date:20070418

Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM)
CPU X 4: 40K2522
HDD X 6: 40K1051
IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729

We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and
are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the
RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to
installing the O/S.

We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including
the loading of an aac module, which according to the BSD website,
should provide support for this type of controller.

When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above
modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears
to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it
doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded).

One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I
attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the
message cpu id 38 too high. However if I boot the boot loader with
ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a
bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have
issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ??

That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have
been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would
be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are
prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going.

Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor

Bytecraft Systems


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pf message on dmesg

2007-04-18 Thread J.D. Bronson


pfr_detach_table: refcount = 0.


I am starting to see these at times.
What do they mean? - My pf is not overworked and I have added 
sufficient table entries:


set optimization aggressive
set state-policy if-bound
set timeout tcp.established 600
set timeout tcp.opening 30
set skip on lo0
set block-policy drop
set require-order yes

set limit { states 2, frags 1, src-nodes 2 }

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Re: Migrating from i386 to AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Huff

Wojciech Puchar writes:

  you have to reinstall completely. BUT
  
  - make a list of installed ports
  - make backup of all configuration files and data files
  - install FReeBSD/AMD64 AND this ports
  - THEN put all your config files and data files.

The easiest way to do this is to install to a new disk and
mount the old disk (hardware) read-only.  The backup /is/ the data;
100% accessible and 0% chance of accidentally deleting anything
critical.


Robert Huff
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Re: pf message on dmesg

In response to J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 pfr_detach_table: refcount = 0.
 
 
 I am starting to see these at times.
 What do they mean? - My pf is not overworked and I have added 
 sufficient table entries:

I'm no expert, and the pf source code is painfully devoid of comments, but
it seems as if this message is issued when a table is no longer referenced
by any rules.

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Re: mt command questions

2007-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert

Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am learning about backing up to tape and have made quite a bit of
 progress with the mt command.  I understand what the fsf option does.
 There are other options however and would like to understand them as
 well.  I am looking at the man page and have tried googleing them with
 not a lot of luck.  the fsr and fss options I understand they would
 fast forward but what is count records and count setmarks
 considered and how would I use them?

In this context, count is a number. 
I haven't used mt(1) in quite a while, but I don't think I ever used
more than one of {files, records, setmarks} on the same tape,
andoffhand I can't think of a reason for doing so.  If you only put
one backup on a given tape, you wouldn't use any of them.
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Re: ACLs in a jail ... not usable?

2007-04-18 Thread Anish Mistry

On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 --On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 22:38:45 -0400 Anish Mistry

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
  Just want to make sure there isn't something I'm missing, but it
  apears ACLs aren't settable from within a jail?
 
  # setfacl -m g:mail:rwx Login.1
  setfacl: acl_get_file() failed: Operation not supported
 
  ACLs work fine in jails.  Are you sure you enabled ACLs on the
  filesystem?

 Great, knew it couldn't be *that* easy :(

 At what point do I have to enable them?  I figured 'if getfacl
 worked, setfacl would too':

 # getfacl cvsupd.core
 #file:cvsupd.core
 #owner:0
 #group:0
 user::rw-
 group::---
 other::---

 Apparently not ... ?

 A quick look at tunefs, I see the -a option ... I take it -a enable
 is all I have to do to the file system to enable ACLs?
Yes, or you could also add the acls options to your fstab. eg.
/dev/mirror/gm0s1h  /usr/jail/hosting   ufs 
rw,userquota,groupquota,acls2   2



 Thanks ...



 
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Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole


Hi,

I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The
harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to
Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a
bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system
from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear
someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks!

Best,
Amarendra
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Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona


At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote:

Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM)
CPU X 4: 40K2522
HDD X 6: 40K1051
IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729

We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and
are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the
RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to
installing the O/S.

We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including
the loading of an aac module, which according to the BSD website,
should provide support for this type of controller.

When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above
modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears
to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it
doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded).

One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I
attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the
message cpu id 38 too high. However if I boot the boot loader with
ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a
bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have
issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ??

That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have
been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would
be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are
prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going.

Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor

Bytecraft Systems


Are you creating an Array before you try the installation?

What does the console show for the recognized hardware, and not recognized 
hardware?  You can boot from CD and run dmesg to get this information.


-Derek

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Re: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert

Richard Simmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 -Original Message-
 From: RW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:11 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: PPP and resolv.conf

 On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:48:25 +0800
 Richard Simmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf?
 Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets
 reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers.

 It's dhclient, not ppp that's modding the file.

This is unlikely. PPP normally provides the dns server addresses itself, in
 which case the suggestion to remove enable dns from ppp.conf is correct.

 Well, as always, YMMV. 

 If the connection is providing a dynamic address via dhcp, as my ADSL
 provider is, it appears to be dhclient that's updating resolv.conf so the
 setup as stated works for me. I have 'enable dns' in my ppp.conf file as
 well but my provider doesn't seem to be able to offer a dns server address
 correctly, which is why I run one locally on the network. I suspect it is
 probably a setup error on my part but I have neither the time or the
 inclination to tinker with it any more than I have to.

If DHCP is setting it, then use the prepend or supersede keywords
on domain-name-servers in your dhclient.conf(5).
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every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread John Haig

 
Hi 
 
Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. 
 
I'm running a webserver, databaase. No mail. 
 
Unfortunately it's 1100 miles from where I am and is quite the pain for
my contact to go and start it up again. 
 
He says it's turned off and cold by the time he gets there.
 
It's an old box for sure, hardware seems the likely culprit, but why up
for two weeks and then down?
 
It's the 4th time in well, about 8 weeks. Before that it was off for a
long time because no one could get to it. It's in New Orleans.
 
Anyone run into anything similar? It seems so un freebsd.
 
What would be a good way to see what the last thing that happened was?
 
Thanks for any insight. Please respond to me personally (as well as to
the list if you like).
 
 
Bagus
 
 
John Bagus Haig
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Re: every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Holden


John Haig wrote:
 
Hi 
 
Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. 
 
I'm running a webserver, databaase. No mail. 
 
Unfortunately it's 1100 miles from where I am and is quite the pain for
my contact to go and start it up again. 
 
He says it's turned off and cold by the time he gets there.
 
It's an old box for sure, hardware seems the likely culprit, but why up

for two weeks and then down?
 
It's the 4th time in well, about 8 weeks. Before that it was off for a

long time because no one could get to it. It's in New Orleans.
 
Anyone run into anything similar? It seems so un freebsd.
 
What would be a good way to see what the last thing that happened was?
 
Thanks for any insight. Please respond to me personally (as well as to

the list if you like).
 

Hi John,

Sounds like a potential PSU issue, is there anyone at the facility to 
test/replace it?


Meanwhile, you may want to watch the temperatures while it is in 
operation, incase it is shutting down due to heat.


HTH,
Thanks,
Joe
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Re: every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread David Kelly

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Joe Holden wrote:
 John Haig wrote:
  
 Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. 
 
 Sounds like a potential PSU issue, is there anyone at the facility to
 test/replace it?

How about a BIOS issue? Seems there is an option for periodic shutdowns
in some. Also an option controlling the on/off state when power is
restored after an outage. Whether to always power up, restore last
state, or always remain off until the button is pushed.

John asked about diagnostics as to what the machine was doing when it
went down. Start by comparing the shutdown dates. Is there a pattern?

When it restarts does it complain about an improper shutdown? Think this
should be noted in /var/log/messages.

Does a cleaning crew come around about the time the machine dies?

Is the machine on a UPS?

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Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Christian Walther


On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The
harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to
Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a
bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system
from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear
someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks!


I recently replaced a dying Hard Disk with a newer and bigger one. To
move the data to the new disk I used dump/restore, and stored the data
on my server.
1. dumped all slices from the machine to the server
2. replaced the disks
3. did a basic FreeBSD install from CD ROM to get a proper disk layout
and a boot manager. Because of this installation I got the same slices
as on the old disk, just with a new size matching the new disks
specification. So the slice names remained the same.
4. restored the previously dumped slices to the new disk

BTW: As long as you don't remove/destroy the data on the original disk
there's nothing desastrous that can be happen to you. If the method
you choose doesn't work somehow, you can still create another backup
of the original disk.

From all possible and existing methods you should choose the one you

feel most comfortable with, e.g. that you understand completely, and
where you know the needed tools most.
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Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The
harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to
Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a
bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system
from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear
someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks!



Dan's process seems fairly sound, from having
done this myself.  I use pax(1)* on the filesystems
rather than tar(1) on the archives, and I tend to
only backup /home, /etc, /var (especially /var/db/pkg),
and /root.  If you do not make some dreadful error
your old drive is the backup, at least until you can
confirm the state of the new drive.


*cd /  pax -r -w -p e -X ./ /mnt  \
pax -r -w -p e -X ./var /mnt  etc etc
for /usr /home and any other mountpoints
(if I recall correctly. Note that with pax the -X
flag is important in this case so it is not trying
to copy /mnt into /mnt/mnt and into /mnt/mnt/mnt
and so on)

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Why is dmidecode failing?

2007-04-18 Thread Bruce Burden


   Hi gang,

I am attempting to update the ports on my system. To that
   end:

/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aruv

   fails:

gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403/po'
Making all in policy
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403/policy'
gmake[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403/policy'
gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403/policy'
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403/policy'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.8.20070403'
===  Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403
===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids - 
found
===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found
===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on executable: dmidecode - not found
===Verifying install for dmidecode in /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode
===  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===  Extracting for dmidecode-2.8
= MD5 Checksum OK for dmidecode-2.8.tar.bz2.
= SHA256 Checksum OK for dmidecode-2.8.tar.bz2.
===  Patching for dmidecode-2.8
===  Applying FreeBSD patches for dmidecode-2.8
===  Configuring for dmidecode-2.8
===  Building for dmidecode-2.8
cc -O2 -pipe -march=opteron -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-q
ual  -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -c 
dmidecode.c -o
 dmidecode.o
cc -O2 -pipe -march=opteron -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-q
ual  -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -c 
dmiopt.c -o dm
iopt.o
cc -O2 -pipe -march=opteron -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual  -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes 
-Winline -Wundef  -c util.c -o util
..o
cc   dmidecode.o dmiopt.o util.o -o dmidecode
cc -O2 -pipe -march=opteron -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-q
ual  -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -c 
biosdecode.c -
o biosdecode.o
cc   biosdecode.o util.o -o biosdecode
cc -O2 -pipe -march=opteron -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-q
ual  -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -c 
ownership.c -o
 ownership.o
cc   ownership.o util.o -o ownership
cc -O2 -pipe -march=opteron -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-q
ual  -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -c 
vpddecode.c -o
 vpddecode.o
cc -O2 -pipe -march=opteron -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-q
ual  -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -c 
vpdopt.c -o vp
dopt.o
cc   vpddecode.o vpdopt.o util.o -o vpddecode
===  Installing for dmidecode-2.8
===   Generating temporary packing list
===  Checking if sysutils/dmidecode already installed
===   dmidecode-2.8 is already installed
  You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
  by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
  If you really wish to overwrite the old port of sysutils/dmidecode
  without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER
  in your environment or the make install command line.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/hal.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.3468.10 
env UPGRADE_
TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=gnome-vfs-2.16.3 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=2.16.3 make
** Fix the problem and try again.

Now, I am not sure why hal does not think dmidecode is not
   installed, when obviously it is. Suggestions? I did not see any
   thing in /usr/ports/UPDATING, and the tidbits on hald do not
   seem to apply. pkgdb -F does not think anything is wrong...

Thanks,
Bruce

p.s. This has been happening for about the last two weeks.
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mmap on freebsd vs linux

2007-04-18 Thread usleepless


Hi All,

i am looking into implementing a piece of the V4L interface. this
involves mmap'ing from userspace into kernelspace.

in mplayer, this is what is called:

tvi_v4l2.c:

priv-map[i].addr = mmap (0, priv-map[i].buf.length, PROT_READ |
 PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
priv-video_fd,priv-map[i].buf.m.offset);


the file descriptor parameter is the file descriptor of the opened
capture device. the offset parameter should be filled in by the opened
device.

does mmap work on freebsd as it works on linux? ie: can i mmap any
device? are there constraints on the device which should be met?

regards,

usleep
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Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Warren Block


On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote:


I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The
harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to
Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a
bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system
from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear
someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks!


The FAQ has the canonical way to do it:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK

As that says, the easiest way is to do a minimal install on the new disk 
and then use restore.


-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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mmap on freebsd vs linux

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Huff

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  does mmap work on freebsd as it works on linux? ie: can i mmap
  any device? are there constraints on the device which should be
  met?

U ... man 2 mmap?


Robert Huff
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program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Hunter


Hi All,

This may not be the correct list to ask this question, so please  
point me in the right direction in that case.


We are in the process of setting up a bastion host.  One of the  
things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip layer,  
but by what program is listening on a particular port.  Is this a  
possibility?


A quick 5 minute Google didn't provide me with anything noticeable,  
but that my just be my noobness in the *BSD world.  So play nice!  ;-)


Thanks for any suggestions!

Kevin
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Re: Why is dmidecode failing?

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Nelson

In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said:
 
Hi gang,
 
 I am attempting to update the ports on my system. To that
end:
 
 /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aruv
 
fails:
 
 ===  Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403
 ===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids - 
 found
 ===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found
 ===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on executable: dmidecode - not found

This says that dmidecode isn't in your path.  Make sure that
/usr/local/sbin is in your path, since that's where dmidecode is
installed.

 ===  Checking if sysutils/dmidecode already installed
 ===   dmidecode-2.8 is already installed

This says that the dmidecode port is installed.


If /usr/local/sbin/dmidecode doens't exist, try deinstalling and
reinstalling the dmidecode port, in case something deleted the
dmidecode binary on you.

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Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote:
Hello,

I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives.  I'd like
to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.

Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to
stress-test disk drives?  I've searched ports and done some googling
but nothing stands out.

Use the manufacture's utilities to test the drives.  Each manufacturer has
bootable test and stress utilities.



I have used this:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

AFIK, there isn't much in FreeBSD for this sort
of low level diagnostics, ubcd boots faster, and
given a decent junk machine, you can test 3 hard
drives per reboot*.  If you can hunt down a pci ata
card, you can probably manage quite a few more.

Having an 80-wire cable is nice for some of the
diagnostics (if your junk machine isn't very old
it will be pretty unlikely to have a 40 wire cable,
so ignore this anyway).

If you really want to use freebsd, the other suggestions
to use ports/sysutils/smartmontools and dd (personally
I use ports/sysutils/sdd for its -inull flag) are probably
what I would follow.


* Unless you can boot from a scsi cdrom.

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Re: ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar


manual page says that ftpd do support SITE CHMOD.
what's wrong?


From the manual:

   Note: SITE requests are disabled in case of anonymous logins.




thanks. no way to change it?
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Re: ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger


On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

manual page says that ftpd do support SITE CHMOD.
what's wrong?


From the manual:

   Note: SITE requests are disabled in case of anonymous logins.


thanks. no way to change it?


Permitting anonymous remote users to change permissions seems to be a  
remarkably bad idea.  :-)
If you really want to change permissions remotely, why not use SSH as  
an authenticated user?


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Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. . .

Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it
comes to web media.


I hope they kill each other and take the whole
retch-media enhanced web experience with
them flaming into the pit of hell from which
they came.

But that's just my opinion.

References:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=boiling_blood

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Re: Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-18 Thread J65nko


On 4/17/07, Ido Admon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello list,
I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network
interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card
that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I
need to update a DynDNS hostname everytime it does (everytime the IP
changes).
I couldn't find a way to execute shell commands using the rc system or
dhclient, what did I miss?


You can use a '/etc/start_if.nic' file. If your NIC is fxp0 then a
'/etc/start_if.fxp0' file will be run or sourced by the 'rc' system.

In http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34607 this type of
file is used to set a MTU of 1492
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completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Ray

Hello all,
I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried 
#make deinstall
but a subsequent
#make install 
doesn't give me the options screen.
what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to manually 
pass the parameters to make.  A look at the Makefile and the other files 
in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints.
Thanks,
Ray

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Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers

2007-04-18 Thread Sean Murphy

I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers and 
switches config files and have come across RANCID.  Is this what I 
should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better?


Thanks
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RE: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost

Hello:

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:16 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: completly remove (or modify) a port

 Hello all,
 I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
 I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried
 #make deinstall
 but a subsequent
 #make install
 doesn't give me the options screen.
 what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to
 manually
 pass the parameters to make.  A look at the Makefile and the other
 files
 in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints.
 Thanks,
 Ray

'make config' should do the trick.

Regards,

Mike
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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Nelson

In the last episode (Apr 18), Ray said:
 Hello all,
 I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
 I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried 
 #make deinstall
 but a subsequent
 #make install 
 doesn't give me the options screen.
 what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to 
 manually 
 pass the parameters to make.  A look at the Makefile and the other files 
 in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints.

If you run make config, it'll bring up the options page again.  You
could also delete the cahed options file at
/var/db/ports/postfix/options and run make.

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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Pietro Cerutti


On 4/18/07, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello all,
I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried
#make deinstall
but a subsequent
#make install
doesn't give me the options screen.


make rmconfig


Thanks,
Ray



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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert

Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
 I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried 
 #make deinstall
 but a subsequent
 #make install 
 doesn't give me the options screen.

make config

 what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to 
 manually 
 pass the parameters to make.  A look at the Makefile and the other files 
 in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints.

The hints are in man ports or alternatively in the Handbook section
on installing ports.
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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Noel Jones


On 4/18/07, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello all,
I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried
#make deinstall
but a subsequent
#make install
doesn't give me the options screen.


try make config
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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Josh Carroll


what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to manually
pass the parameters to make.  A look at the Makefile and the other files
in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints.


You can either:

make rmconfig

or just:

make config

Then re-build/install it.

Josh
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RE: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers

2007-04-18 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost

Hello:

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:19 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List
 Subject: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and
routers

 I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers
and
 switches config files and have come across RANCID.  Is this what I
 should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better?

I guess it depends on what information is important to you.  That is, if
you just need a most recent copy of the configuration files then you
could use tftp, ftp or scp to move the file off the router to the
server.  If you want to have a set of diffs indicating what changes were
made when, plus have the ability to select from multiple revisions
should you have to revert, then Rancid is definitely the way to go.

Regards,

Mike
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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Gerard

On Wednesday April 18, 2007 at 02:16:28 (PM) Ray wrote:


 Hello all,
 I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
 I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried 
 #make deinstall
 but a subsequent
 #make install 
 doesn't give me the options screen.
 what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to 
 manually 
 pass the parameters to make.  A look at the Makefile and the other files 
 in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints.
 Thanks,
 Ray

cd to the postfix port you want to install  

make rmconfig
make config

If you want to check all of the dependencies:

make config-recursive

make deinstall
make clean
make install  make clean

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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread John Webster

Look in /var/db/ports.  Removing the postfix directory or
the options file in that directory should do the trick.

jw


--On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:16:28 -0600 Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello all,
 I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
 I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried 
# make deinstall
 but a subsequent
# make install 
 doesn't give me the options screen.
 what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to 
 manually 
 pass the parameters to make.  A look at the Makefile and the other files 
 in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints.
 Thanks,
 Ray
 
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Re: program/binary ip filtering

In response to Kevin Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 This may not be the correct list to ask this question, so please  
 point me in the right direction in that case.
 
 We are in the process of setting up a bastion host.  One of the  
 things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip layer,  
 but by what program is listening on a particular port.  Is this a  
 possibility?
 
 A quick 5 minute Google didn't provide me with anything noticeable,  
 but that my just be my noobness in the *BSD world.  So play nice!  ;-)

Are you saying that you want to have the packet filter check to see what
application is listening on a particular port, then allow/deny access
based on the name of the application?

Do you not have control over what is run on this system?

However, you might be able to accomplish this by using a pf table, then
having a secondary script update the table based on the output of
sockstat or some other similar hack.

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Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread N.J. Mann

On Wednesday, 18 April, 2007 at 12:16:28 -0600, Ray wrote:
 Hello all,
 I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection.
 I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried 
 #make deinstall
 but a subsequent
 #make install 
 doesn't give me the options screen.

make rmconfig

See man ports(7)


Cheers,
   Nick.
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Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:01:06AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
 On 17 Apr 2007 at 17:18, Kris Kennaway boldly uttered: 
 
  On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:45:44PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
   Re: Kris's assertion, I guess I could have lived with that if it 
   weren't for the fact that the installer doesn't give you any clue of 
   this.
   
   Thought I was going to avoid the time to download and burn a couple 
   of CD's, and now it's sucked up way more of my time than making those 
   CD's ever would have...
   
   Thanks for the answers/input.
  
  No special casing happens for the snapshot builds, i.e. sysinstall is
  not specially modified to disable the FTP install option.
  
  It should be mentioned in the documentation; but for all I know it
  already is :)
  
  Kris
 
 
 Well I looked at all the docs I could find and nothing stood out. 
 
 (BTW, there are still some other user interface errors in sysinstall, 
 ie things that lead to unexpected results, but I can't remember 
 specifics now.)

Talk to re@

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Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Hunter


At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote:
We are in the process of setting up a bastion host.  One of the  
things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip  
layer, but by what program is listening on a particular port.  Is  
this a possibility?


Are you saying that you want to have the packet filter check to see  
what application is listening on a particular port, then allow/deny  
access based on the name of the application?


Exactly.


Do you not have control over what is run on this system?


So perhaps our specific example might be prudent:

kevin $: ssh bastion
bastion $: ssh internalserver
hang

Relevant part of log:

Apr 18 09:35:23 kappia ipmon[405]: 09:35:22.695348 fxp0 \
@0:4 b internalserver,22 - bastion,53136 PR tcp \
len 20 52 -AS IN

It's blocking because we are dropping all packets not destined for  
port 22.  Since ssh /from/ the bastion picks a random high port, it's  
dropping all the return packets to that random high port.


How have others handled this type of scenario, where a hardening of a  
bastion host has been desired/necessary?


However, you might be able to accomplish this by using a pf table,  
then having a secondary script update the table based on the output  
of sockstat or some other similar hack.


We did not know about this utility.  We'll check out your idea.   
Thank you for the pointer.  We'll let the list know how it  
goes.  :-)  (Of course, if there's a standard, cut and dry solution,  
that'd be ideal!)


Thanks Bill,

Kevin
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Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:46:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives.  I'd
 like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free
 of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.
 
 Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to
 stress-test disk drives?  I've searched ports and done some googling
 but nothing stands out.
 
 Use the manufacture's utilities to test the drives.  Each
 manufacturer has bootable test and stress utilities.
 
 
 I have used this:
 http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
 
That is packed full with nice stuff.  Thanks

 AFIK, there isn't much in FreeBSD for this sort of low level
 diagnostics, ubcd boots faster, and given a decent junk machine, you
 can test 3 hard drives per reboot*.  If you can hunt down a pci ata
 card, you can probably manage quite a few more.
 
 Having an 80-wire cable is nice for some of the diagnostics (if your
 junk machine isn't very old it will be pretty unlikely to have a 40
 wire cable, so ignore this anyway).
 
 If you really want to use freebsd, the other suggestions to use
 ports/sysutils/smartmontools and dd (personally I use
 ports/sysutils/sdd for its -inull flag) are probably what I would
 follow.
 
I don't have to run FreeBSD as the host, I just thought there would be
some good tools to accomplish the task.  The idea of a bootable CD-ROM
is nice cause that gives me 4 empty ATA sockets for testing in my test
machine.


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Re: mt command questions

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:10:30AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

 Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  I am learning about backing up to tape and have made quite a bit of
  progress with the mt command.  I understand what the fsf option does.
  There are other options however and would like to understand them as
  well.  I am looking at the man page and have tried googleing them with
  not a lot of luck.  the fsr and fss options I understand they would
  fast forward but what is count records and count setmarks
  considered and how would I use them?
 
 In this context, count is a number. 
 I haven't used mt(1) in quite a while, but I don't think I ever used
 more than one of {files, records, setmarks} on the same tape,
 andoffhand I can't think of a reason for doing so.  If you only put
 one backup on a given tape, you wouldn't use any of them.

We often put a number of backups on one tape.
It is convenient to make a fill dump on one day and then
incremental dumps for other days.   In that case, the full
dump take a whole tape, but all the incrementals together
take one tape.
Also, when I want to make a system to install on several 
machines via tape, each file system becomes one backup.

The count does refer to the number of operations to do.
So, for example, if you have 5 files one one tape and you
want to go to that last file to restore, then you would execute:
   mt -f /dev/nrsa0 fsf 4
to skip past the first four files to get to the last one.

jerry

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Re: program/binary ip filtering

In response to Kevin Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote:
  We are in the process of setting up a bastion host.  One of the  
  things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip  
  layer, but by what program is listening on a particular port.  Is  
  this a possibility?
 
  Are you saying that you want to have the packet filter check to see  
  what application is listening on a particular port, then allow/deny  
  access based on the name of the application?
 
 Exactly.
 
  Do you not have control over what is run on this system?
 
 So perhaps our specific example might be prudent:
 
 kevin $: ssh bastion
 bastion $: ssh internalserver
 hang
 
 Relevant part of log:
 
 Apr 18 09:35:23 kappia ipmon[405]: 09:35:22.695348 fxp0 \
   @0:4 b internalserver,22 - bastion,53136 PR tcp \
   len 20 52 -AS IN
 
 It's blocking because we are dropping all packets not destined for  
 port 22.  Since ssh /from/ the bastion picks a random high port, it's  
 dropping all the return packets to that random high port.

Your packet filter rules are wrong.  Without knowing what product you're
using, I can't say the exact way to fix it, but the generally rule is
that you either need to write stateful rules (so that the initial connection
creates a state that is then used to allow traffic in both directions) or
you need to create two rules -- one to allow traffic out, the other to
allow traffic in.  Stateful filtering is generally considered to be more
secure, but you then have concerns about properly maintaining state tables,
which can be a problem on very busy servers.

However, the problem you're describing now seems to be a completely different
problem from the one described in the previous email.  It's possible that
I've misunderstood both of them.

 How have others handled this type of scenario, where a hardening of a  
 bastion host has been desired/necessary?

Again (unless I'm misunderstanding) through properly written filter rules.
The current trend seems to be toward using stateful filtering.

  However, you might be able to accomplish this by using a pf table,  
  then having a secondary script update the table based on the output  
  of sockstat or some other similar hack.
 
 We did not know about this utility.  We'll check out your idea.   
 Thank you for the pointer.  We'll let the list know how it  
 goes.  :-)  (Of course, if there's a standard, cut and dry solution,  
 that'd be ideal!)

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Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
 In response to Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  Hello,
  
  I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives.  I'd
  like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free
  of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.
  
 
 Check with the vendors, though.  Many drive manufacturers have utilities
 you can download specifically to check their drives.
 
Thanks, this seems like the way to go.  I have a follow-up question if
that's OK...

I just used the Drive Fitness Test for IBM ATA drives on a particular
disk and it finished without detecting errors.  However, I see messages
like this:

Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying 
request) LBA=1904935
Apr 16 22:52:02 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying 
request) LBA=8029031
Apr 16 23:35:30 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying 
request) LBA=2269287
Apr 16 23:37:22 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying 
request) LBA=3612007
Apr 16 23:48:17 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying 
request) LBA=1932123
Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR 
error=4ABORTED LBA=12734209
Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR 
error=4ABORTED LBA=12734214

in /var/log/messages.

Do the kernel messages indicate a potential problem with this drive?
Whom should I believe, FreeBSD or the disk diagnostics tool?


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Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger


On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote:

At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote:
We are in the process of setting up a bastion host.  One of the  
things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip  
layer, but by what program is listening on a particular port.  Is  
this a possibility?


Are you saying that you want to have the packet filter check to  
see what application is listening on a particular port, then allow/ 
deny access based on the name of the application?


Exactly.


You should consider just how difficult it is to rename a malicious  
program to, say, ssh in order to get around such checking.   
(Answer: trivial.)  If you really want to control traffic in this  
fashion, you should look towards what the industry calls deep packet  
inspection or mandatory usage of proxies for all permitted  
protocols, instead.



Do you not have control over what is run on this system?


So perhaps our specific example might be prudent:

kevin $: ssh bastion
bastion $: ssh internalserver
hang

Relevant part of log:

Apr 18 09:35:23 kappia ipmon[405]: 09:35:22.695348 fxp0 \
@0:4 b internalserver,22 - bastion,53136 PR tcp \
len 20 52 -AS IN

It's blocking because we are dropping all packets not destined for  
port 22.  Since ssh /from/ the bastion picks a random high port,  
it's dropping all the return packets to that random high port.


How have others handled this type of scenario, where a hardening of  
a bastion host has been desired/necessary?


The main approaches are to use a stateful firewall ruleset, to  
explicitly permit return traffic via additional rules, or to simply  
permit established connections through.  These options are arranged  
in rough order of how secure they are.  I suspect that you are  
encountering a steep learning curve, and that some additional reading  
will help you make much better decisions about how to configure a  
firewall.


Consider getting either or both of:

Building Internet Firewalls, ISBN-10: 1565928717
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire2/

Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker,  
ISBN-10: 020163466X

http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,020163466X,00.html

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Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger


On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote:
I just used the Drive Fitness Test for IBM ATA drives on a  
particular
disk and it finished without detecting errors.  However, I see  
messages

like this:

Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC  
error (retrying request) LBA=1904935
Apr 16 22:52:02 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC  
error (retrying request) LBA=8029031
Apr 16 23:35:30 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC  
error (retrying request) LBA=2269287
Apr 16 23:37:22 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC  
error (retrying request) LBA=3612007
Apr 16 23:48:17 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC  
error (retrying request) LBA=1932123
Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART  
status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=12734209
Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART  
status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=12734214


in /var/log/messages.

Do the kernel messages indicate a potential problem with this drive?


They seem to suggest more of a cabling problem or communications  
problem between the drive and motherboard than a problem within the  
drive itself.  It could also indicate a problem with the ATA driver  
against your particular motherboard/chipset-- but without a dmesg or  
some hardware details, we can't do better than guess.



Whom should I believe, FreeBSD or the disk diagnostics tool?


Both.

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AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Michael S

Good day all.

I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or
tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with
the reliable x86 or try the  AMD64 port.

Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on
a 64-bit machine?

Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers,
applications that are known not to work under the
AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type
system.

Thanks in advance,
Michael
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Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin Hunter


At 3:46p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:

On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote:

At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote:
Are you saying that you want to have the packet filter check to  
see what application is listening on a particular port, then  
allow/deny access based on the name of the application?


Exactly.


You should consider just how difficult it is to rename a malicious  
program to, say, ssh in order to get around such checking.   
(Answer: trivial.)  If you really want to control traffic in this  
fashion, you should look towards what the industry calls deep  
packet inspection or mandatory usage of proxies for all permitted  
protocols, instead.


Hrm.  I was assuming that if I got into the nitty gritty, I could do  
more than just check the name of the binary, but perhaps not?  Thanks  
for the warning.



Do you not have control over what is run on this system?


So perhaps our specific example might be prudent:

[snip]
It's blocking because we are dropping all packets not destined for  
port 22.  Since ssh /from/ the bastion picks a random high port,  
it's dropping all the return packets to that random high port.


How have others handled this type of scenario, where a hardening  
of a bastion host has been desired/necessary?


The main approaches are to use a stateful firewall ruleset, to  
explicitly permit return traffic via additional rules, or to simply  
permit established connections through.  These options are arranged  
in rough order of how secure they are.


I have been given to understand that this approach does not lend  
itself to fine-tuning down the road, if such -- for /some/ reason --  
were needed. . . .?



I suspect that you are encountering a steep learning curve,


You are /probably/ (read: definitely) correct.  I am. :-)

and that some additional reading will help you make much better  
decisions about how to configure a firewall.


Consider getting either or both of:

Building Internet Firewalls, ISBN-10: 1565928717
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire2/

Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker,  
ISBN-10: 020163466X
http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,020163466X, 
00.html


Will look into those.  Thank you again.

Kevin
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Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:51:18PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
 On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote:
 I just used the Drive Fitness Test for IBM ATA drives on a
 particular disk and it finished without detecting errors.  However, I
 see messages like this:
 
 Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC   error 
 (retrying request) LBA=1904935
 Apr 16 22:52:02 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC   error 
 (retrying request) LBA=8029031
 Apr 16 23:35:30 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC   error 
 (retrying request) LBA=2269287
 Apr 16 23:37:22 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC   error 
 (retrying request) LBA=3612007
 Apr 16 23:48:17 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC   error 
 (retrying request) LBA=1932123
 Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART   
 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=12734209
 Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART   
 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=12734214
 
 Do the kernel messages indicate a potential problem with this drive?
 
 They seem to suggest more of a cabling problem or communications
 problem between the drive and motherboard than a problem within the
 drive itself.  It could also indicate a problem with the ATA driver
 against your particular motherboard/chipset-- but without a dmesg or
 some hardware details, we can't do better than guess.
 
 Whom should I believe, FreeBSD or the disk diagnostics tool?
 
 Both
 
Thanks for the response, I'm attaching a recent dmesg for this machine.
The drive in question is:

ad3: 8063MB IBM DHEA-38451 HP8OA20C at ata1-slave UDMA33

running on:
FreeBSD seth..xxx 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Thu Feb 22 10:19:42 CST 
2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC-UNP-4BSD  i386


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cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
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on pci0
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usb0: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci0
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uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xdc102000-0xdc102fff irq 11 at device 1.3 
on pci0
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pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
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irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0
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Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-18 Thread David Robillard


I am using dovecot imap and I am having a problem directing mail to
go to users in Maildir format when they do not have a login shell.

It seems that the .procmailrc file is ignored and the mail is put
in mbox format into /var/mail

For mail-only users with-out a shell, what is the best way to direct
mail to them in Maildir format within ~/Maildir - maybe directly from
.forward?


Hello David,

We run dovecot + sendmail + procmail and also store mails in Maildirs.
All of our 3500+ users don't have any access to the mailserver and it
works like a charm.

The trick is to keep things as simple as possible. No home directory
for users nor any valid shell plus a global procmailrc file which is
used for all of the users.

For example, start by instructing sendmail to use procmail in the
/etc/mail/`hostname`.mc

FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl

Then make sure dovecot knows where the mail is stored:

default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%u

Our example mail user has this entry in master.passwd(5) :

example.user:encrypted password string:13431:231::0:0:Example
User:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin

And the Global procmail configuration is very simple:

cat /usr/local/etc/procmailrc

# procmailrc
#
# $Id: procmailrc,v 1.1 2006/10/20 13:08:25 drobilla Exp $
#
# System wide procmail(1) configuration file.
# This configuration causes procmail(1) to deliver mail
# to maildir format as the recipient's UID.

DROPPRIVS = yes
:0
/var/mail/$LOGNAME/

# EOF

bad referenceA single file to rule them all/bad reference

Sorry, couldn't resist :)

Let me know if you need any help with this setup.

Cheers,

David
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Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

Hello,

 Hi,
 
 I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The
 harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to
 Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a
 bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system
 from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here:
 http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear
 someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks!

Are you able to install that new disk while the old one is still
in the machine and functional?   If so, do the following:

Let's assume the old disk is ad0 and the new one is ad1 and MS
occupies the first slice (called primary partition) of each disk.
So, FreeBSD then is currently in /dev/ad0s2 and you want to put 
it in /dev/ad1s2.   

First do the MS install on the new disk (if you intend to also dup it) 
and then use an appropriate utility to create room for the second 
slice (s2) on the drive.   You may actually be able to first let 
FreeBSD fdisk break up the drive in to the required slices before 
installing MS - I haven't tried that.  I don't know if MS will 
respect the slicing done by FreeBSD.  It definitely will not respect
the MBR that FreeBSD writes, so at the least, you need to do the
install work on MS first and FreeBSD second, regardless of how
the slicing is done.

Just a note here.   MS uses the term 'Primary Partition' for the
same thing that FreeBSD calls a 'slice'.   There can be up to 4 of
these major divisions.MS and Linux allow you to replace one of
the primary partitions with an 'extended partition', generally in 
slice 4 in which you can create subdivisions, also called partitions, 
but that are not 'primary'.   FreeBSD allows the 4 primary divisions
called slices.   In FreeBSD you can subdivide any or each of the
slices in to 'partitions' which are designated by letters a..h (except
that 'c' is reserved, 'a' must be root if it is a boot device and 'b'
is traditionally used for swap).It is easy to get the terms slice
and partition scrambled and they have even been switched around in
some of the man pages, though someone made a pass at cleaning it up
a little while ago.

Having said all that, now back to the story.

Lets assume you now have your new with MS on slice (primary partition) 1
and have created an unknown type slice (primary partition) on slice 2.
You might have managed that with fdisk or with Partition Magic or
whatever.

Use fdisk to mark that slice 2  (ad1s2) as FreeBSD type and bootable
and to write out the FreeBSD MBR to the drive.

Then use bsdlabel to edit the partition table for slice 2 and
create the partitions you need and write out the boot sector
for that slice.

 bsdlabel -w -B da0s1
 bsdlabel -e da0s1

The first will write the boot sector and a stock partition table.
The second will bring up an edit session that you can use to edit
the partition table and create the partitions you want.

Let's assume you want the following, a typical setup for a machine
with all source and ports tree loaded and running a very small database.
and this matches, except in size, your current structure on your old disk.

In real life, use partitions that reproduce your actual old disk structure.

  a:  root   384 MB   
  b:  swap   1 GB
  c:  reserved   lists size of entire slice
  d:  /tmp   512 MB 
  e:  /usr   4 GB 
  f:  /var   4 GB
  g:  /home  All remaining space in the slice.

ignore all the stuff above the comment line with head labels for
  #size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg] 
Edit the sizes in the columns as follows:

   a:   78643204.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
   b:  2572288   786432  swap
   c: 838860800unused0 0  # raw part, don't edit
   d:  1048576*4.2BSD 2048 16384 8
   e:  8388608*4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
   f:  8388608*4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
   g:**4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552

You might sometime want to tinker with the numbers under fsize, bsize, etc
but mostly they can be left alone.   The large remainder partition my
benefit, but probably the others are just right.

I assumed a size for 'c:' at exactly 40 GB.  It won't be.  Just leave
it at whatever the system thinks it is.

Now write and exit the editor and your partitions are created.
Run newfs on each partition except swap.

  newfs /dev/ad1s2a

Probably all of the defaults are what you want, except for possibly
that large remainder slice if you happen to either use very large
files or need extra inodes.   You will only know that from experience
with your own situation so just go ahead and take the defaults and
if either you run out of space with a huge number of inodes left
unused or run out of inodes with disk space left unused, then you
will later want to dump everything and re-newfs the partition and
then restore it.

All of this slice and partition and

Attempts to run 'fsck' fail can't stat device

2007-04-18 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach



My server lost power earlier today and now it doesnt boot.

Any clues what I can do to recover from the following errors:


s nip 

Server 'hostname' fails to mount /dev/da0s1g (/usr).

Attempts to run 'fsck' fail (can't stat device /dev/da0s1g)


 snip ---


cheers,

Noah

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Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I hope they kill each other and take the whole
 retch-media enhanced web experience with
 them flaming into the pit of hell from which
 they came.

 But that's just my opinion.

And this is the problem!
Were it not your opinion, but something likely to happen, it would be so 
good...


 bye
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Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:46:50PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote:

 On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The
 harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to
 Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a
 bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system
 from the old to the new hard disk. I did find something here:
 http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php. Still, I'd like to hear
 someone's experience regarding the same. Thanks!
 
 I recently replaced a dying Hard Disk with a newer and bigger one. To
 move the data to the new disk I used dump/restore, and stored the data
 on my server.
 1. dumped all slices from the machine to the server
 2. replaced the disks
 3. did a basic FreeBSD install from CD ROM to get a proper disk layout
 and a boot manager. Because of this installation I got the same slices
 as on the old disk, just with a new size matching the new disks
 specification. So the slice names remained the same.
 4. restored the previously dumped slices to the new disk

Just a comment here.You seem to be switching around the terms
a little.   You would dump a partition, not a slice.   In FreeBSD,
slices are the primary divisions, of which there can be up to 4 and
the subdivisions of each slice, upon which filesystems are built
are called partitions.   It is popular to get these turned around.
Even the man pages have goofed up in a couple of places.

It is handy to refer to the division that gets dumped and restored
as a 'filesystem' since by that time it has already been not only 
divided but new-fs into a read/write-able filesystem.   By doing 
that, it reduces some of the opportunity for confusion in terms.

Otherwise, what you explain here is reasonable.

jerry

 
 BTW: As long as you don't remove/destroy the data on the original disk
 there's nothing desastrous that can be happen to you. If the method
 you choose doesn't work somehow, you can still create another backup
 of the original disk.
 From all possible and existing methods you should choose the one you
 feel most comfortable with, e.g. that you understand completely, and
 where you know the needed tools most.
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Re: mmap on freebsd vs linux

2007-04-18 Thread Danny Pansters

I'm not really an expert on this but here goes...

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 18:05:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi All,

 i am looking into implementing a piece of the V4L interface. this
 involves mmap'ing from userspace into kernelspace.

 in mplayer, this is what is called:

 tvi_v4l2.c:
 
 priv-map[i].addr = mmap (0, priv-map[i].buf.length, PROT_READ |
   PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
 priv-video_fd,priv-map[i].buf.m.offset);
 

 the file descriptor parameter is the file descriptor of the opened
 capture device. the offset parameter should be filled in by the opened
 device.

A device won't fill in anything. A driver must.

 does mmap work on freebsd as it works on linux? ie: can i mmap any
 device? are there constraints on the device which should be met?

You can mmap anything, but only if you get a (frame-) buffer of known size 
will it be useful to actually do something with it. The mplayer code probably 
takes the offset from what it knows about capture size (which for PAL/NTSC is 
known if also the YUV output type is known). You also need some signalling to 
know when to read the (new) buffer data again.

I'd also advise to cast the address to caddr_t and the offset to off_t types. 
Will probably help compiling on 64 bits archs. And using both  PROT_READ and 
PROT_WRITE seems non-sensical. You only want to read the buffer not 
(directly) write to it, unless perhaps if it contains more than just the 
framedata. That would seem bad design to me though, if you have to write to 
the same buffer that also contains data that you absolutely dont want to 
overwrite.

I'm not familiar with v4l but simple and working mmap examples for FreeBSD 
with bktr and for saa are here: 
http://freebsd.ricin.com/kbtv/kbtv-1.2.4/bt848/bt848.c and 
http://freebsd.ricin.com/kbtv/kbtv-1.2.4/saa/saa.c 

Scroll down to Framebuffer. The buffer size is determined by the frame pixel 
size and by which YUV type is being used. The latter determines how much data 
is used on average per pixel, so you can calculate the datasize.

See how bktr has offset 0 while saa has offset SAA_MMAP_T0_OFFSET. Both are 
what they are because of how their drivers are organized.

See mmap(2) for the nitty-gritty on mmap. In general: if it segfaults or 
spontaneously reboots you likely made a mistake with the buffer size or 
offset :)

HTH,

Dan
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Re: AMD64

In response to Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or
 tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with
 the reliable x86 or try the  AMD64 port.
 
 Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on
 a 64-bit machine?

Performance is equivalent, except in a few corner cases.  Keep in mind that
there are some cases where amd64 is actually slower, so it's really a wash,
unless you know you're specific application will benefit from 64 bit.

 Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers,
 applications that are known not to work under the
 AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type
 system.

Personally, I would stick with i386, unless you like to experiment.  Last
time I tried to run amd64 on a desktop, I had lots of trouble with misc
problems here and there.  Same machine running i386 is rock stable with
no problems.  My gut tells me that a lot of desktop apps and libraries
aren't really mature from a 64-bit standpoint yet.

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Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Danny Pansters

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 21:30:14 Michael S wrote:
 Good day all.

 I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or
 tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with
 the reliable x86 or try the  AMD64 port.

I'd try it but ...

 Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on
 a 64-bit machine?

... for some things it may ...

 Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers,
 applications that are known not to work under the
 AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type
 system.

... there are quite a few 3rd party things that don't work or that need kludgy 
32bits emulation. Flash comes to mind, also (MS/Real/..) media codecs. All 
the stuff we love to hate.

Most importantly though, you can't use nvidia driver (32bit). I have a spare 
amd64 box with a nvidia based board (ASUS SLI something with the graphics 
card in a PCI Express slot, gforce4 IIRC) and I found I could only use plain 
(xorg) nv driver, and had to disable any hardware acceleration. Else it would 
just reboot randomly. I only use this machine to test kbtv on amd64. Moving 
the TV window around or resizing it is painfully slow (the video itself is OK 
but it eats a lot more CPU with non accelerated x rendering, up to 10%). 
Needless to say the machine is turned off most of the time...

So I think what matters is whether these things matter to you :) I don't think 
the base system is any faster or slower. But it depends on what you're going 
to use it for.

HTH,

Dan
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Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana

Roland Smith wrote:
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete
if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted
read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage.

That might be worth filing a PR for, especially the panics.

Exactly what is damaged? Garbage in files? Wrong inode counts? I've had
unclean filesystems because of panics, but nothing fsck_ffs couldn't
fix.

You might want to check the hardware too. Use smartmontools in case of
(S)ATA drives.

Smart says that the drives are fine, as does the manufacturer's disk
fitness tools. All the files that are readable contain correct data, but
the files that are corrupt are totally not readable, and cannot even be
removed manually:

--8--
rsync: readlink
/raid/Backup/Pizzabox/2007-02-23/cyberleo/secondlife/linux/SecondLife_i686_1_13_2_15/skins/xui/es
failed: Bad file descriptor (9)
rsync: readlink
/raid/Backup/Pizzabox/2007-02-23/cyberleo/secondlife/linux/SecondLife_i686_1_13_2_15/skins/xui/fr
failed: Bad file descriptor (9)
--8--

fsck_ufs dies after about 30 minutes of grinding with the following:

--8--
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
DIRECTORY CORRUPTED I=93409222 OWNER=1002 MODE=40755
SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007
DIR=?

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

SALVAGE? no

MISSING '.' I=93409222 OWNER=1002 MODE=40755
SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007
DIR=?

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
CANNOT FIX, FIRST ENTRY IN DIRECTORY CONTAINS

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
fsck_ufs: inoinfo: inumber -1170056596 out of range
--8--

(full output is at
http://home.cyberleo.net/cyberleo/workspace/Zip/Bugs/fbsd-20070320-corr/saba-fsck-raid.txt
)

It's possible this might be a result of the odd interaction between
geom_raid5 and UFS, as discovered in January (
http://www.nabble.com/geom_raid5-livelock--p8304142.html ), but I can't
be sure.

I've already chalked this up to just an unfortunate occurrence, as the
circumstances that caused the corruption in the first place are likely
either long gone or so obscure as to be nearly impossible for me to root
out.

Looking at /usr/src/sbin/dump/traverse.c, dump traverses the used
inodes list and all directories. So if any of these is corrupt, your
dump will be too. And if the contents of the inodes is corrupted, so
will the dump.

Thanks for this insight. I'll avoid dump/restore and just use manual
copying for now.

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Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:41:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
 In response to Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  
  I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or
  tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with
  the reliable x86 or try the  AMD64 port.
  
  Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on
  a 64-bit machine?
 
 Performance is equivalent, except in a few corner cases.  Keep in mind that
 there are some cases where amd64 is actually slower, so it's really a wash,
 unless you know you're specific application will benefit from 64 bit.
 
  Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers,
  applications that are known not to work under the
  AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type
  system.
 
 Personally, I would stick with i386, unless you like to experiment.  Last
 time I tried to run amd64 on a desktop, I had lots of trouble with misc
 problems here and there.  Same machine running i386 is rock stable with
 no problems.  My gut tells me that a lot of desktop apps and libraries
 aren't really mature from a 64-bit standpoint yet.

I've been running amd64 on my desktop since 5.3 without any real 
problems. But I only picked hardware that had drivers available.

Some things to keep in mind:
1) no binary nvidia graphics driver 
2) no flash plugin
3) java is cumbersome.
4) no win32 codecs for mplayer

ad 1) I've got a Radeon 9250 that's supported by the native Xorg  DRI
driver, so no problem. I don't like binary-only drivers anyway.

ad 2) So no annoying flash ads either. :-) I can live with that.

ad 3) I don't use it anyway.

ad 4) Works fine without them, AFAICT.

Stuff like emacs, firefox, gimp, sane, imagemagick, audacious and
mplayer all work fine. I haven't tried openoffice, bacause it's huge
with lots of dependencies and I prefer LaTeX anyway.

Roland
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Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:

That might be worth filing a PR for, especially the panics.

Exactly what is damaged? Garbage in files? Wrong inode counts? I've had
unclean filesystems because of panics, but nothing fsck_ffs couldn't
fix.

You might want to check the hardware too. Use smartmontools in case of
(S)ATA drives.

Given that, I would try to make a dump(8) of it. If dump dies on
a particular file, try to exclude that file from the dump either by
rm-ing it or setting a nodump flag and try again. You may not
actually be able to do the rm or nodump flag though if you cannot
mount it with write permission. You might be able to force it
mounted without doing the fsck in single user.

Note that tar allows you to specify exclusions. I usually don't
suggest using tar for mass moves because it has weaknesses with
hard links and might also not transfer flags and permissions
correctly. But, if tar is what it takes, then use it.

Good luck,

jerry

fsck_ufs dies after about 30 minutes of grinding with the following:

--8--
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
DIRECTORY CORRUPTED I=93409222 OWNER=1002 MODE=40755
SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007
DIR=?

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

SALVAGE? no

MISSING '.' I=93409222 OWNER=1002 MODE=40755
SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007
DIR=?

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
CANNOT FIX, FIRST ENTRY IN DIRECTORY CONTAINS

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
fsck_ufs: inoinfo: inumber -1170056596 out of range
--8--

(full output is at
http://home.cyberleo.net/cyberleo/workspace/Zip/Bugs/fbsd-20070320-corr/saba-fsck-raid.txt
)

It's possible this might be a result of the odd interaction between
geom_raid5 and UFS, as discovered in January (
http://www.nabble.com/geom_raid5-livelock--p8304142.html ), but I can't
be sure.

Thanks for this insight. I'll avoid dump/restore and just use manual
copying for now.

--
Fuzzy love,
-CyberLeo
Technical Administrator
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http://www.CyberLeo.Net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help

2007-04-18 Thread Vittorio De Martino

Il Sunday 15 April 2007 22:11:12 Thierry Thomas ha scritto:
 Le Lun  9 avr 07 à 16:39:49 +0200, Vittorio De Martino
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  écrivait :
  P.S. By the way, launching FreeMat as root the Help on line works
  whilst inv still doesn't work. Ciao Vittorio

 Hello,

 I have just upgraded FreeMAT to 3.1, which fixes the inv() problem, and
 which should fix this Help on line bug too; could you please check it?


Yes, with the new version 3.1 inv now works fine. Unfortunately the Help on 
line still doesn't work. I think that something worsened because with this 
new port now I cannot use the help on line even as root (in the previous 
version Help online as root worked quite well).

Ciao
Vittorio 

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Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Kosht


On 4/12/07, Matt Kosht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Does anyone have a working xorg.conf for this combo working with FreeBSD 6.2?

Specifically I would like the onboard LCD on the laptop to display at
1920x1200 and an attached external LCD at 1280x1024 both at 32 bit
color at the same time. I think this may be called twinview (?). This
configuration works fine in Windows XP so I know the hardware is
capable of it.

I have searched for this quite a bit, but haven't found one that does
the 1920x1200 and the external display.  Many advanced thanks and free
virtual beers.



I have a semi-working configuration of xorg now running FBSD 6.2 on
the Dell Latitude D820 (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB).

I am able to run the laptop's built in display at the correct
resolution and 24 bit color (forget my mindless request for 32 bit
color). I copied/modded a ubuntu xorg.conf that supposedly did
everything I needed to get this far.

Issue #1   I have an external LCD display (1280x1024) attached that I
would like to use (when at my desk anyway) as a 2nd display (this
works just ducky in Windows XP).  This still doesn't work and xorg
doesn't seem to see make it available.

Issue #2 I have installed/prodded/kicked the synaptics touchpad driver
but it still doesn't work. It always comes up in dmesg as a glidepoint
PS/2 mouse and xorg won't recognize it as anything but a PS/2 mouse
which is unusable as the slightest touch sends the pointer sailing
across the screen. I did manage to get an external USB mouse to work
in the meantime but there's an minor issue with that as well (issue
#3)

Issue #3 the USB mouse when attached autostarts moused which makes it
not work in X for some reason. If I kill moused it works just fine. I
am have moused_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf  so I am not sure why it
autostarts this anyway.
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Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
 Roland Smith wrote:
  Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete
  if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted
  read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage.
  
  That might be worth filing a PR for, especially the panics. 
  
  Exactly what is damaged?  Garbage in files? Wrong inode counts? I've had
  unclean filesystems because of panics, but nothing fsck_ffs couldn't
  fix.
  
  You might want to check the hardware too. Use smartmontools in case of
  (S)ATA drives.
 
 Smart says that the drives are fine, as does the manufacturer's disk
 fitness tools.

That's at least some good news.

 --8--
 rsync: readlink
 /raid/Backup/Pizzabox/2007-02-23/cyberleo/secondlife/linux/SecondLife_i686_1_13_2_15/skins/xui/es
 failed: Bad file descriptor (9)
 rsync: readlink
 /raid/Backup/Pizzabox/2007-02-23/cyberleo/secondlife/linux/SecondLife_i686_1_13_2_15/skins/xui/fr
 failed: Bad file descriptor (9)
 --8--

At least these files should be easy to replace, if necessary.

 fsck_ufs dies after about 30 minutes of grinding with the following:
 
 --8--
 ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
 DIRECTORY CORRUPTED  I=93409222  OWNER=1002 MODE=40755
 SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007
 DIR=?
 
 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

Did these problems start after a crash? 

 SALVAGE? no

What happens if you tell it to try and salvage?
 
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Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Kosht


I have a semi-working configuration of xorg now running FBSD 6.2 on
the Dell Latitude D820 (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB).

I am able to run the laptop's built in display at the correct
resolution and 24 bit color (forget my mindless request for 32 bit
color). I copied/modded a ubuntu xorg.conf that supposedly did
everything I needed to get this far.

Issue #1   I have an external LCD display (1280x1024) attached that I
would like to use (when at my desk anyway) as a 2nd display (this
works just ducky in Windows XP).  This still doesn't work and xorg
doesn't seem to see make it available.

Issue #2 I have installed/prodded/kicked the synaptics touchpad driver
but it still doesn't work. It always comes up in dmesg as a glidepoint
PS/2 mouse and xorg won't recognize it as anything but a PS/2 mouse
which is unusable as the slightest touch sends the pointer sailing
across the screen. I did manage to get an external USB mouse to work
in the meantime but there's an minor issue with that as well (issue
#3)

Issue #3 the USB mouse when attached autostarts moused which makes it
not work in X for some reason. If I kill moused it works just fine. I
am have moused_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf  so I am not sure why it
autostarts this anyway.



Sorry I meant to attach my current xorg.conf  and xorg log file here
they are respectively:

**xorg.conf

# xorg.conf (Xorg X Window System server configuration file)

Section ServerLayout

   Screen  Screen 1 RightOf LCD Screen
   Identifier Default Layout
   Screen Default Screen 0 0
   InputDeviceGeneric Keyboard
   InputDeviceMouse1 CorePointer
EndSection

Section Files
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
   FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
EndSection

Section Module
   Load  bitmap
   Load  dbe
   Load  ddc
   #Load   evdev
   Load  extmod
   Load  freetype
   Load  glx
   Load  int10
   Load  record
   Load  type1
   Load  vbe
EndSection

Section ServerFlags
   Option  BlankTime 10
   Option  StandbyTime 20
   Option  SuspendTime 30
   Option  OffTime 60
EndSection

Section InputDevice
   Identifier  Generic Keyboard
   Driver  keyboard
   Option  CoreKeyboard
   Option  XkbRules xorg
   Option  XkbModel pc105
   Option  XkbLayout fr
   Option  XkbVariant latin9
EndSection

# synaptics touchpad
#Section InputDevice
#   Identifier  Mouse0
   #Driver  synaptics
   #Option Protocol psm
   #Option Device /dev/psm0
   #Option SHMConfig on
#EndSection

#usb mouse
Section InputDevice
   Identifier  Mouse1
   Driver  mouse
   Option  Protocol Auto
   Option  Device /dev/ums0
   Option  ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection

Section Monitor
   Identifier   WUXGA Flat pannel
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
   HorizSync30.0 - 75.0
   VertRefresh  30.0 - 60.0
   ModeLine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 83.9 1280 1312 1624 1656 800 816 824 841
   ModeLine 1024x768 60.8 1024 1056 1128 1272 768 768 770 796
   Option  DPMS
EndSection

Section Monitor
   Identifier   CRT
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
   HorizSync30.0 - 70.0
   VertRefresh  48.0 - 120.0
   ModeLine 1024x768 94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772
808 +hsync +vsync
   Option  DPMS
EndSection

Section Device

   # See /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt
   # windows will not maximise over the fluxbox toolbar.  A
   # drawback is bad positioning of windows.
   #Option MetaModes DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +0+20
   # 3) Allows to quit the CRT area without scrolling (good to start
   # hidden things during a presentation).  Maximisation however is
   # done w.r.t. the small area...
   #Option MetaModes DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: 1024x768 +0+20
   #Option MetaModes DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: 1024x768
   #Option TwinViewOrientation DFP-0 LeftOf CRT-0
   # Not recommended but allow to plug in a monitor without restarting
   Identifier  NVS-120M
   Driver  nvidia
   VendorName  NVIDIA Corporation
   BoardName   512MB Quadro NVS-120M TurboCache
   Option  NoLogo true
   # TwinView 
   Option  TwinView
   # CRT=beamer with a Xnest fullscreen presentation.
   # 1) No offset.  The Xnest window should be set hiding its

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

In response to Matt Kosht [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On 4/12/07, Matt Kosht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Does anyone have a working xorg.conf for this combo working with FreeBSD 
  6.2?
 
  Specifically I would like the onboard LCD on the laptop to display at
  1920x1200 and an attached external LCD at 1280x1024 both at 32 bit
  color at the same time. I think this may be called twinview (?). This
  configuration works fine in Windows XP so I know the hardware is
  capable of it.
 
  I have searched for this quite a bit, but haven't found one that does
  the 1920x1200 and the external display.  Many advanced thanks and free
  virtual beers.
 
 
 I have a semi-working configuration of xorg now running FBSD 6.2 on
 the Dell Latitude D820 (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB).
 
 I am able to run the laptop's built in display at the correct
 resolution and 24 bit color (forget my mindless request for 32 bit
 color). I copied/modded a ubuntu xorg.conf that supposedly did
 everything I needed to get this far.
 
 Issue #1   I have an external LCD display (1280x1024) attached that I
 would like to use (when at my desk anyway) as a 2nd display (this
 works just ducky in Windows XP).  This still doesn't work and xorg
 doesn't seem to see make it available.
 
 Issue #2 I have installed/prodded/kicked the synaptics touchpad driver
 but it still doesn't work. It always comes up in dmesg as a glidepoint
 PS/2 mouse and xorg won't recognize it as anything but a PS/2 mouse
 which is unusable as the slightest touch sends the pointer sailing
 across the screen. I did manage to get an external USB mouse to work
 in the meantime but there's an minor issue with that as well (issue
 #3)
 
 Issue #3 the USB mouse when attached autostarts moused which makes it
 not work in X for some reason. If I kill moused it works just fine. I
 am have moused_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf  so I am not sure why it
 autostarts this anyway.

This last one is the only one I know anything about.

If you configure X to use /dev/sysmouse, it will pick up on the device
that moused creates.  This may allow it to start working.  Along this
road may also lay a solution to #2, but I'm only guessing.

If you absolutely can't get moused to work, comment out the lines in
/etc/devd.conf that are causing it to autostart.

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Re: Attempts to run 'fsck' fail can't stat device

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:05:45PM -0700, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
 
 My server lost power earlier today and now it doesnt boot.
 
 Any clues what I can do to recover from the following errors:
 
 
 s nip 
 
 Server 'hostname' fails to mount /dev/da0s1g (/usr).
 
 Attempts to run 'fsck' fail (can't stat device /dev/da0s1g)
 
 
  snip ---

Well, that was not an actual cut and paste of the errors (usually it's
important not to paraphrase them, you might be misrepresenting what it
is telling you).  If it can't find the device, you need to work out
where it went.  Did the kernel find da0 at boot?  If not, maybe the
disk failed to spin up after the power failure (try rebooting again),
or maybe it was damaged by a power surge.

Kris


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Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread wanderingidea

Hi,

FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now.

It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems
often hang the system completely.
That is a phenomenon that I did not see with FreeBSD 6.x x86. 

Apart from that I am very happy with it.

Regards,

Cor




On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:30:14 -0400 (EDT)
Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Good day all.
 
 I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or
 tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with
 the reliable x86 or try the  AMD64 port.
 
 Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on
 a 64-bit machine?
 
 Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers,
 applications that are known not to work under the
 AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type
 system.
 
 Thanks in advance,
 Michael
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Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:23:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,
 
 FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now.
 
 It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems
 often hang the system completely.
 That is a phenomenon that I did not see with FreeBSD 6.x x86. 

Which PR is this documented in?

Kris
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Re: Best Open Source software to backup Cisco switches and routers

2007-04-18 Thread Eric Crist


On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:18 PMApr 18, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote:

I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers  
and switches config files and have come across RANCID.  Is this  
what I should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better?


Thanks


I don't know anything about RANCID, but I recently used expect and a  
shell-script wrapper to do the backups on 3 Cisco routers.  I just  
setup a TFTP server on our backup machine and punched the correct  
holes in the firewall.  There's a command you can run on the router  
itself to send the config off to a remote system.


Additionally, the 'backup' is simply the same output you get when you  
run a show run command from the router's enable mode.


HTH

Eric Crist
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Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana

Jerry McAllister wrote:
 Smart says that the drives are fine, as does the manufacturer's disk
 fitness tools. All the files that are readable contain correct data, but
 the files that are corrupt are totally not readable, and cannot even be
 removed manually:
 
 Given that, I would try to make a dump(8) of it.   If dump dies on
 a particular file, try to exclude that file from the dump either by
 rm-ing it or setting a nodump flag and try again.   You may not 
 actually be able to do the rm or nodump flag though if you cannot
 mount it with write permission.   You might be able to force it 
 mounted without doing the fsck in single user.
 
 Note that tar allows you to specify exclusions.   I usually don't
 suggest using tar for mass moves because it has weaknesses with
 hard links and might also not transfer flags and permissions
 correctly.  But, if tar is what it takes, then use it.

Force-mounting the filesystem works just fine. It's when I try to modify
any munged file that it panics the box, with ufs_dirbad or somesuch.

I have been using rsync to recover readable data, which handles
hard-links, permissions, sparse files, and et cetera. I figure it's
best, as that's what is used to drop the differential backups onto the
box in the first place.

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Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana

Roland Smith wrote:
 --8--
 ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
 DIRECTORY CORRUPTED  I=93409222  OWNER=1002 MODE=40755
 SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007
 DIR=?

 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
 
 Did these problems start after a crash? 

It's possible, but I cannot be absolutely certain. The machine is
supposed to start itself up and shut itself down every day, running a
total of about 4 hours a day, during the span when all other machines
dump their backups. The only reason I noticed this failure was because
it didn't power down one day. Investigation revealed that FSCK had
failed and dropped to single user, with errors seen in the log.

 
 SALVAGE? no
 
 What happens if you tell it to try and salvage?

This was a dry-run to get the error log. When I actually tried to repair
the filesystem, fsck aborts shortly after, complaining that it cannot
fix the filesystem, and cannot continue. Hence the current path of
removing everything and re-newfs'ing.

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IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM)
CPU X 4: 40K2522
HDD X 6: 40K1051
IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729

We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and
are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the
RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to
installing the O/S.

We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including
the loading of an aac module, which according to the BSD website,
should provide support for this type of controller.

When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above
modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears
to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it
doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded).

One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I
attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the
message cpu id 38 too high. However if I boot the boot loader with
ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a
bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have
issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ??

That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have
been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would
be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are
prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going.

Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor

Bytecraft Systems


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Chrooting Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5

2007-04-18 Thread Lubomir Matousek

Hi, can anybody direct me to the subjected topic? I tried to google it out,
but only chrooting of old versions is explained.

 

Regards

 

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Re: Chrooting Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5

Lubomir Matousek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi, can anybody direct me to the subjected topic? I tried to google it out,
 but only chrooting of old versions is explained.

This isn't exactly the answer to your question, but as an alternative
you could jail Apache and whatever else you wanted to install with it:
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/howtos/sshdinjail.html

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IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk
to get anywhere further.

Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1  (aka 6.2) I can get a boot
with 

set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
set acpi_load=NO
boot -v

However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found
an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output 
off the machine

What i have seen is that the ServeRAID 8i controller 
say it is on PCI bus 1:2:0

Nowhere in the boot log is pcib1 or any mention of
the physical pci bus 1

Just to test I booted an IBM pizza box x305 with the FreeSBIE disk
in the same fashion, and up comes its bge i/f, the boot -v logs 
show 

pcib0 , pcib1 , pcib2

along with their associated physical busses.

Any help  greatly welcomed

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FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

 BTW we have also successfully booted the 
'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok.
This should rule out hardware issues I hope.

Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI
busses ??

Or is there a hint.??? line I can add?

mjt

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Subject: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk
to get anywhere further.

Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1  (aka 6.2) I can get a boot
with 

set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
set acpi_load=NO
boot -v

However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found
an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output 
off the machine

What i have seen is that the ServeRAID 8i controller 
say it is on PCI bus 1:2:0

Nowhere in the boot log is pcib1 or any mention of
the physical pci bus 1

Just to test I booted an IBM pizza box x305 with the FreeSBIE disk
in the same fashion, and up comes its bge i/f, the boot -v logs 
show 

pcib0 , pcib1 , pcib2

along with their associated physical busses.

Any help  greatly welcomed

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RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 PM
To: Murray Taylor; FreeBSD Mailing List
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote:

Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM)
CPU X 4: 40K2522
HDD X 6: 40K1051
IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729

We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto
this machine and
are running into a problem getting the operating system
to recognise the
RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when
it comes to
installing the O/S.

We have attempted various modifications to the boot
process, including
the loading of an aac module, which according to the
BSD website,
should provide support for this type of controller.

When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making
these above
modifications, the boot loader advises that this module
already appears
to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any
respect, it
doesn't work either way (with or without the module
manually loaded).

One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is
that when I
attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it
freezes with the
message cpu id 38 too high. However if I boot the boot
loader with
ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a
possibility that a
bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID
controller to have
issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4
CPU count ??

That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the
path(s) we have
been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can
provide would
be very much appreciated. We are at the position now
where we are
prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going.

Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor

Bytecraft Systems

Are you creating an Array before you try the installation?

What does the console show for the recognized hardware, and not
recognized hardware?
  You can boot from CD and run dmesg to get this information.

-Derek

The array is already created...

The hardware for the RAID array _and_ the bge interface are not found.

Murray Taylor

Special Projects Engineer
Bytecraft Systems

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Re: Why is dmidecode failing?

2007-04-18 Thread Bruce Burden

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
 In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said:
 
  ===  Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403
  ===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids 
  - found
  ===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found
  ===   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on executable: dmidecode - not found
 
 This says that dmidecode isn't in your path.  Make sure that
 /usr/local/sbin is in your path, since that's where dmidecode is
 installed.
 
Sigh. So simple. So obvious. So infuriating when it
does not work! Thank you, I do not normally have /usr/local/
sbin in my path, obviously. 

Bruce
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[solution] Re-installing Windows after FreeBSD

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole


Hi,

I recently came across a problem where I had to re-install Windows XP
on my laptop, which already had FreeBSD on the second slice. I am sure
many must have faced this issue, and hence I am posting this solution
that I adopted to re-install Windows (okay, here I already have two
slices, first for Windows and second for FreeBSD).


Typical disk setup: 40G HDD on Dell Latitude D400 laptop. First slice
(partition on Windows parlance) of 15G and second slice of 25G for
FreeBSD.

Pre-condition: Windows slice already exists. This procedure typically
applies to re-installing Windows.

Steps:
1. Re-install Windows in a normal way, making sure you don't touch the
FreeBSD slice of the machine. Since Win does not honor the MBR, it
will install its own MBR after the installation, thus hiding FreeBSD.
2. After step 1., boot the machine from FreeBSD boot CD-ROM (CD 1) of
your release. Mine is FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
3. In sysinstall, go to the Fixit mode, and select the option for
live FreeBSD system. You will now get a prompt something like:
Fixit#
4. Run the following command:
   boot0cfg -B ad0
   This command re-installs the boot0 boot manager on disk ad0. It
will properly detect both OSes', and re-install the MBR appropriately.
5. Reboot. You will now be greeted with the very famous prompts:
F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD

Hope this helps. Similar thing (re-installing grub) can be done for
Windows and Linux dual-boot, when Win kicks off grub.

-Amarendra
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Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole


On 4/19/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Let's assume the old disk is ad0 and the new one is ad1 and MS
occupies the first slice (called primary partition) of each disk.
So, FreeBSD then is currently in /dev/ad0s2 and you want to put
it in /dev/ad1s2.

[...]

Thanks all for the replies. It has given me enough confidence to try
swapping disks. I will post my findings once I move over to the new
disk.

-Amarendra
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dhcpd assign duplicated IP address

2007-04-18 Thread Zhang Weiwu

I am not sure if I understood DHCP correctly. I have this configuration
in my /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf (Using FreeBSD 6.1):

subnet 218.193.55.192 netmask 255.255.255.192 {
  range 218.193.55.194 218.193.55.254;
  option routers 218.193.55.193;
}

[snip]

host sappho.realss.com {
  hardware ethernet 80:00:20:B0:99:31;
  fixed-address 218.193.55.196;
  option routers 218.193.55.193;
}

And I think this means the DHCP server should not assign IP address
218.193.55.196 to any hosts that do not have MAC address of
80:00:20:B0:99:31. But today a Windows user come with a notebook and
he got assigned 218.193.55.196 IP address (and he complain he cannot
surf the web). Check /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases and there is:

lease 218.193.55.196 {
  starts 4 2007/04/19 01:49:23;
  ends 4 2007/04/19 11:49:23;
  tstp 4 2007/04/19 11:49:23;
  binding state active;
  next binding state free;
  hardware ethernet 00:c0:9f:73:0d:0a;
  uid \001\000\300\237s\015\012;
  client-hostname dawnlinux;
}

So the question is, did I misconfigured dhcpd.conf or what's the reason
dhcpd is assigning an IP address it should not?

Thanks a lot in advance! My dhcpd.conf is attached.

P.S. In recent days we some times got another network problem and I'm
not sure if it's related to this DHCP server behavior. It happens on
both Linux and Windows hosts that a host suddenly is no longer
accessible (Ping no response). Check 'arp -a' on other hosts shows the
host being accessed have wrong Mac Address. e.g. yesterday
218.193.55.195 suddenly become in-accessible, this host is Linux and we
got this behavior on a nearby host:

sappho # arping 218.193.55.195
Unicast reply from 218.193.55.195 [00:0F:EA:4B:82:58]  0.638ms
Unicast reply from 218.193.55.195 [00:0F:EA:4B:82:58]  0.637ms
Sent 113 probes (1 broadcast(s))
Received 113 response(s)
sappho # arp -a 218.193.55.195
? (218.193.55.195) at 00:02:2A:C1:53:87 [ether] on eth0

arping reply is different from arp cache. This host become accessible
the next day. Strange. Are these two problems related?

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http://www.realss.com
+86 592 2091112
option domain-name realss.com;

# when ADSL is online, we use schools' name server because it's fast;
# when ADSL is offline, clients who failed to reach schools' name server will 
try 
# China Telcom's name server
option domain-name-servers 210.34.0.14, 210.34.0.18, 202.101.103.55, 
202.101.103.54;

option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

default-lease-time 36000;
max-lease-time 72000;

# our DHCP server is the only one used here.
authoritative;

# ad-hoc DNS update scheme - set to none to disable dynamic DNS updates.
ddns-update-style none;

# this subnet does not only cover our office, but also the whole office building
# our office is assigned 218.193.55.194 to 218.193.55.198 which is not enough
# we simply occupy up to 218.193.55.202 and use this DHCP server to suggest
# all other computers in this office building to use the rest IP address space;

subnet 218.193.55.192 netmask 255.255.255.192 {
  range 218.193.55.194 218.193.55.254;
# HITACHI PC with Pentium II processor
# FreeBSD 6.1
# host 218.193.55.198 is the gateway of our office which routes packets to
# ChinaTelcom if target IP address is not in CERNET
# we don't want to share this gateway so we assign the rest of computers to
# use school's gateway
  option routers 218.193.55.193;
}

host emerson.realss.com {
#   Gentoo Linux 2006.1
#   1. Development server of Real SS (a copy of the productional server);
#   2. SVN server of all our projects
#   2.1 SVN server of our groupware product running on Apache;
#   2.2 SVN server for our small projects running on svn port;
  hardware ethernet 00:11:11:9d:ae:9c;
  fixed-address 218.193.55.194;
  option routers 218.193.55.198;
}

host joe.realss.com {
#   1. Multi-seat compuater in the office;
#   SuSE 10.1
#   2. Offer free Internet cafe for the campus to test multi-user system;
#   3. have a lot of tools for users and developers; 
  hardware ethernet 00:0f:ea:4b:82:58;
  fixed-address 218.193.55.195;
  option routers 218.193.55.198;
}

host sappho.realss.com {
#   Ultrasparc U5 with additional 160GB IDE HDD
#   Gentoo Linux 2006.1
#   1. Public ftp server offering download of free-opensource software;
#   2. Public rsync server offering gentoo portage rsync;
#   3. Music Play Daemon runs on this host for the office;
#   4. Print server for the office
# note the below hw addr is not correct, sappho don't use dhcp
  hardware ethernet 80:00:20:B0:99:31;
  fixed-address 218.193.55.196;
# It's important sappho.realss.com use the default router of CERNET
# it is serving CERNET as well as fast networks OUTSIDE cernet
  option routers 218.193.55.193;
}

host www.linasp.com {
#   Mr Zhu Chenglin's PC
#   Windows XP
  hardware ethernet 00:90:27:58:9F:B5;
  fixed-address 218.193.55.197;
  option routers 218.193.55.198;
}

host ushang.net {
#   Shang Wenbin's PC
#   Debian Linux

Re: dhcpd assign duplicated IP address

2007-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg


On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

I am not sure if I understood DHCP correctly. I have this  
configuration

in my /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf (Using FreeBSD 6.1):

subnet 218.193.55.192 netmask 255.255.255.192 {
  range 218.193.55.194 218.193.55.254;
  option routers 218.193.55.193;
}

[snip]

host sappho.realss.com {
  hardware ethernet 80:00:20:B0:99:31;
  fixed-address 218.193.55.196;
  option routers 218.193.55.193;
}

And I think this means the DHCP server should not assign IP address
218.193.55.196 to any hosts that do not have MAC address of
80:00:20:B0:99:31.


No, it doesn't mean that.  You have configured dhcpd to have two ways  
of assigning the address 218.193.55.196.  One is through the dynamic  
mechanism and the other is through the fixed address.


You should set your fixed address to be outside of your dynamic pool  
range.


Cheers,

-j


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