Re: extract iso image
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:14:25AM +0800, T.F. Cheng wrote: hi, I am not sure if I am doing the right thing. I want to extract an downloaded isoimage by first mounting it. I tried: mount -t iso9660 -o loop image.iso /mnt but turns out I don't have mount_iso9660 under /sbin, only mount_cd9660. Is there any other way to do this? I am running freebsd5.3/i386. Thanks! Linux calls it iso9660, FreeBSD calls is cd9660, same thing. The freebsd command that does the same thing is as follows: mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -a -t image.iso` /mnt = Best Regards, Tsu-Fan Cheng _ Do You Yahoo!? ?n?O?K?O?? @yahoo.com ?q?l?l?? @ http://chinese.mail.yahoo.com Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://chinese.mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH terminal locking up from OS X to FreeBSD
On Feb 22, 2005, at 22:57, Jim Freeze wrote: * Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-22 22:58:17 -0700]: Just for giggles, what happens when you try a different encryption method with the ssl client? For example, -c blowfish Ok, so I tried this, but it still locks up. However, I was able to do RETURN~C to get a command line and RETURN~^Z to background the ssh terminal, but I was never able to re-activate it. I did manage to log the IP activity through tcp dump, and I discovered that after the 'lock up', there are no IP messages originating from the remote machine. Also, the IP blocks are of type FP, whatever that is. (Hmm, maybe I need to clear out the known hosts on the remote machine.) An abbreviated version is below. The full log file is at: http://www.freeze.org/tcpdump3b.log 00:22:59.999439 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: S 611378943:611378943(0) win 65535 mss 1360,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 1996513030 0 00:23:00.053942 IP remotemachine.com.ssh localhost.53245: S 77400915:77400915(0) ack 611378944 win 57344 mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 1100668230 1996513030 00:23:00.054039 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: . ack 1 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996513030 1100668230 00:23:00.331844 IP remotemachine.com.ssh localhost.53245: P 1:24(23) ack 1 win 57964 nop,nop,timestamp 1100668258 1996513030 00:23:04.922358 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: . ack 3512 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996513040 1100668711 # Long break - remote terminal stops responding but data is still flowing as you can see. # RETURN 00:34:05.662885 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: P 1519:1559(40) ack 3512 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996514361 1100668711 00:34:07.284836 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: P 1519:1559(40) ack 3512 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996514364 1100668711 00:34:09.285235 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: P 1519:1559(40) ack 3512 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996514368 1100668711 00:34:43.290382 IP localhost.53240 remotemachine.com.ssh: FP 0:48(48) ack 1 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996514436 1100663377 # RETURN~? 00:35:09.294870 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: P 1519:1719(200) ack 3512 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996514488 1100668711 00:37:17.308387 IP localhost.53245 remotemachine.com.ssh: FP 1519:2655(1136) ack 3512 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 1996514744 1100668711 #Closed terminal The localhost is trying to send the 40 bytes in its buffer. It is not receiving and ACK from remotemachine so it retries until it eventually gives up. The F flag is localhost issuing a FIN to remotemachine to drop the TCP connection. It tries a couple times and then likewise gives up. I would recommend a ktrace on the server to see if it yields any additional information. My guess is that the sshd process has died. syslog might not be set to catch the error it may be generating. ktrace will show all the syslog calls. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba as wins-server
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:24:28AM +0100, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I'm working in an office with several win hosts of all flavours (98,2000,eXPerience). Unfortunatly the resolution of computers takes sometimes up to half an hour (approx.) until they are accessible after booting up. In near future I'll have the chance to switch to FreeBSD with my box (at least, I hope so). I'll install samba for win access to my machine. Reading some documentation I've found out that samba can also act as a wins-server. Will this enhance the latency of netbios resolution or will it corrupt it? Do you mean that the resolution of a name to ip address takes a half an hour or just that machines don't appear on the network for half an hour. There are two parts to it. One machine acts as a browse master and keeps a list of names of all machines in it's workgroup. There is an election process that happens to determine who the master is. When a machine boots up it needs to alert the master that it exists, but that can take a while sometimes with windows. The second part is name to ip resolution, this has nothing to do with the browse master. Two type of name resolution are broadcast and wins. Wins is like a dns server where all boxes register their name and ip address with. Broadcast is more like arp resolution only name to ip instead of ip to hw address. Both both broadcast and wins usually work immediately. The only downfall to broadcast is it only works when every computer is on the same subnet. Most problems with computers showing up is which the browse master/clients registering, not name resolution. And even before the browse master knows about the client, you can still access it by typing in the name by hand, just not by going to network neighbor hood and looking for it. Is there a way to speed up this process with samba, am I writing complete nonsense? Tell me if this is true. Yours, Florian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
File permissions
Hi there, I need to set permissions on the /www/data-dist directory such that when samba users create new files in it the ownership of the files will automatically be set to www. How might i do this. I've had a look at the chmod and sticky manpages with no luck. Thanks, Gareth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: java applications taking up too much memory
Hi Brian, First you should ask on the freebsd java mailing list, not here. Second, 200MB of ram isn't that big anymore these days for a server, you might consider your system needs more? Java isn't know for small programs. Java's strength is it's write-once, run-anywhere feature, and as a result it's going to be much more resource consumptive than a compiled C program. Last, most of this will probably be swapped out, so what you want to pay attention to in top is the Swap: line. When your app starts, you should see swap loaded up - what you should be concerned with is if you see a lot of in-and-out on the ram allocated, also you might try running systat -vmstat you will get a better idea of what your system is doing that way rather than just looking at top's output. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian John Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: java applications taking up too much memory Hello, It seems that my java applications are taking up a ton of memory. Even one small jar that I start at startup takes up almost 200 MB! I start it like this: java -Xms4m -Xmx8m -jar /home/brian/serverWatcher/serverwatcher.jar and it looks like this in top: 76750 brian 200 159M 10840K kserel 0:03 0.00% 0.00% java I start Azureus like this: azureus -Xmx128m and it looks like this in top: 59636 brian 200 503M 228M kserel 2:37 0.00% 0.00% java I only have 512M of memory on this machine. Does anyone have any idea how I can make these apps take up less memory? Thanks /Brian ___ 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]
recommended trouble ticketing system
Hi, I'm looking for a software that we can use for trouble ticketing system. We are using Open Ticket Request System(OTRS) before but my superiors, told me that I can search for another better software for this purpose. Can you suggest me some of the trouble ticketing systems you have used before aside from OTRS and if there's any problem you have encountered using it or its advantages over OTRS. I did a quick search on google and freebsd ports and found Request Tracker(RT), also Trouble Ticket System from Freshmeat, and lastly WebTTS, but I'm having a hard time deciding which one to use. Suggestions are very much welcome. Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File permissions
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:46 am, Gareth Bailey wrote: Hi there, I need to set permissions on the /www/data-dist directory such that when samba users create new files in it the ownership of the files will automatically be set to www. How might i do this. I've had a look at the chmod and sticky manpages with no luck. Thanks, Gareth man smb.conf I think you want to force group = www for the shares you want owned by www. hth, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommended trouble ticketing system
My favorite one is Kayako eSupport - www.kayako.com Another popular one is Cerberus HelpDesk - www.cerberusweb.com On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:16:15 -0800 (PST), Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a software that we can use for trouble ticketing system. We are using Open Ticket Request System(OTRS) before but my superiors, told me that I can search for another better software for this purpose. Can you suggest me some of the trouble ticketing systems you have used before aside from OTRS and if there's any problem you have encountered using it or its advantages over OTRS. I did a quick search on google and freebsd ports and found Request Tracker(RT), also Trouble Ticket System from Freshmeat, and lastly WebTTS, but I'm having a hard time deciding which one to use. Suggestions are very much welcome. Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ 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: DSL modem recommendation
What is your DSL provider, what telephone company are they using? Are you running bridged or ppp mode DSL? DSL modems all use proprietary implementations of the DMT protocol, while many will interoperate with different DSL providers and DSLAMS, not all will. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of markzero Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:32 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DSL modem recommendation Hello, Could anybody recommend a good, solid DSL modem that is supported nicely by FreeBSD? An internal modem would be preferred but I would consider otherwise. My main requirements are stability and a lack of any kind of external management (I want my box to be solely in control, not a proprietary web or telnet interface). I have suffered for far too long with an awful DSL router/firewall that goes down at the slightest provocation and offers no real authentication! Cheers, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Moore Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:10 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Ruben de Groot; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:14, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ian Moore wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I would probably install src/usr.sbin/ and recompile cron to use the -f flag. The flags are settible in cron/config.h in the source, FreeBSD uses #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ just change this to #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ Ted Thanks, I'll give that a go. Hi, Sorry, I'm still having trouble with this - my changes don't seem to have had any effect, cron is still sending mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) I think I've done something wrong! What I did was: #cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/cron/cron #ee config.h: and I changed the line #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ to #define MAILARGS %s [EMAIL PROTECTED] -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ (I assume the # at the beginning is correct?) Yes. But, the line is incorrect - it needs to be the following: #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -odi -oem -oi See my earlier posting for this. man sendmail also will explain the flags a bit as well. The rest of the stuff is fine. Ted Thanks Ted, - I should have read more carefully. Well that sort of works - cron jobs get sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] except for the periodic jobs, which are still sent from root@hostname.hamcoll.sa.edu.au. Perhaps periodic sends the emails itself instead of cron, though looking at it's source I can't see how. Also, I still need to adjust my sendmail config on the server that is our local smtp server. It seems to be putting the hostname back in cron's emails. Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc pgpMM3BdU9mV8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: filtering HTML tags from email
Mike Hauber wrote: Mutt saves to a temp file then calls the following command: lynx -localhost -dump %s where '%s' is the temporary file you saved it to. You could also just pipe it to the following: lynx -localhost -dump -stdin the -localhost argument prevents lynx from simply following links external to your machine - helpful to avoid generating hits for unscrupulous spammers that get paid for hits on a URL. Just make sure lynx is installed. Lou Okay, so to be sure, there is no filter (as of yet) to simply open an email file, strip the HTML tags, and resave it? I'm not complaining, as this may actually be something I'm capable of creating myself. (I'll make this my first python project. :) ) I'm just making sure I'm not missing anything obvious before I start working on it. It's irritating to spend time on something only to find out that it's already been done. You probably could do it also with procmail + lynx (or w3m) during the delivery process. Another possibility is to have the following entries in your ~/.mailcap file, which converts html, doc and rtf to plain text. text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html; copiousoutput; application/msword; antiword %s; copiousoutput application/rtf; rtfreader %s; copiousoutput As for your python script: I don't think that just stripping everything matching the following expressions is correct because they might appear in non html emails, too: .* \/.* (perl syntax). At least, you'd need a list of valid html tags, i.e. a regular grammar for html: b | /b | i | /i | ... (BNF notation). While this is not too hard to implement (and possibly a good project to learn a new programming language), this would be too much work for something that can be achieved easier with existing tools (that is, for me, personally ;-) Simon pgpgUlVMmAaoT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux Compat - LIBSTDC++.SO.5 - Call Of Duty
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 09:24:19AM -0700, Nick Pavlica wrote: All, I'm trying to get the Call of Duty Dedicated server running on FreeBSD 5.3. To do get an error when I run the daemon which is caused by issue below. Are there compatibility libs in the ports collection? If not should I use the libs from this link? If so where to I put them? You need a newer version of linux_base. I recommend linux_base-rh9. After upgrading that, you'll probably need to install linux-XFree86-libs as they are no longer a part of linux_base. Thanks! --Nick - IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LIBSTDC++.SO.5 ... If you are reading this, it's probably because you tried to start your Linux server and saw this message: ./coduo_lnxded: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory COD:UO is a C++ program built with gcc 3.2.3, which means it needs a system library specific to gcc 3.2. Older Linux systems won't have this installed, and we're starting to see newer Linux distributions that don't have this either, since they are supplying an incompatible gcc 3.4 version. The good news is that you can drop the needed library into your system without breaking anything else. Here is the library you need, if your Linux distribution doesn't supply it: http://icculus.org/updates/cod/gcc3-libs.tar.bz2 You want to unpack that somewhere that the dynamic linker will see it (if you are sure it won't overwrite any files, you can even use /lib). --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a file where I can specify the location of my header files??(like that of ld.so.hints)
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
Hi,
I think I did something horrible with my machine. I
cannot complete a make anywhere in ports. For
example, I'm compiling iperf and got this error.
headers.h:82:19: errno.h: No such file or directory
headers.h:139:24: syslog.h: No such file or directory
I used find to search for these files and I did find
it.
#find / -name errno.h -print
/usr/include/sys/errno.h
/usr/include/sys/syslog.h
Whenever I'm compiling a c program, I learned that I
can pass a -Idirectory to the gcc, but I don't know
how to do it in ports. Is there a file where in I can
specify where my include files can be found, like that
of the ld-elf.so.hints and ld.so.hints that contains
the directory where my libraries can be found?
Hmm, please test whether you can compile the following C program:
#include stdio.h
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf (Hello, Mark!\n);
return 0;
}
Then compile it using: gcc -c hello.c
If it doesn't compile, something happened to your C compiler since
/usr/include should be searched automatically (i.e. without -I) by gcc.
If so, have a look at /etc/make.conf and also /etc/defaults/make.conf
(the latter one should not be modified!)
Simon
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Booting problems
I am not an expert on FreeBSD and I am not an expert on hardware. I think I am going nuts compiling my kernel of release 4.11. It compliles all right but it wouldn't boot. The error I get is: panic no BSP found. Anyone has an idea of what that means? I'll give you my configuration file just in case someone takes the trouble to have a look at it. My machine is the HP t730m, 3GHz HT, 512 Meg of RAM. I would gladly give more info, thing is that install works just fine I just do not have sound or Internet (I use a wireless connection) Anyway, here is my conf file. % # # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # # http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html # # The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook # if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the # FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the # latest information. # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is also present in the ./LINT configuration file. If you are # in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first in LINT. # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.246.2.62.2.1 2005/01/14 03:07:39 scottl Exp $ machine i386 #cpu I386_CPU #cpu I486_CPU #cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident AURORITA maxusers 0 #makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols #options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation options INET #InterNETworking options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support #options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device #options NFS #Network Filesystem #options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS required #options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] #options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev #options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~128k to driver. options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~215k to driver. # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O device isa #device eisa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 # # If you have a Toshiba Libretto with its Y-E Data PCMCIA floppy, # don't use the above line for fdc0 but the following one: #device fdc0 # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers #device amd # AMD 53C974 (Tekram DC-390(T)) #device isp # Qlogic family #device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT/Fusion #device ncr # NCR/Symbios Logic #device sym # NCR/Symbios Logic (newer chipsets) #options SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP=0x40 # Allow ncr to attach legacy NCR devices when # both sym and ncr are configured #device adv0 at isa? #device adw #device bt0 at isa? #device aha0 at isa? #device aic0 at isa? #device ncv # NCR 53C500 #device nsp # Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 #device stg # TMC 18C30/18C50 # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da # Direct Access (disks) #device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) # RAID controllers interfaced to the SCSI subsystem #device asr # DPT SmartRAID V, VI and Adaptec SCSI RAID #device dpt # DPT Smartcache - See LINT for options! #device iir # Intel Integrated RAID #device mly # Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID #device ciss # Compaq SmartRAID 5* series #device twa # 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID # RAID controllers #device aac # Adaptec FSA RAID, Dell PERC2/PERC3 #device aacp # SCSI passthrough for aac (requires CAM) #device ida # Compaq Smart RAID #device ips # IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID #device amr # AMI MegaRAID
Re: Questions about ports
Hello again. Browsing the freebsd list, I have found this interesting link that explains it great: http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html Thank you very much. Ramiro. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL modem recommendation
What is your DSL provider, what telephone company are they using? Are you running bridged or ppp mode DSL? DSL modems all use proprietary implementations of the DMT protocol, while many will interoperate with different DSL providers and DSLAMS, not all will. Ted Hi Ted, the relevant info: ISP: Pipex UK - www.pipex.net TelCo: British Telecom I am currently connecting to them via PPPoA (I assume this is what you're referring to, I'm not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be about DSL). Cheers, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpels71s8CqU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB drive - crypto filesystem options?
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:40:37PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Hey folks. I have just become the proud owner of a fancy new 1GB USB 2.0 drive; one of those cool new gadgets no bigger than my pinky that holds 1 Billion bytes of data. Naturally, I can't wait to play with it :) Well, I know that USB 2.0 support is kinda sketchy, and I've already decided it's not stable on the ICH5 USB controller that comes with the Dell Dimension 8300. Regardless, I have confirmed that I can get the little gadget mounted (comes pre-formatted with an MSDos filesystem) without the slightest hangup. Yay me. So, now what I want to do is see what kind of filesystem options I have with this little gem. Ideally, I would like to get an encrypted filesystem that requires a password to mount it. Of course, I've checked the ports, but I don't know much about this area, and I don't know if I'm even using the right search keys. A little googling revealed a great article at The FreeBSD Diary (http://www.freebsddiary.org/encrypted-fs.php) that discusses cfs. Sounds cool, move to the top of the list - ok, it's the only thing on the list right now. That's where you folks come in. Has anyone had any experience actually using a crypto filesystem on a USB drive? What utilities are available for this? And more importantly, what have your experiences been? I, personally, have found that just using gpg to encrypt important files on my memory stick as gpg runs on multiple oses: bsd, win, linux, max. I may also place my encrypted private key on it along with executables on it for windows since linux/bsd propably already have it installed. Then I can read the files on any system with just a passphrase. TIA Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk?
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:39:24PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: Why would you want to mount an MSDOS floppy on a server? In order to copy a raw file image to the floppy. Do you mean install a 1440k floppy image onto a disk or just copy a file smaller than 1440k onto the msdos fs of an already formatted floppy. The latter should be ok even at securelevel 3, but the former can't because that would mean open /dev/fd0 for writing other than a mount. That reduces the security and stability of your server Not really. See above. The intent is not to leave the floppy permanently mounted; I only needed to copy a raw diskette image to the floppy (a boot floppy for FreeBSD, as it happens). As it happens, I found a way to do it under Windows, so the problem is solved. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partial web page loading
It could have something to do with an incorrect MTU size. This can cause partial loading of webpages. See http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/794/router_mtu.html Adriaan On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:46:09 -0800, Scott Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a relatively new user of FreeBSD (5.3 release), and have encountered a problem that I haven't seen on other platforms. The details and a screenshot are outlined here: http://theocacao.com/document.page/82 Essentially, web content (text and images alike, it seems) occasionally fails to load in entirety. I personally haven't be able to recreate this yet, but a few people have sent me emails about it. I didn't hear anything about this prior to switching to FreeBSD. This is the exact same content I had running on a Red Hat-based machine running the same version of Apache. I've done a lot of googling and looking through mailing list archives, but haven't been able to identify any real leads yet. Syslog doesn't suggest anything is amiss. My environment is: FreeBSD 5.3-Release Apache 2.0.50 PHP 5.0.2 BIND 9.3.0 Both Apache and PHP were built from ports. I realize Apache is a few versions behind, and I'm going to upgrade it. Looking at the changelog, though, I can't seem to find anything that would pertain to this. Any ideas? Thanks, - Scott -- http://treehouseideas.com/ http://theocacao.com/ [blog] ___ 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]
dupe messages from -newbies
Sorry OT, but I believe I can see the problem with messages being duped back from -newbies (even when they're not being posted to there!) that was happening last week on another thread, similarly. Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 89, Issue 6 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Today's Topics: [..] 8. What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (John Palmer) This message was indeed crossposted to -current and -newbies. Just the one copy appeared here in -questions, as you'd expect. 11. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Jeremie Le Hen) 12. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Jeremie Le Hen) [..] 22. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Gavin Atkinson) 23. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Gavin Atkinson) 24. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav) 25. Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav) The second (dupe) of each of those above was appended with a -newbies trailer, as if somehow messages to -newbies are being automatically posted back into -questions? I'll just quote one (shortest) example, which going by the short headers listed in -questions-digest, was not crossposted to -newbies .. and even if it had been, why's it here? Cheers, Ian -- Message: 24 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:55:12 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav) Subject: Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? To: John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Freebsd 5.3. When the machine boots up, it gives me several options if I want to boot up in Default Mode, Safe Mode, Single User mode, etc. I understand Single user mode. What is the difference between Safe Mode and Default Mode? Safe mode disables ACPI, the APIC, ATA and ATAPI DMA, ATA write caching, and all EISA devices. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Message: 25 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:55:12 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav) Subject: Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? To: John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Freebsd 5.3. When the machine boots up, it gives me several options if I want to boot up in Default Mode, Safe Mode, Single User mode, etc. I understand Single user mode. What is the difference between Safe Mode and Default Mode? Safe mode disables ACPI, the APIC, ATA and ATAPI DMA, ATA write caching, and all EISA devices. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Message: 26 [..] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] End of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 89, Issue 6 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Removal of item from archive
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:58 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of item from archive Erik Trulsson writes: We sure did. We have gone through this several times over the last couple of years. So far the answer has always been the same: No. You can submit DMCAs to any organization hosting archives and using any equipment based in the U.S. (including any kind of telecommunications link), and to their upstream providers as required. You have to submit to U.S. jurisdiction as part of the process (no matter where you actually live). The DMCA doesen't apply here unless the post she wants to have removed was a copy protection circuvention device. (because the primary reason for the DMCA was to define electronically posted software as a device rather than as speech, thus taking it out of First Amendment protections.) Note of course that this hasn't yet been tried before the US Supreme Court, so the DMCA isn't the be-all and end-all of this argument by any means. And yes I am aware of the free speech sky-is-falling people who seem to think the DMCA applies to everything, this is false despite your frothing at the mouth about it. You can also sue organizations directly for copyright infringement (or file complaints for criminal infringement, although that might be hard to apply in many jurisdictions). That is how you would legally force the mailing list archive (at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/) to remove the post. The only problem of course is that you would have a pretty weak case for several reasons, first you knew you were posting to a publically archived mailing list when you made the post, so you gave permission by your posting for it to be archived, second, assuming it's been posted for some time, without complaint, it would be difficult to prove that now you are suddenly suffering damages, so therefore no grounds to sue. And lastly, if SOMEONE ELSE makes a post to the list, and INCLUDES part of your post, they are doing so under Fair Use, and you CANNOT legally compel the archive owner to remove their post, because it is copyright by them. All you can do is sue them and if you win you can force them to sue the archive owners to remove their post - and if yet again a 3rd person included their post, then there is yet another person in the chain of lawsuits. So I think from a practical point of view suing anyone will go nowhere also. Beth, part of the problem here is that you have NEVER actually listed the post or posts you want removed in the archive, for example: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/075296 .html the above is a specific post. (not yours, by the way) Unless you reference the posts you have a problem with like this, nobody is going to go to the bother of doing your work for you. And if I was an archive owner I would ignore the kinds of fishing expedition requests you are making here - without listing the specific posts you could keep the owner running back and forth forever deleting post after post. Secondly, you are e-mailing the list itself, NOT the maintainers of the list. The list maintainers are [EMAIL PROTECTED] As is clearly spelled out on this webpage: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions In my humble opinion, if you really want a specific post removed, and you have a GOOD reason for it, a polite e-mail to the list maintainer, listing the EXACT url of the post, would PROBABLY work. After all it's not like they would have to do a great deal of work ONCE YOU SPECIFIED the post. But continuing to mail this question to the actual list itself, as you seem to keep doing, while it serves to provide endless hours of amusement for the readers of the list, is pretty much a waste of time. This by the way is one of the fates of people like yourself who fail to READ THE DIRECTIONS. I'll bet you haven't bothered to read the owners manual of your car, either, yet you probably consider yourself a good driver. Uh huh. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: DSL modem recommendation
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of markzero Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:56 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DSL modem recommendation What is your DSL provider, what telephone company are they using? Are you running bridged or ppp mode DSL? DSL modems all use proprietary implementations of the DMT protocol, while many will interoperate with different DSL providers and DSLAMS, not all will. Ted Hi Ted, the relevant info: ISP: Pipex UK - www.pipex.net TelCo: British Telecom I am currently connecting to them via PPPoA (I assume this is what you're referring to, I'm not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be about DSL). Hi Mark, OK, pipex is one of those ISP's that doesen't give support to non-customers so your going to have to do a bit of legwork for me. First, are we talking PIPEX Xtreme Solo, or PIPEX Xtreme Business? Next, log into the Pipex support site for the appropriate service you have: https://www.mypipex.net/solo/ or https://www.mypipex.net/solo/ and go to the support section on DSL modems. Let me know what the DSL modem models are that are listed as supported. If there isn't a listing there, then go to the online ordering https://secure.pipex.net/cgi-bin/products/xtreme/modem-mf-order.pl and make an order like you are ordering another modem, go almost all the way through then abort the order, and in the middle of the order it should give you a selection of modems that are available from them for ordering. Lastly, if you get nothing either of those methods, CALL them at 0845 077 2455 / (0845 077 BILL) and ask for tech support and ask for a list of supported modems. ALSO, very important, if you do call them ask what the VPI/VCI the modem is supposted to be set at. Usually 1/1, or 0/32, or 0/35, those are commonly used ones. If you have administrative access to the modem you have now, it should show this. Also ask them if it's regular DMT issue or G.Lite DMT? Adminstrative access to the modem you have now should also tell this. Also, please post the modem model that you are currently using now (the piece of junk one that isn't working well) I need to get an idea of the DSL modem chipsets they have their service setup for. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--memory/uptime stats shell script?
I'm wondering if this even existshere goes nothing: :) A shell script, run from cron maybe that collects memory stats and uptime. My boss wants to see something like this on one of our intranet pages (*plese* don't ask me why, I have no idea!) FreeBSD-5.3 STABLE is our current intranet machine OS. I started hand rolling a script which grepped some of top output, but in order to make it meaningful there's a significant amount of regexp knowledge required to dump the output that is *not* needed. Regexps give me brain pain. Googling showed a bunch of extremely nice looking graphical output php scripts, all of which (ironically) are overkill. This is just intended to be a small cell on a intranet page which shows uptime/load averages, and what top produces in terms of memory usage. An slightly modiefied and formatted version of my .sig I guess. snmp is not running, otherwise I could prolly do something with that (it's not running for security reasons)...so my options as I see 'em now are somewhat limited. Suggestions, guidance, advice, a kick in the rear...all would be appreciated! :-) Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Wed Feb 23 11:12:00 CET 2005 11:12AM up 3 days, 18:22, 5 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Booting problems
I am not an expert on FreeBSD and I am not an expert on hardware. I think I am going nuts compiling my kernel of release 4.11. It compliles all right but it wouldn't boot. The error I get is: panic no BSP found. Anyone has an idea of what that means? I'll give you my configuration file just in case someone takes the trouble to have a look at it. My machine is the HP t730m, 3GHz HT, 512 Meg of RAM. I would gladly give more info, thing is that install works just fine I just do not have sound or Internet (I use a wireless connection) Anyway, here is my conf file. % # # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # # http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html # # The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook # if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the # FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the # latest information. # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is also present in the ./LINT configuration file. If you are # in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first in LINT. # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.246.2.62.2.1 2005/01/14 03:07:39 scottl Exp $ machine i386 #cpu I386_CPU #cpu I486_CPU #cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident AURORITA maxusers 0 #makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols #options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation options INET #InterNETworking options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support #options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device #options NFS #Network Filesystem #options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS required #options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] #options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev #options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~128k to driver. options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~215k to driver. # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O device isa #device eisa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 # # If you have a Toshiba Libretto with its Y-E Data PCMCIA floppy, # don't use the above line for fdc0 but the following one: #device fdc0 # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers #device amd # AMD 53C974 (Tekram DC-390(T)) #device isp # Qlogic family #device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT/Fusion #device ncr # NCR/Symbios Logic #device sym # NCR/Symbios Logic (newer chipsets) #options SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP=0x40 # Allow ncr to attach legacy NCR devices when # both sym and ncr are configured #device adv0 at isa? #device adw #device bt0 at isa? #device aha0 at isa? #device aic0 at isa? #device ncv # NCR 53C500 #device nsp # Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 #device stg # TMC 18C30/18C50 # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da # Direct Access (disks) #device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) # RAID controllers interfaced to the SCSI subsystem #device asr # DPT SmartRAID V, VI and Adaptec SCSI RAID #device dpt # DPT Smartcache - See LINT for options! #device iir # Intel Integrated RAID #device mly # Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID #device ciss # Compaq SmartRAID 5* series #device twa # 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID # RAID controllers #device aac # Adaptec FSA RAID, Dell PERC2/PERC3 #device aacp # SCSI passthrough for aac (requires CAM) #device ida # Compaq Smart RAID #device ips # IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID #device amr # AMI MegaRAID #device mlx
RE: DSL modem recommendation
Hi Mark, Well, looks like I was able to bypass that login thingie, here's the info: Settings: http://www.pipexsupport.com/main/pipex.php Modems: http://www.pipexsupport.com/main/hardware/ From the looks of it, they are using standard DMT issue, not G.Lite, with the Alcatel chipset, VPI/VCI 0/38 This is a really good universal combination. Many DSL modems will work fine. But there's 1 modem that I would strongly recommend in this instance over any other modem: Westell C90-36R516-01 Why? Here's why: 1) These are dumb bridged modems so they aren't interfereing with your BSD box. 2) Westell has updated firmware and a diagnostic utility that talks to the modem, and has a secret command key sequence that will tell all of the good line stats (signal to noise ratio, received and transmitted power, etc.) which are vital to troubleshooting. 3) Since these modems were obsoleted and were used by Bell Atlantic, there are tons of them on the used market for very cheap. 4) Other ISP's I've talked to have said these things are rock solid reliable. I have never had one of them fail in service for any of our customers either. 5) It has an honest-to-god Alcatel DSL chipset in it, not the globespan which is becoming more popular (primariarly because it's cheaper) Now, note the following: if you have a very spotty DSL line, then get the following: Westell B90-36R515 NOT the B90-36R515-01!!! Why? Because the 36R515 has a design flaw in it- it massively overexceeds the transmitted power allowable for DSL - this is why Bell Atlantic quickly switched over to the -01 model - that will sometimes allow you to punch though a crummy line and get a stable connection. But the downside is it's DSP microcode is non-upgradable. You don't want to use it unless you have to. Now because this is NOT a PPPoA modem, you must run PPP on your FreeBSD box. The big advantage is that since your FreeBSD box is the PPP terminator - not the DSL modem/router - you get a legal public number on the ppp interface in the BSD box, which means if you want to set it up as a server your in business. The only possible problem is that these Westells were sold only in the US, they take 24 volt AC (NOT DC!) and come with a 24 volt AC adapter. But, you can just go to any junk store and buy a 24 volt UK style AC adapter and cut off the useless US-style adapter from it's cord and solder the cord onto your adapter. (or use a voltage converter from 220-to-110) The adapter is NOT AUTOSENSING so don't attempt to just plug into UK power or you will blow the modem up. The modem isn't particular about 50-60 hertz so no worries there. I also don't think you would have a problem with the UK/US phone line voltage difference either. You also will need to change the VPI/VCI setting to 0/38 it is normally 0/35, westell has a utility for that. If you are a bit sqeamish about this, then looking at the PIPEX recommendation page, go for a ZyXEL Prestige 630 STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have an ethernet jack on it!!! Such as the USB speedtouches that Pipex was handing out for free!! There's a reason they are free!! You can't pay people (who know anything) to take them!!! Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of markzero Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:56 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DSL modem recommendation What is your DSL provider, what telephone company are they using? Are you running bridged or ppp mode DSL? DSL modems all use proprietary implementations of the DMT protocol, while many will interoperate with different DSL providers and DSLAMS, not all will. Ted Hi Ted, the relevant info: ISP: Pipex UK - www.pipex.net TelCo: British Telecom I am currently connecting to them via PPPoA (I assume this is what you're referring to, I'm not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be about DSL). Cheers, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sendmail masquerading configuration
-Original Message- From: Ian Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Ruben de Groot Subject: Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Moore Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:10 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Ruben de Groot; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:14, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ian Moore wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I would probably install src/usr.sbin/ and recompile cron to use the -f flag. The flags are settible in cron/config.h in the source, FreeBSD uses #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ just change this to #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ Ted Thanks, I'll give that a go. Hi, Sorry, I'm still having trouble with this - my changes don't seem to have had any effect, cron is still sending mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) I think I've done something wrong! What I did was: #cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/cron/cron #ee config.h: and I changed the line #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ to #define MAILARGS %s [EMAIL PROTECTED] -odi -oem -oi -t /*-*/ (I assume the # at the beginning is correct?) Yes. But, the line is incorrect - it needs to be the following: #define MAILARGS %s -FCronDaemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -odi -oem -oi See my earlier posting for this. man sendmail also will explain the flags a bit as well. The rest of the stuff is fine. Ted Thanks Ted, - I should have read more carefully. Well that sort of works - cron jobs get sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] except for the periodic jobs, which are still sent from root@hostname.hamcoll.sa.edu.au. That might be nothing more than the From: line in the e-mail. Does the actual received address show: root@hostname.hamcoll.sa.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] or root@hostname.hamcoll.sa.edu.au root@hostname.hamcoll.sa.edu.au If it's the first, then your fine, it is because the periodic script is generating the From: line in the body of the e-mail message. Perhaps periodic sends the emails itself instead of cron, though looking at it's source I can't see how. Also, I still need to adjust my sendmail config on the server that is our local smtp server. It seems to be putting the hostname back in cron's emails. Some masquerading option must be set on it. Once again, check the received message to see if the real senders envelope address is getting munged, not just the From: address. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL modem recommendation
This is a really good universal combination. Many DSL modems will work fine. But there's 1 modem that I would strongly recommend in this instance over any other modem: Westell C90-36R516-01 Why? Here's why: 1) These are dumb bridged modems so they aren't interfereing with your BSD box. 2) Westell has updated firmware and a diagnostic utility that talks to the modem, and has a secret command key sequence that will tell all of the good line stats (signal to noise ratio, received and transmitted power, etc.) which are vital to troubleshooting. 3) Since these modems were obsoleted and were used by Bell Atlantic, there are tons of them on the used market for very cheap. 4) Other ISP's I've talked to have said these things are rock solid reliable. I have never had one of them fail in service for any of our customers either. 5) It has an honest-to-god Alcatel DSL chipset in it, not the globespan which is becoming more popular (primariarly because it's cheaper) Now, note the following: if you have a very spotty DSL line, then get the following: Westell B90-36R515 NOT the B90-36R515-01!!! Why? Because the 36R515 has a design flaw in it- it massively overexceeds the transmitted power allowable for DSL - this is why Bell Atlantic quickly switched over to the -01 model - that will sometimes allow you to punch though a crummy line and get a stable connection. But the downside is it's DSP microcode is non-upgradable. You don't want to use it unless you have to. Now because this is NOT a PPPoA modem, you must run PPP on your FreeBSD box. The big advantage is that since your FreeBSD box is the PPP terminator - not the DSL modem/router - you get a legal public number on the ppp interface in the BSD box, which means if you want to set it up as a server your in business. The only possible problem is that these Westells were sold only in the US, they take 24 volt AC (NOT DC!) and come with a 24 volt AC adapter. But, you can just go to any junk store and buy a 24 volt UK style AC adapter and cut off the useless US-style adapter from it's cord and solder the cord onto your adapter. (or use a voltage converter from 220-to-110) The adapter is NOT AUTOSENSING so don't attempt to just plug into UK power or you will blow the modem up. The modem isn't particular about 50-60 hertz so no worries there. I also don't think you would have a problem with the UK/US phone line voltage difference either. You also will need to change the VPI/VCI setting to 0/38 it is normally 0/35, westell has a utility for that. If you are a bit sqeamish about this, then looking at the PIPEX recommendation page, go for a ZyXEL Prestige 630 STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have an ethernet jack on it!!! Such as the USB speedtouches that Pipex was handing out for free!! There's a reason they are free!! You can't pay people (who know anything) to take them!!! Ted Thanks for the recommendations and the detailed info! I will probably give both a try and I definitely not be touching those sorry USB things (I've recently been trying to get one up and running on my friends BSD box and have pretty much given up in disgust). I'll be trawling eBay within the hour. :) Thanks again, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpKm0G7MdFcn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DSL modem recommendation
[snip] STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have an ethernet jack on it!!! Such as the USB speedtouches that Pipex was handing out for free!! There's a reason they are free!! You can't pay people (who know anything) to take them!!! Ted What is so wrong with USB DSL modems? I have an Alcatel Speedtouch modem that has been absolutely rock solid since I bought it on ebay for £8.50. It was very easy to setup. I just installed the pppoa port and set up the ppp.conf file and plugged it in. Takes about 30secs to 1minute to start-up on a boot but once it is running I have no problems at all. Using it for my home server and I route all of my home network traffic out through it. No problems at all. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of markzero Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:56 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DSL modem recommendation What is your DSL provider, what telephone company are they using? Are you running bridged or ppp mode DSL? DSL modems all use proprietary implementations of the DMT protocol, while many will interoperate with different DSL providers and DSLAMS, not all will. Ted Hi Ted, the relevant info: ISP: Pipex UK - www.pipex.net TelCo: British Telecom I am currently connecting to them via PPPoA (I assume this is what you're referring to, I'm not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be about DSL). Cheers, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 ___ 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: recommended trouble ticketing system
On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a software that we can use for trouble ticketing system. We are using Open Ticket Request System(OTRS) before but my superiors, told me that I can search for another better software for this purpose. Can you suggest me some of the trouble ticketing systems you have used before aside from OTRS and if there's any problem you have encountered using it or its advantages over OTRS. I did a quick search on google and freebsd ports and found Request Tracker(RT), also Trouble Ticket System from Freshmeat, and lastly WebTTS, but I'm having a hard time deciding which one to use. Suggestions are very much welcome. Thanks! I strongly recommend eGroupware, available in ports (/usr/ports/deskutils/egroupware). It does a lot more than TTS, but we use it for a few clients and they love it. HTH ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: filtering HTML tags from email
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 04:43 am, Simon Barner wrote: You could also just pipe it to the following: lynx -localhost -dump -stdin Lou Okay, so to be sure, there is no filter (as of yet) to simply open an email file, strip the HTML tags, and resave it? I'm not complaining, as this may actually be something I'm capable of creating myself. (I'll make this my first python project. :) ) You probably could do it also with procmail + lynx (or w3m) during the delivery process. Another possibility is to have the following entries in your ~/.mailcap file, which converts html, doc and rtf to plain text. text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html; copiousoutput; application/msword; antiword %s; copiousoutput application/rtf; rtfreader %s; copiousoutput Simon Just after destroying the headers in who-knows-how-many emails (backed up... whew!), I finally realized that piping the messages though html2text (or lynx or w3m) was probably not such a great idea after all. :) This is something that really should be implemented as part of kmail itself (it would help to remain compatable with both maildir/mbox). I'll continue to be frustrated with html2text for a while (it's a pretty cool tool), and who knows... Mayhaps I'll figure out a reasonable way to set it up so that everything is done automatically. Thanks for the feeds. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: DSL modem recommendation
-Original Message- From: Chris Hodgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:51 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: markzero; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DSL modem recommendation [snip] STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have an ethernet jack on it!!! Such as the USB speedtouches that Pipex was handing out for free!! There's a reason they are free!! You can't pay people (who know anything) to take them!!! Ted What is so wrong with USB DSL modems? The USB port was designed for use with joysticks, keyboards, mice, etc. Not ethernet speeds. If you ever have an opportunity to do a side-by-side comparison between an ethernet modem and a USB you will see your CPU utilization much lower on the ethernet. Ethernet controllers are far superior and efficient than USB chipsets. Now of course, DSL is not high bandwidth (compared to Ethernet) so there is that argument that it makes no difference. Another argument is that if you have no need to run a server, USB means you have to waste CPU on translation. Of course the counter to that is that with a modem/router, you can't get a public IP address. And yet another is that if the hardware changes in the future, a day might come when a new motherboard with a new USB chipset is not detected and usable by some version of FreeBSD. Ethernet your pretty much guarenteed will be around forever. But, speaking as an ISP I can tell you the biggest reason we recommend against USB for our customers - most of our customers are windoze users, and if you put a USB modem on their windows boxes, when they connect in, they get a public IP address assigned to their Windows box. And if they aren't currently patched (few 'doze user are ever) within an hour their machine will be compromized by someone's trojan and their machine will then become a menace and a problem on the network. Our network. We do not see the advantage to us to have a couple dozen 'doze users on our 1.5x1M DSL circuits, infected with the latest virus and attempting to reinfect the rest of the Internet. Maybe you do? Certainly the cable Internet providers in the US seem to think there's an advantage, that is why the cable networks all run like dog crap. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Different OS's? Marketshare
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:59 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor writes: any idea how many major OS's are out there today and what market share they have? Fresh stats from my Web server: Windows . . . . . . . . . . 93.5118 % Macintosh . . . . . . . . . 4.7794 % Unknown . . . . . . . . . . 1.2731 % WebTV . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2028 % Linux . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1857 % Sun Solaris . . . . . . . . 0.0289 % FreeBSD . . . . . . . . . . 0.0182 % So, Anthony, What website is this exactly? Would you like the stats to show different? A few minutes with a script I can probably arrainge them to say whatever you want. ;-) If your site is targeted to Windows users I would expect it to have a high percentage of hits from Windows. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Different OS's? Marketshare
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:49 AM To: List Free Bsd Subject: Different OS's? Marketshare Different OS's? Marketshare... any idea how many major OS's are out there today and what market share they have? i think WIN 70% Lin 20% Apple 5% so who is the other 5 % ??? you realze the statisticians and economists hold that 2 percent is the break point... Break even for what? Oh I get it - break even to make a profit, right? Hmm I wonder who gets the profits from the sale of FreeBSD? Do you suppose they would be overly concerned with the 2% rule? This is one of the (many) problems with trying to hold a free OS up to a measuring stick designed for measuring commercial OSes. Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks because the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL, has been steadily making Linux less and less distinguishable from the commercial OSs. When for example was the last time you saw a Linux enthusiast with a burned CDROM of an ISO he downloaded somewhere? The ones I see all have colorful cardboard boxes with penguins on them that they bought at Fry's. Consider that even if FreeBSD had 50% of all running computers - if those 50% of computers all belong to people that never buy software and only run freeware, the people that create these measuring sticks would bend over backwards to be sure those 50% were not counted. Not because they have anything against FreeBSD, but simply because the customers of the data these measuring sticks produce cannot sell anything to that 50% - thus they don't care if that 50% exists or not. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL modem recommendation
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Hodgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:51 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: markzero; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DSL modem recommendation [snip] STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have an ethernet jack on it!!! Such as the USB speedtouches that Pipex was handing out for free!! There's a reason they are free!! You can't pay people (who know anything) to take them!!! Ted What is so wrong with USB DSL modems? The USB port was designed for use with joysticks, keyboards, mice, etc. Not ethernet speeds. If you ever have an opportunity to do a side-by-side comparison between an ethernet modem and a USB you will see your CPU utilization much lower on the ethernet. Ethernet controllers are far superior and efficient than USB chipsets. Now of course, DSL is not high bandwidth (compared to Ethernet) so there is that argument that it makes no difference. I was just thinking that. :) Another argument is that if you have no need to run a server, USB means you have to waste CPU on translation. Of course the counter to that is that with a modem/router, you can't get a public IP address. I guess generally most would not require to run a server so thats a fair point. And yet another is that if the hardware changes in the future, a day might come when a new motherboard with a new USB chipset is not detected and usable by some version of FreeBSD. Ethernet your pretty much guarenteed will be around forever. Why would I buy a computer with a motherboard not supported by FreeBSD? I guess if we are speaking about the general user that may apply but you could also argue the general user would most likely be using windows and pretty much guaranteed a working proprietary driver. Of course by the time this new chipset is out, Windows may be dead and FreeBSD is the new ruler of the free world. You just never know. ;) But, speaking as an ISP I can tell you the biggest reason we recommend against USB for our customers - most of our customers are windoze users, and if you put a USB modem on their windows boxes, when they connect in, they get a public IP address assigned to their Windows box. Yeah, I can understand why that might be a problem. And if they aren't currently patched (few 'doze user are ever) within an hour their machine will be compromized by someone's trojan and their machine will then become a menace and a problem on the network. Our network. Indeed...bad user...bad! We do not see the advantage to us to have a couple dozen 'doze users on our 1.5x1M DSL circuits, infected with the latest virus and attempting to reinfect the rest of the Internet. Maybe you do? You come across as being a very smart guy so why ask this question? I am asking a general why not USB?, not USB modems are awesome and you should all convert!. Certainly the cable Internet providers in the US seem to think there's an advantage, that is why the cable networks all run like dog crap. Ted Well they have made there bed and now they have to lie in it. :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with installing freeBSD 4.8
Hello I am facing some problems with installing FreeBSD 4.8. This is my computer configuration: Build from a barbone system by ASUS; Terminator P4 533. With 256 megs of Ram. Integrated SiS video card. And a 40 Gigs hard drive named Maxtor 6E040L0. When I boot from the cd with custom configuration the computer prints a lot of things on my display. I did not saw any errors. In the begining the caps lock and num lock keys give response on my keyboard. Then the computer tell me thats it reseting the console. Num lock and Caps lock stops working. And on the display i can read these words reseting ata0 Then nothing happends. Maybe I am to impatient but I lend the cd to a friend and he managed to come to the menu system. i waited about 2-3 minuts but still nothing. Please Help me! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Domain registration
We use BulkRegister.com $12 I think, and if you've got something oddball you can easily get a real live human being on the phone who knows what they're doing. The online mgmt interface is pretty good and it works like you'd expect it to. Had --lots-- of problems with NSI/Verisign that evaporated when we went to these guys. We do our own DNS, hosting, mail etc so I don't know about their products in these areas. Glenn. - Original Message - From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 8:53 PM Subject: Domain registration Can anyone recommend the better companies for domain registration? Thanks Sean ___ 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: Different OS's? Marketshare
I think he said break point not break even In a previous life, our stats guys in banking considered anything that had 2% share (although I think we used 3%, whatever) of a population was significant and worth breaking out for study. Glenn. - Original Message - From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor [EMAIL PROTECTED]; List Free Bsd freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:30 AM Subject: RE: Different OS's? Marketshare -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:49 AM To: List Free Bsd Subject: Different OS's? Marketshare Different OS's? Marketshare... any idea how many major OS's are out there today and what market share they have? i think WIN 70% Lin 20% Apple 5% so who is the other 5 % ??? you realze the statisticians and economists hold that 2 percent is the break point... Break even for what? Oh I get it - break even to make a profit, right? Hmm I wonder who gets the profits from the sale of FreeBSD? Do you suppose they would be overly concerned with the 2% rule? This is one of the (many) problems with trying to hold a free OS up to a measuring stick designed for measuring commercial OSes. Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks because the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL, has been steadily making Linux less and less distinguishable from the commercial OSs. When for example was the last time you saw a Linux enthusiast with a burned CDROM of an ISO he downloaded somewhere? The ones I see all have colorful cardboard boxes with penguins on them that they bought at Fry's. Consider that even if FreeBSD had 50% of all running computers - if those 50% of computers all belong to people that never buy software and only run freeware, the people that create these measuring sticks would bend over backwards to be sure those 50% were not counted. Not because they have anything against FreeBSD, but simply because the customers of the data these measuring sticks produce cannot sell anything to that 50% - thus they don't care if that 50% exists or not. Ted ___ 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: Removal of item from archive
On 23/02/05 02:33 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Beth, part of the problem here is that you have NEVER actually listed the post or posts you want removed in the archive, for example: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/075296 .html the above is a specific post. (not yours, by the way) Unless you reference the posts you have a problem with like this, nobody is going to go to the bother of doing your work for you. And if I was an archive owner I would ignore the kinds of fishing expedition requests you are making here - without listing the specific posts you could keep the owner running back and forth forever deleting post after post. I'll do some of the legwork here. Doing a simple google search on everstinc.com reveals a spammy, dodgy past. My guess is that Beth has been given the task of erasing this past so potential customers cannot see the truth about everestinc.com. See this post specifically to the freeBSD list back in 98: http://tinyurl.com/3osmm The rest of the hits in google's usenet archive are to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
daemon??
Who would I need to speak to about making a product that involves the little devil? It is not a software item, but instead it is a material object? - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ntpd core dump
Hi all, I have 5.3-RELEASE installed. I'm trying to run ntpd but I get a message in /var/log/messages that it exited on signal 11 (core dumped). Is there a known problem with this version or is there somethig wrong with my config file (below)? This file is based on one I use on a Linux host with no problems. Thanks Rich -- server ntp.maths.tcd.ie server bear.zoo.bt.co.uk server ntp.cis.strath.ac.uk server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 broadcastdelay 0.008 restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail startup script?
I am in the midst of reconfiguring sendmail on a box to forward the mail from the domain to another box (true mail smtp box). is there a script that I can call similar to what is in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d area? how does sendmail konw what flags to set in the command on startup? btw my line from ps'ing is: /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t thanks in advance! ken; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week. Plans call for a gradual migration of more applications to Linux, but the timing and number will depend on how successfully the early work goes, Ng said. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,99901,00.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daemon??
Who would I need to speak to about making a product that involves the little devil? It is not a software item, but instead it is a material object? http://www.google.com/search?q=bsd+daemon+copyright http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daemon??
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:12:38AM -0800, David Carter wrote: Who would I need to speak to about making a product that involves the little devil? It is not a software item, but instead it is a material object? Kirk McKusick seems to be the person you need to talk to. See http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html and http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html for more information. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail startup script?
On 2005-02-23 08:54, Ken Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the midst of reconfiguring sendmail on a box to forward the mail from the domain to another box (true mail smtp box). is there a script that I can call similar to what is in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d area? how does sendmail konw what flags to set in the command on startup? /etc/rc.conf contains the flags for Sendmail. The /etc/rc.sendmail script can be used to stop, start or restart the Sendmail daemon processes. btw my line from ps'ing is: /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t This doesn't look like a daemon invocation of Sendmail (i.e. no -bd flags are present). The -t option means it's probably an invocation of Sendmail from another user process, which is currently posting a message. - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH terminal locking up from OS X to FreeBSD
* Doug Hardy The localhost is trying to send the 40 bytes in its buffer. It is not receiving and ACK from remotemachine so it retries until it eventually gives up. The F flag is localhost issuing a FIN to remotemachine to drop the TCP connection. It tries a couple times and then likewise gives up. I would recommend a ktrace on the server to see if it yields any additional information. My guess is that the sshd process has died. syslog might not be set to catch the error it may be generating. ktrace will show all the syslog calls Well, I cannot run ktrace on this particular server. I did run it on the client, but I'm not sure that is much help. Yup, that is what has happened. The sshd process (pid 45244 and 45265 below) is dying (not the /usr/sbin/sshd one). root 52394 0.0 0.0 1000 340 p0 DL+ 2:54PM 0:00.00 grep ssh root 60244 0.0 0.1 2404 1624 ?? Ss8:45AM 0:00.46 /usr/sbin/sshd root 45244 0.0 0.1 5056 1840 ?? Is2:45PM 0:00.03 sshd: jdf [priv] (sshd) jdf 45265 0.0 0.1 5000 1848 ?? S 2:45PM 0:00.04 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sshd) So, why would this be dying when I login with a Mac and not from linux? Is the mac not pinging the server to remind it not to doze off into unconsciousness? -- Jim Freeze ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5.3 WARNING: $swapoff is not set properly
Hi all, When I restart my system, I get this message when the system is shutting down: /etc/rc.shutdown: WARNING: $swapoff is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). Does anybody know what this means and how I can solve it? Thanks! Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[no subject]
I have the 4.11 Release installed. In handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html is written: All versions of the 4.X branch PF is available as part of KAME. And I dare to ask: what KAME is (of course from ports i could`nt install pf). Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:00:31 +, Freminlins wrote But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week. Plans call for a gradual migration of more applications to Linux, but the timing and number will depend on how successfully the early work goes, Ng said. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801, 99901,00.html I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason I can think off is that they want support.Perhaps I missed a part, but I don't see the word FreeBSD in that article. Besides, the point of the article is not regarding a migration of Yahoo, but Linux and IT in general. It has nothing to do with Yahoo or FreeBSD. I think that the author of the article is simply mistaking. Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:36 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason I can think off is that they want support.Perhaps I missed a part, but I don't see the word FreeBSD in that article. Although it doesn't state FreeBSD, I understand that Yahoo! runs stuff on FreeBSD. Besides, the point of the article is not regarding a migration of Yahoo, but Linux and IT in general. It has nothing to do with Yahoo or FreeBSD. I think that the author of the article is simply mistaking. I'n not sure I agree with that. The author stated But in December, Yahoo started to port ... to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 That would suggest that Yahoo! is moving to Linux. I am very interested in this as I have for several years used the argument we use the same OS as Yahoo!. We're not going to migrate to Linux if Yahoo! does. Jorn. Frem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qt QMAKESPEC error during qmake
hi, While trying to run qmake the following error message came up: QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced. Error processing project file: project.pro To solve this problem I added de folowing line in the profile: export QMAKESPEC=freebsd-g++ I hope this helps someone Leandro Malaquias -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.bsdmail.com Powered by Outblaze ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk?
Loren M. Lang writes: Do you mean install a 1440k floppy image onto a disk or just copy a file smaller than 1440k onto the msdos fs of an already formatted floppy. Specifically, I was trying to generate an installation boot floppy for FreeBSD, in order to install it on my other machine (which is too old to boot from CD). The latter should be ok even at securelevel 3, but the former can't because that would mean open /dev/fd0 for writing other than a mount. I got the error just trying to mount the diskette. I tried all different formats of the mount and mount_msdosfs commands and they all either generated a syntax error or told me that the operation was not permitted. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: What website is this exactly? My own. Would you like the stats to show different? I don't care what they show, as long as they are accurate. If your site is targeted to Windows users I would expect it to have a high percentage of hits from Windows. It's not targeted to any particular operating system; it appeals to a random cross-section of the Web population in terms of computers, operating systems, browsers, and so on. The stats mirror what I've seen for other sites of general interest. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:42:14 +, Freminlins wrote On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:36 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason I can think off is that they want support.Perhaps I missed a part, but I don't see the word FreeBSD in that article. Although it doesn't state FreeBSD, I understand that Yahoo! runs stuff on FreeBSD. Yes, I was aware of that :-) Besides, the point of the article is not regarding a migration of Yahoo, but Linux and IT in general. It has nothing to do with Yahoo or FreeBSD. I think that the author of the article is simply mistaking. I'n not sure I agree with that. The author stated But in December, Yahoo started to port ... to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 That would suggest that Yahoo! is moving to Linux. Well, I can say that Microsoft is using illegal Warez stuff in their WMA extension, but who would believe me? I don't have any proof right? Point is, the author can say something like that, but I've never heard that Yahoo is migrating. If they would it would definitely be in the news if they would. I'd like to see a source where the author has gathered information. I am very interested in this as I have for several years used the argument we use the same OS as Yahoo!. We're not going to migrate to Linux if Yahoo! does. No, of course not :-) I vaguely recall a discussion like this on the list in the past. I'll look it up on Google if I have time. Jorn. Frem. ___ 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]
bridge issue
Hi I am using freebsd 4.10. In /var/log/messages, I have error Feb 23 02:48:00 bridge kernel: -- loop (0) 00.41.05.8a.15.bd to ste0 from ste1 (active) Feb 23 02:48:00 bridge kernel: -- loop (1) 00.41.05.8a.15.bd to ste1 from ste0 (active) My setting: net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 net.link.ether.bridge.config=ste0,ste1,ste2,vr0 net.link.ether.bridge.ipfw=1 Can you help? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:27:31AM -0800, Andrei Iarus wrote: I have the 4.11 Release installed. In handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html is written: All versions of the 4.X branchPF is available as part of KAME. And I dare to ask: what KAME is (of course from ports i could`nt install pf). Thanks. KAME is an implementation of the IPv6 network stack done by a consortium of Japanese companies. See http://www.kame.net/ -- the turtle[*] moves if you're accessing the site via IPv6. Cheers, Matthew [*] Kame is Japanese for turtle, or more precisely it's an English transliteration of the Japanese for turtle. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK pgpDAbOZHfdiT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
Jorn Argelo writes: I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason I can think off is that they want support. Support is a pretty big reason for most companies. In a few years, RedHat and its ilk are going to cost just as much as Microsoft software, and they'll have all the same disadvantages (but without all the advantages). It will be hard to tell them apart. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks because the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL, has been steadily making Linux less and less distinguishable from the commercial OSs. When for example was the last time you saw a Linux enthusiast with a burned CDROM of an ISO he downloaded somewhere? The ones I see all have colorful cardboard boxes with penguins on them that they bought at Fry's. I've been looking at Linux these past few days (trying to decide whether to install FreeBSD or Linux on the machine I just freed up), and I've noticed the same thing. Free appears to be a near-total illusion when it comes to Linux. And hardly any distribution seems to require less than 6 or 7 CDs. And the Web sites I visit are extremely circumspect about exactly how to download free versions of their distributions, when they even offer such free copies. It all looks very much (too much) like Microsoft. There have been a few exceptions. The Slackware site looked pretty spartan compared to most of the others. I still might try to get FreeBSD running on the desktop instead, since I know FreeBSD better (but then again, perhaps I should be learning more about Linux as well?). That depends on getting past the boot problem and resolving another anomaly with the SCSI disks, though. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
(BOn Feb 23, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: (B (B [*] Kame is Japanese for turtle, or more precisely it's an English (B transliteration of the Japanese for turtle. (B (BNo, it is one of the Romaji transliterations [may be the only one since (Bit is a simple word, but there are multuple systems] for the japanese (Bfor turtle $B55!!(Bor $B$+$a(B (B (BThe roman alphabet is one of the accepted alphabets and is used in (Bwriting japanese, by japanese, with English out of the question, when (Bthey cannot write kanji/hiragana/katakana. (B (BChad (B___ (Bfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list (Bhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions (BTo unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:30:35 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:49 AM To: List Free Bsd Subject: Different OS's? Marketshare Different OS's? Marketshare... any idea how many major OS's are out there today and what market share they have? i think WIN 70% Lin 20% Apple 5% so who is the other 5 % ??? you realze the statisticians and economists hold that 2 percent is the break point... snip Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks because the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL, has been steadily making Linux less and less distinguishable from the commercial OSs. When for example was the last time you saw a Linux enthusiast with a burned CDROM of an ISO he downloaded somewhere? The ones I see all have colorful cardboard boxes with penguins on them that they bought at Fry's. You must be looking at a different Linux community than the one I'm familiar with. I thought boxed sets of Linux had gone out of retail stores years ago. Well, except maybe for a couple of Redhat choices. I haven't even had reason to look for them. I'm having too much fun with downloading versions and upgrading over the internet - yes, for free. Linspire and Redhat tend to be Windows-like, in hiding their free releases or not releasing them until the next version comes out, etc., but they're generally considered the exception in the Linux community. Some of our webservers at work are FreeBSD, others are Debian Linux. Don't shoot me, but I'm still using Debian on my desktop, too. If I had to start paying for Linux releases and security patches, I would be using FreeBSD faster than Windoze users can type format c:. I understand there's some competition between FreeBSD and Linux, but Linux doesn't have to be considered evil just because they're not FreeBSD fans. Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 14:00, Freminlins wrote: But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week. Plans call for a gradual migration of more applications to Linux, but the timing and number will depend on how successfully the early work goes, Ng said. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,99901,00 .html ___ One of the thing they mention is performance and scalability improving on Linux, which suggests they aren't talking about it replacing FreeBSD. My understanding is that they use FreeBSD 4.x on cheap interchangeable low-end webservers. I think they use Solaris on higher-end machines. Having said that, once they start using Linux, I wonder how long they will want to keep both FreeBSD and Linux. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:21:06 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks because the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL, has been steadily making Linux less and less distinguishable from the commercial OSs. When for example was the last time you saw a Linux enthusiast with a burned CDROM of an ISO he downloaded somewhere? The ones I see all have colorful cardboard boxes with penguins on them that they bought at Fry's. I've been looking at Linux these past few days (trying to decide whether to install FreeBSD or Linux on the machine I just freed up), and I've noticed the same thing. Free appears to be a near-total illusion when it comes to Linux. And hardly any distribution seems to require less than 6 or 7 CDs. And the Web sites I visit are extremely circumspect about exactly how to download free versions of their distributions, when they even offer such free copies. It all looks very much (too much) like Microsoft. You obviously didn't look at Debian then. The soon-to-be-released Sarge version is currently 14cds, but you only need to download a 35MB or 110MB installation cd to get started. The rest of the programs are downloaded from mirrors as needed. In fact, the Debian download page _discourages_ people from downloading all 14 cds. The principles behind Debian's apt-get is similar to FreeBSD's ports and portupgrade - but the organization scheme is different. As to which will suit your purposes better; why not do a dual boot between Linux and FreeBSD? They can co-exist happily. HTH HAND, Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipfw and nmap
I am fairly new to IPFW, I have question regarding the stateful part of it. Now I may just be misunderstanding this so set me straight if I am. From what I understand when you add a check-state rule and then following that a rule to keep-state, if a packet destined for that port is new and setup was not added to the keep-state rule then wouldn't it get denied at the check-state rule since keep-state did not add a dynamic rule? My problem is this, and again this may not even be correct but I have a bsd box that is simply providing me SSH capabilities..here are the rules for it: add check-state add allow all from any to any 22 in via fxp0 keep-state then the default to deny rule. Now is there a way to allow setup connections but disallow port scanners like nmap from seeing it as being open? Thanks for any help ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Jacob S writes: You must be looking at a different Linux community than the one I'm familiar with. I thought boxed sets of Linux had gone out of retail stores years ago. I bought a copy of Mandrake Linux in a retail store yesterday. I saw SuSE in the store, too. Computer stores have a wider choice. I'm having too much fun with downloading versions and upgrading over the internet - yes, for free. That says a lot about the type of user you are. Linspire and Redhat tend to be Windows-like, in hiding their free releases or not releasing them until the next version comes out, etc., but they're generally considered the exception in the Linux community. I've looked at a fair number of Linux Web sites over the past few days. Almost all of them seemed to be trying to sell something. It was often extremely hard to find links pointing to downloadable free versions of anything. I understand there's some competition between FreeBSD and Linux, but Linux doesn't have to be considered evil just because they're not FreeBSD fans. It's not evil to sell software. But it's not free software, either. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Anthony Atkielski wrote: There have been a few exceptions. The Slackware site looked pretty spartan compared to most of the others. I was converted to FreeBSD from Slackware. If you want to go Linux and maintain the freedom of configuration you have with FreeBSD (ie, just edit the text file, which is in a sensable spot) and get ...whatever it is you hope to get from linux - don't get me wrong, Linux has a lot to offer, I just can't personally think of anything it offers above and beyond FreeBSD - Slackware would be the way to go in my opinion. But that's holy war territory now, so I'll leave you with this: I switched to FreeBSD from Slackware because of the ports/package system. They make software installation so easy a Microsoft user could do it if they pay attention. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Laurence Sanford writes: I was converted to FreeBSD from Slackware. If you want to go Linux and maintain the freedom of configuration you have with FreeBSD (ie, just edit the text file, which is in a sensable spot) and get ...whatever it is you hope to get from linux - don't get me wrong, Linux has a lot to offer, I just can't personally think of anything it offers above and beyond FreeBSD - Slackware would be the way to go in my opinion. I'm mainly debating whether or not some direct experience with Linux would or would not be professionally useful to me. Were it not for that, FreeBSD would be the obvious choice. As it is, FreeBSD will probably be the desktop I end up running, in part because I know it better than Linux, in part because I can actually get it to install and boot (unlike Mandrake, which just left me dead in the water 30 seconds after booting and showing a pretty startup screen), and in part because I like to know what I'm installing instead of just installing a black box. However, an obstacle is setting up an X environment, which I don't know much about, and which I don't have unlimited time to fool around with. Some of the Linux distributions claim to be plug and play (although I have serious doubts about this). Also, on my old hardware, I suspect that hardly anything could be plug and play--there are just too many weirdnesses on this HP Vectra. But that's holy war territory now, so I'll leave you with this: I switched to FreeBSD from Slackware because of the ports/package system. They make software installation so easy a Microsoft user could do it if they pay attention. Does that include X and KDE? I'm getting wild SCSI errors on FreeBSD trying to install stuff, and I don't really know what that means, but it doesn't appear to be corrupting anything, and it seems to be installing software. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
RW writes: Having said that, once they start using Linux, I wonder how long they will want to keep both FreeBSD and Linux. Probably not forever. But it could go either way. They might tire of FreeBSD and switch entirely to Linux ... or they might tire of Linux and switch entirely to FreeBSD. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
On Feb 23, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [*] Kame is Japanese for turtle, or more precisely it's an English transliteration of the Japanese for turtle. No, it is one of the Romaji transliterations [may be the only one since it is a simple word, but there are multuple systems] for the japanese for turtle $B55!!(Bor $B$+$a(B The roman alphabet is one of the accepted alphabets and is used in writing japanese, by japanese, with English out of the question, when they cannot write kanji/hiragana/katakana. Exactly right. Japan has 4 alphabets (if you can truly call Kanji an alphabet).You will often see all four used together on a sign. jerry Chad ___ 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]
get local sendmail to use MX records
Hi, I have the following situation: I have moved my mail services from my dedicated server to another server. The MX records were updated at the DNS host to point to the other server. Email from the outside is being routed correctly to the new server, but now the local scripts on the dedicated server are still being routed to the local accounts and not actually sent to the other server. So sendmail on the first server tries to use localhost as a relay, instead of looking up the MX records for the domain. Anybody knows how to solve this? Thanks! Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: get local sendmail to use MX records
GM Hi, GM I have the following situation: GM I have moved my mail services from my dedicated server to another server. The MX records were updated at the DNS host to point to the other server. Email from the outside is being routed GM correctly to the new server, but now the local scripts on the dedicated server are still being routed to the local accounts and not actually sent to the other server. GM So sendmail on the first server tries to use localhost as a relay, instead of looking up the MX records for the domain. GM Anybody knows how to solve this? GM Thanks! GM Gerard GM ___ GM freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list GM http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions GM To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Quick and dirty: /etc/mail/aliases putting in something like root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do the trick. Or am I missing something ? Hexren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:49:55 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: You must be looking at a different Linux community than the one I'm familiar with. I thought boxed sets of Linux had gone out of retail stores years ago. I bought a copy of Mandrake Linux in a retail store yesterday. I saw SuSE in the store, too. Computer stores have a wider choice. Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm having too much fun with downloading versions and upgrading over the internet - yes, for free. That says a lot about the type of user you are. True, but I still see a lot of new users on Linux e-mail lists that are downloading it for free. Linspire and Redhat tend to be Windows-like, in hiding their free releases or not releasing them until the next version comes out, etc., but they're generally considered the exception in the Linux community. I've looked at a fair number of Linux Web sites over the past few days. Almost all of them seemed to be trying to sell something. It was often extremely hard to find links pointing to downloadable free versions of anything. So, where on www.debian.org do you see them trying to sell something? I understand there's some competition between FreeBSD and Linux, but Linux doesn't have to be considered evil just because they're not FreeBSD fans. It's not evil to sell software. But it's not free software, either. But Linux was compared to Microsoft, which would indicate that some consider it to be giving in to evil influences. Or we could get into the whole free-as-in-speech or free-as-in-food debate. There is a reason that you can buy legal copies of Linspire on E-bay for $3/each. But I definitely think it's better when it's free-as-in-food, too. Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phpSysInfo output all wrong.
I'm running phpsysinfo 2.3 on FreeBSD 5.3 with php5. it was fine for many weeks and now suddenly it shows everything wrong. except disk usage and temperatures right. no network usage at all. no kernel version, no distro name. shows uptime of 12000 days, no loads and shows something like -12932932kB of memory in use. I tried reinstall php and phpsysinfo and still same. What could be possibly wrong? -- kpn @ IRCnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: get local sendmail to use MX records
No, that is not the solution. It could be, but it's not what I want. An example: domain: domain.com domain.com is hosted on server B. The MX record for domain.com says that server A handles the mail of domain.com. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be handled by server A. This works, but now on server B there runs a script that sends an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . What SHOULD happen is that sendmail on server B looks up the MX record for domain.com, sees that server A handles the mail for domain.com and sends the mail to server A. What happens is that sendmail recognizes the domain as hosted on that machine and uses localhost to deliver the mail. It looks for user gerard (in this example), which doesn't exist. I agree with you, a solution would be to set in the alias file of server B something like gerard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If this was about just one e-mailaddress, it wouldn't be a problem, but I'm actually talking about a little more then one address. So that's not a good solution for me. - Original Message - From: Hexren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerard Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:30 PM Subject: Re: get local sendmail to use MX records GM Hi, GM I have the following situation: GM I have moved my mail services from my dedicated server to another server. The MX records were updated at the DNS host to point to the other server. Email from the outside is being routed GM correctly to the new server, but now the local scripts on the dedicated server are still being routed to the local accounts and not actually sent to the other server. GM So sendmail on the first server tries to use localhost as a relay, instead of looking up the MX records for the domain. GM Anybody knows how to solve this? GM Thanks! GM Gerard GM ___ GM freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list GM http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions GM To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Quick and dirty: /etc/mail/aliases putting in something like root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do the trick. Or am I missing something ? Hexren ___ 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]
question about reported directory size
huff@ dir /usr/lost+found/ total 192 drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 194048 Feb 23 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Feb 23 03:38 .. Now I understand the 't' in the permissions ... sort of. a) does this mean the reported directory size will never shrink? b) is that the actual blocks in use, or an artifact? c) is is safe to delete and recreate the directory? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: get local sendmail to use MX records
Gerard Meijer wrote: No, that is not the solution. It could be, but it's not what I want. An example: domain: domain.com domain.com is hosted on server B. The MX record for domain.com says that server A handles the mail of domain.com. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be handled by server A. This works, but now on server B there runs a script that sends an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . What SHOULD happen is that sendmail on server B looks up the MX record for domain.com, sees that server A handles the mail for domain.com and sends the mail to server A. What happens is that sendmail recognizes the domain as hosted on that machine and uses localhost to deliver the mail. It looks for user gerard (in this example), which doesn't exist. I agree with you, a solution would be to set in the alias file of server B something like gerard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If this was about just one e-mailaddress, it wouldn't be a problem, but I'm actually talking about a little more then one address. So that's not a good solution for me. If I followed you correctly, server B *formerly* was the appropriate end point for mail for domain.com. If that is true, then on server B, the sendmail config probably indicates that mail destined for domain.com is delivered locally. Remove that indicator and it should revert to MX lookup behavior to find the appropriate handler for the domain. There may be multiple places in the sendmail config where domain.com is named for different purposes. Hunt them all down and kill them. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 A: Because it reverses the natural flow of a dialog. Q: Why is top posting undesirable when replying? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transfering from SCSI to IDE ?
Dear Sir : I have a FreeBSD system with a squid cache installed on it on my 17 GB SCSI drive. Recently I get an image of it by Norton GHOST on a 80GB IDE drive. Transferring was successful but when system on new IDE disk booted , after pimary freeBSD boot menu boot proccess continued till an error occured in mounting file system and disk; and then system ask me to mount root and a mount prompt appeared. Messages appears on screen are as below: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Rootmount failed:6 mount root mount root ? List of GEOMD Managed disk devices: ad1s1f ad1s1e ad1s1d ad1s1c ad1s1b ad1s1a ad1s1 acd0 ad1 fd0 Now please tell me what must I do ;and refer me to a compelete step by step guide in mounting partition of this IDE disk (which the image of a SCSI disk is on it.)and no change perform to partitions for properly working of squid cache. Thank you : Dr.A.Boreiri - ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transfering from SCSI to IDE ?
Dear Sir : I have a FreeBSD system with a squid cache installed on it on my 17 GB SCSI drive. Recently I get an image of it by Norton GHOST on a 80GB IDE drive. Transferring was successful but when system on new IDE disk booted , after pimary freeBSD boot menu boot proccess continued till an error occured in mounting file system and disk; and then system ask me to mount root and a mount prompt appeared. Messages appears on screen are as below: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Rootmount failed:6 mount root mount root ? List of GEOMD Managed disk devices: ad1s1f ad1s1e ad1s1d ad1s1c ad1s1b ad1s1a ad1s1 acd0 ad1 fd0 Now please tell me what must I do ;and refer me to a compelete step by step guide in mounting partition of this IDE disk (which the image of a SCSI disk is on it.)and no change perform to partitions for properly working of squid cache. Thank you : Dr.A.Boreiri - ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: get local sendmail to use MX records
* On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:52:37PM +0100 Gerard Meijer wrote: An example: domain: domain.com domain.com is hosted on server B. The MX record for domain.com says that server A handles the mail of domain.com. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be handled by server A. This works, but now on server B there runs a script that sends an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . What SHOULD happen is that sendmail on server B looks up the MX record for domain.com, sees that server A handles the mail for domain.com and sends the mail to server A. What happens is that sendmail recognizes the domain as hosted on that machine and uses localhost to deliver the mail. It looks for user gerard (in this example), which doesn't exist. Somewhere, probably in /etc/mail/local-host-names, you told sendmail that domain.com should be delivered locally. Remove that entry and restart sendmail. If if was defined in /etc/mail/HOSTNAME.mc, then edit /etc/mail/HOSTNAME.mc and restart sendmail with a make all install restart. You can probably find the entry with a grep domain.com /etc/mail/*. Mark -- The fix is only temporary...unless it works. - Red Green ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: get local sendmail to use MX records
Hi Greg, I'm absolutely sure that this is not the case anymore. I removed everything. - Original Message - From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerard Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Hexren [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:11 PM Subject: Re: get local sendmail to use MX records Gerard Meijer wrote: No, that is not the solution. It could be, but it's not what I want. An example: domain: domain.com domain.com is hosted on server B. The MX record for domain.com says that server A handles the mail of domain.com. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be handled by server A. This works, but now on server B there runs a script that sends an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . What SHOULD happen is that sendmail on server B looks up the MX record for domain.com, sees that server A handles the mail for domain.com and sends the mail to server A. What happens is that sendmail recognizes the domain as hosted on that machine and uses localhost to deliver the mail. It looks for user gerard (in this example), which doesn't exist. I agree with you, a solution would be to set in the alias file of server B something like gerard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If this was about just one e-mailaddress, it wouldn't be a problem, but I'm actually talking about a little more then one address. So that's not a good solution for me. If I followed you correctly, server B *formerly* was the appropriate end point for mail for domain.com. If that is true, then on server B, the sendmail config probably indicates that mail destined for domain.com is delivered locally. Remove that indicator and it should revert to MX lookup behavior to find the appropriate handler for the domain. There may be multiple places in the sendmail config where domain.com is named for different purposes. Hunt them all down and kill them. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 A: Because it reverses the natural flow of a dialog. Q: Why is top posting undesirable when replying? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: script echo on like MS-DOS?
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-02-22 23:32, Christopher Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a simple way to cause a shell script to echo to the terminal similar to the old MS-DOS echo on command? You can do similar things with the set -x option of sh(1): Thanks. Yes, I'm using sh, I forgot to mention that. That's exactly what I was looking for! Christopher ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about reported directory size
In the last episode (Feb 23), Robert Huff said: huff@ dir /usr/lost+found/ total 192 drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 194048 Feb 23 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Feb 23 03:38 .. Now I understand the 't' in the permissions ... sort of. a) does this mean the reported directory size will never shrink? b) is that the actual blocks in use, or an artifact? c) is is safe to delete and recreate the directory? A directory is only truncated on the first file create after a delete; this optimizes the common rm -rf case. Touch a dummy file in there and check the size again. -- Dan Nelson [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: Different OS's? Marketshare
Jacob S writes: You obviously didn't look at Debian then. Yes, I did. As to which will suit your purposes better; why not do a dual boot between Linux and FreeBSD? They can co-exist happily. I can't even successfully install a single OS on this machine, much less two. I tried to install Mandrake an hour ago, and not only did it freeze, but it did something that prevents my CD-ROM from being visible to the FreeBSD install. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh, sftp, and public key authentication
+++ dave [freebsd] [18-02-05 09:10 -0500]: | Hello, | I've got a machine i use public keys on to which i'm trying to ssh. When | i created a key for this user i did not define a passphrase, yet i am being | asked for one when i ssh in to the box. I use the command ssh -i | filename.pub hostname however if i do sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm allowed | in no questions asked. | Help needed! | Thanks. | Dave. google for 'passworldless ssh login' Process in short On the Client machine: ssh-keygen -t dsa ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub are created. scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 From client: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will be logged in w/o any password. Regards, Shantanoo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a couple of other Linux versions in computer stores. A few years ago, I bought my first copy of FreeBSD (4.3) in a computer store. Now I can't find FreeBSD anywhere; I had to burn my own CD from a download to install 5.3. So, where on www.debian.org do you see them trying to sell something? On the first page, with the ad for XS4ALL. If you click on Getting Debian, the first option given is purchase of the CDs. But Linux was compared to Microsoft, which would indicate that some consider it to be giving in to evil influences. I don't think the trend towards commercialism is healthy, noble, or altruistic, although it's understandable. But it's a bit hypocritical of Linux fans to claim disdain for the Microsoft-style business model when they are following precisely in Microsoft's footsteps themselves. Of course, this was inevitable, but the Linux crowd never understood that. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about reported directory size
Dan Nelson writes: A directory is only truncated on the first file create after a delete; this optimizes the common rm -rf case. Touch a dummy file in there and check the size again. Who was that masked man? I don't know, but he left this silver bullet. Thanks. Robert Huff ___ 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 reboot after messing up my rc.conf file
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:48:33 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:44:55AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, Jamie Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi as you're used to? If you're getting far enough in the boot process to get an opportunity to interact with a shell, you should just be able to mount -a and vi whatever. (Or, if you want to play it safe (or if the system wasn't cleanly shutdown before), fsck and then mount -a) This should work fine. Although, depending on where he is in the boot process, / may be mounted read-only. Do `mount -uw /' to make it read-write. The lesson here is that when editing any file that is even remotely connected to the boot process, _make_a_backup_copy_. You can then simply mv the backup copy back into place should you mess up. Actually, Absolute BSD has a handy suggestion about using rcs for all important files in /etc/. Maybe you should try looking into that. I actually do both. RCS is very usefull for unwinding changes to get the system back to a previous state, should you realise that some of your improvements weren't such a good idea afterall. However, if you are concerned that your changes might adversely affect the boot process, then keeping your recovery plan as simple as possible is highly recommended. It doesn't get much simpler than `cp'. Sandy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Extracting boot sectors
Hello, I would like to know how to extract the MBR to a file, and how to restore it. Also I would like to know how to do the same with the partition boot sector and OS loaders. I think it is as follows (I remember this from somewhere): dd if=/dev/disk/partition of=/file bs=512 count=1 But I do not know: a) Is 512 the correct size for both (MBR and partition boot sectors)? b) How to extract/restore the OS loader (e.g. for WinNT/2K/XP, that is NTLDR)? c) What alternative commands are available for doing this (extact/restore)? I would also like to know more about boot sectors and OS loaders. I would appreciate some links. Thanks and Best Regards, Ale ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FBSD 5.3-RELEASE Samba 2.2.12
Hi all, I'm having one of those bite me in the arse why don't ya... kind of problems. I recently migrated user and workstation accounts from a FBSD 4.7 machine running Samba 2.2.8 to different hardware running FBSD 5.3 and Samba 2.2.12 (Samba is PDC). The machine accounts were each entered to the domain by 1) smbpasswd -a -m MACHINENAME and 2)there are about 65 clients on the network and I had to go around to each machine, disjoin the units, and then re-join the domain, which the machines did with success. A pain, but after all was done, everyone can successfully log in to the domain. Functionality is exactly the same as previously (A successful migration!) but here is where I'm getting bitten in the butt -- Seems like everyone's Internet Explorer is now set to a high security (like that's really possible with IE) -- anytime a form is submitted, the message When you send information to the internet, it might be possible for others to see that information. Do you want to continue? Changing the IE setting has no effect, nor does the checkbox to not see this warning again... Just to complete the picture -- we are using roaming profiles, and wipe out the local versions during each logoff. What the heck is going on here? Nothing has changed. The home directories were tarred and restored maintaining permissions and ownership. My users are getting mighty irritated with that pop-up message. Any ideas out there at all? I've Googled to no avail... Thank you, Roy A Cohen __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: get local sendmail to use MX records
Gerard Meijer wrote: Hi Greg, I'm absolutely sure that this is not the case anymore. I removed everything. ... If I followed you correctly, server B *formerly* was the appropriate end point for mail for domain.com. If that is true, then on server B, the sendmail config probably indicates that mail destined for domain.com is delivered locally. Remove that indicator and it should revert to MX lookup behavior to find the appropriate handler for the domain. There may be multiple places in the sendmail config where domain.com is named for different purposes. Hunt them all down and kill them. Nevertheless... the grep suggested by another poster seems completely appropriate. There are few other explanations than sendmail config error. You restarted sendmail after the config change, right? Another test you could try would be to fire up nslookup on server B's command line. If you ask there for the MX record in question, do you actually get the right answer? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 A: Because it reverses the natural flow of a dialog. Q: Why is top posting undesirable when replying? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clamd after upgrade to 0.83
After doing a portupgrade of clamd from 0.81 to 0.83, the service reports that it is not running using 'clamav-clamd.sh status'. esmtp# cd /usr/local/etc esmtp# rc.d/clamav-clamd.sh status clamav_clamd is not running. esmtp# ps -ax|grep clam 781 ?? Ss 0:10.96 /usr/local/sbin/clamd However, all seems to be fine, postfix 2.1.5, amavisd-new and clamd all seem to be running and Webmin reports them all as running. Any thoughts or something I should know regarding the upgrading? I checked /usr/ports/UPDATING, but nothing regarding this. All conf files are reflecting the new settings. -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 01:28 pm, you wrote: I can't even successfully install a single OS on this machine, much less two. What kind of problems are you having with FreeBSD? There was a non-specific mention of errors regarding your hard drive, but said everything was working ok. I tried to install Mandrake an hour ago, and not only did it freeze, but it did something that prevents my CD-ROM from being visible to the FreeBSD install. Whoa... I installed Mandrake 9 when it released and it did the same thing. I thought my cd burner had fried. When I got another one, it worked fine for both. I kept the fried one for a while and stuck it in another box I was putting together (just to make sure it was fried before throwing it away) and there was nothing wrong with it. Glad to see it wasn't just in my head. lol (I like the drake, though... It's what I usually recommend for people who are wanting to try something other than windows and don't have the knowledge (desire to learn) necessary to build up a system of their own). Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:46:47 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a couple of other Linux versions in computer stores. A few years ago, I bought my first copy of FreeBSD (4.3) in a computer store. Now I can't find FreeBSD anywhere; I had to burn my own CD from a download to install 5.3. So, FreeBSD is vulnerable to this same hypocrasy; where it is sold in stores but still hailed as a free OS? So, where on www.debian.org do you see them trying to sell something? On the first page, with the ad for XS4ALL. If you click on Getting Debian, the first option given is purchase of the CDs. Except that's simply listing the ways you can get Debian. If you look at the list you will notice there is not a single Debian owned organization on there selling cds. They provide links to people that do for your convenience. They do this as a service - without getting any kind of reimbursement from the vendors for listing them on the Debian website. For more details see these pages on the Debian site: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding If that makes Debian non-free, then FreeBSD is non-free too (or used to be) - when you purchased version 4.3 from a computer store. But Linux was compared to Microsoft, which would indicate that some consider it to be giving in to evil influences. I don't think the trend towards commercialism is healthy, noble, or altruistic, although it's understandable. But it's a bit hypocritical of Linux fans to claim disdain for the Microsoft-style business model when they are following precisely in Microsoft's footsteps themselves. Of course, this was inevitable, but the Linux crowd never understood that. Except you haven't proven that Debian has a trend towards commercialism. My point in all of this is that your generalizations of Linux would be about like Linux users saying all of the BSDs are the same. And, by the way, if you look at www.debian.org and www.freebsd.org, you will notice that they are both owned by non-profit organizations. That's totally different from a Microsoft-style business model. HAND, Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Jacob S wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:46:47 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a couple of other Linux versions in computer stores. A few years ago, I bought my first copy of FreeBSD (4.3) in a computer store. Now I can't find FreeBSD anywhere; I had to burn my own CD from a download to install 5.3. So, FreeBSD is vulnerable to this same hypocrasy; where it is sold in stores but still hailed as a free OS? I think you are misunderstanding what free means. Though I think RMS is a closet-communist and dislike the GPL, his description of Free is pretty good. Don't think free as in Free Beer... Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Mike Hauber writes: What kind of problems are you having with FreeBSD? There was a non-specific mention of errors regarding your hard drive, but said everything was working ok. I mentioned the main error in a separate thread: After successfully installing the OS, I simply cannot persuade the machine to boot from the hard disk. It just blanks the screen and stops. It must be booting _something_, because it normally puts up an error message if it cannot find the boot information it expects. So I presume it's passing control to garbage read from the disk and this is halting the system silently. If I boot from floppy, no problem. And if I boot from the install floppy and then enter the loader, unload the kernel, switch the current device to my boot disk (the hard disk), and boot from the loader, it comes up instantly. So there is some part of the boot process that's not working. I installed FreeBSD with a standard MBR on both disks, and I set the first disk to bootable, but this doesn't seem to help, although I'm still trying. The other problem I have is SCSI errors that generate massive streams of console error messages, although they don't appear to be errors that cause data loss. I got these while moving ports onto my machine. Now that I think about it, I think it might be a conflict with an old ISDN card that is still mounted in the machine ... hmm. Anyway, that's secondary. Whoa... I installed Mandrake 9 when it released and it did the same thing. I thought my cd burner had fried. When I got another one, it worked fine for both. I fixed this, somehow. I turned on my SCSI devices (a CD burner, a scanner, and a tape drive), and then FreeBSD saw the IDE CD-ROM drive. Go figure. Actually, it seemed to see the CD-ROM at boot, but it wouldn't see it when it asked for install media. It sees it after boot even with the SCSI devices turned off. Very mysterious. I'm sure there are no hardware problems on this machine; it has been running flawlessly for eight years. So anything that doesn't work is software. (I like the drake, though... It's what I usually recommend for people who are wanting to try something other than windows and don't have the knowledge (desire to learn) necessary to build up a system of their own). I'm still quite ambivalent about it. I keep wondering if Linux is different enough and useful enough to be worth dedicating this machine to it ... or if I should just continue with FreeBSD and install X on the machine (and KDE, probably, since it seems to be popular, although I welcome suggestions). Which window manager is the closest to classic UNIX window managers (as opposed to wannabe Windows products)? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clamd after upgrade to 0.83
Usually if you are running ClamAV in UNI domain socket mode, there should be a UNIX domain socket called 'clamd' in ... - /var/run/clamav Tho - this file can be configured in /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf. If ClamAv is running in TCP/IP mode it should be possible to test whether the server is responding by connecting to its TCP/IP port using a telnet client ... - telnet localhost 3310 Robert Fitzpatrick schrieb: After doing a portupgrade of clamd from 0.81 to 0.83, the service reports that it is not running using 'clamav-clamd.sh status'. esmtp# cd /usr/local/etc esmtp# rc.d/clamav-clamd.sh status clamav_clamd is not running. esmtp# ps -ax|grep clam 781 ?? Ss 0:10.96 /usr/local/sbin/clamd However, all seems to be fine, postfix 2.1.5, amavisd-new and clamd all seem to be running and Webmin reports them all as running. Any thoughts or something I should know regarding the upgrading? I checked /usr/ports/UPDATING, but nothing regarding this. All conf files are reflecting the new settings. -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards DAn.I.El S. Haischt Want a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ finger -l [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: Different OS's? Marketshare
Jacob S writes: So, FreeBSD is vulnerable to this same hypocrasy; where it is sold in stores but still hailed as a free OS? The FreeBSD was at an unbeatable price--I think it was only $10 or so, just a bit more than the packaging cost. That's not the case for Linux, which I see going for prices well in excess of $100 ... perilously close to the price of an OEM copy of Windows. But the thing that disturbs me is that all of Windows was actually written by Microsoft or licensed from someone else who wrote it, whereas all of Linux (more or less) was written for free. So how can Linux distributors get away with charging $200 for software if Microsoft is charging only slightly more? The Linux crowd certainly didn't pay anyone to develop any of the software they're selling. Except that's simply listing the ways you can get Debian. But they list the money way first, like every other site. If that makes Debian non-free, then FreeBSD is non-free too (or used to be) - when you purchased version 4.3 from a computer store. True. But it was much more reasonably priced than Linux, and it was a very good buy in consequence. Except you haven't proven that Debian has a trend towards commercialism. Fine. Wait and see. My point in all of this is that your generalizations of Linux would be about like Linux users saying all of the BSDs are the same. Well, come to think of it ... it can be hard to tell the BSDs apart. And, by the way, if you look at www.debian.org and www.freebsd.org, you will notice that they are both owned by non-profit organizations. That's totally different from a Microsoft-style business model. Some of the wealthiest organizations in the world are non-profit. All that means is that they make sure they have no money left over after expenses (sometimes by paying high salaries to their employees). There's nothing magic or high-minded about non-profit organizations. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:32:50 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Jacob S wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:46:47 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a couple of other Linux versions in computer stores. A few years ago, I bought my first copy of FreeBSD (4.3) in a computer store. Now I can't find FreeBSD anywhere; I had to burn my own CD from a download to install 5.3. So, FreeBSD is vulnerable to this same hypocrasy; where it is sold in stores but still hailed as a free OS? I think you are misunderstanding what free means. Though I think RMS is a closet-communist and dislike the GPL, his description of Free is pretty good. Don't think free as in Free Beer... I agree. And if you read my previous e-mails you will see I briefly mention the free-as-in-food and free-as-in-speech argument. On the other hand, Anthony appears to be arguing that it's hypocritical for Linux users to call Linux free when they really mean free-as-in-speech. Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Jacob S wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:46:47 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a couple of other Linux versions in computer stores. A few years ago, I bought my first copy of FreeBSD (4.3) in a computer store. Now I can't find FreeBSD anywhere; I had to burn my own CD from a download to install 5.3. So, FreeBSD is vulnerable to this same hypocrasy; where it is sold in stores but still hailed as a free OS? I think you are misunderstanding what free means. Though I think RMS is a closet-communist and dislike the GPL, his description of Free is pretty good. Don't think free as in Free Beer... As a follow up http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html I am not saying I agree or disagree with everything written, but it gives a good idea of what Free means as in Free Software. Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:46 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, and a couple of other Linux versions in computer stores. A few years ago, I bought my first copy of FreeBSD (4.3) in a computer store. Now I can't find FreeBSD anywhere; I had to burn my own CD from a download to install 5.3. You can still find FreeBSD at Fry's Electronics and MicroCenter. I don't know if CompUSA still carries it. I have mixed feelings about FreeBSD 5.0-5.2.1 being sold in the retail market. So, where on www.debian.org do you see them trying to sell something? On the first page, with the ad for XS4ALL. If you click on Getting Debian, the first option given is purchase of the CDs. But Linux was compared to Microsoft, which would indicate that some consider it to be giving in to evil influences. I don't think the trend towards commercialism is healthy, noble, or altruistic, although it's understandable. But it's a bit hypocritical of Linux fans to claim disdain for the Microsoft-style business model when they are following precisely in Microsoft's footsteps themselves. Of course, this was inevitable, but the Linux crowd never understood that. This oversimplification is so flawed that I'm not sure how to best respond... ...but I'll try:;-) First, Microsoft is a monopoly that has been found, in court, to have used unethical business practices. Second, the motivation behind the creation of Windows focused more on a marketing plan than good design principles (you know: security and stuff). I see no similarity between Microsoft and Open Source OS vendors on either of these points. Third, the beauty of capitalism is that good can come from profit motive. (See: Adam Smith's invisible hand.) Let's face it, without commercialism, Linux development would not have benefited from the likes of IBM or HP. Likewise, without commercialism, there would be very few, if any, *BSD or Linux developers performing open source development for a living. The money has to come from somewhere. Fourth, I appreciate all the hard work that goes into developing and packaging an operating system and its related applications. I am happy to pay for the convenience of an operating system on a DVD. It's only fair that the vendor be able to recover cost. If earning a little profit motivates them to continue providing a great service, all the better. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Does that include X and KDE? I'm getting wild SCSI errors on FreeBSD trying to install stuff, and I don't really know what that means, but it doesn't appear to be corrupting anything, and it seems to be installing software. Well, I don't use KDE because I don't particularly like heavyweight software unless I need it, although it has been several years since I looked at either that or Gnome, and I have seriously considered several times recently installing both of them to see what they've been up to. As for X, it should be quite painless with the possible exception of getting the config (XF86Config) right - the first time I did it, it caused me much swearing and gnashing of teeth, but here recently it's gotten so painless that I don't really remember it very well. That could be because it's gotten much easier, or because I've gotten used to it, the truth probly landing somewhere in the middle. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
