Do I Make world and make kernel afetr CVSUP
Hi all, I am following a Schlacter firewall tute and after changing the kernel file it says 2 things that conflict it tells me to simply make world then make kernel but actually talks about make bulidworld and make kernel and make installworld I have cvsupped all srcs and a few ports Which do I do on mt CVSUPPED to 4.8 (was 4.7) FBSD Thanks Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make buildworld failure...no inodes free! Do I have to pay?
Hi all, Damn mbworld failed. I did note that after dropping to su mode fsck -p did not much more than reports /dev/ad0s1a :NO WRITE ACCESS /dev/ad0s1A :UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY ;RUN FSCK MANUALLY Then the script from makebuild showed up usr : create/symlink failed, no inodes free Then the wheels fell of the wagon! I tried fsck / but NO WRITE still I tried mount -a / then fsck / But no dice... If only I knew what the... I was doing. Help required and gratefully acknowledged Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What shuld fsck -p report if all is well for a single AD0 disk?
Hi all In su mode, I do fsck -p and it tells me the system is NO WRITE. Is this correct? If I read the docs rightly...it is? Signed dazed and confused Thanks Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What shuld fsck -p report if all is well for a single AD0 disk?
HI Dan and thanks, So do I read you correct that the NO WRITE is what I should see? Keith In the last episode (Jul 16), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all In su mode, I do fsck -p and it tells me the system is NO WRITE. Is this correct? If I read the docs rightly...it is? Signed dazed and confused Thanks Keith You can't preen filesystem if they're mounted read/write -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmin - I broke the installed port How do I fix it on FBSD?
Hi all, I upgraded webmin to 1.1 and filemanager java was bad. So I (unwisely) did a bit of hacking to remove webmin and try to reinstall a earlier version... I hacked out the conf folder and /usr/lcoa/webmin (I think) NOw installing from ports again it Webmin complains Failed to write to /usr/local/etc/webmin/module.infos.cache : No such file or directory. Is there conf info stored in places I know not. How can I clean it up? I need sort of concise help if it exists cause I wouldn't call myself the cluiest user. Thanks Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FBSD gateway/firewall with squid -will it let request in??
Hi all, shooting blind here cause I trouble shoot this (although I am remote from the systems in question) 203.111.111.216/29 -NAT- 10.0.0.110.0.0.2 Internet--FBSD (ipfilter/ipnat squid) -- www/mail server All live ips are alias to external interface of FBSD they NAT to internals. I have never had squid proxy on a gateway like this. Would squid by default (I have changed very little in squid.conf) interfere with externally incoming traffic being Natted to the inside server? Will it block? I know this is FBSD not SQUID but maybe it is an ipf hassle otherwise. Thanks if you can help Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help! Is this an attack or a virus? Qmail on FBSD is flooding
Hi good people. I am not the cluiest here. Suddenly my fbsd 4.7. qmail router/gateway is dead slow and ps -ax reports all normal procs plus heaps! of procs like... 5567(some flags) 0:00:02 qmail-remote hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] The address is one of my user email accounts on qmail What is this? Is it possible FBSD has a virus or is it a suddenly rougue/corrupted qmail. Wher else can I look to track this down. I have ipfilter/ipmon/ipnat on it too. I disconnected router from internal LAN and rebooted and after a while it started doing it again! So it is something on the machine. Help please needed badly...typical..its mission critical in our school Thanks Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! Is this an attack or a virus? Qmail on FBSD is flooding
Hi Victor thanks, I had deleted that one persons account but it staill happens! What is the qmail-remote thing?? Any ideas? Keith On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi good people. I am not the cluiest here. Suddenly my fbsd 4.7. qmail router/gateway is dead slow and ps -ax reports all normal procs plus heaps! of procs like... 5567(some flags) 0:00:02 qmail-remote hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] The address is one of my user email accounts on qmail What is this? Is it possible FBSD has a virus or is it a suddenly rougue/corrupted qmail. Wher else can I look to track this down. I have ipfilter/ipmon/ipnat on it too. I disconnected router from internal LAN and rebooted and after a while it started doing it again! So it is something on the machine. Help please needed badly...typical..its mission critical in our school Thanks Keith Just a guess but if only mail activity is reported and only for that user's account it sounds like your mail server is being used to churn out massive amounts of spam or hammer other mail servers to harvest valid addresses either because it's an open relay or because someone has cracked that user's account. Disable that user's account and set your firewall and your mail server's access database to block any IP's and hostnames that the activity seems to be coming from and see if the box returns to normal. If multiple accounts are being used it's possible the box itself has been rooted rather than the individual accounts being cracked. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! Is this an attack or a virus? Qmail on FBSD is flooding
G'day Vitali, Thanks for your advice I'll look into it I was thinking about it last night and figured that there must be messages in the Q. A quick check showed that one such message was Qd to send a couple of jpgs to dozens of CCd addresses! That does look like a virus on one of my internal clients...(using their address book) What say you? Keith Hi, dear All! qmail-remote sends mail to remote hosts as long as qmail-local sends local mail (inside the box). how many qmail-remote processes do you have (ps ax|grep qmail-remote|wc -l)? did you try to delete the messages from the queue, if so you should have done it correctly. please, obtain the qmail-remove package (find it on Google), there is an instruction how to delete the queued messages. and see the log file (grep qmail-remote /var/log/maillog | more), as this information is not nuff WBR -- Error Code=-1 Continue? Yes | No -- http://www.geocities.com/vitali_malicky Hi Victor thanks, I had deleted that one persons account but it staill happens! What is the qmail-remote thing?? Any ideas? Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I unbreak a port on Freebsd 4.7 (Webmin)
HI, I was naughty and hacked out Wemin 1.1 cause there is an invalid java procedure call in File manager in this version. I wanted to roll back but couldn't so... I unleashed rm -R. Now a new install from ports works but webmin is seriously broken.. says it can't find modules in /usr/local/webmin/lib etc. What to do? Do I get the tar ball and make install clean? Or what. Sorry to be a pest but Webmin is crucial for me. Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail delivery wierdness
Hi all, I am trying to connect to an exchange server via my new gateway ipfilter fbsd 4.7 ipnat firewall. Telnetting to the server inside to port 25 reveals... Connected to 203.44.yyy.xx Escape character is ']'. Connection closed by foreign host. Why would it close instantly? Does this reveal while I can't send mail to any email account on it? Is this an exchange hassle? Is port 25 to be only tcp or udp as well. Thanks keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail delivery wierdness
Hi Ryan... Yep I can confirm it was NOT listening on :25 The techie on the ground swore black blue it was (always follow what you know!). I figured it wasn't but maybe it was somethjing I didn't understand?? He changed the config on exchange and voila! Now I can chat with smtp on the mail server from outside! Next question. Squid is also on the gateway/firewall. Mail is still not being delivered. Can I assume if I can chat via telnet to the exchange server : 25 Then mail can also get thru? Surely that means a persistent session is set up and mail should also get to it. It isn't being delivered to mailboxes there so what the??? Any ideas? Thanks Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to Free bsd : Hi all, I am trying to connect to an exchange server via my new gateway ipfilter fbsd 4.7 ipnat firewall. Telnetting to the server inside to port 25 reveals... Connected to 203.44.yyy.xx Escape character is ']'. Connection closed by foreign host. Why would it close instantly? That's usually the behaviour indicating that there is a server at 203.44.yyy.xx, but there is no service listening on port 25. (Or, maybe your fancy ipfilter firewall is simulating the equivalent). The first thing you should do is confirm that the server in question *is* actually listening on port 25. MS Exchange is pretty far beyond the charter of this list, but general network techniques would still apply: Try the same telnet test using the win32 telnet on the server itself. (i.e., telnet localhost:25, and try it by the public IP in case Exchange isn't listening on localhost for some reason). If it won't talk SMTP with you in either case, you won't get any farther. On the other hand, if the test is successful, try the same thing from the next hop (your FreeBSD gateway?). If you isolate the problem to the gateway (and/or every host directly connected to the other side of your gateway), you'd probably do well to forward your firewall rules and ipnat config to the list (as well as a description of what you're trying to accomplish with your config), in which case we'll be able to give you better specific instructions. Does this reveal while I can't send mail to any email account on it? Is this an exchange hassle? Is port 25 to be only tcp or udp as well. SMTP is a connection-oriented service. SMTP can, in theory, be used over transport layers other than TCP, but SMTP over UDP would require a fair hack to SMTP to implement. So, the short answer is, forget about UDP. :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP Dial-in Server
Hi, not wanting to be too critical but I am with you. This section is written very poorly. It is not possible to disciminate what is needed and not easily since to do so I'd need to be expert and ...what am I reading the doc for? I am keen to see responses. I have asked this list on several occasions for help here but with no great success. Very unusual for the good people on this list. Maybe we ask too much? Keith This involves a lot of info so perhaps some pithy writing will help. The related hardware: -FreeBSD 4.8-stable computer with a 56K Best Data external modem and a NIC to my LAN -Windows 2000 computer with a 56K internal modem Goal: Dial-in from the Windows box to the FreeBSD box from anywhere with a phone line, be able to access my LAN, and get on the Internet through my broadband connection I have: -Followed the handbook section on serial communications Dial-in service (17.4) up until programming the modem because I couldn't find the correct commands -Installed mgetty+sendfax since I couldn't program the modem myself. I can: -Connect from the Windows computer when I choose to have a terminal screen displayed. -Log in at the prompt as if I was sitting right in front of the FreeBSD box. I cannot log in without getting the terminal screen first under windows. It says a PPP session couldn't be established because the remote computer wasn't responding. It tells me to use the terminal window. I went through all the 18.2 handbook info about setting up a User PPP dial-in server but I'm really not sure what parts I need and what parts I have to choose one thing over another and what parts I can skip. In general I find the whole section confusing. I tried several times working with all the various ppp config files but no go. Is it possible to do what I am trying to do? Would anybody care to recommend a more clear version of what the handbook has? Do you recommend I try to dial-up with another FreeBSD computer first before trying to bring Windows into this? Thank you for taking the time to read all this and for helping me out. -Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getswapspacefailed -- OUCH ! Help?
Hi all, I have a mail server which I setup (4.7) late last year. iT often starts to crap out with getswapspace failed errors. a) How can I check how much swapspace I had allocated. b) How can I check if the drive has a bad block on the swap slice c) How can I fix the problem Sorry for being a dummy here but an not a FBSD guru Keith Thanks in adv ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Drive dying OUCH!...how to tackle this?
Hi all, I suspect a bad blok on the one and only drive in my gateway mail server Fbsd 4.7. I tried using that ftp blok by blok imaging util (from Germany name = ???) but dumping it back it died trying to restore one of the slices. Damn! What can I do here? sling another dive in it and tar up the slices or something??? Whoa any cluey ideas? Thanks - Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?
Original Message Subject: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, May 31, 2003 1:38 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all (second posting try) I have a one and only drive dying on a server (OK - to use vinum is to be smarter than I am). Anyways I have unsuccessfully tried to image the drive using some util that is recommended (?) Can I dump the slices to a remote machine, install 2 new drives follow the tute to bootstrap vinum then restore the remote saved slices to the various slice/partitions? In a bind(4) here! anyone clue me in please? Thanks Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks heaps...Re: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?
Ok thanks for that, How cool is Unix really! The wonderful world of pipes. Bo have I got a lot to learn If you have ssh(1) installed on both machines, do something like this dump 0f - /filesystem | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip filesystem.dump.gz' on the system to be backed up. That should write a compressed dump to the remote machine, assuming that * the local filesystem isn't changing (log updates etc) * the remote system has enough diskspace Then you can rebuild the sick machine, and when it's up running do cd /filesystem ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzcat filesystem.dump.gz' | restore rf - to bring the files back. All these commands should be run as root. I'm afraid someone else will need to help you with the vinum stuff - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 1:09 PM Subject: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ? Original Message Subject: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, May 31, 2003 1:38 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all (second posting try) I have a one and only drive dying on a server (OK - to use vinum is to be smarter than I am). Anyways I have unsuccessfully tried to image the drive using some util that is recommended (?) Can I dump the slices to a remote machine, install 2 new drives follow the tute to bootstrap vinum then restore the remote saved slices to the various slice/partitions? In a bind(4) here! anyone clue me in please? Thanks Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?
But Greg...you wrote VINUM - spriuk a bit I reckon! Yeah look the name of some util escapes me but it copies blok by blok off to an ftp server (German origin I think). I used fsck to check things out but no errors are reported so I can't say why the some util wouldn't restore the /usr/local slice. My main hassle is very poor disk slice design/forethought space wise. I have a huge home partition that is not used because this mail server uses qmail/vpop toaster(thanks Matt S) /var heaps. Don't ant to patch symlinks all over the shop, and I am a no nothing on how to resize (if it is possible) and swap reports getswapspacefailed a lot under load. Hrrummph! I figure a dump, rebuild (with vinum mirror bootstapped) and restore might help but the mote I think hte more I think ??? Thanks Keith On Saturday, 31 May 2003 at 13:39:49 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a one and only drive dying on a server (OK - to use vinum is to be smarter than I am). Anyways I have unsuccessfully tried to image the drive using some util that is recommended (?) Can I dump the slices to a remote machine, install 2 new drives follow the tute to bootstrap vinum then restore the remote saved slices to the various slice/partitions? In a bind(4) here! anyone clue me in please? That depends on what's wrong with your disk and why your first some util attempt failed. Vinum isn't a disk recovery tool, nor is it particularly for that purpose, so there's no particular reason to assume it will work better than your some util. Of course, if you give some details, somebody may be able to help you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to analyse squid logs and wierd time stamps
Hi all, Here is a squid log sample... 1049884671.477240 10.0.1.121 TCP_HIT/200 744 GET ftp://ftpav.ca.com/pub/inoculan/scaneng/Siglist.txt - NONE/- text/plain ... Whoa! Anyone know of a port to analyse this stuff and change what MIGHT be a timestamp to something a mortal like me can read?? Appreciate help Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved!! Re: How to analyse squid logs and wierd time stamps
Hi..what legends are FBSD people! Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] 1049884671.477240 10.0.1.121 TCP_HIT/200 744 GET ftp://ftpav.ca.com/pub/inoculan/scaneng/Siglist.txt - NONE/- text/plain ... Whoa! Anyone know of a port to analyse this stuff and change what MIGHT be a timestamp to something a mortal like me can read?? Sure. Install /usr/ports/net/adns and /usr/ports/www/analog. Check out and update the analog config file in /usr/local/etc. cd to where your log files are, and DNS resolve the IPs via: adnslogres -c 2 access_log access_log.dns ...then run analog against this (DNS-resolved) logfile, and it will generate lots of info. You can also do other things with the DNS-resolved logfile using other tools, but most of 'em will prefer to start with the output of adnslogres, so that step is worth doing. -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to add more swap space?
Hi all...
I found this ()
I have FBSD 4.7 system...is this article still ok or even the best way to go?
Any ideas welcome
Keith
==8 snip snip
Adding more SWAP space
I recently mined this info from the STABLE mailing list and thought it
would make a great mini-tutorial. I have seen this question asked before
and always wanted to know how to do it myself.
So here's the procedure for adding 512 MB of swap space:
# cd /usr
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=32m count=16 (FYI, 32x16=512)
# chmod 640 swap0
# chgrp operator swap0
# echo /dev/vn0c /usr/swap0 swap /etc/vn0c
# vnconfig -ae
Add:
if [ X${vnconfig_enable} = XYES ]; then
echo -n ' vnconfig'; vnconfig -ae
fi
to /etc/rc.local (if it doesn't exist, create it!)
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IPNAT... internal server what-to-do
Hi all. On my 4.7 system, I have ipfilter and ipnat. I have several live ips aliased to my external ADSL interface. Some of these are mapped into private internal ips. So far so good. All works fine from outside. But if I want to reach one of the internal servers from inside...eg www.smmc.qld.edu.au...the client hangs looking. Here are some of my rules: ==8 snip= map fxp0 10.0.0.0/21 - 0/32 # ---OK maps internal getting out fine! #www server rdr fxp0 210.15.203.195/32 port 80 - 10.0.0.7 port 80 rdr dc0 210.15.203.195/32 port 80 - 10.0.0.7 port 80 #---No worky! ==8 snip= I can figure there is a problem with this but dont have a clue how to fix it I want to use fqdns inside not local ip addrs. It is more convenient for users. BTW the ip address works fine...just the rdr or lookup stuff is faulty Help??? Thanks Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPNAT... internal server what-to-do
Thanks Mark, The gateway is a dns server so I guess that is not a caching dns server. I have a 4.7 system squid proxy machine on the inside which is the gateway for the lan (then its gateway is the firewall) Can I install the caching dns on it maybe? Hints? Thanks again (yet again Freebsd questions people rock) Keith On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. On my 4.7 system, I have ipfilter and ipnat. I have several live ips aliased to my external ADSL interface. Some of these are mapped into private internal ips. So far so good. All works fine from outside. But if I want to reach one of the internal servers from inside...eg www.smmc.qld.edu.au...the client hangs looking. Here are some of my rules: ==8 snip= map fxp0 10.0.0.0/21 - 0/32 # ---OK maps internal getting out fine! #www server rdr fxp0 210.15.203.195/32 port 80 - 10.0.0.7 port 80 rdr dc0 210.15.203.195/32 port 80 - 10.0.0.7 port 80 #---No worky! ==8 snip= I can figure there is a problem with this but dont have a clue how to fix it I want to use fqdns inside not local ip addrs. It is more convenient for users. BTW the ip address works fine...just the rdr or lookup stuff is faulty There isn't really a way to do this currently. (that was with 3.4.16 as I remember perhaps support has been added now) because ipnat redirects from the _outside_ interface to the inside and you want the inside reflected back inside. Not what it's meant to do. The easiest thing I can think of is to create a dummy dns entry on the local machines or the caching dns server (if you have one) that points to the 10.0.0.7 address. -Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Routing problem.. cisco --fbsd--Lan Experts??
Hi all, I have a friend with a cisco 827 adsl router. It has config hassles but when that is sorted, we need to setup a freebsd box inside the cisco router to handle a /29 block of ips. 3 questions... a) Should I assume the cisco is not the worlds greatest firewall and setup the freebsd machine as one (creating a dmz) b) The /29 block is routed by the ISP to the cisco device. I guess we need to place a static route on the cisco gadget that directs any of the incoming /29 block request onto the freebsd box...Correct? c) Should I use IPNAT on the fbsd box an place all the /29 ips the NIC facing the cisco and NAT to the internal private IPs of the servers inside the fbsd Lan? I know I don't have to but if I do this would I have to config the fbsd as a router (routed or such). I will make it the gateway for the internal LAN. Is that enough? I think it should be? Ideas please. Here is the scheme...Will this work is it best? Thanks heaps ISP (165.228.233.1) | [ADSL Internet] | (165.228.233.190) +CISCO ROUTER+ static route (10.0.0.1) | | (10.0.0.2,203.228.44.xxx,203.228.44.zzz,203.228.44.zzz..etc) +FREEBSD Gateway firewall+ NAT/PAT- (192.168.1.1) / \ / \ / \ / \ (192.168.1.2) (192.168.1.3) etc etc WWW server OTHER server ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Routing problem.. cisco --fbsd--Lan Experts??
Hi all, I have a friend with a cisco 827 adsl router. It has config hassles but when that is sorted, we need to setup a freebsd box inside the cisco router to handle a /29 block of ips. 3 questions... a) Should I assume the cisco is not the worlds greatest firewall and setup the freebsd machine as one (creating a dmz) b) The /29 block is routed by the ISP to the cisco device. I guess we need to place a static route on the cisco gadget that directs any of the incoming /29 block request onto the freebsd box...Correct? c) Should I use IPNAT on the fbsd box an place all the /29 ips the NIC facing the cisco and NAT to the internal private IPs of the servers inside the fbsd Lan? I know I don't have to but if I do this would I have to config the fbsd as a router (routed or such). I will make it the gateway for the internal LAN. Is that enough? I think it should be? Ideas please. Here is the scheme...Will this work is it best? Thanks heaps Keith ISP (165.228.233.1) | [ADSL Internet] | (165.228.233.190) +CISCO ROUTER+ static route (10.0.0.1) | | (10.0.0.2,203.228.44.xxx,203.228.44.zzz,203.228.44.zzz..etc) +FREEBSD Gateway firewall+ NAT/PAT- (192.168.1.1) / \ / \ / \ / \ (192.168.1.2) (192.168.1.3) etc etc WWW server OTHER server ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routing problem.. cisco --fbsd--Lan Experts??
HI and thanks, Cool! I am OK with the fbsd stuff ipfilter ipnat etc. I garee it is nice. The small matter of the cisco thing...hmmm! OK...so would it be ok to ask another question or 2 later if today is bad? I need to know how to bridge the /29 on the cisco. does it mean I simply install static routing on the cisco by doing something like... ip classless (default) ip route 203.44.288.0 255.255.255.248 ethernet0 10.0.0.2 no ip http server (default) (NOTE: 10.0.0.2 is the ip of the fbsd box, 10.0.0.1 is the ethernet0 ip of cisco router) I have read the cisco docs but is slightly foreign language to me. I would greatly appreciate it. My balls are now on the line here. I should never volunteer to help!? Am i close? Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend with a cisco 827 adsl router. It has config hassles but when that is sorted, we need to setup a freebsd box inside the cisco router to handle a /29 block of ips. 3 questions... I'm running an identical setup here - a Cisco 827, a /29, and a FreeBSD machine (or two) performing NAT for my LAN. a) Should I assume the cisco is not the worlds greatest firewall and setup the freebsd machine as one (creating a dmz) The Cisco will be adequate, but I prefer the ease of use and added functions a FreeBSD machine running IP Filter/IPNAT, but that's just me. b) The /29 block is routed by the ISP to the cisco device. I guess we need to place a static route on the cisco gadget that directs any of the incoming /29 block request onto the freebsd box...Correct? I have my 827 set up as a very basic bridge. This means that instead of the /29 terminating, so to speak, on the 827, each of my allocated IP addresses is available directly on an ethernet interface on one of two FreeBSD machines. As a partial answer to part C, if you bridge the /29 to the FreeBSD machine, you can easily configure IPF and IPNAT to port-forward to various internet servers as required. Personally, the machine I have performing NAT (with my /29 on one interface and a private /24 on the other) for my internal network also runs various services. It's not an ideal setup, but it is functional and easy to maintain. Sorry I can't answer the rest of your questions, my brain is still enjoying the aftereffects of a big Friday night :) --Steven ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi all, I have Found a rule in my ipf firewall rules file. it allows in my agetway machine running webmin etc etc. to port 3306 from any. Now I may well have added this rule but I didn't comment it (Not like me!) Any clues as to what that port is for? Services file has no listing. Thanks Keith Spencer To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Port 3306 -- Solved!! Thanks
Yeah fair comment Ricardo Thanks Hi Keith, Since you are on the matter, I would also recommend using your firewall to stop unwanted requests to that port. For example, try instead of any, allowing your webserver (in case of webdriven websites) and only servers that need to have access to your database. You don't need anyone trying to play around with your database. :) Cheers Ricardo On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:30 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:12 PM Hi all, I have Found a rule in my ipf firewall rules file. it allows in my agetway machine running webmin etc etc. to port 3306 from any. Now I may well have added this rule but I didn't comment it (Not like me!) Any clues as to what that port is for? Services file has no listing. Thanks Keith Spencer IIRC, that's MySQL. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Ricardo Oliva Labs Systems Administrator UBC - Zoology Department Ph.: 604-822-3882 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Port 3306 -- Solved!! Thanks
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:12 PM Hi all, I have Found a rule in my ipf firewall rules file. it allows in my agetway machine running webmin etc etc. to port 3306 from any. Now I may well have added this rule but I didn't comment it (Not like me!) Any clues as to what that port is for? Services file has no listing. Thanks Keith Spencer IIRC, that's MySQL. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Help
Hi, Could you please tell me a way to remove freebsd from my computer. Thanks for your time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Page Fault.
Have a machine, Dell dual CPU/quad core Xeon. Runs FBSD 6.2. Custom kernel, with IPFW compiled in and using SMP. FreeBSD hostname 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #1: Wed Jan 23 12:17:29 PST 2008 It runs, Dovecot, Postfix, Mysql, Apache. Standard email stuff. Put into production in March, ran perfect until July 29th when it rebooted by itself. It rebooted 2 more times in the last few months on its own. But in the last 6 weeks it has become a weekly occurance, with uptime no more than 6-7 days at most. The last 2 times I have cores and have run kgdb on them. Both vmcore's show the same things. Same pointers etc, the only difference is what the cpuid was at the time. == kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 2; apic id = 02 fault virtual address = 0x104 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc066ca51 stack pointer = 0x28:0xe6ec0c90 frame pointer = 0x28:0xe6ec0c9c code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 9 (thread taskq) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 2 Uptime: 6d6h23m45s Dumping 3327 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 3327MB (851624 pages) 3311 3295 3279 3263 3247 3231 3215 3199 3183 3167 3151 3135 3119 3103 3087 3071 3055 3039 3023 3007 2991 2975 2959 2943 2927 2911 2895 2879 2863 2847 2831 2815 2799 2783 2767 2751 2735 2719 2703 2687 2671 2655 2639 2623 2607 2591 2575 2559 2543 2527 2511 2495 2479 2463 2447 2431 2415 2399 2383 2367 2351 2335 2319 2303 2287 2271 2255 2239 2223 2207 2191 2175 2159 2143 2127 2111 2095 2079 2063 2047 2031 2015 1999 1983 1967 1951 1935 1919 1903 1887 1871 1855 1839 1823 1807 1791 1775 1759 1743 1727 1711 1695 1679 1663 1647 1631 1615 1599 1583 1567 1551 1535 1519 1503 1487 1471 1455 1439 1423 1407 1391 1375 1359 1343 1327 1311 1295 1279 1263 1247 1231 1215 1199 1183 1167 1151 1135 1119 1103 1087 1071 1055 1039 1023 1007 991 975 959 943 927 911 895 879 863 847 831 815 799 783 767 751 735 719 703 687 671 655 639 623 607 591 575 559 543 527 511 495 479 463 447 431 415 399 383 367 351 335 319 303 287 271 255 239 223 207 191 175 159 143 127 111 95 79 63 47 31 15 #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:165 165 __asm __volatile(movl %%fs:0,%0 : =r (td)); What might be the cause for this? It is the in the same place every time. Once the machine hung and had to be powercycled. But on the screen was the same page fault error on the same process. Is this flaky hardware? Thanks, Keith. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Page Fault.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Mel wrote:
|-On Monday 01 December 2008 19:32:59 Keith wrote:
|-
|- ==
|- kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled
|-
|- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
|- cpuid = 2; apic id = 02
|- fault virtual address = 0x104
|- fault code = supervisor read, page not present
|- instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc066ca51
|- stack pointer = 0x28:0xe6ec0c90
|- frame pointer = 0x28:0xe6ec0c9c
|- code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
|- = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
|- processor eflags= resume, IOPL = 0
|- current process = 9 (thread taskq)
|- trap number = 12
|- panic: page fault
|- Uptime: 6d6h23m45s
|- #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:165
|- 165 __asm __volatile(movl %%fs:0,%0 : =r (td));
|-
|-
|-frame 0 useless. You need the frame after calltrap().
|-And:
|-
|- instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc066ca51
|-list *0xc066ca51
|-
|-Generally a bt will show the needed information.
|-Likely cause: file system corruption, caused by background_fsck, but a
|-backtrace should show more.
Ok, so how does one fix corruption if that is the case? Here is a
backtrace, but means nothing to me unfortunately.
(kgdb) backtrace
#0 doadump () at pcpu.h:165
#1 0xc067582a in boot (howto=260) at ../../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:409
#2 0xc0675b51 in panic (fmt=0xc08f090b %s) at
../../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:565
#3 0xc0899f1c in trap_fatal (frame=0xe6ec0c50, eva=260) at
../../../i386/i386/trap.c:837
#4 0xc089968e in trap (frame={tf_fs = 8, tf_es = -920256472, tf_ds =
-420741080, tf_edi = -936184704, tf_esi = 4, tf_ebp = -420737892, tf_isp
= -420737924, tf_ebx = -920236452, tf_edx = 6, tf_ecx = -936306488, tf_eax = 1,
tf_trapno = 12,
tf_err = 0, tf_eip = -1067005359, tf_cs = 32, tf_eflags = 65538, tf_esp =
-930065784, tf_ss = 4}) at ../../../i386/i386/trap.c:270
#5 0xc08859ca in calltrap () at ../../../i386/i386/exception.s:139
#6 0xc066ca51 in _mtx_lock_sleep (m=0xc9264e5c, tid=3358782592, opts=0,
file=0x0, line=0) at ../../../kern/kern_mutex.c:546
#7 0xc06bbdb6 in unp_gc (arg=0x0, pending=1) at
../../../kern/uipc_usrreq.c:1714
#8 0xc06964d3 in taskqueue_run (queue=0xc843fa80) at
../../../kern/subr_taskqueue.c:257
#9 0xc06969b6 in taskqueue_thread_loop (arg=0x1) at
../../../kern/subr_taskqueue.c:376
#10 0xc065ef6d in fork_exit (callout=0xc0696924 taskqueue_thread_loop,
arg=0xc09f1d28, frame=0xe6ec0d38) at ../../../kern/kern_fork.c:821
#11 0xc0885a2c in fork_trampoline () at ../../../i386/i386/exception.s:208
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Dell 1950 RAID 1 Drives.
Have the above server, drive 0 failed. No onsite spares left. Ordered replacement drives a week ago but they are still on route and wont be here till Jan 5 or 6. All I have is a test server of the same make/model in my test rack configured and running a slightly different version of FBSD. If I pull a drive from this test server that is already configured to a RAID contoller and put it into the server with the bad drive, how will the machine deal with it as it already has a valid config on it? Will I just be able to go to the RAID Bios and rebuild? Or wipe the config on the test server so the drive has no config on it before installing it into the server with the failed drive? Are the SAS drives in a Dell 1950 hot swap by chance? Have not had a drive go like this with no spares around before. Thanks. ___ 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
RAID5 speed question.
Have an ancient 4.1R mail server to replace. It has about 3000 accounts. Usual /var/mail to store mail. /var/mail is RAID5 on an old Dell PERC3 card. Its worked pretty well and have lived through 3 drive failures over the years. New Dell box with a PERC5/i. Same drive setup, a 500GB RAID5 for /var/mail. I do an ls -l in /var/mail on the old 4.10 machine and I get a directory listing in about 2 seconds. This is about 3000 mailboxes. On the new machine running 7.3 with the PERC5/i I rsync'd /var/mail and do an ls -l and it takes a full 22 seconds to get a directory listing. A plain ls in /var/mail on both machines is instantaneous. I know RAID5 is not 'optimal' for this but I'm surprised at the difference in how long it takes to do a directory listing using ls -l on the new machine compared to the old one. The new array is 500GB compared to about 36GB on the older machine. Shouldn't a long directory listing be faster on the PERC5/i compared to the old PERC3? Other than that the new machine in all other aspects is faster, a lot faster. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd.org email
Good Morning, I have been running freebsd for 2 ½ years now and currently run 23 freebsd 4.9 servers I actively encourage everyone to switch to freebsd and have helped many switch. What does it take or what are the requirements to get a freebsd.org email address ex: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sincerely, Kyle ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: Too much swap space...best way to take some of it away
Ok, I'm not totally a newbie but, I'm definitely no expert in FBSD. When I was doing my original install, it was on a p100 w/ 32 megs of ram, so I gave myself a 1 gig swap partition to help alleviate some of the server load. Now, I have moved this install to a AMD K6/2 500MHz with 512 megs of RAM, so I really don't need a 1 gig swap partition on only a 3 gig hard drive. What is the best way to repartition this disk without having to reinstall? Here is my current disk structure: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 253678 54430 178954 23% / Devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 253678 26 233358 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 1284302 688048 493510 58% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 253678 31542 201842 14% /var Thanks in advance ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just curious, how large is FreeBSD?
I just purchased FreeBSD 5.1 and got it installed sucessfully-YEAH!-yesterday. I am a new newbie with no previous experience with UNIX, so I feel this is a wonderful accomplishment. I ran accross one problem, though. Every time I installed ALL, the installation froze after about 30 minutes. I tried this about 8 times and realized that every time it froze on the exact same place. I eventually came to the conclusion that ALL could not fit on my hard drive (4Gb total) and installed the USER configuration with the X thing and only KDE packages and the installation was successful. So was my conclusion correct? Do I need a larger harddrive? Is 4Gb not enough for ALL? How big is FreeBSD anyway? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems
From the FreeBSD FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INSTALL-CDROMhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INSTALL-CDROM): -- 3.16. I booted from my ATAPI CDROM, but the install program says no CDROM is found. Where did it go? The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CDROM drive. Many PCs now ship with the CDROM as the slave device on the secondary IDE controller, with no master device on that controller. This is illegal according to the ATAPI specification, but Windows plays fast and loose with the specification, and the BIOS ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to see the CDROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD cannot see it to complete the install. Reconfigure your system so that the CDROM is either the master device on the IDE controller it is attached to, or make sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller that also has a master device. --- Well, I'm hitting exactly this problem with the install program after booting off the CD, but in my case the CDROM *is* the slave device on an IDE controller that also has a master device! My configuration is as follows: - IDE1 master: hard drive - IDE1 slave: hard drive - IDE2 master: hard drive - IDE2 slave: CD-ROM drive I'm a long-time Windows user who has dabbled in Linux and hated a lot about it. After reading about FreeBSD, I'm really excited to install it and try it out. But I can't even get into the installation process because of this issue. Can anyone help? I've searched newsgroup and e-mail list archives and have found nothing relevant. - Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems
I bought longer ATA/133 cables and reconfigured the wiring of my IDE devices. The mid-cable connector supposedly should go to the slave device, according to the labels on the cables. So now the wiring arrangement is consistent with how the devices are jumpered. Still, sysinstall is unable to mount any CDs. I do notice that when the kernal load while booting from the CD, it detects all 5 of my disk devices. Anyone else want to take a stab at this? One user's choice of whether to love or hate FreeBSD hangs in the balance... - Keith - Original Message - From: fbsd_user Good job of doing your homework. Lets continue on with the intent of the FAQ you quoted. Are your HD jumpered as master and slave or are they jumpered as CS for cable select? The 2 nipples on the IDE ribbon have predefined meanings as to which one is the master nipple and which one is the slave nipple. Jumpering your IDE drives to CS uses the predefined meanings of the nipples. I have always jumpered my IDE devices as master or slave and plug them into the correct ribbon nipple. Check it out, and post your results. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith Kelly Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems From the FreeBSD FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INSTALL-CDROM): -- 3.16. I booted from my ATAPI CDROM, but the install program says no CDROM is found. Where did it go? The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CDROM drive. Many PCs now ship with the CDROM as the slave device on the secondary IDE controller, with no master device on that controller. This is illegal according to the ATAPI specification, but Windows plays fast and loose with the specification, and the BIOS ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to see the CDROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD cannot see it to complete the install. Reconfigure your system so that the CDROM is either the master device on the IDE controller it is attached to, or make sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller that also has a master device. --- Well, I'm hitting exactly this problem with the install program after booting off the CD, but in my case the CDROM *is* the slave device on an IDE controller that also has a master device! My configuration is as follows: - IDE1 master: hard drive - IDE1 slave: hard drive - IDE2 master: hard drive - IDE2 slave: CD-ROM drive I'm a long-time Windows user who has dabbled in Linux and hated a lot about it. After reading about FreeBSD, I'm really excited to install it and try it out. But I can't even get into the installation process because of this issue. Can anyone help? I've searched newsgroup and e-mail list archives and have found nothing relevant. - Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Please see this page: http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1044789670/index_html This is exactly the problem I am having now whenever I try to install either FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1. Clearly, a lot of other users out there are having this problem too. FDisk absolutely refuses to accept the correct geometry values (the ones my BIOS tells me it is using to address the disk), instead insisting on using some values that are not even close to correct. Then after installation completes and I try to boot, I get a missing operating system message, which is no surprise given that the disk was addressed by the installer using the wrong geometry settings. Why the hell doesn't FDisk properly read the geometry settings from the BIOS in the first place (so that don't have to look them up and enter them myself during install), and why the hell doesn't it accept the correct values when I enter them? Isn't there *ANY* way to force it to accept the values I give it? I have a hard time imagining how this could be considered low priority or not important by the developers of the system. This is clearly a major defect in either documentation (if this is user error, a LOT of users are having the problem, so documentation must be deficient), or a major defect in the code. DISCLAIMER: I don't know if you folks are like the Linux community, but don't tell me to find the bug and fix it yourself, or to quit whining. It's perfectly reasonable for a user of a piece of software to expect it to work right. I'm not a developer, and shouldn't have to be. That's why *other* people are developers, so that I don't have to be. - Keith F. Kelly ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given more technical details. I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system error at boot. The hard drive is IDE, not SCSI. It is a Maxtor UltraMax 40GB ATA/100 drive purchased shy of two years ago. The physical geometry reported by Maxtor in the specs for the drive is different from the geometry my BIOS reports that it has auto-detected and is using to address the drive. And both of *those* geometries are different from the one that fdisk keeps trying to assume. I've already read all the FAQs, handbooks, and support sites I could find regarding FreeBSD and disk geometry. None of them have contained any information specific to IDE drives (they all seem SCSI-centric), and none of them have clearly explained all the background context about how drive geometries work. I guess there is a physical geometry provided by the drive manufacturer, and then different geometries (all of which may be valid) your BIOS might use to address the drive depending on the mode it is using (LBA, etc). As far as I can tell, the geometry values a user is supposed to feed to fdisk are the values that the BIOS reports that it is using to address the drive, but I'm not even sure if that is correct because the documentation is so impenetrable. And of course many users are running into this issue where the drive geometries reported and used by their BIOS are simply rejected by fdisk as invalid whenever they try to enter them into fdisk, which makes no sense to me. - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:44 PM Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS Please see this page: http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1044789670/index_html This is exactly the problem I am having now whenever I try to install either FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1. Clearly, a lot of other users out there are having this problem too. FDisk absolutely refuses to accept the correct geometry values (the ones my BIOS tells me it is using to address the disk), instead insisting on using some values that are not even close to correct. Then after installation completes and I try to boot, I get a missing operating system message, which is no surprise given that the disk was addressed by the installer using the wrong geometry settings. Of about 100 to 110 FreeBSD systems we have up and going, I have never had the fdisk reported geometry match the BIOS reported information but I have never had a system fail to install and boot by just ignoring the whole issue and letting it (sysinstall, fdisk, etc) do its own thing as long as I didn't try to tinker with the geometry. This has been with both SCSI and IDE disks, but mostly SCSI and almost entirely on mainstream hardware such as what comes with Dell, Compaq, etc, not homebuilts. The FreeBSD versions have been most of 3.xx through most of 4.xx. I haven't tried any 5.xx yet but the person in the box (cubicle) next to me has 5.1 going and sees the same thing. There have been lots of things written about this. I don't know which ones apply in your case. But, the geometries on recent disks and recent versions of software (recent = in the last 6 or 7 years) are all virtual as far as I can see.So, just try letting it fly and without trying to tinker or reconcile what appears to be a conflict. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Yes, I tried it both ways (installing BootMgr, and installing a standard MBR). - Original Message - From: Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:38 PM Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800 Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given more technical details. I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system error at boot. Hi Keith, Just to be sure - did you elect to install BootMgr (or a regular boot record) on the drive when sysinstall asks? -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
See comments in-line. - Original Message - From: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:56 PM Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Keith Kelly wrote: I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system error at boot. Sufficiently old motherboards and BIOS versions don't understand the LBA addressing mode used by modern drives, and are limited to seeing approx 8.4 GB using the classic C/H/S values. See whether the BIOS lets you configure the drive to LBA mode rather than automatic, C/H/S, or extended C/H/S mode. If it doesn't, check to see whether there is a BIOS update available for your hardware. The motherboard is not old. It is an MSI KT4 Ultra motherboard, if I remember the model number correctly off the top of my head, for the Athlon XP architecture. The BIOS doesn't even explicitly list what mode (LBA, CHS, extended CHS) it is using to address the drive -- I just set it to Auto, it detects the device name, and fills out a small listing telling me the C/H/S geometry it is using. The motherboard is already running the latest available BIOS update from MSI. It may be the case that this doesn't resolve the issue. You can try to create a small (say 32MB) DOS partition using classic MS-DOS 6.x or a utility from the drive manufacturer, and verify whether you can boot into that. If you can't and still get the missing OS error, you've got hardware issues and should consider replacing your MB. I definitely do not have hardware issues, because Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000, BeOS, and SkyOS have all worked fine at various points, and Windows XP continues to work fine :-) If you can boot to a DOS partition on the hard disk, then try installing FreeBSD to the remaining space, leaving the DOS partition intact. This will give you a better shot of using a geometry that your BIOS is able to boot. [ The only hardware I've seen which required that kind of thing was a no-name P133 grade machine... ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
No -- no floppy in the floppy drive, and no CD in the CD-ROM drive. Only disk devices attached are the one hard drive, the CD-ROM, and the floppy, and in the BIOS boot sequence, only the one hard drive is set as the boot device. I *did* mark the slice I created using fdisk during FreeBSD install as bootable, and I *did* have the installer write (I've tried it both ways) either a standard MBR or install the BootMgr to the hard drive. There are no other partitions or OSes or anything on the hard drive, but it was previously running WinXP and that booted fine. And just for kicks, I was still able to boot off a DOS floppy, format the hard drive as a system device and put a minimal DOS install on it, and boot fine off the hard drive into DOS. - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS Yes, I tried it both ways (installing BootMgr, and installing a standard MBR). I just thought of one more awful thing which has happened to me on a number of occasions, way embarrassingly too many times. You don't happen to have a floppy disk in the floppy drive or possibly a non-bootable CD in the CD drive do you. That is where I see that message most often. If you tried to install using the two floppies, for example and didn't pull the second one out before rebooting, it would do that. The same would be true if you put one of the other CDs in the set to load some things. I'm still guessing something to do with the MBRs and boot blocks and whatever you called the 'a' partition in the slice, etc though. jerry - Original Message - From: Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:38 PM Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800 Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given more technical details. I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system error at boot. Hi Keith, Just to be sure - did you elect to install BootMgr (or a regular boot record) on the drive when sysinstall asks? -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Inline. - Original Message - From: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions ORG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:27 PM Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Keith Kelly wrote: The motherboard is not old. It is an MSI KT4 Ultra motherboard, if I remember the model number correctly off the top of my head, for the Athlon XP architecture. The BIOS doesn't even explicitly list what mode (LBA, CHS, extended CHS) it is using to address the drive -- I just set it to Auto, it detects the device name, and fills out a small listing telling me the C/H/S geometry it is using. The motherboard is already running the latest available BIOS update from MSI. OK, but if the auto mode uses the wrong C/H/S translation, this default may be the source of your problem. What happens when you switch from using auto to explicitly using LBA? I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to get any other OS to install or boot from any of my hard drives, though, so I really doubt that is the problem. I'm quite confident the problem must lie with FreeBSD itself, in the form of a bug or a lack of hardware support. Although my integrated IDE controller and all other basic hardware is on the FreeBSD supported hardware list. [ ... ] I definitely do not have hardware issues, because Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000, BeOS, and SkyOS have all worked fine at various points, and Windows XP continues to work fine :-) Your error message reflects a BIOS-level failure to find a bootable partition. Do you already have a bootable partition on the system, and are trying to install FreeBSD in a second partition? If so, which partition is marked active? No. The hard drive is the only hard drive attached (I detached my two other drives with WinXP and data files on them, so they couldn't get inadvertently hosed during installation... those two devices were on the primary IDE chain. I moved the blank hard drive and the CD-ROM drive, which were on the secondary IDE chain, onto the primary IDE chain to try to get FreeBSD installed that way. There's currently nothing on the secondary IDE chain). And, I did ensure in all my attempts that I marked the single full-disk slice I created with fdisk as bootable. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
My thought here is to double check that the drive is in the master position on the ribbon. Yeah, you would _think_ that would be the way to configure things. But when I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about CD/DVD drive not found!. It's worth noting that no other OS I've run on this same PC ever had any trouble finding the CD-ROM drive when it was configured as the slave. To get around _that_ problem, I had to configure the CD-ROM as the master and the hard drive as the slave. With the CD-ROM as the master, sysinstall is able to actually detect the CD/DVD drive, but then I run into this nonsense with fdisk refusing to detect or accept the correct disk geometry for the hard drive. It's worth noting that I've never had to manually specify hard drive geometry settings in the installer for any other OS I've installed on this PC. They figured it out automatically and worked fine. If I just let fdisk use its suggested defaults for the geometry and proceed with the install, then when the system reboots off the hard drive I get Missing operating system. It's worth noting that I've never seen that severe of an error following any other OS installation claiming it was successful. So far, I'm really disappointed by FreeBSD. If FreeBSD lacks the logic or detection to automatically figure all these things out and just work, that is a serious bug (whether due to a programmer mistake or poor software design). I've _never_ had this much trouble getting an operating system installed on this particular PC. If I can't get things working within about 1 more hour of tinkering, I'm going to abandon FreeBSD entirely, put my machine back together, and just use the drive as an extra NTFS filesystem for my personal files under Windows XP. When people argue that Windows is easier, and that *nix isn't ready for the desktop, this is *exactly* the kind of problem that they are talking about. I hope any actual FreeBSD developers on these aliases wake up and take notice. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!
I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE right now. Basically, the problem is that FreeBSD's FDisk and the motherboard BIOS independently calculate a set of CHS values (Cylinders/Heads/Sectors) based on the total sector count of the disk, but they do it in different ways and thus end up with different values. My hard drive is a Maxtor 5T040H4. This is a 40GB ATA/100 IDE drive. Maxtor reports the physical geometry as 79408/16/63, which yields a total of 80043264 sectors. With a large drive like this, the catch is that 79408 is too big to fit in the cylinders field in the BIOS, so to make the drive work, you have to calculate an equivalent set of CHS values (decrease the cylinders value, while keeping the total sector count the same). For anyone who doens't know, the formula is like this: cylinders x heads x sectors = total sector count. My motherboard (MSI KT4 Ultra) BIOS calculates 19618/16/255 (80041440 total sectors). FreeBSD's FDisk calculates 4982/255/63 (80035830 total sectors). You'll notice that the total sector count is not the same, and you may wonder why. It's because of rounding error and the fact that the calculations were done in reverse. In theory, either set of CHS values should work fine, but the problem is that my BIOS picks one set and FDisk chooses another set -- and FDisk refuses to accept and use the set my BIOS calculated. For instance, my BIOS starts with the REAL total sector count of 80043264. It assumes a sector count of 255, and it assumes a heads count of 16. So it calculates cylinders as 80043264/(255x16)=19618.44706, which rounds down to 19618. My BIOS does all this calculation automatically for me because I chose Auto for the drive in the BIOS. FDisk also starts with the REAL total sector count of 80043264. But it assumes a sector count of 63, and it assumes a heads count of 255. So it calculates cylinders as 80043264/(63x255)=4982.462745, which rounds down to 4982. So, the problem is that FDisk makes *different* assumptions than my BIOS does about what the sectors and heads values should be. I ran across some information on a BIOS manufacturer's site which claimed that for LBA mode SCSI drives (more accurately known as LBA-Assist translation mode), that it is safe to assume that sectors should be 63 and heads should be 255. Given that FreeBSD's roots and developer community seems historically SCSI-centric, I can see how these assumptions would have been picked up and used in FDisk and considered acceptable. But these assumed values are clearly not correct for how CHS gets calculated by many PC BIOSes for IDE drives. Furthermore, I believe that the reason FDisk rejects the manually entered CHS of 19618/16/255 is because either (1) it tries to enforce those bad assumptions about heads and sectors, or (2) it gets confused by the rounding error. In other words, in the case of rounding error, FDisk may be taking the manually-entered values, multiplying them together, and seeing that it doesn't exactly match (or come close enough to, in its humble but flawed opinion) the total sector count for the drive. The way Fdisk's geometry validation ought to work is like this: - Divide the total sector count of the drive by (H*S), where H and S are the user-supplied values. - Round the result to the nearest whole number. - Compare that result to the user-supplied value for cylinders. - If the result matches, accept the user's input as good. I hope that a developer somewhere can take this information and put it to good use. I would be very happy to test a fix if someone can implement it. In the meantime, the workaround for anyone experiencing this problem is to go into their BIOS and set the hard drive to User mode, and manually enter the same C/H/S settings that FDisk calculated for the drive. Unfortunately, I think this means that if you have to repartition and reformat the entire drive, since the BIOS will now be addressing the drive using different C/H/S settings and will be unable to read any partitions that were formatting using different C/H/S addressing. So while there is a workaround, it is far from an ideal user experience. - Keith F. Kelly _ Check out the new MSN 9 Dial-up — fast reliable Internet access with prime features! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-uspage=dialup/homeST=1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
I wrote the message to which you replied, not Michael Clark. See my comments in-line. From: Hendrik Hasenbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: 'Keith Kelly' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-bugs [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'freebsd-questions ORG' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:57:18 +0100 Michael Clark wrote: I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about CD/DVD drive not found!. It's worth noting that no other OS I've run on this same PC ever had any trouble finding the CD-ROM drive when it was configured as the slave. Strange. That you got that problems. I've been always using a CDROM on slave. Never had a problem there. Did you look if the BIOS was able to autodetect the cdrom on boot? Do you use cable select on one of them? Of course the BIOS auto-detected the CD-ROM fine -- the configuration had always worked with all other operating systems and software I had used on this PC. It didn't matter whether I used cable select or explicitly jumpered the devices as master/slave. In either case, if the CD-ROM was the slave, sysinstall failed to detect the CD-ROM. To get around _that_ problem, I had to configure the CD-ROM as the master and the hard drive as the slave. With the CD-ROM as the master, sysinstall is able to actually detect the CD/DVD drive, but then I run into this nonsense with fdisk refusing to detect or accept the correct disk geometry for the hard drive. It's worth noting that I've never had to manually specify hard drive geometry settings in the installer for any other OS I've installed on this PC. They figured it out automatically and worked fine. Another time: Just turn on LBA. LBA is already on on all my devices, and has been from the start. This is most definitely NOT the problem. Besides which, I already explained my findings on another thread on these aliases.. So far, I'm really disappointed by FreeBSD. If FreeBSD lacks the logic or detection to automatically figure all these things out and just work, that is a serious bug (whether due to a programmer mistake or poor software design). I've _never_ had this much trouble getting an operating system installed on this particular PC. It's due to poor hardware design in history. It's equally due to poor software design. If Windows and Linux can deal with the hardware fine, then FreeBSD should be able to also. If I can't get things working within about 1 more hour of tinkering, I'm going to abandon FreeBSD entirely, put my machine back together, and just use the drive as an extra NTFS filesystem for my personal files under Windows XP. That explains, why you don't want to switch from auto to LBA. Sometimes auto is the right thing, but most times you have to think of the right setting, because auto is just a default. (Example: If I leave all values set to auto in my bios, my system is going to creep literally, because some components wont interact correct) When people argue that Windows is easier, and that *nix isn't ready for the desktop, this is *exactly* the kind of problem that they are talking about. I hope any actual FreeBSD developers on these aliases wake up and take notice. The real problem is that we still work around design flaws which exist in hardware for a decade. Everybody uses his/her personal best workaround and sometimes they are in conflict. No, the real problem is a lack of thorough testing on a variety of hardware configurations, and a lack of developer interest in solving problems encountered by people other than themselves. Hendrik _ Get a FREE online virus check for your PC here, from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!
See my comments in-line. From: Hendrik Hasenbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED! Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:43:17 +0100 Keith Kelly wrote: I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE right now. Gratulation. Basically, the problem is that FreeBSD's FDisk and the motherboard BIOS independently calculate a set of CHS values (Cylinders/Heads/Sectors) based on the total sector count of the disk, but they do it in different ways and thus end up with different values. Yes. That is because there are different ways to calculate that. Then FDisk should be updated to include awareness of ALL the different ways, so as to work on a wider variety of hardware. So, the problem is that FDisk makes *different* assumptions than my BIOS does about what the sectors and heads values should be. That has always been the problem for CHS conversions. Then why do Windows, BeOS, Linux, and SkyOS all get it right, while FreeBSD's fdisk is the only one that gets it wrong? I ran across some information on a BIOS manufacturer's site which claimed that for LBA mode SCSI drives (more accurately known as LBA-Assist translation mode), that it is safe to assume that sectors should be 63 and heads should be 255. Given that FreeBSD's roots and developer community seems historically SCSI-centric, I can see how these assumptions would have been picked up and used in FDisk and considered acceptable. But these assumed values are clearly not correct for how CHS gets calculated by many PC BIOSes for IDE drives. LBA is the only common mode known to all BIOS vendors, Harddrive manufactures and so on, because at least someone made up some assumptions and published them instead of developing their own CHS translation. SCSI was first to breach the BIOS CHS barrier on PCs and so they defined that method. If your BIOS is in auto mode, it tries to get the current format from the harddisk most times uses CHS, but will also find a disk with LBA. So in a modern system LBA would be the safe pick and not CHS. Most likely it picks it from disk (the partition table uses entries for cylinders, heads and sectors to describe the partitions), so the first fdisk sets the addressing the bios chooses. So to avoid conflicts and enhance the usabilty of your drive in different PCs and with different systems use LBA. As I've said multiple times now, LBA was already enabled on all my drives. Furthermore, I believe that the reason FDisk rejects the manually entered CHS of 19618/16/255 is because either (1) it tries to enforce those bad assumptions about heads and sectors, or (2) it gets confused by the rounding error. In other words, in the case of rounding error, FDisk may be taking the manually-entered values, multiplying them together, and seeing that it doesn't exactly match (or come close enough to, in its humble but flawed opinion) the total sector count for the drive. The way Fdisk's geometry validation ought to work is like this: - Divide the total sector count of the drive by (H*S), where H and S are the user-supplied values. - Round the result to the nearest whole number. - Compare that result to the user-supplied value for cylinders. - If the result matches, accept the user's input as good. The test will ensure that the user dont make typos, but it can't ensure that the C. H and S are arranged the same in both conversions. Uh, what? In the meantime, the workaround for anyone experiencing this problem is to go into their BIOS and set the hard drive to User mode, and manually enter the same C/H/S settings that FDisk calculated for the drive. Unfortunately, I think this means that if you have to repartition and reformat the entire drive, since the BIOS will now be addressing the drive using different C/H/S settings and will be unable to read any partitions that were formatting using different C/H/S addressing. So while there is a workaround, it is far from an ideal user experience. Better solution, put the IDE drives to LBA and you'll see that you All my drives already were set in the BIOS with LBA-mode On. This isn't just an issue with having LBA mode enabled or not in the BIOS. This is an issue with FDisk being deficient in how it calculates values for LBA IDE drives. get the same CHS every time and on every system except MSDOS 6.3. If you got a filesystem which doesnt bother about CHS and uses linear addressing you 'only' need a new partition table. After redoing the drive you can put the IDE back to Auto. Hendrik _ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://shopping.msn.com/softcontent/softcontent.aspx?scmId=1418
To use.perl port or not?
Hi all, I recently installed the perl-5.8.2_5 port and ran 'use.perl port' to make that new perl the default system perl. I did several other upgrades at about the same time and since then: kernel cvsup and rebuild to 4.9-RELEASE-p4, and weekly cvsup to update my installed ports. It seemed after those upgrades 'mozilla related' apps because quite unstable: specifically mozilla mail and browser, thunderbird, firefox, epiphany and openoffice all crashing without a core file or any log message that I could find. I tried a pkg_deinstall portinstall of mozilla but that didn't help. Today I was doing a routine upgrade of epiphany and it failed in configure complaining about a missing perl module. Remembering that I had recently upgraded perl, I did a 'use.perl system' and epiphany now builds fine and the crashing seems to have gone away. Searching the archives for 'use.perl' I found a suggestion that after switching to use.perl port, one should reinstall programs that depend on perl. Not sure how to make such a list, but it seems excessive. So, does it seem reasonable that switching perl could have caused/solved this problem? How 'bleeding edge' is doing a 'use.perl port'? Is it something that indeed requires a large rebuild of one's system? If so, how does one go about finding the list of things which need to be rebuilt? Thanks, ksb ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: To use.perl port or not?
On 3/23/2004 8:37 AM, Joshua Lokken wrote: So, does it seem reasonable that switching perl could have caused/solved this problem? How 'bleeding edge' is doing a 'use.perl port'? Is it something that indeed requires a large rebuild of one's system? If so, how does one go about finding the list of things which need to be rebuilt? /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade is a great tool for managing software and dependencies. Install it, read the man pages, and do: portupgrade -rf perl That's if you're using perl from the ports collection. It will rebuild all apps that require perl. Indeed it is a great tool, I use it nearly everyday. But in this case it seems to not help because the system perl (at least for 4.9) is not a port. So, it appears, ports that depend on the system perl - don't know it. When I run that command all that it does is reinstall the perl port. So I don't have any ports that depend on the new perl. But when I made the new perl the system perl (by running 'use.perl port') my system became unstable and running 'use.perl system' fixed it. Is this a known risk? ksb ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4.9R - BTX HALTED problem - my solution
After reading an agonizing thread in freebsd-hackers from back in 2000 with no solution in layman's terms, this is how I got this to work. My system: Celeron 1.7Ghz MSI MS6526 v2 mobo (Intel arch, apparently this and/or the bios is the problem) WD 40GB HDD The problem: After doing a new cd install using the sysinstall menu's as I normally do this machine failed to boot. All I had to go on was a bunch of technical garbage and the message BTX HALTED. The solution: Boot with the install cd Select Standard Install In fdisk, as suggested in the freebsd-hackers thread, I tried altering the disk geometry to what my BIOS sees. That has never worked for me. Nonetheless, I did try it. Fdisk just complains and reverts back to what fdisk sees. Create one Slice or select A Select F for dd mode, select yes when prompted. Make the freebsd slice bootable with S Quit fdisk with Q At the Disklabel part of the install select A I didn't like the setup so I deleted all and recreated my scheme. Quit disklabel with Q When prompted for the boot manager I chose Standard (no boot manager) The install continued and viola, the box booted normally. Hopes this helps. Regards, Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipf - IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK ...This is not working as predicted! Help?
Hi all, Marty Schlacter is obviously the man. I am following his firewall tute religiously but I am doing something wrong! I have an ipf.rules EXACTLY like his. Works a treat...but only if I remove the kernel ipfilter_default_block option. If it is in there...it blocks way too well. Everything. What is going on here or has Marty got it all wrong? Thanks Keith http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ipf - IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK ...This is not working as predicted! Help?
Fi, Here is the Sclacter rule set...mine is identical! But options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK blocks everything always! Machine cant adsl pppoe connect etc etc. Any clues? Mine is a new 4.7 release P4 845 chipset machine... PS rules are at very end of this message. --- Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, Marty Schlacter is obviously the man. I am following his firewall tute religiously but I am doing something wrong! I have an ipf.rules EXACTLY like his. Works a treat...but only if I remove the kernel ipfilter_default_block option. If it is in there...it blocks way too well. Everything. What is going on here or has Marty got it all wrong? Are you using the 'quick' keyword? If you don't, ipf uses a last-match checking, and the last rule is 'block all' See the IPF HOWTO for details. +++ipf.rules++ ## # Inside Interface # # # Allow out all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state # pass out quick on ed1 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed1 proto udp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed1 proto icmp from any to any keep state block out quick on ed1 all # # Allow in all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state # pass in quick on ed1 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass in quick on ed1 proto udp from any to any keep state pass in quick on ed1 proto icmp from any to any keep state block in quick on ed1 all # # Loopback Interface # # # Allow everything to/from your loopback interface so you # can ping yourself (e.g. ping localhost) # pass in quick on lo0 all pass out quick on lo0 all http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
OOPS....Re: ipf - IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK ...This is not working as predicted! Help?
sorry guys the copy paste mucked up on me... Here is the full rule set I am using... # # Outside Interface # # # Allow out all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state on it # so that it's allowed back in. # # If you wanted to do egress filtering...here's where you'd do it. # You'd change the lines below so that rather than allowing out any # arbitrary TCP connection, it would only allow out mail, pop3, and http # connections (for example). So, the first line, below, would be # replaced with: #pass out quick on ed0 proto tcp from any to any port = 25 keep state #pass out quick on ed0 proto tcp from any to any port = 110 keep state #pass out quick on ed0 proto tcp from any to any port = 80 keep state # ...and then do the same for the remaining lines so that you allow # only specified protocols/ports 'out' of your network # pass out quick on ed0 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed0 proto udp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed0 proto icmp from any to any keep state block out quick on ed0 all #--- # Block all inbound traffic from non-routable or reserved address spaces #--- block in log quick on ed0 from 192.168.0.0/16 to any #RFC 1918 private IP block in log quick on ed0 from 172.16.0.0/12 to any #RFC 1918 private IP block in log quick on ed0 from 10.0.0.0/8 to any #RFC 1918 private IP block in log quick on ed0 from 127.0.0.0/8 to any #loopback block in log quick on ed0 from 0.0.0.0/8 to any #loopback block in log quick on ed0 from 169.254.0.0/16 to any #DHCP auto-config block in log quick on ed0 from 192.0.2.0/24 to any #reserved for doc's block in log quick on ed0 from 204.152.64.0/23 to any #Sun cluster interconnect block in quick on ed0 from 224.0.0.0/3 to any #Class D E multicast # # Allow bootp traffic in from your ISP's DHCP server only. # pass in quick on ed0 proto udp from X.X.X.X/32 to any port = 68 keep state # # If you wanted to set up a web server or mail server on your box # (which is outside the scope of this howto), or allow another system # on the Internet to externally SSH into your firewall, you'd want to # uncomment the following lines and modify as appropriate. If you # have other services running that you need to allow external access # to, just add more lines using these as examples. # # If the services are on a box on your internal network (rather than # the firewall itself), you'll have to add both the filter listed below, # plus a redirect rule in your /etc/ipnat.rules file. # # pass in quick on ed0 proto tcp from any to any port = 80 flags S keep state keep frags # pass in quick on ed0 proto tcp from any to any port = 25 flags S keep state keep frags # pass in quick on ed0 proto tcp from X.X.X.X/32 to any port = 22 flags S keep state keep frags # # Block and log all remaining traffic coming into the firewall # - Block TCP with a RST (to make it appear as if the service # isn't listening) # - Block UDP with an ICMP Port Unreachable (to make it appear # as if the service isn't listening) # - Block all remaining traffic the good 'ol fashioned way # block return-rst in log quick on ed0 proto tcp from any to any block return-icmp-as-dest(port-unr) in log quick on ed0 proto udp from any to any block in log quick on ed0 all # # Inside Interface # # # Allow out all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state # pass out quick on ed1 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed1 proto udp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed1 proto icmp from any to any keep state block out quick on ed1 all # # Allow in all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state # pass in quick on ed1 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass in quick on ed1 proto udp from any to any keep state pass in quick on ed1 proto icmp from any to any keep state block in
More..Re: ipf - IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK ...This is not working as predicted! Help?
Hi again, OK what I meant was apart from having changed an interface (tun0 not ed0) the ruleset is identical. And the rule set works! It dials out everything...It only works iff the default_block option is not active. As you can see quick is there. So how can it be that I do exactly what Marty S does and no one else reports hassles with it? Any clues Fer et al? Keith What's your internal interface? what's your external one? Is this box acting as a router? are you using user ppp or mpd? How many NICs does this box have? It seems to me that your ruleset is incomplete. Send the output of a 'ifconfig -a' after the ppp link is set up (when you got the public IP) Fer --- Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, Marty Schlacter is obviously the man. I am following his firewall tute religiously but I am doing something wrong! I have an ipf.rules EXACTLY like his. Works a treat...but only if I remove the kernel ipfilter_default_block option. If it is in there...it blocks way too well. Everything. What is going on here or has Marty got it all wrong? Are you using the 'quick' keyword? If you don't, ipf uses a last-match checking, and the last rule is 'block all' See the IPF HOWTO for details. +++ipf.rules++ ## # Inside Interface # # # Allow out all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state # pass out quick on ed1 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed1 proto udp from any to any keep state pass out quick on ed1 proto icmp from any to any keep state block out quick on ed1 all # # Allow in all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state # pass in quick on ed1 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass in quick on ed1 proto udp from any to any keep state pass in quick on ed1 proto icmp from any to any keep state block in quick on ed1 all # # Loopback Interface # # # Allow everything to/from your loopback interface so you # can ping yourself (e.g. ping localhost) # pass in quick on lo0 all pass out quick on lo0 all http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: OOPS....Re: ipf - IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK ...This is not working as predicted! Help?
--- Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Keith Spencer wrote: sorry guys the copy paste mucked up on me... Here is the full rule set I am using... But the questions I sent in my previous mail remain unanswered. post the answers and maybe I can tell what's wrong. #ifdef WILDGUESS if you are using user ppp, the outside interface is tun0, *not* ed0 if that is the case, change ed0 into tun0 in the rules, reload and tell me if that works #endif OK Guys...sorry to be a pain but here goes Thanks Keith +IPF.RULES + # # Outside Interface # # # Allow out all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic keep state on it # so that it's allowed back in. # # If you wanted to do egress filtering...here's where you'd do it. # You'd change the lines below so that rather than allowing out any # arbitrary TCP connection, it would only allow out mail, pop3, and http # connections (for example). So, the first line, below, would be # replaced with: # pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any port = 25 keep state # pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any port = 110 keep state # pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any port = 80 keep state # ...and then do the same for the remaining lines so that you allow # only specified protocols/ports 'out' of your network # pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass out quick on tun0 proto udp from any to any keep state pass out quick on tun0 proto icmp from any to any keep state block out quick on tun0 all #--- # Block all inbound traffic from non-routable or reserved address spaces #--- block in log quick on tun0 from 192.168.0.0/16 to any #RFC 1918 private IP block in log quick on tun0 from 172.16.0.0/12 to any #RFC 1918 private IP block in log quick on tun0 from 10.0.0.0/8 to any #RFC 1918 private IP block in log quick on tun0 from 127.0.0.0/8 to any #loopback block in log quick on tun0 from 0.0.0.0/8 to any #loopback block in log quick on tun0 from 169.254.0.0/16 to any #DHCP auto-config block in log quick on tun0 from 192.0.2.0/24 to any #reserved for doc's block in log quick on tun0 from 204.152.64.0/23 to any #Sun cluster interconnect block in quick on tun0 from 224.0.0.0/3 to any #Class D E multicast # # Allow bootp traffic in from your ISP's DHCP server only. # #pass in quick on tun0 proto udp from X.X.X.X/32 to any port = 68 keep state # # If you wanted to set up a web server or mail server on your box # (which is outside the scope of this howto), or allow another system # on the Internet to externally SSH into your firewall, you'd want to # uncomment the following lines and modify as appropriate. If you # have other services running that you need to allow external access # to, just add more lines using these as examples. # # If the services are on a box on your internal network (rather than # the firewall itself), you'll have to add both the filter listed below, # plus a redirect rule in your /etc/ipnat.rules file. # pass in quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any port = 80 flags S keep state keep frags pass in quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any port = 25 flags S keep state keep frags #pass in quick on tun0 proto tcp from X.X.X.X/32 to any port = 22 flags S keep state keep frags pass in quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to 203.36.104.241 port = 2 flags S keep state keep frags pass in quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to 203.36.104.241 port = 22 flags S keep state keep frags pass in quick on tun0 proto udp from any to 203.36.104.241 port = 22 keep state pass in quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any port = 443 flags S keep state keep frags pass in quick on tun0 proto udp from any to any port = 443 keep state pass in quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to 203.36.104.241 port = 3306 flags S keep state keep frags pass in quick on tun0 proto udp from any to 203.36.104.241 port = 3306 keep state # # Block and log all remaining traffic coming into the firewall # - Block TCP with a RST (to make it appear as if the service # isn't listening) # - Block UDP with an ICMP Port Unreachable (to make it appear # as if the service isn't listening) # - Block all remaining traffic the good 'ol fashioned way
qmail toaster wont deliver to v mailboxes
Hi all, I have been greatly helped in my quest for the MattSimerson fbsd qmail toaster that works by Danbiel Schrock...what a cool guy...but he is on hols I I have to get this damn thing working. Anyways Matt is a legend for his tute but whoa...what a task! So I have got the setup going ( qmail, vpopmail courierimapd + squirrelmail + qmailadmin + mysql auth etc etc). I can create virtual mail accounts using qmailadmin. I can get to the mailboxes using squirrel webmail and compose and send mail. But qmail bounces incoming mail claiming the account does not exist on the server. It will deliver mail fro the postmaster account but no others! I have no idea where to look to config it. Any clues guys? Keith Spencer http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: qmail toaster wont deliver to v mailboxes
Hi Brian --- Brian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Spencer wrote: But qmail bounces incoming mail claiming the account does not exist on the server. It will deliver mail fro the postmaster account but no others! I have no idea where to look to config it. Any clues guys? Keith Spencer What does your /var/log/qmail/current file say? $tail -f /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal will give you a running commentary - do that in one window, send some messages in another and see what the errors are. Brian...I dont have such a /var/log/qmail/current beast! :( http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Here are the logs...Re: qmail toaster wont deliver to v mailboxes
Thanks to Brian et al for trying to help me out. MY situation is this. I have installed (with heaps of hassles) MATT SIMERSON'S QMAIL TOASTER on my fresh install 4.7 stable box. I am changing over (via strating from scratch) my mail system for my smmc.qld.edu.au domain from sendmail/imap/squirrelmail to Matt's Supervise/Qmail/mysql/vpopmail/imap/squirrel system. I had about 40 shell account mail users. I seek to ditch them and create all mail accounts as virtual users of my domain. I don't know if to do that smmc.qld.edu.au has to be a vpopmail virtual domain but that is what I have done. Along wit the configs Matt's tute suggests that is pretty much it. ++ Here is what's happening +++ Qmailadmin can create virtaul users OK because the Maildirs are appearing in/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/smmc.qld.edu.au and the user accnt,passwd etc are getting into the vpopmail mysql tables ok. Squirrel works for the vusers ok I can send mail from the squirrel interface for any user no worries. The system is NOT able to deliver any mail at all! I can see it piling up in /var/qmail/queue/mess etc. For the few shell accounts e.g. my shell account (Keith) as you can see from the logs it believes the accnt exists but can deliver. For a virtaul user accounts it doesn't even recognise the account exists at all! I would really appreciate help as I am a little clueless. I have tried to hack but am not getting too far. Happy New year to all.. keith http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema? Typical whinges to log when trying to deliver to a shell account user...At least it thinks the account exists! Dec 31 00:00:00 smmcroute newsyslog[34616]: logfile turned over Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.908619 starting delivery 17893: msg 290936 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.909261 status: local 1/10 remote 1/255 Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.910348 starting delivery 17894: msg 289996 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.911272 status: local 2/10 remote 1/255 Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.920062 delivery 17893: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.920384 status: local 1/10 remote 1/255 Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.920474 delivery 17894: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Dec 31 00:00:03 smmcroute mail: 1041256803.920549 status: local 0/10 remote 1/255 Dec 31 00:00:05 smmcroute mail: 1041256805.928609 starting delivery 17895: msg 290849 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 31 00:00:05 smmcroute mail: 1041256805.929225 status: local 1/10 remote 1/255 Dec 31 00:00:05 smmcroute mail: 1041256805.934214 delivery 17895: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Dec 31 00:00:05 smmcroute mail: 1041256805.934480 status: local 0/10 remote 1/255 Dec 31 00:00:10 smmcroute mail: 1041256810.059273 delivery 17886: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ OR .when sending to a virtual user as created by qmailadmin/vpopmail system (and yes I checked the Maildir has been created in /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/smmc.qld.edu.au/cs Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.535012 new msg 290797 Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.535628 info msg 290797: bytes 702 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 49475 uid 89 Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.541201 starting delivery 22514: msg 292224 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.543116 status: local 2/10 remote 0/255 Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.544101 delivery 22513: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.545985 status: local 1/10 remote 0/255 Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.549619 starting delivery 22515: msg 290797 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.552142 status: local 2/10 remote 0/255 Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.553299 delivery 22515: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.554145 status: local 1/10 remote 0/255 Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.557766 bounce msg 290797 qp 49484 Dec 31 12:23:28 smmcroute mail: 1041301408.558188 end msg 290797 Hm!
Help! Is this a virus or a rougue? Qmail is flooding
Hi good fbsd peoples, I have suddenly been confronted with what looks a lot like a virus. Internet connections were VERY slow to stopped. ps-ax showed heaps of ... 57760:00.02 qmail-remote hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5777 0:00.03 qmail-remote ausstar.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc etc. I use courier imap qmail and squirrelmail. What is this? Where else should I look? I have no experience with security hassles on fbsd (if that is what this is) Please help Many Thanks Keith http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD v4.8: mount w/ 'input/output error
I apologize for what is probably a very simple question, but I have not been able to mount my cd so as to transfer a file from it to my system. Looking at the /etc/fstab I can see /dev/acd0c, mountpoint=/cdrom, fstype=cd9660, options=ro, noauto, dump=0, pass#=0. From what I could determine these are all defaults. I have tried the following commands: mount cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom; mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom; mount cd9660; mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom. The result is always a message Input/Output error. I purchased v4.8 on cd's, and had no trouble loading it onto my systems. I booted from floppies (couldn't get bios to boot from cd) and then inserted cd to finish installation. I have tried changing the fstab, eliminating the option of noauto, so that the system would mount the cd on startup, but I got the same message. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Btw, on a previous posting I saw instructions to ls -l /dev/acd* and then to cd /dev rm /dev/acd* ./MAKEDEV acd0. Would this have any bearing on this situation? Thanks, Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.1 install - Slow
I'm doing a net install of 5.1 on an AMD K5 100, 16 megs ram. 2 gig HD, put 128MB for swap. I know this is basically bare minimum, but it's only going to be a modem gateway. I started this around 2am, it is now bogged down on adding the perl package. So far it has about 5.5 megs downloaded and it's just creaping. It's been on this same package for 8 hours and the install is just creeping on up on the install size. I doubt this is net congestion and blame it on the slow machine. My question is : should it take quite this long? I originally let it run for 2 hours, thought it was locked up and restarted, see if it would speed up. But this new install is slowing down at the same spot. This is a new personal record for taking the longest to install. Thanks, Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!
Hi all, Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. I screwed up fbsd 4.7 system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into a basic session. Cant edit or save to /etc files. What to do and you guessed it...noboot disk was made although I have another 4.7 fbsd machine nearby. Tell me it's not fatal guys! Thanks Keith http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!
Thanks Adam, When the machine boots it drops straight into (I guess) single user mode. The /usr/sbin /usr/bin cant be cd-ed to and the /etc dir says it is read only file system! So I can't save to it. I have a Schlacter tute fireall setup on it. With whatever security it entails. Any clue? Can I interupt the boot and do something? This is a mission critical machine darn it...Oh dear! Keith --- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. I screwed up fbsd 4.7 system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into a basic session. Cant edit or save to /etc files. What to do and you guessed it...noboot disk was made although I have another 4.7 fbsd machine nearby. Tell me it's not fatal guys! I don't see why you wouldn't be able to boot into single-user mode, edit the rc.conf, then reboot. What exactly is the problem editing the files in /etc from SU mode? -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved RE: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!
Yet again the FBSD community kick goals! Thanks heaps Keith --- Roland Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adam, try: fsck -y (check the filesystem) mount -uw / (mount root filesystem read/write) if you saved a backup of the rc.conf, all you have to do is: mv /etc/rc.conf_backup_file /etc/rc.conf reboot hope that helps roland Thanks Adam, When the machine boots it drops straight into (I guess) single user mode. The /usr/sbin /usr/bin cant be cd-ed to and the /etc dir says it is read only file system! So I can't save to it. I have a Schlacter tute fireall setup on it. With whatever security it entails. Any clue? Can I interupt the boot and do something? This is a mission critical machine darn it...Oh dear! Keith --- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. I screwed up fbsd 4.7 system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into a basic session. Cant edit or save to /etc files. What to do and you guessed it...noboot disk was made although I have another 4.7 fbsd machine nearby. Tell me it's not fatal guys! I don't see why you wouldn't be able to boot into single-user mode, edit the rc.conf, then reboot. What exactly is the problem editing the files in /etc from SU mode? -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A routing/IP/NIC query Expert required
Hi all, I have a new adsl isp allocating my fbsd 4.7 box a routable IP (end user ip) I have 32 (read that as 30) ips of my own to use and route for my domain. I have 2 NICs in the gateway/router How should I setup the IPs and aliases etc. I figure... (yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy = ISP end user ip they gave me) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1 = 1st usable ip in my 32 ip range) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2 = 2nd usable ip in my 32 ip range) GATEWAY MACHINE ADSL MODEM | |-|| | yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy | | xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1 | | || | fxp0 NIC | | | | | | dc0 NIC| | || | 10.0.0.1 | | | |__| Or do I also need an xxx.xxx.xxx.xx3 alias on the dc0 because I have 2 ip live servers inside the firewall. I think I do! Am I right or am I right? I have ipfilter on this machine with ipnat setup tonat the 10.0.0.0 addresses. Also, I suppose I could setup ipnat to do mapping of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxn addresses into 10.0.0.n private address. what say you? Thanks Keith http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A routing/IP/NIC query Expert required
Hi Michael, Thanks for the helping hand. I assume (because I did not do it) the modem is NOT in bridge mode. It looks like the last set of instructs you tell me to do is exactly what I need. I will alias the nic to all my 30 addresses and use IPNAT to static NAT map them. I was a bit confused about what to do even though I knew about NAT. I hacked around but still couldn't see the servers behind the firewall. This would also allow me to setup a DMZ I presume. So I might put another NIC in the box and allocate some other private addresses to the facing NICs. Then prick a few holes in the firewall. Hmmm How am I doing now? PS Do I benefit from bridge mode on the modem? Keith --- Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Keith Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 5:25 PM Subject: A routing/IP/NIC query Expert required Hi all, I have a new adsl isp allocating my fbsd 4.7 box a routable IP (end user ip) I have 32 (read that as 30) ips of my own to use and route for my domain. I have 2 NICs in the gateway/router How should I setup the IPs and aliases etc. I figure... (yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy = ISP end user ip they gave me) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1 = 1st usable ip in my 32 ip range) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2 = 2nd usable ip in my 32 ip range) Keith, it depends on what you're really wanting to do in the end. It also depends on if the DSL modem/router is in bridge mode or not. If it isn't, then the yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy IP may be assigned to the DSL unit leaving you with the remaining 30 real IP's for your systems behind it. Assuming that the unit isn't in bridge mode (many installs aren't) you can set the FBSD box outside nic (toward the DSL unit) to the first usable IP of the range they provided) and configure it for bridge mode and assign the remaining IP's to the systems on your lan. Assuming that the unit IS in bridge mode, the external nic would use the yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy IP and the first usable IP would go on your internal nic (facing your lan) on the FBSD box and then you'd assign the remainder of the IP's to the systems on your lan. Assuming the dsl unit not in bridge mode and you actually want to use the 10.x.x.x IP range on the lan computers insteald of the 30 provided, assign all of the real IP's provided to the nic facing the DSL unit and the first of the 10.x.x.x range you want to use on the FBSD nic facing your lan, then configure NAT normally. To allocate traffic for a real IP to an internal 10.x.x.x IP for the two live servers, set up a static nat on the FBSD box ( -redirect_address 10.x.x.x.x xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ) for each of the systems and they'll be reachable from the outside. -- Micheal Patterson Network Administration Cancer Care Network 405-733-2230 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP aliases not working...Any ideas welcome!
Hi all, I seek to add 30 or so aliases to an extrenal NIC But a ping and and ifconfig -a only shows the first 2 IPs bound to the NIC the rest of the 210.15.203.xxx ips are ignored... I am sure it is something obvious but what? Thanks Keith + ifconfig_interfaces=fxp0 dc0 lo0 ifconfig_dc0=inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.248.0 ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 210.15.201.90 netmask 255.255.255.252 ifconfig_fxp0_alias1=inet 210.15.203.193 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias2=inet 210.15.203.194 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias3=inet 210.15.203.195 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias4=inet 210.15.203.196 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias5=inet 210.15.203.197 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias6=inet 210.15.203.198 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias7=inet 210.15.203.199 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias8=inet 210.15.203.200 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias9=inet 210.15.203.201 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias10=inet 210.15.203.202 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias11=inet 210.15.203.203 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias12=inet 210.15.203.204 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias13=inet 210.15.203.205 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias14=inet 210.15.203.206 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias15=inet 210.15.203.207 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias16=inet 210.15.203.208 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias17=inet 210.15.203.209 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias18=inet 210.15.203.210 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias19=inet 210.15.203.211 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias20=inet 210.15.203.212 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias21=inet 210.15.203.213 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias22=inet 210.15.203.214 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias23=inet 210.15.203.215 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias24=inet 210.15.203.216 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias25=inet 210.15.203.217 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias26=inet 210.15.203.218 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias27=inet 210.15.203.219 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias28=inet 210.15.203.220 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias29=inet 210.15.203.221 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 ifconfig_fxp0_alias30=inet 210.15.203.222 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 210.15.203.223 http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
solvde - Re: IP aliases not working...Any ideas welcome!
Someone said I only look stupid...but hey maybe that's why I am stupid! OOPS! I goofed again. Thanks and sorry Keith --- Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 21:00 US/Pacific, Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, I seek to add 30 or so aliases to an extrenal NIC But a ping and and ifconfig -a only shows the first 2 IPs bound to the NIC the rest of the 210.15.203.xxx ips are ignored... I am sure it is something obvious but what? Thanks Keith The correct netmask for a second alias within a subnet is 255.255.255.255. I don't make the news, I just report it. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED -Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!
Thanks --- Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-28 16:04:58 +1000: --- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. I screwed up fbsd 4.7 system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into a basic session. Cant edit or save to /etc files. What to do and you guessed it...noboot disk was made although I have another 4.7 fbsd machine nearby. Tell me it's not fatal guys! I don't see why you wouldn't be able to boot into single-user mode, edit the rc.conf, then reboot. What exactly is the problem editing the files in /etc from SU mode? When the machine boots it drops straight into (I guess) single user mode. The /usr/sbin /usr/bin cant be cd-ed to and the /etc dir says it is read only file system! So I can't save to it. I have a Schlacter tute fireall setup on it. With whatever security it entails. Any clue? Can I interupt the boot and do something? This is a mission critical machine darn it...Oh dear! mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a /usr/bin/vi /etc/rc.conf -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ADSL ppoe + IPFILTER = :^( very sad! Help!
Hi all, Here is a true mystery for you. Please help if you can I have received no response at earlier times thanks... I have an ADSL gateway ( pppoe via userppp so tun0 uses my de0 NIC) I config my kernel to do IPFilter stuff as per schlacters tute. I put no matter what rule in and it will no longer connect to my ADSL ISP. gets as far as dialing (not eve the first big P in ppp debug and the connection dies. No IPFIlter and it works...Help. Is it the interfaces? If I use allow all from any to any that has got to be pretty open... still no worky. Anyone aware of strangeness to correct here? Thanks Keith http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
are virtual mail account users possible with sendmail on freebsd
Hi all, I am wondering how I can add mail acocunts without actually creating full-blown user accounts for my lan users. I have sendmail on fbsd 4.7 (new build machine and I dont want to create shell accnts for all my users on this new machine) Whatever help you might give me perhaps I can use webmin to add the new users... I have 600 users to add. Whoa...thats a lot of work..HELP???!! Thanks so much in adavnce Keith http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: are virtual mail account users possible with freebsd?
Hi Daniel, First off thanks so much for your time...I appreciate it. The Open source world never ceases to amaze me ;^) I checked out the http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/toaster/ tute and I'd say 95% I could handle myself OK but there are a couple of unsaid hings or perhaps errors. I wont dare try it before I am sure I have the instructions right. Could I ask you a few questions? 1) Install QMAIL: I presume -h mail.example.com should be My server ? 2) VPopmail (Virtual Domain POP) bla bla bla... --enable-mysql-logging= ...bla bla ..=example.com Again I presume I sub in my domain? vi vmysql.h What do I do in VI here ?? 3)Courier-IMAP bla bla vi quotawarningmsg I presume I edit it to suit? 4) Adding Mail Domains bla bla IDENTIFIED BY 'secret'; What goes here? a password? bla bla ~vpopmail/bin/vadddomain example.com [password] again..my domain and perhaps the password I typed instead of the 'secret' thing? 5) OK now you're ready to... bla bla Log in with postmaster, example.com and the test password ...You can guess my questions here I reckon! 6) Convert Multilog date stamps to human readable date stamps... # tai64nlocal logfile qmaillog.tmp ...Do I sub in something for the logfile thing? I know I seem a bit dopey... but it would really help so I dont screw up my machine. Thanks in adavnce if you can help Keith Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, I am wondering how I can add mail acocunts without actually creating full-blown user accounts for my lan users. I have sendmail on fbsd 4.7 (new build machine and I dont want to create shell accnts for all my users on this new machine) Whatever help you might give me perhaps I can use webmin to add the new users... I have 600 users to add. Whoa...thats a lot of work..HELP???!! Thanks so much in adavnce Keith You may want to look into using qmail. I've been using for a couple years and find it far easier to work with than sendmail and postfix (though postfix wasn't all that bad) check out this: http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/toaster/ this will do everything you want. Follow the instructions and you'll be up and running in no time. http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: automake, autoconf compiling
All of the information both of your provided is helpful. I will have to investigate further. Some of the information that Tom specified helped me to track down the problem. Basically I have multiple versions of the tools installed and there are two different directories with aclocal m4 files. If I explicitly change the shell script to also include the other directory then everything seems to continue on until compile time when there is a header that cannot be found. It appears this header alloca.h is located in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/alloca.h. I was just wondering if Giorgos method would also alleviate these problems or if this is just par for the course when using projects that people have not moved into the ports collection? Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:48 PM To: Tom Huppi Cc: Keith Bottner; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org Subject: Re: automake, autoconf compiling PLEASE DON'T TOP-POST. THANK YOU :-) On 2005-01-13 16:24, Tom Huppi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Keith Bottner wrote: I am trying to get a development system setup and am having trouble identifying how FreeBSD handles automake, autoconf and the like. [...] I did chase them down in the /usr/local/libexec/automake18 and similar directories but placing them in the path still generates errors (i.e. there continues to be things that are missing at various stages). I guess my general question is: What is the standard way for setting up FreeBSD to use these (GNU tools) with the least trouble across disparate projects? I've recently been struggling with similar issues, and would be interested to know what others might have found effective. I use autoconf/automake and libtool daily at work[1]. The programs I write have to run on at least 3 different operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris) without the need for constant manual tweaking of the source. The best way to do that is to use the same version of autotools on all those platforms. So, I install the latest possible versions of these tools with --prefix=/opt/autotools on all the machines I have to use, and stop worrying about all the details. When I have to use the tools, I add /opt/autotools/bin at the beginning of my PATH. When I don't need them, I remove /opt/autotools/bin from my path. This has worked wonders so far. - Giorgos [1] The operative keyword here is at work. I don't use autoconf and friends for programs I write on my own. I prefer bsd.*.mk for that. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.11 - Release Date: 1/12/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.11 - Release Date: 1/12/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!
I had this same type problem. It appears that FreeBSD and the BIOS did not select the proper geometry for the disk. I tried a different disk on the same system, and I was able to install. Knopptix reported a different geometry than FreeBSD, so I tried setting the geometry to match what Knopptix reported, but, the installation graphical fdisk told me the Knopptix geometry was unrealistic, and set it back to the BIOS geometry. I installed the system on a different drive, and then used the command line fdisk command to partition the disk with the Knopptix geometry. I was then able to set the labels and mount the errant drive. Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Application Ports
I was wanting to know when Vmware 5.0 workstation will be in the ports tree, or if there is a way to install the boxed version. Thanks, Keith Owen -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Detecting new hardware
Is there any kind of a utility that I can run to detect a new network card that I just installed into an existing FreeBSD 5.4 box? Thanks, Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Detect hardware changes
Does anyone know of a utility that can run on FreeBSD and detect the addition of new hardware? Specifically network cards? When I originally installed FreeBSD I only had a single NIC and since I installed a second but FreeBSD does not recognize it. Any ideas on how I can get FreeBSD to be aware of the new NIC? Thanks in advance, Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Detect hardware changes
I realized I had the problem when ifconfig did not pickup the network card after a reboot. I went ahead and ran pciconf -lv like you suggested and the relevant output looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Linksys' device = 'EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet' class= network subclass = ethernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0: class=0x02 card=0x00c71028 chip=0x920010b7 rev=0x78 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Networking Division' device = '3C905C-TX Fast EtherLink for PC Management NIC' class= network subclass = ethernet The new NIC that I added is the first one and the old NIC is the second. It seems that the system is detecting it fine but ifconfig still does not display it and there does not appear to be a dev node for it as well. I added the appropriate line in rc.conf and rebooted the system hoping that would cause something to update properly but there was no change. Are there additional steps that have to be taken? Thanks for your help so far, Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Svein Halvor Halvorsen Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:48 PM To: Keith Bottner Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Detect hardware changes On 12/8/05, Keith Bottner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a utility that can run on FreeBSD and detect the addition of new hardware? Specifically network cards? When I originally installed FreeBSD I only had a single NIC and since I installed a second but FreeBSD does not recognize it. Any ideas on how I can get FreeBSD to be aware of the new NIC? I think someone replied to you (or someone with a similar problem) just the other day. Use pciconf -lv to list all hardvare. If you see none@ lines, this means that no drivers did attach to the hardware. Then you either need to recompile you kernel og load the correct kernel module or, if the hardware is not supported, either write a new driver yourself or replace the hardware (or the os). You can use the ifconfig utility to list all recognized NICs installed. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Detect hardware changes
I believe so but for some reason it is still not showing up in ifconfig or as a dev node. Do I need to do something special for FreeBSD to start recognizing it at boot? -Original Message- From: Peter Giessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:02 PM To: Keith Bottner Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: RE: Detect hardware changes On 12/8/2005 11:51, Keith Bottner seems to have typed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Linksys' device = 'EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet' class= network subclass = ethernet Looks like this should be supported using the nge driver. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Detect hardware changes
I have not compiled a kernel. This is a standard FreeBSD 5.4-Release installation. How can I check to see if the loadable module is installed? Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:35 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detect hardware changes Have you compiled a custom kernel? Do you have the nge driver included in that kernel? * On 08/12/05 15:14 -0600, Keith Bottner wrote: I believe so but for some reason it is still not showing up in ifconfig or as a dev node. Do I need to do something special for FreeBSD to start recognizing it at boot? -Original Message- From: Peter Giessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:02 PM To: Keith Bottner Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: RE: Detect hardware changes On 12/8/2005 11:51, Keith Bottner seems to have typed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Linksys' device = 'EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet' class= network subclass = ethernet -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ One monk said to the other, The fish has flopped out of the net! How will it live? The other said, When you have gotten out of the net, I'll tell you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Detect hardware changes
ipconfig -a doesn't show the skc0 device which I believe is my ultimate problem. Can I infer from your earlier message that this means the sk module is not being loaded or is not available? How can I check to see if the loadable module is installed? Thanks, Keith -Original Message- From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:06 AM To: Peter Giessel Cc: Keith Bottner; 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: Re: Detect hardware changes On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:02:25PM -0900, Peter Giessel wrote: On 12/8/2005 11:51, Keith Bottner seems to have typed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Linksys' device = 'EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet' class= network subclass = ethernet Looks like this should be supported using the nge driver. No, actually the sk driver, look at the first line of pciconfig output. ifconfig -a should list a network card called skc0 which you just need to configure. If all you need is dhcp then just run dhclient skc0. Add the device to rc.conf for it to work on boot. Use man rc.conf for help or copy the line for the xl0 network card you already have. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Detect hardware changes
-Original Message- From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:06 AM To: Peter Giessel Cc: Keith Bottner; 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: Re: Detect hardware changes On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:02:25PM -0900, Peter Giessel wrote: On 12/8/2005 11:51, Keith Bottner seems to have typed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Linksys' device = 'EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet' class= network subclass = ethernet Looks like this should be supported using the nge driver. No, actually the sk driver, look at the first line of pciconfig output. ifconfig -a should list a network card called skc0 which you just need to configure. If all you need is dhcp then just run dhclient skc0. Add the device to rc.conf for it to work on boot. Use man rc.conf for help or copy the line for the xl0 network card you already have. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipconfig -a doesn't show the skc0 device which I believe is my ultimate problem. Can I infer from your earlier message that this means the sk module is not being loaded or is not available? How can I check to see if the loadable module is installed? Thanks, Keith Hello Keith skc0 is the controller. You should see sk0 in ifconfig -a. Can you please show us the output of ifconfig -a and rc.conf. Thank you Robert Ifconfig does not show skc0 but here is the output for completeness: xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU inet 192.168.1.217 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe16:3d30%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:b0:d0:16:3d:30 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 And rc.conf is: defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 hostname=gsdev.bltmobile.com ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.1.217 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_skc0=inet 10.0.130.204 netmask 255.255.255.0 linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES postgresql_enable=YES Anything else that I can send that will help? Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Detect hardware changes
-Original Message- From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:55 AM To: Keith Bottner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detect hardware changes Keith Bottner wrote: I have not compiled a kernel. This is a standard FreeBSD 5.4-Release installation. How can I check to see if the loadable module is installed? Have a look in /var/run/dmesg.boot and see if you have a line like sk0: unknown media type 0xff If so, plug your card into the network and try again. Even if you don't see such a line, try it if you haven't already. If that doesn't work then what does /var/run/dmesg.boot show for sk0 and skc0? I have an SMC card based which fails to attach without a cable -- not sure if it needs to be plugged in to a router or not. The onboard chipset on a different PC has no such failing. --Alex Ok I find the lines that related to skc in the /var/run/dmesg.boot and they are included below: skc0: Linksys EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfbfffc00-0xfbfffcff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci2 skc0: failed: rid 0x10 is ioport, requested 3 device_attach: skc0 attach returned 6 The second line says failed but I don't where it says anything regarding why. Any ideas? Thanks, Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCTP Kernel resource overhead
I am trying to find some information on what kernel resources are expended when creating an SCTP association. In particular I wanted to be able to compare a TCP connection to an SCTP association and see how the use of kernel resources between the two different protocols differ. Does anybody have an idea on where I can find such information? I am quite familiar with TCP and UDP and am interested to see if SCTP can replace a UDP implementation that has reliability added into the application level. The reason UDP is being used is due to the interconnectedness of the network of servers. If SCTP could be used instead then that would definately be the better solution. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SIGCHLD and sockets
I am having a problem with SIGCHLD signals and their interaction with sockets. I have an application that forks modules in separate processes and use UNIX domain sockets for communication. The main application handles the SIGCHLD signal so that it can detect when/if a module crashes and if so restart that specific module. The problem arises when the module crashes and before the main application is notified with the SIGCHLD signal the socket will continue to allow writes. I expected that there would be occasions when the SIGCHLD signal would occur after my attempt to write into the socket, but I also expected the socket to return an error at which point I could then mark the module for restart as well. My question is, has anybody else had this problem? Does anybody know exactly what is going on an why? And most importantly, does anybody have a solution? Thanks in advance for your time, it is quite an interesting problem so I am hoping to get some insightful answers. Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SIGCHLD and sockets HELP!
I am having a problem with SIGCHLD signals and their interaction with sockets. I have an application that forks modules in separate processes and use UNIX domain sockets for communication. The main application handles the SIGCHLD signal so that it can detect when/if a module crashes and if so restart that specific module. The problem arises when the module crashes and before the main application is notified with the SIGCHLD signal the socket will continue to allow writes. I expected that there would be occasions when the SIGCHLD signal would occur after my attempt to write into the socket, but I also expected the socket to return an error at which point I could then mark the module for restart as well. My question is, has anybody else had this problem? Does anybody know exactly what is going on an why? And most importantly, does anybody have a solution? Thanks in advance for your time, it is quite an interesting problem so I am hoping to get some insightful answers. Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FBSD 6.0 - Canyon WF-511 Wireless card setup
Hi I'm having a problem trying to setup the above box with the above wireless card to my home network. I have a Dlink DL-624+ wireless router which has two wired WINXP boxes and a wireless WINXP laptop connected to it all of which work seemlessly. The wireless card on the freeBSD box can detect the router when I scan for access points and I can associate the wireless router with the freebsd box however I cant get an IP address from the wirless router using the DHCP server of the router. I know the wireless router can detect the freebsd box because I can see the mac address on the wireless card in the router log. If I run dhclient ral0 and it trys to find the server without success. I have all the settings on the wireless card entered, wepkey, station, channel etc. Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong? Thanks Keith -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.10/218 - Release Date: 02/01/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up a microphone
Hello, I'd like to try recording through the microphone both for skype and for general audio recording but can't figure out how to get sound out of the microphone. The Handbook's 7.2.2 Testing the Sound Card section is a great set of simple instructions for testing of playback (cat /dev/sndstat, cat filename /dev/dsp) but I can't seem to find an equivalent for getting my microphone going. Does anyone have a similar set of checks for testing microphone input? $ uname -r 5.4-RELEASE-p3 $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: Creative CT5880-E at io 0xb000 irq 20 kld snd_es137x (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) Thanks, ksb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a microphone
On 01/24/06 07:11, uidzero wrote: It's worked flawlessly for me after I add recompiled the kernel with sound support. (I use Skype as well.) Thanks and glad to hear that Skype is working. Listening to music, etc. works just fine for me too, it's how to get input from the mic which I'm stuck on. The machine is dual boot so I know the hardware works and the things are plugged into the right place (Skype works when running XP). This must be a FreeBSD config thing. I've tried, unsuccessfully, working with mixer, rawrec, wmrecord and audacity to capture sound, so I'm now looking for a simple 'is your microphone working' test akin to the 'cat some_small_file /dev/dsp' for testing noise coming out of the speakers (which still works). 'cat /dev/dsp foo', speaking for a bit into the mic, then cntl-c to stop, does create a non-empty file but then a 'cat foo /dev/dsp' doesn't produce any sound. The rawrec port seems promising but no love from 'rawrec foo.raw' / 'rawplay foo.raw'. All this with mixer showing non-zero levels for all channels and trying it with the recording source as mic and then line. Something's gotta give here. Maybe try updating to RELEASE-p8? Indeed I'll update anyway but I don't believe any of those patches are sound related. Thanks, ksb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a microphone
On 01/24/06 15:40, Danny Pansters wrote: mixer recsrc must be mic, do you have that? yup. Both mixer and aumix tell me so. ugh. ksb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP!!?...dirty fs and dont understand what to say to fsck
Hi all, System = 4.7 all Intel I have a filesystem mount error /dev/ad0s1e i.e. /var is dirty. 1)the first I noticed trouble was a system freeze. Untold screen logged errors.. no more mbufs OR out of mbufs 2)I rebooted and it dropped into single user mode ) I Think) asking me to run fsck manually 3) I did #fsck 4) It said all ok except /dev/ad0s1e Errors were ... Unknown file type I=4609 Unexpected soft update inconsistency Clear[y|n] HELP? do i say y or n? Impact is?? *** I said no and then... 50983 DUP I=4610 Unexpected soft update inconsistency 54019 DUP I=4610 Unexpected soft update inconsistency etc etcetc... HELP! Is this fatal (please say no) How do I continue best? Regards Keith http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I bakup like this...??
Hi all (thanks to Daniela for digging me out of a fsck hole), I need a quick n safe backup strategy. One that I can get the machine backup super quick if have to. What say you about this...(and how do I tips please) a) Throw another drive in the box b) Createthe same or at least minimum size partitions as the active drive c) Cron job to dump or tar or ??? the partitions Then if the original drive hassles me I dump back to the partition or if the original drive dies, make the backup drive the active one! HELP How do I do this. (Disregarding the disaster recovery for the momnet if necessary) Thanks Keith http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED!!! Re: HELP!!?...dirty fs and dont understand what to say to fsck
Thanks all Keith --- Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 04:34, Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, System = 4.7 all Intel I have a filesystem mount error /dev/ad0s1e i.e. /var is dirty. 1)the first I noticed trouble was a system freeze. Untold screen logged errors.. no more mbufs OR out of mbufs 2)I rebooted and it dropped into single user mode ) I Think) asking me to run fsck manually 3) I did #fsck 4) It said all ok except /dev/ad0s1e Errors were ... Unknown file type I=4609 Unexpected soft update inconsistency Clear[y|n] HELP? do i say y or n? Impact is?? *** I said no and then... 50983 DUP I=4610 Unexpected soft update inconsistency 54019 DUP I=4610 Unexpected soft update inconsistency etc etcetc... HELP! Is this fatal (please say no) How do I continue best? I don't know what the message means, but I always do: # yes | fsck And it never hurt my filesystem. Regards, Daniela http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I bakup like this...?? --user mode Reuben?
Hi all, thanks to all replying. I just spent many hours finding out my bakup strategy was useless (didn't know what I was doing I guess) Now I need to do it properly. Ruben (and others) Can I do the tarring of filesystems in a cron job without being in single user mode? I just followed a mostgraveconcern tute to move to a larger drive and it worked well. Lots of tarring etc BUT...all done in single user mode. I imagine I cant do THAT and reboot etc etc in a cron job. I am going to try Ruben's idea and allay concerns by having a removable 2nd harddrive so I can do this once to take a drive off site So comments? Is dump easier (for a dill like me) to use or whatever? What say you Thanks Keith --- Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert typed: Keith Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] a) Throw another drive in the box b) Createthe same or at least minimum size partitions as the active drive c) Cron job to dump or tar or ??? the partitions dd(1) is the easiest way to make sure that the disk will work just like the other one. It requires a same-size-or-larger second disk. I consider dd a very lousy backup method. Any writes to the first disk while dd is running will likely result in corrupted filesystems on the second disk. Performance is bad as well, since dd will copy every single bit, not just actual data. A better approach would be to follow a) and b) above, newfs(8) the partitions, make the second drive bootable using boot0cfg(8) and then periodically use dump/restore, tar, pax, cpio or even rsync to backup your first to second disk (I've used them all and can't really recommend one over the other so suit yourself). Ruben http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems adding a second hard drive
Hi all I had installed FreeBSD 4.7 on an old pentium I 100MHz with 128Meg RAM and a 2Gig Hard drive. It worked, albeit a little slow but perfectly usable for experimenting with and learningFreeBSD, and surfing the net. I got a 3.1Gig hard drive and thought I'd add it to the FreBSD box and since 4.9 had just been released I'd start from scratch and install that as well. It took me a little time to figure how to do this but I managed (or so I thought) to install FreeBSD. However although I can see both drives during the installation if I do a df all that is displayed is ad0s with no information on ad2s. Also I cannot install any more programms since it says /usr is full. I'm begining to wonder if the ad2s drive is being used at all. When I installed FreeBSD I used the auto defaults for both drives. Was this the right thing to do? Any hints or tips would be usefull. Thanks Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland e-mail keith attt clanmckay.co.uk .. in cyberspace no one can see your beard.. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems adding a second hard drive
Yes. I was going to use it just for data. I'll try adding it to /etc/fstab. Thanks for the tip Keith - Original Message - From: Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Problems adding a second hard drive On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Keith McKay wrote: I got a 3.1Gig hard drive and thought I'd add it to the FreBSD box and since 4.9 had just been released I'd start from scratch and install that as well. Is the second HD just for data? If so you could use /stand/sysinstall to add it. After it is setup I think you need to manually add it to /etc/fstab. Or where you trying to have a dual boot situation? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA RAID Controllers anyone have experience with any of these?
If anyone has had any experience with any of the SATA RAID controllers below I would be interested. Not just whether you got them working but also if the performance is what you expected and how feature rich they are. Anybody out there dual booting FreeBSD with Windows or Linux and using any of these controllers? What RAID level are you using? Thanks for everyone's input as hardware feedback tends to be the hardest thing to find for FreeBSD, any hey if there is an SATA RAID controller that you absolutely swear by then by all means please let me know. Here's the immediate list I am considering but as I mentioned above please feel free to add your favorite. MegaRAID SATA-6 (0,1,5,10,50) AMCC 3Ware 8506-4LP (0,1,10,5,JBOD) RocketRAID 1640 (0,1,10,5,JBOD) - had downloadable drivers and utilities for FreeBSD on their site LSI Logic 150-6 RAID (0,1,5,10,50) Thanks in advance for your input, Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up a PDF printer
What do I need to install to make printing a pdf from the print command in an appliction as an option. It looks like panda may do this, but I'm unsure. My immediate goal is to be able to print invoices to .pdf from gnucash. ___ 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
