Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

[Martin Hepworth]

That's quite alot of messages to shift - you don;'t mention message size
either.

BUT you'll local caches of any URI-RBLs you want to use. A local DCC server.

I'd ask on the spamassassin users list, but you prob looking at multiple
machines just for the scanning never mind the local zone files etc (will
also help with down time issues).

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Martin

On 12/7/05, Vahric MUHTARYAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Joanne ,
>
> Exactly I red Spamassassin FAQ and they said that 20-30 MB memory
> must for each child process also iowait and CPU is really important but
> mailn purpose is RAM, you are right ...
>
> And sorry I heared but I did not use exactly spamc & spamd , also
> I
> will care about your words and advise about mailing list , but my
> questions
> is not fully How fast can I run SA , my question is get out something from
> FreeBSD which is not need for only SA run on system, I mean optimizing
> system for only special works , maybe more little kernel , maybe it looks
> like freebsd from screch (I think wrong word )...or maybe  How can I
> optimize and have more small and faster running FreeBSD OS ...
>
> And I want to handle 130,000 mail/hour with using 2 or 4 P4 server
> with raid1 and 2 or 4 gb ram .
>
> Thanks again :)
> Vahric
>
> -Original Message-
> From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:21 AM
> To: Vahric MUHTARYAN; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin
>
> From: "Vahric MUHTARYAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Hi Everybody ,
> >
> >I think too many people know too many appliance choosing
> freebsd
> > for OS, also they are hardening FreeBSD and specialize for they works .
> > Anybody know or Did this like hardening on FreeBSD for getting better
> > performans, I'm using FreeBSD closer 2 year I didn't see any problem
> about
> > performans but is there any hint for hardening FreeBSD , I know some
> tuning
> > paramters have but I talking about different thing . You know spam
> programs
> > CPU intersive , I searched on google and I saw many hardening title but
> > their point is security not performans .
>
> I think you are referring to tuning rather than hardening. A rough
> interpretation of "hardening" with respect to "speed" would mean
> making the machine work more. That would make it run slower. {^_-}
>
> If you mean tuning to get more performance out of SpamAssassin I'd
> need to get some basics handled first. What version of SpamAssassin
> are you running? How are you using it? (Are you using spamc/spamd?
> Are you using one of the milters that daemonizes spamassassin itself
> without using spamc and spamd?) If you are using spamc and spamd
> what are the parameters you use for each and what tool calls spamc?
> (I use procmail on that "other 'x OS" at the moment, for example.)
> Are you using per user preferences, rules, and Bayes or are you using
> system wide via SQL? And so forth. If you are using spamc/spamd then
> tuning is direct via the commands to spamd as you daemonize it. For
> this the spamassassin user's mailing list is quite helpful. It is
> the user's list at spamassassin.apache.org. If you are using some
> other tool or milter you might need to deal with that tool's support
> groups for the best help.
>
> If you have DNS tests available make sure these tests are not
> blocked and are not timing out. "spamassassin -t -D < "
> with some handy email test file can give an informative readout
> in this regard.
>
> Be aware that spamassassin can use a lot of memory. And it is a bit of
> a resource hog if you run a lot of the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium
> rule sets. (Search for "SARE" or the full name. Their rule sets are
> VERY useful.) Of course, you get into a tradeoff situation between
> resource usage and the quality of the spam detection. I'm silly enough
> to run about 40 or so rule sets with per user rules, per user Bayes,
> and all that, a pretty much worst case setup on a "2 GHz" Athlon with
> 1 gigabyte of memory. It takes about 3.4 clock seconds to run a single
> test using spamc/spamd. Using spamassassin itself adds the overhead of
> starting perl and all that. This takes about 5.3 seconds total. Since
> the machine is otherwise very lightly loaded this is no big deal for
> about 1300 emails processed per day on about 6 user accounts.
>
> And to wrap up this rather long message I'll note that very often the
> easiest SpamAssassin tuneup for speed involves adding more memory. If
> SpamAssassin finds itself swapping for any reason it gets REALLY slow.
> And I do note I am not quite running stock out of the box SpamAssassin.
> I do not use automatic anything with it. Loren and I have carefully
> trained SpamAssassin manually and get excellent results. And since Loren
> is one of the SARE ninjas he needed some special tweaks inside SA that
> really should not affect its performance except out at the fifth
> decimal place. I mention this in the in

Re: installation

[Doug Hawkins]

Gayn Winters wrote:


I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves
the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for
myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB.
If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already
have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an
option to partition it?
   


I strongly recommend reading about installations, slices, and (BSD)
partitions in the FreeBSD Handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html.
 

I concur with Gayn, read all about it first!  FreeBSD uses the term 
"slice" for DOS-style disk partitions and "partition" for the 
subdivisions within a given "slice".  You don't want to confuse that 
while creating file new systems!  NTFSresize is a great Linux utility 
for altering Windows partitions.


I've had WinXP on one disk, and FreeBSD 5.4 on another for ~6 mo.  
Recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0 on a spare 40G disk slice (I now have 
40G: FBSD 5.4, 100G: NTFS non-boot, 40G FBSD 6.0, & 20G spare on a 200G 
disk), but I couldn't boot FBSD6!


It turns out the reason was that old BIOS boot limit (found that out 
from GRUB).  Since only the root filesystem needs to be below the limit, 
I pointed my FBSD 5.4 swap to use FBSD 6's swap space, then moved FBSD 
6's root into FBSD 5.4's old swap space (which is below that limit).


Works great.  If you are putting another OS on the same disk, you may 
have the same challenge.  Good luck.  Feel free to contact me directly 
if you'd like more details about the process.


Doug
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Re: Copying kernel and OS

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:02:01AM +0100, Jack Raats wrote:
> Is it also possible to scp both directories to the slow machine?

Of course.
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Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

[Ian Moore]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:41, Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user
> can belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation
> and we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people.
>
> There seems to be differing opinions on how to do this and if it's actually
>
> feasible. One post I found said:
> > in src/sys/sys/syslimits.h there is a constant named 'NGROUPS_MAX'.
> > change it to however many you need (within reason), rebuild/install world
> > and kernel.
>
> Another said you have to change all sorts of things in the source, modify a
> kernel parameter, rebuild world and rebuild any port that uses NGROUPS -
> which probably means a portupgrade -fa.
>
> There is talk of a maxgroups() parameter in the kernel, but NOTES makes no
> mention of this.
>
> I wonder too if some apps would need their own configuration altered to
> allow them to work with the higher limit.
>
> So I just wanted to ask if anyone has successfully raised the NGROUPS_MAX
> limit, especially when running samba & nfs on the system?
>
> If not, I'll work around the problem a different way.
>
> (BTW I'm running 5.4-RELEASE)
>
> Cheers,
> Ian,
> 
> Since you are running FreeBSD 5.x, have you considered using ACLs? See the
> handbook section 14.12.
> 
> Have you considered cascading groups? That's the normal workaround on
> Enterprise Unix systems like HP-UX and Solaris.
> 
> Instead of putting everyong in "group", do this instead.
> 
> group:*:100:group1,group2
> group1:*:101:user1,user2
> group2:*:102:user3, user4
> 
> Thus, the users are all transitively in group, and you work around the 
limit.
> 
> Mike

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I had considered ACLs as one possible 
workaround and I'd said to a mate of mine "gee, it'd be really good if you 
could make a group a member of another group", not thinking you actually 
could do that! That's very handy.

Since there doesn't seem to be anyone so far that's saying they have 
successfully increased the group limit, it looks like I'll be using one of 
those workarounds

Cheers,
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Re: Copying kernel and OS

[Jack Raats]

Is it also possible to scp both directories to the slow machine?

JAck

- Original Message - 
From: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Jack Raats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; "FreeBSD Stable" 


Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Copying kernel and OS



Jack Raats wrote:

I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE.
One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast machine 
I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily.
Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow 
machine. If yes whart directories etc... do i have to transfer.


Jack


I do something like this.  I build on the fast machine, and then use NFS 
to allow the slow machine to access /usr/src and /usr/obj.  I have found 
that it is important to preserve the names of the directories, so that 
they are also called /usr/src and /usr/obj on the slow machine.  Then I 
just do mergemaster, make installworld, make installkernel (in the 
appropriate order) on the slow machine, and it works like a charm.


The entries in fstab are like this:
hub2:/usr/obj/usr/objnfs rw,bg,noauto0   0
hub2:/usr/src/usr/srcnfs rw,bg,noauto0   0
where hub2 is the name of the fast machine.

In /etc/exports on hub2 I have something like this
/usr -maproot=root -alldirs -network 10.0.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
(here 10.0.0.0 is the IP addresses of my LAN)

and in /etc/rc.conf on hub2 I have some lines like
nfs_server_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"

Then on the slow machine I simply type
mount /usr/src
mount /usr/obj

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Re: console characters/keyboard

[Glenn Dawson]

At 07:17 PM 12/7/2005, Aaron Peterson wrote:

I have been working with a database recently that contained values
with special characters.  A lower case "n" with a tilde over it for
instance.  Anyway, during the conversion of the database from mysql to
sqlite these special characters got corrupted.  I ended up fixing them
by hand since there weren't many, but during the process I realized
these things:

1) My console does not print these characters, but empty box 
characters instead


2) I have no good way of entering these characters (that I know of)
with my standard keyboard layout and language settings.

So the obvious questions follow:

1) Can I somehow alter my console or add fonts so these characters are
displayed properly

2) I ended up writing a perl program and giving it html entities to
decode back to the special character and insert into the database, but
this is very roundabout.  How can I set my FreeBSD box up to be able
to enter such characters manually?


You can produce whatever character you like by using the alt key and 
the number pad.


Hold down alt and type the ascii value (in base 10) on the number 
pad.  When you release the alt key, the character will be sent as if 
it had been typed.  Note that this only works with the number pad.


-Glenn


Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Aaron
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Re: FreeBSD on ASUS P5S800 fails to boot

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Yance Kowara wrote: 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to install FreeBSD 5.3R, 5.4R and 6.0R on ASUS
> P5S800 motherboard and it fails to reboot.
> Anyone has similar experience? Any hints? Or just
> replace the motherboard?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Yance
> 
> 
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I have the same exact problem. So far, I've done a bios update to the latest 
bios and it boots on odd reboots only, but seems to be very unstable.
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Re: simple shell script

[Beecher Rintoul]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:33 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0600:
> > In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said:
> > > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program
> > > (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it
> > > to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I
> > > am not a programmer so does anyone have a suggestion on this script?
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > You need to background it so your script keeps running:
> >
> > #! /bin/sh
> > # Launch program
> > lynx &
> > # Store its processid for later
> > pid=$!
> > # 60 seconds
> > sleep 60
> > # Kill backgrounded process
> > kill -9 $pid
>
> This is probably not what Beecher wants, he/she probably needs the
> lynx in the foreground.
>
> In a pure shell script that is difficult because you cannot get the
> pid of a foreground process without reverting to `ps` which is not
> sportish.
>
> It's better to use a dedicated timeoput mechanism, e.g.:
> http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/cratimeout.html
>
> Then you can do `cratimeout 6 lynx`
>
> Martin

Thanks to you both, I missed the background option. Actually it just needs to 
run in the background to log some hits on a free webserver that I use for 
testing. I forget and they will cancel my account if there's no traffic for a 
month. The timeout also looks interesting and I'll look into it.

Beech

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MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5

[James Long]

When I go to ftp.freebsd.org and download

/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5

and run md5 against it, I get the checksum

MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = d0dc2749908246ee8e91de602bb422b2

Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own
checksum should be

MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11

I can reproduce this problem on two separate hosts.  Is the
CHECKSUM.MD5 file in the /src directory of the 6.0-RELEASE media
faulty?

FWIW, the md5 sums of the other files in that directory do
match what CHECKSUM.MD5 says they should be, but if CHECKSUM.MD5
fails its own checksum, can I trust it?

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RE: installation

[Gayn Winters]

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jon freddy
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:43 PM

> I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves
> the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for
> myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB.
> If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already
> have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an
> option to partition it?

FreeBSD won't "detect" GRUB, but you can have FreeBSD not touch the MBR
during the install so that you are on your own to configure your
favorite boot loader after (or before for that matter) installing
FreeBSD.  

To configure swap space, read man swapon/off/cfg in
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=swapon&sektion=8&apropos=0&manp
ath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports.  

You can get the FreeBSD installer to partition your hard drive, but
given you have two other OS's on your hard drive, I'd recommend that you
use an FDISK-like utility before you install FreeBSD so that you are
happy with your (DOS)partitions first.  It is easy to select the
appropriate (DOS) partition for FreeBSD during the install. 

I strongly recommend reading about installations, slices, and (BSD)
partitions in the FreeBSD Handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html.

Welcome to FreeBSD,

-gayn

Bristol Systems Inc.
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Re: simple shell script

[Martin Cracauer]

Dan Nelson wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0600: 
> In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said:
> > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program
> > (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it
> > to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I
> > am not a programmer so does anyone have a suggestion on this script?
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> You need to background it so your script keeps running:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> # Launch program
> lynx &
> # Store its processid for later
> pid=$!
> # 60 seconds
> sleep 60
> # Kill backgrounded process
> kill -9 $pid

This is probably not what Beecher wants, he/she probably needs the
lynx in the foreground.

In a pure shell script that is difficult because you cannot get the
pid of a foreground process without reverting to `ps` which is not
sportish. 

It's better to use a dedicated timeoput mechanism, e.g.:
http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/cratimeout.html

Then you can do `cratimeout 6 lynx`

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Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

[Martin Cracauer]

I made a little guide about why and when to make seperate partitions
here: 
http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/partitions.html

This is starting from the assumption that as few partitions as
possible is the way to go, it lists reasons why you would want
additional ones.

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Re: can't find "libc.so.6"

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:43:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> umame -a   FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31 
> 10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VILi386
> -
> 
> I have FreeBSD-5.4 installed on a Pentium 4 computer.  I am trying to install 
> wput-.0.5 (the package).  It requires libgnugotop-1.2.   I installed 
> libgnugotop and wput.   This may not be required, but some programs do not 
> work unless you shutdown and restart the computer.
> 
> Every time I try to run wput, I get a message that says "shared object   -- 
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1  libc.so.6  not found".  I find some of these libc 
> programs on Google.com.  Right now, after trying to find libc.so.6, I think 
> I'm "googled out".
> 
> I need to know where I can find "libc.so.6".  Hopefully, someone can help.

You tried to install a package intended for FreeBSD 6.0.  This
probably means that you downloaded it from the wrong directory.

Kris


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Re: simple shell script

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said:
> I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program
> (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it
> to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I
> am not a programmer so does anyone have a suggestion on this script?
> Any help would be appreciated.

You need to background it so your script keeps running:

#! /bin/sh
# Launch program
lynx &
# Store its processid for later
pid=$!
# 60 seconds
sleep 60
# Kill backgrounded process
kill -9 $pid

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Re: can't find "libc.so.6"

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> umame -a   FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31
> 10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VILi386
> ---
>--
>
> I have FreeBSD-5.4 installed on a Pentium 4 computer.  I am trying to
> install wput-.0.5 (the package).  It requires libgnugotop-1.2.   I
> installed libgnugotop and wput.   This may not be required, but some
> programs do not work unless you shutdown and restart the computer.
>
> Every time I try to run wput, I get a message that says "shared object   --
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1  libc.so.6  not found".  I find some of these libc
> programs on Google.com.  Right now, after trying to find libc.so.6, I think
> I'm "googled out".
>
> I need to know where I can find "libc.so.6".  Hopefully, someone can help.
>
> greg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sounds like the package was  for freebsd ver 6. Run env and
see what PACKAGESITE is set to, here is one from a 5.4 Stable system:

PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/

-Mike
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simple shell script

[Beecher Rintoul]

I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program (in this 
case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it to launch the 
program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I am not a programmer so 
does anyone have a suggestion on this script? Any help would be appreciated.

Beech
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installation

[jon freddy]

I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves
the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for
myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB.
If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already
have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an
option to partition it?
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can't find "libc.so.6"

[service]

umame -a   FreeBSD localhost 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD-RELEASE #0 Wed Aug 31 
10:24:01 UTC 2005 root@/;/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VILi386
-

I have FreeBSD-5.4 installed on a Pentium 4 computer.  I am trying to install 
wput-.0.5 (the package).  It requires libgnugotop-1.2.   I installed 
libgnugotop and wput.   This may not be required, but some programs do not work 
unless you shutdown and restart the computer.

Every time I try to run wput, I get a message that says "shared object   -- 
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1  libc.so.6  not found".  I find some of these libc 
programs on Google.com.  Right now, after trying to find libc.so.6, I think I'm 
"googled out".

I need to know where I can find "libc.so.6".  Hopefully, someone can help.

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Re: probing devices on a pentium-s 90mhz.... installation can't

[Mark Jayson Alvarez]

Michael S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a last measure, you could always try 
NetBSD as it
is friedly to old hardware.


Hmmm.. we have two machines, 1 newer (can absolutely install freebsd 6.0) and 
this old one. Currently, both of them are running IPVS, heartbeat, Redhat7. I 
will be replacing this with IPVS on FreeBSD plus CARP. I guess I would have to 
find out if NetBSD has CARP and IPVS is already ported
 
 



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[Michael S]

As a last measure, you could always try NetBSD as it
is friedly to old hardware.


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console characters/keyboard

[Aaron Peterson]

I have been working with a database recently that contained values
with special characters.  A lower case "n" with a tilde over it for
instance.  Anyway, during the conversion of the database from mysql to
sqlite these special characters got corrupted.  I ended up fixing them
by hand since there weren't many, but during the process I realized
these things:

1) My console does not print these characters, but empty box characters instead

2) I have no good way of entering these characters (that I know of)
with my standard keyboard layout and language settings.

So the obvious questions follow:

1) Can I somehow alter my console or add fonts so these characters are
displayed properly

2) I ended up writing a perl program and giving it html entities to
decode back to the special character and insert into the database, but
this is very roundabout.  How can I set my FreeBSD box up to be able
to enter such characters manually?

Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Aaron
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probing devices on a pentium-s 90mhz.... installation can't continue because it takes forever..

[Mark Jayson Alvarez]

Hi,

We have an old pentium-S 90mhz machine running Redhat7
used for LVS load balancer and I would like to replace
it with FreeBSD6.0. The motherboard have two IDE
socket but it doesn't seem to detect the cdrom at all.
No problem, I downloaded the floppy images and then
reboot it. However, on the final booting process, it
just says "Probing devices, please wait (this can take
a while)... and it just sits there and nothing
happens.

Other hardware components are:
its memory looks like an edo ram (more than 113 mb i
think)
it has 2 pci devices installed: a lan card, and a scsi
controller
it has 1 isa device installed: vga card

Any idea what might be happening?
Is this some sort of IRQ conflict problem? I just
removed another isa device(serial,parallel) thinking
it might be conflicting with the vga card, but the
probing is still taking forever.


Thanks..



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Can't Mount Windows NT From FreeBSD 6.0 Stable

[RdBSD]

Dear All,

This is my third email to freebsd-questions with the same question.
Why i can't mount my nt share from my freebsd 6.0 stable. it was
stabilized to 6.0 about 2 weeks ago. when i have 5.4 stable there's no
such error and all fine and worked. Would you allhelp me please ?

Error :

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.3 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/misc$ 
/mnt/workgroup/1/
Password:
mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Connection reset by peer

Kernel Error :

WARNING: userland calling deprecated sysctl, please rebuild world

Thanks for the answers.


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Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 
> I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I 
> plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 
> 512MB RAM.
> 
> According to this page:
> 
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
> 
> I should use:
> 
>/ = 100MB
>/swap = 1GB
>/var = 50MB
>   /usr = rest (68GB)

I use about this on a big disk like that:

 /   128 MB
 swap1.5 GB
 /tmp512 MG
 /usr2 GB
 /var4 GB
 /home   all the rest of the slice.
> 

That is enough to get most stuff includeing a small database up and going.

If I need more room in /usr or /var I move some stuff such as /usr/ports
or /var/db or /var/spool or /var/log to the /home filesystem where they can 
grow and make symlinks.

jerry

> On past FreeBSD installs, I would occasionaly do things as root, and ran 
> out of space in /root.  Since then, on desktop machines (with 250GB 
> drives), I would make / be 4GB.  On my lapatop, I wouldn't want to give 
> up 4 of my 70 gigs if I didn't have to.  So I am looking for a realistic 
> number that wont cramp me, and wont waste too much space.  I am planning 
> on 1GB, so it will be big enough to hold the contents of a 700MB CD ISO.
> 
> I have no idea how much of /var I need, other than I like to install 
> various packages to try them out, and I would not want to limit 
> something like a webserver or email server if I chose to run one for 
> limited use.  A friend took the default install suggestions for a 
> machine he planned to do some web development on, and said his /var was 
> way too small (they were new to FreeBSD also).  I am guessing 5GB for 
> /var would allow me to run a mail-server (for personal use) and 
> Apache+extensions for limited website developement
> 
> A swap of 1GB is fine, I'm not sure I've ever actually used any swap on 
> my machines that had more than 128MB.
> 
> I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user 
> account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/.
> 
> Should I use:
> 
>/ = 1GB
>/swap = 1GB
>/var = 5GB
>   /usr = rest (63GB)
> 
> ?
> 
> thanks!
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Re: pkgdb format

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:55 pm, eoghan wrote:
> Hello
> Ive recently upgraded to 6.0 and I decided to upgrade my ports... So
> I ran a:
> portupgrade -af
> Its running fine, but each time its upgrade a port I get:
> [Updating the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... Failed
> `Inappropriate file type or format'; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the
> pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 439 packages found (-0
> +439)
>
> Just wondering if its to do with my upgrade to 6.0 (from 5.4)
> Thanks


Not from my experience. You are setting the package database interface 
one way in one spot and using the default someplace else. Since they 
are incompatible, it has to rebuild the port data base. Look for the 
string bdb in your scripts and in pkgtools.conf.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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web content filtering with 6.0

[Dave]

Hello,
   I've got a 6.0 box running squid as a transparent proxy. I want to 
implement web content filtering, popup blocking, add blocking, porn site 
blocking and selective filtering etc. I've read some howtos on a package 
called dansguardian and another squidguard and adzap that linked in to squid 
to provide some of this functionality. The stuff i saw was for freebsd 4, 
nothing for 5 or 6. If anyone has web content filtering using these or other 
packages going under fbsd6 i'd like to know how you did it.

Thanks.
Dave.

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Video Conferencing Server Software ... Recommendations ... ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

Basically, I'm looking for something to run on a remote server, that other 
parties to connect to, create conferences, invite other users into, etc 
... including full video / audio and, if possible, whiteboard ...


Does anyone have any recommendations that work under FreeBSD?

Thanks ...


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Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

[jdow]

From: "Alex Zbyslaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


jdow wrote:


 http://www.surl.org/.


You mean http://www.surbl.org/

The other URL works but isn't very useful :-)


I did indeed mess up and leave out the b. Mea culpa.

{^_^}

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Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

[jdow]

You are going to have to trim numbers of messages before you get to
SpamAssassin, I am afraid. Is this number after any greylisting you
may have operational? If not then do look into greylisting. It is a
very powerful technique to prefilter your incoming email at the
connection level. If the address is recognize the email is received
immediately. If it is not recognized the email is "temporarily failed".
Currently spammers do not retry in such cases. So at least for now this
will be a very effective tool to trim down the number of messages your
SpamAssassin install has to filter.

You will have to trim the number of rule sets you use to a bare
minimum. They do take time to run. If I extrapolate my system's
usage and configuration to a 4 processor 3GHz level machine I am
still about an order of magnitude shy of your requirements as I
am currently configured. So the level of rules trimming would be
daunting indeed. (But at least I have not missed a genuine spam
detection in two weeks now. And I've only had about 5 very spammy
looking kernel mailing list type messages that false alarmed. It
is hard to deal with filtering lists that just look like spam and
do not filter incoming messages. {^_-})

As for trimming FreeBSD to a minimum the usual litanies exist, do
not start any services you do not need. One BIG hog in this regard,
obviously, is X11. If it is not absolutely needed don't start it.
You should not even have it on the system. Only you know if nfs
is required in your setup or not, of course. So you must make the
assessment of "is this needed" for yourself. With four gigabytes
of ram and (only) four processors you're probably not memory
limited on a CPU intensive operation. So kernel trimming is
probably not going to be a high benefit process, at a guess.

Oh yes, one thing you DO want to run is your own DNS server
implementation of the "SURBL" lists. That volume of email quite
justifies requesting Jeff allow you to download his database to
your machine periodically. That will GREATLY speed up the DNS
tests, of course. You might check this out at http://www.surl.org/.
Jeff's a good fellow with a STRONG "no collateral damage" ethic.

Go for greylisting first then Jeff's database downloads.

{^_^}
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From: "Vahric MUHTARYAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Thanks Joanne , 


Exactly I red Spamassassin FAQ and they said that 20-30 MB memory
must for each child process also iowait and CPU is really important but
mailn purpose is RAM, you are right ... 


And sorry I heared but I did not use exactly spamc & spamd , also I
will care about your words and advise about mailing list , but my questions
is not fully How fast can I run SA , my question is get out something from
FreeBSD which is not need for only SA run on system, I mean optimizing
system for only special works , maybe more little kernel , maybe it looks
like freebsd from screch (I think wrong word )...or maybe  How can I
optimize and have more small and faster running FreeBSD OS ... 


And I want to handle 130,000 mail/hour with using 2 or 4 P4 server
with raid1 and 2 or 4 gb ram . 


Thanks again :)
Vahric  



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Re: postfix help

[Michael Sherman]

No, just postfix:
/etc/rc.conf

sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

and ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  23 Dec  4 20:41
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh -> /usr/local/sbin/postfix


ps aux | grep sendmail returns nothing

ps aux | grep postfix returns:

root  613  0.0  1.2  3404  2344  ??  Ss6:03PM   0:00.08
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/master
postfix   618  0.0  1.2  3424  2328  ??  S 6:03PM   0:00.03 pickup
-l -t fifo -u
postfix   619  0.0  1.3  3480  2408  ??  I 6:03PM   0:00.03 qmgr
-l -t fifo -u

root is the owner, since I reloaded it as root. Just doing testing.



On 12/7/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2005-12-07 18:01, Michael Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I am trying to get postfix to relay mail through my ISP, without much
> > luck though.
> >
> > I installed postfix with sasl compiled in:
> > ldd /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd
> >   libsasl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl.so.8 (0x280be000)
> >   libpam.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.3 (0x280cb000)
> >   libcrypt.so.3 => /lib/libcrypt.so.3 (0x280d2000)
> >   libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x280eb000)
> >   libssl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x280ff000)
> >   libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x28132000)
> >   libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28243000)
> >   libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2826b000)
> >   libldap-2.2.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x28354000)
> >   liblber-2.2.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7 (0x2837e000)
> >
> > sasld is running, was started before postfix was.
> > ps aux | grep sasl
> > root14646  0.0  0.4  1444   712  ??  Is4:54PM   0:00.00
> > /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd1 -a pam
> >
> > here is an excerpt of my main.cf
> >
> > relayhost = smtp.broadband.rogers.com
> > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> > smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
> > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
>
> I think you don't need sasld for uathenticating as a client.
>
> > Yet when I try to send any mail it gets bounced back by Rogers (which
> > uses Yahoo for mail services) :
> >
> > tail /var/log/maillog
> >
> > Dec  7 17:46:09 mike postfix/cleanup[14941]: 70BED50856: message-id=<[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]>
> > Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: 70BED50856:  from=<[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]>, size=565, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> > Dec  7 17:46:09 m sendmail[14938]: jB7Mk981014938:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=michael (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00,
> > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30057, relay=[127.0.0.1]
> > [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 70BED50856)
>
> Hmm, why do I see messages from both Postfix *AND* Sendmail here?
>
> You are not running both, right?
>
>
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RE: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

[Vahric MUHTARYAN]

Thanks Joanne , 

Exactly I red Spamassassin FAQ and they said that 20-30 MB memory
must for each child process also iowait and CPU is really important but
mailn purpose is RAM, you are right ... 

And sorry I heared but I did not use exactly spamc & spamd , also I
will care about your words and advise about mailing list , but my questions
is not fully How fast can I run SA , my question is get out something from
FreeBSD which is not need for only SA run on system, I mean optimizing
system for only special works , maybe more little kernel , maybe it looks
like freebsd from screch (I think wrong word )...or maybe  How can I
optimize and have more small and faster running FreeBSD OS ... 

And I want to handle 130,000 mail/hour with using 2 or 4 P4 server
with raid1 and 2 or 4 gb ram . 

Thanks again :)
Vahric  

-Original Message-
From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:21 AM
To: Vahric MUHTARYAN; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

From: "Vahric MUHTARYAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Hi Everybody , 
> 
>I think too many people know too many appliance choosing
freebsd
> for OS, also they are hardening FreeBSD and specialize for they works .
> Anybody know or Did this like hardening on FreeBSD for getting better
> performans, I'm using FreeBSD closer 2 year I didn't see any problem about
> performans but is there any hint for hardening FreeBSD , I know some
tuning
> paramters have but I talking about different thing . You know spam
programs
> CPU intersive , I searched on google and I saw many hardening title but
> their point is security not performans . 

I think you are referring to tuning rather than hardening. A rough
interpretation of "hardening" with respect to "speed" would mean
making the machine work more. That would make it run slower. {^_-}

If you mean tuning to get more performance out of SpamAssassin I'd
need to get some basics handled first. What version of SpamAssassin
are you running? How are you using it? (Are you using spamc/spamd?
Are you using one of the milters that daemonizes spamassassin itself
without using spamc and spamd?) If you are using spamc and spamd
what are the parameters you use for each and what tool calls spamc?
(I use procmail on that "other 'x OS" at the moment, for example.)
Are you using per user preferences, rules, and Bayes or are you using
system wide via SQL? And so forth. If you are using spamc/spamd then
tuning is direct via the commands to spamd as you daemonize it. For
this the spamassassin user's mailing list is quite helpful. It is
the user's list at spamassassin.apache.org. If you are using some
other tool or milter you might need to deal with that tool's support
groups for the best help.

If you have DNS tests available make sure these tests are not
blocked and are not timing out. "spamassassin -t -D < "
with some handy email test file can give an informative readout
in this regard.

Be aware that spamassassin can use a lot of memory. And it is a bit of
a resource hog if you run a lot of the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium
rule sets. (Search for "SARE" or the full name. Their rule sets are
VERY useful.) Of course, you get into a tradeoff situation between
resource usage and the quality of the spam detection. I'm silly enough
to run about 40 or so rule sets with per user rules, per user Bayes,
and all that, a pretty much worst case setup on a "2 GHz" Athlon with
1 gigabyte of memory. It takes about 3.4 clock seconds to run a single
test using spamc/spamd. Using spamassassin itself adds the overhead of
starting perl and all that. This takes about 5.3 seconds total. Since
the machine is otherwise very lightly loaded this is no big deal for
about 1300 emails processed per day on about 6 user accounts.

And to wrap up this rather long message I'll note that very often the
easiest SpamAssassin tuneup for speed involves adding more memory. If
SpamAssassin finds itself swapping for any reason it gets REALLY slow.
And I do note I am not quite running stock out of the box SpamAssassin.
I do not use automatic anything with it. Loren and I have carefully
trained SpamAssassin manually and get excellent results. And since Loren
is one of the SARE ninjas he needed some special tweaks inside SA that
really should not affect its performance except out at the fifth
decimal place. I mention this in the interests of truth in advertising
as it were.

So if you are not stuck within AmavisD or something like that the SA
user's list may be a big help. Otherwise speak with the AmavisD folks.
And do make sure you have plenty of ram and reasonable expectations for
your particular machine speeds. SA needs memory and CPU cycles.

{^_^}   Joanne

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Rhine VT6102 problems

[Urban]

Hi, we have used VIA MS1 mini-itx boards with the VT6102 network 
controller the last 6 moth with FreeBSD 5.4 great succeess. Now we 
received a new batch and now the network controller is not working 
properly (for all units). After changing the line in rc.conf to 
"vr0_ifconfg ... media 100baseTX" it works for one boot, but when 
rebooting again it will not work. When the network does not work there 
is 32 lines of ukphy0 to ukphy31 in dmesg and after that we also got 
vr0: watchdog timeout. I have searched the internet and there is 
reported problems about this in the past but there seems to be no real 
solution. We have tried different configuration with/without ACPI 
enabled, forcing the card to 10Mb and 100Mb, different switches without 
success. Is there any patches or solutions of this problem?


thanks
urban
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Re: postfix help

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-12-07 18:01, Michael Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am trying to get postfix to relay mail through my ISP, without much
> luck though.
>
> I installed postfix with sasl compiled in:
> ldd /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd
>   libsasl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl.so.8 (0x280be000)
>   libpam.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.3 (0x280cb000)
>   libcrypt.so.3 => /lib/libcrypt.so.3 (0x280d2000)
>   libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x280eb000)
>   libssl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x280ff000)
>   libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x28132000)
>   libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28243000)
>   libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2826b000)
>   libldap-2.2.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x28354000)
>   liblber-2.2.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7 (0x2837e000)
>
> sasld is running, was started before postfix was.
> ps aux | grep sasl
> root14646  0.0  0.4  1444   712  ??  Is4:54PM   0:00.00
> /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd1 -a pam
>
> here is an excerpt of my main.cf
>
> relayhost = smtp.broadband.rogers.com
> smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
> smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

I think you don't need sasld for uathenticating as a client.

> Yet when I try to send any mail it gets bounced back by Rogers (which
> uses Yahoo for mail services) :
>
> tail /var/log/maillog
>
> Dec  7 17:46:09 mike postfix/cleanup[14941]: 70BED50856: message-id=<[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]>
> Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: 70BED50856:  from=<[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]>, size=565, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Dec  7 17:46:09 m sendmail[14938]: jB7Mk981014938:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=michael (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30057, relay=[127.0.0.1]
> [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 70BED50856)

Hmm, why do I see messages from both Postfix *AND* Sendmail here?

You are not running both, right?

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Re: postfix help

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 18:01:30 -0500 Michael Sherman 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


relay=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18], delay=0,
status=bounced (host smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18]
said: 530 authentication required - for help go to
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-11.html (in reply to MAIL
FROM command))
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/cleanup[14941]: C244750865:
message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: C244750865: from=<>,
size=2600, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: 70BED50856: removed
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/smtp[14942]: C244750865:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
relay=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18], delay=0,
status=bounced (host smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18]
said: 530 authentication required - for help go to
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-11.html (in reply to MAIL
FROM command))
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: C244750865: removed

Any ideas?


Yahoo wants authentication.  Postfix doesn't do smtp-auth between 
mailhosts, and it's not going to pass your credentials to the Yahoo MTA 
after you've logged in to it.


You need to ask Yahoo if they will consider your MTA a trusted host for 
relay purposes.


Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

[jdow]

From: "Vahric MUHTARYAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hi Everybody , 


   I think too many people know too many appliance choosing freebsd
for OS, also they are hardening FreeBSD and specialize for they works .
Anybody know or Did this like hardening on FreeBSD for getting better
performans, I'm using FreeBSD closer 2 year I didn't see any problem about
performans but is there any hint for hardening FreeBSD , I know some tuning
paramters have but I talking about different thing . You know spam programs
CPU intersive , I searched on google and I saw many hardening title but
their point is security not performans . 


I think you are referring to tuning rather than hardening. A rough
interpretation of "hardening" with respect to "speed" would mean
making the machine work more. That would make it run slower. {^_-}

If you mean tuning to get more performance out of SpamAssassin I'd
need to get some basics handled first. What version of SpamAssassin
are you running? How are you using it? (Are you using spamc/spamd?
Are you using one of the milters that daemonizes spamassassin itself
without using spamc and spamd?) If you are using spamc and spamd
what are the parameters you use for each and what tool calls spamc?
(I use procmail on that "other 'x OS" at the moment, for example.)
Are you using per user preferences, rules, and Bayes or are you using
system wide via SQL? And so forth. If you are using spamc/spamd then
tuning is direct via the commands to spamd as you daemonize it. For
this the spamassassin user's mailing list is quite helpful. It is
the user's list at spamassassin.apache.org. If you are using some
other tool or milter you might need to deal with that tool's support
groups for the best help.

If you have DNS tests available make sure these tests are not
blocked and are not timing out. "spamassassin -t -D < "
with some handy email test file can give an informative readout
in this regard.

Be aware that spamassassin can use a lot of memory. And it is a bit of
a resource hog if you run a lot of the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium
rule sets. (Search for "SARE" or the full name. Their rule sets are
VERY useful.) Of course, you get into a tradeoff situation between
resource usage and the quality of the spam detection. I'm silly enough
to run about 40 or so rule sets with per user rules, per user Bayes,
and all that, a pretty much worst case setup on a "2 GHz" Athlon with
1 gigabyte of memory. It takes about 3.4 clock seconds to run a single
test using spamc/spamd. Using spamassassin itself adds the overhead of
starting perl and all that. This takes about 5.3 seconds total. Since
the machine is otherwise very lightly loaded this is no big deal for
about 1300 emails processed per day on about 6 user accounts.

And to wrap up this rather long message I'll note that very often the
easiest SpamAssassin tuneup for speed involves adding more memory. If
SpamAssassin finds itself swapping for any reason it gets REALLY slow.
And I do note I am not quite running stock out of the box SpamAssassin.
I do not use automatic anything with it. Loren and I have carefully
trained SpamAssassin manually and get excellent results. And since Loren
is one of the SARE ninjas he needed some special tweaks inside SA that
really should not affect its performance except out at the fifth
decimal place. I mention this in the interests of truth in advertising
as it were.

So if you are not stuck within AmavisD or something like that the SA
user's list may be a big help. Otherwise speak with the AmavisD folks.
And do make sure you have plenty of ram and reasonable expectations for
your particular machine speeds. SA needs memory and CPU cycles.

{^_^}   Joanne

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postfix help

[Michael Sherman]

Hello all.

I am trying to get postfix to relay mail through my ISP, without much
luck though.

I installed postfix with sasl compiled in:
ldd /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd
libsasl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl.so.8 (0x280be000)
libpam.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.3 (0x280cb000)
libcrypt.so.3 => /lib/libcrypt.so.3 (0x280d2000)
libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x280eb000)
libssl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x280ff000)
libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x28132000)
libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28243000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2826b000)
libldap-2.2.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x28354000)
liblber-2.2.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7 (0x2837e000)

sasld is running, was started before postfix was.
ps aux | grep sasl
root14646  0.0  0.4  1444   712  ??  Is4:54PM   0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/saslauthd1 -a pam

here is an excerpt of my main.cf

relayhost = smtp.broadband.rogers.com
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd


Yet when I try to send any mail it gets bounced back by Rogers (which
uses Yahoo for mail services) :

tail /var/log/maillog

Dec  7 17:46:09 mike postfix/cleanup[14941]: 70BED50856:
message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: 70BED50856:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=565, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec  7 17:46:09 m sendmail[14938]: jB7Mk981014938:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=michael (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30057, relay=[127.0.0.1]
[127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 70BED50856)
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/smtpd[14939]: disconnect from
localhost[127.0.0.1]
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/smtp[14942]: 70BED50856:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
relay=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18], delay=0,
status=bounced (host smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18]
said: 530 authentication required - for help go to
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-11.html (in reply to MAIL
FROM command))
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/cleanup[14941]: C244750865:
message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: C244750865: from=<>,
size=2600, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: 70BED50856: removed
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/smtp[14942]: C244750865:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
relay=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18], delay=0,
status=bounced (host smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net[206.190.36.18]
said: 530 authentication required - for help go to
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-11.html (in reply to MAIL
FROM command))
Dec  7 17:46:09 FreeBSD postfix/qmgr[14908]: C244750865: removed

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
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Re: Disk write caching, hw.ata.wc and atacontrol disagree

[Martin Cracauer]

Dieter wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:05:40PM +: 
> I'm trying to turn off the evil data corrupting on-disk write cache.
> 
> I added hw.ata.wc=0 to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted.
> 
> # sysctl hw.ata.wc
> hw.ata.wc: 0
> 
> So far so good.  But! atacontrol cap ad4 says:
> 
> Feature  Support  EnableValue   Vendor
> write cacheyes  yes
> 
> So hw.ata.wc thinks that the disk write cache is off,
> but atacontrol cap thinks the disk write cache is on?

I remember this is working but there was a reporting problem in
atacontrol.

You should easily be able to tell whether it is on or off by the write
performance.  It should plummet by a factor of 4 or so.

cstream -i- -o/mnt/wherever/tmpfile -v1

Martin
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Re: Re[2]: FreeBSD 6.x / GRE / WCCP / Squid

[Alan Garfield]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 23:55 +0200, Cezar Fistik wrote:
> Hello Alan,
> 
> Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 5:46:41 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > ipfw conf
> > -
> 
> > ipfw add 50 fwd 127.0.0.1,3128 tcp from any to any 80
> 
> Sorry for missleading you with wccp version2, my mistake.

No problem.

> Now, is it a mistake or you changed the port squid listens on? First
> time it was 8080. Could you try to add "in via gre0" to you fwd rule?

Yes I change the port, I've not done the obvious thing and used the
wrong port. :) I've also tried using "in via gre0", that part is working
perfectly. I can see the packets getting forwarded by the rule logging
into /var/log/security, but I never see the forwarded packets on the
loopback interface

I have forwarding turned on via sysctl. Is there something I'm missing? 

> What version of FreeBSD are you using, is it a 5.3? If so, you'll have
> to upgrade to at least 5.4.

I'm running 6.0-RELEASE.

Thanks,
Alan.


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hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

[Vahric MUHTARYAN]

Hi Everybody , 
 
I think too many people know too many appliance choosing freebsd
for OS, also they are hardening FreeBSD and specialize for they works .
Anybody know or Did this like hardening on FreeBSD for getting better
performans, I'm using FreeBSD closer 2 year I didn't see any problem about
performans but is there any hint for hardening FreeBSD , I know some tuning
paramters have but I talking about different thing . You know spam programs
CPU intersive , I searched on google and I saw many hardening title but
their point is security not performans . 
 
Thanks 
Best Regards
 
 
Vahric MUHTARYAN


 
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VLC: core dumped

[E. J. Cerejo]

Trying to run VLC after a portupgrade on FreeBSD 6 and
I get this:

VLC media player 0.8.4 Janus
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Is there a way to find out what's causing it?

EJC
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Re: kde hangs at first start...

[RW]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:04, Javier Matos wrote:
> Hi, I install FreeBSD 6.0 in my box and create the file xorg.conf.new with
> rights values. Then I try it with Xorg -config ... (and it works fine)...
> but when I try to start kde (writing "kdm" in the console as root) the
> screen change his resolution trying to start kde but when appear the screen
> where you must to type your user and password the computer hangs.

Normally kdm is started by adding a line to /etc/ttys like this:

ttyv8  "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon"   xterm   on secure

I'm not really sure whether, or not, it's supposed to work the way you are 
using it. 
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Re: Thanks for FBSD6

[Dominique Goncalves]

> > You can use in /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> > ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid"
>
> That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to
> config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add:
>
> wpa_suplicant_enable="YES"
> ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"
>
> and create wpa_supplicant.conf:
>
> network={
>  ssid="MyWireless"
>  mode="11g"
> }

According to this documentation
http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
this syntax is ok on 6.0, but I don't know if the order of arguments
have an importance.

Regards.
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Re: Copying kernel and OS

[David Kelly]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:12:27PM +0100, Jack Raats wrote:
> I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE.
> One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast
> machine I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily.  Is
> it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow
> machine. If yes whart directories etc... do i have to transfer.

A quick and easy way that comes to mind is to export via NFS /usr/src
and /usr/obj from the fast machine to the slow machine. Do the builds
on the fast machine for configuration "SLOWPOKE". Then on the slow
machine simply "make KERNCONF=SLOWPOKE installkernel" to let the
standard tools do the job for you.

Probably have to trust root from slowpoke on speedy so that
installkernel can do all it wants.

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Disk write caching, hw.ata.wc and atacontrol disagree

[Dieter]

I'm trying to turn off the evil data corrupting on-disk write cache.

I added hw.ata.wc=0 to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted.

# sysctl hw.ata.wc
hw.ata.wc: 0

So far so good.  But! atacontrol cap ad4 says:

Feature  Support  EnableValue   Vendor
write cacheyes  yes

So hw.ata.wc thinks that the disk write cache is off,
but atacontrol cap thinks the disk write cache is on?

If it matters:  AMD64, nforce4, Seagate SATA 7200.8, FreeBSD 6.0 Beta3

So then I boot NetBSD and turn the write caches off with
dkctl $disk setcache r
and reboot FreeBSD and now I get

Feature  Support  EnableValue   Vendor
write cacheyes  no

It appears that if hw.ata.wc = 1 then FreeBSD turns the write
cache on, and if hw.ata.wc = 0 then FreeBSD leaves the write
cache alone?

Is there a way to have FreeBSD turn the write cache OFF?
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Re: motion detection software

[Aftab Jahan Subedar]

Actually there is no such thing as motion detection using any camera. 
Its the calculation of deference between two images/snaps.

so should I say "logic motion detection"

There are so many of them in /usr/ports/graphics based on this 
theory.  gspy is one of them I can recall.

-Jahan

At 09:19 AM 12/1/2005, laszlo vagner wrote:

anyone know of a port/package that can detect motion from a usb camera
or a logitech par port and save the image?

one of the ones i found was "motion" but it was for linux.

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Re[2]: FreeBSD 6.x / GRE / WCCP / Squid

[Cezar Fistik]

Hello Alan,

Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 5:46:41 AM, you wrote:

> ipfw conf
> -

> ipfw add 50 fwd 127.0.0.1,3128 tcp from any to any 80

Sorry for missleading you with wccp version2, my mistake.

Now, is it a mistake or you changed the port squid listens on? First
time it was 8080. Could you try to add "in via gre0" to you fwd rule?

What version of FreeBSD are you using, is it a 5.3? If so, you'll have
to upgrade to at least 5.4.

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Re: Wireless networking in ad-hoc mode?

[Svein Halvor Halvorsen]

> I used some ascii2hex converter that I found online to turn the wep key 
> "1n4te"
> into "316E3474410D0B".

>From ifconfig(8) manual page (my emphasis):

 wepkey key|index:key
 Set the selected WEP key.  If an index is not given, key 1 is
 set.  A WEP key will be either 5 or 13 characters (40 or 104
 bits) depending of the local network and the capabilities of the
 adaptor.  It may be specified either as a plain string or as a
 string of hexadecimal digits preceded by `0x'.  For maximum
 portability, hex keys are recommended; the mapping of text keys
 to WEP encryption is usually driver-specific.  ** In
particular, the
 Windows drivers do this mapping differently to FreeBSD. **
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Re: Thanks for FBSD6

[Erik Nørgaard]

Dominique Goncalves wrote:

You can use in /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid"


That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to
config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add:


According to this documentation
http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
this syntax is ok on 6.0, but I don't know if the order of arguments
have an importance.


Yes, you're right, it works - I'm not sure of the order either. What 
doesn't work anymore is the "ancient" posibility of including these 
options in dhclient.conf


However, wpa_supplicant is needed to handle encryption keys etc. And 
then comes the neat feature of supporting multiple networks.


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Re: sendmail local-host-names

[Eric F Crist]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Charles Howse wrote:


Hi,

I want to collect mail for FreeBSD user charles on my Mac.

The hostname of my FreeBSD box is:
moe.local

User charles has an account, has been added to the qpopper  
authentication

database, and sendmail_enable="NO" is in /etc/rc.conf.

In /etc/mail/local-host-names, I have:
moe.local
larry.local
local

It's working, but I think I have too many entries in local-host-names.
What entries are necessary?


Are you sure you don't also need curly.local in there?  Haha!

You shouldn't really need any of those in there, unless mail is  
addressed to them.  For example, if you only receive mail on that box  
for [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the machine's name is moe.local, you don't even  
need a local-host-names file.  The only entries needed are those for  
which you accept mail, that are not the actual hostname for the box.


Make sense?
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Re: PowerEdge 2850 AMD64 panics

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi

this is 'known' issue with the 5.x versions, it kernel panics under high
file I/O. I've had this myself while testing a new email server.

I've no idea if 6.0 fixes this issue, but it can't any worse to probably
worth a go to upgrade to the 6.0 release.

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On 12/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is my first post to the FreeBSD mailing list, and unfortunatley its
> because I've been having a vexing problem with one of my servers.
>
> The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 w/2 3Ghz EMT64 Xeons,
> 2gbs of ram, a Perc 4e/Di w/6 300GB drives.
>
> This machines primary function is as a mail server running Exim.
>
> Below is a DMESG from this machine.
>
> This machine is running the AMD64 port of freebsd, and what is happening
> is often when the volume of incoming mail gets pretty high, the machine
> will panic and reboot. I have tried to capture a dump but it always fails
> dumping before it completes, usually before its dumped more then 24MB. The
> few times that I have seen the console when its happened the panic was
> something to do with UFS. I have upgraded the bios and firmwares on
> everything, and that increased the stability of the machine. I also turned
> off soft updates on all the file systems, which also further increased
> stability, however there is still a problem. Any
> pointers/hints/tips/solutions would be greatly appreciated. Also, if more
> information is needed let me know and I would be happy to provide it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give.
>
> Stacy Anable
> Rio Communications
>
>
>
>
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #0: Thu Oct  6 11:13:54 PDT 2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAIL
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2992.71-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf43  Stepping = 3
>
>   
> Features=0xbfebfbff
> Features2=0x641d,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,>
>   AMD Features=0x20100800
>   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> real memory  = 2147221504 (2047 MB)
> avail memory = 2064646144 (1969 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: 
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
> cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
> cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  6
> cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  7
> ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
> ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 9
> ioapic1: WARNING: intbase 32 != expected base 24
> ioapic2: Changing APIC ID to 10
> ioapic2: WARNING: intbase 64 != expected base 56
> ioapic3: Changing APIC ID to 11
> ioapic3: WARNING: intbase 96 != expected base 88
> ioapic0  irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> ioapic1  irqs 32-55 on motherboard
> ioapic2  irqs 64-87 on motherboard
> ioapic3  irqs 96-119 on motherboard
> acpi0:  on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0:
>  on acpi0
> cpu1:  on acpi0
> cpu2:  on acpi0
> cpu3:  on acpi0
> pcib0:  port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
> pci0:  on pcib0
> pcib1:  at device 2.0 on pci0
> pci1:  on pcib1
> pcib2:  at device 0.0 on pci1
> pci2:  on pcib2
> amr0:  mem
> 0xdfec-0xdfef,0xd80f-0xd80f irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2
> amr0:  Firmware 521S, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM
> pcib3:  at device 0.2 on pci1
> pci3:  on pcib3
> pcib4:  at device 4.0 on pci0
> pci4:  on pcib4
> pcib5:  at device 5.0 on pci0
> pci5:  on pcib5
> pcib6:  at device 0.0 on pci5
> pci6:  on pcib6
> em0:  port
> 0xecc0-0xecff mem 0xdfbe-0xdfbf irq 64 at device 7.0 on pci6 em0:
> Ethernet address: 00:14:22:10:4f:c2
> em0:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
> pcib7:  at device 0.2 on pci5
> pci7:  on pcib7
> em1:  port
> 0xdcc0-0xdcff mem 0xdf9e-0xdf9f irq 65 at device 8.0 on pci7 em1:
> Ethernet address:
> em1:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
> pcib8:  at device 6.0 on pci0
> pci8:  on pcib8
> pcib9:  at device 0.0 on pci8
> pci9:  on pcib9
> pcib10:  at device 0.2 on pci8
> pci10:  on pcib10
> pci0:  at device 29.0 (no driver attached)
> pcib11:  at device 30.0 on pci0
> pci11:  on pcib11
> pci11:  at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
> pci11:  at device 5.1 (no driver attached)
> pci11:  at device 5.2 (no driver attached)
> atapci0:  port
> 0xcc70-0xcc7f,0xccd0-0xccd3,0xccd8-0xccdf,0xcce4-0xcce7,0xccf0-0xccf7 irq
> 23 at device 6.0 on pci11
> ata2: channel #0 on atapci0
> ata3: channel #1 on atapci0
> pci11:  at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
> isab0:  at device 31.0 on pci0
> isa0:  on isab0
> atapci1:  port
> 0xfc00-0xfc0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
> ata0: channel #0 on atapci1
> ata1: channel #1 on atapci1
> fdc0:  port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on
> acpi0
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> atkbdc0:  port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0:  flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> psm0:  irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitm

Wireless networking in ad-hoc mode?

[Fafa Hafiz Krantz]

Hello!

I need to connect my laptop to the wireless NIC on my FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE 
gateway.
It's ral0, and I've set it to ad-hoc mode. My laptop, running Windows XP, can 
see
the network "bsd" but not ping it / connect to it.

I used some ascii2hex converter that I found online to turn the wep key "1n4te"
into "316E3474410D0B".

# ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 media autoselect mode 
11b mediaopt adhoc ssid bsd wepmode on wepkey 316E3474410D0B

# dmesg | grep ral0
ral0:  mem 0xfeafc000-0xfeafdfff irq 22 at device 1.0 
on pci2

# ifconfig ral0 -m
ral0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::214:85ff:fe1b:cbdf%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
ether 00:14:85:1b:cb:df
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
status: no carrier
ssid bsd channel 11
authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS
bintval 100

I appreciate this guys!
Thanks!

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Re: Copying kernel and OS

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Jack Raats wrote:

I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE.
One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast 
machine I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily.
Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow 
machine. If yes whart directories etc... do i have to transfer.


Jack


I do something like this.  I build on the fast machine, and then use NFS 
to allow the slow machine to access /usr/src and /usr/obj.  I have found 
that it is important to preserve the names of the directories, so that 
they are also called /usr/src and /usr/obj on the slow machine.  Then I 
just do mergemaster, make installworld, make installkernel (in the 
appropriate order) on the slow machine, and it works like a charm.


The entries in fstab are like this:
hub2:/usr/obj/usr/objnfs rw,bg,noauto0   0
hub2:/usr/src/usr/srcnfs rw,bg,noauto0   0
where hub2 is the name of the fast machine.

In /etc/exports on hub2 I have something like this
/usr -maproot=root -alldirs -network 10.0.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
(here 10.0.0.0 is the IP addresses of my LAN)

and in /etc/rc.conf on hub2 I have some lines like
nfs_server_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"

Then on the slow machine I simply type
mount /usr/src
mount /usr/obj

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Re: Copying kernel and OS

[Erik Nørgaard]

Jack Raats wrote:

I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE.
One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast 
machine I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily.
Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow 
machine. If yes whart directories etc... do i have to transfer.


see the handbook, this section seems for you:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html

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Re: thunderbird file locations

[RW]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11:36, eoghan wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:24, Erik Norgaard wrote:

> > Have you looked in ~/.thunderbird?
> >
> ...
> this is in /root/.thunderbird

I can't think of any good reason to run thunderbird as root.

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Copying kernel and OS

[Jack Raats]

I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE.
One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast machine I 
can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily.
Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow machine. 
If yes whart directories etc... do i have to transfer.


Jack 


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Re: Thanks for FBSD6

[Erik Nørgaard]

Erik Nørgaard wrote:


and create wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
ssid="MyWireless"
mode="11g"
}


ofcourse there are more options see wpa_supplicant.conf(5), I just now 
see that I've used 11g incorrectly. Well, another thing that maybe 
someone can highlight:


Say you configure two (or more) networks, one uses dhcp the other static 
ip, or they use two different static ip's. How to go about that?


Thanks, Erik

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kde hangs at first start...

[Javier Matos]

Hi, I install FreeBSD 6.0 in my box and create the file xorg.conf.new with 
rights values. Then I try it with Xorg -config ... (and it works fine)... but 
when I try to start kde (writing "kdm" in the console as root) the screen 
change his resolution trying to start kde but when appear the screen where you 
must to type your user and password the computer hangs.

I try this in two computers and obtain the same effect (and both have PCI 
Express graphic card).

Motherboard: P5GD1_PRO (Intel 915 Chipset)
Graphic card: nVidia GeForce FX 6200 128Mb

Someone trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 with a PCI Express graphic have a similar 
problem?

Thx!
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Re: Thanks for FBSD6

[Erik Nørgaard]

Dominique Goncalves wrote:


basically the meat of the script looks like:

ifconfig ath0 ssid "my wireless network"
dhclient ath0


if someone can tell me what /etc/rc.conf options i need to set to
duplicate that, that would be cool.  i played around with it for a while
but never got it to work without my custom script.


You can use in /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid"


That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to 
config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add:


wpa_suplicant_enable="YES"
ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"

and create wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
ssid="MyWireless"
mode="11g"
}

The neat thing is that you can configure multiple networks and 
wpa_supplicant will try them in order.


Note that dhclient was replaced with the new OpenBSD implementation in 
FBSD6, and wpa_supplicant introduced to handle association with wireless 
networks.


Cheers, Erik
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pkgdb format

[eoghan]

Hello
Ive recently upgraded to 6.0 and I decided to upgrade my ports... So  
I ran a:

portupgrade -af
Its running fine, but each time its upgrade a port I get:
[Updating the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... Failed  
`Inappropriate file type or format'; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the  
pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 439 packages found (-0  
+439)


Just wondering if its to do with my upgrade to 6.0 (from 5.4)
Thanks
Eoghan
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Re: Thanks for FBSD6

[Dominique Goncalves]

Hi,

On 12/7/05, Jon Drukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a note to say thanks to all the hard working people who created
> FBSD6.  I spent an annoying week trying to get some minimal
> "lightweight" Linux distros to work "out of the box" on an ancient
> laptop that I had lying around.  They all had various problems, such as:
>   unable to recognize/configure the wireless ethernet card, or the X
> server wouldn't come up properly.  FBSD6 worked basically "out of the
> box".  I had to create a custom script in rc.d to get the wireless to
> work on boot, but that was about it.
>
> basically the meat of the script looks like:
>
> ifconfig ath0 ssid "my wireless network"
> dhclient ath0
>
>
> if someone can tell me what /etc/rc.conf options i need to set to
> duplicate that, that would be cool.  i played around with it for a while
> but never got it to work without my custom script.

You can use in /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid"

Read rc.conf(5) for more information.

HTH

Regards

>
> -jsd-
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6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes

[Brown, Steve]

Hello everyone,
 
I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP
Pro) now.  The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down
with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way.  I'm
running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried this newer version yet.
However, the system locks up at a different place everytime I attempt the
install.  It seems completely random.  Sometimes I get to where it's mostly
configured and I'm adding ported apps and sometimes it doesn't run long
enough to get to that point.  Once it locks up, it will not respond to any
input.  
 
More often than not, the lock up happens when I'm adding ported apps so I
tried the obvious - not loading any.  After getting it booted up that way
(which I'm able to do argueably because of the short amount of uptime) it
will still lock up after 5-10 miutes of messing around with it.  I have also
tried skipping over configuring and bringing up the Ethernet interface but
it will still lock up.  It seems like no matter what it doing, when it locks
up is determined by the amount of uptime which varies from 5 to 10 minutes
or so.
 
I have tried booting the "without ACPI" option and it won't even boot up
that way due to some IRQ 19 error.  Normally I see no real problems on the
screen during bootup.
 
I'm running the Gigabyte 7N400-L motherboard with NForce2 chipset + Corsair
XMS DDR + AMD XP+ 3200 cpu + ATi RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB + SATA PCI add-on
card w/ (2) SATA HDDs + (2) ATA HDDs
 
Shouldn't this system be fully supported?
 
I'm going to try this again tonight without the SATA drives to see if that's
the issue.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Steve

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Re: Unable to start Webmin

[Kevin Kinsey]

Gerard Seibert wrote:


Webmin has suddenly refused to start. This is the message displayed:

Starting webmin.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

A humongous 'perl.core' file is produced. I tried removing
and reinstalling webmin, but that failed to alleviate the problem.

I am open to any suggestions.



Maybe PERL is the culprit?  How up-to-date is that?

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Re: Unable to start Webmin

[Subhro]

Gerard Seibert sat at his 'puter and typed on 12/8/2005 0:51:

Webmin has suddenly refused to start. This is the message displayed:

Starting webmin.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

A humongous 'perl.core' file is produced. I tried removing and 
reinstalling webmin, but that failed to alleviate the problem.


I am open to any suggestions.

Seems as if perl is messed up. Can you report back perl -v. Better 
still, try to reinstall perl if possible.


Regards
S.

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Thanks for FBSD6

[Jon Drukman]

Just a note to say thanks to all the hard working people who created 
FBSD6.  I spent an annoying week trying to get some minimal 
"lightweight" Linux distros to work "out of the box" on an ancient 
laptop that I had lying around.  They all had various problems, such as: 
 unable to recognize/configure the wireless ethernet card, or the X 
server wouldn't come up properly.  FBSD6 worked basically "out of the 
box".  I had to create a custom script in rc.d to get the wireless to 
work on boot, but that was about it.


basically the meat of the script looks like:

ifconfig ath0 ssid "my wireless network"
dhclient ath0


if someone can tell me what /etc/rc.conf options i need to set to 
duplicate that, that would be cool.  i played around with it for a while 
but never got it to work without my custom script.


-jsd-

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PowerEdge 2850 AMD64 panics

[bsd]

This is my first post to the FreeBSD mailing list, and unfortunatley its
because I've been having a vexing problem with one of my servers.

The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 w/2 3Ghz EMT64 Xeons,
2gbs of ram, a Perc 4e/Di w/6 300GB drives.

This machines primary function is as a mail server running Exim.

Below is a DMESG from this machine.

This machine is running the AMD64 port of freebsd, and what is happening
is often when the volume of incoming mail gets pretty high, the machine
will panic and reboot. I have tried to capture a dump but it always fails
dumping before it completes, usually before its dumped more then 24MB. The
few times that I have seen the console when its happened the panic was
something to do with UFS. I have upgraded the bios and firmwares on
everything, and that increased the stability of the machine. I also turned
off soft updates on all the file systems, which also further increased
stability, however there is still a problem. Any
pointers/hints/tips/solutions would be greatly appreciated. Also, if more
information is needed let me know and I would be happy to provide it.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give.

Stacy Anable
Rio Communications




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FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #0: Thu Oct  6 11:13:54 PDT 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAIL
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2992.71-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf43  Stepping = 3
  
Features=0xbfebfbff
Features2=0x641d,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,>
  AMD Features=0x20100800
  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 2147221504 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2064646144 (1969 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: 
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  6
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  7
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 9
ioapic1: WARNING: intbase 32 != expected base 24
ioapic2: Changing APIC ID to 10
ioapic2: WARNING: intbase 64 != expected base 56
ioapic3: Changing APIC ID to 11
ioapic3: WARNING: intbase 96 != expected base 88
ioapic0  irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1  irqs 32-55 on motherboard
ioapic2  irqs 64-87 on motherboard
ioapic3  irqs 96-119 on motherboard
acpi0:  on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0:
 on acpi0
cpu1:  on acpi0
cpu2:  on acpi0
cpu3:  on acpi0
pcib0:  port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0:  on pcib0
pcib1:  at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1:  on pcib1
pcib2:  at device 0.0 on pci1
pci2:  on pcib2
amr0:  mem
0xdfec-0xdfef,0xd80f-0xd80f irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2
amr0:  Firmware 521S, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM
pcib3:  at device 0.2 on pci1
pci3:  on pcib3
pcib4:  at device 4.0 on pci0
pci4:  on pcib4
pcib5:  at device 5.0 on pci0
pci5:  on pcib5
pcib6:  at device 0.0 on pci5
pci6:  on pcib6
em0:  port
0xecc0-0xecff mem 0xdfbe-0xdfbf irq 64 at device 7.0 on pci6 em0:
Ethernet address: 00:14:22:10:4f:c2
em0:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
pcib7:  at device 0.2 on pci5
pci7:  on pcib7
em1:  port
0xdcc0-0xdcff mem 0xdf9e-0xdf9f irq 65 at device 8.0 on pci7 em1:
Ethernet address:
em1:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
pcib8:  at device 6.0 on pci0
pci8:  on pcib8
pcib9:  at device 0.0 on pci8
pci9:  on pcib9
pcib10:  at device 0.2 on pci8
pci10:  on pcib10
pci0:  at device 29.0 (no driver attached)
pcib11:  at device 30.0 on pci0
pci11:  on pcib11
pci11:  at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
pci11:  at device 5.1 (no driver attached)
pci11:  at device 5.2 (no driver attached)
atapci0:  port
0xcc70-0xcc7f,0xccd0-0xccd3,0xccd8-0xccdf,0xcce4-0xcce7,0xccf0-0xccf7 irq
23 at device 6.0 on pci11
ata2: channel #0 on atapci0
ata3: channel #1 on atapci0
pci11:  at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
isab0:  at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0:  on isab0
atapci1:  port
0xfc00-0xfc0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci1
ata1: channel #1 on atapci1
fdc0:  port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0:  port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0:  flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0:  irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
orm0:  at iomem 0xec000-0xe,0xc-0xcafff on isa0
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
sc0:  at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0:  at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
acd0: CDRW  at ata0-master PIO4
ata2-master: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE
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Unable to start Webmin

[Gerard Seibert]

Webmin has suddenly refused to start. This is the message displayed:

Starting webmin.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

A humongous 'perl.core' file is produced. I tried removing and 
reinstalling webmin, but that failed to alleviate the problem.


I am open to any suggestions.

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Acer Altos G5350

[Andrea Venturoli]

Anyone tried this HW?
Does it work with 6.0 AMD64?
Or i386?

Does anyone know what kind of SCSI controller it has?
Does the NIC work?

 bye & Thanks
av.
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RE: not rebooting on panic 5.4

[Ruben Bloemgarten]

Never mind, swap=ram. 

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Subject: not rebooting on panic 5.4 

Hi all, 

 

 I was hoping someone could tell me how to enable 5.4 to reboot
automagically on panics. It just hanging there isn't helping.

 

Thanks, 

 

Ruben 

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Re: PC-BSD and Request Tracker

[Will Maier]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:38:02PM -0600, Rory Schmitz wrote:
> I'm fairy new to Linux and I'm in the process of installing
> Request Tracker (RT) for trouble tickets with staff members.  The
> RT website stated I needed to be running PERL 5.8.3 or higher on
> my BSD box.  With that,a couple questions:

After reading the message subject and this paragraph, I'm not sure
what you're running, exactly. You mention Linux -- FreeBSD is not
Linux. You also mention PC-BSD. FreeBSD is also not PC-BSD (although
PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD). All the different *nixes can be
confusing, but clarifying your setup will make it easier for us to
help.

> 1)  Can RT be ran from PC-BSD if you are familiar with RT?  

This seems to be an RT or PC-BSD -specfic question; this list is
not dedicated to either piece of software. You'll have better luck
asking in PC-BSD's support channels or on the RT-users' mailing
list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Since RT is mostly Perl-dependent, I imagine you could get it
running (albeit with a little fuss), although PC-BSD isn't
explicitly supported by BestPractical. I'd recommend choosing an OS
officially supported by BP (like FreeBSD, various Linuxes, or
Solaris) -- many of these OSs have packages or ports of RT
available, as well, although compiling it by hand is often a better
choice for production servers.

> 2) What PERL version is included in this distro?

I'm sure they have Perl 5.8.3+, although I can't find anything on
their site to corroborate that. Again, you'll have better luck
asking PC-BSD.

> Thanks,

Good luck!

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Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 12/7/05, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user can
> belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and
> we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people.

Have you considered cascading groups? That's the normal workaround on
Enterprise Unix systems like HP-UX and Solaris.

Instead of putting everyong in "group", do this instead.

group:*:100:group1,group2
group1:*:101:user1,user2
group2:*:102:user3, user4

Thus, the users are all transitively in group, and you work around the limit.

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X error: [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"

[raz5]

Hello

I have problem with running X. I have tried to run it on FreeBSD 6.0 with LG 
1730s and intel integrated card 82865G.
after I had read previous posts I have tried to change the Xorg.conf.new and 
test it but I still getting the errors:

[drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"
(EE) I810(0): [DRI] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1:, 
fixing

also I have seen this warning on the log file:
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum

Does anyone know how to solve it?
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PC-BSD and Request Tracker

[Rory Schmitz]

Hi,

I'm fairy new to Linux and I'm in the process of installing Request Tracker 
(RT) for trouble tickets with staff members.  The RT website stated I needed to 
be running PERL 5.8.3 or higher on my BSD box.  With that,a couple questions:

1)  Can RT be ran from PC-BSD if you are familiar with RT?
2)  What PERL version is included in this distro?

Thanks,

Rory Schmitz
Technology Coordinator
Henning ISD #545
500 School AvenueHenning, MN 56551
Phone  218-583-2927
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Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

[Jon Falconer]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Ian Moore wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user 
> can 
> belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and 
> we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people.
> 
> There seems to be differing opinions on how to do this and if it's actually 
> feasible. One post I found said:
> 
> > in src/sys/sys/syslimits.h there is a constant named 'NGROUPS_MAX'. 
> > change it to however many you need (within reason), rebuild/install world 
> > and kernel. 
> 
> Another said you have to change all sorts of things in the source, modify a 
> kernel parameter, rebuild world and rebuild any port that uses NGROUPS - 
> which probably means a portupgrade -fa.
> 
> There is talk of a maxgroups() parameter in the kernel, but NOTES makes no 
> mention of this.
> 
> I wonder too if some apps would need their own configuration altered to allow 
> them to work with the higher limit.
> 
> So I just wanted to ask if anyone has successfully raised the NGROUPS_MAX 
> limit, especially when running samba & nfs on the system?
> 
> If not, I'll work around the problem a different way.
> 
> (BTW I'm running 5.4-RELEASE)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ian
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> 

Ian,

Since you are running FreeBSD 5.x, have you considered using ACLs? See the
handbook section 14.12.

Jon


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Re: odd problem with firewall server

[Nathan Vidican]

Matt Singerman wrote:

Hi all,

This probably isn't a FreeBSD-specific problem, but it's vexing nonetheless.

So we have our servers accessing the outside world through their own
firewall on a FreeBSD machine.  Nothing too fancy, just routing
traffic and shutting off unused ports.  However, this morning the
ethernet jack that the firewall server's world-accessible ethernet
port (dc1) was plugged into.  The solution: plug it into another jack
:)  This amazingly complex solution worked, except that I can now no
longer ssh or ping the machine.  Any ideas as to what may have caused
this?

Thanks,

Matt
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Not without knowing more about your network, and/or the switch/device at the 
other end of that jack.


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Re: gnome2

[Louis J. LeBlanc]

On Wed, December 7, 2005 12:21 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:13:45 -0500 "Louis J. LeBlanc"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 
>>>
>>> Edit /etc/ttys like this:
>>> ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm   on  secure
>>>
>>> And gnome will start when you boot.
>>>
>> Actually, don't the docs suggest turning OFF ttyv8?  IIRC, the more
>> recent
>> approach is to put "gdm_enable=YES" (or something similar) in /etc/rc.d.
>> Check the pkg_message file in the port directory to be sure.
>>
> pkg-message points to www.freebsd.org/gnome, which doesn't say anything
> about startup (AFAICS) except this:
>
> Make GNOME 2.12 start when X starts.
>
> Once you have the GNOME 2.12 desktop installed, GNOME 2.12 can be started
> by adding the following line to ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc, as appropriate:
>
> exec gnome-session

Yes, this detail was mentioned previously, and I did forget to repeat it ...

> There's nothing about starting gnome in /usr/ports/UPDATING.
>
> The Handbook suggests using ttyv8 (as I do) for xdm (section 5.6.2):
> ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure

Yes, this turns the display manager running on ttyv8 off - no display
manager will start up.  It does, however, create the virtual terminal for
gdm to start on.  This is actually the default entry anyway.

> 

> Section 5.7.1.2 says this:
>
> The easiest way to start GNOME is with GDM, the GNOME Display Manager.
> GDM,
> which is installed as a part of the GNOME desktop (but is disabled by
> default), can be enabled by adding gdm_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf. Once
> you have rebooted, GNOME will start automatically once you log in -- no
> further configuration is necessary.
>
> In short, there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Actually, I was under the impression they were just different parts of the
same procedure.  I believe the entry above assumes that /etc/ttys has not
already been modified to start xdm (i.e. it's still "off", which is the
default at install).

If the virtual terminal line is omitted or commented out, gdm will not
have a place to run.  If it is "on" instead of "off" that terminal will
run xdm instead.  If "gdm_enable=yes" is not put in /etc/rc.conf (I wrote
/etc/rc.d in my last message, which was a mistake on my part), the script
installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ will not start gdm at startup.

Thanks for the correction regarding /etc/rc.conf.

Cheers.
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odd problem with firewall server

[Matt Singerman]

Hi all,

This probably isn't a FreeBSD-specific problem, but it's vexing nonetheless.

So we have our servers accessing the outside world through their own
firewall on a FreeBSD machine.  Nothing too fancy, just routing
traffic and shutting off unused ports.  However, this morning the
ethernet jack that the firewall server's world-accessible ethernet
port (dc1) was plugged into.  The solution: plug it into another jack
:)  This amazingly complex solution worked, except that I can now no
longer ssh or ping the machine.  Any ideas as to what may have caused
this?

Thanks,

Matt
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Error Building ICU

[Gerard Seibert]

I am unable to build the devel/icu port. Everything goes fine until the 
end when this error message is displayed:


 /custrtrn/
   ---[OK]  ---/custrtrn/Test_UChar_UTF32_API
   ---[OK]  ---/custrtrn/Test_UChar_UTF8_API
   ---[OK]  ---/custrtrn/Test_UChar_WCHART_API
   ---[OK]  ---/custrtrn/Test_widestrs
cintltst in free(): error: page is already free
Abort trap (core dumped)
*** Error code 134

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/icu.
*** Error code 1

Everything prior to this message appears fine. I can supply the entire 
build output if necessary.


Thanks!

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Re: Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

[Christopher McGee]

Erik Norgaard wrote:


Christopher McGee wrote:

Hi all, I have a lot of servers on order, so I want to be able to 
just network boot them as a jumpstart into the installation (which 
will then be scripted).  I am most of the way there.  I have tested 
my NFS shares and if I boot a boxe off a cd, I can do the nfs 
installation without fail.  I have setup pxeboot, and if I am far 
enough along that when I boot off the network, it tftp's the files it 
needs, boots through menus, loads the generic kernel, mounts an nfs 
root, then errors.  The errors are "exec /sbin/init: error 70".  One 
error for each attempt at an init file.  Then it gives me an "init: 
not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit.."  Then it panics and 
reboots.  There is so much I've done, I'm not sure what specifics 
anyone might need to offer some assistance.



1st: I have done it but with ftp install rather than nfs, see here:

   http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe/

I used no cd's to bootstrap or anything.

2nd: One of the first things done in the bootstrapping is to load the 
loader.conf, in this you can override any settings of paths to the 
init program.


For installation usually sysinstall is used, which can be scripted - I 
assume you are refering to this? - you can set the path with an option 
in loader.conf, for example:


init_path="/stand/sysinstall"

The option may contain a colon separated list of files and they are 
checked in order, the first found is run. Check the path to your init 
or sysinstall on the nfs-client.


Cheers, Erik

That is the how-to that I started with, however it jumps around a bit 
becaues they are also showing how to do diskless clients.  Basically I 
have this:


/tftpboot is a link to /usr/local/export/freebsd
I have put the entire cd in /usr/local/export/freebsd
copied pxeboot to /usr/local/export/freebsd
setup nfsserver:/usr/local/export/freebsd as the root_path on the dhcp 
server.  It appears to try to mount that share as the rootpath.

the nfsserver is exporting /usr -alldirs

After the kernel boots there is a line that says:  NFS ROOT: 
192.168.1.98:/usr/local/export/freebsd and then it errors.  If that is 
path to the root of the cd, this should work correct?


Chris
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Re: schedule a script at "system startup"

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 12/4/2005 6:14 AM Werther Pirani wrote:


Ian Lord wrote:


I guess there might be a way to put a script in /etc/rd.d/ but I
don't know how to run it under a specifid uid



Create a script (name is not important as long as it ends in .sh)



Although customary, it does not have to end in ".sh" AFIK

Cheers,

Drew.


and put it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Also, make sure the script is
executable and contains lines like:

#!/bin/sh

echo -n " some informative message here"

su -l username -c '( command arg1 ... argn )'

Run the script (as root) manually with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sctript.sh to
verify everything is okay and in case you need/want to add redirection
(still inside parenthesis).



Hope this helps,

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Re: Detecting new hardware

[Fabian Keil]

"Keith Bottner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there any kind of a utility that I can run to detect a new network
> card that I just installed into an existing FreeBSD 5.4 box?
 
pciconf -lv

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Re: gnome2

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:13:45 -0500 "Louis J. LeBlanc" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:






Edit /etc/ttys like this:
ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm   on  secure

And gnome will start when you boot.


Actually, don't the docs suggest turning OFF ttyv8?  IIRC, the more recent
approach is to put "gdm_enable=YES" (or something similar) in /etc/rc.d.
Check the pkg_message file in the port directory to be sure.

pkg-message points to www.freebsd.org/gnome, which doesn't say anything 
about startup (AFAICS) except this:


Make GNOME 2.12 start when X starts.

Once you have the GNOME 2.12 desktop installed, GNOME 2.12 can be started 
by adding the following line to ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc, as appropriate:


exec gnome-session

There's nothing about starting gnome in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

The Handbook suggests using ttyv8 (as I do) for xdm (section 5.6.2):
ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure

It also shows the same usage in section 3.2.4, WRT the /etc/ttys file.

Section 11.12 explains how to add additional virtual consoles if you need 
them, and says, "Use as many or as few as you want."  Then it explains 
that, if you use X, you must have one virtual console that is turned off or 
unused so that X will run.


Section 5.7.1.2 says this:

The easiest way to start GNOME is with GDM, the GNOME Display Manager. GDM, 
which is installed as a part of the GNOME desktop (but is disabled by 
default), can be enabled by adding gdm_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf. Once 
you have rebooted, GNOME will start automatically once you log in -- no 
further configuration is necessary.


In short, there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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University of Texas at Dallas
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Re: Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

[Erik Norgaard]

Christopher McGee wrote:
Hi all, I have a lot of servers on order, so I want to be able to just 
network boot them as a jumpstart into the installation (which will then 
be scripted).  I am most of the way there.  I have tested my NFS shares 
and if I boot a boxe off a cd, I can do the nfs installation without 
fail.  I have setup pxeboot, and if I am far enough along that when I 
boot off the network, it tftp's the files it needs, boots through menus, 
loads the generic kernel, mounts an nfs root, then errors.  The errors 
are "exec /sbin/init: error 70".  One error for each attempt at an init 
file.  Then it gives me an "init: not found in path 
/sbin/init:/sbin/oinit.."  Then it panics and reboots.  There is so 
much I've done, I'm not sure what specifics anyone might need to offer 
some assistance.


1st: I have done it but with ftp install rather than nfs, see here:

   http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe/

I used no cd's to bootstrap or anything.

2nd: One of the first things done in the bootstrapping is to load the 
loader.conf, in this you can override any settings of paths to the init 
program.


For installation usually sysinstall is used, which can be scripted - I 
assume you are refering to this? - you can set the path with an option 
in loader.conf, for example:


init_path="/stand/sysinstall"

The option may contain a colon separated list of files and they are 
checked in order, the first found is run. Check the path to your init or 
sysinstall on the nfs-client.


Cheers, Erik

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Detecting new hardware

[Keith Bottner]

Is there any kind of a utility that I can run to detect a new network card
that I just installed into an existing FreeBSD 5.4 box?
 
Thanks,
 
Keith
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Current state of AFS in freeBSD or alternatives.

[Craig Ryhorchuk]

Hi folks,

Is there a working version of AFS server/client for 5.4 ?
I found openafs-1.4.0 for FreeBSD 6.  Currently we're running 5.4 here and
are not sure that we want
to move to 6 yet for production.  The only option for 5.x appears to be
Arla, but I don't know what
the stability of that is and it appears to be focused on the client side.
Is this something I can consider for a production system ?
I also need to manage clients writing to the filesystem and the possibility
of server failure.
AFS appears to not handle this well, or is my interpretation of the docs
wrong ?
This may be getting beyond the scope of this list, but my actual need is for
redundant
fileservers running on FreeBSD.  AFS seems to be the closest thing I can
find, but I have the
feeling that someone had to do this before and maybe they're here.

Thanks,
  Craig
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Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

[Christopher McGee]

Hi all, I have a lot of servers on order, so I want to be able to just 
network boot them as a jumpstart into the installation (which will then 
be scripted).  I am most of the way there.  I have tested my NFS shares 
and if I boot a boxe off a cd, I can do the nfs installation without 
fail.  I have setup pxeboot, and if I am far enough along that when I 
boot off the network, it tftp's the files it needs, boots through menus, 
loads the generic kernel, mounts an nfs root, then errors.  The errors 
are "exec /sbin/init: error 70".  One error for each attempt at an init 
file.  Then it gives me an "init: not found in path 
/sbin/init:/sbin/oinit.."  Then it panics and reboots.  There is so 
much I've done, I'm not sure what specifics anyone might need to offer 
some assistance.


Chris
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Re: gnome2

[Louis J. LeBlanc]

> --On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 16:28:59 +0200 spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I would
>> like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2.
>> I have *updated *my ports.
>> I tried to run dm, gdm but none worked.
>> When I run startx, x windows start but not gnome2.
>> I have added to ~/.xsession the line /exec gnome-session /but still
>> nothing
>> happens.
>> I haven't found around the mailing lists a problem like that.
>> Does anybody have any idea about it?
>> Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> Edit /etc/ttys like this:
> ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm   on  secure
>
> And gnome will start when you boot.
>

Actually, don't the docs suggest turning OFF ttyv8?  IIRC, the more recent
approach is to put "gdm_enable=YES" (or something similar) in /etc/rc.d. 
Check the pkg_message file in the port directory to be sure.

I did try this recently (sometime in the last few weeks) but didn't have
the time to devote to getting gdm/gnome2 to work right myself.  I found
kdm much easier to get right - though I can't quite get gnome working
through it.  Still, you can run enlightenment from kdm, as well as Fvwm2,
KDE, etc.  If I were more interested in the session management, rather
than plain flexible window management, I'd probably try harder ...

HTH
Lou

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Re: gnome2

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 16:28:59 +0200 spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:



Hello all,
I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I would
like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2.
I have *updated *my ports.
I tried to run dm, gdm but none worked.
When I run startx, x windows start but not gnome2.
I have added to ~/.xsession the line /exec gnome-session /but still
nothing
happens.
I haven't found around the mailing lists a problem like that.
Does anybody have any idea about it?
Am I doing anything wrong?


Edit /etc/ttys like this:
ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm   on  secure

And gnome will start when you boot.

Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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Re: gnome2

[Kevin Kinsey]

spen wrote:


Hello all,
I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. I 
would like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2.

I have *updated *my ports.
I tried to run dm, gdm but none worked.
When I run startx, x windows start but not gnome2.
I have added to ~/.xsession the line /exec gnome-session /but still 
nothing

happens.
I haven't found around the mailing lists a problem like that.
Does anybody have any idea about it?
Am I doing anything wrong?
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If you wish to use "startx", then the "exec gnome-session" line should
*probably* be in ~/.xinitrc  (at least, that's one way I used to do this).

Possibly more what you want is this in /etc/ttys:

   ttyv0  "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm"cons25  on  secure

  which should start gdm on ttyv0 after booting.

IIRC, the *proper* thing to do is to put the GNOME startup
script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, make sure it's executable, etc.

But, it's been a while since I used GNOME, and development
may well have superseded my knowledge

Kevin Kinsey


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Re: Memory limit issue (malloc) for PHP script under Apache

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Olaf Greve wrote:


Hi all,

A colleague of mine has run into a weird issue, for which we hope 
someone knows a solution (or otherwise: if someone knows there's no 
(easy) solution, that's also good to know.


The issue: when running a script that will consume a large amount of 
memory (under FreeBSD 5.2.1-release i386, with custom kernel, with 
Apache 1.3.34_2, PHP 4.4.1 as mod_php4); Apache seems to deschedule 
the script in question as soon as it starts to consume over more or 
less 512MB of memory; the machine has 1GB of memory, and at the moment 
of running the script the rest of the machine is pretty much idle.



It's probably a limit problem.


If you were running apache2 you'd have easy control over limits:

From /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh

# apache2limits_args (str):   Default to "-e -C daemon"
# Arguments of pre-start limits run.

which, IIUC picks up limits from /etc/login.conf class daemon (which on 
5.4 seems to default to everything unlimited).


You could just try hacking your apache1 startup script and putting:

ulimit -m unlimited

somewhere at the start.

Type ulimit -a to see all the possibles or man sh.

You can put the ulimit -a in your start up script too just so you can 
see what the limits are when apache starts.



--Alex

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not rebooting on panic 5.4

[Ruben Bloemgarten]

Hi all, 

 

 I was hoping someone could tell me how to enable 5.4 to reboot
automagically on panics. It just hanging there isn't helping.

 

Thanks, 

 

Ruben 

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Re: Memory limit issue (malloc) for PHP script under Apache - solved!

[Olaf Greve]

Hi guys,

Well, my colleague has done some more RTFM-ing and Googling, and he 
found the following solution:

Put kern.maxdsiz="1073741824" in /boot/loader.conf (see the example in
/boot/defaults/loader.conf), and then reboot.

That way a new kernel compilation was not required.

Tnx for thinking with me!

Cheers,
Olafo

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Re: ee(1): why Backspace doesn't work as expected if $TERM=xterm?

[James Bailie]

Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

> They map it perfectly fine as 127, it's only FreeBSD's ee(1) that has
> this problem, tcsh and others work fine.

ee does not do this on the console on my 5.4 machine, nor does it
do this in an XTerm over an ssh connection to my 4.11 machine,
therefore I would suspect the problem must be with the terminal
emulator key mappings or pseudo-terminal settings.  In fact,
since changing the value of TERM fixed things, it PROVES the
problem is with one of these.

If you go to the PuTTY website you will find a simple answer to
your question in the online documentation.  In the data panel of
the configuration settings, you may change the
terminal-type-string to vt200, to cause PuTTY to set TERM
correctly for you.

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Re: Newbie: Ports upgrade, CVSup, and disk space problems

[Ashley Moran]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 14:43, Charles Haynes wrote:
> Hi, all. I'm new to FreeBSD.
>
> I'm setting up a machine to act as a webserver using:
>
> FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p12-jc2 (jail18) #0
>
> Tonight I added the package:
>
> cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2
>
> and ran:
>
> # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/cvs-supfile
>
> After it ran (which took over an hour), I realized I used the
> "cvs-supfile" and not the "ports-supfile." I only wanted to update the
> ports tree, and not download the entire CVS repository. How do I prune
> this back to a manageable size? I'm going to be using this machine
> (it's a VPS) as a webserver only.
>

Just delete /usr/src.  You can get it back if you need it by redoing the 
cvsup.

Ashley
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Newbie: Ports upgrade, CVSup, and disk space problems

[Charles Haynes]

Hi, all. I'm new to FreeBSD. 

I'm setting up a machine to act as a webserver using: 

FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p12-jc2 (jail18) #0

Tonight I added the package: 

cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2 

and ran: 

# cvsup -g -L 2 /root/cvs-supfile

After it ran (which took over an hour), I realized I used the
"cvs-supfile" and not the "ports-supfile." I only wanted to update the
ports tree, and not download the entire CVS repository. How do I prune
this back to a manageable size? I'm going to be using this machine
(it's a VPS) as a webserver only. 

Many thanks for any assistance you can offer! 

Here's the relevant parts of the supfile: 

*default host=cvsup9.us.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix

*default compress

src-all

ports-base  
ports-archivers
ports-benchmarks
ports-comms 
ports-converters
ports-databases
ports-devel
ports-dns  
ports-editors
ports-ftp
ports-java
ports-lang
ports-mail
ports-misc
ports-net 
ports-net-mgmt
ports-security
ports-shells
ports-sysutils
ports-textproc 
ports-www   

cvsroot-all
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Re: ee(1): why Backspace doesn't work as expected if $TERM=xterm?

[Constantine A. Murenin]

On 07 Dec 2005 09:27:48 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Constantine A. Murenin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I ssh my FreeBSD 4.8 machine and try to use ee(1), I always
> > notice that Backspace erases the following character, not the previous
> > one. On the contrary, I've noticed that it does not do that when I
> > login via console.
> >
> > So I decided to play with the value of $TERM.
> >
> > By default, when I ssh FreeBSD via PuTTY or Apple Terminal, I have the
> > TERM variable set to "xterm" or "xterm-color". When I tried to
> > manually change $TERM on FreeBSD and run ee, using "setenv TERM vt102
> > && ee test.txt", then Backspace key in ee(1) did behave as expected.
> >
> > Please, notice that Backspace does behave as expected in tcsh, it's
> > only ee(1) that shows this problem.
> >
> > How do I fix it without changing $TERM?
>
> Offhand, it sounds as though your terminal programs aren't really
> emulating xterms perfectly.  Look for adjustments on how they map the
> backspace key...

They map it perfectly fine as 127, it's only FreeBSD's ee(1) that has
this problem, tcsh and others work fine.

Notice that ee(1) on OpenBSD from ports works fine from the very same
terminals (PuTTY etc). Problem exists only with FreeBSD's ee(1).

Cheers,
Constantine.
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gnome2

[spen]

Hello all,
I have installed freebsd 6.0 STABLE in an ACER laptop recently. 
I would like to have gui, so I tried to install from the ports gnome2.

I have *updated *my ports.
I tried to run dm, gdm but none worked.
When I run startx, x windows start but not gnome2.
I have added to ~/.xsession the line /exec gnome-session /but still nothing
happens.
I haven't found around the mailing lists a problem like that.
Does anybody have any idea about it?
Am I doing anything wrong?
--spen--
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Re: ee(1): why Backspace doesn't work as expected if $TERM=xterm?

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Constantine A. Murenin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> When I ssh my FreeBSD 4.8 machine and try to use ee(1), I always
> notice that Backspace erases the following character, not the previous
> one. On the contrary, I've noticed that it does not do that when I
> login via console.
> 
> So I decided to play with the value of $TERM.
> 
> By default, when I ssh FreeBSD via PuTTY or Apple Terminal, I have the
> TERM variable set to "xterm" or "xterm-color". When I tried to
> manually change $TERM on FreeBSD and run ee, using "setenv TERM vt102
> && ee test.txt", then Backspace key in ee(1) did behave as expected.
> 
> Please, notice that Backspace does behave as expected in tcsh, it's
> only ee(1) that shows this problem.
> 
> How do I fix it without changing $TERM?

Offhand, it sounds as though your terminal programs aren't really
emulating xterms perfectly.  Look for adjustments on how they map the
backspace key...
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Re: libstdc++.so.5 howto ...

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Kiffin Gish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I guess what I was trying to say is that I am very confused about all this
> linux compatible stuff. I noticed there are many emulator ports for red hat,
> suse, etc. and it is not clear to me which strategy to use. There's even an
> Xfree linux compat in there, what for?

For linking to Linux applications.

> If I have an executable complaining that it cannot find libstdc++.so.5, what
> can I do?

Since it's supposed to be a Linux application, it should be getting it
out of the Linux compatibility area.  You said that was in place, so
the question is why the linker isn't finding that one.

> Perhaps there is a useful guide out there someplace, the FreeBSD handbook
> chapter on the subject is very short.

"man linux", for one thing.
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Memory limit issue (malloc) for PHP script under Apache

[Olaf Greve]

Hi all,

A colleague of mine has run into a weird issue, for which we hope 
someone knows a solution (or otherwise: if someone knows there's no 
(easy) solution, that's also good to know.


The issue: when running a script that will consume a large amount of 
memory (under FreeBSD 5.2.1-release i386, with custom kernel, with 
Apache 1.3.34_2, PHP 4.4.1 as mod_php4); Apache seems to deschedule the 
script in question as soon as it starts to consume over more or less 
512MB of memory; the machine has 1GB of memory, and at the moment of 
running the script the rest of the machine is pretty much idle.


The returned error in httpd-error.log is:
httpd in malloc(): error: allocation failed

We tried fiddling around with the php.ini and httpd.conf files, after 
Googling and trying stuff like RlimitMem (which apparently only seems to 
have effect for the CGI version of PHP and not the Mod version), but all 
to no avail.


The script that needs to be run will not be that easy to rewrite such 
that it'll use less memory; so we're hoping there's an easy trick to 
allow Apache to use more memory (say 900 MB).


Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Note: I'm aware that it would be better to tune the script, but as this 
is a one time brute force script; a quick work-around would be nice. :)


Tnx in advance, and cheers!
Olafo

PS: the command "limit -h" shows a datasize limit of 524000 bytes; this 
seems to be the limit that applies to Apache as well. Yet, changing to 
the csh and trying to set it to "unlimited" doesn't do any magic either 
and still doesn't supercede the above limit (unless I missed something)...

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Re: update from ports

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Pablo Allietti wrote:


hi i have a simple question.

i was installed spamassasin from /usr/ports how is the procedure to
upgrade this package? i need to deinstall and install again or have any
way to only upgrade like yum in fedora?
 

If you are doing installations by hand then, yes, you need to deinstall 
then reinstall.


However, you should look at ports/sysutils/portupgrade or 
ports/sysutils/portmanager.  There are a million and one messages in the 
archives about them, and specific questions about them regularly get 
answered here.


If you are prepared to accept default configuration options and don't 
want to recompile, then check out using packages.  The handbook 
undoubtedly has something to say about them, and you can still use 
portupgrade.


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

--Alex

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