sysctl variable descriptions
Hello, Running 5.1-RELEASE, and was wondering is there a list of each sysctl variable with a coresponding description? I know about sysctl -a and i pipe that to a file, get something like 700 hits on it. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: no response on unnumbered bridged interface?
-Original Message- From: Micheal Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 September 2003 23:49 To: Aled Treharne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no response on unnumbered bridged interface? [SNIP] Is the system configured to forward packets? Assuming that 5.x has the following variables available (I still run 4.8 here), try: sysctl -a |grep forwarding You should see net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1. If it's 0, then your system won't pass traffic between the the interfaces. You're right, it won't. *sigh* But it does now. Thanks for that. I can't believe I missed that one out. There ends a weekend of pissing around (all hardware sucks). :) Now to see if I can trim down my ruleset a little bit. Cheers, Aled. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)
On Monday 01 September 2003 05:43 pm, Todd Stephens wrote: I have been trying to get this setup to work as it does on my Linux box. Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the foomatic-rip/gimp-print method outlined on Linuxprinting.org? I have an Epson Stylus C82 at /dev/lpt0. Everything seems to working properly with CUPS now; I have the CUPS scheduler running, the printer is configured, but when I go to print anything, I get the following message: #lp -d EpsonC82 /etc/motd request id is EpsonC82-4 (1 file(s)) Then nothing ever prints. I think CUPS is configured properly or I would not have gotten that far, but maybe GS or gimp-print is not. Does anyone have any experience with this? Looks like I got it. I guess it was the foomatic-rip that was breaking it. I installed the printer again using a different driver (one that for some reason did not show up the first time I tried) and it works now. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to mount a FAT floppy
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 02:05, Devnull wrote: Mkdir /mnt/floppy/ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ? mkdir /mnt/floppy mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy OR mkdir /mnt/floppy mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Malcolm Devnull -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Malcolm Kay Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 3:17 PM To: Tadimeti Keshav; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:39, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi guys, Sorry for sending a blank mail. How can I mount a (FAT) floppy disk that contains my favourite themes? I have /dev/fd0 directory. (This is a device not a directory.) Is this the command: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy? Yes Where is the /floppy directory present? You need to make it (first): # mkdir /floppy man mount_msdos does not give any examples. Most of us find mtools a more convenient way of managing floppies in FAT format. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freshly cvsuped, buildkernel errors
Hi, buildkernel on my freshly cvsuped (stable-supfile) 4.8 fails with the following errors: mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I- -I. -I@ -I@/../include -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida_disk.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida_pci.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida_eisa.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida.c:41: pci.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ida. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/idotnet. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. I tried hashing out the ida line on the kernel config file too, but still didn't work. I have successfully compiled this kernel on my other machine (which is now 4.9-PRERELEASE). But it fails on this one. What could be the reason for the above error? Thanks in advance. chael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freshly cvsuped, buildkernel errors
doesn't matter. after i re-cvsuped it using another mirror, i have now successfully installed the new 4.9-PRERELEASE kernel. thanks anyway. :) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 8:26 AM Subject: freshly cvsuped, buildkernel errors Hi, buildkernel on my freshly cvsuped (stable-supfile) 4.8 fails with the following errors: mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I- -I. -I@ -I@/../include -I/ usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida_disk.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida_pci.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida_eisa.c /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida.c:41: pci.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ida. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/idotnet. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. I tried hashing out the ida line on the kernel config file too, but still didn't work. I have successfully compiled this kernel on my other machine (which is now 4.9-PRERELEASE). But it fails on this one. What could be the reason for the above error? Thanks in advance. chael ___ [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: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?
I am trying to set up a FreeBSD 5.1 i386 box. Everything seems to be fine, except, incoming ftp is all rejected. Inetd.conf is set to allow ftp. Is there another switch to set somewhere to allow all incoming ftp? If so, what/where? is inetd even starting? I don't think that inetd starts by default anymore. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?
As it turns out, a one liner: inetd_enabled=YES added to rc.conf caused it to come up correctly. Now it is running fine! Thanks all Bob Keys ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?
Hmm... funny, i have thought that inetd_enabled=YES was default regardless if it's in rc.conf or not. Because even it it's not in rc.conf, you can still see it running when you ps -ax (/usr/sbin/inetd -wW). I have my pop3 (which requires editing the inetd.conf) working even if that line is not in my rc.conf. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects? As it turns out, a one liner: inetd_enabled=YES added to rc.conf caused it to come up correctly. Now it is running fine! Thanks all Bob Keys ___ [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: Belkin PCMCIA wireless card (F5D6020 ver. 2)
I am assuming this card is not supported? I did find this message on a linux newsgroup: Scott Waye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To finish my own thread, it turns out that the new Belkin cards do indeed use a different chipset. It is supported under the atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net project. Brief instructions for what I did are here: www.boldtower.com/linux/sony.html On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:10:39 -0400, Steven Ketcham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a Belkin PCMCIA wireless card (F5D6020 ver. 2) for my laptop. When I insert it I receive a panic message then the machine reboots. Is the Belkin supported? I have seen some posts saying that it is. Is there something special that needs done before inserting this type of card? I am currently using a Xircom card and it works fine. I just want to go the wireless route. Is there a better entry level wireless PCMCIA card to purchase? FreeBsd 5.1. Thanks! -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla display issues, esp. with hover
I recently updated my Mozilla install, and since then have been having assorted display problems. These don't affect a similar install on Linux, so I'm imagining they're FreeBSD-related; if not, sorry for this OT post. In particular it seems that sites having particular links where there's some hover value in the CSS display strangely: when the page first loads, these links are displayed in some plain text, then when I run the mouse over them (without clicking, and this is for non- JavaScript pages) the links turn to their hover value during mouseover, and then return to some other value-- but not the plain value--after mouseover. The typical effect is that links will display in black, then during mouseover they'll turn into, say, blue with underlines, and then after mouseover they'll return to non-underlined blue, which is what they should have been in the first place. Also, moving up and down using the scrollbar can have an impact on how these are rendered. I've noticed similar (?) problems where text is displayed in black when it should be in some color/weight variant, but I haven't noticed a pattern that will allow me to discuss it further. Any ideas about this? I'm using Mozilla 1.4 for GTK-2, installed from Ports, on FreeBSD 4.8. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla-firebird dependency on gnomecontrolcenter?
Chuck, Did you solve this issue? I had a similar problem on my first 4.8 install. I was getting No running window found. and then I got got the shell prompt back. I didn't keep track of the things I've changed... but I think it started to work after I ran fc-cache (It took a while for that command to complete). I still get the No running window found. msg, and then my firebird window would start. Dany On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:19:26 -0700 Chuck Tuffli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:48:04PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:29:03PM -0700, Chuck Tuffli wrote: Ok, I did a cvsup of ports-base and the build completed without the strangeness I saw earlier. Now when I run firebird, nothing happens (i.e. no browser window, no message stating an error, no core dump, and nothing logged to dmesg). Since there aren't any error messages, I'm not sure what info to send you. The machine is running 4.8-RELEASE with Linux compatibility built into the kernel. firebird -v reports [92] firebird -v Mozilla 1.5a, Copyright (c) 2003 mozilla.org developer build This is a FAQ. When you update mozilla you often need to remove your old .mozilla directory (save the bookmarks.html if you like). They are not very careful to maintain backwards compatibility. This is a brand new system that has never had a .mozilla dir mozilla is also VERY sensitive to being built with consistent library interfaces - if you have stale headers lying around on the system, or old/mismatched versions of the dependencies, it can become confused in this fashion. Kris Would you suspect this to be a problem on a brand new 4.8 install (i.e. there has never been anything else on this disk)? Maybe it doesn't build with a stock 4.8 version of ports? Has anyone ever tried this? -- Chuck Tufflichuck_tuffli AT NO_SPAM agilent DOT com ___ [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: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... funny, i have thought that inetd_enabled=YES was default regardless if it's in rc.conf or not. Because even it it's not in rc.conf, you can still see it running when you ps -ax (/usr/sbin/inetd -wW). I have my pop3 (which requires editing the inetd.conf) working even if that line is not in my rc.conf. THE Handbook - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/inetd.html - says: inetd is initialized through the /etc/rc.conf system. The inetd_enable option is set to ``NO'' by default, but is often times turned on by sysinstall with the medium security profile. Placing: inetd_enable=YES or inetd_enable=NO into /etc/rc.conf can enable or disable inetd starting at boot time. But you are right, I could swear it was always turned by default. Regards, Uli. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects? As it turns out, a one liner: inetd_enabled=YES added to rc.conf caused it to come up correctly. Now it is running fine! Thanks all Bob Keys ___ [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] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can Freebsd provides tree-based quotas.
Hi, Can you please tell me if linux or freebsd is providing Tree-based quotas (directory quota) ? Please inform me if any other vendor is prividing it. Thanks in advance. latin __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?
It is turned on *IF* you say so during the install. What does or does not run by default is actually determined by /etc/defaults/rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf is an override file, if you will. My guess here is that if you choose not to use the internet super server during the installation, it alters the rc.conf located in /etc/defaults rather than adding a line in /etc/rc.conf to disable inetd. Sandro -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ulrich Kruppa Sent: September 2, 2003 12:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects? On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... funny, i have thought that inetd_enabled=YES was default regardless if it's in rc.conf or not. Because even it it's not in rc.conf, you can still see it running when you ps -ax (/usr/sbin/inetd -wW). I have my pop3 (which requires editing the inetd.conf) working even if that line is not in my rc.conf. THE Handbook - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/inetd.html - says: inetd is initialized through the /etc/rc.conf system. The inetd_enable option is set to ``NO'' by default, but is often times turned on by sysinstall with the medium security profile. Placing: inetd_enable=YES or inetd_enable=NO into /etc/rc.conf can enable or disable inetd starting at boot time. But you are right, I could swear it was always turned by default. Regards, Uli. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects? As it turns out, a one liner: inetd_enabled=YES added to rc.conf caused it to come up correctly. Now it is running fine! Thanks all Bob Keys ___ [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 freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla display issues, esp. with hover
Are you using gnome? I've noticed similar behavior. Mozilla will often show the gnome foot print in black, and things are quite unreadable. It depends on the site. I've also observed similar things in other applications from time to time. I don't know if it's a bug in gnome, X or the applications. sdb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nForce2 problems - xl and snd_ich dod not work
Hi, I am having problems getting sound and networking with my A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. This seems to be a common problem. I found a few posts which suggested using 'device xl' (3Com) in the kernel configuration file and adding snd_ich_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf to fix these problems. But I am still not able to get these to work. dmesg does shows several undetected devices. I am currently using FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. Are there any other options that I can try out? Regards Gautham ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?
I use Linux for surfing + mail , and Freebsd for coding + research. The choice of which to use for what was just how it happened - rather than any deficiency in either product. I think they are both great. Good to be spoilt for choice. P.s : notice I did not mention that other operationg system :-) Mark Denis Troshin wrote: Hi! Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora, Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move to FreeBSD? Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: playing a DVD with mplayer
Hi, Isn't there a mean to launch the full DVD and to navigate through the in a graphical way (as ogle or xine) ? Ganaël LAPLANCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. -- Original Message --- From: Peder Blom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:14:14 +0200 Subject: Re: playing a DVD with mplayer On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:13:52 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new notebook with a DVD drive. I compiled mplayer from the ports. Now I want to play a smaple VD that I have. What do I need to do to mount the DVD? -- You don't have to mount it. Just run mplayer. As an example, this is what I do to view chapter 5 of title 6 with japanese sound and english subtitles in fullscreen mode: mplayer -dvd 6 -dvd-device /dev/acd0c -alang ja -slang en -fs -cache 8192 -chapter 5 See man mplayer for (many!) more options. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End of Original Message --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Antigen forwarded attachment
The entire message Need help with sendmail, smart host and genericstable, originally sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), has been forwarded to you from the Antigen Quarantine area. This message may have been re-scanned by Antigen and handled according to the appropriate scan job's settings. ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I have been playing a few hours with sendmail settings, but I failed to configure it correctly. I want to explain what I want to do. Perhaps sendmail is the wrong tool for this. I want to send mail from /usr/bin/mail, emacs, vi etc and forward it to my provider. That means, the local From: address and other headers need to be mapped to my external mail address. It is not enough to just rewrite the host name. The user name is also different. I have read several documents now. The FreeBSD handbook (contains errors with dialup configurations btw), the freebsddiary, an explanation directly from sendmail.org and few from some universities. I have been searching on google, but the combination of smart host and genericstable seems very unusual. Nothing works so far. I can see that SMART_HOST setting works, because sendmail is always giving me MAILER-DAEMON-mails containing chat-logs with the external SMTP server. But the From-Line was not translated according to my settings in /etc/mail/genericstable (yes, it contains tabs and not spaces). GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE is correct, too, in my opinion. When I remove the SMART_HOST setting. The From-lines are translated correctly, but the mail will get bounced of course, because I'm dialup. The FreeBSD handbook does not mention genericstable and how it works and if it works. I cannot see what is wrong and sendmail -bt shows that it does not translate addresses. Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newer names
Vitali Malicky wrote: OK, Hendrik! On monday I'll take A Student's Guide To UNIX(C) by Harley Hann which I began with 5 years ago, and I'll quote for you and for all dear All the whole paragraph where it's explained. Deal? Why not? :) But I was more interested what the single letters in dragon mean, because you already explained a dragon itself. I don't think this is a right place to share bookchapters. It's not a chapter :) Hendrik - WHAT'S IN A NAME? Daemons and Dragons Although the name is pronounced dee-mon, it is correctly spelled daemon. Nobody knows if the name used to be an acronym or why we use a British variation of the spelling. (In Celtic mythology, a daemon is usually good or neutral, merely a spirit or inspiration. A demon, however, is always an evil spirit entity.) You may occasionally read that the name stands for Disk and Executing Monitor, a term from old DEC 10 and 20 computers. However, this explanation was made up after the fact. The name daemon was first used by MIT programmers who worked in CTSS (the Compatible Time-Sharing System), developed in 1963. They coined the name to refer to what were called DRAGONS by other programmers who worked on ITS (the Incompatible Time-Sharing System). (CTSS and ITS were both ancestors of UNIX. ITS was an important, but strange, operationg system that developed a cult following at MIT. To this day, ITS is still revered among aging east-coast hackers.) Strictly speaking, a dragon is a daemon that is not invoked explicitly but is always there, waiting in the background to perfofrm some task. The cron daemon, for example, might be called a dragon. Although many Unix users have heard of daemons, very few people know about dragons. (But now you do.) Harley Hahn A Student's Guide To UNIX ISBN 0-07-025511-3 (page 286) - Vitali Malicky Zone3000 TechSupport http://www.geocities.com/vitali_malicky http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem Tuning Maxsockets
I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from the default of 2022 to 8192 on a FreeBSD 4.8 box. However, when I try to perform this operation via sysctl I'm informed the oid (kern.ipc.maxsockets) is read only. Does this mean I need to recompile the kernel? I've tried 'options MAXSOCKETS=8192' in a kernel recompile - but that was rejected by the inital parse, so either the option is different to the sysctl name or their is another way to do this? Could someone shed some light? Thanks Colin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SH Core Dumps
Im running 5.1-RELEASE-p2 which I updated last sunday. While I was rebuilding some of the packages, /bin/sh seems to randomly core dump, which is causing many things not to compile correctly. Is this a known problem? I generally get a signal 4, though occasionally a signal 11 when it fails. Any suggestions/help? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem Tuning Maxsockets
-Original Message- From: Company 2210 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 14:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem Tuning Maxsockets I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from the default of 2022 to 8192 on a FreeBSD 4.8 box. However, when I try to perform this operation via sysctl I'm informed the oid (kern.ipc.maxsockets) is read only. Does this mean I need to recompile the kernel? I've tried 'options MAXSOCKETS=8192' in a kernel recompile - but that was rejected by the inital parse, so either the option is different to the sysctl name or their is another way to do this? Could someone shed some light? according to init_maxsockets in sys/kern/uips_socket2.c you should recompile your kernel with a different NMBCLUSTERS. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem Tuning Maxsockets
I changed maxusers to be: maxusers256 That ended up with 8192 files. There is probably a more direct way to set that ) On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:48:33 +0100, Company 2210 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from the default of 2022 to 8192 on a FreeBSD 4.8 box. However, when I try to perform this operation via sysctl I'm informed the oid (kern.ipc.maxsockets) is read only. Does this mean I need to recompile the kernel? I've tried 'options MAXSOCKETS=8192' in a kernel recompile - but that was rejected by the inital parse, so either the option is different to the sysctl name or their is another way to do this? Could someone shed some light? Thanks Colin ___ [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]
Help me.
Hi! Please tell me what I work incorrectly. My ppp not reconnect after destroy connection. If disconnected after timeout then sucssefully reconnected. I send you ppp.cofg, ppp.log and command that i run ppp. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 94419787 ppp.log Description: Binary data ppp.conf Description: Binary data run_ppp. Description: Binary data ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.
Hello! This is my third month with FreeBSD, and while so far everything worked mostly fine, I think I now hit a wall. Hard. Please note that I lack Unix and networking background, so expect me to sound embarrassingly amateurish. The current situation: Over the past few weeks I used a network consisting of two machines. Machine A is a Window XP Pro system with a dial-up connection to my ISP. Machine B is a FreeBSD 4.8 system that shares XP's internet connection when available. This was easy enough to set up: I used the idiot-proof set up a network wizard in XP and enabled Internet Connection Sharing, and in FreeBSD I let Sysinstall DHCP-configure the Ethernet card. This works flawlessly. However, this isn't what I really want. It makes little sense for the FreeBSD box to run local IMAP and NTTP servers, connect through the XP box to the net, and then serves mail and news to the very same XP machine. It's just not pretty or efficient, since it requires me to have the workstation running 24/7, too. The goal: I'd like the FreeBSD to connect to the 'net, using a PPP dial-up connection, and the XP box to share the (dial-up) Internet connection of the FreeBSD machine. So, yesterday I plugged an old, external ISDN modem into the FreeBSD machine. It took me a while to get PPP working (with the help of a kind freebsd-questions soul), but it eventually did work. It connects to the ISP, and it will also use this connection, but ONLY if the XP machine is also there (even if not connected). If the XP machine is turned off or the LAN interrupted, the FreeBSD box will not use its own Internet connection. (I suspect it has to do with resolv.conf listing the XP machine's internal IP address as nameserver? If I remove this, FreeBSD still can't resolve addresses, even though ppp.conf has enable dns.) Roughly, what I'd like is this: Have the FreeBSD box connect to the Internet via PPP (dial-up) whenever an application on either the FreeBSD box *or* the Windows box requires a connection to the Internet, and disconnect when it's been idle for a while (I know how to set *this* in ppp.conf, but that's pretty much all I know). I'd like the FreeBSD system to internally use 192.168.0.1 and the XP box 192.168.0.2. Some of the problems: - I get a dynamic IP address whenever I connect to the ISP and I don't know this address before I connect. - I do not have a local DNS/nameserver. I understand that I can set one up locally, but that I would need my ISPs nameserver IP for this. Also, how would this help me if the host configuration is done before a PPP connection is established? Ideally, in addition, I'd like to use different ISPs. - I am uncertain if it is all right that the host names of these two machines are fictive. With the old setup, both use system.mshome.net (something Windows assigns, I didn't choose this.) Is it acceptable to use something made up? (Let's say I own example.org and name the boxes freebsd.example.org and xp.example.org, would this be all right even though the machines have 192.x.x.x IP addresses and don't really exist as far as the outside world is concerned?) - I noticed that after setting up PPP, FreeBSD will automatically establish a PPP connection at boot time. It will only use the papchap configuration, and fail if I rename this entry. The problem is that the only change I made to anything but /etc/ppp/ppp.conf is that I added ppp_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf. Where does it get the idea from to use the papchap entry in ppp.conf? - I am in the dark when it comes to configuring the XP side. This is off-topic here, but if anyone has an idea, I'd be grateful for the assistance. The wizard allows for two modes: XP being the machine connecting to the 'net, and XP using another machine's connection. It doesn't actually ask for any IP addresses, or lets me assign any IP addresses (it picks 169.x.x.x for itself when I make it a client). How does one configure this manually? (I never thought I'd see the day where I actually *want* textual configuration files -- but three months with FreeBSD changed this fundamentally.) - To make matters worse, I don't really understand what netstat tells me, or how to draw any conclusions from the information it provides. I did read the man pages for netstat, PPP and so on, but frankly, it's over my head. I know, I must sound pathetically helpless here. Rest assured, I feel exactly this way, too! :) What am I looking for? Ideally, for easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions! Seriously though, I've tried the entire morning and afternoon to figure this out, but it's clearly out of my scope. It is a pitiful experience to read documentation and not understand it. I don't know which files to edit (on the FreeBSD side), and how to set up everything to work as outlined above. The future: If/when I get this to work, I'll add a second 80GB disk to the XP machine and put FreeBSD on it, and then dual-boot. The current FreeBSD box would continue to connect to the
Re: SH Core Dumps
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:26:49PM +0930, Kim Needham wrote: Im running 5.1-RELEASE-p2 which I updated last sunday. While I was rebuilding some of the packages, /bin/sh seems to randomly core dump, which is causing many things not to compile correctly. Is this a known problem? I generally get a signal 4, though occasionally a signal 11 when it fails. Classic symptoms of hardware failure, probably of some of the memory in your machine, or possibly the CPU. This sort of thing comes up all the time on this list: check the archives for details. Any suggestions/help? Try running a few passes of memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.org/) to confirm that you have a problem. Try pulling out half of your memory sticks to see if you can isolate the faulty component. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ATA command timeout
I recall having the same or, from somewhat vague memory, similar problem some time ago. It was about the time when CD drives started being commonly installed as master on the secondary port instead of as a slave. At that time moving the CD to slave fixed the problem. But then it might not work with the current round of difficulties. Malcolm On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:47, Ville Lundberg wrote: Hi, I posted a mail regarding the installation of 4.8-release a while ago. I tried to install 5.1-release and got i running - the error occurred, still. Where 4.8 just hung, 5.1 did manage to give me some more info: the problem is ATA timeouts for my CD. This seemed to be a problem for many ppl out there, and not once I came by aworking answer. At boot time, after probing the HDs, its time for the CD, but it hangs for a while, then following error messages start to appear. They appear anything from 10 to 30 times before the computer boots up. acd0: read data overrun 34/0 acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata1: resetting devices... done This problem seemed to come along 4.6RC2, and it's errdata sure has it mentioned. The fixes there did not work on my computer, thou. I have tried to play with sysctl and device.hints, and dis/enabling UDMA support in BIOS, adjusting cables etc., all in vain. The problem seems to be with particular CDROM brands, as one older Toshiba worked fine. Should I make a bug report out of this? It seems like a big problem to many, without any fixes. Is it a bug in the driver? My computer is a MSI6330(KT133) mainboard, 30Gb UDMA100 HD as primary disk in ata0-master, 10 Gb UDMA66 slave in ata0-slave where FreeBSD resides (master has Win98 and FreeBSD boot manager), and HP CD-Writer 8200i CD-RW in ata1-master. When adjusting the device.hints I got FreeBSD to get it as UDMA33, as it should. I don't need the CD in FreeBSD (but it wouldn't hurt to have it either), so the only harm in this is that the booting takes forever. I don't want to disable anything from BIOS, because I use it in Windows, and I don't want to restrict it's use/efficiency. Any thoughts appreciated. --Ville ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can Freebsd provides tree-based quotas.
Hi, Can you please tell me if linux or freebsd is providing Tree-based quotas (directory quota) ? As far as I know, FreeBSd does quotas based on per user/per filesystem. It does not do quotas based on subdirectories within a filesystem. If this has changed recently (eg 5.xx), I don't know. I haven't looked at quotos in Linux. Please inform me if any other vendor is prividing it. Don't know. jerry Thanks in advance. latin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 07:37, Michael Vondung wrote: Hello! Morning :) - I get a dynamic IP address whenever I connect to the ISP and I don't know this address before I connect. This is fine, unless of course you were planning on running a mailserver/webserver/someserver for the outside world to see and then you can either play with some of the dynamic DNS services available or your S.O.L. - I do not have a local DNS/nameserver. I understand that I can set one up locally, but that I would need my ISPs nameserver IP for this. Yes, you can setone up and you don't need the ISP nameservers since your DNS server will query down to the root level for you, but it is more polite to ask your ISP nameservers first for info. For starters, since you're running only 2 machines I would just use your ISP nameservers on both boxes and not run a DNS server locally. Also, how would this help me if the host configuration is done before a PPP connection is established? Ideally, in addition, I'd like to use different ISPs. Different ISPs all the time or just switching now and again? - I am uncertain if it is all right that the host names of these two machines are fictive. With the old setup, both use system.mshome.net (something Windows assigns, I didn't choose this.) Is it acceptable to use something made up? (Let's say I own example.org and name the boxes freebsd.example.org and xp.example.org, would this be all right even though the machines have 192.x.x.x IP addresses and don't really exist as far as the outside world is concerned?) I prefer setting up something like: boxname.int.domain.com (int = internal) and yes, you can name them anything you like since you aren't broadcasting to the world and are in private space. The 2 machines should have different names however. Another issue, unless you are running an internal DNS server or add the info to the hosts file (yes, XP has a hosts file as well..just a well hidden one) you won't be able to actually use the names to get from one box to another. IPs only. - I noticed that after setting up PPP, FreeBSD will automatically establish a PPP connection at boot time. It will only use the papchap configuration, and fail if I rename this entry. The problem is that the only change I made to anything but /etc/ppp/ppp.conf is that I added ppp_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf. Where does it get the idea from to use the papchap entry in ppp.conf? My PPP is really rusty..sorry. Check the ppp man page and/or the ppp.conf man page. or look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for any default settings related to ppp.conf - I am in the dark when it comes to configuring the XP side. This is off-topic here, but if anyone has an idea, I'd be grateful for the assistance. The wizard allows for two modes: XP being the machine connecting to the 'net, and XP using another machine's connection. It doesn't actually ask for any IP addresses, or lets me assign any IP addresses (it picks 169.x.x.x for itself when I make it a client). How does one configure this manually? (I never thought I'd see the day where I actually *want* textual configuration files -- but three months with FreeBSD changed this fundamentally.) Don't use the wizard :) Right-Click on Network Neihborhood and select Properties (or go through to Network via the Control Panel) and then click around in there. I don't use Windows and don't have access to an XP box at all, so I'm a little fuzzy. I would assign IPs manually at first. Not a lot of detailed help..sorry...I haven't setup a PPP connection in a LONG time. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] `If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.' --Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dump
I had a question I have 4 filesystems that I want to dump(8) to my SCSI Tape backup drive (Travan 4GB uncompressed). The filesystems are, /, /usr, /var, and /usr/home. All four filesystems equal about 2.5Gigs of data. I dumped the first filesystem / by executing, dump -0uf /dev/sa0 / then executed, mt -f /dev/sa0 eom to move the tape to the end of the backup (to append to the tape), then dumped the second filesystem (/usr) using,dump -0uf /dev/sa0 /usr. Then once again I executed, mt -f /dev/sa0 to move the tape to the end (to append to it). You need to use the norewind device for the tape. Otherwise the tape will rewind between each operation so each thing, including each backup (even after an eom or mt fsf n), starts at the beginning of the tape. So I use dump -0af /dev/nrsa0 jerry When I go to execute, restore -if /dev/sa0 to confirm that both filesystems were saved so far, there's only ONE filesystem saved to the tape /. I can't 'cd' to /var because it's not on the tape. What am I doing wrong??? I know I still have plenty of tape left to save other filesystems, but it's not dumping anything after the first filesystem. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?? Thanks, Michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems running new diablo-{jre,jdk} JVMs
I've installed the new diablo-jdk and diablo-jre ports on my recently-upgraded-from-4.x FreeBSD 5.1 server. Whenever I try to run any of the JVMs, either by calling them directly or via the javavm script, I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib# /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libm.so.2: Undefined symbol __fpclassifyf I'm at a loss. Any ideas? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
XF86 Multiple Head video cards
Hi, Can anyone recommend a Multi-head video card (the more heads the better, I am thinking 4 heads if possible) that will work with XF86 and FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1. The sooner the better. I may be able to get some Free FreeBSD press out of the results.. Thanks, Ted -- | Ted Wisniewski E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Manager, Systems Group WEB: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ted/ | | Information Technology Services| | Plymouth State College Phone: (603) 535-2661 | | Plymouth NH, 03264 Fax: (603) 535-2263 | ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local procmail mailer, bypassing aliases?
Thus spake Dan Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29/08/03 19:06]:
Easy enough:
MAILER(`procmail')
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`PROCMAIL',`-A')
Hm... Still can't get it to work:
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`procmailnoalias',`-A')
MAILER(procmailnoalias)
I've tried upper-casing the MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS line as well, to no avail.
I also tried using the generic procmail mailer and copying it to
procmailnoalias.m4 (and changing the required lines within), as well as our
custom .m4. We still seem to be delivering to the alias defined in
/etc/mail/aliases.
Basically, make sure the the appropriate Mmailer line in sendmail.cf
doesn't have an 'A' in the F= flags list.
Hum. From sendmail.cf:
Mprocmailnoalias, F=lsDFMw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9,
Mprocmail, F=DFMSPhnu9,
I don't see an 'A' flag in either of those, yet they're both listening to
aliases. In fact, I don't see the letter 'A' in either mailers until the
last line ('A=procmail -Y -m $h $f $u').
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Hello, I am an attorney at Cisco Systems, Inc. and have been asked to evaluate, from a legal perspective, obligations concerning usage of your code and whether making a donation would be appropriate. So for due diligence, while visiting your site, I noticed that at the Copyright and Legal Information page, the freeBSD license is posted along with the GPL and LGPL licenses. I am confused why the GPL and LGPL licenses are posted at your site and whether there are restrictions or obligations imposed, more than Do not claim that you wrote this. and Do not sue us if it breaks. Is all of the code available from your site licensed under the freeBSD copyright or some software available under the GPL or LGPL license? Also, the freeBSD copyright seems directed toward copyright but silent toward patent rights and trade secrets. Is this intentional? Thank you for any and all assistance you can give me. Regards, Victoria Mah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isdn and PPP question
Hi I have just bought a New Asuscom 200 External ISDN TA, and ive changed my ppp.conf script for isdn. The problem im having is that sometimes it dials up fine, other times it says NO CARRIER, and ive read the manual, tried many different AT commands, everything. The modem however works perfectly fine on windows, not a single problem. All that im basically doing is trying to dialup with 64k, single link, and im using ppp and term now to do this. Since sometimes it dials up fine, other times it takes me fiddling and messing around, and then it just dials up sometimes, and othertimes doing exactly the same thing, same AT commands, it doesnt. I also wrote a serial program to listen on cuaa0 on bsd, and connected the windows pc to the bsd pc via a null modem cable and captured the AT commands that windows sends, and trying these it also fails to work. If anyone has anymore suggestions please let me know Thanks Cole / Stalker please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since im not on the list, thanx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: USB Errors
I am seeing a lot of the following in my logs on a freshly installed system: Sep 2 09:01:39 bridge /kernel: usb0: scheduling overrun I am running 4.9-PRERELEASE. The really strange this is I have the following in my rc.conf so I should never even be getting these errors: usbd_enable=NO I have done some google searches to no avail. The only resolution I ever see anyone offer is to disable usbd in rc.conf which I have already done. The only way I got it to stop was to go into BIOS and shut off USB since I wasn't using it. If you find a better method, please post it to the list for the archives. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my FreeBSD
Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please help me I will Thankfull Regards, Ricardo _ Can you send your configuration file as well? Thanks. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Email: Helo Command Failed
Just wondering what this error (Helo Command Rejected: Host not found) was referring too? I receive it in sendmail on messages I'm trying to fire off. I suspect (but have been unable to confirm) it may be reverse DNS related? Thanks Colin. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my FreeBSD
Try (as root): # XFree86 -configure That *should* write a configuration file into root's home directory. Then run : # XFree86 -xf86config /path/to/the/new/config If it works you can tweak it from there (e.g. bit depth, screen resolution, refresh frequency, etc.). If not... um... your problem is beyond the scope of what I have time for in this email at the moment. - Mike This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_3002_5e52_1afd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please help me I will Thankfull Regards, Ricardo _ Las mejores tiendas, los precios mas bajos, entregas en todo el mundo, YupiMSN Compras: [1]Haz clic aquí... References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMMES/2746??PS= --=_NextPart_000_3002_5e52_1afd Content-Type: text/plain; name=XFree86.0.log; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=XFree86.0.log XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 23 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Mon Sep 1 04:35:37 2003 (==) Using config file: /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor My Monitor (**) | |--Device My Video Card (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel microsoft (**) XKB: model: microsoft (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/li b/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X1 1R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1a30 card , rev 04 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,1a31 card , rev 04 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card , rev 05 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,2440 card , rev 05 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,244b card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:2: chip 8086,2442 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,2443 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:4: chip 8086,2444 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,2445 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0110 card , rev b2 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0a:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 10ec,8139 rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0b:0: chip e159,0001 card 8086,0003 rev 00 class 07,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,2), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x
Re: postfix problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kjell Rune Glærum) writes: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:31:09PM -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: i keep geting this error in my postfix logs have tried newaliases command and it does not help also have tried to forward roots mail to a different accout and it does not seem to be working can someone help with this postfix/local[617]: warning: database /etc/mail/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/mail/aliases You need to update the /etc/mail/aliases.db file, run portmap /etc/mail/aliases Better still postmap /etc/postfix/aliases ^ | :-) Simon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with my FreeBSD
Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please help me I will Thankfull Regards, Ricardo _ Consigue aquí las mejores y mas recientes ofertas de trabajo en América Latina y USA: [1]Haz clic aquí References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMMES/2734??PS= ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kjell Rune Glærum) writes: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:31:09PM -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: i keep geting this error in my postfix logs have tried newaliases command and it does not help also have tried to forward roots mail to a different accout and it does not seem to be working can someone help with this postfix/local[617]: warning: database /etc/mail/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/mail/aliases You need to update the /etc/mail/aliases.db file, run portmap /etc/mail/aliases Ignore my previous post: fat fingers postalias /etc/mail/aliases is what you need for an aliase file. postmap is used for the other maps. The only difference between the 2 I believe is the alias file format is key: value rather than key value used by postmap. Simon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs
Gary, Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still don't know what to do! For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs. I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or outside the box, and it arrives at the forwarded location ([EMAIL PROTECTED], an external domain). Can you think what might be going wrong? Regards, Ralph Hello Ralph, Friday, August 29, 2003, 4:36:35 PM, you wrote: RD Thank you for your replies. I am in the process of migrating from Linux and setting up my first FreeBSD box, so I am unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but I do know qmail well. Qmail normally logs to its own multilog, (far superior with busy servers), when and if you installed daemontools... For a good working knowledge of qmail, visit www.lifewithqmail.org You also should have a local user on that box to handle all the dot-qmail files and aliases. Mail forwarding is accomplished from the .qmail files. RD When I manually send mail to root from either inside the box or from RD elsewhere, it is properly received by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (an external domain). Normally, your /var/qmail/alias/ dir contains your aliases, e.g. .qmail-root, .qmail-abuse, .qmail-postmaster, .qmail-hostmaster, etc.. these files contain just the name of the of the user that controls the .qmail files.. Example... ralph would be in the .qmail-root file. Then you can put in as many .qmail files in your home dir for what you wish... example, your main .qmail file would contain [EMAIL PROTECTED] (don't need the , see man dot-qmail).. Just some thoughts. I suppose it works your way, but you are limited on what you can do using that method. -- Best regards, Gary ___ [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]
File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.
I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null This has a devastating effect on user processes that want to open /dev/null. Whenever my system starts acting funny, the first place I look is at the permissions for /dev/null. When I find them changed I go under root and execute: chmod 666 /dev/null to get things back to normal. Has anybody seen this before? Have I got a hidden umask set up wrong somewhere, or is one of my daemons the culprit? Or could it be happening during the time that I run as root doing system maintenance? Ed Alley ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email: Helo Command Failed
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:51:59PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Just wondering what this error (Helo Command Rejected: Host not found) was referring too? I receive it in sendmail on messages I'm trying to fire off. I suspect (but have been unable to confirm) it may be reverse DNS related? Yes, probably. I suspect that this is the result of the latest move in the war-against-spam-and-viruses. A number of ISPs and other mail system administrators have developed a policy of being hard-line about the name a system uses to announce itself when connecting to their SMTP servers. Typically that is the argument to the 'HELO' or 'EHLO' command which is the opening line in the SMTP dialog. Some admins go even further and require that the name given in the HELO line corresponds to the IP number the connection was made from. The idea is that this name should be a fully qualified, resolvable domain name, or possibly an IP address. Generally that will automatically be the case if you're running one of the standard Unix MTAs on the open Internet, and have a correctly configured DNS zone file. However, if you're behind a NAT gateway or using a private DNS address space, then you might have trouble. With sendmail(8), you can override the default choice, which is just the FQDN of the server, by setting: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `smtp.example.com')dnl in your `hostname`.mc file. Note that this has nothing to do with what appears after the @ sign in any e-mail addresses dealt with by your server. It's effectively the hostname of the server itself that should be entered there. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null That's very strange indeed. Have you tried using chflags to prevent the permissions from being changed? This should do the trick, albeit a dirty hack. -- Adam McLaurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process
Well, it worked! After a fashion... This morning I swapped my small primary HDD and larger secondary HDD, then created the new slices/mount points, and re-installed: Primary Master 8.something G: / 500M Swap256M /var500M /tmp500M /usrremainder over 6G Secondary Slave 2.1G: /usr/obj1000M /disk2 remainder about 1G Drat! I should have put the swap partition on the second HDD! Oh well. Getting the times for the different processes into a log worked well, the entire buildworld/installworld took about 2.5 hours on my Celeron 300 w/ 64M. I did have to re-edit the first script, because it wasn't able to process all the sections that had this: \time -aho $blog make buildworld | tee $tlog | tail -n 50 $tlog $bdir/buildworld.log It would just zoom through the whole script and write empty log files. Finished in about 2 seconds! :-) I left the sections of the script like this: \time -aho $blog make buildworld Once I got everything tweaked, it worked fine! I did have a problem with portupgrade -Na, it finished with the following message: The following packages were not installed or upgraded: ! Cvsup-without-gui-16.1g Unknown build error ! XFree86-4-libraries Unknown build error * mtoolsSkipped Any ideas what may have caused this? I've been trying to get mtools installed, and it always fails. Thanks to all who responded! I appreciate it! Scripts and build.log attached. Run in the following order: Update Update1 Update2 upgrade upgrade Description: Binary data build.log Description: Binary data update Description: Binary data update1 Description: Binary data update2 Description: Binary data ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs
Hello Ralph, Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 1:27:16 PM, you wrote: RD For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. RD Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs. RD I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or outside RD the box, and it arrives at the forwarded location ([EMAIL PROTECTED], RD an external domain). RD Can you think what might be going wrong? Well, lets start with the obvious. 1. What do your qmail logs say? Are they showing cron delivery acceptance locally, and a bounce, during the supposed cron delivery time, or what? Logs will tell us a lot. 2. Did you check your cron cofig.. Does it actually send it to root, or something like cron-daemon, etc... If cron's mail sends it other than to root, chances are you do not have an alias for that name that it sends it to. Qmail logs will tell us. 3. By default, qmail will not send any email to root, which is why I suggested to use (if you don't have it already), the /var/qmail/alias dir and set up your .qmail-root file pointing to a local user's .qmail file there.. root should be aliased. I know you are sending to root remotely and locally now, and it is working. Best bet would be to look at the qmail logs. -- Best regards, Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my FreeBSD
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ricardo Javier Aranibar León wrote: Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please help me I will Thankfull Regards, Ricardo _ That does not seem to be a very exotic configuration. Try to run 'xf86cfg' to configure X. That should do it. Georg -- Georg Klein [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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On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null On Tue, 2003-09-02 Adam McLaurin wrote: That's very strange indeed. Have you tried using chflags to prevent the permissions from being changed? This should do the trick, albeit a dirty hack. Sorry, I didn't mention that I tried setting flags on /dev/null: chflags schg /dev/null What happens is that sendmail complains that it can't open /dev/null. Hey! I just realized that this may be a clue! Does sendmail fiddle with /dev/null? What happens if sendmail tries to lock /dev/null after it opens it? Does schg prevent fcntl from locking /dev/null, if that is what sendmail uses? Ed Alley ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:27:16PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote: Gary, Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still don't know what to do! For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs. I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or outside the box, and it arrives at the forwarded location ([EMAIL PROTECTED], an external domain). Can you think what might be going wrong? I didn't see your original post, so I don't know what info you gave about this. I can send mail to root from any crontab without problem. If you haven't done this already, try a couple of things: Check the contents of /var/mail/root, to see if the mail is being sent there. If so, then cron is somehow bypassing the system that sends root mail to the external address. Is the problem cron, or just this job? Try a second cron job that just sends mail to root. Something like MAILTO=root * * * * * Test The MAILTO will cause every job in the crontab to send its output to root, so you probably don't want to leave it in there very long. root should get an e-mail that says something like Test: not found If not, then the problem is proably in the mail delivery. In that case, I don't know the specifics of your mail delivery, but it works in all other cases, so cron apparently can't access it. Cron's PATH contains only /bin:/usr/bin, or something similar. The shells you successfully email from have longer PATHs. Take the PATH value from a shell, and put it into your cron tab. MAILTO=root PATH=shell PATH * * * * * Test If that works, then you need to figure out which part of the PATH you need to add to cron's PATH. For security reasons, you don't want to leave a crontab configured like that. It's best to put the expanded PATH and the job in a shell script, and have cron call the script. Ordinarily, if cron lacks a path, you get a permission denied e-mail, but in this case you're not getting e-mails. If the first test (no PATH) does work, then examine the output from the app cron is trying to run and see if there is any output for cron to send you. Remember that I'm speculating about the cause of your problem. I have no idea if this will get you anywhere. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.
Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null This has a devastating effect on user processes that want to open /dev/null. Whenever my system starts acting funny, the first place I look is at the permissions for /dev/null. When I find them changed I go under root and execute: chmod 666 /dev/null to get things back to normal. Has anybody seen this before? Have I got a hidden umask set up wrong somewhere, or is one of my daemons the culprit? Or could it be happening during the time that I run as root doing system maintenance? The only time I've had something like this happen to me was when I installed Frontpage Extension for Apache. Come to think of it, it was on a Solaris box, but no matter. Apache has two vestigal config files that no longer serve any real purpose, srm.conf and access.conf. There are two schools of thought about what to do about this. The first school says to have those files sitting in the filesystem, but empty. The second says that the configuration directives in httpd.conf that refer to those files should point to /dev/null instead, and not have any other config files. I subscribe to the latter idea: it makes for a cleaner conf/ directory. Unfortunately, Frontpage Extensions, in Microsoft's oh-so-typical couldn't give a fuck about anyone else way actually wants to put some kind of garbage in the access.conf file. Morons, the rest of the world hasn't been doing that for at least six years by my count. Anyway, rather than bombing out, the script managed to mangle /dev/null utterly, and turned it into -rw-rw-rw 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null I.e., a *plain* file! This symptoms this produced were really bizarre. As it turned out, /dev/null on Solaris is a soft link to the real device in /device (which may be why the FPE install script was able to trash it). It was easily repaired by restoring the symlink. Anyway, the moral of the story is, what have you installed recently? David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:37:21PM -0700 or thereabouts, Ed Alley wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null On Tue, 2003-09-02 Adam McLaurin wrote: That's very strange indeed. Have you tried using chflags to prevent the permissions from being changed? This should do the trick, albeit a dirty hack. Sorry, I didn't mention that I tried setting flags on /dev/null: chflags schg /dev/null What happens is that sendmail complains that it can't open /dev/null. Hey! I just realized that this may be a clue! Does sendmail fiddle with /dev/null? What happens if sendmail tries to lock /dev/null after it opens it? Does schg prevent fcntl from locking /dev/null, if that is what sendmail uses? No. No. No. schg prevents anyone from writing to said file/device :-( -- Josh Ed Alley ___ [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: Problem with my FreeBSD
Well thing that would be worth checking quickly would be is if XFree87 -configure produces a working config file. If it does, you just need to edit the monitor and res/depth stuff and you are set. On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:08:51 + Ricardo Javier Aranibar León [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please help me I will Thankfull Regards, Ricardo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to confirm the options for an NFS mount?
Howdy, How does one confirm that the options listed in /etc/fstab for an NFS mount are actually in place? For example, here's the abbreviated outpout of `mount`: athena:/usr/obj on /usr/obj (nfs, read-only) athena:/usr/src on /usr/src (nfs, read-only) athena:/usr/ports on /usr/ports (nfs) That tells me whether or not the 'ro' flag is used, but doesn't tell me whether any of the other flags (such as 'soft', '-w' and '-r') actualyl in effect. -T -- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to /have/ more things, or more money, in order to /do/ more of what they want, so they will /be/ happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first /be/ who you really are, then, /do/ what you need to do, in order to /have/ what you want. Margaret Young ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Konqueror as sftp client
I've used Konqueror as a graphical sftp frontend in the past under GNU/Linux. It doesn't work on my FreeBSD 5.1 system. For example, if I type ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] It works fine. If I type sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a dialogue box that says Error encountered while talking to ssh. When I dismiss the dialogue, Konqueror displays the text: An error occured while loading sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could not connect to host localhost Interestingly, http://localhost/ works just fine but sftp://localhost/ does not, and throws the same errors. This suggests to me that the problem is with how ssh and Konqueror conspire to act as a gui sftp client. Ideas? Advice would be greatly appreciated! ...Robert -- Robert Froese, RPF Assistant Professor, Forest Biometrics School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:37:21PM -0700, Ed Alley wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null On Tue, 2003-09-02 Adam McLaurin wrote: That's very strange indeed. Have you tried using chflags to prevent the permissions from being changed? This should do the trick, albeit a dirty hack. Sorry, I didn't mention that I tried setting flags on /dev/null: chflags schg /dev/null What happens is that sendmail complains that it can't open /dev/null. Hey! I just realized that this may be a clue! Does sendmail fiddle with /dev/null? What happens if sendmail tries to lock /dev/null after it opens it? Does schg prevent fcntl from locking /dev/null, if that is what sendmail uses? Lock it why? There's no point locking the null device -- it's not like it has contents that can be changed out from underneath a process... Besides, a large number of processes tend to have open descriptors on /dev/null -- any well behaved daemon process will close its stdin, stdout and stderr and re-open them on /dev/null as part of the standard setup for becoming a daemon. See daemon(3). Getting a mandatory exclusive lock on /dev/null early in the boot process would be a very effective way to cripple a system... If you want to see what processes have an open file descriptor on /dev/null, try: % fstat -f /dev | grep ' null ' There will be more than you expect. As for tracking down what process has mucked up the permissions on the device: that's going to be quite laborious. You'll probably have to do something horribly tedious like not running each process (that uses /dev/null) in turn, and see if you can identify when the chmod(2) doesn't happen. It would have to be a root-owned process to change the permissions on the device, which will cut the list down a bit. Remember though that many daemon processes will start as UID root in order to bind low-numbered network ports, and then change their UID to something less privileged as a security measure. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem with my FreeBSD
In the advice below, I think 'XFree87 -configure' should be 'XFree86 -configure' See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Best regards, Andrew Gould On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:01 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: Well thing that would be worth checking quickly would be is if XFree87 -configure produces a working config file. If it does, you just need to edit the monitor and res/depth stuff and you are set. On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:08:51 + Ricardo Javier Aranibar León [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please help me I will Thankfull Regards, Ricardo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvsup from 5.0 to 5.1
Hello, I'm trying to buildworld on a box I just cvsuped from 5.0 to 5.1 and I get the error message listed bellow. I removed all the sources and installed fresh but I keep getting this error. This is what I'm running: FreeBSD cache2.onix.ro 5.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 #5: Wed Jul 16 19:55:45 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 I used the following tag in my cvsup file *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_1 eimdal/include -I/usr/src/kerberos5/lib/libroken/../../include -I/usr/src/kerberos5/lib/libroken/../../../crypto/heimdal/lib/roken -I/usr/obj/usr/src/kerberos5/lib/libroken -I/usr/src/kerberos5/lib/libroken/../../include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DINET6 make-roken.c -o make-roken /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/kerberos5/lib/libroken. *** Error code 1 Any ideas what to do next because I'm stuck here ? Thanks, Marian Dobre ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nForce2 problems - xl and snd_ich dod not work
I am having problems getting sound and networking with my A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. This seems to be a common problem. I found a few posts which suggested using 'device xl' (3Com) in the kernel configuration file and adding snd_ich_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf to fix these problems. But I am still not able to get these to work. dmesg does shows several undetected devices. I am currently using FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. Are there any other options that I can try out? Hi; It is possible something has changed since 4.7. I have those working on my -stable system... # for the 3com device miibus # MII bus support device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'') # for the sound device pcm I can send the whole kernel config if you need it. _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Konqueror as sftp client
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 September 2003 22:31, Robert Froese wrote: I've used Konqueror as a graphical sftp frontend in the past under GNU/Linux. It doesn't work on my FreeBSD 5.1 system. For example, if I type ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't you use the kio_fish embedded in Konqueror ? The syntax would be: fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you can navigate in the remote filesystem :) Antoine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/VQrmY3Hnhkr+5cQRAhlEAJ0Z2G7YWTdG91Yd3FNe1DzLRSJlhwCdG2u8 hdvKIRcjmE+7hPQ0QMtRJ0s= =AZek -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISDN TA problem
Hi there I just bought a new Asuscom 200 External ISDN TA. The problem im having is that when using ppp, it says it cannot deterct carrier the exact error msg is NO CARRIER, ive read the manual and ive tried multiple different AT commands. The weird thing is sometimes it will dialup and connect and auth fine and all will be dandy. I then repeat the exact AT commands i issued to get it dial, adn it wont. The modem works fine on windows, dials everytime, no problems nothing. So i opened up the .inf file for the modem to get the exact AT commands it was using, tried those, and nothing. I also wrote a program to listen on Freebsd on cuaa0, connected the windows pc to the bsd pc via a null modem serial cable, told windows to dial and captured the AT commands it tried to pass. I used those on the modem on freebsd with ppp and term, and it still gives NO CARRIER problem sometimes. If there is anyone out there with any further suggestions or thoughts on the subject i would gladly appreciate. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since im not subscribed to the list Thanx Cole / Stalker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.
Henrik wrote: Not a lot of detailed help..sorry...I haven't setup a PPP connection in a LONG time. The good news is that in a year I'll relocate to an area where ADSL is available. Until then I'm stuck in a beautiful but telecommunication-wise terribly medieval area. I received an e-mail from another list member, and with both his and your thoughts I had enough pointers to read up more on the relevant topics. The most important resource was the FreeBSD Unleashed book that came with a very nice for dummies type of chapter about networking. ;) Here's a short summary in case someone else has a similar problem and suffers the same lack of knowledge as I did: - Learned that ppp_enable=YES in rc.conf results in FreeBSD establishing a PPP connection at boot time. Unless otherwise configured in rc.conf, it'll be in auto mode (connection on demand). If not specified, it will use the papchap profile. ppp_profile= will cause it to use the profile. It also uses the -nat option by default. - Went to sysinstall and configured my ethernet card manually this time. Managed to fill in the right values, amazingly enough. - Got ahold of my ISPs name servers and put the IP addresses in the resolv.conf. - Figured out how to configure the LAN manually in XP, without the wizard (right-click on the connection icon, properties, highlight tcp-ip, properties button). Put in the appropriate IP addresses, and that was that. I also had to change the Internet settings to prevent that XP uses the local ISDN adapter to establish a dial-up connection. - The last step was the biggest obstacle. While the two machines could ping each other, FreeBSD wouldn't forward the packets for outside systems. After some digging around I learned that this is disabled by default. Adding gateway_enable=YES to rc.conf fixed this. A small thing, but took the most time to solve. In short, it works as desired. Broke through the wall, and quite happy with myself. ;) Cheers, Michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simple biff daemon.
Hi, I figured this would be easy to find/do, but I've not managed it yet! I'm looking for a very simple biff daemon that checks a mailbox (preferably maildir, but IMAP/POP would do -- or even an external application) and executes a command if mail is found. I want to use this in conjunction with osd_cat to display a message on my screen. Any ideas? Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:27:16PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote: Gary, Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still don't know what to do! For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs. I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or outside the box, and it arrives at the forwarded location ([EMAIL PROTECTED], an external domain). Can you think what might be going wrong? There could be many things, Ralph, but why guess when the answer is probably sitting right on your machine in qmail's log file? Another useful diagnostic would be to run /var/log/qmail-qread (you have to be root). Something like /var/log/qmail-qread | egrep -v done | less would take out the successful deliveries and just show you the problems. If you don't see mail from cron to root in the qread output, then that could suggest that the mail is being successfully sent, but is perhaps being filtered out by your remote site. If you're not sure how to interpret the log files, then post the relevant bits. Good luck, sdb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: information
Hi, You will find a brief reference to the different licensing models at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/introduction.html#FREEBSD-GOALS and the surrounding text. If you are evaluating a donation to FreeBSD, you may want to consider the hardware list on http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html for examples of useful non-financial support. Financial donations are handled by the FreeBSD Foundation at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org Rob. - Original Message - From: Victoria Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: information Hello, I am an attorney at Cisco Systems, Inc. and have been asked to evaluate, from a legal perspective, obligations concerning usage of your code and whether making a donation would be appropriate. So for due diligence, while visiting your site, I noticed that at the Copyright and Legal Information page, the freeBSD license is posted along with the GPL and LGPL licenses. I am confused why the GPL and LGPL licenses are posted at your site and whether there are restrictions or obligations imposed, more than Do not claim that you wrote this. and Do not sue us if it breaks. Is all of the code available from your site licensed under the freeBSD copyright or some software available under the GPL or LGPL license? Also, the freeBSD copyright seems directed toward copyright but silent toward patent rights and trade secrets. Is this intentional? Thank you for any and all assistance you can give me. Regards, Victoria Mah ___ [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: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and LDAP authentication
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:22:20 +0200 Eivind Hestnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi ! We are interesting in using LDAP for authentication/indentification for our users (everything from sshd, login, samba, mail) Our servers are running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, and we are currently not planning to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.1 (due to lack of time) I did a search on Google, and found this LDAP HOWTO for FreeBSD 5.1 (http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_ x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html) As far as I understand, this kind of LDAP setup will _not_ work on FreeBSD 4.X. So here is our question: How can I make a similar LDAP authentication/indentification system for FreeBSD 4.7? A reference to a HOWTO/or a step-by-step, would be great. There are a lot of ways to emulate this. 1. use padl nss_ldap tweaks (see readme file) 2. use padl NIS/LDAP Gateway (if you have some money to spend) 3. use yptransitd 4. use easyLDAP (http://www.easyldap.org/?fbsd) hope it helps. regards clem ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mplayer quicktime killing me
Hi, I got mplayer and openquicktime running 3 days ago, don't know how I did and I can't seem to replicate the procedure. I'm running 5.1/Windowmaker, and I know I need to install from ports: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) When I go to quicktime.apple.com/trailer, a white background shows up and no movie (it says mplayer-plugin - loading movie) nothing else. However my xterm displays the following: Reading config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf: no such file or directory Can't load font bitmap: iso-8859-1-a.raw I searched my system for mplayer.conf, it does not exist. Thank you (this time I'm documenting) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with network cards
Hi, I am coming from the worlds of AIX and macintosh. As a result, I have little knowledge about x86 boxes. I installed a 4.4-release after a few tries. I am having some problems with networking. I have a Pentium/P54C (133.64-MHz 586-class CPU) with 32MB of real memory. My first card was made by SMC (8013WC). Apparently, FreeBSD does not support this card. So, I went out and picked one from the list of supported hardware. This next card was a 3COM 3C595 Fast Etherlink III PCI - port 0x6000 - 0x601f irq 9 at device 17.0 on pci0. The boot program says disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address 00:a0:24:c8:74:e8 driver is using old-style compatibility shims. Well, this card does not seem to work. I have not had a chance to really trouble-shoot the card since I am brand-new to FreeBSD and was hoping this install would be a little less time consuming. I'm not bashing FreeBSD, by the way. I just don't know the ropes yet. OK, here is my question: 1. Is there some network interface card that I can put in and will work? Any recommendations? I don't have an extra DOS machine to set up the 3COM card. If this proposed card was available at a store, that would be good. It's hard to look at the supported hardware list to see whether it will need changes to the firmware, or whether it is jumper-selectable. Thanks for your time and I hope I will be able to return the favor some day. Regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.1R Install not Installing Kernel
The 5.1R install that I just completed twice doesn't boot. The boot loader comes to a prompt for F1 or F2 and hangs. Pressing F1 or F2 results in a beep from the computer. F1 has a base install. F2 is an empty slice that I have set aside. When using kern.flp to boot the system, interupting the boot process and typing ? shows that /kernel is not listed. (I have been warned that the hierarchy has changed, but don't see where the kernel might have moved, if at all.) Are the install floppies broken? And also, kern.flp doesn't seem to give a fixit.flp option that the docs say it should. How can I use fixit.flp in 5.1R? I would use fixit.flp to repair my semi-complete install if I could get it to work. Also, what is the proper forum for this question? I am a bit confused as to whether I should be posting to -current, since this is being called a release. BTW, it's a testament to FreeBSD that I haven't had to bother you guys for about two years! Thanks, Jason C. Wells ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with network cards
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Chris Fisichella wrote: 1. Is there some network interface card that I can put in and will work? Any recommendations? If your time is worth more than ten bucks, get any generic RealTek PCI card? (Do you have a PCI slot?) They're cheap. I gave up monkeying with ISA cards. Later, Jason C. Wells ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dlint error in named file
Hello,
Maybe some of you know the dlint tool. Please note mail.foobar.net
nor mail appear in any of the files. Names (and ips) have been changed
to protect the guilty.
When I run my foobar.net zone file I get the following:
;; All responding nameservers agree on the serial number.
;; Now caching whole zone (this could take a minute)
;; trying nameserver ns2.foobar.net.
;; 5 A records found.
ERROR: mail.foobar.net. has an A record of 64.163.12.133, but no
reverse PTR record for 133.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. can be found on
nameserver ns2.foobar.net.
The following resource record should be added:
133.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR mail.foobar.net.
ERROR: ns1.foobar.net. has an A record of 64.163.12.132, but no reverse
PTR record for 132.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. can be found on nameserver
ns2.foobar.net.
The following resource record should be added:
132.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ns1.foobar.net.
ERROR: ns2.foobar.net. has an A record of 64.163.12.133, but no reverse
PTR record for 133.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. can be found on nameserver
ns2.foobar.net.
The following resource record should be added:
133.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ns2.foobar.net.
ERROR: foobar.net. has an A record of 64.163.12.133, but no reverse PTR
record for 133.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. can be found on nameserver
ns2.foobar.net.
The following resource record should be added:
133.12.163.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR foobar.net.
-
-foobar.net
$TTL 3h
sterrett.net. IN SOA ns2.sterrett.net. root.sterrett.net. (
5 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600; Retry
604800 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL
; DNS Servers
sterrett.net. IN NS ns2.sterrett.net.
; Machine Names
localhost IN A127.0.0.1
ns2 IN A64.163.12.133
ns2 IN A192.168.142.196
@ IN A64.163.12.133
12.163.64.in-addr.arpa IN NS ns2.sterrett.net.
---named.conf
zone . {
type hint;
file named.root;
};
zone foobar.net {
type master;
file foobar.net;
};
zone 12.123.45.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file 12.123.45.in-addr.arpa;
};
zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA {
type master;
file localhost.rev;
};
reservse file
$TTL 3h
12.123.45.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns2.foobar.net root.foobar.net {
1 ; Serial
3h ; Refresh after 3 hours
1h ; Retry after 1 hours
1w ; Expire after 1 week
1h }; Negative Caching TTL of 1 hour
12.123.45.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns2.foobar.net.
; test below
; PTR records
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Re: Konqueror as sftp client
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 16:31:23 -0400 Robert Froese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used Konqueror as a graphical sftp frontend in the past under GNU/Linux. It doesn't work on my FreeBSD 5.1 system. For example, if I type I've never thought of using Konqueror as an sftp client! However it works flawlessly on my FBSD 4.8 box. FreeBSD earth.upton.net 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Sat Jul 19 16:00:50 EDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EARTH i386 Konqueror 3.1.3 (Using KDE 3.1.3) -- Cogeco ergo sum pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Host system type: i386-unknown-freebsd5.1
When I run ./configure on my machine, I get this: checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.1 If the unknown were *known*, what else could this say? Does it mean that I configured something wrong? Thanks much! Seamus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.ko files in /boot/kernel
/boot/kernel is full of .ko files for kernel options that I did not select. Why are they there? Are they in use? [/boot/kernel]#ls -l kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2317346 Jul 2 16:11 kernel I'm proud of this (supposedly) 2.3MB kernel, and I want to make sure that I have actually optimized my machine and not made a stupid mistake that does the opposite. Thanks again, Seamus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Win2k to racoon Cookbook
I know I've seen multiple howto's and mails describing how to do this
in the past, but the heck if I can Google one or pull one out of the
archives at the moment.
I have Win2k at one end and FreeBSD/racoon on the other. The Win2k
systems aquire addresses by DHCP. I've seen documents describing how
to do,
Win2k { Internet } FreeBSD/racoon { Private Net }
||
VPN tunnel
But like I said, I'm coming up dry. I've got certs set up, and racoon
will do cert (rsasig) authentication with other racoon peers. I need
help with the Win2k end.
I should mention that I'm kind of trying to do the reverse. I really
am doing,
{ Private Net }
Win2k -- { Wireless } |
FreeBSD/racoon - {LAN } -- FreeBSD/racoon -- { Internet }
|___|
VPN tunnel
I am trying to secure my wireless LAN by doing IPsec since WEP is
hopelessly broken (and since I can't figure out how to get Win2k and
FreeBSD to use the same keys).
The FreeBSD/racoon to FreeBSD/racoon is up and I must say, is rely
cool. Now if I could get the Win2k running over IPsec, it would be
great. Where'd those howto's get to? Anyone got something like this
going?
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Booting CDROM of FreeBSD 5.0
I purchased the book The Complete Reference FreeBSD (published by McGraw Hill Osborne) which contained a CDROM of FreeBSD 5.0 . I read a few of the text files on it and then tried to boot it. Shortly after starting this, it wrote (to the screen) CD loader 1.01 Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX , then there was a pause of about 15 minutes and then it wrote (to the screen) Starting the BTX loader . I waited another 35 minutes and nothing else happened, though the hard-disk light seemed to be on all this time (50 minutes). Anyone know what is going on? Is this a bad boot loader or a bad CDROM , or a poorly designed CDROM? (it takes this long and longer, and it gives you no comments to warn you about the length of time needed)? _ MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Non working dvdrom drive.
Hello People, I have installed FreeBSD-4.8-stable on my Intel 815 chipset Pentium III box. It has a hard drive (Seagate ST-340014A)jumpered as primary master and a DVDROM (Asus E616) jumpered as the primary slave. I also have a CDWriter (Samsung SW-212B) on the secondary master. When FreeBSD Boots up it throws out an error while identifying the DVDROM Drive as ATA Device Identification Retries Exceeded. If i change the places of the DVDROM and cdwriter then the dvdrom works fine but the same error occurs for the cdwriter which is now primary slave. The firmware of the DVDROM is updated to the latest release and so in the MotherBoard BIOS (Fujitsu-siemens D1184). All the drives works fine in Windows as well as NetBSD and Linux. I would be very grateful to anyone who would please guide to get all my drives working under FreeBSD. Thanks Subhro Sankha Kar ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help with strange routing situation
I recently switched to a new DSL provider (DSLExtreme), and in doing so, decided to opt to buy multiple static IP's. The idea is that I would like one static IP for the server, and separate static IP's for our desktop machines, so that things such as IRC DCC, streaming media, etc. will just work and won't require special port forwarding or other such nonsense. Here's a (really lame) ASCII picture of our setup: [ Server and ] [ DSL Modem ][ Gateway box ]-[ 10/100 switch ] ISP proviedes it's using IP A || | THREE IP's: provides NAT|| | let's call them for machines|| | IP A, IP B, and that don't [ My desktop PC] | | IP Chave their it uses IP B | | own IP | | [ Roomie's PC ] | it uses IP C | | [ Wireless WAP ] . . . . . . . . [ My laptop ] . . [ Roomie's laptop ]. (via wireless) Note that each machine has its own unique, static private internal IP address (192.168.x.x). Also, the gateway/server machine has 2 interfaces: one connected directly to the DSL modem, and one connected to the internal network. The server is the only thing connected to the DSL modem. Ideally here's what we'd like to set up: Our gateway machine and server gets its own IP, IP A. It runs various services (IRC, WWW, FTP, etc.) but IF POSSIBLE I'd also like it to provide NAT for machines that don't have their own IP (i.e. people who visit and bring their laptops). My desktop machine is hooked up via ethernet. It should get IP B. EVERYTHING that goes to IP B gets forwarded to that machine. This way protocols like Game protocols, ICQ, IRC DCC, VNC, etc. work without having to do port forwarding and other crap. But I do want firewalling for this box, so that, for example, I don't get infected with the Windows Worm of the Day, etc. Same thing as above for my roomie's desktop, except it gets IP C. Now the two laptops (as well as any other machines that people bring over when they visit) are a problem. Ideally I'd like them to be NAT'ted behind IP A (the server, which also runs NAT); port forwarding is NOT necessary since we won't ever do anything on those that requires special port forwarding. But they should be firewalled as well. Ideally I'd like to do this setup on the existing hardware. Right now, the server box is running FreeBSD 4.8. If this is an unsuitable platform for the setup described above, and if another platofrm is more suitable (e.g. Linux), I suppose I could switch if necessary, tho that's not the optimal setup (I am very happy with the way FreeBSD works for me). So, any idea of how to do this? Or do I need to go buy some sort of expensive Cisco box or something? (which would REALLY SUCK...) Thanks! -- Donald Burr of Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! Website: http://www.borg-cube.com/| http://www.freebsd.org/ PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 \- Tel: (805)563-0672 ICQ# 16997506 Present Day... Present Time! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with strange routing situation
Donald Burr of Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Description of:] Our gateway machine and server gets its own IP, IP A. My desktop machine is hooked up via ethernet. It should get IP B. Same thing as above for my roomie's desktop, except it gets IP C. [all else] Ideally I'd like them to be NAT'ted behindIP A Not really that strange a routing situation, and definitely pretty easy, here's one possible way: # KERNCONF, make sure you have: options IPFILTER#ipfilter support # rc.conf settings: ipfilter_enable=YES # Set to YES to enable ipfilter functionality ipnat_enable=YES # Set to YES to enable ipnat functionality # ipnat.rules example [change $variables to match your numbers]: bimap $ext_eth $IP_B_INT/32 - $IP_B/32 # your desktop bimap $ext_eth $IP_C_INT/32 - $IP_C/32 # roomie's desktop map $ext_eth $INT_NET/16 - 0/32 proxy port ftp ftp/tcp map $ext_eth $INT_NET/16 - 0/32 portmap tcp/udp auto map $ext_eth $INT_NET/16 - 0/32 # ipf.rules incomplete example [many $variables to change]: ### Put whatever default 'quick' blocks you want, RFC1918, anti-spoofing, etc. ### Hopefully your ISP has sane edge rules and would block them, but ### definitely put RFC1918 blocks in here too keep your private-address ### space from ever leaking out to your provider or the Internet. block out log quick on $ext_eth from 192.168.0.0/16 to any ### etc... ### Then default to blocking: block in log on $ext_eth block return-rstin on $ext_et proto tcp from any to any block return-icmp-as-dest(port-unr) in on $ext_et proto udp from any to any block return-icmp-as-dest in on $ext_et proto icmp from any to any ### Allow out verything and keep state on it: pass out quick on $ext_eth proto tcp from $EXT_NET/28 to any flags S keep state pass out quick on $ext_eth proto udp from $EXT_NET/28 to any keep state pass out quick on $ext_eth proto icmp from $EXT_NET/28 to any keep state # Allow state-capable ICMP in, add/etc as needed: pass in quick on $ext_eth proto icmp from any to any icmp-type echo keep state ### Allow services for desktop B pass in quick on $ext_eth proto tcp from any to $IP_B port = 22 flags S keep state pass in quick on $ext_eth proto tcp from any to $IP_B port = $YOUR_PROTOCOLS flags S keep state ### Ditto for C ... ### Put some rules to allow local-net to talk to the gateway and visa versa ... There's a lot more examples to be found in: /usr/share/examples/ipfilter http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ http://www.phildev.net/ipf/ http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ Once you get into it and begin working on your own rules to meet your needs, tcpdump is your best friend; don't forget -i to be sure what is being sent and received on each interface so you can compare it with the firewall and NAT rules. Just use typical problem solving methods, Slowly building it up from one working system to the whole set is the way to go, change as few variables at a time as you can. -p ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: 20TB Storage System
Sorry for the cross post. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Max Clark Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 20TB Storage System Hi all, I need to attach 20TB of storage to a network (as low cost as possible), I need to sustain 250Mbit/s or 30MByte/s of sustained IO from the storage to the disk. I have found external Fibre Channel - ATA 133 Raid enclosures. These enclosures will house 16 drives so with 250GB drives a total of 3.5TB each after a RAID 5 format. These enclosures have advertised sustained IO of 90-100MByte/s each. One solution we are thinking about is to use a Intel XEON server with 3x FC HBA controller cards in the server each attached to a separate storage enclosure. In any event we would be required to use ccd or vinum to stripe multiple storage enclosures together to form one logical volume. I can partition this system into two separate 10TB storage pools. Given the above: 1) What would my expected IO be using vinum to stripe the storage enclosures detailed above? 2) What is the maximum size of a filesystem that I can present to the host OS using vinum/ccd? Am I limited anywhere that I am not aware of? 3) Could I put all 20TB on one system, or will I need two to sustain the IO required? 4) If you were building this system how would you do it? (The installed $/GB must be below $5.00 dollars). My other options are to use Solaris or Windows (which I would rather not do). Thanks in advance, Max ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp 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: FW: 20TB Storage System
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max Clark writ es: Given the above: 1) What would my expected IO be using vinum to stripe the storage enclosures detailed above? That depends a lot on the applications I/O pattern, an I doubt a precise prediction is possible. In particular the FibreChannel is hard to predict the throughput off because the various implementations seems to have each their own peculiar quirks performance wise. On a SEAGATE ST318452 disks, I see sequential transfer rates at the outside rim of the disk of 58MB/sec. If I stripe two of them them with CCD I get 107MB/sec. CCD has a better performance than Vinum where they compare. RAID-5 and striping a large number of disks does not scale linearly performance wise, in particular you _may_ see your average access time drop somewhat, but there is by far no guarantee that it will be better than the individual drive. 2) What is the maximum size of a filesystem that I can present to the host OS using vinum/ccd? Am I limited anywhere that I am not aware of? Good question, I'm not sure we currently know the exact barrier. 3) Could I put all 20TB on one system, or will I need two to sustain the IO required? Spreading it will give you more I/O bandwidth. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: 20TB Storage System
[This isn't really a performance issue so I trimmed it.] On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:48:29PM -0700, Max Clark wrote: I need to attach 20TB of storage to a network (as low cost as possible), I need to sustain 250Mbit/s or 30MByte/s of sustained IO from the storage to the disk. I have found external Fibre Channel - ATA 133 Raid enclosures. These enclosures will house 16 drives so with 250GB drives a total of 3.5TB each after a RAID 5 format. These enclosures have advertised sustained IO of 90-100MByte/s each. One solution we are thinking about is to use a Intel XEON server with 3x FC HBA controller cards in the server each attached to a separate storage enclosure. In any event we would be required to use ccd or vinum to stripe multiple storage enclosures together to form one logical volume. I can partition this system into two separate 10TB storage pools. Given the above: 1) What would my expected IO be using vinum to stripe the storage enclosures detailed above? 2) What is the maximum size of a filesystem that I can present to the host OS using vinum/ccd? Am I limited anywhere that I am not aware of? Paul Saab recently demonstated a 2.7TB ccd so you shouldn't hit any major limits there (I'm not sure where the next barrier is, but it should be a ways off). I'm not sure about UFS. 3) Could I put all 20TB on one system, or will I need two to sustain the IO required? In theory you should be able to do 250Mbps on a single system, but I'm not sure how well you will do in practice. You'll need to make sure you have sufficent PCI bus bandwidth. 4) If you were building this system how would you do it? (The installed $/GB must be below $5.00 dollars). If you are willing to accept the management overhead of multiple volumes, you will have a hard time beating 5U 24-disk boxes with 3 8-port 3ware arrays of 300GB disks. That gets you 6TB per box (due to controler limitations restricting you to 2TB per controler) for a bit under $15000 or $2.5/GB. The raw read speed of the arrays is around 85MBps so each array easily meets your throughput requirements. Since you'd have 20 arrays in 4 machines, you'd easily get meet your bandwith requirements. If you can't accept multiple volumes, you may still be able to use a configuration like this using either target mode drivers or the disk over network GEOM module that was posted recently. You will need to use 5.x to make this work. -- Brooks pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FW: 20TB Storage System
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 2) What is the maximum size of a filesystem that I can present to the host OS using vinum/ccd? Am I limited anywhere that I am not aware of? Good question, I'm not sure we currently know the exact barrier. Just make sure you run UFS2, which is the default on -CURRENT because UFS1 has a 1TB limit. 3) Could I put all 20TB on one system, or will I need two to sustain the IO required? Spreading it will give you more I/O bandwidth. Can you say why? Usually putting more spindles into one pile gives you more I/O, unless you have very evenly distributed sequential access in pattern you can predict in advance. Pete ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FW: 20TB Storage System
Just make sure you run UFS2, which is the default on -CURRENT because UFS1 has a 1TB limit. - What's the limit with UFS2? Are there major requirements to run FreeBSD 5.x or can I still run stable with this? Thanks, Max ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 20TB Storage System
Depends on whether you plan on crashing or not :) According to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2003-July/000181.html, you may not want to create filesystems over 3TB if you want fsck to succeed. I don't know if that's using the default newfs settings (which would create an insane number of inodes), though. - This is a big problem (no pun intended), my smallest requirement is still 5TB... what would you recommend? The smallest file on the storage will be 500MB. To sustain only 30MByte/s across the entire set? Doesn't really matter, since even a single disk could do that. - What would I see better performance with ccd or vinum? So a better question isn't if I can sustain with 30MByte/s but what would I expect to maintain? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 20TB Storage System
In the last episode (Sep 02), Max Clark said: [ quoting format manually recovered ] Dan Nelson wrote Depends on whether you plan on crashing or not :) According to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2003-July/000181.html, you may not want to create filesystems over 3TB if you want fsck to succeed. I don't know if that's using the default newfs settings (which would create an insane number of inodes), though. This is a big problem (no pun intended), my smallest requirement is still 5TB... what would you recommend? The smallest file on the storage will be 500MB. I'd say try formatting a 5TB filesystem with the values you'd use (use a very large -i; 1048576 maybe?) and see how much memory fsck consumes. I don't know what UFS2's max blocksize is, but a larger blocksize would help too. You should be able to fake enough storage to do the test with mdconfig and some large sparse files. To sustain only 30MByte/s across the entire set? Doesn't really matter, since even a single disk could do that. What would I see better performance with ccd or vinum? So a better question isn't if I can sustain with 30MByte/s but what would I expect to maintain? For sequential access to mirrored arrays, your bottleneck will probably be the ATA-FC bridges, since they claim to only do 100MBytes/sec. If your three HBAs are 1gbit, then those will be your bottleneck and you'll be able to do 300MB/s reads, and 150MB/s writes (50% mirror penalty). If they're 2gbit and you have 6 bridges, you'll max out at 600MB/s and 300MB/s. If you want to use vinum raid5, cut those write speeds in half again (25% raid-5 penalty). Theoretically, assuming you can max your FC links and your server can handle the load :) I do mrtg graphs of my fibre switches, and I haven't seen it peak over 80MB/sec through a 1gbit link, but I regularly see 70MB/sec sustained to some Tru64 Alpha servers. I only have external hardware raid, though, so I don't know what kind of penalty ccd/vinum will add on top of that. Shouldn't be too much. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster
First off, let me say that FreeBSD is one of the cleanest systems out there as the developers try to remove bigger packages from the base system instead of adding more bloat every release. One example would be the removal of perl from the base distribution in 5.x. As for perl and the other scripting languages, the actual scripts are often very small because developers don't need to reinvent the wheel everytime but instead make use of the huge repository of existing classes and libraries. On Windows for example most software packages include their own dependencies. I have seen applications installing their own scripting environments, even their own Java VMs - apart from a dozen of dlls... If you want to develop graphical applications, let me recommend you to take a look at the GNUstep project (http://www.gnustep.org). It provides a complete and clean API but is very small in comparison to the likes of KDE/Qt or GNOME. Greetings, Martin Denis Troshin wrote: Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This 'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other unix-systems) to an ugly monster. For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I install require them. Does exist a programming under unix without these dependencies? P.S. Under Windows it is possible to write not bad applications which depend just on libraries (KERNEL32, USER32, GDI32). And these libs exist on every base system!!! Is it possible in unix? Before I thought that unix programs very compact, but they are huge! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
