We recently replaced FreeBSD 4.5 with 6.0-RELEASE on a pair of servers.
One of the servers runs rsync to copy its contents to the other server,
over a NFS mount. Everything worked just fine under 4.5, but with 6.0,
we're seeing dozens of these errors every rsync:
May 2 14:00:59 xxx1 kernel: nfs
The patches listed in the recent advisory about sendmail don't
currently exist on the FTP server. Does this mean:
a) They're just not there yet.
b) They were there, but they were taken down because of some problem with them.
I'm concerned it may be b) because the advisory indicates they're not
Could someone help me find the contact information for the person who
is responsible for the bigdisk page? I have a suggested update
(related to PR kern/84589) that may help other people using
multi-terabyte servers get better usability from FreeBSD.
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I'm trying to track down a background fsck deadlock bug. I've found a
thread on groups.google.com about another person having a similar
problem but with snapshots. The suggestion made there was to compile a
kernel with DDB, and the user was referred to the Developer's
Handbook.
On 11/24/05, Javier Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I know that /proc filesystem provide an interface to see process in
the computer but the problem is that mi /proc folder is empty and I don´t
know how to enable it.
You can mount /proc with:
mount -t procfs /proc /proc
On 11/23/05, Kim johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cant get the mail function in php to work. If i try to run a script
with the mail() function, the script is just sleeping, doing nothing.
Have enabled debug in php, but dont got any errors. sendmail works
fine if i use it from commandline.
On 11/20/05, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is the rule to decide if filesystem may be background checked or not?
for example my / is checked foreground, while /home checked background.
can't root partition be background checked too?
The root partition is probably checked in
On 11/17/05, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:27 AM, James Bailie wrote:
J. W. Ballantine wrote:
Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is
read-able??
No. After the system boots, log in as, or su to, root, and
invoke dmesg to
On 11/16/05, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you. However, that entire page out of the handbook pretty much
clarifies that a production environment should *not* track either STABLE
or CURRENT.
So I'm assuming I'm best off with RELENG_6_0 etc, etc? Does anyone here
actually run
On 11/16/05, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Kirchner
D'oh. I had no idea my From header looked like that. Another gmail frustration.
I do only have a handful of servers, however
On 11/16/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also see a psyBNC server listening on port 7978:
server# sockstat -l4 | grep psybnc
USER COMMANDPID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
wicked6 psybnc 15819 3 tcp4 *:7978*:*
Funny thing is there
On 11/15/05, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a ntpdate -b server rule in my rc.conf before the ntpd daemon
starts up. I get error msgs that the time server cannot be found.
Is named run before or after ntpdate?
Should I change the rule in something like ntpdate -b ip ?
What is
On 11/12/05, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I am wanting to copy standard output to a file.
I know that 'tee' will do this fine.
blah | tee it
but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output when pipping to
tee.
other than screen what are some applications that
On 11/11/05, Dinh C. Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to download release 4.1 from the website and I am unable to
connect to either of the ftp sites from FreeBSD.org. I was wondering if the
server is down because I would like to get a copy of release 4.1. Thank you.
Dinh
On 11/8/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, I'm not asking why do I need to sync ... I understand why I need to
wait, or issue a sync command. No problems there.
What I am asking is, why is one issuance of `sync` not enough ? Why is
two not enough ? Why do I need to issue 6 or 8 of them
On 11/7/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/08/05 02:16 Dan Mahoney, System Admin said the following:
For some reason this is gone in 5.x -- what's the appropriate way to do
this now (since WITHOUT_X11 still worked on a couple ports I've tried.)
am also not sure if this is
On 10/27/05, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Must be -- some flag produces unique bits in the executables. I'm a
little surprised there isn't (AFAICT) anything descriptive in
file(1)'s manpage or /u/s/mi/magic that would explain the
discrepancy. Didn't see anything in quick looks through
On 10/27/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
oops! typo... sorry... output:
nathaniel# du -s /var/*
2 /var/account
6 /var/at
8 /var/backups
4 /var/crash
4 /var/cron
71010 /var/db
This is probably because the port uses /var/db/mysql as the database
directory
On 10/27/05, Mark Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to load the linux kernel module to install java.
When I type linux, I get a command not found error.
Do I need to install a port or is this an issue with my kernel
configuration?
The linux script is no longer in FreeBSD --
Can anyone using the Mylex A352 controller update/merge the following
PRs if the bug has been fixed in 6.0? Or confirm whether or not it is
still present in 6.0-RC?
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/55603
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/59959
On 10/25/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:30:49AM -0700, David Kirchner wrote:
Can anyone using the Mylex A352 controller update/merge the following
PRs if the bug has been fixed in 6.0? Or confirm whether or not it is
still present in 6.0-RC?
http
On 10/23/05, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How could I write an entry to syslog from a shell script. For
example, I want to write an entry stating that a command worked or
didn't work, along with an error message.
Check out logger(1)
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On 10/20/05, Olaf Greve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Well, it all seems to be a question of granting users access to the
right file. Have you checked permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db ?
These are both 644, owned by root:wheel.
These should be world readable while
On 10/18/05, darren david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE THE
-b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
this is all well and good, but according to 'man 8 fsck', there
On 10/18/05, Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. The problem that I have is that the
splash screen will not come up. I have made sure that the bmp is 256
colors. I have tried uncompressed and RLE compressed bmps. The RLE
compressed versions
On 10/18/05, vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a new desktop with netbsd 2.0.2 and a portable with freebsd 5.4 (my pet
OS but it didn't boot on the compaq evo 510 box; therefore netbsd!).
Now, I had dumped my previous old desktop with freebsd 5.4 to a
samba share and then
On 10/18/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have some home directories that is mounted over NFS.
The users who log in via NIS can write to their respective home
directories, but root on the NFS client can't.
The NFS directories are exported via a NAS. I know it is not a
On 10/15/05, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You know, what I'd like my wm to be able to do is
set whatever app (say xload)
/usr/bin/nice -n -17 xload -g 50x90+0+0
so that I'll be able to nice it down to some low value,
control the placing and
On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a
for loop. To test, I've written the following:
for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -or -iname
*.gif -print`
do
echo -e \n$i
On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In the
script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I want. Now I
want to keep track of how many times the loop executes. Thus I included
this line between the 'while
On 10/12/05, David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/12/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's just not true. Cvsupping to something like
RELENG_5_4 will do exactly the same thing as
a patch, only it's the hassle-free way. You see
a sec-advisory, you type cvsup -g -L 2 mysup
On 10/13/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see a single reason why I shouldn't ask
the BSD daemon to flame the hell out of you :-)
Try again to verify. And again. Again then. And
if you think that 5 times are enough, you might
be right. But they are not enough for you.
You're
On 10/12/05, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am snooping on the squid-users mailing list and something interesting
(maybe not!) is mentioned:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap6sec73.html
Do we have an equivalent on this in any branch (4.x, 5.x, 6.x) bar
On 10/12/05, Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still pretty new to the BSD world and wanted to throw out a question
to see what kind of responses I get. What is everyones take on what to
do when security vulnerabities are discovered. Do you upgrade your
source (not always the easiest
On 10/12/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If things are not too tight on yout hard drive,
consider the cvsup way. It's very easy - and
very clearly described in the handbook.
I've seen many people say this, but I suspect they haven't tried
looking for information on patching using cvsup
On 10/12/05, Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the response. I did a terrible job of asking the correct
question to get the response I wanted. I do know to cvsup the source
and build/make world. I currently have 4 FreeBSD servers in production
serving various tasks. The
On 10/12/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's just not true. Cvsupping to something like
RELENG_5_4 will do exactly the same thing as
a patch, only it's the hassle-free way. You see
a sec-advisory, you type cvsup -g -L 2 mysup
recompile what's suggested in the advisory, or
the whole
On 10/9/05, Deepak Naidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD
5.4-p7
Cheers,
Deepak Naidu.
The common response to this is that it's in the handbook. I'm trying
to find it there, though, and am having a lot of trouble.
On 10/9/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was
wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports
and id like to check version of some ports before I install them...
I know many have the version in the dir
On 10/8/05, Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to enable tunefs for my filesystem but I get the following:
-
# tunefs -n enable /
tunefs: soft updates cannot be enabled until fsck is run
tunefs: /dev/ad2s1a: failed to write superblock
-
But AFAIK fsck
On 10/7/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A mild one. For example, I believe there was recently a security bug in
tcpdump's string handling which could be exploited by tcpdump seeing a
maliciously-crafted packet. Running the NIC in promisc mode means that packet
just has to go by,
On 10/7/05, Aleksandar Kacanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/dev/console problem :
I found a bit more on this issue.
/var/log/messages:
Oct 7 10:42:14 nyfbsds01 kernel: Mounting root from
ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
Oct 7 10:42:16 nyfbsds01 init: can't get /dev/console for
controlling terminal:
On 10/7/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No dice, but thanks for trying =).
-Garrett
Some other questions then:
Is rpcbind running? Does it show mountd registered? Try rpcinfo p to
check. You should see something like:
151 udp 1022 mountd
153 udp
On 10/4/05, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 00:44, Brian John wrote:
I think I'm having a similar problem with totem (which uses xine) and vlc.
Can you try installing /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc and see what that does?
If that gives a bus error as well then I
MEDIA_TIMEOUT is used to determine how long it will wait between
retrying a DNS lookup.
Would there be any objection to modifying the defaults sysinstall to
lower its default MEDIA_TIMEOUT from 300 seconds to something more
like 10, and then increasing the retry count from 2 to 30? The net
result
On 10/4/05, Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It probably is. However, I'm not sure how to go about figuring out
which one of these dependencies it is, let alone how to fix it. Could
you help us troubleshoot this? BTW, I used portmanager to upgrade my ports.
I don't know if I can be much
On 10/4/05, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I've done that for xine, here's the last bit:
1935 xine RET read 4096/0x1000
1935 xine CALL mmap(0,0x5e000,0x5,0x20002,0x6,0,0,0)
1935 xine RET mmap 692838400/0x294be000
1935 xine CALL
On 10/3/05, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The logfile can be found at
http://www.grimstveit.no/jakob/files/temp/vmstat.log. Are you able to parse
anything usable from it?
I don't see anything wrong with the figures from that log.
The only other thing I can think of to
On 10/2/05, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I tell? I doubt this to be the problem, since I experience same
problem on two other machines as well. Only thing they share (except same
lousy administrator :-) is that they all run on AMD CPUs (1700+, 1800+ and
3500+).
On 10/1/05, Hamza Eraldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it is same:
cat distinfo
MD5 (php-4.4.0.tar.bz2) = e85b606fe48198bfcd785e5a5b1c9613
I have already updated the ports.
The command was also make install clean distclean.
After a reboot and a new make install, the file (zlib.so) has been
On 9/30/05, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just sent a PR suggesting a fix to
http://www.freebsd.
org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86759
The problem is:
Trying to connect with a
client to an sshd server using sftpd the client fails connection
invariably complaining:
sftp-server:
On 9/30/05, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
We have a Supermicro that has Winston 4GB of ECC Registered DDR333 RAM. Dual
Xeon Processors.
With PAE enabled, it seems the system reports 6GB of realmemory instead of
4GB, as below:
We've seen similar stuff with Supermicro servers.
On 9/28/05, Nelis Lamprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a new dual Xeon Intel 2U server which I'm configuring with
FreeBSD 5.4 and I can't get it to see more than 3GB RAM. If I try use
the MAXMEM=(4096*1024) option it fails to boot up and just resets
itself. Do I need to use the PAE
On 9/23/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
I've got a rather strange problem. Yestoday, when I rebooted my box I
was still able to ping the box, but no services started (apache,ssh
etc), nor did they show up on netstat. So I rebooted it again, now I
could connect to the box on
On 9/12/05, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I strip the leading character from the string so that I can test to
see if it's zero?
This'll strip the 0, while leaving other numbers intact:
$ X=09
$ echo ${X#0}
9
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On 8/31/05, Dark Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
Well, Im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Fresh installation, and i have a simple
question
Lets say I named my box Xname so in rc.conf the hostname =xname
When the machine start, the logs will start to complain /var/log/messages
On 8/30/05, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www schg 73 Jul 27 22:04 foo.txt
I understand that some of the attributes on the NetApp may be confusing
restore. I don't really have a problem with that. Is there a way to not set
the file flags during restore? I don't really
On 8/30/05, Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver mouse
Option Protocol auto
Option Device /dev/sysmouse
Option Buttons 5
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
But the
On 8/30/05, Sean P. Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The system does ask for entropy upon the next reboot but the generation
of the keys and startup of sshd fail since there is no /etc/ssh.
If the install program doesn't create /etc/ssh, what does and how do I
get it back?
Thanks!
Sean
On 8/29/05, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not directly, but when I find myself in this pickle, I try to see what
exactly is the process doing:
$ ktrace /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start
( wait for it to finish )
kdump -f ./ktrace.out | less
and look for any errors
/etc/passwd (probably really /etc/pwd.db) are used for several user-land
programs including 'ls'. It's highly recommended that /etc/passwd stay
readable to the world.
Btw, the output of 'ps' can be easily reconstructed via access to the
/proc filesystem. You can unmount this partition, but ps
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