Strange kernel log message
So I have this in my security run output: kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.hLYJI0kF Sun Nov 25 03:01:02 2007 +222>2>>>NNNMNMMIII M III SIISAS SAAA 3 303,020,0 ,, EE IEIIESSSAIAA S A f ff + + +f WTF now? I'm not sure if that's a real kernel message that got garbled or whether I should be worried about naughtiness. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpGFXYOSbSkc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange kernel log message
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:58:41PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2007-11-26 09:58, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> So I have this in my security run output: >>> kernel log messages: >>> +++ /tmp/security.hLYJI0kF Sun Nov 25 03:01:02 2007 >>> +<<<<222>2>>>NNNMNMMIII M III SIISAS SAAA 3 303,020,0 ,, EE >>> IEIIESSSAIAA S A f ff >>> + >>> + >>> +f >>> >>> WTF now? >>> >>> I'm not sure if that's a real kernel message that got garbled or whether >>> I should be worried about naughtiness. >>> >> >> It looks like multiple messages overlapping each other. Removing 3 >> characters every 4 bytes in the output produces things which seem >> vaguely recognizable: >> >> <22NNI II A ,,,EISA fff >> <<2>NMI SS 300 ISAAfff >> >> There's a sysctl option which you can tweak to make this less likely to >> happen, but I am not sure about its name. Our console gurus can help >> you track it down and tune its value :) > > The kernel option I've seen mentioned before to at least make this less > common is: > > options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128# Prevent printf output being interspersed. Aha, thanks guys. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpMN9CbJ9VZW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: exim not running after portupgrade?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:50:31AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote: > I recently ran portupgrade to get to a state that approximates current, > and when I rebooted exim is not running. It used to, just fine, but now > when I boot I've got no MTA. I can tell you, fetchmail thinks this is > quite the problem :-) > > What could have caused this? As far as I can tell it was being started > *somehow* before, and now it isn't. It works fine if I just remember to > # sudo exim -bd -q5m > but I think it shouldn't have stopped starting just because of a > portupgrade. I went from exim 4.12 to 4.24, but there are no changes in > the configuration needed for that update. I'm pretty sure that sometime during that gap a requirement for exim_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf was introduced. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ad info request from freebsd
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:37:29PM +0200, Noam Javits wrote: > > Dear Site Manager, > > I run several coupon sites and I am interested in advertising one or more of them, > on your site. > To be more specific, I am interested in placing a visible text link (not a banner or > any sort of > PPC/CPM method - only plain text) on your home page and throughout the total pages > of your site, and > pay you by the month flat rate. > > I would appreciate it if you could provide me with the cost and details, in order > for us to continue > our potential future partnership. We don't provide advertising on the site. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
BSDPAN
How do I use BSDPAN? I'm assuming that it's reasonably automagic, but have no idea where to start - I don't seem to have it installed, for one. I'm running -STABLE with the base perl. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BSDPAN
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:56:16PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:33:03PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > How do I use BSDPAN? > > > > I'm assuming that it's reasonably automagic, but have no idea where to > > start - I don't seem to have it installed, for one. > > > > I'm running -STABLE with the base perl. > > As far as I can tell, there isn't a version of BSDPAN that works with > the base perl (ie. 5.005.03). The BSDPAN modules aren't available > from CPAN -- seems the only source is MASTER_SITE_LOCAL, eg: > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/tobez/ > > and there isn't an appropriate version there. Ah; that makes sense. It looks like it used to be in the base system, but isn't anymore, which is probably one source of my confusion: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ locate BSDPAN | head -1 /a/FreeBSD/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/BSDPAN > If you install one of the perl versions from ports, you'll get the > matching BSDPAN version automatically. You don't need to do anything > special to use it, just install perl modules from CPAN in the normal > way: > > # perl -MCPAN -e shell > > All BSDPAN does is subclass some of the ExtUtils modules to add some > glue between the ports/pkg system and CPAN, so you can use the pkg_* > tools on perl modules and so forth. That's what I'd figured, but I didn't realise I needed a perl from ports. Thanks very much for the clarification. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mailing list archive
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:32:34AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know if there is a problem with the mailing list archives at > http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists ? Yes, they aren't very good ;-) Try http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ or http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ instead. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is there something special about mount points in / ?
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:39:33PM -0700, Dr Lyman Hazelton wrote: > I have set vfs.usermount=1, and now I can create a local directory > (call it "xxx") in my home dir and use it successfully to do > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 xxx > > or > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 xxx > > However, if I attempt to use the "standard" mount points, /cdrom or > /floppy, to do the same thing, like > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /cdrom > > I get the message: cd9660: /dev/cd0: Operation not permitted. > > I have set the permissions on /cdrom to 555 and the file is owned by > root:operators, and my non-root user-id is a member of operators. Is > there something special I have to do to /cdrom to make it usable to > non-root users? The user doing the mount needs to own the mountpoint directory. From the manpage for mount(2): ERRORS The mount() function will fail when one of the following occurs: [EPERM]The caller is neither the super-user nor the owner of dir. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: a good way to save a keystroke?
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:44:22AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of which to > more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I backticked the which > output with more in front that would work, and apparently it does (though > I'm not sure that the cmd itself wasn't executed?). > > e.g. more `which apachectl` > > Is this a reasonable way to get what I'm after, or a bad thing? That's fine. The command that gets executed is which, not apachectl, so there's no need to worry on that account. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Starting new entries in /etc/rc.conf
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:00:27PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: > On Nov 26, 2003, at 06:55, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > > >This FreeBSD box is a headless one which is also has a DB9 to a > >headless Ultra-10 at my house and when I reboot it does > >something wonky to the Ultra-10 so I'd hate to do that remotely > >right now for I'm at work and couldn't "kick-it" manually if I > >had to. > > If you're running the U10 headless, dropping DTR on the connection > will, by default, drop the U10 into OpenBoot, stopping execution of the > OS (this is true on most if all Sun boxes, not just the U10). There's > a simple setting change to make on the U10 if you don't want this to > happen. I no longer recall what it is offhand, but a quick Google > should fix you up. It's in /etc/default/kbd; I also forget the name of the option, but it has ALTERNATE in the name. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Named errors - running BIND in sandbox
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:18:13PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
> I know that I've asked this in the past, but after a
> fresh reinstall of the machine on my local network that provided
> (amongst other services) DNS to all other machines (FreeBSD, Solaris,
> WIn2K & WinXP Pro), I find that I am not having much success setting up
> BIND in a sandbox.
>
> The box is running FreeBSD-4.9Stable (after initially installing
> 4.8-Rel) after cvsup of sources.
>
> Basically, the errors I get on start up is here:
> /etc/namedb/etc # tail /var/log/messages
> Nov 29 15:42:39 Demon named[226]: 'masters' statement present for master zone
> 'vickiandstacey.com'
> Nov 29 15:42:39 Demon named[226]: zone 'vickiandstacey.com' did not validate,
> skipping
> zone "vickiandstacey.com" {
> type master;
> file "master/vickiandstacey.com.db";
> allow-transfer { 192.168.1.0/24; };
> masters {
> 192.168.1.8;
> };
> };
You have declared the zone as type master, but also included a masters
statement. If this machine is the master, then remove the masters
statement, otherwise, declare it as type slave.
> Nov 29 15:42:39 Demon named[226]: bind(dfd=20, [192.168.1.8].53): Address already in
> use
> Nov 29 15:42:39 Demon named[226]: deleting interface [192.168.1.8].53
> Nov 29 15:42:39 Demon named[226]: bind(dfd=20, [127.0.0.1].53): Address already in
> use
> Nov 29 15:42:39 Demon named[226]: deleting interface [127.0.0.1].53
named was already running when you tried starting it this time.
> Nov 29 15:42:39 Demon named[234]: can't exec /bin/named-xfer: No such file or
> directory
You didn't show the contents of the bin directory below, but I assume
it's empty; copy /usr/libexec/named-xfer in there (make sure it's
statically linked, which is the default in 4.9-RELEASE).
> Nov 29 15:43:47 Demon named-xfer[240]: [192.168.1.8] not authoritative for
> 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 0, aucount 13
Now, I'm taking a big guess here.
You didn't have 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa in the named.conf before you
started named this time, but now you do. Since you declared it as a
slave zone (which looks to be incorrect), named tried to transfer it
from itself, which it couldn't do as it wasn't loaded before.
> What I had prior to installing, I would get "Demon.vickiandstacey.com"
> returned as the Default Server, not localhost as above.
It is now listed second in your resolv.conf.
> Secondly, the address 82.68.31.177 is the real IP address of Demon (I
> have a block of 8) that is translated to 192.168.1.8, the internal IP
> address of Demon. So I'd have hoped that trying to set server to Demon,
> would have resulted in "Address: 192.168.1.8" instead of the machine's
> real IP address.
Since the zone vickiandstacey.com didn't load, this server wasn't
authoritative for that zone, and so went to the forwarder you have
listed and asked there; that server then gave the public IP.
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Re: overcharged
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:48:20AM -0700, Damon Brown wrote: > Hello, > > I've written several emails concerning an > overcharge to my credit card. > Can you please put me in touch with someone > who can take care of this? Otherwise I'll > have to go to the credit card company to sort > it out with you. We don't sell anything; where did you buy the product from? Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Headless System via serial port?
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:00:14AM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote: > Is that all you did to get it working? It goes through the boot process > just fine over the terminal, but kernel hands the login back over to > vidconsole again right away. I even tried changing the -P to a -Dh, > still nothing. Same effect. You also need to turn on ttyd0 in /etc/ttys: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure Then send init a HUP. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new freebsdzine URL?
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:30:01PM -0600, Jay Sern Liew wrote: > > Does anyone know the URL to the FreeBSD website started by the same guys > who started FreeBSD`zine(which is now dead)? I've been there, I made a > mistake not bookmarking it, and now I can't find it. Thanks. http://bsdnews.org/ Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Promise Ultra133 TX2
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:31:50AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: > Hi, all. > Does anybody know could FreeBSD 4.8 boot from HDD, > connected by Promise Ultra133 TX2? Absolutely. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel build failure - on joy.sh?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:18:52PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2003 06:49 pm, The Bean wrote: > > So this is a make problem, not a config file problem. What's odd is that my > > attempt to make installkernel worked when I upgraded, but make > > installkernel KERNCONF=MyGENERIC fails, even though the only differences > > are options IPFIREWALL, > > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE, and options IPDIVERT. Perhaps the different > > config file cause make to do more work, and that triggered the problem. > > Interesting. > > I didn't look into that. I saw that joy.sh had been moved to the attic on the > cvs-repository and stopped at that point. FWIW, my config file doesn't have > anything to say about a "joy". joy.sh has not been deleted from RELENG_4, only HEAD. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [4.9-R] Ip forwarding for internal VNC.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:12:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have the following setup: > > FreeBSD Server (4.9-R) > 2 NIC's > [xl0,Public Range IP, 196.xx.xx.xx] > [xl1,Private Range IP, 192.168.0.1] > > Windows 2k server > [Private IP, 192.168.0.2] > > The Windows 2000 server is running VNC and is serving as > an application server for windows software that is not-so-stable on > FreeBSD. :P (The windows machine is not connected directly to the > Internet for obvious reasons ;) ) > > What I want: I want to be able to connect to the VNC service > running on the Windows machine, via the Internet. > > Is it possible to set up port forwarding so that if I connect > to the FreeBSD machine on port 5800, the request be forwarded > to the Windows machine on port 5800? Do I need to set up the > FreeBSD machine in any specific way to accomplish this setup? Don't do that. Use ssh port forwarding; that way the tunnel only exists when you want it to, and you will be the only person who can use it. Check the ssh manpage for details; see the -L option. Ceri -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nfs export trouble
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Goodleaf, John M wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to export my /usr/ports/distfiles filesystem to a local > network of bsd machines, but I keep getting an error in the syslog: > can't change attributes for /usr/ports/distfiles > > What's going on there? I don't see anything obviously wrong with the exports > line. That basically means that you have already listed the filesystem that /usr/ports/distfiles, perhaps /usr/ports, is on in /etc/exports. You can only list a filesystem once in the exports file. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/npgallery.html
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:46:44AM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote: > My site, cybernothing.org, is now hosted on a friends' machine > running Linux. (I still prefer FreeBSD myself.) Now removed; thanks for keeping us up to date. Cheers, Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: blueyonder uk mirror?
On 2 Jan 2006, at 14:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi My ISP Telewest/Blueyonder hosts some FreeBSD stuff at ftp.blueyonder.co.uk but they are usually a few weeks behind releases. Would it be of interest to get them up to speed as a mirror and/or cvsup mirror? If so how to go about it? I would be happy to approach them. You should direct them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is where all the mirror maintainers hang out. There is also documentation provided by the mirror co-ordinators at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html Cheers, Ceri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: oracle on freeBSD
On 4 Jan 2006, at 18:59, eoghan wrote: Hello Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html But it seems a little dated. I read oracle doesnt officially support freeBSD and was pointed to a link here of people working with it: http://twister.pp.ru/ora-fbsd I dont speak russian, but is this no longer being continued? Also, by oracle, I mean the database. i realise they have many products... Any info would help... In my opinion, the best online how-to for this by far is the one at http://www.shadowcom.net/freebsd-oracle9i/ - I intend to produce something for the handbook once I get the time, but if you follow the instructions there you will not go far wrong. On metalink yesterday I noticed that "Intel FreeBSD" appears in the list of operating systems when you raise a TAR (whoops, I mean SR these days), so perhaps they will support it if you pay them enough, I don't know. Ceri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: exim with 3 domains
On 6 Jan 2006, at 14:02, Playnet wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I have 3 domains, e.g. dom1.spb.ru, dom2.spb.ru, dom3.spb.ru and 1 external (inet) IP. How i can setup this? As database i use LDAP.. Read the exim specification available under the Documentation section at exim.org and the sample configurations provided with the exim installation. It's really very simple. Ceri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nfs server
On 6 Jan 2006, at 16:33, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/6/06, Webster, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael, If /usr/local/www is not a mount point, this will not work. You need to put the mount point (eg: /usr) in /etc/exports, and add the option -alldirs to allow it to mount a subdirectory of the mount point. It would appear that my configuration was correct in fact, but restarting nfsd was not enough. Restarting mountd picked up the new config and it's now working. Yep, it's mountd that reads /etc/exports. If you change that file in future, you just need to restart mountd and not nfsd. Ceri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: oracle on freeBSD
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:29:15PM +, eoghan wrote: > On 6 Jan 2006, at 20:40, Ceri Davies wrote: > >On 4 Jan 2006, at 18:59, eoghan wrote: > > > >>Hello > >>Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on > >>freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: > >>http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html > >>But it seems a little dated. I read oracle doesnt officially > >>support freeBSD and was pointed to a link here of people working > >>with it: > >>http://twister.pp.ru/ora-fbsd > >>I dont speak russian, but is this no longer being continued? > >>Also, by oracle, I mean the database. i realise they have many > >>products... > >>Any info would help... > > > >In my opinion, the best online how-to for this by far is the one at > >http://www.shadowcom.net/freebsd-oracle9i/ - I intend to produce > >something for the handbook once I get the time, but if you follow > >the instructions there you will not go far wrong. > > > >On metalink yesterday I noticed that "Intel FreeBSD" appears in the > >list of operating systems when you raise a TAR (whoops, I mean SR > >these days), so perhaps they will support it if you pay them > >enough, I don't know. > > HI Ceri > Thanks for the link... Im having issues with the install of emulators/ > linux_base... doesnt like linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_4 > Not sure if this lib does the same in terms of linux gcc etc? > I did read that the 10g install goes a whole lot smoother than the > 9i... havent had a chance to really dive into the install yet though... Hi Eoghan, Try linux_base-8 instead. I think that may be better for more recent FreeBSD's. I haven't tried the 10g install on FreeBSD, but I have done a few installations on Solaris and I can tell you that the major problem with the 10g installer is that it installs 10g, which I'm running into a few problems with. That may well be my fault due to some unfamiliarity with the new version, but since the 9i desupport date has been pushed back to 2010 I'm still using that where I can. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgpW9LEP2vFcF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why
On 8 Jan 2006, at 05:03, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Slade Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 11:24 PM To: David Banning Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why There is your problem TMDA is most likely the cause. Such programmes are in effect adding to the spam problem. Nearly all spam has a forged from address and all programmes such as TMDA do is send a challenge to an innocent 3rd party. Whist it looks like it reduces your spam all you do is in effect spam someone else. When your e-mail address has been used in a spam run by a spammer and you start getting 10s of these challenge an hour it is quite easy to report 1 my accident. If you look at the Spamcop reporting page you will see a warning about just this situation. I suppose that the real answer is to stop compounding the spam problem and use a combination of spamassassin and block lists. BTW I make it a point never to respond to challenges. Ditto, and for the same reasons. I've removed David from the cc list on this for that reason as well. Also we need to be aware of another trick that spammers have figured out, that applies to anyone running multiple MX records on a domain (I don't know if David is in that situation) Normally if a domain has a single mailserver processing incoming mail, there's a single MX record pointing to a single machine. But in many cases it's desirable to relay mail through a prefilter system before it gets to the actual mailserver. In those cases a common trick is to block the highest priority MX host off with an access list. Senders try the highest priority, it fails, they then go to the next highest priority host which is the relay host. That host gets it, does it's thing, then tries to send it to the highest priority server which should work since the access list permits that server. This technique has been mentioned in the sendmail book among others. Yes, but that is actually massively rude. The hosts listed in a domain's MX record are supposed to be hosts willing to exchange mail for that domain, so listing ones that are not it just wasting everyone's time and resources. If you want to have such a prefilter system, there is no need to list the end system in the MX records; just use an internal route to do that. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: premission denied executing a script
On 8 Jan 2006, at 17:09, RJ wrote: Hi, I'm testing a program that wasn't installed from ports, Xweb from sourceforge. Anyway, whenever I try to execute the script using /bin, ./bin, /full path/bin I get "permission denied even if I chown -R root:wheel. The script probably doesn't have the execute bit set: try "chmod +x script.sh" or whatever. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: premission denied executing a script
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:11:07PM -0500, RJ wrote: > Thanks Ceri but, it didn't solve my problem. > The script starts with "#!/usr/src/bin/sh" and I've tried changing it to > "#!/bin/sh" (no quotes). The end result is still permission denied. > > Does the system log what the script is trying to do? I can't find anything > so far. No. What does "ls -l /bin/sh /the/script" say? Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgpYKqFy636ow.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:22:19AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ceri Davies > >Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:44 AM > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Slade > >Subject: Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why > > > >> Normally if a domain has a single mailserver processing incoming > >> mail, there's a single MX record pointing to a single machine. But > >> in many cases it's desirable to relay mail through a prefilter system > >> before it gets to the actual mailserver. In those cases a common > >> trick is to block the highest priority MX host off with an access > >> list. Senders try the highest priority, it fails, they then go to > >> the next highest priority host which is the relay host. That host > >> gets it, does it's thing, then tries to send it to the highest > >> priority server which should work since the access list permits that > >> server. This technique has been mentioned in the sendmail book > >> among others. > > > >Yes, but that is actually massively rude. The hosts listed in a > >domain's MX record are supposed to be hosts willing to exchange mail > >for that domain, so listing ones that are not it just wasting > >everyone's time and resources. > > > > I guess your not a fan of greylisting, then. ;-) I'm not, but that's not quite the same thing. A greylisting MX will still accept my message, it just might take it's time. Saying "not at the moment, please try later" is much more polite than ignoring someone, and has the additional benefit of not wasting my time waiting for a response I'm never going to get. The analogy fits. > That is a very limited view of the real issues. So limited, in fact, > that it's not correct. I'm obviously going to disagree with that. :) > Consider for a moment, what the point of prefiltering is. Prefilters are > used on mailservers that do not have adequate or in fact, any, capabilities > for antivirus and spam scanning. As in, older Exchange 5.5 servers, Lotus > Notes mailservers, etc. Agreed. > Every time an admin brings up a prefilter on a mailserver that previously > was unrestricted, it makes hundreds if not thousands of spams and virus mails > that previously were delivered, now become ineffective. Thus, systems that > would have previously gotten infected, now won't, and users that previously > would > have been duped into sending money to a criminal spammer, now are not. Agreed. > This reduces the critical mass of infectable mailservers that is required > to sustain the chain reaction needed to make mass-mailserver viruses actually > work > in the wild, and it reduces income to the criminal spammer, thus making > spamming less attractive as a criminal endeavor, thus fewer spammers. Agreed. > The damage done to the Internet by just a single host that might > previously gotten infected with a mass-mailer, but now isn't, far > outweighs the damage done > to the Internet by having legitimate mail to a domain be delayed for a few > minutes. > > Obviously the best choice is to replace the mailserver, good luck though > in companies using Lotus Notes. Agreed, but my point is that there is no need to delay the mail. Simply not listing the MX record in the public DNS would achieve the exact same thing, without forcing my MTA to wait for a timeout. > Also, keep in mind that EVERY SINGLE mailserver that sends to a "delayed > MX" setup, CHOOSES to send mail to them. This tirade doesn't really have anything to do with my point above, but bear in mind that in order to find out if my attempt to send mail will time out, I have to try to send mail first. I don't get to choose, as the only mechanism that I have for distinguishing systems willing to receive mail from those that are not has been made meaningless. > Your bitching because you consider MX-based prefilters rude, but this > only applies to the domains you are wanting to mail - you can simply > choose not to mail them to express your feelings. See above. > Nobody else on the Internet is bothered that your own > personal mail to your own recipients gets delayed, so I think your > mistaken in calling this massively rude. Well of course they aren't, but nobody else on the Internet is bothered if I take a crap on your doorstep. That doesn't preclude it from being completely out of order. > Massively rude is opening your trap in a restaurant and letting out a > massive belch, the other diners in the restaurant do not have a choice, > they have to list
Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional?
On 9 Jan 2006, at 19:53, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi folks, I've been handed a whole bunch of PDFs and asked to make my comments directly in them. I'm sure there's something in ports that can do that, but my search hasn't turned up anything. (Of course, I really have no idea what I'm looking for, which hampers the search. :-) A printer and a red biro out of the question? Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: portsnap vs cvsup
On 9 Jan 2006, at 09:01, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all What's the advantage of portsnap vs old-fashion cvsup ? cvsup only runs on a very limited set of architectures and forces you to build or fetch INDEX files yourself. Having said that, it's useful in non ports/ situations too. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Discovering File System Corruption
On 10 Jan 2006, at 14:26, Bret Walker wrote: I have a 6.0-RELEASE-p1 box with a GENERIC kerbnel that I'm having some trouble with. I recently reconstituted the machine from being a 5.4 box. I didn't upgrade, I reinstalled. When I was trying to install tripwire, kept getting this message: "./bin/i386-unknown-freebsd_r/siggen missing. Build did not complete successfully. *** Error code 1" I CVSupped a few times, even deleting the tripwire directory completely and letting CVSup re-add it. I finally fixed the problem by copying the missing file from another box. The maintainer of the the port wrote to me: " The missing files were missing from the distfile extraction, not the port. The distfile failed to extract properly. That indicates that either tar failed (unlikely) or that you have some kind of filesystem problem. You have a problem much more serious than a mere port that failed to build." I have run fsck in single user mode many times, each time coming back clean. I ran fsck -f -p, to make sure I wasn't having any problems like this ( http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-current_2003/ msg04802.html ). How can I determine what is going on? Do I have filesystem corruption, or is something else going on? Try to extract the distfile that you downloaded and see if it is corrupted or incomplete. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU
On 10 Jan 2006, at 18:06, Andrew P. wrote: By 2010 we'll see 4-core, 8-core and maybe even 16/32 solutions. We got those in 2005: http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T1/ index.xml PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why
On 10 Jan 2006, at 05:49, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: So the entire discussion is academic I think. But, that doesen't make it a boring discussion. Probably way beyond a lot of the posters here, though. Given the treatment you seem to be getting, I'd agree. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: quotas + jail ?
On 11 Jan 2006, at 16:36, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michal Mertl wrote: Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? Yes, it is, although with some restrictions. You have to enable the disk quotas from the host (have them listed in host's /etc/fstab). To operate the quotas from inside the jail quotas have to be mentioned in jail's /etc/fstab too (when using the file name of quota file it has to be relative to jail's root). Repquota/edquota/quota work inside the jail. You have to keep in mind that disk quotas are in fact a property of a filesystem and are not related to jails at all. So if two jails share a filesystem the disk quotas are shared too. If you have users with the same UID in both the jails they will share the quota. How hard would it be to extend quotas so that its not just uid/gid based, but directory? ie. everything under /vm/jail1 falls under this quota, regardless of uid/gid? Given the lack of a unique name for files in UFS, quite difficult, I'd presume. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: patches and uname -a
On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hello. Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list. After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly reports the current version of the system Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23. The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but: # uname -r 5.3-RELEASE-p23 and: # sysctl kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan 3 15:40:08 CET 2006 ... I'd like to be able to see the correct version using 'uname -r'.. Does anybody know how can you make uname report the real version? What if you recompile the kernel after patching the system? Would that do the trick? Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh. Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time recompiling the kernel. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: patches and uname -a
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:26:22PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > > Ceri Davies wrote: > > > >On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:32, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > > > >>Hello. > >> > >>Please also answer to my mailbox as I'm not on the list. > >> > >>After upgrading by sources and build world, uname correctly > >>reports the current version of the system > >> > >>Today for the first time I applied all the relevant patches > >>instead and all went well. The box was 5.3-RELEASE-p23. > >> > >>The applied patches should correspond to 5.3-RELEASE-p24, but: > >> > >># uname -r > >>5.3-RELEASE-p23 > >> > >>and: > >> > >># sysctl kern.version > >>kern.version: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 #0: Tue Jan 3 15:40:08 CET 2006 > >>... > >> > >>I'd like to be able to see the correct version using > >>'uname -r'.. > >> > >>Does anybody know how can you make uname report the > >>real version? What if you recompile the kernel after > >>patching the system? Would that do the trick? > > > > > >Recompiling the kernel is the correct way to change the output of > >uname(1), but before you do so, you should be aware that that patch > >number is taken from the BRANCH variable in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh. > >Check that it says "5.3-RELEASE-p24" before you waste time recompiling > >the kernel. > > > >Ceri > > Thank you Ceri and Jaap for your time. > > Ceri, edit src/sys/conf/newvers.sh and replace > > BRANCH="RELEASE-p23" > with > BRANCH="RELEASE-p24" > > would be enough?? That would work, but if you don't already have that string then there is a possibility that you don't have all the patches, so please only change it if you are %100 sure that you have. I cannot stress that enough. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgpMxFDz5vO8j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: {Spam?} Re: patches and uname -a
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:04:07PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > > I checked the patches (cpio.patch ee.patch texindex5x.patch) and none > of them tries to change src/sys/conf/newvers.sh nor src/UPDATING There is an ipfw one as well. Cheers, Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgp1QovgVDBtl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (no subject)
On 13 Jan 2006, at 11:11, Susanka Kodisinghe wrote: hi this regarding Midicart PHP Shopping Cart i have used your demo s/ w and i am happy with your shopping cart solution. i nead clear some infomation befor buy that s/w. doest it support order processing feature and stock control feature in complete solution. thank you. susanka Hi Susanka, I think you have the wrong email address; we don't make this kind of software. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: dhclient fixed leases
On 13 Jan 2006, at 21:41, Maxim Vetrov wrote:
Hi to all,
I can't configure dhclient to use fixed lease on a network with no
dhcp server. I use my notebook to connect to several different
networks. Some of them have dhcp servers, some do not. Just tired
of manual config on the latter. I've done man dhclient.conf and
found that I can cope with that. so there is my dhclient.conf:
timeout 15;
retry 180;
reboot 5;
lease {
interface "sis0";
fixed-address 10.0.1.4;
option routers 10.0.1.5;
option host-name "mobile";
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.248;
expire 5 2010/1/1 00:00:00;
renew 5 2010/1/1 0:0:0;
rebind 5 2010/1/1 0:0:0;
}
interface "sis0" {
send dhcp-lease-time 600;
send host-name "mobile";
request broadcast-address,routers,subnet-mask,domain-
name,domain-name-servers,time-servers,netbios-name-servers;
}
When it boots these messages are displayed:
> Trying recorded lease 10.0.1.4
> bound: renewal in 125116757 seconds.
and nothing happen.
The peer's address on the othe side of cross-wired cable is
10.0.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.248. When I
> ifconfig sis0 inet 10.0.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.248 up
and ping connection is alive.
What do I do wrong?
Pass, but I found the same when I tried this a few weeks ago.
Then Santa gave me a new access point which came free with a whole bunch
of other problems so I didn't look into it too hard. I'm glad it's not
just me, though.
Ceri
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Re: defaultroute not loading
On 13 Jan 2006, at 06:46, Igor Robul wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:37:27PM +, Michael Zimmer wrote: rc.subr Why? hostname="#.com" defaultrouter=1.2.3.4 # previously "1.2.3.4"; removed You need "1.2.3.4", because in manual page for rc.conf it is marked as (str). Yes, but it's just a shell script so that should be fine. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: defaultroute not loading
On 12 Jan 2006, at 23:37, Michael Zimmer wrote: I just updated a i386 gateway to 6.0-STABLE - using my backed-up versions [from 5.1] of: rc.conf rc.firewall rc.resume rc.sendmail rc.shutdown rc.subr rc.suspend resolv.conf sysctl.conf ipnat.rules ipf.rules ...and the default route won't load on boot, although it is specified in rc.conf (replace all non-comment #'s and 1.2.3.4 with appropriate numbers) hostname="#.com" defaultrouter=1.2.3.4 # previously "1.2.3.4"; removed Could you post the output of "sh -x /etc/rc.d/routing start"? Please try to resist editing it too. Is this working for anyone on 6.0-STABLE? I don't see anywhere in /etc where the default route is actually installed. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: defaultroute not loading
On 13 Jan 2006, at 14:16, Stijn Hoop wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:49:07PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On 12 Jan 2006, at 23:37, Michael Zimmer wrote: hostname="#.com" defaultrouter=1.2.3.4 # previously "1.2.3.4"; removed Could you post the output of "sh -x /etc/rc.d/routing start"? Please try to resist editing it too. Is this working for anyone on 6.0-STABLE? I don't see anywhere in /etc where the default route is actually installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <~> grep defaultrouter /etc/rc.conf defaultrouter="131.155.68.1" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <~> netstat -rn | grep default default131.155.68.1 UGS 0 484325xl0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <~> bsdver FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p1 #2: Mon Jan 2 12:07:31 CET 2006 No other interfaces, so I'd say it works for me. Thank the gods for that. Could you send me the output of "sh -x /etc/rc.d/routing start" privately? I'm rather confused regarding where this happens. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: defaultroute not loading
On 13 Jan 2006, at 12:49, Ceri Davies wrote: On 12 Jan 2006, at 23:37, Michael Zimmer wrote: I just updated a i386 gateway to 6.0-STABLE - using my backed-up versions [from 5.1] of: rc.conf rc.firewall rc.resume rc.sendmail rc.shutdown rc.subr rc.suspend resolv.conf sysctl.conf ipnat.rules ipf.rules ...and the default route won't load on boot, although it is specified in rc.conf (replace all non-comment #'s and 1.2.3.4 with appropriate numbers) hostname="#.com" defaultrouter=1.2.3.4 # previously "1.2.3.4"; removed Could you post the output of "sh -x /etc/rc.d/routing start"? Please try to resist editing it too. Is this working for anyone on 6.0-STABLE? I don't see anywhere in /etc where the default route is actually installed. Ignore me, there's nothing wrong. At least not with FreeBSD... :-/ Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: NIC bonding/teaming
On 13 Jan 2006, at 20:22, jim feldman wrote: Does 6.x have a nic bonding/teaming/failover feature like the linux bond (rnd robin, failover, ld bal, trunking)? I'm thinking multiple nics, one server, same lan/vlan. I've read up on CARP and one2many, but they don't seem to do what bond does. I think you want ng_one2many(4). Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Getting latest files with cvsweb for a given tag
On 14 Jan 2006, at 01:42, RW wrote: Is there a cvsweb URL that will give me the latest version of a given file, given a specific tag? ie without specifying a explicit revision. What I am trying to do is write a script that will download the latest version of src/sys/conf/newvers.sh for RELENG_6_0, so it can parse out the version information and compare it with the output of uname -r. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/conf/ newvers.sh?rev=RELENG_6_0 It's probably easier to use anonymous CVS, although anoncvs.FreeBSD.org doesn't seem to be carrying our tree at the moment. Ceri PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: It is old.
On 14 Jan 2006, at 13:22, n-n wrote: Everyone says that FreeBSD is old. Hereafter, many people will say that Linux and OpenSolaris are good. I'm sorry, what are you talking about? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Alice PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Setquota on FreeBSD 4.11
On 14 Jan 2006, at 10:53, Don O'Neil wrote: I'm having problems getting the port 'setquota' to work on my FBSD 4.11 box... When I type: setquota -g -f /array01 -bh51200K root I get setquota : /array01 does not have quotas enabled. Or when I type: setquota -u -f /array01 -bh51200K root I get setquota : GETQUOTA(root) - Invalid argument Even though I have built the kernel w/ the option, enabled quotas in rc, etc... quota -v shows: Disk quotas for user root (uid 0): Filesystem usage quota limit grace files quota limit grace /array01 0 0 0 0 0 0 I can edit quotas using edquota no problems. I had to build setquota from sources, as the port package for 4.11 isn't available anymore. Any ideas what might be going on here? I'm not familiar with the setquota port, but it's possible that the *quota files in /array01 are missing. Running quotacheck will fix that if it's the case. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Alice PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OS use rate
On 14 Jan 2006, at 13:33, n-n wrote: OS use rate in my project. 2005/01/10 - 2006/01/10 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES3.0 - 3947 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3.0 - 1287 Sun Solaris 9 - 583 *BSD - 0 What project is that then? If you can't be bothered to tell us what you are talking about, then don't be surprised if you fall into everyone's killfiles. Whoops, there you go already. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Alice PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: urgent, agir vite
On 18 Jan 2006, at 10:47, Roland Romero wrote: on dirait qu'il y a un bug là : http://www.fr.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi? max=25&source=www&words=TurboGX&submit=Rechercher ça affiche tout le code perl ! Rol, My French has withered to nothing since I studied it 12 years ago, so I hope you can understand my reply, We generally don't expect our mirror sites to run the CGI scripts. The code is not sensitive as it is publicly available in CVS, and this situation is actually very common on our mirrors. However, the mirrors are supposed to point all CGI links to www.FreeBSD.org; if you could us know where the link to the above was found, then we can work on fixing the misdirection. Cheers, Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: information about distribution
On 19 Jan 2006, at 15:20, Martin Rolinec wrote: Hello. I would like to make a web page on which I would like to sale Linux distibution to people, who don´t have an opportunity to download it from internet. So I have few questions about a licence: 1. I would like to ask, if I can download the CD images from your distribution (iso-cd-dvd, live iso and so on) and offer them for sale on my web page, thus if I can spread your distibution legaly for a minimal charges? 2. CDs and DVDs I would like to sale with CD printing.../with Buble Jet printer/. So I would like to ask you, if I can use your LOGO and the LOGO of distibution and a color combination of your distribution on the CD printing. PS: Of course with using of your LOGO and the color combination I regard all rights and duties involved in copyright. So, every customer, who will buy your distribution will be notified in writing, that: 1. distribution is dowloaded from web, from your ISO images 2. distribution is burned 3. the price of CD or DVD does not include the technical support in all forms from you . 4. customer will be informed, that your LOGO, color and the name of distribution is subject to your author´s right 5. customer will be informed, that the CD was burned by me, so I will bear all problems coupled with its malfuncion. Thank you for your answers and I hope, that I will be able to spread your distribution without biggest problems. Martin, You can use the ISOs as long as you follow the terms at http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html. Use of the daemon mascot requires that you obtain permission from Marshall Kirk McKusick, as per the entry at http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html. The "spacehopper" logo should be considered off-limits for now, as we are still awaiting legal work regarding it. We would appreciate it if you contributed a percentage of the proceeds to the FreeBSD Foundation (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/) in order to help with further work, but you do not have to. As another poster pointed out, please don't call FreeBSD Linux; it's a different beast altogether. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
On 18 Jan 2006, at 17:17, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/17/06, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc so I can disconnect without disrupting jobs. (Hmm, I wonder if I'll have to add a mouse or keyboard at that point.) /usr/ports/sysutils/screen Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions between windows. nohup foobar > ~/foobar.log& tail -f ~/foobar.log If you think that is even vaguely equivalent to screen, then I cannot suggest strongly enough that you actually try it. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?
On 23 Jan 2006, at 21:27, Tyler T wrote: I posted about this earlier but no replies. Since then I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled FreeBSD 6 from scratch. I still get this error when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif Should I go ahead and submit a bug for it? That depends if you rolled your own crunchgen configuration or not. Are you following a standard document to do this? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:24:00AM -0700, Tyler T wrote: > > > I still get this error > > > when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy > > > > > > http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif > > > That depends if you rolled your own crunchgen configuration or not. > > Are you following a standard document to do this? > > Thanks for the reply!! I'm using > > http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd/doc/how2build.html That document could do with deleting. Could you take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/nanobsd/index.html and see if it fits any better; PicoBSD should be considered obsolete. Cheers, Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpzKhxWith3G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: inetd and security
On 25 Jan 2006, at 01:09, Playnet wrote:
Hello freebsd-questions,
What better for security reasons?
Inetd, xinetd, standalone? As sample -- vsftpd.
As i know, inetd insecure and deprecated. But what better, xinetd or
standalone?
There's nothing inherently insecure about inetd, and I think that
our implementation is just fine.
As for {x,}inetd vs standalone, that depends entirely on your kind
of load.
Ceri
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Re: what am I doing wrong with edquota ?
On 29 Jan 2006, at 22:56, Ensel Sharon wrote: edquota -u -e /mnt/fs1:810:900:81:90 test200 Looks fine. Things to check: Do any other quotas work? Is the filesystem mounted with the appropriate quota options? Do you have QUOTA support in your kernel? Does /mnt/fs1/quota.user or /mnt/fs1/quota.group exist? Does "quotacheck -a" fix it? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Proper mail headers
On 30 Jan 2006, at 18:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper etiquette when filling in my headers, especially when responding to someone's post. Should I just let let my reply go to the person named in Reply-To or should I reply to the list and CC the poster, or is it the other way around? It is usually considered incorrect to directly mail or CC a response to a poster unless they specifically requested it. The etiquette on all the FreeBSD lists has long been to reply to the list *and* the poster. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Proper mail headers
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:57:30AM +0900, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > I reply to emails using the "reply to all" feature of my mail client. It > replies (not unreasonably, I think) to the list (as specified by List-ID), > the To, From, and CC. It seems to eliminate any duplicates as well as my own > address. This had a bad effect recently where I duplicated a message to the > -questions mailing list because it was To: questions@ with a List-ID of > freebsd-questions@ . My question is, other than paying careful manual > attention to where my replies are going, is there something that should be > changed on my client or on the server to make it more obvious that those 2 > email addresses are (for my purposes at least?) the same? You should probably just try to remember to check, and let those with nothing better to do beat themselves all up if you forget. I don't think it's life-or-death. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpAnVFeuVYVS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mount changing mount point rights?
On 9 Feb 2006, at 12:52, Norberto Meijome wrote: hi all, I'm mounting a GELI encrypted, file backed vnode on ~/mount_folder. I am member of wheel. I start with Home directory: drwxr-x--- 51 betom betom 3072 Feb 9 23:38 betom file and folder which i want to mount in. drwxrwx--- 2 betom betom 512 Feb 9 17:42 mount_folder -rw-rw 1 betom betom 614400 Feb 9 23:38 geli.dsk I then define the md device, attach it to geli (it was already init and newfs -U run on it), fsck sudo mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./_1.dsk -u 13 sudo geli attach /dev/md13 fsck -p -t ufs /dev/md13.eli the devices look like this : $ ls -l /dev/md* crw-r- 1 root wheel0, 121 Feb 9 22:24 /dev/md13 crw-r- 1 root wheel0, 122 Feb 9 23:23 /dev/md13.eli crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 87 Feb 9 22:24 /dev/mdctl Then mount it: sudo mount /dev/md13.eli /home/betom/mount_folder PROBLEM : the mount folder has changed it's access from 770 betom:betom to 750 root:wheel drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Feb 9 18:51 mount_folder -rw-rw 1 betom betom 614400 Feb 9 23:50 geli.dsk umask : $ umask 0022 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Thu Feb 9 23:48:53 2006] ~ $ sudo umask 0022 WHY is it doing that?! Since I want to use this folder as my own user , not root, I have to do the extra step of changing owner of the folder every time...quite annoying. how can I fix this? The owner of the "root" folder on the filesystem on md13.eli is root. Just chown/chmod it once it's mounted and it'll stick. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Mount changing mount point rights?
On 11 Feb 2006, at 08:44, Norberto Meijome wrote: thanks for the pointer. After mounting it, I did sudo chown betom: mnt_fld cd mnt_fld ls -la drwx-- 16 betom wheel512 Feb 11 12:07 . drwxr-x--- 50 betom betom 3072 Feb 11 11:47 .. [...] which looks ok to me.. but as soon as I unmount and mount again, it reverts to root:wheel That's very, very strange, and shouldn't be possible. What are you doing differently to me: # uname -v FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #19: Sun Feb 5 04:58:29 GMT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHRIKE # dd if=/dev/zero of=/a/md bs=1000 count=6144000 # mdconfig -a -f /a/md md2 # geli init /dev/md2 # geli attach /dev/md2 # newfs -U /dev/md2.eli # mount /dev/md2.eli /mnt # ls -ld /mnt drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Feb 11 15:15 /mnt # chown ceri:users /mnt # ls -ld /mnt drwxr-xr-x 3 ceri users 512 Feb 11 15:15 /mnt # umount /mnt # mount /dev/md2.eli /mnt # ls -ld /mnt drwxr-xr-x 3 ceri users 512 Feb 11 15:15 /mnt Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: scripting sysinstall for pxeboot
On 11 Feb 2006, at 04:30, Christopher Cowart wrote: On a not-a-show-stopper note, is there any way to get around specifying the hostname and/or net device? I'd rather not specify the hostname so that I can have one generic script for many machines. Further, what if a some other machine has a different kind of NIC? By hardcoding these values into install.cfg, the solution becomes much less maintainable. Why can't it obtain the hostname from DHCP? Any thoughts on this? Net device, I think you're out of luck. As for the hostname, if the DHCP server actually sends a hostname, then you *can* leave it out of install.cfg. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Long list of stale dependencies for tomcat55 port
On 13 Feb 2006, at 11:28, Ashley Moran wrote: Does anyone know how my Tomcat installation on a 5.4 box has ended up including the following as tomcat dependencies? atk-1.10.3 libXft-2.1.7 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1 desktop-file-utils-0.10_3 pango-1.10.3 glib-2.8.6 cairo-1.0.2_1 gtk-2.8.12 mozilla-1.7.12_5,2 tiff-3.8.0 bitstream-vera-1.10_2 Nope. I don't even know what half of them do. I've deleted all the stale dependencies because freshports.org says the only run-time dependency is java/jdk14 (jdk15 on my machine). Is this right? According to make, yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/www/tomcat55} % make -V RUN_DEPENDS /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java:/usr/ports/java/jdk14 Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: More tomcat wierdness
On 13 Feb 2006, at 13:00, Ashley Moran wrote: I've reinstalled Tomcat (now in www/tomcat55) because it was going mental (100% CPU) and now the stop/start isn't working through the rc.d script. Tomcat starts and records the PID in /var/run/tomcat55.pid. But when I call the script with stop I get an error saying "tomcat not started? check pid file", or something to that effect. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -lad /var/run/. /var/run/tomcat55.pid drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Feb 13 12:10 /var/run/. -rw-r--r-- 1 www wheel6 Feb 13 12:22 /var/run/tomcat55.pid It worked fine when it was running off the old www/jakarta-tomcat55 port - I don't know if anything has changed. "sh -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat55.sh stop" may shed some light. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Odd daily run output
On 15 Feb 2006, at 13:26, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jimmie James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I know there's 8% reserved for softupdates, but how is it possible that there's _extra_ space on /tmp ? What am I missing? This is the first time I've seen this. This is a FAQ. In fact, it's listed in the FAQ list. "How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL Except that it isn't, and you should read the questions more carefully. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Odd file created in /
On 18/2/06 10:27, "Mike Loiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a file in / called -P. It is a socket file I believe I created by > mistake while trying to get mysql, spamassassin, or something similar to > work. > > How can I check for sure to make sure it isn't something important? Check to see if anything has it open currently. "netstat -a -f unix" will do that for you. Then rename it. Then wait a week before unlinking it. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: torrents.freebsd.org
On 20/2/06 23:34, "Bob Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > torrents.freebsd.org (216.136.204.113:8080) does not seem to be > accepting any connections. Neither ctorrent nor rtorrent will connect > to it, nor will a manual telnet connection. > > torrents.freebsd.org:8080 is the tracker specified in the torrent > files downloaded from > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/torrents/6.0-RELEASE. > > Am I doing something wrong or is it down? It's down. There are no reliable statements as to when it will be back up, either. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: portsnap failing
On 23/2/06 11:33, "Ashley Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to update my ports tree on a 6.0-RELEASE/amd64 machine. I get this > error: > > Updating from Wed Feb 15 08:30:17 GMT 2006 to Thu Feb 23 10:20:03 GMT 2006. > Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done. > Applying metadata patches... done. > Fetching 3 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open > f1777c019669546744ef448c17531bdd125884253a6bf4b73f6e77001d7a0b12.gz: No such > file or directory > > > If I delete the portsnap files and try to fetch a new snapshot, I get this > error instead: > > Fetching snapshot generated at Thu Feb 23 03:09:19 GMT 2006: > f4b0454e7bce8a4decdb9190e22b8325a966e92005df5f 97% of 39 MB 118 kBps 00m08s > fetch: transfer timed out > > > Neither of my i386 boxes have this problem. Does anyone know where the issue > lies? Go on, humour me and run that bad boy with -x! sh -x /usr/sbin/portsnap fetch Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Desperate - FreeBSD 6.0 Freezing
On 26/2/06 09:24, "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ACPI APIC Table: Ha ha - does that stand for what I think it stands for? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: password change in memberships reminder
On 1/3/06 06:06, "Ashok Shrestha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received my monthly "freebsd.org mailing list memberships > reminder." But some of my passwords were changed. Is that normal? > > I can't check my previous ones because I already deleted them. Is it possible that you never set a password? If so, one will have been randomly generated for you, which may explain why you don't recognise it. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: does buildkernel rerun config
On 1/3/06 07:53, "Steel City Phantom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > say you are running buildkernel with a config file. you realize you > made a mistake and ctl-c the build. change the config file and restart > buildkernel. does make buildkernel re-run the config to update the code > configuration? Yes. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: We want tu use your company name and logo
On 3/3/06 15:54, "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't see the point in all this FreeBSD, Linux wars just give the man an >> answer and walk away he wants to sell FreeBSD Daemon logos, the Penguin >> Logos, and the slackware logo he has a right to do so as long as he asks >> the realative partys for permission. I find it lame and a waste of time to >> have all these Linux and FreeBSD wars and both OS'es have there place > > I haven't seen anything to indicate a war, just an indication that > someone thinks there is a thing called Slackware FreeBSD Linux that > they want to sell logo clothing for, and some other folks that find it > hilarious. An alternative might be that English is not his first language and he didn't know that there were supposed to be some commas there. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't think that there is such a thing as "Slackware FreeBSD Linux". What Chris is getting at is that I see 5 responses laughing at the guy - and he hasn't even been copied in on them, so they're all laughing behind his back - just because he mentioned Linux. That's just callous. > I find it hilarious. Do you laugh at people who stutter as well? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New Logo
On 3/3/06 18:01, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ansar Mohammed wrote: >> Does anyone know where I can get apparel with the new FreeBSD Logos? >> >> >> > On a related note: > What's the status of the winner of the logo contest? > Is it encumbered, is it free to use? Copyright has been assigned to the FreeBSD Foundation, the trademark has been applied for. There are a couple of loose ends to tie up. > Will there be a new contest? No. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Terminal Not Providing login: Prompt
On 4/3/06 23:37, "Jason C. Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn Dawson wrote: >> At 03:04 PM 3/4/2006, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> When I use 'tip' I seem to bee connected, but I get no login prompt. >>> >>> $ tip sio0 >>> connected >>> >>> and nothing else. >> >> Did you enable ttyd0 in /etc/ttys? > > Yes. Did you reboot or HUP init since? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New logo, new look
On 6/3/06 14:56, "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So a little red ball with 2 little pointed ears is the new logo. > It sucks big time. > > When you have a contest and none of the entrees are any good > you do not have to pick any of then, you could have just > closed the contest with no winner. The problem with that argument is that some people, including myself, liked the new logo. Since opinion is entirely subjective, you may as well shut up. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Release 6.0 386 kernel config file
On 6/3/06 19:26, "Steve P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone please give me a url to a text listing of this file? I > don't have access to fbsd right now. http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC - click "download" Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New logo, new look
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Ceri Davies wrote:
>
> >On 6/3/06 14:56, "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>So a little red ball with 2 little pointed ears is the new logo.
> >>It sucks big time.
> >>
> >>When you have a contest and none of the entrees are any good
> >>you do not have to pick any of then, you could have just
> >>closed the contest with no winner.
> >
> >The problem with that argument is that some people, including myself, liked
> >the new logo. Since opinion is entirely subjective, you may as well shut
> >up.
>
> Is there a reason why both the old and new logos cannot be used in tandem?
> I'd rather leave the old one up on my web site, since, personally, I like
> it better ... I understand the argument for a 'new logo', but, quite
> frankly, after looking at the new one, I'm surprised the same arguments
> (being associated with a demon) isn't still being made, since the new one
> *still* gives that same connotation ...
>
> My preference is to keep using the old logo ("Beastie") on my web site,
> and I imagine there are others that feel the same way ... are we going to
> be "shunned" as a result? I would hope not ...
Absolutely not - that was never the plan. Remember that Beastie
represents BSD as a whole, while the new logo will represent FreeBSD.
That's all it's about.
Ceri
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Re: New logo, new look
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:19:28AM +, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Ceri Davies wrote:
> >
> > >On 6/3/06 14:56, "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >>So a little red ball with 2 little pointed ears is the new logo.
> > >>It sucks big time.
> > >>
> > >>When you have a contest and none of the entrees are any good
> > >>you do not have to pick any of then, you could have just
> > >>closed the contest with no winner.
> > >
> > >The problem with that argument is that some people, including myself, liked
> > >the new logo. Since opinion is entirely subjective, you may as well shut
> > >up.
> >
> > Is there a reason why both the old and new logos cannot be used in tandem?
> > I'd rather leave the old one up on my web site, since, personally, I like
> > it better ... I understand the argument for a 'new logo', but, quite
> > frankly, after looking at the new one, I'm surprised the same arguments
> > (being associated with a demon) isn't still being made, since the new one
> > *still* gives that same connotation ...
> >
> > My preference is to keep using the old logo ("Beastie") on my web site,
> > and I imagine there are others that feel the same way ... are we going to
> > be "shunned" as a result? I would hope not ...
>
> Absolutely not - that was never the plan. Remember that Beastie
> represents BSD as a whole, while the new logo will represent FreeBSD.
> That's all it's about.
Occurs to me that the meaning of "absolutely not" might not be that
clear above: if you want to use Beastie on stuff, nobody will point at
you or mutter behind your back. We, as in the FreeBSD project, will
mainly be using the new one, as it will identify the FreeBSD project as
opposed to just BSD in general like Beastie does.
Ceri
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Re: How to figure out who shutdown box (Kelly D. Grills)
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:22:08PM -0500, Jon Poland wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:24:17AM -0500, Jon Poland wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> I operate a colo box running FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY. Yesterday the box > >> shutdown and powered off. I didn't execute shutdown or halt, and I'm > >the > >> only user who can. Here's what the logs tell me: > >> > >> /var/log/console.log: > >> Mar 3 11:24:29 kmart kernel: Shutting down daemon processes: > >> > >> /var/log/messages: > >> Mar 3 11:24:38 kmart syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > >> > >> last: (the important lines) > >> reboot ~ Fri Mar 3 13:10 > >> shutdown ~ Fri Mar 3 11:24 > >> > >> I don't see anything in any of the logs like "rebooted by X", etc. > >> > >> I'm not exactly sure how this can happen and looking for ideas. > >> > > > > Where are you logging security messages? I believe the default is to > > /var/log/security > > > > Have a look at /etc/syslog.conf and syslog.conf(5) > > > > You should see messages such as this in your security log: > > Mar 1 15:21:38 srv1 shutdown: reboot by kdgrills: > > For me, those show up in /var/log/messages: > Jan 17 22:54:23 kmart reboot: rebooted by polandj > > But nothing for the particular shutdown in question... It's possible that someone hit the power button. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgp8feqObPr3s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mounting nfs share
On 17/3/06 11:24, "Imran Imtiaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the command to mount NFS share? See the mount_nfs manpage. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: need help
On 17/3/06 12:30, "Michael S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried both. fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1a also exits because of bad superblocks. If you used the default parameters when creating the filesystem then "newfs -N /dev/ad0s1a" should tell you where the alternate superblocks are and you may be able to use one of them with fsck_ffs's -b option. Don't forget the -N to newfs whatever you do though. If you're uncomfortable using that, then just try block 32 or 160. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Daily chksetuid script - how to ignore certain dirs/filesystems?
On 19/3/06 10:58, "Pat Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a backup script that runs every night, backing up everything to > a backup drive. When the security script runs, it finds a bunch of > setuid files at /backup - I'd like to ignore those files, so I don't > have to wade through them every day. I also back up to a remote > server and it results in the same thing. How can I make it skip over > the backup dir, or at least ignore it in the output? The cron file in > question is /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid The best way to be to mount /backup nosuid. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Daily chksetuid script - how to ignore certain dirs/filesystems?
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:25:04AM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/19/06, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19/3/06 10:58, "Pat Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a backup script that runs every night, backing up everything to > > > a backup drive. When the security script runs, it finds a bunch of > > > setuid files at /backup - I'd like to ignore those files, so I don't > > > have to wade through them every day. I also back up to a remote > > > server and it results in the same thing. How can I make it skip over > > > the backup dir, or at least ignore it in the output? The cron file in > > > question is /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid > > > > The best way to be to mount /backup nosuid. > > How about on the other server? The files go to the /home partition > (and that's where they have to go). I'd do the same there unless there is a good reason not to (and the same for /tmp, /var/, etc) as SOP anyway. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpwBgGxJzOO1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: docs/94587: Error in ftpusers(5) manpage
On 19/3/06 18:40, "Ceri Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of the man pages belonging to NetBSD's FTP daemon should be renamed so > that they don't conflict, because this is too confusing. I recommend that > this PR get assigned to whoever does the import of the lukemftpd stuff. Turns out I raised a PR for this 3.5 years ago: docs/44519. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: docs/94587: Error in ftpusers(5) manpage
Whoops, wrong list. Ceri On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:43:32PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > On 19/3/06 18:40, "Ceri Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All of the man pages belonging to NetBSD's FTP daemon should be renamed so > > that they don't conflict, because this is too confusing. I recommend that > > this PR get assigned to whoever does the import of the lukemftpd stuff. > > Turns out I raised a PR for this 3.5 years ago: docs/44519. > > Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpqlryaMYQb4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BSD License "Innocence" Clause Proposal
On 19/3/06 22:16, "Andrew Pantyukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if I should start advocating the idea here. > Some people must've had this thought before I ever > did, I hope they will support me. > > We need a special clause in the license we release > our work under. I'm not a lawyer, but I understand that > it will be very hard to devise and formulate. Basically, > it should state that under no circumstances and under > no legislation should ever any entity be punished for > breaking the license terms. > > I just can't sleep tight when a man can get sued and > prosecuted because he copied a piece of my work > without mentioning my name, whatever his motives > are. At the same time, I respect my work and the work > of other, and appreciate a way to state that names > should be mentioned. Well, just don't prosecute. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mistake in FreeBSD manual
On 20/3/06 10:13, "Andrew Pantyukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/20/06, Grant Moritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Hey, >>In the FreeBSD manual >>([1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- >>inetd.html) under the section "25.2.5 Security" at the end of the >>first paragraph there is an error in grammar. >>"Some daemons, such as fingerd, may not be desired at all because they >>information that may be useful to an attacker." >>Doesn't make sense to me just thought I would pass along the >>observation you guys. > I think that an average english reader would not notice > that, inserting the word "provide" subconciously. That's what I did when I wrote it, when I proofread it, and again when I read it above. Sorry, I must be mentally blind to it! Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firewall log unlimited - How to?
On 20/3/06 14:57, "Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was configuring the Firewall when I got this message: > > Mar 20 11:16:08 bsd-net kernel: ipfw: limit 100 reached on entry 835 > >And the firewall stoped to create log messages after this message. > >What I do need to do to IPFW do not stop writing the log file? > >If I change this option IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT on kernel to: > IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=0 > Set the net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit sysctl to 0. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:40:00PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600: [ Choosing a random(ish) post to reply to - I am on holiday right now and I will not pretend to have read the whole thread ] > > 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a > > modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading > > Style Sheets?) > > you mean a sans-serif font? yes, most computer display fonts should > be sans-serif since the screen resolution does not always allow you to > do that... (and Helvetica isn't that modern, about 50 years old now > it appears)... > > As for CSS, it appears that we do use CSS on the site: > I just committed that before I left for holidays; it is only a first step towards CSS'ing the site, and once the conversion to CSS is complete then it should be simple to have an a "best stylesheet" competition or similar (something along those lines was discussed on doc@ a couple of weeks ago). Matt Seaman posted a link to a crappy "here is what CSS can do" mockup that I posted to doc@ just before the commit mentioned above - it's at http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/data2/index.html (be sure to let all the images load - this is on a slow link - and be aware that it doesn't work properly in IE for reasons that DES mentioned elsewhere). Once the conversion to CSS is complete then I have ideas for a way to offer users a personalised stylesheet (subject to implementation [I do not have a computer with me] and benchmarking [it is likely to be a little slow, though this remains to be seen]), and then you will all whine like bitchen about being asked to accept a cookie. Simon@ also has a parallel project running to redesign the site on a more fundamental which is showing promise; my main focus at present is to migrate all style related bits into stylesheets, at which point it will be easy to mess around with colour/font/layout. At present, it is not. So yes, to whoever asked the question, we have heard of CSS and we have not only been using it (minimally) for over three years, but there is real activity in improving what we do have already. > And part of CSS is letting people choose what font they want to display > the site in... It appears at least Mozilla chooses Times by default... > So I'd more complain to the browers that display with the default font.. Stimmt. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgp5bQLJOqHAj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: favor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Feb 2005, at 01:56, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Sandy Rutherford writes: SR> However, it is hard to see that as the prerequisite "positive act" SR> on the part of the web site owner. It is more a positive act on SR> Google's part. Google doesn't find out about sites through magic. Webmasters must request that their sites be indexed. That is utterly untrue. Ceri -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCBgw9ocfcwTS3JF8RAvZ2AJ0fRzbuhmqIM7uq5dEUEbUrmu77vwCfdfrP iGaWT8EBYkDjuMyTFtNteLk= =+eHy -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:22:02PM -0800, Matt Olander wrote: > hey gang, > > We've got a customer that is considering a network expansion while moving > from Linux to FreeBSD. > > They are big users of MySQL and have been running it on Linux. > > Most of the information that I've found is a bit old, but I guess my > question is if LinuxThreads should still be used or if MySQL works well > under FreeBSD using native threads. > > The customer has looked at Jeremy's blog article on this issue, but this is > pretty old: > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000697.html > > Also, does anybody have any FreeBSD 5.3/MySQL benchmarks? I searched the > mailing lists but didn't turn up anything. Hot off the press: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1243207&from=rss Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgpXT4KpErWtD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem with Exim
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:26:48AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote: > Since upgrading to the latest exim (4.44?) I will occasionally notice I > am not receiving mail. I will check the server (ps -ax | grep 'exim') > and find that there are dozens of exim processes running (exim -bd > -q30m). I will do 'exim.sh stop' but that only kills the initial > process and not the others. If I manually kill all the stray processes, > as soon as I start receiving mail new ones will appear. If I reboot, > then everything works fine for about 24 hours then it starts to happen > again. Has anybody else had this happen or does anybody know what might > be causing the problem? I do run Exim with Clamav and I keep all my > ports updated almost daily. That's how exim works, pretty much. Next time it happens, run the exiwhat script as root and those processes will all report on what they are doing. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgpfVJloKhGHB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!
On 12 Feb 2005, at 07:12, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: With BSD, the copyrights on it are held by the University of Berkeley and by the FreeBSD Project. Really? Grepped for Copyright in /usr/src recently? Ceri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: WHAT KIND OF SH*T IS THIS: telnet and ssh
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:47:31PM -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > let's get straight to it: > > whenever i telnet or ssh to something that's offline, i get e.g.: > ssh: hostname.domain.com: hostname nor servname provided, or not known > > comeon, can't you guys at least change it to: > ssh: hostname.domain.com: unknown > > thanks, > fafa Let's get straight to it: 1) Have a little respect. 2) Don't cross-post excessively. 3) Don't obfuscate hostnames in bug reports. 4) Define "offline"; I get nothing like the behaviour that you are describing from a downed host, nor from a non-existent host: $ ssh quinch ssh: connect to host quinch.private.submonkey.net port 22: Operation timed out $ ssh sdfsdfs ssh: sdfsdfs: No address associated with hostname 5) Come on, can't you spell check your mail before sending it? Thanks, Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Einstein (attrib.) pgpGqIVe2q5GT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: viewing sgml articles
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:48:13AM -0500, Dru wrote: > > What's the easiest way for an end-user to view the SGML articles in > /usr/doc? Is there a viewer, or do they have to be converted to say, html > first? I know they're mirrored online, but it would be nice to have the > ability to read off-line. Install the textproc/docproj-nojadetex port and run "cd /usr/doc;make install clean". The formatted docs will then be in /usr/share/doc. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Commercial Distribution?
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:22:55PM +0100, Udo Schr?ter (Trionic Technologies) wrote: > > Are there any FreeBSD references that MUST be taken out / MUST be left in? Well, you don't have to, but I would really appreciate it if you made sure that send-pr was either removed or changed to submit bugs to yourselves. You've probably already thought of this, but I wanted to mention it, just in case. Thanks, Ceri (FreeBSD bugmeister) -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:10:31PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: > I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I > haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into > production. > > The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then > later restarted. > > I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd, but fixable, > but more importantly, when I run ps, it spits out 'ps: warning: > /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory' (although, as far as I can > tell, the output is perfectly reasonable). > > I'm wondering if one is a symptom of the other. In any event, > /var/run/dev.db is most certainly not there. You don't need to reboot - just run dev_mkdb. ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:36:42PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > Just wondering what the difference is between ; and &&? > > I use make depend; make; make install and others say they use: > > make depend && make && make install In the second form, each command will only run if the previous one succeeded, which is usually what you meant. [Of course, if the Makefile has it's dependencies correct, then a simple "make install" will achieve the same thing.] Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Page format problem
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:52:22AM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > eddie wrote: > > >Whilst reading through site I came across a format problem with this > >page. > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps. > >html > > Hi, eddie! > > I'm sure the docs team would be interested in > knowing more about this. Are you a FreeBSD > user? If so, submit a problem report using > send-pr(1). > > If you're not a FBSD user, or don't know much > about that program, I'd suggest using the site's > send-pr web form at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html Don't worry about that; assuming that you are talking about the tables 2.2 and 2.3 then I have already produced a patch which should fix it and which I am currently testing. If it's something else, then please carry on! Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Page format problem
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:06:35PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:52:22AM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > eddie wrote: > > > > >Whilst reading through site I came across a format problem with this > > >page. > > > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps. > > >html > > > > Hi, eddie! > > > > I'm sure the docs team would be interested in > > knowing more about this. Are you a FreeBSD > > user? If so, submit a problem report using > > send-pr(1). > > > > If you're not a FBSD user, or don't know much > > about that program, I'd suggest using the site's > > send-pr web form at: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html > > Don't worry about that; assuming that you are talking about the tables > 2.2 and 2.3 then I have already produced a patch which should fix it and > which I am currently testing. OK, I committed that correction now. Thanks for pointing it out. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phantom user
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:34:31PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > It's me I guess; have fbsd 4.8 rlse on a box on my lan. I normally log on > via ssh from my win xp workstation. > > #w > 4:31PM up 28 days, 3:01, 2 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.06, 0.01 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > martyp0 penguin 3:08PM - w > martyp1 192:S.0 31Dec03 18days /bin/csh > # > > So the first user is my ssh session (ssh'd in from an ssh session to my > linux box via my xp box) but what is the session on p1? screen -ls Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Advertisement Rates
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:08:44PM -0600, TJ wrote: > Webmaster, > > Could you please inform me of your advertisement prices to place a text > link on freebsd.org. We don't sell advertising I'm afraid, but thanks for expressing an interest. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
