESS i386 It still needs work, but it looks like it is headed in the right direction. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Silly Sendmail Tricks
Under FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE, among other things, I had this in my access file: # Throttling Defaults # GreetPause: 2000# Set in the .mc file ClientRate: 10 ClientConn: 10 # Don't throttle 127.0.0.1 or LAN traffic GreetPause:127.0.0.10 # Time to wait before 220 msg ClientRate:127.0.0.10 # Connections/interval ClientConn:127.0.0.10 # Concurrent connections GreetPause:192.168.00 # Time to wait before 220 msg ClientRate:192.168.00 # Connections/interval ClientConn:192.168.00 # Concurrent connections Now, I've switched to FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE and it seems that the semantic of 0 means no limiting is no longer supported. With the configuration above, the system starts throttling traffic generated on the localhost when, say, a mailing list manager starts firing off a bunch of message. I have to change things to: ClientRate:127.0.0.11000 # Connections/interval ClientConn:127.0.0.11000 # Concurrent connections (I've not changed things for 192.168.0/24 because nothing on that network sends email directly - or they shouldn't be - it all is routed via the FreeBSD host.) This fixed things - I can now send large volumes of email from localhost. But, I wonder why the old setting does not work. Did something change in the semantics of sendmail since 4.11 that could have caused this? Under 6.2 I have this for sendmail, BTW: Version 8.14.1 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) (short domain name) $w = xxx (canonical domain name) $j = xxx.xxx.xxx (subdomain name) $m = xxx.xxx (node name) $k = xxx.xxx.xxx ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter ruleset address Inquiring minds wanna know ;) -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disabling Shutdown Option On xfce4 Exit
'Anyone know how to disable the shutdown option when xfce4 exits? The user in question needs sudo access to the system, but I don't want this user to be able to turn off a server when they exit the xfce4 session. TIA, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6 and 'mailman' Issues
I've installed mailman from both the current ports and packages and noted a common problem. It seems that after a clean install, sometime later, permissions are getting changed on its directory tree. In going through the various /etc/periodic entries, I don't see where this is getting done. There is some very brief discussion of this in the mailman docs, but I'm still slightly confused. So..., I guess the question is, how to do I install mailman such that check_perms does not grumble about things like this: directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/testing.mbox directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/testing directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/testing/2007-August directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/local/mailman/lists/testing Problems found: 4 Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix Do I need to install mailman with some special flag set or is there a way to keep whatever is doing this from clobbering the permissions? FWIW, I am running sendmail with MailScanner/clamav/spamassassin. There are thus three running instances: root 1066 0.0 0.1 4492 2588 ?? Ss 11:00PM 0:10.65 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) root 1073 0.0 0.1 3640 2232 ?? Is 11:00PM 0:00.03 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue (sendmail) smmsp1081 0.0 0.1 3508 2112 ?? Is 11:00PM 0:00.03 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) TIA, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
py2[45]-dbus package oddity
I'm not sure where this message is better directed, to either the port maintainer or the questions list. The answer is probably the ports list.. [Crossposted] There are two packages that are indicated as installed, py24-dbus and py25-dbus. Both of these look like identical packages, same version information and everything. Is it necessary to have both packages listed as installed? Can't I remove one or the other? py24-dbus is a dependant package on two others I have installed, but py25-dbus isn't. Can I, Should I remove py25-dbus, or would that remove py24-dbus as well? Thanks for any tips or pointers. Tim. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Using Smart-Fail HD
I'm on the digest list. I have copied/pasted the OP -QUOTE: Message: 17 Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:00:07 -0300 From: Damian Vicino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using Smart-Fail HD To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello. Im Having FBSD running in a P3 with 4.3GB HD, and got 2 extra 80GBs HD that fails the SMART check. I did a full HD scan with tools provided by the HD's developers and over 90% of the HDs are safe. I want to use those HD for home of the lowrank users, and keep the critical data in the 4GB HD. Do u know any pretty safe FS for this kind of unstable hardware, i was thinking in something with software RAID maybe. Thanks for any suggestion, im pretty new on FBSD world (and english-speak world too). BTW, if the solution can be applied to DFBSD, it will be very nice, becouse i got another machine P1 runnning it, and all HDs i can get for it use to have a lot of failures already. See ya Sdäv /QUOTE Damian, You might find Steve Gibson's SpinRite a really useful purchase. It recovers most drives it works on, and a single purchase can be use on any of your personal drives. It is it's own bootable floppy or CD, and works very well. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm I recommend using that now, and then tread lightly until you feel confident about the drives again. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=graduation+giftscs=bz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xorg 7.2 console switching problem
I tried doing some searching on this (mailing list and Google) but although I saw the problem mentioned, I didn't see much discussion or any resolutions. If I missed something, please pardon the noise. After I upgraded both a Gateway laptop and a Dell Optiplex to Xorg 7.2 (both running 6.2-STABLE built July 26th), I lost the ability to alt-SHIFT-F1 -F8 and switch to a console. Console switching worked fine with Xorg 6.9. I found that I was missing the /usr/local/share/X11/compiled directory and the /usr/local/share/X11/compiled/server-0.xkm file. I made the directory and touch'd the filename, restarted X and I got the console-switching function back. I thought I followed the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING to the letter. Has anyone else seen this happen or does anyone have any idea of what I might have done wrong in the upgrade? Thanks Tim Kellers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?
--- Momchil Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ðа Friday 03 August 2007 00:02:51 Tim Judd напиÑа: Forgot to CC the questions ML. --- Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Tim Judd Thu Aug 2 15:01:18 2007 Received: from [68.35.175.118] by web62407.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:01:18 PDT Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:01:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2291 I'm on the digest list, so I copy/paste the message to quote: -QUOTE: Message: 16 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:19:21 -0400 From: Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: attaching a terminal to 'join' another? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sorry if my question is a bit confusing - I'm not even sure the proper terminology, so I don't know what the best way to start looking is. I'm rebuilding a system at home, and I'd like to check how the build is going at a slow time at work sometimes. I can connect to the system from work (ssh into my main box, and then from there, ssh to the system I'm working on). I have a terminal opened on that system (actually, another ssh session fron the main box), and I'd like to have my new connection attach to that terminal session, if possible, so that I can just pick up where I left off, and monitor it from here. Is this possible? Sessions main desktop terminal A [ssh]-- workstation terminal A (where builds are currently being processed) work desktop terminal [ssh]-- main destop terminal B [ssh]-- workstation terminal B I would like to have workstation terminal B intercept workstation terminal A, or main desktop terminal B intercept main desktop terminal A. Can it be done? Where do I start looking, what are the words and phrases of interest? I tried looking at both the bash and xterm commands/man page, but they are rather long, and I'd miss what I was looking for without having a clue in advance. I'm guessing something like /dev/?tty?? might work, but how do I figure out which tty to use? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton --/QUOTE Can't the OP, Jim, use watch(8) with the -W option to interact w/ the terminal? Nothing wrong with screen, but a built-in utility exists. It`s possible, but he`d better use screen for updating/upgrading, since his ssh session that initiated the process may die and then the process dies. With screen the process will continue if his ssh session dies and he would be able to later reattach to the terminal in question. Yes, very true. I think that's a good point and shouldn't be overlooked. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545433 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150
Eduardo Meyer wrote: 4) Is your motherboard set to use AHCI for the SATA (ICH7) controller? There's reports that SATA300 is only available/used on some controllers when AHCI is used. I dont know. I could not find such a similar option on BIOS, so I dont know how to check it. Is it possible to be checked from system? Just to let everyone know, for me this AHCI thing made the whole difference. On BIOS there were some options to be combined with AHCI, and doing the right combination made the disk get controlled as SATA300. Thank you veryone, specially Jeremy Chadwick for the valuable inputs. I cannot seem to find any relevant option for this on my Intel 946GZIS Mobo - and I just installed the very latest driver. During boot, I get this: atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0x90204000-0x902043ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 Then I see this: ad4: 238475MB WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 10.02E02 at ata2-master SATA150 However, I see this after the system comes up: $ atacontrol cap ad4 Protocol Serial ATA II device model WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 serial number WD-WCANKD870194 firmware revision 10.02E02 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 268435455 sectors lba48 supported 488397168 sectors dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support EnableValue Vendor write cacheyes yes read ahead yes yes Native Command Queuing (NCQ) yes - 31/0x1F Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) no no 31/0x1F SMART yes yes microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management no no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management yes no 254/0xFE128/0x80 So does the fact that Protocol Serial ATA II is reported mean the drive is actually running as SATA 300 regardless of what was reported during boot? And, yes, I have tried the speed limiting jumper on the back of the drive both on- and off- with no difference... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?
Forgot to CC the questions ML. --- Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Tim Judd Thu Aug 2 15:01:18 2007 Received: from [68.35.175.118] by web62407.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:01:18 PDT Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:01:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2291 I'm on the digest list, so I copy/paste the message to quote: -QUOTE: Message: 16 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:19:21 -0400 From: Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: attaching a terminal to 'join' another? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sorry if my question is a bit confusing - I'm not even sure the proper terminology, so I don't know what the best way to start looking is. I'm rebuilding a system at home, and I'd like to check how the build is going at a slow time at work sometimes. I can connect to the system from work (ssh into my main box, and then from there, ssh to the system I'm working on). I have a terminal opened on that system (actually, another ssh session fron the main box), and I'd like to have my new connection attach to that terminal session, if possible, so that I can just pick up where I left off, and monitor it from here. Is this possible? Sessions main desktop terminal A [ssh]-- workstation terminal A (where builds are currently being processed) work desktop terminal [ssh]-- main destop terminal B [ssh]-- workstation terminal B I would like to have workstation terminal B intercept workstation terminal A, or main desktop terminal B intercept main desktop terminal A. Can it be done? Where do I start looking, what are the words and phrases of interest? I tried looking at both the bash and xterm commands/man page, but they are rather long, and I'd miss what I was looking for without having a clue in advance. I'm guessing something like /dev/?tty?? might work, but how do I figure out which tty to use? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton --/QUOTE Can't the OP, Jim, use watch(8) with the -W option to interact w/ the terminal? Nothing wrong with screen, but a built-in utility exists. HTH If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=summer+activities+for+kidscs=bz If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB dev lock
I have a PC running FreeBSD 6.1. We use a 1GB USB key to transfer files from our desktop PC's to this purposed machine. Problem is, when inserting the key, it may or may not select the same device name. For ease of use, and too many newbies that don't want to learn, I'd like the device to show as the same name every time I mount it. I have added /dev/da0 with a mountpoint of /flash in the /etc/fstab, but don't want to deal with adding additional lines and mountpoints either. I'd like the command mount /flash to work with any one of the 10 1GB keys I purchased. As it stands, I'm called in emergency that mount /flash doesn't work and further investigation, ls /dev, begets da0s1 has been discovered/mounted. Is there a way I can add a line of code to a system file that reserves a device name, like da0:, to a mountpoint, like /flash? Tim Baker System Engineer Command Financial Press 75 Varick Street New York, N.Y. 10013 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 1(646)722-7885 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150
I asked this question a while back, but needed to do more digging to make sure I had latest sources etc. I have an Intel motherboard that shows this for a SATA controller: atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0x90204000-0x902043ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 But the hard drive - a SATA 300 device - shows up like this: ad4: 238475MB WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 10.02E02 at ata2-master SATA150 ^^^ Using dd, I have confirmed that the drive is running nowhere near SATA-III speeds, at least on reads: 968470075 bytes transferred in 7.132891 secs (135775249 bytes/sec) This is on a 6.2-Stable system that is very lightly loaded... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150
Garrett Cooper wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: I asked this question a while back, but needed to do more digging to make sure I had latest sources etc. I have an Intel motherboard that shows this for a SATA controller: atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0x90204000-0x902043ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 But the hard drive - a SATA 300 device - shows up like this: ad4: 238475MB WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 10.02E02 at ata2-master SATA150 ^^^ Using dd, I have confirmed that the drive is running nowhere near SATA-III speeds, at least on reads: 968470075 bytes transferred in 7.132891 secs (135775249 bytes/sec) This is on a 6.2-Stable system that is very lightly loaded... SATA Cable not 300Mbps capable? -Garrett I hadn't considered that given that the cable came with the mobo and the mobo is SATA-III capable. But ... anything is possible. I'll have to give that a look... Thanks. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 21), Tim Daneliuk said: I asked this question a while back, but needed to do more digging to make sure I had latest sources etc. I have an Intel motherboard that shows this for a SATA controller: atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20ec-0x20ef,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e8-0x20eb,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0x90204000-0x902043ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 But the hard drive - a SATA 300 device - shows up like this: ad4: 238475MB WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 10.02E02 at ata2-master SATA150 ^^^ Using dd, I have confirmed that the drive is running nowhere near SATA-III speeds, at least on reads: 968470075 bytes transferred in 7.132891 secs (135775249 bytes/sec) What was your dd commandline? If you've got more than 1GB of RAM and tested by reading a file and not the raw device itself, you just tested FreeBSD buffer cache. I just did: dd if=abigfile of=/dev/null But, you're right, cacheing does make things look better, so I did this: dd if=/dev/ad4s1 of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes transferred in 9.569672 secs (5350236 bytes/sec) Hmmm ... that seems slow, then again, 512b is a silly block size. How about: dd if=/dev/ad4s1 of=/dev/null count=10 bs=1024 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 10240 bytes transferred in 9.916191 secs (10326546 bytes/sec) Better, but really, the block size should be even bigger in today's reality: dd if=/dev/ad4s1 of=/dev/null count=10 bs=4096 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 40960 bytes transferred in 13.556418 secs (30214471 bytes/sec) So, going for broke: dd if=/dev/ad4s1 of=/dev/null count=1 bs=32768 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 32768 bytes transferred in 5.051286 secs (64870609 bytes/sec) (I got similar results for 16K blocks, so this would appear to be the max for this combination of drive/controller/OS overhead.) Not bad, and in line with your observation below about the max sustained speed of the drive's buffer to disk. According to http://www.wdc.com/en/products/productspecs.asp?driveid=135 , that drive's maximum sustained speed is only 93.5 MB/sec, so it doesn't It's actually less than that, since there is some overhead needed for serial transfer beyond just the 8 bits of data. The max speed is probably more like 75 MB/sec. really matter if your interface is running at SATA150 or SATA300 unless you plan on reading exclusively from its 8MB buffer :) Point taken - and I never expected to see a full 300MB/sec throughput. But ... I *am* curious why the interfaces are not running at full speed, since both drive and controller are SATA-300 devices. The theory of the moment is thus that the drive cable can't handle SATA-300. We'll see. Thanks for your time ... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:42:09 -0600 Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm using 3 Netgear GS108 Gigabit blue-box switches chained together for local traffic, with a FreeBSD server acting as the gateway to the outside world, running ipfw and natd. The switches eventually lock up. I've given up on netgear for any new purchases...is still have a stack of them,but wouldnt use them for anything critical. Sometimes they work for a day, a week, even a month without problems. Then at a random time of day or night, boom network goes down. It's not any individual defective switch as I've tried re-ordering them several times as well as testing them individually. The cables are all good and wired correctly. I've pulled my hair out trying to find what's wrong. I'm not sure I care anymore. I just need something stable enough that I can catch some sleep without this re-occurring nightmare. Are the switches behind a UPS? What he said - I use consumer grade Linksys in my office - both wireless routers and wired switches. They have been rock solid for several years. But ... the switch is sitting on a UPS IIRC... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 - Bind 9
Josh Paetzel wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2007 16:48, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I am (ever so) slowly moving my domain from FBSD 4.x to 6.2. I am now
at the point where I need to convert my Bind 8 configuration to Bind 9.
In so doing, I like to finally separate my internal (non-routable) hosts
so that their names never resolve outside the private network, and
expose only the public facing hosts to the world via DNS. I'd also
like to (finally) associate names with dhcpd-provided addresses
so both forwards reverses work inside the private network.
Could some kind soul please point me to a good HOWTO on this migration and
reconfiguration? I am DAGSing as I write this, but so far have not
found what I want.
TIA,
The first part of what you want is easy.
In named.conf you'll have something like...
acl private-hosts { 192.168.1.0/24; 192.168.2.0/24; };
view internal {
match-clients { private-hosts; };
zone example.org {
type master;
file master/db.internal.example.org;
};
};
view external {
match-clients { any; };
zone example.org {
type master;
file master/db.example.org;
};
};
Now you have two separate zonefiles, one which is consulted when someone from
192.168.1.0/24 or 192.168.2.0/24 makes a query and one that is consulted when
anyone else makes a query.
HTH
OK - that works great ... but there is one efficiency I'd like to
achieve that I'm not quite sure how implement. At the moment,
both db.internal and db.external contain common public host information
because I want those hosts visible to both communities. This means I
have to make changes in two places when an public host entry is modified.
I tried removing the public information from the db.internal file with
the hope that an internal client requesting public host info would have
the request satisfied automatically from db.external - this didn't work,
the public hosts just disappeared from the internal view altogether.
This raises two questions:
1) Is there a way to configure BIND9 so that internal client requests
are first serviced out of db.internal, but if the lookup fails the
server will then go look at db.external?
2) Better still is there some sort of include mechanism where I could
keep a flat file of public host information for use by db.external,
but include it into db.internal.
Either of these would satisfy my desire to only have to edit a single file
of public host information.
TIA,
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Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 - Bind 9
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: 2) Better still is there some sort of include mechanism where I could keep a flat file of public host information for use by db.external, but include it into db.internal. I don't think there is, but let someone who uses bind more than I do give a definitive on that :-) What you *can* do, irrespective of bind version, is to have two files which you pre-process with m4, and have a third file which m4 includes on both the others. So you start with: internal.M4 which includes shared external.M4 which also includes shared shared which gets included in the other two. Then m4 internal.M4 internal and m4 external.M4 - external. Bind then loads internal and external. A reasonable and very Unix-ish solution, certainly. Though, I think the subsequent post on this thread regarding $INCLUDE is probably more elegant ;) Alternatively you could start with one M4 file which uses lots of ifdefs for the non-shared portions. The create internal and external by specifying different definitions to m4. e.g. m4 -D _TYPE=EXTERNAL or m4 -D _TYPE=INTERNAL. For a problem with small differences between two files, this is a better solution, but not what I'd do in this case. Me either - conditional content gets clumsy to maintain in a big hurry. Whole process can be easily controlled with a Makefile (including any restarts). --Alex -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 - Bind 9
Josh Paetzel wrote: Sure, you can $INCLUDE a file in to a zonefile. :) Yup - that sure does it. However, it is still possible to do Very Stupid Things (tm). Anyone running bind should not that this combination of things causes great silliness: $ORIGIN mydomain.com. @ IN SOA .. ; Nameservers IN NSfoo.mydomain.com ; oops, missing trailing period Really dumb, and it had my wondering what was wrong with my $INCLUDE - nothing, of course. Thanks for the help. I now have a nice clean db.external with a corresponding view. db.internal merely $INCLUDES db.external as its first statement and has a corresponding view. Now when I modify *anything* - $TTL, a host definition ... whatever, it propagates into both views with a single edit. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
named and nfs mounts at boot time
While we're on the subject of dns ... I have nfs mounts configured in /etc/fstab using the host *name*. When the system boots, it grumbles about the name resolution because named has not yet been started. It works fine because, by the time you have a fully booted system, named is running and nfs runs happily. 'Just wondering if there is a way to get the warnings during boot to be quiet without resorting to using IP addresses in the fstab nfs mount entries... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: severely OT; re PUTTY [ssh]
Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:44:46AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:46:41 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to find, ldown load and instal the DOS/Windows ssh utility, but am having trouble scp'ing stuff between my BSD side and my W2K server. Anybody know what file I have to modify to get permission on the windows computer? OK - there are two scenarios: 1) Running the command from a Windows command shell to/from BSD (really pscp, right? - that's what comes with putty): pscp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:sourcefile localfile - Copies file from BSD to Windows pscp localfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:destfile - Copies local file to BSD This should work out of the box assuming there are no authentication or firewall problems in the way. If you're running WinXP/Vista you may have to open the Windows firewall to permit this. You can see what's going on by having pscp be verbose by sticking a -v flag into the command: [[ Dunno why, but I'm saving your entire file:) ---Maybe they've got DOS/Win in HELL for us Unix types.]] Since I've ready got putty on the PC, can I type:: pscp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/kf141.exe C:\kf141.exe That should work. You may have to specify the destination, as c:/kf141.exe, I dunno. Another way: cd c:\ pscp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/kf141.exe . (Do I have to put the 10.250 IP in brackets, IOW?) I don't see why you would. Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2
Tim Daneliuk wrote: System is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. I've added this to /etc/ttys: ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty dial.115200unknown on insecure And this to gettytabs: dial.115200:\ :np:to#30:hw:sp#115200:pp=/etc/ppp/pppserv But when I 'kill -HUP 1' no getty process on ttyd0 shows up in the ps listing. I found (and fixed) what was causing this, but it is very strange and I am documenting here so others may avoid the pain. At the *end* of /etc/ttys the file, I put: ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty dial.115200unknown on insecure But ... the entry did not end with a newline and init apparently thus didn't recognize it. Ending the line made everything happy. I am submitting this as a (very minor) bug, since I do not believe this to be correct behavior (but what do I know ;) ... Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But ... the entry did not end with a newline and init apparently thus didn't recognize it. Ending the line made everything happy. I am submitting this as a (very minor) bug, since I do not believe this to be correct behavior (but what do I know ;) ... That's perfectly normal and age-old behaviour. Part of the definition of a line of text is that it ends in a newline... Hmm - while I acknowledge that I've seen this problem before (I've used some variant of Unix since the late 1970s and FreeBSD since 2.x), whether it is perfectly normal is arguable. I suspect that there are a great many places - shell scripts and C source code leap to mind - where the lack of a terminating newline at the end of a file does not cause the line to be ignored altogether. I rather think this is an age-old bug that never got fixed because of its minor importance. In any case, i've authored a PR to make note of it. If I ever get the time, I'll dig into the source myself and see if I can figure out where the wheels are coming off... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: severely OT; re PUTTY [ssh]
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:46:41 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to find, ldown load and instal the DOS/Windows ssh utility, but am having trouble scp'ing stuff between my BSD side and my W2K server. Anybody know what file I have to modify to get permission on the windows computer? OK - there are two scenarios: 1) Running the command from a Windows command shell to/from BSD (really pscp, right? - that's what comes with putty): pscp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:sourcefile localfile - Copies file from BSD to Windows pscp localfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:destfile - Copies local file to BSD This should work out of the box assuming there are no authentication or firewall problems in the way. If you're running WinXP/Vista you may have to open the Windows firewall to permit this. You can see what's going on by having pscp be verbose by sticking a -v flag into the command: pscp -v . 2) Running the command from BSD to/from Windows This is harder. You have to be running a ssh daemon (sshd) on your Windows machine. This is very doable, but you'll need something like cygwin to get sshd for Windows and then you'll have to configure it appropriately. The good thing about this (although it is kind of a pain) is that it gets around an interesting limitation in WinDoze. Microsoft does allow you to telnet into your Windows client machine but it only allows ONE such login at a time (because, if you wanted more than one login, surely you need WinDoze Server ... which is WAY more money). If you install sshd on your machine, you now have more-or-less unlimited logins via ssh from other machines. Similarly, on Windows Server, you probably need a CAL for each telnet connection. I do not quite understand Microsoft's licensing terms (does anyone?), but it _may_ be the case that running sshd on a Windows Server and using ssh to get to it _may_ get you around paying for extra CALs. YLFMV (Your Legal Fees May Vary). You didn't provide any particulars (in the future, an exact description of what is- and is not working is VERY useful for those of us trying to help ;), but, if I had to guess, I'd say you're having one of two problems: 1) You're trying to do the file copy from BSD to/from Windows and you don't have an sshd daemon running on Win32. 2) You're trying initiate the copy from Windows (which should work), but the Windows firewall is blocking the connection. HTH, P.S. If anyone tells anyone else that I know this stuff about Windows I will deny it loudly and come looking for you. I do not need any more conversations that start with, Oh, you're a computer engineer - I have this problem with my/childrens'/wife's/dog's Windows machine... :) -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 - Bind 9
Josh Paetzel wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2007 16:48, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I am (ever so) slowly moving my domain from FBSD 4.x to 6.2. I am now
at the point where I need to convert my Bind 8 configuration to Bind 9.
In so doing, I like to finally separate my internal (non-routable) hosts
so that their names never resolve outside the private network, and
expose only the public facing hosts to the world via DNS. I'd also
like to (finally) associate names with dhcpd-provided addresses
so both forwards reverses work inside the private network.
Could some kind soul please point me to a good HOWTO on this migration and
reconfiguration? I am DAGSing as I write this, but so far have not
found what I want.
TIA,
The first part of what you want is easy.
In named.conf you'll have something like...
acl private-hosts { 192.168.1.0/24; 192.168.2.0/24; };
view internal {
match-clients { private-hosts; };
zone example.org {
type master;
file master/db.internal.example.org;
};
};
view external {
match-clients { any; };
zone example.org {
type master;
file master/db.example.org;
};
};
Now you have two separate zonefiles, one which is consulted when someone from
192.168.1.0/24 or 192.168.2.0/24 makes a query and one that is consulted when
anyone else makes a query.
HTH
That helped immensely and made this part of the problem trivial to implement.
Thanks!
Now I just have to learn how to have dhcpd update named with the latest
lease information...
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An ssh Question
I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private network to machines out on the net, but when I try to ssh from the firewall machine to a particular address, it just hangs and eventually times out. Verbose output is: OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to xx.com [x.x.x.x] port 22. What is really baffling is that if I try the exact same thing from, say, a cygwin session on a host on the private network - this works fine. So ... it's not a firewall problem as near as I can tell. It may be an ssh configuration problem - that is, the FreeBSD ssh client can't do it, but another client (cygwin) can. Ideas? -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: An ssh Question
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:52:21AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private network to machines out on the net, but when I try to ssh from the firewall machine to a particular address, it just hangs and eventually times out. Verbose output is: OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to xx.com [x.x.x.x] port 22. What is really baffling is that if I try the exact same thing from, say, a cygwin session on a host on the private network - this works fine. So ... it's not a firewall problem as near as I can tell. It sure sounds like a firewall problem to me. Why do you think otherwise? Because machines *behind* the firewall can get out to the machine in question, but the firewall machine itself cannot... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: An ssh Question
Simon Chang wrote: OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to xx.com [x.x.x.x] port 22. What is really baffling is that if I try the exact same thing from, say, a cygwin session on a host on the private network - this works fine. So ... it's not a firewall problem as near as I can tell. It may be an ssh configuration problem - that is, the FreeBSD ssh client can't do it, but another client (cygwin) can. It would be helpful if you include your firewall ruleset, plus sshd_config. It's possible that one or more is misconfigured, but we would have no way of knowing without your telling us about them. SC I have opened up the firewall entirely just to test, and this does not solve the problem: 00100 162 18088 divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 001000 0 allow ip from any to any via lo0 002000 0 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 003000 0 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 65000 206 21586 allow ip from any to any 65535 3872 652732 deny ip from any to any The ssh config is untouched and has only comments in it: # $OpenBSD: ssh_config,v 1.22 2006/05/29 12:56:33 dtucker Exp $ # $FreeBSD: src/crypto/openssh/ssh_config,v 1.27.2.4 2006/11/11 00:51:28 des Exp $ # This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file. See # ssh_config(5) for more information. This file provides defaults for # users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files # or on the command line. # Configuration data is parsed as follows: # 1. command line options # 2. user-specific file # 3. system-wide file # Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set. # Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the # configuration file, and defaults at the end. # Site-wide defaults for some commonly used options. For a comprehensive # list of available options, their meanings and defaults, please see the # ssh_config(5) man page. # Host * # ForwardAgent no # ForwardX11 no # RhostsRSAAuthentication no # RSAAuthentication yes # PasswordAuthentication yes # HostbasedAuthentication no # GSSAPIAuthentication no # GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no # BatchMode no # CheckHostIP no # AddressFamily any # ConnectTimeout 0 # StrictHostKeyChecking ask # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa # Port 22 # Protocol 2,1 # Cipher 3des # Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc # EscapeChar ~ # Tunnel no # TunnelDevice any:any # PermitLocalCommand no # VersionAddendum FreeBSD-20061110 -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: An ssh Question
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Simon Chang wrote: Nevermind - it was total pilot error on my part involving being up way too late and not using my noggin' ... sorry to disturb... carry on ;) -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
