Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 at 18:21 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Would the following procedure work to do an inplace upgrade: 1. Download the amd64 iso 2. Install it on a spare disk/partition 3. Do a cvsup on it's /usr/src 4. Make buildworld/buildkernel 5. Mount the x86 disk/partition 6. Copy /usr/obj (and /usr/src for good measure) from the amd partition to the x48 7. Reboot with x86 partition 8. Make installkernel/installworld mergemaster on x86 partition 9. Now the non-ports section OS is amd64 10. pkg_del /var/db/pkg/*; rm -rf /usr/ports/ /usr/local 11. Reftp ports.tar.gz and rebuild all the ports (I have about 10 top level ports installed the rest are dependicies so this straight forward) So does it work? Keep in mind, in your step 10, the OP will be removing more than just stuff from installed packages/ports if you 'rm -rf /usr/local'. If anything was built/installed manually from a source archive, for instance. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: question about Postfix
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 19:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello; I have a quick question about Postfix. When I install Free BSD and have it include Postfix from packages, does the install process completely replace Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have to replace Sendmail with Postfix separately? Thanks in advance Jeff K If you install Postfix from the ports collection: /usr/ports/mail/postfix toward the end of the install process, it will ask you if you wish for the install to make changes in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. You tell it yes. If it did not ask, /etc/mail/mailer.conf should look like this: sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail This is what so-to-speak "plugs" Postfix into the OS. To totally disable SendMail from running at startup after a reboot, you have to make some additions to the /etc/rc.conf config file. Namely, you have to add: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail specific that need to be disabled. That is done within /etc/periodic.conf as such: daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO" -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: determining the space used in / partition
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: hello, Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a198126 196070 -13794 108%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217762 3673264210%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210580 2481504611%/var devfs 110 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 3532232449%/mnt/usbck How can I determine what occupies the space in it? That is, it is not big as you can see. So I issued: du -hs / but it was taking ages (I am not sure but maybe du -hs counts all directories on the HD? Anyway, I do not really know where to look what has eaten the / space. Were it for /usr or /var, it would be obvious to me where to look for information. Many thanks! I don't see you have defined a /tmp partition. Perhaps /tmp is taking up all the space. Try: du -h /tmp and see how much /tmp is taking up. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: determining the space used in / partition
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 05:19 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: hello, Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a198126 196070 -13794 108%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217762 3673264210%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210580 2481504611%/var devfs 110 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 3532232449%/mnt/usbck How can I determine what occupies the space in it? That is, it is not big as you can see. So I issued: du -hs / but it was taking ages (I am not sure but maybe du -hs counts all directories on the HD? Anyway, I do not really know where to look what has eaten the / space. Were it for /usr or /var, it would be obvious to me where to look for information. Many thanks! I don't see you have defined a /tmp partition. Perhaps /tmp is taking up all the space. Try: du -h /tmp and see how much /tmp is taking up. Forgot to mention: du -h -d 0 /tmp will show the total space consumed by the /tmp partition in a human readable value. As in my previous example: du -h /tmp will show space consumed by each file on the /tmp partition in human readable values. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: determining the space used in / partition
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello again, Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a198126 196070 -13794 108%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217762 3673264210%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210580 2481504611%/var devfs 110 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 3532232449%/mnt/usbck How can I determine what occupies the space in it? That is, it is not big as you can see. So I issued: du -hs / but it was taking ages (I am not sure but maybe du -hs counts all directories on the HD? Anyway, I do not really know where to look what has eaten the / space. Were it for /usr or /var, it would be obvious to me where to look for information. Many thanks! I don't see you have defined a /tmp partition. Perhaps /tmp is taking up all the space. Try: du -h /tmp and see how much /tmp is taking up. du -hs /tmp 1.4M/tmp du -hs / 40GB One thing that comes to my mind. Each Sunday I have a script which makes a full dump of the HD to a back-up USB drive. Last weekend someone cleaining the computer room, must have accidentally powered off the USB drive. As a result, the dump has not been completed because the USB drive was not mounted at that time. I use cron for this task. Does it matter could have caused this? If the '-L' switch is used (telling dump it is dumping a live file system) it will first dump everything into a .snap directory before performing the dump. What does: du -hs /.snap give for a result? -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: determining the space used in / partition
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: 2007/10/2, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello again, Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a198126 196070 -13794 108%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217762 3673264210%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210580 2481504611%/var devfs 110 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 3532232449%/mnt/usbck How can I determine what occupies the space in it? That is, it is not big as you can see. So I issued: du -hs / but it was taking ages (I am not sure but maybe du -hs counts all directories on the HD? Anyway, I do not really know where to look what has eaten the / space. Were it for /usr or /var, it would be obvious to me where to look for information. Many thanks! I don't see you have defined a /tmp partition. Perhaps /tmp is taking up all the space. Try: du -h /tmp and see how much /tmp is taking up. du -hs /tmp 1.4M/tmp du -hs / 40GB One thing that comes to my mind. Each Sunday I have a script which makes a full dump of the HD to a back-up USB drive. Last weekend someone cleaining the computer room, must have accidentally powered off the USB drive. As a result, the dump has not been completed because the USB drive was not mounted at that time. I use cron for this task. Does it matter could have caused this? If the '-L' switch is used (telling dump it is dumping a live file system) it will first dump everything into a .snap directory before performing the dump. What does: du -hs /.snap give for a result? Thank you Duane! Yes, I do use the L switch. Unfortunately, du -hs /.snap 2.0K/.snap Hah - mystery cleared! I know what happened but you put me on the right track. For the record. During the backup, the file system is dumped to a dir on a USB drive called backup. Now, since the drive was unavailable, the dump utility created /backup dir and populated it with lists-var-l0-2007-09-30.dump.bz2 (dumping var) but of course it died as there was not enough space on the / to do it. I mean this is what I make of this. So after deleting /backup I get: df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a19812674084 10819241%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217760 3673264410%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210650 2481497611%/var devfs 110 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 3532232449%/mnt/usbck I'm still learning about all the little details about the workings of dump myself. It would seem to me, you are dumping to /backup which is the mount point for the USB device. Would that hold true? -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: determining the space used in / partition
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 08:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: 2007/10/2, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: 2007/10/2, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello again, Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a198126 196070 -13794 108%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217762 3673264210%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210580 2481504611%/var devfs 110 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 3532232449%/mnt/usbck How can I determine what occupies the space in it? That is, it is not big as you can see. So I issued: du -hs / but it was taking ages (I am not sure but maybe du -hs counts all directories on the HD? Anyway, I do not really know where to look what has eaten the / space. Were it for /usr or /var, it would be obvious to me where to look for information. Many thanks! I don't see you have defined a /tmp partition. Perhaps /tmp is taking up all the space. Try: du -h /tmp and see how much /tmp is taking up. du -hs /tmp 1.4M/tmp du -hs / 40GB One thing that comes to my mind. Each Sunday I have a script which makes a full dump of the HD to a back-up USB drive. Last weekend someone cleaining the computer room, must have accidentally powered off the USB drive. As a result, the dump has not been completed because the USB drive was not mounted at that time. I use cron for this task. Does it matter could have caused this? If the '-L' switch is used (telling dump it is dumping a live file system) it will first dump everything into a .snap directory before performing the dump. What does: du -hs /.snap give for a result? Thank you Duane! Yes, I do use the L switch. Unfortunately, du -hs /.snap 2.0K/.snap Hah - mystery cleared! I know what happened but you put me on the right track. For the record. During the backup, the file system is dumped to a dir on a USB drive called backup. Now, since the drive was unavailable, the dump utility created /backup dir and populated it with lists-var-l0-2007-09-30.dump.bz2 (dumping var) but of course it died as there was not enough space on the / to do it. I mean this is what I make of this. So after deleting /backup I get: df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a19812674084 10819241%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217760 3673264410%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210650 2481497611%/var devfs 110 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 3532232449%/mnt/usbck I'm still learning about all the little details about the workings of dump myself. It would seem to me, you are dumping to /backup which is the mount point for the USB device. Would that hold true? I dump to /mnt/usbck/backup. Since backup dir was not present, the script created it under / Thanks. I couldn't find anything in the man page that explained what would happen if the mount point for the dump was inaccessible at dump time. To me, it is still an assumption. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: question about Postfix
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 16:23 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Duane Hill wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 19:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello; I have a quick question about Postfix. When I install Free BSD and have it include Postfix from packages, does the install process completely replace Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have to replace Sendmail with Postfix separately? Thanks in advance Jeff K If you install Postfix from the ports collection: /usr/ports/mail/postfix toward the end of the install process, it will ask you if you wish for the install to make changes in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. You tell it yes. If it did not ask, /etc/mail/mailer.conf should look like this: sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail This is what so-to-speak "plugs" Postfix into the OS. To totally disable SendMail from running at startup after a reboot, you have to make some additions to the /etc/rc.conf config file. Namely, you have to add: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail specific that need to be disabled. That is done within /etc/periodic.conf as such: daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO" O.K. This is something I have not been aware of. As far as MTA's on any system I am somewhat of a newbe. I do get regular e-mails to the root accounts of my various (four) systems when they are running constantly, (two are) and I have been wondering how a switch over will effect that. I will need to do a system specific configuration of postfix and define system specific aliases, prevent public use of the servers for open relaying and such. So I expect for a first timer I have my work cut out for me. Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Jeff K (I'm not looking to spam anyone) Postfix can use the existing /etc/aliases file. As this is getting to be more off-topic from FreeBSD, I would suggest subscribing to the Postfix mailing list: http://www.postfix.org/lists.html and poking around the archives. Also, the documentation is very well put together: http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html You may also want to consider grabbing a copy of "The book of postfix": http://nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=postfix_rev It can be obtained either in paper or electronic format. I have the pdf sitting on my 'desktop' for a readily available reference. It has helped me out in answering a vast number of questions I had without the aide of the mailing list. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: More Postfix Woes
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:42:22 -0700 Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> confabulated: > I don't know what is going on with respect to Postfix during my boot > process, but the program starts, and stops, starts, and stops, and > this newbie is a little perplexed. Fortunately, it ends up started, > so I have access to my email, but something is obviously not right > here. I have provided below entries from my latest maillog. Any > help is appreciated... > > > > Oct 18 00:00:00 bsd newsyslog[2514]: logfile turned over > Oct 18 02:20:02 bsd postfix/pickup[2799]: 9EBD01D119: uid=0 > from= Oct 18 02:20:02 bsd postfix/trivial-rewrite[3032]: > warning: database /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport.db is older than > source file /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport > Oct 18 02:20:02 bsd postfix/cleanup[3031]: 9EBD01D119: > message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oct 18 02:20:02 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 9EBD01D119: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=931, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 18 02:20:02 bsd postfix/local[3033]: 9EBD01D119: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=302, > delays=302/0.01/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: > IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #rem) > Oct 18 02:20:02 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 9EBD01D119: removed > Oct 18 02:45:20 bsd postfix/pickup[2799]: 4E5D11D119: uid=0 > from= Oct 18 02:45:20 bsd postfix/trivial-rewrite[3247]: > warning: database /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport.db is older than > source file /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport > Oct 18 02:45:20 bsd postfix/cleanup[3246]: 4E5D11D119: > message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oct 18 02:45:20 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 4E5D11D119: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=939, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 18 02:45:20 bsd postfix/local[3248]: 4E5D11D119: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=19, > delays=19/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: > IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #rem) > Oct 18 02:45:20 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 4E5D11D119: removed > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/pickup[3268]: 582321D119: uid=0 > from= Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/trivial-rewrite[3583]: > warning: database /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport.db is older than > source file /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/cleanup[3576]: 582321D119: > message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 582321D119: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=1189, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/pickup[3268]: 63AE11D11B: uid=0 > from= Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/cleanup[3576]: 63AE11D11B: > message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 63AE11D11B: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=2038, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/local[3589]: 63AE11D11B: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.08, > delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: > IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #rem) > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 63AE11D11B: removed > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/local[3588]: 582321D119: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.17, > delays=0.09/0.01/0/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: > IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #rem) > Oct 18 03:02:23 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 582321D119: removed > Oct 18 03:16:21 bsd postfix/pickup[3268]: 4F6211D119: uid=0 > from= Oct 18 03:16:21 bsd postfix/trivial-rewrite[16064]: > warning: database /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport.db is older than > source file /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport > Oct 18 03:16:21 bsd postfix/cleanup[16063]: 4F6211D119: > message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oct 18 03:16:21 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 4F6211D119: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=562, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 18 03:16:21 bsd postfix/local[16065]: 4F6211D119: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=75, > delays=75/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: > IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #rem) > Oct 18 03:16:21 bsd postfix/qmgr[906]: 4F6211D119: removed > Oct 18 08:03:12 bsd postfix/postfix-script[17269]: stopping the > Postfix mail system > Oct 18 08:03:12 bsd postfix/master[894]: terminating on signal 15 > Oct 18 08:03:12 bsd postfix/postfix-script[17290]: fatal: the Postfix > mail system is not running > Oct 18 08:04:42 bsd postfix/postfix-script[894]: starting the Postfix > mail system > Oct 18 08:04:42 bsd postfix/master[895]: daemon started -- version > 2.4.5, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix > Oct 18 08:04:42 bsd postfix/pickup[902]: B2EE61D131: uid=0 from= > Oct 18 08:04:42 bsd postfix/trivial-rewrite[919]: warning: database > /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport.db is older than source file > /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport > Oct 18 08:04:42 bsd postfix/cleanup[914]: B2EE61D131: > message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oct 18 08:04:42 bsd postfix/qmgr[903]: B2EE61D131: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=701,
Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:55:45 -0500 Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was going to recommend that, but from my experience, there is no > real *easy* way to allow users directly to modify their own settings. > I am probably wrong though. Postfix is running here on a FreeBSD server as a boarder filter server. All bayes and per-user SpamAssassin settings are stored within a MySQL database on our SQL server. The web mail interface is SquirrelMail installed on a different FreeBSD server and has the sasql plugin interfaced to the MySQL server so the customers have control over what they want to set their spam score, whitelist, blacklist, whether they want bayes filtering, whether they want bayes autolearn and so forth. It has been pretty low maintenance. I am in the process of evaluating the possibility of using amavis-new. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: uptime 2 years!
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: Hello, Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have much reach but wanted to share with you since your community has made this possible. Please indicate where I could post this to have a bit more reach or if you'd like to put a link to my blog, I'd be more than happy to provide that. Best Regards, Sorry to rain on your parade: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2008-October/005719.html Uptime over seven(7) years? Must be behind some firewall and not have to worry about (what someone else has stated) kernel or userland updates. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: DHCP and MAC addresses
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, en0f wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington One response I got off list was that I could use "deny unknown-clients;" if I use isc-dhcpd-server, which got me thinking ... is there another dhcp server for FreeBSD in the ports tree, or outside it? I have used dnsmasq on Slackware Linux. It is a combined DNS/DHCP server that works well on small private networks. I don't know if it runs on BSD. Same here. I've used it on Debian&Ubuntu without any problem on home network and as Bob mentioned it talks both DNS and DHCP. Just took a quick look: %locate dnsmasq /usr/ports/dns/dnsmasq ... Seems to be in the ports tree. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: vmware timekeeping
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:30:27 -0400 Peter Thoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> confabulated: > > I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and > > I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the > > host > > How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you > using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on > boot, I routinely lose 15 minutes a day (I keep it up 24x7). I think > it is not so much a bug in VMware as opposed to the host OS running > slower than it thinks (e.g. maybe a second of OS time is really > 1.01 seconds of real time adding up over long periods) if the > native OS is under moderate to heavy use. I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE within Vmware v6.0.4 build 93057 with the host OS being XP-Home-SP2. I also have two jails running within the FreeBSD VM. I have within /boot/loader.conf: kern.hz="50" And within root's crontab: PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin @reboot ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org I do not have the Vmware tools loaded. Nor do I have ntpd running. Time has not been a big issue. The host OS (XP) is used more than average for the irreplaceable Windoe$ software I have yet to find replacements for native to FreeBSD. I just decided to do an ntpdate and here are the results: plz# ntpdate -b us.pool.ntp.org 7 Jun 17:04:06 ntpdate[57748]: step time server 208.53.158.34 offset 2.433443 sec plz# uptime 4:59PM up 6 days, 18:47, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- "If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving!" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: semi OT: correct CIDR block?
On Monday, March 05, 2012 at 14:30:01 UTC, roberth...@rcn.com confabulated: > With my brain still on EBADSLEEP, I cannot decide if: > 10.0.0.32-10.0.0.63 > is correctly described by: > 10.0.0.32/27 > Anyone? Please? I use the online IP calculator all the time: http://jodies.de/ipcalc?host=10.0.0.32&mask1=27&mask2= -- If at first you don't succeed... ...so much for skydiving. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Why are "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 " identical on both stable & standard supfiles
Hello Carmel, Monday, May 2, 2011, 5:13:41 PM, you wrote: > Just a quick question. Why are these lines identical "*default > release=cvs tag=RELENG_8" in both the standard-supfile and the > stable-supfile on a FreeBSD-8.2 amd64 system? Shouldn't they be > different, and if so, exactly what? Here, under /usr/share/examples/cvsup they have the correct content. Is that where you are looking? -- Best regards, Duanemailto:du...@duanemail.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: boot/loader splash image
Sunday, July 17, 2011, 6:07:57 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > wayne mitchell wrote: >> hey >> got question/problem for /boot/loader >> >> system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC >> >> trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup >> >> >> have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) >> and followed instructions >> using following values in /boot/loader.conf : >> >> bitmap_load="YES"# have tried commenting this out also >> vesa_load="YES" >> splash_bmp_load="YES" >> bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bmp" >> >> the splash.bmp size is about 900x700 >> does not work >> am using /boot/loader.rc as preset (includes loader.4th and beastie.4th) > Try putting vesa_load="YES" first. The image must also be 256-color. -- Best regards, Duanemailto:du...@duanemail.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Horde-4
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 12:47:33 PM, Jack wrote: > Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x > Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything > google & horde.org has to offer but I find no solution > to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. > Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have > successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, "IMP" app > for an IMAP mail service. > The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and > the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, > my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work > for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using > MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be > able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) > Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. > I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but > cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just > fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple > designated as admins. > If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I > would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same > login as I assUme? > Thanks for any ideas Installed fine via ports from /usr/ports/mail/horde4-webmail/ FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2, MySQL 5.1.58, Postfix v2.8.3 It took less than 15 minutes to have it configured and running. -- Best regards, Duanemailto:du...@duanemail.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Horde-4
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 1:45:57 PM, I wrote: > Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 12:47:33 PM, Jack wrote: >> Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x >> Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything >> google & horde.org has to offer but I find no solution >> to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. >> Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have >> successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, "IMP" app >> for an IMAP mail service. >> The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and >> the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, >> my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work >> for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using >> MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be >> able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) >> Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. >> I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but >> cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just >> fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple >> designated as admins. >> If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I >> would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same >> login as I assUme? >> Thanks for any ideas > Installed fine via ports from /usr/ports/mail/horde4-webmail/ > FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2, MySQL 5.1.58, Postfix v2.8.3 > It took less than 15 minutes to have it configured and running. Forgot to mention I am using Dovecot v2.0.13. -- Best regards, Duanemailto:du...@duanemail.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: A quality operating system
Saturday, August 20, 2011, 6:23:05 PM, wrote: > Le Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:46:58 -0500, > Dave Pooser a écrit : >> An honest question here-- how many people run production servers on >> RELEASE, never mind BETA? Mine has been running on STABLE, first 8.1 >> and then 8.2. > Me! Because "if it works, don't break it.". Me too. Been running FreeBSD release versions on servers for years. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Issues with Link Aggregation
Hello Freebsd-Questions, I have an Asus laptop running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p4. I have successfully configured both the wired and wireless interfaces. They both work individually. I use the wireless interface more than the wired, so I have attempted to us link aggregation (LAGG) to tie the two together so either can be used when connected. lagg and iwn have been added into a custom compiled kernel. FreeBSD on this Asus uses alc0 for the wired interface and iwn(wlan0) for the wireless interface. The following is in my rc.conf: ifconfig_alc0="up" wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="up wpa" cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport wlan0 laggport alc0" ipv4_addrs_lagg0="192.168.2.90/24" defaultrouter="192.168.2.1" hostname="asus.local" Looking at various documentation shows this should support wlan0 as the master and alc0 as the failover. Everything is working like it should. However, every so often, I get messages on the console stating: alc0: phy read timeout : 0 alc0: phy read timeout : 17 alc0: phy read timeout : 1 ... alc0: phy read timeout : 1 Even though this is happening, there doesn't appear to be any issues. Can anyone shed light on why these messages are showing up? -- If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
Personally, I've always used a product from http://www.jetico.com/. On Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 17:06:04 UTC, g...@ross.cx confabulated: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:08:56 +0200, Bruce Cran wrote: >> On 22/07/2012 16:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 . >>> >>> who prevents you to bood live CD or pendrive with FreeBSD (or >>> openbsd,netbsd,linux,solaris,whatever usable)? >> >> Nobody - I didn't say users couldn't boot from a FreeBSD/etc live CD, >> but zeroing the disk in Cygwin is an alternative. >> > Microsoft's format.exe can zero a volume, at least in the newer (>2008) > versions: > /p: : Zeros every sector on the volume for the number of passes > specified. > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730730(v=ws.10) -- If at first you don't succeed... ...so much for skydiving. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest
On Monday, September 4, 2006 at 9:00:44 PM, Peter confabulated: > Hi, > I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like > to have access to a FBSD system within it. I am not sure which vmware > product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote > connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also > workstation and player. So I'm looking for advice on the basic recipe > as well as any common pitfalls. > Peter I currently am running VMWare Workstation v5.5.2 on my XP Pro at home with a 3.2Ghz Pentium and 4 Gig of ram. I use it mainly for a test bed. In my current testing of some things for work, I have four FreeBSD v6.1 servers set up. It runs nice with the extra memory. Prior to the memory upgrade, things ran extreamly slow once I brought the second virtual server up. As far as VMWare's Server, it is a free download (at least for now). I did have that loaded once. I found it to be really slow booting an OS over the Internet. I've pretty much given up on it because of the slowness. I like the idea of being able to boot a virtual machine over the Internet and having access to it. To the host, it runs in the background. You use either the installable console version of the client or you can access the host via a web browser. Once the OS is booted, you can disconnect from it and leave it running in the background. Whenever you want to manage the virtual server, you connect in and it's there. I would imagine this will only get better over time. Workstation has come along way since the free version was last offered (3+ years ago I believe). -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Making startup order static
On Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 7:02:09 PM, White confabulated: > --- Martin Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> thought about using PROVIDE and REQUIRE keywords >> (see >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd.sh resp. >> clamav-freshclam.sh >> >> Maybe you might want to have a look into "man rc" or >> "man rcorder" >> >> Cheers, >> -Martin- >> >> > FreeBSD 6.1 >> > >> > I need to keep several programs starting in a >> > particular order. >> >> > clamav-clamd >> > clamav-freshclam >> > clamsmtpd >> > saslauthd >> > dovecot >> > postfix >> > fetchmail >> >> > By default, they do not start in that order. I > have >> > modified the rc.d files to force them to start in >> > the >> > order specified above. >> < >> > The problem is that every time I update these >> > programs >> > the rc.d startup file is modified which destroys > the >> > changes I have made. This then requires me to >> > recreate >> > the modifications to force the start up order I >> > require. >> > >> > Is there anyway I can achieve this goal in a >> > simplified manner? I thought perhaps there might > be >> > something I could add to the /etc/rc.conf file; >> > however, I have not discovered it. > Martin, I don't think that you understood what I > meant. Either that or I described it incorrectly. > I did modify the rc.d files using BEFORE: and > REQUIRE:. That works just fine. The problem is if one > of those files is updated, the rc.d file is > overwritten resulting in the loss of my customization. > I therefore have to manually edit those files again. I > was trying to find someway to circumvent that > procedure. J.D. Bronson took the words from my fingers. I have a server application that needs the 5.0 compatibility loaded running on our 6.0 server. Once compat5x was installed via the port, the startup script that was placed within /usr/local/etc/rc.d had '000.' prepended to its name to ensure it was loaded before anything. I.e. 000.compat5x.sh. I also had the same scenario with order in startup. That was rectified by setting up one script to start each of the items in order. -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Making startup order static
On Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 9:46:13 PM, White confabulated: > --- Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > >> I also had the same scenario with order in startup. >> That was rectified >> by setting up one script to start each of the items >> in order. > I am assuming that you removed the scripts that you > called from the rc.d directory. What transpired when > you updated a program? Assuming it created a file in > rc.d, you then had to manually remove it correct? No. I believe I used the startup script for sa-spamd as a starting point. I'm sure others could be used as a starting point as well. I'm still in the learning process. That way I could remove the ones from the rc.conf that I wanted to start in order and use the 'force' option when loading them from the custom startup script. So, as an example, if you do not have a 'spamd="YES"' in the rc.conf and you attempt to start spamd from the console, it will not start. That is because of the sa-spamd startup script. If you attempt to start spamd from the console and supply 'force start', it will start. Therefore, in my startup script I left it out of the rc.conf and used the 'force start' in my custom startup script. > I am thinking that I could create a script that would > check to see if a file existed in rc.d that I had > chosen to start manually and if so it would then > delete or move the file. However, I would have to > ensure that, that script started prior to any other > script. > It really should not be this difficult. A master file > dictating the start order of every script in rc.d > would be a cool idea. -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: >> >> >> The base system doesn't include X Windows. >> _ > Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it > must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't you also be able to: cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12:03:47 PM, Jeff confabulated: > On 12/09/06, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The base system doesn't include X Windows. >> >> _ >> >> >> > Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so >> it >> > must be installed as a package from sysinstall). >> >> Shouldn't you also be able to: >> >> cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean >> >> -- > That sentence was intended not to mean "you have to install XWS as a package > from sysinstall" but "It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a > package built from ports". I wasn't for sure as I don't install many things using sysinstall. Thanks for clarifying. -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: compat4x and compat5x
On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:54:50 AM, Jeff confabulated: > I'm not trying to kick any dead horses here but there are times when I > try to run some applications that I get some messages like the following: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.5" not found, required by... > I normally reinstall compat4x or compat5x and am good to go. I have > compat4x_enable="YES" and compat5x_enable="YES" in my /etc/rc.conf file > but I still get these messages and have to force a reinstall (after a > reboot). > I just found this thread: > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2005-12/msg02487.html > ..and tried running the command the posted listed: > /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat > This worked like a champ. I was able to immediately run the application > in question and didn't have to force a reinstall of compat5x. > I am sure I have missed something along the way but can someone please > assist me/point me in the right direction in getting this straightened > out so I don't have to do this manually after each reboot? I would > greatly appreciate it. I had to install both myself for an application we run on a server. I installed them from /usr/ports/misc/compat4x and compat5x. The install placed the startup scripts 000.compat4x.sh and 000.compat5x.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. They startup after reboot every time. There was no need to place anything in the rc.conf. -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: compat4x and compat5x
On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:47:25 PM, Jeff confabulated: > Duane Hill wrote: >> On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:54:50 AM, Jeff confabulated: >> >>> I'm not trying to kick any dead horses here but there are times when I >>> try to run some applications that I get some messages like the following: >> >>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.5" not found, required by... >> >>> I normally reinstall compat4x or compat5x and am good to go. I have >>> compat4x_enable="YES" and compat5x_enable="YES" in my /etc/rc.conf file >>> but I still get these messages and have to force a reinstall (after a >>> reboot). >> >>> I just found this thread: >> >>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2005-12/msg02487.html >> >>> ..and tried running the command the posted listed: >> >>> /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat >> >>> This worked like a champ. I was able to immediately run the application >>> in question and didn't have to force a reinstall of compat5x. >> >>> I am sure I have missed something along the way but can someone please >>> assist me/point me in the right direction in getting this straightened >>> out so I don't have to do this manually after each reboot? I would >>> greatly appreciate it. >> >> I had to install both myself for an application we run on a server. I >> installed them from /usr/ports/misc/compat4x and compat5x. The install >> placed the startup scripts 000.compat4x.sh and 000.compat5x.sh in >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d. They startup after reboot every time. There was >> no need to place anything in the rc.conf. >> > That is the ports I used to install compat4x and compat5x. However, the > startup scripts aren't anywhere on my system. I searched for both using > locate (after updating the DB of course) and also checked in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ manually. Nothing... > I update my ports tree about 2-3 times a day so I would assume I am > using the latest versions of the ports. Any idea on how I can get those > startup scripts? I may try a complete remove and then a fresh install. > I look forward to any responses. The only thing in the scripts is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/000.compat4x.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/000.compat5x.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat Why they have to both be present, I haven't figured that out yet. ldconfig points both at the same location. -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: compat4x and compat5x
Oops! Addendum below: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:53:31 PM, Duane confabulated: > On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:47:25 PM, Jeff confabulated: >> Duane Hill wrote: >>> On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:54:50 AM, Jeff confabulated: >>> >>>> I'm not trying to kick any dead horses here but there are times when I >>>> try to run some applications that I get some messages like the following: >>> >>>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.5" not found, required by... >>> >>>> I normally reinstall compat4x or compat5x and am good to go. I have >>>> compat4x_enable="YES" and compat5x_enable="YES" in my /etc/rc.conf file >>>> but I still get these messages and have to force a reinstall (after a >>>> reboot). >>> >>>> I just found this thread: >>> >>>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2005-12/msg02487.html >>> >>>> ..and tried running the command the posted listed: >>> >>>> /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat >>> >>>> This worked like a champ. I was able to immediately run the application >>>> in question and didn't have to force a reinstall of compat5x. >>> >>>> I am sure I have missed something along the way but can someone please >>>> assist me/point me in the right direction in getting this straightened >>>> out so I don't have to do this manually after each reboot? I would >>>> greatly appreciate it. >>> >>> I had to install both myself for an application we run on a server. I >>> installed them from /usr/ports/misc/compat4x and compat5x. The install >>> placed the startup scripts 000.compat4x.sh and 000.compat5x.sh in >>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d. They startup after reboot every time. There was >>> no need to place anything in the rc.conf. >>> >> That is the ports I used to install compat4x and compat5x. However, the >> startup scripts aren't anywhere on my system. I searched for both using >> locate (after updating the DB of course) and also checked in >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ manually. Nothing... >> I update my ports tree about 2-3 times a day so I would assume I am >> using the latest versions of the ports. Any idea on how I can get those >> startup scripts? I may try a complete remove and then a fresh install. >> I look forward to any responses. > The only thing in the scripts is this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/000.compat4x.sh > #!/bin/sh > /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/000.compat5x.sh > #!/bin/sh > /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat > Why they have to both be present, I haven't figured that out yet. > ldconfig points both at the same location. My bad on this one. The server that still has the startup scripts is not running the latest versions. The versions running are compat4x-i386-5.3_2 and compat5x-i386-5.4.0.6_1. There is anther server here that is running compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8_7 and does not have a startup script. It still works fine. I'm guessing the other response that made mention where the startup scripts are not needed anymore on the later version would stand correct. -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ntpd with flags in rc.conf
Hello Zbigniew, Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 5:28:15 PM, you wrote: > Hello, > I read this in the handbook: > To ensure the NTP server is started at boot time, add the line > ntpd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf. If you wish to pass additional flags to > ntpd(8), edit the ntpd_flags parameter in /etc/rc.conf. > Now, I understand that the additional flag may be for example pid > (-p /var/run/ntpd.pid). > So how do I put that flag in /etc/rc.conf where I have ntpd_enable="Yes"? ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid" > Many thanks for your advice! > -- > Zbigniew Szalbot > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Best regards, Duanemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD 6.1 rebooting all the time
I just installed 6.1 on a new laptop (Dell XPS M1210). It has a 2Ghz Intel Core2 Duo processor and two gigs ram. Every time it gets to the part in the bootup where you have to type a bunch of random junk it goes into a reboot. It's not an abrupt reboot. FreeBSD does show it is initiating the reboot. This is the error that is reported right before the reboot happens: panic: driver error: busdma dflt_lock called cpuid = 1 Uptime: 12s Cannot dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds -b fe0: link state changed to DOWN Does anyone know what I can do at this point? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 rebooting all the time
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:49:38 -0500 "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just installed 6.1 on a new laptop (Dell XPS M1210). It has a 2Ghz Intel Core2 Duo processor and two gigs ram. Every time it gets to the part in the bootup where you have to type a bunch of random junk it goes into a reboot. It's not an abrupt reboot. FreeBSD does show it is initiating the reboot. This is the error that is reported right before the reboot happens: panic: driver error: busdma dflt_lock called cpuid = 1 Uptime: 12s Cannot dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds -b fe0: link state changed to DOWN Does anyone know what I can do at this point? ___ google it up, plenty of resources, could be lots of things. But first check your hardware: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=busdma+dflt_lock&meta= Being I do not have anything important on the laptop and have a complete image of the HD prior to installing FreeBSD, I decided to try loading 7.0-CURRENT from the ISO. It was a success. I have now CVSUP'd the sources and have completed a buildworld and buildkernel without any issues. I've also installed X and have KDE running. Thanks for your suggestion. I have looked at a number of things and will proceed down that path if I run into anything with 7.0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: named listening on LAN
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 at 13:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello, On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:09:30 +0300, CK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Now bind does not die but but it cannot find the log file: logging channel 'simple_log' file '/var/log/named/nlog': file not found ls /var/log/named/* /var/log/named/nlog Why would named not be able to find the log when it is there? The nlog file is owned by user bind and grup bind. As a wild guess, your named may be running in a chrooted jail, so you may want to check /var/named/var/log/named I did try that before. I do not have /var/named/var/log/named but I do have /var/named/var/log/ and I created a file there, gave it appropriate ownership but messages returned the same error about not being able to find a file logging{ channel simple_log { file "/var/named/var/log/nlog"; severity info; print-time yes; print-severity yes; print-category yes; }; category default{ simple_log; }; }; Jul 11 13:06:03 szalbot named[3319]: starting BIND 9.3.3 -t /var/named -u bind Jul 11 13:06:03 szalbot named[3319]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Jul 11 13:06:03 szalbot named[3319]: command channel listening on ::1#953 Jul 11 13:06:03 szalbot named[3319]: logging channel 'simple_log' file '/var/named/var/log/nlog': file not found Jul 11 13:06:03 szalbot named[3319]: isc_log_open '/var/named/var/log/nlog' failed: file not found I have it working with this: logging { channel namedlog { file "/var/log/nlog"; severity info; print-time yes; print-severity yes; print-category yes; }; category default { namedlog; }; }; When I restarted named, the nlog file was created in /var/named/var/log automatically: home# ls -lo /var/named/var/log/nlog -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel - 1253 Jul 11 11:43 /var/named/var/log/nlog If I add the flag into rc.conf to shut off chrooting, logging changes to: /var/log/nlog - _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 at 07:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I have the same question. I tried unsubscribing with no luck. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:02 AM Subject: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing) Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe address, am I continued to be subscribed to this list?? Any help would be grand. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cron job every 5 hours
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 at 12:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello, I want to run an updater script, every 5 hours and x minutes. I thought to use: minute 5 * * * root path/to/scriptname crontab(5): ... Steps are also permitted after an asterisk, so if you want to say ``every two hours'', just use ``*/2''. ... So, my guess would be: minute */5 * * * root path/to/scriptname but that looks like it only works once a day, i want it to go every 5 hours not justa at 5 in the monrning. Thanks. Dave. - _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD vs mysql50-server
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 at 00:45 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:04:45PM +1000, Hartleigh Burton wrote: Hi Guys, I have installed MySQL 5.0.45 server on a new FreeBSD 6.2 boxen, and having some problems restoring a 10GB database backup to the new server. The error I receive is max_allowed_packet too large. When I change the value for max_allowed_packet and set it to 100M, or 500M, or 1G, or 1000M, or 8589934592 (bits), it does not appear to be changing the value in MySQL. I only have one configuration file located in /etc/mysql/my.cnf which is where I am setting the max_allowed_packet value. After altering this value, I restart MySQL (or even the entire server) and then log into mysql and do a "show variables;" command. The max_allowed_packet variable is ALWAYS set to 1048576 (1M), and has not changed no matter what I try. Is the my.cnf file in the right location (/etc/mysql/)??? No, that is not the default location. I think it uses /var/db/mysql/my.cnf by default. My config file is located at /etc/my.cnf and it works fine. --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: don't read it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine for sending test messages. Subscribe to it and use it for test message sending. On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 at 15:47 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: test message -- Jean-Pierre Trophardy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: don't read it
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 at 15:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Duane Hill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine for sending test messages. Subscribe to it and use it for test message sending. Don't even need to subscribe:-) You can view the archives at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-test.html or http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-test/ Yes. However, if you are testing your ability to receive list posted messages from the FreeBSD servers, you would need to be subscribed. --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: don't read it
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 at 16:50 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine for sending test messages. Subscribe to it and use it for test message sending. As you guest it was just for test message sending to THIS ONE. Sorry for the inconvenience. No inconvenience. I didn't know if you were aware of the test list. I believe a message hits the same server(s) sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as sending to any of the other lists. I could be wrong. Therefore it would lend to reason if you recieve a test message posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], you should be receiving from the other subscribed lists as well. --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Pine - Duplicate Messages
Periodically I get duplicated messages in email folders I have defined and have rules set up for. For an example, I am subscribed to the Postfix email list. I have a rule that is set as such: Recip pattern = postfix-users ... (*) Move (Enter folder name(s) in primary collection, or use ^T) Folder List = /home/d.hill/mail/Postfix-Users I am using Pine version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pine -version Pine 4.64 built Thu May 24 01:51:36 UTC 2007 on example.com I am also using Fetchmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ fetchmail --version This is fetchmail release 6.3.8+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS. to fetch messages from a remote server. According to http://www.washington.edu/pine the latest version of Pine is 4.64. If I remove ALL rules from Pine, I have absolutely no issues with duplicate messages. I can actually verify the messages are duplicated. I have saved them off into files and used the command. Does anyone know why this would be occurring? I've seen a recent post to the Postfix list about similar issues and responses are pointing to file locking issues. --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Pine - Duplicate Messages
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 at 18:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:38:59 + (UTC) Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Periodically I get duplicated messages in email folders I have defined and have rules set up for. ... If I remove ALL rules from Pine, I have absolutely no issues with duplicate messages. Are they perhaps deleted messages? when a pine rule moves a message, it copies it, marks the original as deleted and then hides it for the rest of the session. Nope. This happens with new messages that are coming in. It is hard to track down as it does not happen that frequently. It happened twice today. Before that, it was two days ago. I just went and subscribed to the pine-info discussion list and am going to so some searching. I just thought someone may have a quick solution. I will continue my quest where it should be. --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: un-zipping pkzip files om fbsd
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 at 09:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I receive a pkzip file created under ms/windows. What can I use under fbsd to un-zip this file? use: unzip --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 at 02:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose it's meant to confuse filters. Do other folks get this too? I see on average, five(5) spam messages on the freebsd-questions list every other week. --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 at 20:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:45 PMAug 23, 2007, Pollywog wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote: I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose it's meant to confuse filters. Do other folks get this too? I get a lot of that. Ditto. I get more PDF files lately and a T-O-N of the ASCII blue-pill ads... If only my old dot-matrix was looking for a good time... I hardly *EVER* see any PDF spam. Also, I can't remember the last time I saw one of those blue-pill spams. --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 4.11 binary compatibility (libm.so.2, etc)
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 at 12:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I just installed FBSD 6.2, but I have a requirement to use some precompiled binaries from FreeBSD 4.11. They are failing because libm.so.2 is not available. Is there a compatibility package that I can install which will give me the older libraries? I do not have the source code to recompile these applications. Have you tried the compat4 port: /usr/ports/misc/compat4x --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Important Message...
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 at 11:24 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I must reply to about 25 of these per week... but I never hear anything back. Stop responding to them. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
fatal double fault (spinlock)
We have a Dell PowerEdge 6850 with four 3ghz Intel dual core Xeon processors and 12 gig ram. It is running FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p15 amd64. SMP has been compiled into the kernel. However, machdep.hyperthreading_allowed has been set to zero(0) in /etc/sysctrl.conf. Once about every 1.5 to 2 weeks, the server throws the error: fatal double fault cpuid=15 spinlock sched lock held by 0xff032f3c1500 > 5 seconds This server is located in a colo many miles away. I had to have a person at the colo facility read off the message that was on the screen. I hope it is exact (or at least close). This server is one of our main spam filter servers. It use to have an MTA installed on it that required FreeBSD 5.5. That software does not run on the server anymore. I've been meaning to upgrade the server to 6.2 release, but have been procrastinating. Would upgrading the server to 6.2 release correct this issue? -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 at 09:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Sep 11 09:49:57 mail sendmail[942]: l8B2nuLx000942: ruleset=check_rcpt,arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,relay=goldenflower [61.8.75.114], reject=550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...Relaying denied Sep 11 09:50:00 mail sendmail[942]: l8B2nuLx000942:from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP,daemon=IPv4, relay=goldenflower [61.8.75.114] You say your running Postfix, yet these log lines look like SendMail. Are you sure all SendMail processes are dead? Have you disabled SendMail from /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" so it doesn't start back up on boot? -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 at 06:48 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 johan Hartono wrote: Yes, it is a very interesting topic I'd like to discuss next. I don't know why, in FreeBSD, even though you install postfix it will appears as sendmail. Will this become any problem? All of the available MTAs will do that, because the standard Unix API for an application to send e-mail is for that app to pipe the message into the STDIN of /usr/sbin/sendmail. Alternative MTAs have always therefore provided a high degree of sendmail compatibility and expect to have binaries either installed as or linked to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Unlike most other Unix or unix-oid systems, FreeBSD has a slightly more sophisticated variation on this. /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually a wrapper program and not Sendmail Brand sendmail(tm) at all -- see mailwrapper(8) for details. Simply by editing the configuration file /etc/mail/mailer.conf you can switch between sendmail-from-the-base-system, sendmail-from-ports, exim, postfix, qmail, ssmtp and probably half a dozen others. mailer.conf also covers a number of other sendmail related commands like newaliases(1) and hoststat(8). The sendmail binary provided by the base system is installed as /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail Correct. And if you install Postfix from the ports collection, it will ask you if you want Postfix installed into the mailer.conf. Therefore, if the OP did not install through the ports, the mailer.conf might not have been changed. Either way, the logs the OP was showing are not Posfix. I just did a quick test from a terminal using sendmail and this is what it looks like: Sep 12 11:54:11 duane postfix/local[71012]: 673D66D437: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=7.8, delays=7.7/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) None of the logs that were shown bare the Postfix name. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Shutting off sendmail
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 at 16:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hi all, I need to install qmail and shut down sendmail. In my /etc/rc.conf file I dienalbe sendmail, but when the box reboot sendmail starts up Why This is what I did in /etc/rc.conf to totally disable sendmail: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: F11 in Firefox
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 at 10:28 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hitting F11 again doesn't bring it back to normal? It does for me. It does for me too. And, at least in KDE (I'm sure it should be their in other desktop/window managers), you can click on the window restore in the upper right corner (one in the middle) to restore back to normal. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Running process on startup as a user
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 at 13:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Using FreeBSD 6.2 x86. I have a script called: /home/foo/scripts/MyScript.sh The user is 'foo'. The password is 'bar'. What I'm trying to do is run the MyScript.sh command on startup (that way if the box reboots, then this users process also re-starts it's self). thoughts? You could put the script in a crontab for that user: @reboot /bin/sh /home/foo/scripts/MyScript.sh According to 'man 5 crontab', @reboot runs the script once at startup. -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: GAIM??
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 at 18:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Folks, On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? It has been replaced by Pidgin: /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Keyboard without Scroll Lock
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 at 14:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: -Rob [don't cc me; I'm subscribed and the reply addy is bogus] Not to take this off topic, so you own invalid.org? -- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, DAve wrote: Mikel King wrote: Just curious what is that status of this issue with the current version of FreeBSD? I am betting that it has already been taken care of ages ago, in which case I am curious how far back that might have been? Thanks, Mikel I believe that was fairly recently decided, last six months sticks in my head. I'm probably wrong. Since we are in Indiana we just had to convert all our servers to DST last summer. It was a chore because we have everything from FreeBSD 6.1 to Solaris Sparc 10s. I am seriously considering switching all of our NOCs to GMT and calling it a done deal. I am not convinced that the DST rules will not change again and playing catch up with politicians is not a good use of my techs time. I noticed Yahoo switched to GMT. Is anyone else running all their servers on GMT? We are all GMT here on over 18 servers. Of them, five are FreeBSD. I have been running everything I touch in GMT for over eight years now. Once you get the hang of the mental conversion for your zone, it becomes second nature. -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
fatal: accept connection: Invalid argument
I've been getting a bunch (more than 50) per day of the errors in the subject in the /var/log/messages. The server is running FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p9 amd. This is an email server that is doing spam filtering and is running Postfix 2.3.7. I do have another server that is running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 i386 with Postfix 2.3.7. This one is only getting less than 10 of these errors per day. I've done some searching and can't come up with a conclusion as to why this is happening. Can anyone shed some light? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Joe Holden wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at least for me Does dovecont support shared forders? what are "shared folders"? is it some standard or some M$-standard? As in shared namespaces? I'm sure thats an IMAP standard, rather than just an MS thing? Dovecot is brilliant also, especially with kqueue support now! Pretty sure it does "shared folders." According to http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders it does. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Mikel King wrote: I know this is a little bit of a tangent, but does anyone have a good comprehensive command list, for testing an IMAP server via telnet? I would think you should be able to use this: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html I use it when I need to get IMAP syntax for a command. Examples are shown on command usage and can be executed via a telnet session. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Invalid argument on accept(2)
I have an issue where I'm getting periodic errors in /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog where it states: Feb 27 18:23:33 smtpgate postfix/smtpd[68480]: fatal: accept connection: Invalid argument I've been to the Postfix list and have received a number of responses. One of the developers is stating: "Erroring out with EINVAL would still be a kernel bug." This server is running FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p9 amd64. Perhaps someone could enlighten me on what I can do to debug some socket connections to see what's going on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: why can't i turn off fast_time?
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, spellberg_robert wrote: greetings, all --- all i want is to be able to set my boxes to utc, with no fast_time, and to have my apps and all of the other apps agree on what the clock says, at --all-- times. The FreeBSD servers here are all UTC. To do this, all I did was made sure the BIOS clock was set to UTC and move the file /etc/localtime to /root (or somewhere outside /etc). At this time, the server doesn't use the localtime binary and defaults to UTC. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: defrag
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Christian Baer wrote: On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:14:07 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: As you said, HFS(+) is not a native unix file system, but maybe someone will know about it. All I know about is that HFS+ is a journaling file system and that it defragments (in the Windows sense) files smaller than certain size (20MB?) on the fly. This may be completely OT here, but I gotta ask: Is Reiser a native Unix FS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namesys ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Starting MySQL with different database directory
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Kalashnikov Ilya wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 07:05 -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I hope this is the right place--i looked over the MySQL docs but they talk about a different startup practice than what FreeBSD uses. I have a new install of MySQL 5.1 on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. I want to have my MySQL data directory in a place other than /var/db/mysql. I thought i do this by copying the appropriate my.cnf into /etc/my.conf and adding a line like "datadir = /usr/local/mysql/var/" and making it readable to mysql user. But this doesnt work; when i restart MySQL its still using /var/db/mysql. So i looked at the mysql-server startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and added to rc.conf "mysql_dbdir="/usr/local/mysql/var"". (I DON'T want to do it this way, because i really want my MySQL related configuration things in my MySQL configuration file, not split between there and my FreeBSD startup file. What if i need to start mysql in some other way? But for now im just trying to see what i can get to work.) This seemed to change something--mysqld had been running when i made this change and when I ran "mysql-server stop" it couldnt stop, because it was looking in /usr/local/mysql/var/foo.pid--i think this means it did register the change to the new directory. But i couldnt then start it, because when I run "mysql-server start" i get a "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'" error. What's the right way to do this? Again id really prefer to do this all through the my.cnf file, but this seems not to be getting read, at least for this reason. Thank you. Jen - Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" By default MySQL daemon run as user "mysql". If you want start/stop mysqld then in /usr/local/etc/rc.d /mysql-server.sh replace line mysql_user="mysql" to mysql_user="" and change in /etc/rc.conf mysql_dbdir="/xxx/xxx/xx" or chahge owner for /xxx/xxx/xx to Needed directory structure will created. Before all changes stop mysqld. Or, you could just add underneath the mysql_enable line in /etc/rc.conf: mysql_flags="--user=user-to-run-as --datadir=/path/to/the/base/dir" to /etc/rc.conf. That way you won't have to worry about possible overwriting of the startup script do to upgrades. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help installing "nasm"
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Robe wrote: Hi, Im trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way: # cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm # make But I get the following error: => Couldnt fetch it please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 Im using the stable version 6.1 And Im behind a proxy. What can I do? I've received the same error a few times in the past. It was caused by the fact my computer didn't have its NIC configured correctly to establish a connection to the Internet. Could be the same in your case.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Port removal
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, On RELENG_6_2, I'm going to be installing chillisoft from ports. However, when I first ran 'make', there was an initial configuration window came up before compile. I selected the wrong options (I realized this after the make was complete). I did not do a 'make install'. I tried to 'make clean', distclean then I removed the entire port from the ports system and re 'supped it and still, when I run make again, the configuration dialog does not appear. Am I missing something that I need to remove to put the port back to the way it was before (so the config dialog will re-appear)? do a make config ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: where to get the iso c90 compiler?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Fistly, people wrote code in pure binary language. Then assembly were invented and later they wrote higher level languages in assembly.] > With whatever C compiler the gcc developer had at that time. > It probably wasn't. The first ever compiler was most likely written > in assembler. Later on the first compiler for a new language has > usually been written in some other language. Yeah I knew that. Anyone know a good book on assembly language? http://asm.sourceforge.net/ is a good site. I've used it a great deal in the past. It has references to various Linux's and FreeBSD. The evolution of programming. Can someone give me a link? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: where to get the iso c90 compiler?
Gabor Kovesdan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [Fistly, people wrote code in pure binary language. Then assembly were invented and later they wrote higher level languages in assembly.] > With whatever C compiler the gcc developer had at that time. > It probably wasn't. The first ever compiler was most likely written > in assembler. Later on the first compiler for a new language has > usually been written in some other language. Yeah I knew that. Anyone know a good book on assembly language? The evolution of programming. Can someone give me a link? Well, I don't know assembly, but I found this and it looks very good: http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/ And it is exclusively for FreeBSD! ;) That's the tutorial set I stepped through to learn the basics. Good basic stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: portupgrade failing, portsdb error
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Drew Sanford wrote: I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED](/usr/ports)# portupgrade gnome-vfs [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': database file error (PortsDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in `all_depends_list' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084 I've got Index up to date, I've run portsdb -u, and it seems to think everything is good. Any recommendations? I've not seen this error before. Thanks in advance. I saw this when I didn't have the portupgrade port upgraded properly. It has changed the location. From /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20070205: AFFECTS: everybody AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New ports category was created - /usr/ports/ports-mgmt Most significant port moved to this new category is portupgrade. So don't be alarmed, it was not deleted. You can find it now in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Jeff Mohler wrote: I dont think subject tagging is poor at all. whats poor is overly long poorly organized subject lines..but hey..[FBSDQ] aint all that long. Then you get someone who either doesn't a) trim the subject or b) the client response as such: Re: [FBSDQ] Re: [FBSDQ] bla bla bla ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How do I prevent unauthorized ssh login attempts?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 4/26/07, Andreas Wider??e Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/26/07, Arek Czereszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andreas Wider??e Andersen wrote: > > I'm getting a lot of unauthorized ssh login attempts. I have a pretty > basic > > FreeBSD 6.2 setup. I have compiled my own kernel. Here's what I get from > my > > daily security run output: > [...] > > Run sshd on other port. > And say about this your ssh users. Can I change the ssh port on a live server somehow without getting locked out? The server is on a remote co-location a flight away from me. Yes you can. SSH will keep your connection active until you log out, then you can log in using the new port I will add the fact you will want to keep the current connection live and test after you make the change with a new connection. That way if the new connection fails, you still have a "foot in the door".___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: jail question
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Roberto Pereyra wrote: hi I running fbsd 6.2 and I would like to my first jail setup, but I have this error when I start the jail (jail0): srv1# /etc/rc.d/jail start Configuring jails:. Starting jails:ifconfig: interface alias does not exist jail0. srv1# What I do wrong ? Thanks in advance. roberto This is my /etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Apr 23 09:32:04 2007 # Created: Mon Apr 23 09:32:04 2007 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter="192.168.0.2" hostname="srv1.gualeguaychu.gov.ar" ifconfig_sk0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0" keymap="spanish.iso.acc" linux_enable="YES" sshd_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Apr 23 12:52:02 2007 moused_port="/dev/cuad0" moused_type="auto" moused_enable="YES" ## jails sendmail_enable="NO" inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.168.0.1" rpcbind_enable="NO" jail_enable="YES" # Set to NO to disable starting of any jails jail_list="jail0" # Space separated list of names of jails jail_jail0_rootdir="/usr/home/jails/jail0" # jail's root directory jail_jail0_hostname="jail0" # jail's hostname jail_jail0_ip="192.168.0.3" # jail's IP address #jail_jail0_devfs_enable="YES" # mount devfs in the jail #jail_jail0_devfs_ruleset="www_ruleset" # devfs ruleset to apply to jail You do not have your jail IP set up as an alias on your network interface. You need to add ifconfig_sk0_alias0="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.0.0" after your primary interface ifconfig_sk0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0" in the /etc/rc.conf. Then do an ifconfig sk0 inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.0.0 alias to make it live without having to reboot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers
I have two servers that have to have their time synchronized between the two to within one second. What is recommended? Currently, I have ntpd running on one and have the other synchronizing it's time off the first. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jeff Mohler wrote: Is that working? If it is..seems you nailed it. It is working. I just didn't know if there was another way. I will continue on with the way it is. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On May 2, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Duane Hill wrote: I have two servers that have to have their time synchronized between the two to within one second. What is recommended? Currently, I have ntpd running on one and have the other synchronizing it's time off the first. ntp is the right way to do things. You could set each server as an ntp peer of the other. That way. And, as others pointed out, you could have one of them use an external lower stratum (closer to reference servers) to sync properly with the rest of the world which is useful if you want your logs to match up properly with the rest of us. Yes. I have the one server set to sync with the "world" and the other server syncs its time off the first. The two servers insert and update information in a MySQL table and one such piece if information is based on time. Everything we do here is all based on UTC. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: port updates
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, If this question is not for this list , I'm apologizing in advance I just ran cvsup because I wanted to install the latest version of SpamAssassin- 3.2 After doing portupgrade I see that its still at 3.1.8 When do the ports get updated- ? Here is a response from the port developer on the SpamAssassin list that has a link to grab a package from: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/200705.mbox/<463A4278.9010405%40secnap.net> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Question about stopping jails...
I have a FreeBSD server running 6.2 that has two jails configured. As they currently sit, they work perfectly fine. The only issue I currently have is stopping them using the conventional method: /etc/rc.d/jail stop jail_name It seems the jails do not stop even though the id files within: /var/run/jail_jail_name.id cease to exist after the stop. 'jls' even shows the two jails as still running. They both are running BIND and do have sshd enabled. After the stop has been issued, you can not ssh into the jails which gives the illusion the jails have stopped. However, you can still access the jails from the server running them using: jexec jail_id /bin/sh Can someone give me some insight on what I might be doing wrong? Below is the jail config part in the mail server rc.conf and the contents of the rc.conf in the two jails. Main server jail portion /etc/rc.conf: jail_enable="YES" jail_list="jail_1 jail_2" jail_set_hostname_allow="NO" jail_ns1_ynp_rootdir="/home/hoosegow/jail_1" jail_ns1_ynp_hostname="jail1.example.com" jail_ns1_ynp_ip="192.168.1.50" jail_ns1_ynp_devfs_enable="YES" jail_dns2_ndu_rootdir="/home/hoosegow/jail_2" jail_dns2_ndu_hostname="jail2.example.com" jail_dns2_ndu_ip="192.168.1.51" jail_dns2_ndu_devfs_enable="YES" jail_1 /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" hostname="jail1.example.com" ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0" named_enable="YES" named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf" named_chrootdir="" syslogd_flags="-ss" sshd_enable="YES" jail_2 /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" hostname="jail2.example.com" ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.51 netmask 255.255.255.0" named_enable="YES" named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf" named_chrootdir="" syslogd_flags="-ss" sshd_enable="YES" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Question about stopping jails...
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a FreeBSD server running 6.2 that has two jails configured. As they currently sit, they work perfectly fine. The only issue I currently have is stopping them using the conventional method: /etc/rc.d/jail stop jail_name It seems the jails do not stop even though the id files within: /var/run/jail_jail_name.id cease to exist after the stop. 'jls' even shows the two jails as still running. They both are running BIND and do have sshd enabled. After the stop has been issued, you can not ssh into the jails which gives the illusion the jails have stopped. However, you can still access the jails from the server running them using: jexec jail_id /bin/sh Can someone give me some insight on what I might be doing wrong? What processes are still running inside the jail when you do that? In my experience, jails fail to stop of there are processes inside them that don't stop. That does make sense. I'll have to check that out the next time I get an opportunity to stop the jail(s) and do a 'ps' to look for processes that have a 'J' (jail indication) in the STAT column. I should have thought of this. Thanks for the reminder. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Further questions on making wireshark work
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, Many thanks to Eric for pointing me in the correct direction with Wireshark and Ethereal. Interestingly, I couldn't find the directory (or the port) for wireshark on my system but did find the references to it on www.freshports.org. So, I downloaded the pre-compiled package for wireshark from freebsd.org and installed wireshark that way. Now, when I try to start the program, I get the following error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libnetsnmp.so.10" not found, required by "wireshark" I know that this error is coming from the linker. However, I'm not sure how to fix it because I checked and the net-snmp port is loaded on my system. How do I get this shared object so that I can use wireshark? By the way, I didn't do a force install even if some dependencies are absent. I simply did pkg_add wireshare-xxx. I actually had to install a few extra packages that were lacking on my system for the pkg_add to work. I can't offer feedback on any of the questions. However, I see wireshark in the ports tree here: /usr/ports/net/wireshark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why crontab is not able to run some commands ?
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Halid Faith wrote: I have a script. As I am a root user, I can run it without a problem. I added that script to crontab in order to run as automatic. I entered in /etc/crontab and put down as below; */20 * * * * root/etc/scriptfile Despite root user, the crontab could not run above file. But I can run the same script in command line interface. I am sure tha the crontab daemon is running. Also I can see the crontab try to run that script in /var/log/cron. /usr/sbin/cron[98727]: (root) CMD (/etc/scriptfile) When I am a different user, I couldn't run the script and I got "access denied" What is the problem ? Were you either logged in as root or su'd to root when you ran the script? If so, why not just install the cron as root by: % crontab -u root -e The only change to your cron line you would have to make is to drop the username 'root'. So it would look like: */20 * * * * /etc/scriptfile ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Further questions on making wireshark work
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: I can't offer feedback on any of the questions. However, I see wireshark in the ports tree here: /usr/ports/net/wireshark Yes, that's where it's supposed to be. It's a real curiosity that I don't have it even after doing a cvsup. I use portsnap myself. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why crontab is not able to run some commands ?
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: Then try running this in your cron job: /bin/sh /etc/scriptfile Bet it does work. :-) Yes, but if the OP has: #!/bin/sh as the first line, the file owned by root and the executable flag for user set, shouldn't it execute from cron as just: /etc/scriptfile ?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why crontab is not able to run some commands ?
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, May 11, 2007 19:45:22 + Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: Then try running this in your cron job: /bin/sh /etc/scriptfile Bet it does work. :-) Yes, but if the OP has: # !/bin/sh as the first line, the file owned by root and the executable flag for user set, shouldn't it execute from cron as just: /etc/scriptfile ?? Yes, but I always like cron jobs to specifically call absolute path to the binary of choice. That way someone couldn't substitute a different binary by altering the path and force a cron job to do something unexpected. True. Thanks for the tip. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2
I have a server that, at first, required 5.5 because of the MTA that was running on the server. It no longer is running that particular MTA anymore. I need to upgrade the server to release 6.2. Is it just a matter of changing the release tag within the cvsup file from RELENG_5_5 to RELENG_6_2, removing the contents of /usr/src/*, removing the contents of /usr/obj/*, and doing a clean cvsup? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Duane Hill wrote: I have a server that, at first, required 5.5 because of the MTA that was running on the server. It no longer is running that particular MTA anymore. I need to upgrade the server to release 6.2. Is it just a matter of changing the release tag within the cvsup file from RELENG_5_5 to RELENG_6_2, removing the contents of /usr/src/*, removing the contents of /usr/obj/*, and doing a clean cvsup? Pretty much. You don't actually need to delete /usr/src/*, and not doing so will save you some bandwidth. You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld, buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to recompile all of your ports because of potential shlib version clashes. Ports from 5.5 will still work on 6.2, but later trying to update them piecemeal can lead to misery. I'm using portupgrade. So I will use the switches force a reinstall and to act on everything that depends on the reinstalled port (-fr). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2
On Fri, 18 May 2007, RW wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:39:35 + (UTC) Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld, buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to recompile all of your ports because of potential shlib version clashes. Ports from 5.5 will still work on 6.2, but later trying to update them piecemeal can lead to misery. I'm using portupgrade. So I will use the switches force a reinstall and to act on everything that depends on the reinstalled port (-fr). That wont do anything useful as there is nothing for the -r to work with after a base-system upgrade. The best way to upgrade all ports with portupgrade is to do it by datestamp like this: portupgrade -f '<2007-05-18 14:00' What about: portupgrade -afR Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one being reinstalled? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 -> 6.2
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:52 + (UTC) Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about: portupgrade -afR Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one being reinstalled? If you wanted, you could use: portmanager -u -l -f That will update and rebuild your entire existing ports system. Be prepared, it could take awhile depending upon what you have installed. Thanks for the alternate method. There are 138 ports installed. At least that's the number reported back from 'pkg_info | wc -l'. I'm speculating it will take less than four hours. The server has four processors and lots of memory. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: disk too big to mount
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Yanko Sanchez wrote: Hello, I have a 400GB seagate IDE hdd with backed up data that I need to load onto a machine running freebsd 6.2 The drive is formated for fat32 and when I run the command: mount -t msdos /dev/ad2s2 /mnt/audio/ I get the following error: "mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry" Is there a solution to this? The mailing list archives are your friend. I checked the archives and found that you have to recompile your kernel with: option MSDOSFS_LARGE If you do not know how to do that, I would suggest reading up on how to build a new kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: disk too big to mount
Disreguard my previous response. I didn't see your next response to Ray. Sorry. On Sun, 20 May 2007, Yanko Sanchez wrote: Hello, I have a 400GB seagate IDE hdd with backed up data that I need to load onto a machine running freebsd 6.2 The drive is formated for fat32 and when I run the command: mount -t msdos /dev/ad2s2 /mnt/audio/ I get the following error: "mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry" Is there a solution to this? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)
On Thu, 31 May 2007, gmoniey wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a simple way to create 1 script that will be called during startup and shutdown. Basically, I am looking for something like this: if startup run command 1 with params run command 2 with params run command 3 with params if shutdown run command 4 with params run command 5 with params run command 6 with params i have tried lookin up rc.d documentation, but it very vague and difficult to understand...thanks I don't know if this is too vague as well or not. However, I used the man page for 'rc' on startup/shutdown scripts. Just do 'man rc'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 3D Desktop (XGL/AIGLX/...) how to start?
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Jason Hills wrote: Hello, I would like to try adding a 3D Desktop feel to my laptop, but I am new to this thing, and was not able to find how to install xgl or aiglx. I installed Beryl and it complains about not finding AIGLX display. How should I start? What will I need to have installed and running, and how to do proper testings when/if things go wrong? I appreciate your help. I found some tutorials, say, http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/FreeBSD, but it seems, to me at least, that it is not an up-to-date resource. Any directions will help. I don't know if this is the same thing or not. I had a problem when starting Blender. It complained about not finding GLX. Upon discovering the driver was commented out in my X11 configuration file, I uncommented it, restarted X11 and BINGO! Just do a search in /etc/X11/xorg.conf with 'glx' all lower case and you should find this section: # This loads the GLX module Load "glx" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Anyone has migrated Xorg from 6.9 to 7.2 with success ?
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 at 21:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello I tried twice starting from a fresh 6.2-R installed machine and followed intructions of the updating file but it failed twice ... Once Xorg has been upgraded I've never been able to start X server again , I use KDE so I start X server with the kdm command. Thanks a lot for any help I, like others, have successfully upgraded from Xorg 6.x to 7.x. I have three computers that were upgraded using the instructions within the UPDATING file. All three are running KDE. However, if you are starting from complete scratch, why not just install a base FreeBSD setup from the CD. Then after you either csup (or cvsup) or portsnap the latest copy of the ports tree, install Xorg. The Xorg on the distribution CD is pre 7.x. Why not start right out on 7.x. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: vpnc on FreeBSD 6.2
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 at 11:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hi, I am trying to make vpnc working on my FreeBSD 6.2 laptop to connect to a Cisco 3000 VPN concentrator without any luck. Has anybody been successful on this? Is there any guide on this? Thanks, Xihong We have one (I believe it is a 3000) in our colo facility. I just recently colaborated with a co-worker in getting vpnc working on our non-Windoes machines. He is on Mandrake and I'm on FreeBSD 6.2. The following config is what worked for me. Of course, you will have to substitute your info for 'IPSec gateway', 'IPSec ID', and 'IPSec obfuscated secret' or 'Xauth username' and 'Xauth password'. We use the secret for authentication. So the username and password are specified as nothing so the prompt doesn't come up when starting the VPN connection. /usr/local/etc/vpnc.conf: IPSec gateway 192.168.10.1 IPSec ID my-ipsec-id IPSec obfuscated secret the_obfuscated_secret # empty strings here for uname and pass get rid of prompts Xauth username '' Xauth password '' Vendor cisco Local Port 1 - _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: accessing mysql server remotely
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 at 23:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Just a general question about mysql remote access. Is it possible to login to my remote mysql server and create a new db & table using a file on the local system which contains the definition statements? Sure. As long as the account name used to login to MySQL has login access from the remote location. mysql -host=ip_or_hostname -user=username -password=password dbname < statements.sql - _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: accessing mysql server remotely
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 at 12:01 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 at 23:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Just a general question about mysql remote access. Is it possible to login to my remote mysql server and create a new db & table using a file on the local system which contains the definition statements? Sure. As long as the account name used to login to MySQL has login access from the remote location. mysql -host=ip_or_hostname -user=username -password=password dbname < statements.sql My bad. The command line parameters should have two hyphens: mysql --host=ip_or_hostname --user=username --password=password dbname < statements.sql - _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: jail stop
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, alexus wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote: Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:27 -0400, alexus wrote: cannot stop jail mx. No jail id in /var/run $ uname -a There were problems with TTY code in older versions that would cause processes to get stuck, ghosting jails. I believe I have seen other causes of this issue since it happens on 7.1. jkill takes care of it. Probably happens due to user error, here at least. dd# jkill jkill: Command not found. dd# i assume jkill isn't part of standard OS, right? Correct. It can be found here: /usr/ports/sysutils/jkill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
saslauthd on AMD64
I have an AMD64 install using saslauthd and is failing. An identical installation on i386 works fine. Both installations are running on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE with cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1, and cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.22. A telnet session to the MTA yields the result: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure One of the saslauthd threads then exits: Jun 15 23:09:55 smtpgate kernel: pid 44573 (saslauthd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I did not have this issue running on the AMD64 6.2-RELEASE. Any help would be appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Saved Config Files for Ports
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Warren Liddell wrote: Where are saved configuration files found for various ports if they've been previously compiled ? In: /var/db/ports//options ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:56:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:27:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the firefox*gz file from devel but it doesn't make for 64-bit. Is Firefox 3 available for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0? It builds fine from ports on amd64 7-STABLE. Use the port www/firefox3. Roland I'm running 7.0-release. I ran portsnap and then porsnap extract. Then I cd'd to the firefox3 subdirectory and ran make. Make aborted with the message that it could not find -lgio-2.0. I checked the Freebsd ports tree and found gio-2.16. I downloaded it and ran make, but that make aborted with the same message as the make of firefox3. Your gnome2 is outof sync. Read: /usr/bin/less -p 20080323 /usr/ports/UPDATING /usr/bin/less -p 20080630 /usr/ports/UPDATING -- Mel Unfortunately there is no subdirectory /usr/ports/UPDATING on my system. It's not a sub-directory, it is a file: %ls -l /usr/ports/UPDATING -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 240302 Jun 13 04:00 /usr/ports/UPDATING ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: saslauthd on AMD64
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Duane Do you have some inputs (config files etc.)? $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/sasl2/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26 Jun 17 22:11 Sendmail.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 22834 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel815 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.so -> libcrammd5.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24482 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 63976 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel838 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.so -> libdigestmd5.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 57212 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20046 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel809 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.so -> liblogin.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20895 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19894 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel809 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.so -> libplain.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20749 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 68 Jun 17 15:17 smtpd.conf $ cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: saslauthd mechlist: LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 $ cat /usr/local/etc/saslauthd.conf ldap_servers: ldap://ldap.example.com ldap_bind_dn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldap_bind_pw: password ldap_search_base: cn=%d ldap_filter: mail=%u ldap_timeout: 60 ldap_time_limit: 60 Am Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:42:57PM +0000 Duane Hill schrieb: I have an AMD64 install using saslauthd and is failing. An identical installation on i386 works fine. Both installations are running on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE with cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1, and cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.22. A telnet session to the MTA yields the result: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure One of the saslauthd threads then exits: Jun 15 23:09:55 smtpgate kernel: pid 44573 (saslauthd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I did not have this issue running on the AMD64 6.2-RELEASE. Any help would be appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: saslauthd on AMD64
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 04:58:56PM +, Duane Hill wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Duane Do you have some inputs (config files etc.)? $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/sasl2/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26 Jun 17 22:11 Sendmail.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 22834 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel815 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.so -> libcrammd5.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24482 Jun 11 19:16 libcrammd5.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 63976 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel838 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.so -> libdigestmd5.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 57212 Jun 11 19:16 libdigestmd5.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20046 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel809 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.so -> liblogin.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20895 Jun 11 19:16 liblogin.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19894 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel809 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.so -> libplain.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20749 Jun 11 19:16 libplain.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 68 Jun 17 15:17 smtpd.conf $ cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: saslauthd mechlist: LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 $ cat /usr/local/etc/saslauthd.conf ldap_servers: ldap://ldap.example.com ldap_bind_dn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldap_bind_pw: password ldap_search_base: cn=%d ldap_filter: mail=%u ldap_timeout: 60 ldap_time_limit: 60 Really just a guess as you are using LDAP. Try the attached patch and rebuild cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd. If it doesn't help, try rebuilding sasl* and openldap-client using WITH_DEBUG defined and post backtrace. Thanks much! It works now. -d ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: disk encryption; hidden containers
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: | On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote: |> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100 |> RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600 |>> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> |>>> My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor |>>> GELI encryption offers hidden volume/container capabilities. |>> Are you talking about steganography? |> Sorry, I guess you're talking about volumes hidden in the unused space |> on a filesystem. I don't think there's anything. I'm not sure |> what the status of truecrypt is, I've heard some talk about it running |> on freebsd eventually. |> |> It would be a start for geli to be able to encrypt its metadata. | | So, are those basically my choices -- either wait for GBDE or GELI to | acquire that capability, or write it myself (which is not something I'm | prepared to do right now)? Bummer. | | Well . . . or wait for something else like TrueCrypt to get ported to | FreeBSD, I suppose. | Hi Chad, There is a beta version of the TrueCrypt 5.1a port out there. See: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-May/048432.html. I tried it in a VMware virtual machine a couple of months ago and it hung pretty consistently when copying files into the container. It's entirely possible that the problem was related to the virtual environment, so YMMV. What VMWare version were you using and what OS and version hosted the VM? I only ask as I have been searching for this myself. Currently, I am using a commercial product under Linux and Windoes called BestCrypt by Jetico (http://www.jetico.com). I have VMware installed currently under Windoes Vista. VMware version is 6.0.4-93057. I haven't had any issues thus far running a number of FreeBSD guest OSes. If your version is less than what I'm running, I would be willing to install and test. -d ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"