Xorg doesn't go back correctly to console when closed on FreeBSD 9.0
Hi all, I´m running 9.0-RELEASE on my laptop, everything works fine, except when I try go back to console I get a black screen. dmesg: http://pastebin.com/U45duS5n xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/qERavJs0 Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/143m0gWB pciconf: http://pastebin.com/ZfQ6daGC Thanks in advance. Gabriel Marchi * * ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7.3 RC1 - gmirror - changed devices name
Hello everyone, I just upgraded my system to 7.3 RC1, from 7.1, to test it. I had a lot of trouble with my gmirror setup as none of my providers were recognized. It happened that the HARDCODED flag was set on both my providers and my hard disk drives device nodes changed name from 7.1 to 7.3RC1. Removing the HARDCODED flag from a FixIt live CD and rebooting solved the problem. How comes device nodes can change name from a release to another? Both my hard disk drives went from ad8 and ad10 to ad4 and ad6... Thank you, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: jpeg-7
Hello, check /usr/ports/UPDATING... You have to rebuild everything depending on jpeg... Gabriel 2009/7/20 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com: Hi! My system: FreeBSD 7.2, KDE 3.5.10. I updated jpeg-7 with portupgrade -fr jpeg-* and looks that evrything works fine (GIMP, Firefox...) except GQview 2.15 (gqview-devel). It doesn't show jpg, gif, png or better from 100 pictures it shows one or maybe two. It show just black square. Did I forgot to rebuilt something or it is problem with GQview. pleaee? Thanks in advance... -- Mitja - http://starikarp.redbubble.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Opinion request about a file server
If you want to use gmirror + gjournal on the root filesystem (/), be sure to use FreeBSD 7.2. A bug prevented the system to boot on unclean shutdown because the replay of the journal took too much time and FreeBSD wanted to mount non-existant (yet) devices. It caused me a lot of trouble when I installed my server and finally I had to leave the root filesystem without gjournal as a workaround. Gabriel 2009/6/8 Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran FreeBSD file/print/email/web services perfectly. I upgraded to get the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box for backups. Hello community, Thanks everybody for their thoughts. After reading your posts and some articles over the weekend I will take the gmirror(8) + gjournal(8) road. The backups will be done offsite because the company which I'm doing this for is a friend of my boss and we do have a lot of spare space or our servers. thanks once again, v -- network warrior since 2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Opinion request about a file server
I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ 2009/6/5 Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba. What i mainly try to achieve, talking in storage space, is 2 HDD of 1TB in mirroring using gmirror(8) and 1 separate HDD of 500Gb. So do you think the system I've mentioned would handle the load? The server will be used by 4 people for storage of all sorts of files that can be found in Design and daily Office World (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc, Word Documents, etc). Thank you, v -- network warrior since 2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Opinion request about a file server
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw on Intel 45nm CPUs had been tested with a Core 2 Quad! What I can say is that this server uses a lot less power than the Pentium II (dual CPU) it replaced and it's much more powerful. It really made a difference in my electricity bill. 2009/6/5 Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com: 2009/6/5 Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ What a waste... How much power does that chug?? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GEOM_JOURNAL on a 550G partition - opinions ?
Hi, two 500gb hard drives under gmirror/gjournal and no problem here. I've had a few problems with the root partition under gjournal in FreeBSD 7.0. With an unclean shutdown, the journal replay wasn't done quickly enough before the kernel tried to mount the root partition, failing to do so because the device node is only created after the journal has been replayed. I reported the bug and it has been corrected in HEAD but I don't know if the correction made its way on 7.1. So, my / partition is on gmirror only with soft-updates and the rest of my system has gjournal on top of gmirror. Made a lot of test by resetting the system and removing/putting back a hard drive and the system always came back in a clean state. Gabriel 2009/2/4 Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com: Hugo Silva wrote: Hi list, For a server I will be setting up, I am considering using gjournal on the partition that will hold all the www data. The journaled partition (mounted async) would be mostly read from, uploads would not be very frequent and most sites wouldn't write to the disk. Logs would be kept elsewhere. This server will have two hard disks, mirrored (gmirror) at the disk level. Here are my questions: - Will the fact that gmirror is underneath the journal (/dev/mirror/gm0s1f.journal) affect performance ? (either positively or negatively) (* I would be keeping the journal in the same provider) I can only tell you this works. Have not done any real measurements on this stuff, as most of my systems are normally not under high load. I've done this for a friend's SAMBA server, who is storing very large photo files all the time. In fact, I am just preparing our local LUG server in exactly this way. At least in theory gmirror can be set to balance (round-robin) reads from the disks, so read should be improved. On the other hand, the journaling implementation in gjournal writes everything twice, so expect to have some significant overhead there. Ivan Voras has done some performance testing on several filesystems, including UFS with soft updates and journaling. See the results in this post: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-December/188131.html - Would reads / writes be faster? considerably faster ? (gjournal) I've seen different numbers from different places, the impression I got is that reads should be faster while writes will be substantially slower - is this correct ? It seems so, at least for the writes. - What about reliability ? From the manpage, I know that if I journaled the entire mirror, I would not need to sync it after an unclean shutdown. Going from the assumption that this will not be so for a single journaled partition, will there be any interference between gjournal and gmirror ? I haven't had any reliability problems combining gmirror and gjournal. To my experience, gjournal syncs the gmirror almost instantly after an unclean shutdown. - I've never had an UFS2 partition filled with more than 200G of data, so I am not sure what to expect for 550G with soft-updates (I expect this partition to hold close to 550G of data) - real numbers about this would also be helpful. Any personal experiences concerning gjournal or gmirror+gjournal are greatly appreciated! As I said, I've been using both (and combined) for quite some, and haven't faced any problems caused by the software. I even recovered from a serious hardware problem, without losing any data. For performance measuring I guess you would have to setup a test system and see by yourself if it is acceptable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way)
Since I started using FreeBSD with 6.2 on my home server, I studied this problem very well. In the default installation, there are a daily system check script and a daily security check script included in periodic. You can easily configure your system so e-mails are sent to you every days with the output of the execution of those scripts (usually sent to root). Also, freebsd-update can also be configured as a cron job that will fetch the latest update and send you an e-mail if core system updates are available. portsnap cron job will be executed in the security periodic job and will tell you if any of your installed ports need to be updated for security reasons. So... I always check the output of those runs in my e-mails every morning or every few days. If there is an update available from freebsd-update, I install it and I reboot the complete server if there is an update for the kernel or a used kernel module, or only a few services that depend on the updated files (often sshd). About my ports, I only upgrade those that get security notices. This way my system has been very stable, up to date and it doesn't take too much time to maintain it in this state. The only time where I upgrade all my ports is when I update my entire system to a newer FreeBSD revision (7.0 - 7.1, etc.). I'll also likely stay on a particular revision of FreeBSD until the security updates are ended for it. I first went from 6.2 to 6.3 on my old server because 6.3 was flagged for long term support (2 years). Went from 6.3 to 7.0 because I replaced my old server (Dual Pentium II) with new hardware. And I went from 7.0 to 7.1 because some new drivers were available to better support my new hardware (EIST on 45nm Intel CPUs, Atheros L1E network adapter). Now my hardware is well supported, my system is very stable and I will likely stay on 7.1 until January 2011 (end of support for security updates). I hope it helps, Gabriel 2009/1/23 Svein Halvor Halvorsen svei...@lvor.halvorsen.cc: Svein Halvor Halvorsen svei...@lvor.halvorsen.cc wrote: Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest -RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my system to an incoherent state: RW wrote: It'll work most of the time, but occasionally it will fail, when a STABLE package relies on a library or other feature that's not in the release. A compromise might be to stick to the release packages, until portaudit reveals a significant vulnerability and then switch to Stable until the next release. But when that happens, should I upgrade just the one affected package, or grab updates for all my installed packages, to make sure all packages on the system is concurrent? That is, made from the same ports tree at some point in time. Svein Halvor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update and latest security patches
It depends. This update was related to the flaw found in OpenSSL recently. Since this update didn't touch the kernel, it's normal that your're still on the 7.1-RELEASE kernel. The kernel version changes only when an update touches it directly. Gabriel 2009/1/8 Ivailo Bonev ibb_o...@mbox.contact.bg: I've tried to install latest security patches with # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # reboot but after reboot # uname -r tells me that I have 7.1-RELEASE If I understand corectly from handbook, it should tells me -p1? Is there somthing that I am missing? ... and sorry for my bad English :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating from 7.0 to 7.1
For me it was worth the effort as 7.1 has the driver for the network interface found on my motherboard (Atheros L1E) and has an updated est (SpeedStep) driver that support my CPU (45nm Pentium Dual Core E5200). The update using freebsd-update was quick and went smoothly. Also, the new scheduler is now enabled but I can't tell yet if it performs better on an SMP system. Gabriel 2009/1/8 David Karapetyan david.karapet...@gmail.com: Hello, I was wondering if it was worth the time or effort to update from fbsd 7.0 to 7.1. From what I see, the only major change is the inclusion of dtrace. I am leaning towards not switching, but it seems a lot of people are. On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:50:24PM -0500, Gabriel Lavoie wrote: It depends. This update was related to the flaw found in OpenSSL recently. Since this update didn't touch the kernel, it's normal that your're still on the 7.1-RELEASE kernel. The kernel version changes only when an update touches it directly. Gabriel 2009/1/8 Ivailo Bonev ibb_o...@mbox.contact.bg: I've tried to install latest security patches with # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # reboot but after reboot # uname -r tells me that I have 7.1-RELEASE If I understand corectly from handbook, it should tells me -p1? Is there somthing that I am missing? ... and sorry for my bad English :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- -- Best, David Karapetyan http://davidkarapetyan.homeunix.com University of Notre Dame Department of Mathematics 255 Hurley Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618 Phone: 574-631-5706 Cell: 202-460-5173 Fax: 574-631-6579 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 and Enhanced Speedstep
2008/12/9 Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ skipping lots until you've seen how powerd goes on it .. and please drop gmail's HTML attachments on messages to the FreeBSD lists] I found the option to disable HTML in the reply. Is it better now? I enabled powerd and it seems to work for now. Ok. If updated est code isn't in 7.0p6 you maybe could apply a patch if you won't be upgrading to 7.1, assuming I'm right about recent new code. I do plan to upgrade to 7.1 when it's out as it will probably include the driver for my onboard network adapter. There may be some BIOS stuff about SpeedStep options too. Basically you should expect FreeBSD to ignore BIOS settings, except how they influence the ACPI implementation, but some BIOSes can contain surprises. Yes, there are options about SpeedStep. I suspect 3-4W, even per core, would be at a much lower freq than 1GHz, probably nearer the minimum of ~125MHz. The 5W consumption isn't even at the lowest speed. The 45nm CPUs are supposed to have an excellent power efficiency. Under Windows/Linux, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) doesn't step down the frequency at the lowest value possible. On my C2D (65nm), like I said, it drops to 2 GHz from 2.66. It seems the idle power consumption of those C2D is around 15W. With EIST on the 45nm Intel CPUs, the idle power usage has been tested to be under 4W with a quad-core unit, and this is not at the lowest possible frequency. The 1.25 GHz frequency I see in the BIOS is probably related to the frequency step down EIST automatically does as with my C2D, the BIOS always shows 2 GHz but under Windows/Linux, when the CPU is working, the frequency comes back to 2.66 GHz. I guess that the FreeBSD est driver needs to work with my processor to enable this behaviour. See this: http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/203838.htm http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-penryn-4ghz-air-cooling,1712-13.html No, if it were based on load while looking at the BIOS it'd show you the lowest speed for sure. This sounds like a selection more than a report? No, it's a report. 2GHz is hardly idling .. maybe there's a BIOS option affecting that too, but it should only affect the starting freq, which powerd should ignore. The 2 GHz is the stop down EIST does when the CPU is idling. I was surprised to see this when I got my C2D last January. I was wondering why the CPU was at 2 GHz when it was supposed to be running at 2.66 GHz. Under powerd it should drop right back at idle. In fact there've been problems with some machines dropping back to 125, 100, even 75MHz under no or very light load, such that interactive responsiveness is shot and some processes needing fast interrupt response (bursts of wifi traffic, for one) have had issues, prompting some recent new work on algorithms for powerd on SMP systems. I noticed that after I enabled powerd. At 313 MHz with my system the responsiveness took a hit. I enabled powerd with those parameters and it seems to step up the frequency quickly enough. Responsiveness doesn't seems to be a problem with a polling time of 100ms. powerd_flags=-i 90 -r 90 -p 100 See cpufreq(4) about all this, and especially you might want to set debug.cpufreq.lowest to some sensible minimum freq, say 3-500MHz? The acpi@ list is really a better place for this; not too many of the heavy hitters there seem to have much spare time to read questions@ and where I'm mostly just an interested bystander, trying to learn :) I'll ask there if there are still problems after I check my BIOS settings tonight. cheers, Ian Gabriel -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: freebsd-update
I've also got some problem with freebsd-update, under 7.0. I installed them to update to 7.0-RELEASE-p6 and when I fetch them again I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/wildchild]# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.0-RELEASE-p6: /boot/kernel/linker.hints If I install and fetch them over and over again, this file will always appear as needing an update. Gabriel 2008/11/26 gahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, all: i did freebsd-update fetch and i got message: No updates needed to update system to 6.3-RELEASE-p6 what does that suppose to mean? My current system (this one is online) is p4. Thanks all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: Setting up gmirror
As I asked in another thread, what is the problem with the load algorith? Thanks 2008/11/6 Volodymyr Kostyrko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carl wrote: What are the considerations in choosing between load, prefer, round-robin, and split balance algorithms? load is currently not good at high loads, pr's pending... -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: gmirror + gjournal setup question
Thanks for your reply. I finally understood that with the power failure tests I made. Gabriel 2008/11/6 Volodymyr Kostyrko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gabriel Lavoie wrote: Hello, I would like to know what is the best way to setup gmirror + gjournal, on a slice level on two hard drives. Do I set up a mirrored journal partition + mirrored journalized slice (gmirror on top of gjournal) on which I create my labels with bsdlabels (will create /dev/mirror/name.journal, /dev/mirror/name.journala, /dev/mirror/name.journalb). Or I setup a journalized slice on both hard drive and then I mirror /dev/ad0s1.journal and /dev/ad1s1.journal (gjournal on top of gmirror)? I have hard time to figure out what would be the best, if I want to avoid mirror rebuild on power failure and I want fast fsck. I'd also like to make this setup on my 1st slice (which contains the root filesystem). man gjournal: ... When gjournal is configured on top of gmirror(8) or graid3(8) providers, it also keeps them in a consistent state, thus automatic synchronization on power failure or system crash may be disabled on those providers. ... I think journaling a mirrored partition can be much better. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
That's strange, because I enabled the reporting on my system but its CPU that wasn't on the list didn't appear. Gabriel 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:25:39 -0500 Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When are the stats updated on bsdstats.org? real-time ... and they aren't for all time, the #s are based on systems reporting in over the past 60 days, so you will periodically see a bit of back tracking, depending on when in the cycle hosts reported in ... if I reload the page a few times, I may see it go from 25 013 - 25 103 - 25 143 - 25 140 ... but the overall is an upward increase in numbers ... Thanks Gabriel 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, andrew clarke wrote: On Mon 2008-11-03 18:33:57 UTC-0400, Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. I stopped using bsdstats after it caused my FreeBSD router to take too long to boot up after a reboot. If I recall correctly, I had bsdstats_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and after the reboot bsdstats was called before ppp was able to start, so it couldn't connect to the bsdstats server. On the other hand this was a while ago and I am going by memory, so I may be wrong about what happened or it was just a coincidence. At the time I was more interested in getting the router running so I didn't really care for debugging what was going on. I realise this is a bit of a vague bug report, so feel free to ignore it. There is an optional flag for 'reporting on reboot' ... the original script only did reporting monthly, out of periodic, but some ppl (ie. using laptops) suggesting an optional flag so that when they rebooted, they would be counted also ... And you are correct, just change: bsdstats_enable=YES to bsdstats_enable=NO And 'on reboot' will eb disabled, and only periodic will be used ... at a minimum, you just need: monthly_statistics_enable=YES in /etc/periodic.conf, wich will only report OS/version and skip the devices/ports reports ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services ( http://www.hub.org ) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org ) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkRHfcACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvMP1gCfWcuWqCGNWSR5HuGSO4vgRwLb Y0EAn3+Pi3/1+eM/mxmKFrF7AFTMQBbv =yRDb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
Good, my system finally appeared. Gabriel 2008/11/5 Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's strange, because I enabled the reporting on my system but its CPU that wasn't on the list didn't appear. Gabriel 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:25:39 -0500 Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When are the stats updated on bsdstats.org? real-time ... and they aren't for all time, the #s are based on systems reporting in over the past 60 days, so you will periodically see a bit of back tracking, depending on when in the cycle hosts reported in ... if I reload the page a few times, I may see it go from 25 013 - 25 103 - 25 143 - 25 140 ... but the overall is an upward increase in numbers ... Thanks Gabriel 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, andrew clarke wrote: On Mon 2008-11-03 18:33:57 UTC-0400, Marc G. Fournier ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. I stopped using bsdstats after it caused my FreeBSD router to take too long to boot up after a reboot. If I recall correctly, I had bsdstats_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and after the reboot bsdstats was called before ppp was able to start, so it couldn't connect to the bsdstats server. On the other hand this was a while ago and I am going by memory, so I may be wrong about what happened or it was just a coincidence. At the time I was more interested in getting the router running so I didn't really care for debugging what was going on. I realise this is a bit of a vague bug report, so feel free to ignore it. There is an optional flag for 'reporting on reboot' ... the original script only did reporting monthly, out of periodic, but some ppl (ie. using laptops) suggesting an optional flag so that when they rebooted, they would be counted also ... And you are correct, just change: bsdstats_enable=YES to bsdstats_enable=NO And 'on reboot' will eb disabled, and only periodic will be used ... at a minimum, you just need: monthly_statistics_enable=YES in /etc/periodic.conf, wich will only report OS/version and skip the devices/ports reports ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services ( http://www.hub.org ) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. ( http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkRHfcACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvMP1gCfWcuWqCGNWSR5HuGSO4vgRwLb Y0EAn3+Pi3/1+eM/mxmKFrF7AFTMQBbv =yRDb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
When are the stats updated on bsdstats.org? Thanks Gabriel 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, andrew clarke wrote: On Mon 2008-11-03 18:33:57 UTC-0400, Marc G. Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. I stopped using bsdstats after it caused my FreeBSD router to take too long to boot up after a reboot. If I recall correctly, I had bsdstats_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and after the reboot bsdstats was called before ppp was able to start, so it couldn't connect to the bsdstats server. On the other hand this was a while ago and I am going by memory, so I may be wrong about what happened or it was just a coincidence. At the time I was more interested in getting the router running so I didn't really care for debugging what was going on. I realise this is a bit of a vague bug report, so feel free to ignore it. There is an optional flag for 'reporting on reboot' ... the original script only did reporting monthly, out of periodic, but some ppl (ie. using laptops) suggesting an optional flag so that when they rebooted, they would be counted also ... And you are correct, just change: bsdstats_enable=YES to bsdstats_enable=NO And 'on reboot' will eb disabled, and only periodic will be used ... at a minimum, you just need: monthly_statistics_enable=YES in /etc/periodic.conf, wich will only report OS/version and skip the devices/ports reports ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org ) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions
: ad10s2 Mediasize: 497958451200 (464G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: HARDCODED GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2007880058 Geom name: root State: COMPLETE Components: 2 Balance: split Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 4098555256 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/root Mediasize: 1073022976 (1.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Consumers: 1. Name: ad8s1a Mediasize: 1073023488 (1.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: HARDCODED GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3394521634 2. Name: ad10s1a Mediasize: 1073023488 (1.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: HARDCODED GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3774466459 Gabriel 2008/11/4 Volodymyr Kostyrko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carl wrote: Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: I have some setups were gjournal was put on device rather the on partition, i.e.: [umgah] ~ gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/umgah0 COMPLETE ad0 ad1 [umgah] ~ gjournal status Name Status Components mirror/umgah0.journal N/A mirror/umgah0 [umgah] ~ glabel status Name Status Components ufs/umgah0root N/A mirror/umgah0.journala label/umgah0swap N/A mirror/umgah0.journalb ufs/umgah0usr N/A mirror/umgah0.journald ufs/umgah0var N/A mirror/umgah0.journale Does the above suggest that you've ended up with individual journal providers for each partition anyway? If so, where are they and have you really achieved anything functionally different? Are they at the end of their individually associated partitions or all together somewhere else? Has the ill-advised journaled small partition issue been successfully overcome through what you've done? First, there is only one journal - for /dev/mirror/umgah0 and it is named /dev/mirror/umgah0.journal. Anything else is just a bsdlabel partitions, there are four of 'em. [umgah] ~ mount /dev/ufs/umgah0root on / (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, asynchronous, local) /dev/ufs/umgah0var on /var (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) /dev/ufs/umgah0usr on /usr (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local) And yes, mirror autosynchronization is turned off, gjournal takes care of that too. It's not stated in manual, but gjournal is typically transparent for any type of access, just in case of UFS file system is marked as journaled so any metadata writes can be distinguished from data writes. Without that gjournal does literally nothing. And what does this mean for your swap partition? Just nothing, it's just swap. It can't be journaled. Laszlo Nagy wrote earlier: Another tricky question: why would you journal a SWAP partition? Volodymyr, does your assertion that gjournal does nothing when a file system is not UFS mean that there is no penalty with regard to your swap partition despite the existence of mirror/umgah0.journalb? I haven't seen any perfomance decrease in this configuration. And according to manual and articles about gjournal it should work this way. Any chance you'd like to share your command sequence for constructing your gmirror'd and gjournal'd filesystem, Volodymyr? :-) If we have two disks (ad0, ad1) it should look like this: gmirror label -b load -n umgah0 ad1 We are getting all drive gmirrored without synchronization (we don't need it - journal would take care of any discrepancies) and with load balance (load was fixed not so long ago in stable and should be fine to go with). gjournal label mirror/umgah0 We are creating a journal on top of our gmirror. It eats 1G from the end of the disks and gives us the rest to use. bsdlabel -wB mirror/umgah0.journal We are writing the standard bsdlabel to the disk and making it bootable. After that we will get one partition 'a'. spam Yes, no fdisk. I don't think this old piece of rough junk is ever needed on machine running FreeBSD solely. It just takes space, it requires compatibility to forgotten-and-abandoned standards and gives nothing more. You have your server dual-booting Windows or Linux? This is the only case you need fdisk for. /spam bsdlabel -e mirror/umgah0.journal Now we are splitting our journal to some partitions. I did it this way: # /dev/mirror/umgah0.journal: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 524288 164.2BSD b: 16777216 * swap c: 7793256140unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 33554432 *4.2BSD e: * *4.2BSD After that we can format this filesystems: newfs -J -L umgah0root /dev/mirror/umgah0.journala newfs -J -L umgah0var /dev/mirror/umgah0.journald newfs -J -L umgah0usr /dev/mirror/umgah0.journale And label the swap
Re: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions
2008/11/4 Volodymyr Kostyrko [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/11/4 Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When building this setup I got one big problem. If the root filesystem (/) was on a gjournal provider, an unclean shutdown when data was being written on the disk rendered the system completely unbootable. I got this message: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm launched (2/2) GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 3672855181: mirror/gma contains data. GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 3672855181: mirror/gma contains journal. GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 3868799910: mirror/gmd contains data. GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 3868799910: mirror/gmd contains journal. GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal mirror/gmd consistent. Just one thing - you have two separate journaled partitions, one journal per one partition. Yes, this is the test setup I made with one journal for / and one journal for /usr. Only an unclean journal on / rendered the journal unbootable. An unclean journal on /usr gave me no problem. If I put the journal on the slice level, with the root filesystem over the journal. Resetting the system while writing data on any filesystem causes the problem as the journal is shared to the root filesystem too. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm.journal Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot ? List of GEOM managed disk devices: mirror/gmd.journal mirror/gmd mirror/gmc mirror/gma mirror/gm ad10s1c ad10s1b ad8s1c ad8s1b ad10s2 ad10s1 ad8s1 ad10 ad8 acd0 As you can see, in the proposed list of disk devices devices to boot on, mirror/gm.journala is absent. As I and Ivan Voras, that I contacted about this problem, found, the GEOM_JOURNAL thread that is supposed to mark the journal consistent takes too much time to do it with the root filesystem's provider and the kernel try to mount a device that doesn't yet exist. A bug report has been opened about this problem. For my final setup I decided to put the root filesystem on a separate mirrorred slice of 1GB. Since this slice isn't often written on, not many rebuilds should occur in case of power failure. And I made my power failure test by hitting the reset button while writing data on this filesystem and the rebuild on 1GB doesn't takes too much time (at most 20-30 seconds). Good to hear it, i've fallen for that too, but the machine isn't powercycled at all and runs on guaranteed power. I had the similar problems with described setup on virtual test machine too, yet entering anything at mountroot prompt gave gjournal a chance to keep up and needed partition comes up eventually... I didn't reported that, thought it was a virtual machine issue. Same thing here, I had a backup installation on another slice and when I gave this one on the prompt, as soon as I hit Enter, GEOM_JOURNAL was marking the journal consistent. I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one that had this problem. As for my setup. I put / on its own 1GB mirrored slice with auto-synchronization and soft-updates and I put the other filesystems (/home /usr /var /tmp) on a second fully mirrored/journalised slice (with the journal at the slice level), with auto-synchronization on power failure turned off and async mount option. As for the bug report, I consider this is an easily reproductible bug and I hope it will be solved soon! :) Now I have the question. Why the load algorith wasn't recommended? Is it fixed in 7.0-RELEASE-p5? Nope... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113885 -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. Gabriel -- Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gmirror + gjournal setup question
Hello, I would like to know what is the best way to setup gmirror + gjournal, on a slice level on two hard drives. Do I set up a mirrored journal partition + mirrored journalized slice (gmirror on top of gjournal) on which I create my labels with bsdlabels (will create /dev/mirror/name.journal, /dev/mirror/name.journala, /dev/mirror/name.journalb). Or I setup a journalized slice on both hard drive and then I mirror /dev/ad0s1.journal and /dev/ad1s1.journal (gjournal on top of gmirror)? I have hard time to figure out what would be the best, if I want to avoid mirror rebuild on power failure and I want fast fsck. I'd also like to make this setup on my 1st slice (which contains the root filesystem). Thanks Gabriel -- Gabriel Lavoie [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: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve
George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture. AMD64on an Intel X-Serve box? I think you got it wrong there... Anyways, EFI support for Xeon CPUs should work without a problem, even for linux. I'm not sure about EFI support, I think it's fine in CURRENT, from what I've read on the net. Good luck, Gabriel The EFI capable Linux bootloader, has had beta support for amd64 since July. However, the Linux kernel just got support to boot via EFI and amd64 in a release candidate patch this month. It'll probably be quite a while before a distribution has an installer with what I need. At any rate, I've always wanted to try one of the BSDs. Will FreeBSD install on an apple intel xserve? If not does anyone know if another BSD or some other open source NIX will work? I can't give you a direct answer, but I was running 6-STABLE on an 8-way mac pro up until a couple of weeks ago (I had to give it back to it's owners and I'm waiting until after the next wwdc to buy my own...). I used bootcamp to partition a spare disk, then just booted from a freebsd cd and installed onto that partition. I ended up using refit as a boot doohickey (initially from an refit cd, eventually taking a chance on installing it onto the disk itself). There wasn't anything too surprising. g. ___ 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: php5
On 25 Sep 2007, at 00:20, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2007 18:59:00 Bill Banks wrote: I just installed php5 but if I goto index.php it wants to download it and not display it. What am I missing? You are likely missing the following lines from your httpd.conf AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Also make sure you compiled the apache module. If installing from ports it asks you. However, if you installed from a package it won't have this enabled. Assuming you're using apache, natch. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gvinum and RAID 5 (again)
Hi, I've found out that gvinum won't let you grow a RAID 5 system without obliterating it first. Something that I haven't been able to ascertain is if gvinum will let you add discs to a RAID 5 array later on as hot spares? Many thanks for so much help Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netatalk
On 24 Sep 2007, at 06:16, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Gabriel, Ignore Martin he doesen't know how to get it running so he's pulling the old spurning what he cannot do refer to the Aesop fable Fox and the Grapes for more information. If you run OS9 emulation under OSX you need AFP. Many older print servers only speak AFP AFP handles the split resource/data fork properly, Samba does not. You will see this in a number of minor ways. To get it running: define NETATALK in kernel and recompile cd /usr/ports/net/netatalk make WITH_SRVLOC=yes install add the following in /etc/rc.conf: slpd_enable=YES netatalk_enable=YES atalkd_enable=YES cnid_metad_enable=YES afpd_enable=YES cd /usr/ports/net/howl make install cd /etc vi rc.conf add in mdnsresponder_enable=YES mdnsresponder_flags=-f /usr/local/etc/mDNSResponder.conf then create the config file as such vi /usr/local/etc/mDNSResponder.conf BigMac _afpovertcp._tcp local. 548 BigMac _ssh._tcpServers. 548 MUST BE TABS BETWEEN ITEMS and NEWLINE AT END! BigMac is your servername test with slptool findsrvs service:service-agent and mDNSResponder lookups your problem is that afpd only advertises over appletalk, not over tcp/ip. Since your Macs are all OSX they don't listen to appletalk announcements. They listen to appletalk-over-tcp/ip announcements which use the rendezevous protocol which is what mdnsresponder is all about. One important note - try to keep the samba shares separate from the appletalk shares. Samba clients do not update the desktop file when they move/change/delete files which will result in a corrupted desktop file. (ie: CNID database) If that happens do this: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/netatalk.sh stop cat /usr/local/etc/AppleVolumes.default (shares are listed at the bottom) go to each share with the problem and rename the directory, ie: cd /home/shares/Public mv .AppleDB .AppleDB-temp-backup restart netatalk /usr/local/etc/rc.d/netatalk.sh start verify people can mount the shares and get to their files Delete the .AppleDB-temp-backup dirs. Ted PS: Appletalk is older networking technology but there is nothing wrong with it and it works no worse than newer technologies. Thank you so much for this comprehensive reply. I can see there are several things in there that I didn't get, as they were missed out in my other guides. Seems like a small nightmare setting up netatalk, hope it will be worth it! Thanks again, I really appreciate it. Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On 23 Sep 2007, at 11:22, cpghost wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:30:59 +0300 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i personally use only sendmail. Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. same with any other things :) I would prefer to have postfix vs sendmail since it built with security in mind Ditto here. I've switched to postfix after a talk by Wietse Venema at the SANE 1998: http://www.sane.nl/events/sane98/daily/19/venema.html (postfix was still named VMailer back then) and never looked back since. I was lucky doing so, because soon after, there had been a flurry of sendmail exploits, while postfix kept chugging along undisturbed. But more importantly, its behaviour under stress and huge traffic bursts is excellent. I have a russian friend, he's a sysadmin, works exclusively with FreeBSD. He reckon Postfix is also great under pressure. Since sendmail is in the core of FreeBSD, does that mean it will quickly get security updates when exploits are found? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
packages compiled from source
Hi, trying to find out where the complete packge files are for the packges that I compiled from ports. I wanted to save these somewhere so I wouldn't have to recompile them in the future. The handbook doesn't shed any light on this:( Best regards gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages compiled from source
Many thanks too all who ansered, that's really helpful. I just had a hard time compiling lighttpd and php5 together, so wanted to save them as packages to spare me the headache in the near future. Have read the ports man I see that I can change the PACKAGES in the environment, but how do I change the environment. Would I edit /etc/ make.conf at a guess? On 23 Sep 2007, at 15:35, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi, trying to find out where the complete packge files are for the packges that I compiled from ports. I wanted to save these somewhere so I wouldn't have to recompile them in the future. The handbook doesn't shed any light on this:( They are not saved separately but you can create backups using pkg_create -b. In addition, you can use 'package' (or 'package-recursive') target instead of 'install' to create packages automagically. In that case target directory is set by PACKAGES variable. Have a look at ports(7) manpage for details. Cheers, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski karol.kwiat at gmail dot com OpenPGP 0x06E09309 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netatalk
On 23 Sep 2007, at 16:13, Martin Hepworth wrote: Why you need netatalk - you still got some old MacOS 8/9 machines about? -- no, they are all os x macbook pros. However we sometimes access over the internet using AFP, and this uses encrypted passwords which is safer. Also, afp integrates very well with the mac machines, better than samba and far better than NFS. I've been using FreeNAS which has worked well, but unfortunately freezes every few hours, so it's useless. Trying to build my own version of it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 09:03, Wojciech Puchar wrote: If you google for gvinum you'll find tutorials etc. AFAICT, you can't have the root device on a RAID5 gvinum. Just make a small root partition. yes you can __ Hi Wojciech Would you be able to give me any tips or know of any howtos that explain installing freebsd root on to gvinum raid5 array? I really cannot find any tutorials for this :( Many thanks gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 01:13, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 9/21/07, Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. Best regards Gabriel From what I know, you're not going to be able to boot from them. However, a simple solution to that is to get a 64+ MB USB flash drive and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or /etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID array. This is how I currently do full-disk encryption on my laptop using GELI. Kernel is outside, everything else is encrypted, same idea for RAID. Hi Maxim This sounds good. How exactly did you manage to encrypt discs and then install freebsd there? I can just about setup software raid once freebsd is installed, but by then I am unable to use a hard drive because it already has freebsd on it. Regards gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netatalk
On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:14, Martin Hepworth wrote: Beg to differ on the AFP vs samb issues from what we use at work using a mixed environment (*nix, windoze and Mac's). the filetyping goes alot better using smb than appletalk with MacOS X, and smb will use encrypted passwds (however poorly encoded) by default, and even SMB is alot faster than AFP which is horrible slow. You'll find that using a VPN to access over the internet alot more secure in any case. anyway a quick google gives this.. http://www.caboo.se/articles/2006/1/18/apple-file-sharing-via-freebsd Thanks, I've already read that link, what was suggested didn't work. I don't mind using smb, but I have a question or two I would be glad if you could answer: Can you connect to a smb server over the internet? For example in OS X give the address as smb://example.com? Also, how would you get the passwords encrypted? Is this done by default. Best regards Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages compiled from source
On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:51, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Please try not to top-post while replying to freebsd mailing list. It makes it hard to follow reading from the archives. Comments below. I'm sorry, was I guilty of top-posting? Didn't mean to :P Gabriel Dragffy wrote: On 23 Sep 2007, at 15:35, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi, trying to find out where the complete packge files are for the packges that I compiled from ports. I wanted to save these somewhere so I wouldn't have to recompile them in the future. The handbook doesn't shed any light on this:( They are not saved separately but you can create backups using pkg_create -b. In addition, you can use 'package' (or 'package-recursive') target instead of 'install' to create packages automagically. In that case target directory is set by PACKAGES variable. Have a look at ports(7) manpage for details. Many thanks too all who ansered, that's really helpful. I just had a hard time compiling lighttpd and php5 together, so wanted to save them as packages to spare me the headache in the near future. Have read the ports man I see that I can change the PACKAGES in the environment, but how do I change the environment. Would I edit /etc/make.conf at a guess? PACKAGES is environmental variable - you'll want to change the variable, not the environment ;) To change it system wide permanently - yes, editing /etc/make.conf would be a good idea. The alternatives are setting it in your shell environment (depends on what you use) or defining it at install time (every time) with something like 'make PACKAGES=/some/dir package'. And there are probably other methods, too :) Thanks, I'll look in to this, glad that my wild guess wasn't too far wide Regards Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Roland Smith wrote: The things that you should encrypt are /home and maybe /var. and swap. Encrypting the swap is really quite important. Cheers, Matthew Oh you know what? I grabbed an ubuntu disc, in the installation I configured each of the three hard drives with a 1GB partition which became software RAID 1, and the rest of the space another partition which became RAID 5 doodah. I configured all this during the installation using that debian installer, booted no probs. Next thing was to: sudo -i sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install netatalk -y OK, done, RAID 5 system, with the OS running on RAID 1, netatlk installed and working a few seconds after, total time was about 45 minutes. I've spent 4 days chasing my tail in freebsd. Wish freebsd would be able to help me out with software raid in sysinstall. I'd still very much like to figure out how to do this in freebsd, but unfortunately spending two weeks to do it makes me look incompetent to my employers. FreeBSD is running a web/database/email server and doing a fantastic job for that, so it might just be a case of horses for courses... Regards Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On 22 Sep 2007, at 05:29, Lotfi kecir wrote: HI, thank's for your post. to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email acounts and now i'm looking to transfert all my user acount mailboxes. and i don't have any idea to do it. Thanks for your help Yeah right. I don't have hands-on experience with any MTA other than Postfix, but I never read a good thing about qmail. Thing is, I work for a design company - we have 3 VPSs two using Plesk and another on extend, I noticed that behind the scenes it is Qmail for all of them. How come it is used by these control panels when it is so poor? Just a small whine from me :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 08:42, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. What you need for RAID5 is gvinum(8), which replaces the older vinum (4) driver. Hi, reading the BSD Handbook I did find this out and I've been trying to use it. If you google for gvinum you'll find tutorials etc. I have found a couple of tutorials but like I said it is either too technical, or not descriptive enough and none of them describe root on raid 5 :( AFAICT, you can't have the root device on a RAID5 gvinum. Just make a small root partition. I read in the FreeBSD hanbook that I can have root on raid 5 by doing the following: There is another option as well, to have /boot/loader (Section 12.3.3) load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. This was on the following page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html The handbook is good, but it only describes how to do raid 0 and raid 1, it says I can do raid 5 but doesn't describe the process. I also totally stumped at how to make a raid 5 device and install freebsd on it - the sysinstall doesn't allow the configuration of raid arrays and I can only install to a slice. I need access to tools such as gvinum before installation... but how? Oh the pain! best regards gabriel Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/ ~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 01:13, Maxim Khitrov wrote: However, a simple solution to that is to get a 64+ MB USB flash drive and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or /etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID array. This is how I currently do full-disk encryption on my laptop using GELI. Kernel is outside, everything else is encrypted, same idea for RAID. I haven't ever done software RAID in FreeBSD, so can't help you with the practical aspects of it. But I will say that technical or not, man pages are still the best way to learn about these things. From what I can see, RAID 5 is done through vinum, and GEOM offers RAID 3. Someone else here may be able to tell you which one is better to use. It's also worth noting that with software, the performance of RAID 5 is not going to be very good. I generally advise against software RAID 5. If you want good performance and reliability using software RAID, the best bet is RAID 10, but there the utilization is 50%. I think that if you can afford another 500GB drive and performance is important to you, a software RAID 10 using GEOM will perform much better. It is also easier to recover, and you can lose two drives (not any two, but still) without completely losing all the data. Hi, thank you for your post. I read the following in the BSD handbook which lead me to believe I could have root on RADI5: quote There is another option as well, to have /boot/loader (Section 12.3.3) load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. /quote That's here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ handbook/vinum-root.html I appreciate your post about using an alternative system to RAID 5. Many thanks Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? Regards Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 12:19, Roland Smith wrote: To elaborate, the loader doesn't know about the RAID layout. It is only usable _after_ the kernel has loaded. I read in the FreeBSD hanbook that I can have root on raid 5 by doing the following: There is another option as well, to have /boot/loader (Section 12.3.3) load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. The thing is that vinum is not gvinum! Gvinum is a replacement for vinum using the GEOM framework. I guess nobody has gotten around to update the handbook yet. Did you read the handbook? They say at the beginning of the chapter 20 (20.1): Starting with FreeBSD 5, Vinum has been rewritten in order to fit into the GEOM architecture (Chapter 19), retaining the original ideas, terminology, and on-disk metadata. This rewrite is called gvinum (for GEOM vinum). The following text usually refers to Vinum as an abstract name, regardless of the implementation variant. Any command invocations should now be done using the gvinum command, and the name of the kernel module has been changed from vinum.ko to geom_vinum.ko, and all device nodes reside under /dev/gvinum instead of /dev/vinum. As of FreeBSD 6, the old Vinum implementation is no longer available in the code base. So that makes me think they have updated the handbook. and in the chapter 20.9.1 it says: load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. For Gvinum, all startup is done automatically once the kernel module has been loaded, so the procedure described above is all that is needed. The following text documents the behaviour of the historic Vinum system, for the sake of older setups. It seems perfectly clear the handbook has both been updated and is saying i can have root on raid, or am I mistaken? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On 22 Sep 2007, at 12:34, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? At the time sendmail was integrased into FreeBSD other MTA's were pretty much out of the question. Ever since then, the integration has been very well-maintained (thanks to gshapiro) and changing the default MTA to something else is simply not worth the pain that comes with it. Personally I use Postfix wherever I need an MTA, it only takes a few minutes to install it from ports. The benefit of ports is you can configure all the options you need. We can't keep mysql client and dovecot sasl in the base system, most people would have to reinstall Postfix from ports even if it was the default MTA in our base. I see, thank you for the heads-up. It is interesting. Personally I try to use the software that comes with the OS where possible. Especially in the case of FreeBSD, as I find the core software is rock solid and I love that. I think I'll learn how to configure sendmail and try sticking with it. At least it is documented somewhat in the handbook. Many thanks to all Regards gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netatalk
I've been following several different tutorials on the net for getting netatalk working. I've compiled in the neccessary option to the kernel, installed the port. Added various things to rc.conf, run / usr/local/etc/rc.d/netatalk start and... nothing :( I think the problem is that all the tutorials I have found are years our of date. Does someone know how to get the modern port of netatalk on 6.2 working? Many thanks Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software RAID5
Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. Best regards Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lighttpd won't serve up php pages - 500 internal server error
Hi all I've install php5 and php5-extensions from the latest ports and also lighty too. I compiled php5 with fastcgi support. In lighttpd's error log I see the following: 2007-09-12 17:32:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.1731) connect failed: Connection refused on unix:/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket-3 2007-09-12 17:32:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.2885) backend died; we'll disable it for 5 seconds and send the request to another backend instead: reconnects: 0 load: 1 2007-09-12 17:32:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.2658) child signaled: 11 2007-09-12 17:32:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.2462) unexpected end-of-file (perhaps the fastcgi process died): pid: 26390 socket: unix:/tmp/php- fastcgi.socket-3 2007-09-12 17:32:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.3211) child signaled: 11 2007-09-12 17:32:06: (mod_fastcgi.c.3254) response not received, request sent: 850 on socket: unix:/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket-3 for / phpinfo.php , closing connection I added the following to php.ini: cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1. And the relevant sections of lighttpd.conf are: server.modules = ( mod_access, mod_fastcgi, ) server.document-root= /usr/local/www/data/ fastcgi.server = ( .php = ( localhost = ( socket = /tmp/php- fastcgi.socket, bin-path = /usr/local/bin/php- cgi ) ) ) The web page shown just displys 500 - Internal Server Error. Thank you Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hunks failed, is this bad?
Hi all I hope you can help me. I have a clean install of freebsd. I changed to /usr and made ports directory. Then I ran portsnap fetch and then extract. Then I changed to ports-mngmt/portmanager and did make install clean. When I try to install any port using either 'make install clean' or 'portmanager www/lighttpd' (for example) I see hunks failed in stdout. As an exaple I saw one of these flas by when installing lighttpd: |--- /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk Tue Nov 8 01:02:51 2005 |+++ bsd.port.mkWed Nov 16 02:16:57 2005 -- Patching file bsd.port.mk using Plan A... Hunk #1 failed at 2049. 1 out of 1 hunks failed--s As far as I can tell I see similar errors no matter what port I try to install. Is this a problem? Many thanks Gabriel Dragffy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hunks failed, is this bad?
Hi all I hope you can help me. I have a clean install of freebsd. I changed to /usr and made ports directory. Then I ran portsnap fetch and then extract. Then I changed to ports-mngmt/portmanager and did make install clean. When I try to install any port using either 'make install clean' or 'portmanager www/lighttpd' (for example) I see hunks failed in stdout. As an exaple I saw one of these flas by when installing lighttpd: |--- /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk Tue Nov 8 01:02:51 2005 |+++ bsd.port.mkWed Nov 16 02:16:57 2005 -- Patching file bsd.port.mk using Plan A... Hunk #1 failed at 2049. 1 out of 1 hunks failed--s As far as I can tell I see similar errors no matter what port I try to install. Is this a problem? Many thanks Gabriel Dragffy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello
Dear list members. I just wanted to say hi to all of you. My name is Gabriel, and I have just been setting up a FreeBSD server at work, having moved from Linux. There are just a couple of things that aren't working quite as I would like, and I was hoping someone might be kind enough to help me out. I've been using the FreeBSD handbook, and I must say it is quite superb, and makes starting with FreeBSD much easier. Using sysinstall I enabled anonymous FTP, with uploads allowed in the folder /incoming. Uploading works a treat, however the files don't have permissions to be downloaded again (by anon user). I know I could change this by executing a cron job every two minutes that would chmod the files in /incoming. But surely there must be a far better way...? The FreeBSD handbook says it doesn't recommend allowing anon users to d/load files uploaded anonymously, however I would still like to implement this. I'd be very appreciative for any help. Best regards Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Script to list ports knobs and options
Hi list, First forgive me if this is not the ideal list for this thread, and please redirect me to the good one. After this discussion[1] I did spend some time in order to improve the script provided by Maxim Khitrov, and here is the result : - show all knobs supported by ports not yet installed, with an asterisk if the knob is enabled in ports.conf (make.conf is not supported now) - show all options supported by ports not yet installed, with an asterisk if the option is enabled in /var/db/ports/$portname/options - full color listing (only if CLICOLOR is defined and the output is not redirected) The goal is to tweak knobs (and options) before running make config-recursive or make install. Work for me on 6-STABLE and tested with xorg, gnome2 and some lighter ports. The files are available with a screenshot at this URI[2], of course portconf is required. I am aware of only one caveat : due to heuristics used to display options, they may appear twice (this is why I used two colors to display options). There are probably other problems, so don't hesitate to point mistakes or inefficiencies. I wonder if it could be integrated to the ports tree when finished, what's your opinion on this ? Thanks for your attention :) [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-August/156101.html [2] http://athanatos.free.fr/FreeBSD/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ports build parameters (knobs)
Hello, During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages. When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get : WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support [snip] and for libiconv : WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932, adds EUCJP-MS) GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of supported build options ? Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not supposed to be in make.conf but in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if so please let me know :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:17:17 +0200
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:54:08AM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote:
Hello,
During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered
laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS
and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages.
I don't see why not.
Because I was thinking that everything possible was included
in /usr/ports/KNOBS, which is not the case, I know now.
When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get :
WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols
WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation
WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation
WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support
WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support
[snip]
and for libiconv :
WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets
WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932,
adds EUCJP-MS)
GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and
EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of
supported build options?
Look at the port Makefile.
That's an idea, but I was looking for a list similar
to /usr/ports/KNOBS, if such a list exists. If not, I guess I will have
to run grep on /usr/ports :)
Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not
supposed to be in make.conf but
in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if so please let me know :)
If they aren't OPTIONS, just list them in make.conf like this;
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/x11-wm/fluxbox}
WITH_IMLIB2=yes
.endif
This way the variables are only defined when make is called from a
directory that ends in x11-wm/fluxbox.
Thanks for this precision !
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Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:32:34 -0400 Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Gabriel Linder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages. When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get : WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support [snip] and for libiconv : WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932, adds EUCJP-MS) GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of supported build options ? Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not supposed to be in make.conf but in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if so please let me know :) My experience has shown that it's always best to look at the Makefile of any port you are about to install. That's the most reliable way to learn about the port and the knobs it supports. However, this can be rather tedious when installing something with a few hundred dependencies (like gnome), so I actually came up with a solution to speed things up. First of all, you should install portconf from ports-mgmt and use it to specify port-specific options. It's a much cleaner way of doing things than using if statements in make.conf. You can also easily transfer the configuration to other systems. In addition to port-specific options, you can use * to set global knobs. Here's the start of my ports.conf file just to give you an idea: *:WITHOUT_BDB|\ WITHOUT_DEBUG |\ WITHOUT_DEBUGGING |\ WITHOUT_IPV6 |\ WITHOUT_NLS|\ WITHOUT_PROFILE|\ WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS |\ WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED converters/libiconv: WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS lang/php5:WITHOUT_CGI|\ WITH_MULTIBYTE I did not know this tool, thanks :) And so on... Now as far as actually discovering what knobs are available, I wrote a simple script to do this. The contents are below, save them as /usr/local/sbin/getknobs or something similar. The idea is this; when you are about to install a port, run getknobs from the port's directory. The script uses 'make missing' to determine all the other ports that are about to be installed, then goes through their port directories and searches all the files for WITH/WITHOUT_* patterns. You then get a nice print out of all the knobs that you can configure before running make install for the current port. Since this script is using make missing you will not get the knobs for ports that are already installed. The script was meant to be used from the very beginning (i.e. starting from a clean system), so that on each step you are only shown knobs for ports that aren't already configured. You can easily modify this behavior if you want. You may also need to adjust the regular expression used to find the knobs. Wow, this is a great idea with a wonderful script. Thanks you ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resolution problem with i810 and Xorg 7.2
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:26:10 +0300 Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your VideoRAM set too low ?? I had this error on my laptop, and solved it by running 6-STABLE. It seems to be related to the agp module which refuses to load on 6.2-RELEASE (hardware too recent, probably). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:20:29 + Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, FreeBSD! I'm a long time GNU/Linux user, and I'm considering changing over to FreeBSD. Why? To escape the upgrade tread-mill. Every time a new Debian release comes out, I say Oh no, not again!, scarcely looking forward to the weeks of pain getting it to work properly. I'm not sure I prefer the alternative, something like Ubuntu or PCLinux, where you just shut your eyes, lie back and think of South Africa, not knowing quite what's getting installed on your PC. And finding the usable nuggets of information in the vast swathes of Linux documentation scattered diffusely over the Internet isn't fun either. Anyway, back to the point! I do most of my work in Linux on virtual console screens, which are set up at 128x48 characters courtesy of the framebuffer thing in the Linux kernel. Previously, I had used SVGATextMode, which did much the same. I just don't much like GUIs, since they are cluttered up with toolbars, dialog boxes, scrollbars, wine bars, start bars, crowbars, , and tend to steal key sequences which I want to belong to applications. I haven't found any like facility in 6.2, so far: I downloaded the documentation last night (the CD image 6.2-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso) and had a general browse through it (the English version). It's nicely written, but I didn't find what I was looking for. Then I grepped through it with find . -name *.txt | xargs grep '[1-9][0-9]*x[1-9][0-9]*' without finding anything helpful. 80x60 isn't enough! Is it possible I've missed something relevant? Or is there some sort of add-on utility which would give me consoles with (approximately) 128x48? My hardware is a desktop PC with a 1.2 GHz Athlon and a Matrox G400 AGP video card. Thanks in advance for the help! Hi Alan, That was the first question I asked myself, too :) Everything about this and many other things such as how to stay up to date are explained in the handbook, you may want to read it. For virtual consoles resolution you can check this manual page : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vidcontrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
powerd on dual core
Hi, I use a T2300 Core Duo laptop with SMP kernel and powerd enabled on FreeBSD 6.2. When I try to check my CPU settings with sysctl dev.cpu I get a value only for dev.cpu.0.freq (no dev.cpu.1.freq, but there are some fields for dev.cpu.1), so I wonder if powerd manage only one core or if the two cores are running at the same speed ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Swap size
Hi, I plan to setup FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on my Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM. The handbook says ideal swap size is 2xRAM, so should I use 2GB of swap ? This seems a bit huge to me, I never used more than 400MB on Linux. If so, is there a limit of swap partition size (or number) on i386 (for Linux it's 2GB per partition and 32 partitions max, but I don't know for FreeBSD) ? I plan to use two slices so I can have 2x1GB of swap anyway, I'm just curious :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap size
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 03:03 AM 7/19/2007, Gabriel Linder wrote: Hi, I plan to setup FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on my Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM. The handbook says ideal swap size is 2xRAM, so should I use 2GB of swap ? Yes unless you know how many applications will ever be run and their run size. The 2xRAM is so you can always have a reasonable performance allowing swap. You can still run out of swap, and this will cause a panic. With disks so cheap, why not use 2XRAM? Running out of swap doesn't cause a panic, it causes the largest process to be killed. This seems a bit huge to me, I never used more than 400MB on Linux. If so, is there a limit of swap partition size (or number) on i386 (for Linux it's 2GB per partition and 32 partitions max, but I don't know for FreeBSD) ? For a Desktop System 400M should be enough, I don't remember my Desktop system to ever use more than 1m of swap. However, the swap size should be large enough for a dump during a panic. So if you want to be able to do some debugging if you ever run into panics, your swap should be at least as large as your memory. Assuming that you might add more memory one day something between 2 or 4GB of swap look reasonable to me. Thanks for the precisions, I will go for 2xRAM so. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disklabel, partition d is usable or not ?
Hi, This may sound as a dumb question, but during my 6.2-RELEASE (i386) setup I notice the following in the handbook : Remember [...] that partitions b, c, and d have conventional meanings that you should adhere to. But the partition d is used by sysinstall (with both automatic defaults and manual setup), maybe this entry should be fixed if d has no more special meaning ? Please note that this is the first time I use FreeBSD and this mailing-list :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid or not raid
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:07:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of slices. under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not mounted anywhere. the one i see both in df and the fstab is ad4 with one big slice and different partitions they insist there are 2 raided discs in tha machine. the os is 5.4 and i think at that point the raid drivers were still considered 'experimental'. it makes sense to me that if i don't see a second drive in the fstab there isn;t any mounting which means that there is no raid going on... is there any other way i can make sure if raid is actually on? would there will be any logs somewhere? the machine has been up for about 2 years and the dmesg is long gone... thanks. Lots of people here know plenty about RAID, but you don't provide very much information. If dmesg itself returns none of the startup info, you can look in /var/log/dmesg.[today|yesterday]. /usr/sbin/pciconf can tell you what controller(s) may be attached. A proper RAID will show up as a single device, just like any hard drive (but different). It does seem odd to me that a (supposed) RAID would show up as /dev/ad4. A hardware raid will look like any other drive to the system. If it is SATA raid, it should be adN It is it SAS raid, it should be daN. I have an SATA RAID controller (rocketraid 1640) and the drive shows up as daN and not adN When I tested the controller without the driver loaded the DRIVES showed up ad adN, I put drives in caps because this is what I think is happening here, the driver isn't loaded and/or no RAID devices were created, so the RAID controller's drives just show up as drives and the controller is just used as a non-RAID controller. I suspect this is why he sees a second disk. Gabriel Some systems allow you to address the drives as either individual drives or as the raid - maybe until you have configured it or something. Anyway, on a Dell 2950 I could see both designations but figured out which was the raid and used it and all was fine. jerry Possibilities: Your RAID really is on /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad6 is something unexplained. Your RAID controller is unsupported in 5.x and not Doing The Right Thing but somehow still (kind of) working as a normal [S]ATA controller. Your RAID controller is unsupported in 5.x and your hosting company realised this and wired the shebang up as a normal [S]ATA controller because they couldn't get FreeBSD to install otherwise. There is a RAID controller and there are two disks connected to it, but the controller was not set up correctly. There is a RAID controller and there are two disks connected to some other controller which might lead to some interesting phone calls. Your remote hosting company put a RAID with two disks in some random machine and someone else is complaining on some other list about the inverse of your problem. -- -- ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: edit files in single-user-mode, the output is all messed up
Christian Walther wrote: On 11/05/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have never been able to figure out how to do this, and I usually end up copying the file to be edited to a floppy et be able to edit it from another machine, but there has to ba a way to do it! Everytime I go into single-user-mode and I have to edit a file, the output to stdout is messed up (looks like there are no \n). I tried several editors (vi, ee, edit (ee I think), and I get the same thing, useless to say that it's impossible to edit the files. The only editor that works, is vim, but it's not always installed. Does anyone know why this happens? And does anyone know how to fix it? You could try to set a decent TERM-variable, such as TERM=vt100 export TERM HTH Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, thanks Christian! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: edit files in single-user-mode, the output is all messed up
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:51:48PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: On 11/05/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have never been able to figure out how to do this, and I usually end up copying the file to be edited to a floppy et be able to edit it from another machine, but there has to ba a way to do it! Everytime I go into single-user-mode and I have to edit a file, the output to stdout is messed up (looks like there are no \n). I tried several editors (vi, ee, edit (ee I think), and I get the same thing, useless to say that it's impossible to edit the files. The only editor that works, is vim, but it's not always installed. Does anyone know why this happens? And does anyone know how to fix it? The two main problems are making sure the editors are available and making sure you have a terminal type that will work. Do the following: fsck -p mount -u / mount -a swapon -a To make sure files are available. Then, for termtype, if you are using tcsh which is most common on FreeBSD do set term=vt100 or if in sh do as Christian Walther indicated jerry Ok, thanks Jerry! You could try to set a decent TERM-variable, such as TERM=vt100 export TERM HTH Christian ___ 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]
edit files in single-user-mode, the output is all messed up
Hello, I have never been able to figure out how to do this, and I usually end up copying the file to be edited to a floppy et be able to edit it from another machine, but there has to ba a way to do it! Everytime I go into single-user-mode and I have to edit a file, the output to stdout is messed up (looks like there are no \n). I tried several editors (vi, ee, edit (ee I think), and I get the same thing, useless to say that it's impossible to edit the files. The only editor that works, is vim, but it's not always installed. Does anyone know why this happens? And does anyone know how to fix it? Thank you, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
Hello, I purchased a RocketRaid card + 3 disks, and moved my FreeBSD 6.1 to it using dump, I then changed my fstab entry to use da0s1d for /, I made sure that the it is bootable, I told my raid controller to be bootable, I set it up to boot in my BIOS as the first device, I added the kernel module to the /boot/default/loader.conf so tha it is loaded, I modified the loader.cong so that the root_dev=disk0s1d, but when I reboot, it says Invalid partition and prompts me to enter the correct partition. It apperently tried to use 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader so I tell it to use 0:da(0,d)/boot/loader and it boots, everything works fine. I must have forgotten to do something, because it always tries to boot da0s1a instead of da0s1d. Does anyone have an idea on how I can tell it to boot from da0s1d? Thank you, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
Frank Wissmann wrote: FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it will work. Regards Frank How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it automatically create's it as da0s1d. If you ment to modify my root_dev=disk0s1b (in /boot/default/loader.conf) back to it's default value (an a-partition) Then how is this going to help? Thank you, Best regards, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Frank Wissmann wrote: FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it will work. Regards Frank How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it automatically create's it as da0s1d. If you ment to modify my root_dev=disk0s1b (in /boot/default/loader.conf) back to it's default value (an a-partition) Then how is this going to help? Thank you, Best regards, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get what happened... when I created my partitions, I had my old disk installed, since I was booting from it, so the a-partition was already taken, now that it is gone, I would have to rename it, is that possible? Best regards, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
Frank Wissmann wrote: Well, I think if you boot your computer from a cdrom and edit with bsdlabel you get into an editor where you can change the d into an a. That must be the solution you want. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok, thanks, I'll do that Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it automatically create's it as da0s1d. Use: bsdlabel -e da0s1 There's also a trick you can use in sysinstall. It will only ever assign an a partition to /. So if you have some partition which you know will act as a root partition, but isn't actually going to be one right now, *lie*. Set the mount point to / and get assigned e.g. da0s1a then *change* the mountpoint with M (I think) back to whatever you're calling this partition right now e.g. /root2. Make sure you turn off softupdates (S?) if changing the mountpoint turns them back on. Once the a partition has been assigned, it won't be re-assigned just because you changed the mountpoint. Of course, this means that you have to assign all the pseudo-root partitions before you assign any real root partition otherwise sysinstall will likely complain about the duplicate mountpoint. (Or change the real root mountpoint, do your pseudo roots, then change the real root back to /). Of course, it doesn't help you now, but if there's a next time... --Alex Thank you Alex, yes, like you said, there's always a next time :-) Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Locking SSH Users to $HOME
L33T Networks wrote: Using the SSHD server, how can I lock users SSH'ing into a box into their home directory, without having access to the /usr/home directory as a whole? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about creating a jail? Whis wikipedia article explains it ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd_jail Cheers, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best software raid 5 software?
Hello, I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in a raid adapter now, plus my cpu is being used at about 0.0% 24/24 7/7, so it needs some exercise :-) I've heard of several software-based raid-5 projects, mainly of Vinum, has anybody tested it or any other ones? Which would you suggest? Thank you, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Special User Account Question
You want /usr/ports/security/sudo :) It can do (the equivalent of) all that and much more. cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel O'Brien IT Analyst, CBC Technology w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-576-0088 Sean Murphy wrote: I would like to setup a FreeBSD user account that has specific rights to certain files. This special user should not be able to login or ssh in. Certain other user accounts must first login as them and then use su into the special account (to become that special user) thus gaining access to specific files. This is a situation where a group or group permissions will not help this problem. Any ideas? Thanks ___ 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]
ssh w/ rsa certs not working
Hello, I tried to setup ssh on a FreeBSD 4.8 (OpenSSH_3.5p1) to use certificates to log in to a FreeBSD 6.1 (OpenSSH_4.2p1) machine, but it still asks for a password. I did the same setup, same steps, to get the FreeBSD 6.1 machine to log into a Gentoo Linux (OpenSSH_4.5p1) machine without any problems. Having done that, I can be fairly sure that my steps are correct, I followed this guide : http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html#how_do_i_setup_openssh The user needing to log in is root (I know this is not good and turned off by default), so I re-enabled root login with ssh but like I said above, I get a password prompt when I do : ssh -l root machine2 whoami Does anyone have an idea as of why it is not working? Thank you, Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: **questions** ssh w/ rsa certs not working
Matt Ruzicka wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: The user needing to log in is root (I know this is not good and turned off by default), so I re-enabled root login with ssh but like I said above, I get a password prompt when I do : ssh -l root machine2 whoami Not sure if there is more going on as well, but you might want to set PermitRootLogin without-password in your sshd_config on the server you are trying to access. This /should/ give you a bit more security in that someone won't be able to brute force your root password if I understand it, but will allow you to login using the sshd keys (if they are set up properly). Might also check file and directory perms on .ssh and the different key and authorized_keys2 files involved if you haven't already, seems perms often bite me.. I have rwx for user and nothing for group and others. Thanks for the safety tip, I'll do that. I added the -v param to ssh and I found this : debug1: Remote: Your host 'machine2' is not permitted to use this key for login. after playing around with it I found two problems : 1) FreeBSD uses ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and not ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 like linux 2) I had put : from=machine1 ssh-rsa [base64 key, eg: ABwBCEAIIALyoqa8] to limit from where I can login, in my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and it doesn't seem to like that (from=machine1 ) any ideas why it doesn't like the 2nd point? Thanks, Gabriel Matt Ruzicka - Senior Systems Administrator FRII 970-212-0728 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: chpass -p dilema
David,
I doubt there's much you're going to be able to do other than reset the
password. 'pjones' doesn't look like a valid password hash of any kind
so I can't think of a way to crack it even if you wanted to do something
like that. Of course I will bow to anybody who has superior knowledge
of crypt, etc. as this is not an area with which I have a lot of
expertise. From my PoV, essentially what you are trying to do is crack
the system at this point and unless you set it up poorly or are
incredibly lucky I don't think it's worth the effort to bother, the only
advantage you have over a random attacker is knowledge of the (invalid)
password hash (and a regular user account to work from).
A couple of thoughts: do you use sudo on this system? (If you don't you
should consider it when you've resolved this problem, amongst other
excellent features which might aid in remote administration, out of the
box it only requires you to know your own password to become root.) Is
it possible to get somebody local at your datacentre to drop the system
into single user mode and change the password? Do you have any other
back doors or accounts that run with elevated privs?
Even if the datacentre folks are not knowledgeable WRT FreeBSD/Unix you
could guide them through the steps required pretty trivially ('boot -s;
enter; passwd'). Of course there are risks in terms of security, but
it all depends on your requirements and the criticality of this system,
I know I personally wouldn't want to drive for 2 hours to reset a root
password unless I really had to. I only mention this because at my
workplace we have operators at our corporate datacentre who are
non-technical (at least on our platforms) who we can and do occasionally
walk through procedures that require local access when we are dealing
with emergencies remotely.
Another thought for the future, whenever I do something that might have
the potential to lock me out of the root account I make certain I have a
second shell open somewhere that I can use to un-fudge whatever I just
did and I only sit 7 floors away from most of the servers I'm
responsible for and about a 10 minute subway ride from the rest! Don't
be too bummed out though, you will probably never do this again... I
can't tell you how many commands and utilities I have learned inside out
*after* I used them wrong and this one is pretty painless... no data loss!
Sorry I'm not of more help... good luck!
cheers,
Gabriel
--
Gabriel O'Brien
IT Analyst, MPS-EN-CBC.ca
w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-576-0088
David McCord wrote:
Dear list,
I made a error that changed the root password to something unknown.
Experimenting, I intended to change the password of pjones, but instead
changed the root password since I gave no user argument. As root, I said:
chpass -p pjones
I logged out then logged back in as my username, then su'd to root. Would
not accept the old pw, and wouldn't accept pjones. I'm stuck with an
unknown root password.
man chpass tells me the argument provided with -p is the encrypted password
in crypt format, but doesn't provide enough detail to know where to go from
here. I know I can go to the computer and startup in single user and change
the root password. This computer is 2 hour round trip for me, which I'd
like to avoid. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
David
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Re: Why sendmail?
Erik Trulsson wrote: For those people who prefer to use some other MTA it is not difficult to install one from ports and use it instead of Sendmail. Indeed. While I do sometimes question the sense of defaulting to sendmail due to its baggage, it's so trivial to change the MTA that it's largely a non-issue. In the interest of being close to a reference implementation of BSD it does make some sense as a default even if I'd never run it on a prod box myself. It hardly seems worth the churn. Insert $0.02 here. cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel O'Brien IT Analyst, MPS-EN-CBC.ca w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-996-5679 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please Help
You should try to post a bit more information, what services? Which version of FreeBSD? Take a look at 'man rc.conf' and the scripts in /etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d You'll probably want something like '/etc/rc.d/mydaemon start' cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel O'Brien IT Analyst, MPS-EN-CBC.ca w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-996-5679 Benjamin Quaynor wrote: Hello, I need a command line to start my services. Best Regards, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why sendmail?
Gerard Seibert wrote: I agree for the most part. There is an option to install another MTA when installing FBSD. However, it might be nice if there were instructions on how to accomplish the following. snipped a bunch of good ideas I agree with you, logically I would say that perhaps this should go in the Postfix/exim/(insert favorite MTA here) ports. Postfix already asks you if you want to update your /etc/mail/mailer.conf and it wouldn't be much more effort to add the make.conf change, etc. as well. Might be a good patch to create/suggest to the maintainers. Even a verbose message to the console on 'make install' would be a good start. cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel O'Brien IT Analyst, MPS-EN-CBC.ca w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-996-5679 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: include format for /etc/rc.conf
You might want to look at /etc/rc.conf.local, though I would consider just writing a script to handle what you want to do since rc.conf.local isn't really the FreeBSD way, seems to be more of an OpenBSD approach. See: 'man rc' cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel O'Brien IT Analyst, MPS-EN-CBC.ca w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-996-5679 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, Are there any supported formats for INCLUDES in /etc/rc.conf such that I can drop default configs into /etc/rc.conf and then have files in a certain directory (ala includerc) override them? Basically, I'd like to do mass-updates of several dozen machines' configs normally found in /etc/rc.conf, but then have per-machine configs (like hostnames) elsewhere. -Dan Mahoney -- Don't be so depressed dear. I have no endorphins, what am I supposed to do? -DM and SK, February 10th, 1999 Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ 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]
FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 We have a script in our environment that is used to back up our mail logs. In essence it does: cp -p /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 /stats/maillogs/maillog-testcopy.bz2 According to the cp man page: snip -p Cause cp to preserve the following attributes of each source file in the copy: modification time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID, as allowed by permissions. If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not altered. snip However, when I run this script or when I do a cp -p manually I am seeing: cp: chown: /stats/maillogs/maillog-copy-test.bz2: Permission denied For the record the user does not actually have permissions to do the chown, however we would still like to use 'cp -p' in order to preserve the remainder of the attributes and according to the docs this should be possible. Does anybody have any insight? I note this issue does not appear to exist on our FreeBSD 6.1 boxes. cheers, Gabriel O'Brien ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PAM/SSH/OPIE configuration without /etc/passwd
Hi there, I'm currently playing around with OPIE/PAM on 6.0-RELEASE-p7 and have managed to stump myself with what I thought would be a relatively simple setup... My goal is to have SSH allow authorized_keys and OPIE authentication but deny all other forms of authentication. Obviously I want authentication to be denied if the user has neither configured as well. For the record OPIE is working for authenticating su, and I can use it as an option for sshd logins so I don't think my problem lies there. I simply can't turn logins with /etc/passwd off and still use OPIE. Initially I thought it would be as simple as making sure that my sshd_config file was configured to use PAM and then commenting out the pam_unix line in /etc/pam.d/sshd: # auth authrequiredpam_nologin.so no_warn authsufficient pam_opie.so no_warn no_fake_prompts authrequisite pam_opieaccess.so no_warn allow_local #auth sufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass #auth sufficient pam_ssh.so no_warn try_first_pass #auth requiredpam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass However after playing around for a bit I realized that this opened up the system to logins without any authentication if the user didn't have OPIE configured at all (and the docs warn about ending a chain without a required policy line. So I tried replacing pam_unix with: authrequiredpam_deny.so no_warn However for some reason even if OPIE is available it still fails to authenticate using PAM so I guess I misunderstood how sufficient works (at least with respect to pam_deny in a chain) since I would expect it to break out of the chain if pam_opie passes which it should if the account has an entry in /etc/opiekeys. I've included my sshd_config below as well. Port 22 Protocol 2 AllowGroups ssh-users DenyGroups nologin PasswordAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords no PermitRootLogin no UsePAM yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes StrictModes yes UseDNS yes UsePrivilegeSeparation yes X11Forwarding no TCPKeepAlive yes MaxAuthTries 3 MaxStartups 8:50:16 Compression delayed Banner /etc/ssh/sshd-login-banner Subsystem sftp/usr/libexec/sftp-server I've read the docs here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/index.html I thought I understood them but, I'm sure that there's just something simple that I'm missing and I can't find any examples of somebody else who has used this exact configuration anywhere. This is my first venture in the land of PAM so any help would be greatly appreciated! cheers, Gabe -- Gabriel O'Brien email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AND COBOL
HI, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF RMCOBOL RUNS IN FREEBSD, THANKS. GABRIEL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PC card has no functions!
Im sure that this problem has been solved before but looking through all the other posts i cant seem to find any information about it. i just installed freebsd 5.4 i386 on my old ibm thinkpad. now that im starting to get familiar with this new operating system i want to be able to access the internet but it will not connect. I have narrowed the problem down to a message which i get pccard1: Card has no functions! cbb1:PC Card card activation failed my ethernet card is a 3com megahertz 10Mbps lan 3cxe589et if you could help me I would appreciate it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't install netperf
When i run ./configure to install netperf i get this error: failed to get size of sin_port in struct sockaddr_in. What can i do to solve this? Pleas someone help me! I reaaly need to do this works fast! João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
I already have downloaded netperf. I need to run configure before compile. But i got that error. You have installed netperf before? Em 09/06/2005, às 12:23, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:26:06 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i run ./configure to install netperf i get this error: failed to get size of sin_port in struct sockaddr_in. What can i do to solve this? cd /usr/ports/benchmark/netperf make install clean Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
I don't have a internet connection on this machine... But i think if i install using ports i will get the same error that i get compiling, don't you think? Em 09/06/2005, às 14:26, Tim Erlin escreveu: João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: I already have downloaded netperf. I need to run configure before compile. But i got that error. You have installed netperf before? He is suggesting that you install it from the ports tree, rather than downloading the source and compiling it. --Tim Erlin Em 09/06/2005, às 12:23, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:26:06 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i run ./configure to install netperf i get this error: failed to get size of sin_port in struct sockaddr_in. What can i do to solve this? cd /usr/ports/benchmark/netperf make install clean Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ 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] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
I put the netperf-2.4.0.tar.gz in the location that ports telling and tried to install from ports and then i get this: applying freebsd patchesblabla File to patch: Which file should i type? Em 09/06/2005, às 14:26, Tim Erlin escreveu: João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: I already have downloaded netperf. I need to run configure before compile. But i got that error. You have installed netperf before? He is suggesting that you install it from the ports tree, rather than downloading the source and compiling it. --Tim Erlin Em 09/06/2005, às 12:23, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:26:06 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i run ./configure to install netperf i get this error: failed to get size of sin_port in struct sockaddr_in. What can i do to solve this? cd /usr/ports/benchmark/netperf make install clean Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ 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] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
I'm a programmer but i'm still not compiled this stuff I`m on a Lan with a DHCP server and i can ping but the DNS names are not configured i put them in resolv.conf but don't worked. When i run dhclient i get an ip address, but i get this message addres family not supported by protocol family. Em 09/06/2005, às 15:59, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 15:10:11 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put the netperf-2.4.0.tar.gz in the location that ports telling and tried to install from ports and then i get this: applying freebsd patchesblabla File to patch: Which file should i type? You can't do it that way. First, you need to make sure your ports are up to date. *Then* install netperf using the port. (I just did, on 5.4 RELEASE, and it installed without a hitch.) The port installed netperf-2.3pl1.tar.gz, not netperf-2.4.0.tar.gz. If you want 2.4.0, you're on your own, and you'll have to figure out how to get it to compile on FreeBSD. The netperf Makefile *might* be helpful. It might also be helpful to look at the port files after typing make. You'll find that there are 14 patchfiles in the files/ directory and a configure script in the scripts/ directory. I'm betting you can't compile this port yourself, unless you're a programmer and you understand configure and Makefile instructions clearly. Or maybe you can - but you're pretty much on your own. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
Should i enable ipv6? i see a inet6 address when i give ifconfig. It's that enough? Em 09/06/2005, às 17:21, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 17:12:39 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a programmer but i'm still not compiled this stuff I`m on a Lan with a DHCP server and i can ping but the DNS names are not configured i put them in resolv.conf but don't worked. When i run dhclient i get an ip address, but i get this message addres family not supported by protocol family. Seems like you should resolve this problem first, before trying to install more software. I'm not sure I'm following you though. If you put your DNS servers' IP addresses in resolv.conf, then you shouldn't be having a problem with name resolution. What's generating the family not supported error? Ping? Did you enable IPV6 on this box? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
i have a problem resolving names when i give ping www i get host name lookup failure and when i run dig i get connection refused Em 09/06/2005, às 17:32, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 17:28:14 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should i enable ipv6? i see a inet6 address when i give ifconfig. It's that enough? No, not unless your network uses it, which is unlikely. It's normal for ifconfig to report the ipv6 address as well as the ipv4 address. Can you describe the problem you're having more accurately? I'm not sure what is wrong, except that you seem to be having a problem resolving names. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
yes now i realized that i can't create resolv.conf...:( I get this message: out of inodes. unable to create resolv.conf Em 09/06/2005, às 17:49, Tim Erlin escreveu: João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: i have a problem resolving names when i give ping www i get host name lookup failure and when i run dig i get connection refused Can you ping the DNS server by IP? --Tim Erlin Em 09/06/2005, às 17:32, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 17:28:14 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should i enable ipv6? i see a inet6 address when i give ifconfig. It's that enough? No, not unless your network uses it, which is unlikely. It's normal for ifconfig to report the ipv6 address as well as the ipv4 address. Can you describe the problem you're having more accurately? I'm not sure what is wrong, except that you seem to be having a problem resolving names. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
now i get the dns working but i need to know where i put the router address, because the dhcp it's not working. Em 09/06/2005, às 17:49, Tim Erlin escreveu: João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: i have a problem resolving names when i give ping www i get host name lookup failure and when i run dig i get connection refused Can you ping the DNS server by IP? --Tim Erlin Em 09/06/2005, às 17:32, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 17:28:14 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should i enable ipv6? i see a inet6 address when i give ifconfig. It's that enough? No, not unless your network uses it, which is unlikely. It's normal for ifconfig to report the ipv6 address as well as the ipv4 address. Can you describe the problem you're having more accurately? I'm not sure what is wrong, except that you seem to be having a problem resolving names. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
Now i get the network ok and ports working, i tried with other softwares but i can't download netperf because i have messed up with distinfo, what you have in this file? Em 09/06/2005, às 17:32, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 17:28:14 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should i enable ipv6? i see a inet6 address when i give ifconfig. It's that enough? No, not unless your network uses it, which is unlikely. It's normal for ifconfig to report the ipv6 address as well as the ipv4 address. Can you describe the problem you're having more accurately? I'm not sure what is wrong, except that you seem to be having a problem resolving names. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
now says that i need to edit makefile to my plataform... :( Em 09/06/2005, às 19:54, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 19:44:20 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now i get the network ok and ports working, i tried with other softwares but i can't download netperf because i have messed up with distinfo, what you have in this file? MD5 (netperf-2.3pl1.tar.gz) = b74314d78af31cb13516fb9a372d2e86 SIZE (netperf-2.3pl1.tar.gz) = 836110 Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install netperf
Uhuhu i finally get this thing working, thanks i lot Paul :D Sorry for i'm beeing so newbie and annoying. []'s Em 09/06/2005, às 20:37, João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste escreveu: now says that i need to edit makefile to my plataform... :( Em 09/06/2005, às 19:54, Paul Schmehl escreveu: --On Thursday, June 09, 2005 19:44:20 -0300 João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now i get the network ok and ports working, i tried with other softwares but i can't download netperf because i have messed up with distinfo, what you have in this file? MD5 (netperf-2.3pl1.tar.gz) = b74314d78af31cb13516fb9a372d2e86 SIZE (netperf-2.3pl1.tar.gz) = 836110 Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Main web site out of date
You must have a faulty web cache or something between you and the freebsd.org site, I just checked and 5.4 and 4.11 are there for me. (5.4 was there about an hour or two after it was out last week). -Gabe Gabriel M. O'Brien http://web.quay.net/ Patrikios wrote: I say, is there a good reason why the main FreeBSD web site (www.freebsd.org) is always out of date by comparison with the mirrors? Anyone relying on your main site will still not know about the availability of 4.11 or 5.4. Kind regards, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH2 and ZSH
Unless you have a good reason to I wouldn't replace OpenSSH, I'm not aware of any particular functionality that is provided by a different implementation of SSH that is not present in the BSD standard OpenSSH. I wouldn't mess with this unless I was sure I knew why I was doing so. You can turn off OpenSSH in your /etc/rc.conf file by changing: sshd_enable=YES to sshd_enable=NO That said it would sound to me like you have a path problem not and SSH problem with your shell. I'm not familiar with ZSH but something like 'echo $PATH' should tell you what paths are being searched when you run commands. Do a 'find / -name ping' and compare this with your $PATH list. Some shells don't (by default) include the sbin directories in a normal user's path, FreeBSD installs ping by default in /sbin and a number of other utilities (that in some UNIX/Linux distributions are regular user utilities) are found under /sbin and /usr/sbin. My advice: ditch your replacement SSH and check your paths, my expectation is that the default port of zsh probably has a sane configuration. -Gabe Gabriel M. O'Brien http://web.quay.net/ Joe Wood wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a new server.everything is smooth and works fine. The other day I installed the non commercial version of SSH2 from ssh.com. I've had shell accounts that used it before and thought it would be good to have. My first issue is that the normal sshd from openssh keeps trying to start instead of the new sshd2. When initially installing freebsd should I have said no to the question about enabling ssh logins? Secondly is that the majority of zsh's commands do not work when I use the ssh2 daemon.simple things like ping and top cannot be used because it says they are not found. Has anyone had this issue or can point me in the direction to resolve it. Thanks ___ 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]
named ntpd quirkyness
Hi folks, I've a FreeBSD 5.4 system here that is running an ipfw firewall, ntpd, BIND, etc. and I'm having a strange little problem whenever I reboot my system. This system is a gateway multihomed with 4 interfaces and connected to the internet via plain old PPPoE/ADSL. For the most part everything seems to be working like a charm however whenever I reboot the server I have two issues: 1) named doesn't seem to be able to bind to the tun0 interface properly, I've got a few theories about this but none of them have gotten me anywhere! At first I thought it was my firewall rules, but after playing around with it, including building a firewall with options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT and turning off all the rules I'm starting to think that wasn't it. I've wondered if it can't connect becasue that interface doesn't exist yet (since it's PPPoE), but I'm not sure about that either. At any rate the symptom is that named is listening and accepting queries on all of the interfaces including loopback, except the tun0 interface. There's currently nothing in the logs to suggest anything awry, though for a while I was getting these errors: May 9 21:03:48 sol named[284]: creating IPv4 interface tun0 failed; interface ignored I can't figure out what I might have done to stop those errors from appearing but they don't anymore. 2) ntpd doesn't connect properly to it's servers via the tun0 interface though this symptom is much more intermittent and I don't have any hard evidence other than my own two eyes to actually prove it ever happened. As of right now it's working fine. I've been trying to sort out this problem on and off for about a month of so on both 5.3 and 5.4 and haven't had a whole lot of luck. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to where I can look to sort this out. I have a doable workaround, essentially I just log in after a reboot and restart named and then everything is fine, but it's a bit of a hassle and if I forget eventually my server will stop resolving (when the zone expires in various caches out there)... this is how I discovered it the first time. I can post some more info on my setup if anyone thinks it will help, but I won't clutter up inboxes with loads of config files unless it's necessary. Thanks in advance for any help! -Gabe Gabriel M. O'Brien http://web.quay.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Just installed FreeBSD
*tsk tsk tsk* If I were you, I'd take a long, deep look at the freebsd Handbook. If you expect freebsd to be _anything_ like red-cr*p linux you are sadly mistaken. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Cheers! On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:20:28 -0800 (PST), Katsuki Hirata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, and after loginging with both root and/or another username, I don't know what to do from there on. How do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a graphical thing like Windows or Redhat linux? what's the command to load the operating system __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: D-Link NIC.
Okay, so I've managed to get the Wless nic talking to the Access Point (per the logs) but I'm having problems getting an ip address. Check out the dhclient output: dolores# dhclient -v ndis0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1 Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Listening on BPF/ndis0/00:11:95:87:8b:e4 Sending on BPF/ndis0/00:11:95:87:8b:e4 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. dolores# here's the ifconfig ndis0 output: ndis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::211:95ff:fe87:8be4%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:11:95:87:8b:e4 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] channel 8 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit Anyone that has experienced this before? Any ideas? Thanks! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:00:58 -0800, gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats a good script. How did you install the ndis driver/wrapper? - Cause I think some of the problem may be there. Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:54:38 +0100, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gabriel Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 2:57 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: D-Link NIC. Can anyone provide any insight? ndis0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether 00:11:95:87:8b:e4 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 dolores# How do you set up the NIC? I use a small script to load and unload the driver: #!/bin/sh case $1 in start) echo Activating WLAN kldload ndis kldload if_ndis ifconfig ndis0 ssid ec60bfg3b4 wepkey 1:0x12345678911234567891123456 wepmode on ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.49 route add 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 ;; stop) echo Deactivating WLAN kldunload if_ndis kldunload ndis ;; esac exit 0 DHCP works as well, but I don't use it. if I try to use dhcp the ip address will just go to zeroes. :\ Are you positive that the DHCP function of your AP works perfectly? I am asking thing because I have come across a couple of routers which happily routes packets to static IPs but messes everything up as soon as it is asked to handle DHCP. I guess the DHCP server is working, but Gabriel's kernel is lacking device bpf which is needed for dhclient. Otherwise the IP is set to 0.0.0.0 without error message, just as described. Also I strongly feel something fishy in the WLAN interface being detected as ndisX instead of wiX. This is expected behaviour. Regards Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: D-Link NIC.
Thats a good script. How did you install the ndis driver/wrapper? - Cause I think some of the problem may be there. Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:54:38 +0100, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gabriel Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 2:57 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: D-Link NIC. Can anyone provide any insight? ndis0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether 00:11:95:87:8b:e4 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 dolores# How do you set up the NIC? I use a small script to load and unload the driver: #!/bin/sh case $1 in start) echo Activating WLAN kldload ndis kldload if_ndis ifconfig ndis0 ssid ec60bfg3b4 wepkey 1:0x12345678911234567891123456 wepmode on ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.49 route add 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 ;; stop) echo Deactivating WLAN kldunload if_ndis kldunload ndis ;; esac exit 0 DHCP works as well, but I don't use it. if I try to use dhcp the ip address will just go to zeroes. :\ Are you positive that the DHCP function of your AP works perfectly? I am asking thing because I have come across a couple of routers which happily routes packets to static IPs but messes everything up as soon as it is asked to handle DHCP. I guess the DHCP server is working, but Gabriel's kernel is lacking device bpf which is needed for dhclient. Otherwise the IP is set to 0.0.0.0 without error message, just as described. Also I strongly feel something fishy in the WLAN interface being detected as ndisX instead of wiX. This is expected behaviour. Regards Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.3 and building world
Alright so when upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2 I cvsuped the source which obviously got GENERIC overwritten. My question is, besides the instructions on /usr/src/Makefile(?) is there another way to update the source and be able to specify a custom kernel? Cheers! -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 and building world
Yep, I know enoguh to read through the handbook, the problem lies in the fact that if I use make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL I get a stop error which says I have to buildworld first (even though I have before this step). Thats the reason for the question. But thanks anyway Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:59:55 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:17 am, gabriel wrote: Alright so when upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2 I cvsuped the source which obviously got GENERIC overwritten. My question is, besides the instructions on /usr/src/Makefile(?) is there another way to update the source and be able to specify a custom kernel? There is a whole chapter on configuring your own kernel. They show you how to cp GENERIC to your own name and then use it. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html They show you both the config way and the new build[install]kernel way of maintaing your kernel. I log everything and have the individual commands in shell scripts so that a mistake won't do something unexpected. Kent Cheers! -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 and building world
Yeah thats the thing, I guess I should actually paste the error and the sequence. I'll do that when I get home. Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:19:33 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:01 pm, gabriel wrote: Yep, I know enoguh to read through the handbook, the problem lies in the fact that if I use make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL I get a stop error which says I have to buildworld first (even though I have before this step). Thats the reason for the question. But thanks anyway Ah, you didn't say that. If you cvsup, you have to do the buildworld first. You need to figure out why buildkernel can't find the obj files in /usr/obj. If you already have a current installed world with a generic kernel, you can use the config MYKERNEL way of building a new kernel. Kent Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:59:55 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:17 am, gabriel wrote: Alright so when upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2 I cvsuped the source which obviously got GENERIC overwritten. My question is, besides the instructions on /usr/src/Makefile(?) is there another way to update the source and be able to specify a custom kernel? There is a whole chapter on configuring your own kernel. They show you how to cp GENERIC to your own name and then use it. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelcon fig.html They show you both the config way and the new build[install]kernel way of maintaing your kernel. I log everything and have the individual commands in shell scripts so that a mistake won't do something unexpected. Kent Cheers! -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CGI script executing and Apache help (2nd try important)
How about pasting that httpd.conf? Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:19:02 -0500 (EST), Shawn B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache 1.3 installed. I changed the htdocs directory in httpd.conf to /home/user1/public_html/ and I added a /cgi-bin/ in the same user directory. Scripts will not execute from the cgi-bin, as the scripts contents are displayed in the browser window. I went through httpd.conf using the search feature in Easy Editor, editing sections that have .cgi in it. Now, I am stumped as to how to get the CGI scripts to execute. Thanks, Shawn B. FreeBSD newbie __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
