Just off the top of my head...
You mentioned the freebsd machine is the gateway. Do you have a firewall
on the host blocking connections from the windows machine?
a forgotten detail is that the windows machine sends just fine to the 4.10
gateway for a few minutes, but the time_wait inevitably b
We have a windows mailserver that relays its outbound to a fbsd
gateway. We changed to a different fbsd gateway running 4.10. Windows then
began having trouble sending to 4.10. Windows "netstat -an" shows dozens
of lines like this:
source IP desitination IP
Perhaps you need to do some research on the subject.
perhaps you need to clarify your vagary
There are a series of DNS systems
???
For a public domain.tld, the only two servers involved are :
1. the servers authoritative for .tld to publish the delegation and glue
records for domain.tld.
2.
No, it doesn't. I can successfully perform a whois from here on your domain,
but an nslookup/dig both fail. Give it 72 hours to propagate across the net.
propagation is a bogus idea when applied to DNS. Like WMD and "immediate
threat" when applied to Iraq.
As soon as the delegation and glue d
I often have the need to remove hundreds or even thousands of files from a
single directory (very often). Using rm, I usually get:
pearl# rm -rvf *
/bin/rm: Argument list too long.
man xargs
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How did you update your ports collection?
when running sysintall "upgrade" from cdrom to go from 4.7 to 4.10.
These are probably stale
files that should/would have been removed with a correctly updated
collection.
ok, I'll have a go at refreshing the ports, thanks
Len
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# cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
# make && make install
===> Vulnerability check disabled
>> perl-5.8.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from
http://www.cpan.dk/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/.
perl-5.8.2.tar.gz
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyDB'
>
> ... still gives:
>
> BerkeleyDB.xs:74: #error db.h is from Berkeley DB 1.x - need at least
> Berkeley DB 2.6.4
> *** Error code 1
>
> I've deleted and re-installed that db3 pkg, but still get the same error.
my first try would probably be to remove all CPA
$ls -alT perl*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Mar 20 15:25:53 2004 perl@ ->
/usr/local/bin/perl
...
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Mar 20 15:25:53 2004 perl5.8.2@ ->
/usr/local/bin/perl
...
I have the same:
# ll /usr/bin/perl*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 May 26 20:49 /usr/bin/perl@ ->
#v+
If you want this version of Perl to be used by default, please type
use.perl port
#v-
# use.perl port
# which perl
/usr/bin/perl
Check out the rest of that file for more information.
ports are not installed, just specific pkgs
# pkg_info
...
db3-3.3.11,1The Berkeley DB package, revis
which perl
This will show which perl executable you are actually calling.
the system perl:
# which perl
/usr/bin/perl
I guess typing:
/usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyDB'
that fails, too, same error
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h
Freebsd 4.8
1. installed a perl mod that decided it needed Perl 5.8. that went ok, but
now I've got
/usr/bin/perl 5.0
/usr/local/bin/perl 5.8
What is the command to get the sytstem to switch to defaulting to 5.8?
2. "pkg_add -r db3" also went ok, but
perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyD
Is it possible to have two DNS servers with only one public IP address?
no. when you run the first instance, it will listen on port 53. When you
run the second instance, it will fail, because port 53 is occupied.
I have a FreeBSD gateway connected to the Internet with a DSL modem, using
natd
> Try using the /etc/mail/access file, if you know what IP or domain it is
> coming from...
>
> IPADDRESS/DOMAIN550 "RELAYING DENIED"
Best to use a message that is more explanatory.
They are bounce msgs from mailer-daemon, the mailer-daemon and no spammer
every read the reject tex
Ive had this happen to me and couldnt figure out any good solution.
his specific case is extremely cheap and easy to fix
Its one of those reasons why they should have the death penalty for
spammers.
no, death penalty is reserved for spammers that forge your KNOWN user
accounts as the spammer's e
Is this possible? Please save me from being pushed over the line, buying a
paintball gun, and going hunting.
You're lucky if you can identify a set of senders, rather than random
alphabet soup senders.
You've identified the problem of dropping the mail only after receiving
it. This is the dum
I'd like to grab some pkgs for FreeBSD 3.4. Is there any listing of which
ftp sites have pkgs for old versions?
On 3.4 Release, pkg_add -r for like 15 pkgs all said not found.
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I think variant with cat is better, if you want without it
better will be
devnull: /dev/null
the latter works, thanks, Nik,
If you you have a minute, say why the cat step is better than just /dev/null
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devnull: |/dev/null
and:
# ll /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel2, 2 Mar 19 11:13 /dev/null
but:
Mar 19 10:55:08 img10 postfix/local[41744]: 671235621:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=1, status=bounced (Command
died with status 1: "/dev/null")
... is fixed
1) The name the mailserver announces in it's HELO line must resolve via
forward DNS. It doesn't matter to what, it just has to resolve.
# telnet mx1.freebsd.org 25
Trying 216.136.204.125...
Connected to mx1.freebsd.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx1.FreeBSD.org ESMTP Postfix (Postfix Rules
I run many domains off of this machine - does it have to have a reverse
pointer that matches the domain name for every domain
Only one PTR record per ip. Applications don't know how to handle more
than one.
, or will it suffice to have a single correct reverse pointer?
yes.
Right now, the rev
> Mar 16 22:10:32 rackspace postfix/smtp[28417]: 8B00131673:
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=mx1.freebsd.org[216.136.204.125],
> delay=11, status=deferred (host mx1.freebsd.org[216.136.204.125] said:
> 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [65.61.155.146]
> (in reply to RCPT TO comm
I've been posting about this since the beginning on the year. A few
times on freebsd-questions, once on freebsd-hackers, and submitted a PR
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48165).
Are you sure that configuring the TX2 as "RAID 0" array is what you want to
do, vs "SPAN" (aka JBOD)?
I
False alert!
On a hint from Soeren Schmidt, we looked at the Promise ATA cables. The 1U
box integrator had reversed the cable, controller-end to disk, and
disk-end to controller.
With great difficulty, due to the cable routing having the middle ATA
connector falling right on a too-small feed
> > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
This is because the cblid bit in the disks indicate that the disk doesn't
see the right cable (or rather the right signals it tests for).
Since I dont have a dmesg from the system I
mx# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002
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There are two things you might want to look at. First it trying to set the
modes manually after boot. This is not recommended, and I would not do it
unless on a read only file system, if setting the higher mode fails, or
fails partially, you might be in for a world of trouble. To do this, you
can
> ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> ar0: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
> 0 READY ad4: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at ata2-master
> UDMA33 ar1: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY
> subdisks: 0 READY ad6: 3
Seems that you are running 40 conductor IDE cables.
no, the tx2000 is running the tx2000 ata133 cables.
the tx2000 on-board setup util is reporting mode "U6", ata133
it seems that the hardware is actually running ata133 but FreeBSD is seeing
it a udma33.
mx# atacontrol mode 2
Master = UDMA33
S
FreeBSD 4.7R
Promise TX2000 with two ATA133 drives as ata masters using the ATA133 IDE
cables that came with the TX2000.
dmesg shows:
ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ar0: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
An integrator wants to use in some 1U boxes for us.
With Intel 845G
Any body have any horror stories? EPoX ok in general?
Len
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Since we only had one ATA133 disk on each TX2000 ATA channel, we skipped
the TX2000 setup utility to define an "array" (we didn't want to run RAID
or want any stinking arrays at all).
We were able to boot from mobo ATA CDROM and install fbsd through the TX2000.
( btw, we always install fbsd boo
If your BIOS supports this, try setting the boot device in CMOS
configuration to SCSI Boot Device.
it does, and that's how we have it.
The problem is that the offboard ATA
controller you are using has its own BIOS, thus the system BIOS will not
boot a disk attatched to it.
I don't think so, the
I might be wrong here.. but I think you need some specific raid drivers for
the TX cards to work
the tx2000 is seen as an standard ATA interface. no driver needed
Len
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fbsd 4.7 release
no drives on motherboard ata channels
one ATA Master drive on each TX2000 IDE channel (no Array is defined, we
just want two independent disks for now)
fbsd cdrom boots, finds the disks and installs fbsd.
we choose boot manager because we typically have our system fail to boo
Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is
already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact
root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore?
bind9 has the root-servers "hints zone" in its binary, but will use an
external hints zone
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached,
how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip?
The DNS navigates the DNS namespace until it finds a positive or negative
answer, or the until DNS's that should have the answer fail to respond.
Len
Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix?
yes, as a "content-filter", see the Spamassassin site, see the postfix site.
Len
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We are looking at this board for high-volume MX gateways.
Anybody have any comments from experience?
Len
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/stand/sysinstall works
so what if we did
install additional dist sets + just binary base distribution?
Len
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Trying to free up disk space, a user accidentally rm'd /usr instead of
/usr/ports.
Starting with the cdrom, what is the best way to get the /usr tree back
onto the disk?
thanks
Len
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ISTR Postfix replies with 450 to (almost) all errors by default.
And there are errors where you need to escalate the 4xx response to 554 to
stop the sending MTA from re-trying for days, or just harvest the 4xx ip's
to a new .map filean block with 554.
Postfix's new "sender address verificati
>_450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138]
>
Your mail server is identifying itself as [66.45.116.138] instead of a
host with (valid) forward DNS records (hosts that do this are blocked
as a -- very effective -- anti-spam measure). Fix your mail server to
identif
Easier said than done. I've been assigned 66.45.116.136/29 by the ISP.
.136 is not a power of 2 which is required for classless reverse
delegation. It should be .132/29 or .140/29
I control DNS for quadtelecom.com, but I don't control the reverse
lookup. I'd like to know the exact algorith
and the doc only?
no doc at programmers level
yes, :((
Len
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i have promise sx4000 raid card and im trying to get it work with freebsd
5.0
so is there anyone who knows a driver for that card?
Promise told me they don't support FreeBSD.
There's no driver for the sx4000 and they won't provide the doc + board to
develop one.
Len
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I was at a local installfext yesterday
(http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were
interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or
reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the
fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wonder
DMESG with a 4.7R GENERIC kernel shows for our Rocketraid 133:
atapci1: port
0x8400-0x84ff,0x8800-0x8803,0x9000-0x9007,0x9400-0x9403,0x9800-0x9807 irq
11 at device 13.0 on pci0
But we have nice Highpoint doc "FreeBSD INstallation Guide" where it talks
about installing their drivers, up to fs
Okay, I was able to duplicate your problem. It is due to the output of 'ps'
being truncated to 80 columns, the default terminal size. You are likely
running a wide terminal display on your interactive session (as I do)
yep, TeraTerm on Windows, very wide display.
but cron will see the default
What does your crontab entry look like?
*/10* * * * root/usr/local/bin/watchdog.sh
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Well, it was just a guess. :) I tested against my 'named' daemon, using the
code you supplied and it works fine.
same code works fine for my AV daemon, but not for the MTA daemon
What version of FreeBSD?
4.5
Are you using
the 'stock' shell?
yes
Did you look at the output from grep t
> if ( ps aux | grep -i "^root.*master" ) > /dev/null
> then
> echo "then: exit code equal 0"
> exit 0
> else
>
>
> ... when run from the command line, the echo text displays. But, when run
> from crontab every 10 minutes, the if fails, and the else clause runs.
>
> I've tried every syntax I kno
Trying to write a little watch-dog/keep-alive script for a couple of
related daemons, an MTA and an SMTP AV scanner.
This snippet works fine...
if ( ps aux | grep -i "^root.*master" ) > /dev/null
then
echo "then: exit code equal 0"
exit 0
else
... when run from the command line, the echo text
We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration,
which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through
mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now
expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then
why do that? are you running MS DNS
pkg_add _r mtr
And run mtr for a few hours to a couple of points a few hops beyond your
ISP and see if you have big delays, packet loss, etc.
Len
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I recommend Mailman:
/usr/ports/mail/mailman
It's from GNU (free!), works well, and is well supported. It installed
simply and easily for me.
But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list password
to unsubscribe?
That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the
FreeBSD port of qpopper version 4.0.4 (non-standalone) on FreeBSD 4.6.2
Release.
All is working fine, except we note that two users show these errors:
Oct 8 19:54:28 boxname qpopper[88744]: xxx at
12-233-2-114.client.attbi.com (12.233.2.114): -ERR [SYS/TEMP] POP
authentication DB not availab
>On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:52:47AM -0700, OCTAVIAN HORNOIU wrote:
> > Are the TX2000 and SX4000 cards
When I checked on the sx4000 about two weeks ago, the FreeBSD guy said he
was waiting on the cards + docs from Promise US to arrive in DK. I really
don't think sx4000 will make it into 4.7.
>Are you running a kern_secure level that prevents jumps of more than 1 second?
ah, I've commented it out but the person who set ip had rc.conf with
securelevel 2. It that it??
dmesg:
Time adjustment clamped to +1 second
Time adjustment clamped to +1 second
Time adjustment clamped to +1 seco
>I have never got date to really change the time unless I followed the
>example of
>
> The command:
>
>date 8506131627
>
> sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.
# date 0209201743
Fri Sep 20 17:43:00 CDT 2002
# ntpdate -b tock.jrc.us
20 Sep 17:13:49 ntpdate[9542]: s
> >>I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try
> >
> ># rm /etc/localtime
> ># ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
> ># ntpdate time.nist.gov
> >20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset
> >1784.223346 sec
> ^^
>I think that the one you want is:
>ntpdate -b
>
>That will force the system clock to reset even if it is off by more
>than the maximum allowed step. It is normally used at boot time when
>you want the time to be set correctly immediately since the existing
>state of the clock is unknown.
# kill
>Why dont you set it by using
>date 200209201514
>and then use
>ntpdate & ntpd
>to keep it current afterward..
this is what I always have done, but it's not working on this machine:
# killall ntp
No matching processes were found
# date 200209201048
Fri Sep 20 10:48:00 CDT 2002
# ll /etc/loc
>I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try
# rm /etc/localtime
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
# ntpdate time.nist.gov
20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset
1784.223346 sec
but the correct time is 09:12
Len
>
>Check your /etc/localtime is correct for your timezone.
>
>ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/ localtime
>
>where is the correct location.
rm /etc/localtime
from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab:
US +415100-0873900 America/Chicago Central Time
US +450628-0873651 America/Menomi
# killall ntpd
# ntpdate -db time.nist.gov
20 Sep 06:52:39 ntpdate[63322]: ntpdate 4.1.0-a Wed Aug 14 18:56:48 GMT
2002 (1)
transmit(192.43.244.18)
receive(192.43.244.18)
transmit(192.43.244.18)
receive(192.43.244.18)
transmit(192.43.244.18)
receive(192.43.244.18)
transmit(192.43.244.18)
receive
> >> (09.18.2002 @ 1445 PST): Len Conrad said, in 1.4K: <<
> > fbsd 4.6.2
> >
> > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc'
>
>why do it that way?
>cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-Date-Calc && make install
because I've a
fbsd 4.6.2
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc'
t/f029..ok
t/f030..ok
t/f031..ok
t/f032..ok
t/f033..ok
t/f034..Use of uninitialized value at t/f034.t line 332.
Use of uninitialized value at t/f034.t line 332.
FAILED tests 252
>I don't know what I did differently but when I tried it just now, I see
>
> >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/NEW/.
>Receiving lsof_4.65B.freebsd.tar.gz (509943 bytes): 100%
>509943 bytes transferred in 17.6 seconds (28.29 kBps)
>
>I would try again.
mx1# p
>How is that a ripoff? Am i not supposed to have them? I downloaded them for
>free off of some site.
which itself was a ripoff site. warez, huh?
> How am i ripping off anyone im not charging for them.
>Let me know if your serious i'll remove them to only be accessible by my
>lan.
amazing ign
I´m sure O'Reilly will get UnixHideOut to remove that ripoff, or sue them.
Len
>http://www.unixhideout.com/library/books1/tcpip/dnsbind/index.htm
>
>Check that out. that's how i installed it and got my dns to work like a
>charm. Everything you need is right there.
>
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