date:20060926

Hi,
  I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question 
hasn't already been answered.
   
  I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3.
   
  I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the floppy 
drive, no problem.  Now, when I do the install, I have two hard drives, and 
configure them as follows...
   
  disk0
  150M / 
  512M /etc
  512M /etc
  512M /var
  1024M /bin
  4096M /usr
  1024M swap
   
  disk1
  4096M /forums
  4096M /mail
  4096M /sql
  1024M swap
   
  I go through the installation, via ftp, and then set the root password.  Oh, 
and the 'FreeBSD boot manager' is the option I choose, when configuring the 
disks.
   
  When I reboot, this is what I see ... 
   
  Manual root filesystem specification 
  : Mount  using filesystem  eg 
ufs:da0s1a 
  ?   List valid disk boot devices 
   Abort manual imput 

  ... and that's it.
   
  Nothing else.  The machine just sits there.  
   
  Is there something I've missed ?  We've tried the same install on three 
different machines, using three different motherboards, and four different hard 
drives.  Something is wrong, either with the installation media, or else with 
our method of going about it.  Oh, and I tried installing 5.5 on the same 
machines, with the same result.
   
  FreeBSD rocks; I've used it for a long time on many different machines, and 
this is the first time that this has happened.
   
  Could someone suggest a solution?  The people with whom I'm installing this, 
are starting to whisper the word 'Linux', and it's giving me nightmares   :(
   
  Thanks.
  
D.C
   


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Re: Limit p2p with pf n altq

2006-09-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen

> also how to limit  some ip not port with pf .

you set up your queues, then assign traffic to them via your pass
rules.  Your pass rules can use whichever criteria you like, ie

altq on $ext_if cbq bandwidth 10Mb queue { def, mostofmybandwidth, notalot }
 queue def bandwidth 20% cbq(default borrow red)
 queue mostofmybandwidth 77% cbq(default borrow red) { most_lowdelay, 
most_bulk }
 queue most_lowdelay priority 7
 queue most_bulk priority 7
 queue notalot 3% cbq
[...]
block all
pass from $localnet to any port $allowedports keep state queue 
mostofmybandwidth 
pass from $iptostarve to any port $allowedports keep state queue notalot 

- you get the idea.
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mount_msdosfs 240G

2006-09-26 Thread sanya

Hello

I have a problem with mounting big fat32 partition. 
-
% mount_msdosfs /dev/ar0s1 /mnt
mount_msdosfs: /dev/ar0s1: Invalid argument
-

in syslog:
kernel: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry

where I mistaken?

Thanks, 

sanya


FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7
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How to load iwi firmware at boot time

2006-09-26 Thread Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov


Hello,

I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it.
I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use
successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf:

## Intel Wireless Adapter settings
iwi_enable="YES"
iwi_interfaces="iwi0"
iwi_mode="bss"
ifconfig_iwi0="ssid  DHCP"

This used to bring up my iwi0 interface at boot time and I had a
working internet connection after the machine had booted.

However, this morning I did "make world" (attaching cvsup files for
the kernel and ports for completeness). The iwi firmware was not
loaded at boot time and the following messages are given:

$ dmesg | grep iwi
iwi0:  mem 0xb0101000-0xb0101fff irq 17
at device 4.0 on pci6
iwi0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xb0101000
iwi0: bpf attached
iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:0c:45:a1
iwi0: bpf attached
iwi0: bpf attached
iwi0: [MPSAFE]
iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
iwi0: Please load firmware

I have to manually load the firmrare invoking the following commands as root:
# iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss
# ifconfig iwi0 up

Could you please advise me how I can load automatically the firmware
during boot time?

Regards
Ivan

P.S. Here is the output of uname -a:
FreeBSD . 6.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Sep 26
13:13:00 EEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
i386

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Re: calendar

2006-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert

Michael S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Where does one get an updated calendar.judaic? Mine seems to be out of sync.

Nobody's maintaining that file these days.  Because the holidays are
scheduled on a whole different calendar, they need to be recalculated
every year.  A tool that actually understands the Hebrew calendar
would avoid this problem to some extent; see the calendar functions in
emacs for an example.

Please feel free to submit the annual updates for the file...
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RE : Re: problem installing on i386

Fanastic... the thing was staring me in the face all along!
   
  I shan't be able to try another install until tomorrow morning, but I have a 
feeling that you guys have put your finger on the problem!!
   
  Thanks!
   
  D.


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HP DL380 G5

2006-09-26 Thread Security Mailinglists

Hi,

Did someone already test freeBSD on the new Hewlett Packard DL380 G5
Servers with 2 or more CPUs in it?

cheers
Simon

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Re: ezjails, jails

2006-09-26 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC


Hi

On Sep 26, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Don Munyak wrote:


re: ezjails, jails

Hopefully a quick question. I am researching using EZJails from
http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/

But a little confused by the jail concept.

I think I need to setup two jails, one(1) for email services and
one(1) for www services, on a single server.


That will work



q. If I am running a webserver for more than one(1) domain, should I
be using a single jail for each domain, or is one jail needed for
'ALL' www processing ?


Up to you.  Each jail requires its own IP address.  There are things  
that people do with jails with private IPs and packet forwarding and  
stuff, but to keep it simple, consider that each jail needs an IP  
address (public).  If you have lots of them, and if each domain is  
something someone else runs, or is based on totally different SW,  
then you might consider separating them.  If you own and run each  
domain and they use a similar SW menu, then you may just run them out  
of one jail using apache virtual hosts.




q. If I am using a jail for each domain, does this imply loading
apache+php+mysql, for each www jail ?


Yes.  There are ways to share but until you are comfortable with  
jails and what you are doing, it is easier to just load each one up  
separately.


We run a ton of jails, one for each customer, and we share SW across  
them in our own "/usr/public" read only area with each jail having  
its own /usr/local/etc but to get it to work requires some  
configuration work and understanding how it all works and some other  
trickery...




q. Likewise with email and multiple domains, does multiple domains =
multiple email jails, as well as multiple copies of smtp, pop3,
webmail ??


You could but in most cases there is no reason to do that.  Run them  
all in 1 jail using one set of SW.  Set up your SMTP server to  
support multiple domains (I recommend exim).




q. Email and WWW services both require MySQL. Would I be installing
MySQL 'x' number of times?


Depends on how the SW accesses mysql but you can run multiple mysql  
DBs out of one installation...


Chad



What I want to do is he following:

We are a small company, so email traffic is minial..ie. less than 500
messages per day.
Likewise, www traffic is also minimal.
I want to build a single server to be located at a co-location  
facility.

This server would support both email and www services.

The email services would be built using instructions from
http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster.shtml
...that being stuff like qmail, RBL, spamassassin, clamav...etc
We have 5 separate domains for email services
The www services would be functionally similiar to LAMP
We have 5 separate domains for www

I would greatly appreciate any links or advice towards achiving my  
goals.


Thanks
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Re: problem installing on i386

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:09:05AM +0200, Desmond Coughlan wrote:

> Hi,
>   I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3.
>
>   I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the 
> floppy drive, no problem.  Now, when I do the install, I have two hard 
> drives, and configure them as follows...
>
>   disk0
>   150M / 
>   512M /etc
>   512M /etc
>   512M /var
>   1024M /bin
>   4096M /usr
>   1024M swap
>
>   disk1
>   4096M /forums
>   4096M /mail
>   4096M /sql
>   1024M swap
>
>   I go through the installation, via ftp, and then set the root password.  
> Oh, and the 'FreeBSD boot manager' is the option I choose, when configuring 
> the disks.
>
>   When I reboot, this is what I see ... 

Oh, I just noticed you did that with /bin too.
That must be left as part of root as well.   It contains binaries
that the system may/will need to use during the boot process or
when the system is in single user mode and only root is mounted.

So, also leave /bin in root.   

Also, /bin doesn't need to be nearly that big.   Mine uses up only 900 KB 
of space - that is Kilo bytes, not even megabytes.   

No other installs put things in /bin.  It is reserved for those essential 
binaries for minimal service while bringing up or fixing a problem with 
a system.  /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin
are where other things get installed.
  See 'man hier' for a more complete description on how the directory
  structure is laid out and used in FreeBSD.

So, don't reserve space for /bin.  Give that extra GByte to 
either /var or /usr. 

jerry

>   Manual root filesystem specification 
>   : Mount  using filesystem  eg 
> ufs:da0s1a 
>   ?   List valid disk boot devices 
>Abort manual imput 
> 
>   ... and that's it.
>
>   Nothing else.  The machine just sits there.  
>
>   Is there something I've missed ?  We've tried the same install on three 
> different machines, using three different motherboards, and four different 
> hard drives.  Something is wrong, either with the installation media, or else 
> with our method of going about it.  Oh, and I tried installing 5.5 on the 
> same machines, with the same result.
>
>   FreeBSD rocks; I've used it for a long time on many different machines, and 
> this is the first time that this has happened.
>
>   Could someone suggest a solution?  The people with whom I'm installing 
> this, are starting to whisper the word 'Linux', and it's giving me 
> nightmares   :(
>
>   Thanks.
>   
> D.C
>
> 
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Re: freeBSD 6.1 how to setup network file sharing on my home network between a win xp box and my BSD Laptop

2006-09-26 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)


Install it using ports (read the handbook).
On 26 September 2006, at 09:51, Mathew Stahl wrote:


Hi,
I am a BSD newbie.  I have used linux for years from Redhat 7.0 to  
9.0 and SuSE 9.1 to 10.1.  I was able to setup samba very easily on  
redhat 9.0 and below but could never get it to work on SuSE and I  
just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my dell laptop and I am wondering if  
any one has any tips on how to set it up (correctly) so I can share  
files between my win xp Desktop and my BSD laptop over a wireless  
network connection.  Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated!!


Thank you in advance,

Mathew Stahl
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Re: problem installing on i386

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:09:05AM +0200, Desmond Coughlan wrote:

> Hi,
>   I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question 
> hasn't already been answered.
>
>   I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3.
>
>   I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the 
> floppy drive, no problem.  Now, when I do the install, I have two hard 
> drives, and configure them as follows...
>
>   disk0
>   150M / 
>   512M /etc
>   512M /etc
>   512M /var
>   1024M /bin
>   4096M /usr
>   1024M swap
>
>   disk1
>   4096M /forums
>   4096M /mail
>   4096M /sql
>   1024M swap
>
>   I go through the installation, via ftp, and then set the root password.  
> Oh, and the 'FreeBSD boot manager' is the option I choose, when configuring 
> the disks.

This exact same question and situation was on the list about a week ago
from someone else.  You should check out recent archives.

Anyway, my guess was that you must not make /etc a separate file system.
It should remain as part of  /  (root).  

When the installation is going on, the system is really working from a
different root and kernel and everything - one from the floppy or CD
or in a 'memory' file system.   That includes a special separate /etc
directory.

After the install, when the system is booting, it first mounts only root 
in a special Read Only state.  It takes a wild guess that root is in 
partition 'a' of the boot slice - which is required so it is a true 
guess.

But, then it tries to do a remount rw and to read /etc/fstab and maybe 
some other files to find out what to do for the rest of the boot, but 
since only root is mounted, it cannot find /etc/fstab because /etc is 
not mounted.  So, you need to leave etc as part of root.

This was initially a shot in the dark suggestion by me when this 
problem was posted a week ago, but the previous poster with that 
problem wrote back and said redoing the partitioning without a 
separate /etc solved the problem for him.

So, my suggestions on the above are to get rid of the separate /etc
partitions and to increase your /var to at least double.  

I also noted that you have  '/etc'  listed twice, but I was assuming that
is a typo.   If not, well, you can't do that - have two partitions mounted 
at the same mount point - at least not and still make use of both of them.

jerry

ps.  You do not need 512 MB for /etc.  Mine uses up only about 1.6 MB 

>
>   When I reboot, this is what I see ... 
>
>   Manual root filesystem specification 
>   : Mount  using filesystem  eg 
> ufs:da0s1a 
>   ?   List valid disk boot devices 
>Abort manual imput 
> 
>   ... and that's it.
>
>   Nothing else.  The machine just sits there.  
>
>   Is there something I've missed ?  We've tried the same install on three 
> different machines, using three different motherboards, and four different 
> hard drives.  Something is wrong, either with the installation media, or else 
> with our method of going about it.  Oh, and I tried installing 5.5 on the 
> same machines, with the same result.
>
>   FreeBSD rocks; I've used it for a long time on many different machines, and 
> this is the first time that this has happened.
>
>   Could someone suggest a solution?  The people with whom I'm installing 
> this, are starting to whisper the word 'Linux', and it's giving me 
> nightmares   :(
>
>   Thanks.
>   
> D.C
>
> 
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freeBSD 6.1 how to setup network file sharing on my home network between a win xp box and my BSD Laptop

2006-09-26 Thread Mathew Stahl


Hi,
I am a BSD newbie.  I have used linux for years from Redhat 7.0 to 9.0 
and SuSE 9.1 to 10.1.  I was able to setup samba very easily on redhat 
9.0 and below but could never get it to work on SuSE and I just 
installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my dell laptop and I am wondering if any one 
has any tips on how to set it up (correctly) so I can share files 
between my win xp Desktop and my BSD laptop over a wireless network 
connection.  Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated!!


Thank you in advance,

Mathew Stahl
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Re: problem installing on i386

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:09:05AM +0200, Desmond Coughlan wrote:

> Hi,
>   I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question 
> hasn't already been answered.
>
>   I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3.
>
>   I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the 
> floppy drive, no problem.  Now, when I do the install, I have two hard 
> drives, and configure them as follows...
>
>   disk0
>   150M / 
>   512M /etc
>   512M /etc
>   512M /var
>   1024M /bin
>   4096M /usr
>   1024M swap
>
>   disk1
>   4096M /forums
>   4096M /mail
>   4096M /sql
>   1024M swap

I just noticed yet another thing.
You do not have a /tmp partition.
Although it is not essential to have a separate /tmp, it is a good
thing because many thing write to it, often unexpectedly and if it
happens to grow fast, it could fill up root and cause the system to
hang.   So, putting it in its own separate partition helps protect
the rest of the system if some process starts to run away with things.

So, my over all suggestions are now.
Get rid of the separate  /etc  and  /bin  partitions.  Leave them in root.
Then give the 512 MB to /tmp and the 1024 MB to /var.   

I also notice that you do not create an obvious place for user's
home directories.   Maybe you do not expect to have regular user
accounts, so that is OK.   But, if you do, it is often a good idea
to create a large partition for those to keep them somewhat isolated
for the general operation of the system.   I usually make a separate
/home partition.
I wonder what you intend to do with a 4 GB /mail partition.  If it
is for user accounts to keep mail, then maybe that should instead
be the /home partition to contain users' accounts home directories.
Just a thought.

Sheesh, if I would read more carefully the first time, I could save
some retyping and network traffic.But, I get so many Emails that
I have to try and rush through them.

Anyway, good luck,

jerry

>
>   I go through the installation, via ftp, and then set the root password.  
> Oh, and the 'FreeBSD boot manager' is the option I choose, when configuring 
> the disks.
>
>   When I reboot, this is what I see ... 
>
>   Manual root filesystem specification 
>   : Mount  using filesystem  eg 
> ufs:da0s1a 
>   ?   List valid disk boot devices 
>Abort manual imput 
> 
>   ... and that's it.
>
>   Nothing else.  The machine just sits there.  
>
>   Is there something I've missed ?  We've tried the same install on three 
> different machines, using three different motherboards, and four different 
> hard drives.  Something is wrong, either with the installation media, or else 
> with our method of going about it.  Oh, and I tried installing 5.5 on the 
> same machines, with the same result.
>
>   FreeBSD rocks; I've used it for a long time on many different machines, and 
> this is the first time that this has happened.
>
>   Could someone suggest a solution?  The people with whom I'm installing 
> this, are starting to whisper the word 'Linux', and it's giving me 
> nightmares   :(
>
>   Thanks.
>   
> D.C
>
> 
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pdf editor

2006-09-26 Thread sean


Can anyone recommend a pdf editor, hopefully one in ports?

I just need to change a line in an existing file.

Thanks
Sean
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Best way to "renice" a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Brett Glass

I'm working with a machine that's operating as a NAT router and 
recursive DNS resolver and is also running the Squid disk cache. 
Squid, in turn, spawns the "diskd" daemon, which does disk accesses 
on behalf of Squid. When Squid spawns diskd, it gives it a priority 
level 6 greater than itself. In other words, if Squid is launched 
normally, it gets a priority of 2 (normal) while diskd gets a 
priority of -4 (very high).


Unfortunately, diskd is not an efficient user of CPU (it seems to 
be polling for I/O completion) and is starving other processes on 
the machine (for example, natd) which need to operate in near real time.


I'd like to keep diskd running on that machine, because having disk 
access done by a separate process is very efficient -- even more so 
if the system uses SMP. But I need to re-prioritize Squid and diskd 
to keep the rest of the machine functional. In particular, I'd like 
to nice Squid down by 1 (so that natd and named have priority over 
it) and have diskd run at standard priority (so that it can't 
starve other processes). This will keep diskd at a higher priority 
than Squid itself, which in turn will hopefully prevent message 
queues from overflowing.


Reducing Squid's priority is simple; I can just edit the script 
that starts Squid so that /usr/bin/nice is used to invoke it. But 
taming diskd is more difficult, because diskd is a child process of 
Squid. I have to make sure it has started (which may require a 
delay loop), find out its PID, and then "renice" it by whatever 
increment is required to get it to the system's standard priority 
(2 by convention). Is there a "renice by name" utility for FreeBSD 
(sort of an equivalent of "killall")? I could gin one up, but since 
this seems like something that people would want to do frequently, 
find it hard to believe that someone hasn't already written one.


--Brett Glass

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Re: dovecot port not compiling with mysql support

2006-09-26 Thread Eric

Martin Hudec wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> as I am experiencing serious performance degradation while using dovecot
> (extremely high cpu usage), I've tried to recompile it without kqueue
> support as it seems to be the root cause (this issue is being solved in
> dovecot maillist), but I am getting error while wanting to compile with
> MySQL support in driver-mysql.c (please see below for more information).
> 
> Is there someone experiencing the same issue? Or should I file pr?


i believe they just checked in an update to rc7 for dovecot with the fix
for high kqueue loads yesterday. Update your ports tree and you should
see it. The check in notes specifically mentioned the kqueue fix.

as to the MySQL, not sure there as i dont use it with dovecot
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ezjails, jails

2006-09-26 Thread Don Munyak


re: ezjails, jails

Hopefully a quick question. I am researching using EZJails from
http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/

But a little confused by the jail concept.

I think I need to setup two jails, one(1) for email services and
one(1) for www services, on a single server.

q. If I am running a webserver for more than one(1) domain, should I
be using a single jail for each domain, or is one jail needed for
'ALL' www processing ?

q. If I am using a jail for each domain, does this imply loading
apache+php+mysql, for each www jail ?

q. Likewise with email and multiple domains, does multiple domains =
multiple email jails, as well as multiple copies of smtp, pop3,
webmail ??

q. Email and WWW services both require MySQL. Would I be installing
MySQL 'x' number of times?

What I want to do is he following:

We are a small company, so email traffic is minial..ie. less than 500
messages per day.
Likewise, www traffic is also minimal.
I want to build a single server to be located at a co-location facility.
This server would support both email and www services.

The email services would be built using instructions from
http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster.shtml
...that being stuff like qmail, RBL, spamassassin, clamav...etc
We have 5 separate domains for email services
The www services would be functionally similiar to LAMP
We have 5 separate domains for www

I would greatly appreciate any links or advice towards achiving my goals.

Thanks
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Re: problem installing on i386

2006-09-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw

Desmond Coughlan wrote:

Hi,
I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question
hasn't already been answered.

This is the right list. If you want to know if something similar has
been answered before then try searching the archives which you can find
from www.freebsd.org or just try google on freebsd plus some relevant
keywords.

I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3.

I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the floppy drive, no problem. Now, when I do the install, I have two hard drives, and configure them as follows...

disk0
150M /
512M /etc

512M /etc

1024M /bin

/etc and /bin cannot be separate filesystems. What made you think this was
sensible? I barely use 150Mb for / + /etc +/bin and only because I seem to
have kept about 6 different kernels :-) So using 512Mb for / including /etc
would be fine and leave lots of space. Even 128Mb would do given the apparent
smallness of your disks.

Honestly, your whole partitioning scheme looks odd to me.

4096M /forums
4096M /mail
4096M /sql

With small disks why split the space up like this at all? Dump
everything into one extra partition e.g. /home and make directories for
mail sql and forums under that. Then it doesn't matter which of these
ends up growing the largest - they all have the benefit of having as
much expansion space as possible and space doesn't get wasted when one
of your partitions sits at 5% full while the others grow to 90% full,
for example.

--Alex

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Re: problem installing on i386

Desmond Coughlan wrote:

Hi,
I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question
hasn't already been answered.

I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3.

I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the floppy drive, no problem. Now, when I do the install, I have two hard drives, and configure them as follows...

disk0
150M /
512M /etc

512M /etc
512M /var
1024M /bin
4096M /usr
1024M swap

disk1

4096M /forums
4096M /mail
4096M /sql
1024M swap

I go through the installation, via ftp, and then set the root password. Oh, and the 'FreeBSD boot manager' is the option I choose, when configuring the disks.

When I reboot, this is what I see ...

Manual root filesystem specification
: Mount using filesystem eg
ufs:da0s1a
? List valid disk boot devices
Abort manual imput

... and that's it.

Nothing else. The machine just sits there.

Is there something I've missed ? We've tried the same install on three different machines, using three different motherboards, and four different hard drives. Something is wrong, either with the installation media, or else with our method of going about it. Oh, and I tried installing 5.5 on the same machines, with the same result.

FreeBSD rocks; I've used it for a long time on many different machines, and this is the first time that this has happened.

Could someone suggest a solution? The people with whom I'm installing this, are starting to whisper the word 'Linux', and it's giving me nightmares :(

Don't create a separate /bin and /etc partition, there is no need, and
512M is far sufficient for both /, /etc and /bin.

I would guess the problem is that when you boot / is mounted, but no rc
script is found as it is in /etc, as well as the fstab with info on what
to mount where.

Further, all the startup scripts are shell scripts and requires /bin/sh
- including mountcritlocal that mounts your partions. Obviously this
work because /bin is not mounted.

A common partioning would be

/
swap
/var
/usr
/home
/tmp

You want that /tmp partition because any disk errors on in /tmp are not
fatal, but if it's on the / partition then you may have a system unable
to boot.

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Re: Dummynet Question

2006-09-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 05:00, Sushant Sharma wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have installed dummynet on a machine-2 which I am using to introduce
> delay between the packets that I'll be sending from machine-1 to machine-3.
> I am using ping to confirm that ICMP/TCP packets are getting delayed. I
> know both UDP/TCP fall under ip, so UDP packets should also be getting
> delayed but just to confirm, do you guys know of any utility that I can use
> to check if UDP packets are also getting delayed.

Use traceroute. Or you could run tcpdump on both ingress and egress
interfaces and check the timestamps. netcat can send udp packets,
bash can(if it's built this way) cat >/dev/udp/192.168.0.1/snmp for example

Or you could simply trust dummynet/ipfw. They work:)

HTH, Nikos
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Re: problem installing on i386


Erik Norgaard wrote:
Don't create a separate /bin and /etc partition, there is no need, and 
512M is far sufficient for both /, /etc and /bin.


I would guess the problem is that when you boot / is mounted, but no rc 
script is found as it is in /etc, as well as the fstab with info on what 
to mount where.


Further, all the startup scripts are shell scripts and requires /bin/sh
- including mountcritlocal that mounts your partions. Obviously this
work because /bin is not mounted.

 ^ insert "won't" here.

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X11 clipboard problems

2006-09-26 Thread Martin Brecher


Hello, -

I have the following problem:

box1 : FreeBSD 6.2-BETA with Xorg
box2 : FreeBSD 4.11 with XFree 4.3

When I ssh from box1 into box2 using X11Forwarding and launch an
application, for example Mozilla, on box2, I cannot copy and paste
between the applications running on box1 and the application(s) running
on box2. The clipboard just doesn't work. (AFAIK I have never
encountered this problem before, but I will try this with one of my old
SparcStations soon.)

A search on Google revealed that this has happened to a few people on
non-BSD systems, too; but I could not find any information on how to
solve this, nor any work-around.

Any tips or hints?

Greetings,
Martin

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RE : Re: problem installing on i386

No need to apologise (I should apologise for snipping everything to which I 
reply, but I'm using IE and it puts all those hypertext junkie things in...), 
as the mistake was mine.  You might have noticed that I listed two /etc slices 
... in fact, one of them was supposed to read '/tmp'.
   
  I also screwed up the sizes, but I suppose that that isn't so important.  
 
   
  Oh, and I forgot to include '/home'.
   
  There are undoubtedly some more errors... :)
   
  For info, just so you get an idea of what I want to do: we're trying to build 
a mail server for this non-profit organisation.  There are currently 120 
persons who will have a mail account.  That number will grow to 200 at the 
most.  Then once that's up and running, I fancy giving them a forum space, 
along the lines of .. hum.. let me try to find a similar one on the Internet 
 
   
  Try this ... 
   
  http://www.developpez.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=37
   
  So on the second disk drive, which is around.. 20GB, IIRC, we want /mail, 
/sql and /forums, and maybe 512M of swap.  On the first, system files etc. and 
swap.  I used to tinker around with postgreSQL, so that'll be what we'll be 
using.
   
  How does that sound? 
   
  D.


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Re: ezjails, jails

2006-09-26 Thread Chris



On Sep 26, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Don Munyak wrote:



I think I need to setup two jails, one(1) for email services and
one(1) for www services, on a single server.

I asked this question in a different way the other day (see thread  
"Patches for jail support of multiple IP...") and received a good  
answer on how to set up a single jail to support multiple IP  
addresses (as our domains and sites currently use) and servers. I'm  
in the process of doing this using nat and divert within the "host"  
right now, because I'm trying to avoid having multiple copies of all  
these programs running in multiple jails. I'm trying to model our  
jail environment after our non-virtual current environment. I'm not  
sure that is the best way. My answers are as a noob to FreeBSD jails  
and just what I've found thus far, I hope it's not inaccurate. It  
looks like one could do anything, yet if you are using jails for  
security, "anything", such as sharing between jails or the host,  
might compromise why you are putting in jails in the first place and  
everything I'm doing is for security reasons or I'd forget jails.



q. If I am running a webserver for more than one(1) domain, should I
be using a single jail for each domain, or is one jail needed for
'ALL' www processing ?

Are the domains on separate IPs? If not, one jail suffices for all  
rather easily. If they are on different IPs, you either need multiple  
jails or will need to receive packets for all IPs on the "host"  
environment and rewrite them to land on a single IP used by the jail.  
Then use NamedVirtualHost in httpd.conf to separate them back out.  
I'm currently only 3/4 of the way done because of the lack of  
information on using natd in this way (it's normally used for private  
IP space and there are no examples of this backward use).


There is a reason why you may want multiple jails for different  
websites. One CGI vulnerability on one site risks the other sites. If  
you have the memory on your server, separating the websites into  
different jails reduces the risk of cross-site hacking. This is  
extremely situational depending on who you have maintaining the  
different websites and how careful they are in their configuration  
and practices. If you control everything and know the code then  
obviously you "trust the web developer ;-)" and a single jail will be  
easier to manage.



q. If I am using a jail for each domain, does this imply loading
apache+php+mysql, for each www jail ?

Yes from a standpoint of loading, if you use multiple jails. You can  
set it up such that the source and ports are shared by using  
mount_nullfs, then after installation, drop the mount such that no  
changes to the binaries can be made. But the actual execution is  
separate (though for mysql it doesn't have to be, see below) and will  
duplicate the memory footprint. Seemed wasteful to me so I'm opting  
to funnel all IPs into one by the time it hits the jail and thus have  
only a single jail. To explain what I observed, when I built the  
jail, part of the process is to enter the jail, go (jailed-)root and  
build the applications needed, like apache or mysql. If I were  
running a copy of (for example) httpd within the jail and one within  
the host (or a different jail), they would be two separate  
installations and separate executing copies in memory. One could make  
them the same installation but the links would be a nightmare plus  
you increase the number accesses you make possible to the host  
environment. This seems like nullifying some of the value of the  
jail. From what I could see, there is no way obvious to share the in- 
RAM executable nor would this be desirable. If I'm wrong, I hope  
someone corrects me.



q. Likewise with email and multiple domains, does multiple domains =
multiple email jails, as well as multiple copies of smtp, pop3,
webmail ??

Same as previous question. But the method of putting mail into one IP  
is far different. I don't have the application to do this because all  
mail for all domains already comes into one IP. If I move our mail  
server to this machine, it will have a separate jail because we  
separate mail, dns and websites on different servers already and the  
isolation seems prudent.



q. Email and WWW services both require MySQL. Would I be installing
MySQL 'x' number of times?
Yes if you use multiiple jails with discrete instances of mysql  
server. You could set up a separate jail to run the mysql server and  
service the mysql clients on the other jail(s), think... "separate  
database backend as a separate jail on a different IP". If you setup  
a single jail and put the server within that jail this would also  
keep it down to one copy.


I am not familiar with ez-jail but found it a breeze to create jails  
using man jail combined with other web how-tos. man jail is  
inaccurate in how you install world and I would look to the other  
resources on the web for more current information.


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Re: ezjails, jails

2006-09-26 Thread Don Munyak


Thanks a bunch Chad and Chris. Good stuff to digest.

Chris, If you have some links to good howto's and don't mind posting,
I'd be greatful

Don
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Re: RE : Re: problem installing on i386

Desmond Coughlan wrote:

So on the second disk drive, which is around.. 20GB, IIRC, we want /mail, /sql and /forums, and maybe 512M of swap. On the first, system files etc. and swap. I

used to tinker around with postgreSQL, so that'll be what we'll be using.

How does that sound?

1) You will find maintenance easier if you stick to default location for
storing stuff, so mount your partitions on those mountpoints: By default
user's mboxes goes in /var/mail, databases in /var/db.

2) You might then consider making your second disk dedicated to /var
entirely rather than fragment in multiple partitions.

3) I recall on your original list you had swap on both disks, this may
or may not have any impact on performance compared to just one swap on
the first disk.

I would do something like this:

ad0s1:
/128MB
swap 512MB
/usr6144MB
/tmp 512MB

ad1s1:
/home 4092MB
/share 4092MB
/var4092MB

The /share is non-default, I like to have this for groups. Say your
organisation have various working groups, files belonging to those
should not reside in users home-dir, but rather be shared among all
members.

The above has some further advantages: on the second disk is all the
data users create, you can wipe ad0 in a reinstall if needed, there you
only need to restore config-files in /etc and /usr/local/etc.

Re: Best way to "renice" a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom

I'm working with a machine that's operating as a NAT router and recursive DNS 
resolver and is also running the Squid disk cache. Squid, in turn, spawns the 
"diskd" daemon, which does disk accesses on behalf of Squid. When Squid 
spawns diskd, it gives it a priority level 6 greater than itself. In other 
words, if Squid is launched normally, it gets a priority of 2 (normal) while 
diskd gets a priority of -4 (very high).


Unfortunately, diskd is not an efficient user of CPU (it seems to be polling 
for I/O completion) and is starving other processes on the machine (for 
example, natd) which need to operate in near real time.


I'd like to keep diskd running on that machine, because having disk access 
done by a separate process is very efficient -- even more so if the system 
uses SMP. But I need to re-prioritize Squid and diskd to keep the rest of the 
machine functional. In particular, I'd like to nice Squid down by 1 (so that 
natd and named have priority over it) and have diskd run at standard priority 
(so that it can't starve other processes). This will keep diskd at a higher 
priority than Squid itself, which in turn will hopefully prevent message 
queues from overflowing.


Reducing Squid's priority is simple; I can just edit the script that starts 
Squid so that /usr/bin/nice is used to invoke it. But taming diskd is more 
difficult, because diskd is a child process of Squid. I have to make sure it 
has started (which may require a delay loop), find out its PID, and then 
"renice" it by whatever increment is required to get it to the system's 
standard priority (2 by convention). Is there a "renice by name" utility for 
FreeBSD (sort of an equivalent of "killall")? I could gin one up, but since 
this seems like something that people would want to do frequently, find it 
hard to believe that someone hasn't already written one.


Google is your friend :)

http://www.google.com/search?q=reniceall

very first link.
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Re: ezjails, jails

2006-09-26 Thread Chris



On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Don Munyak wrote:



Chris, If you have some links to good howto's and don't mind posting,
I'd be greatful


I found the first link to be very helpful in building my own jail  
setup script. It was invaluable to be able to repeatedly build it  
from scratch... adjust things, tear down (reboot, chflag binaries, rm  
-r jaildir) and start over. I gleaned some good stuff from the other  
one too. As you repeatedly set up the jails, you start understanding  
the virtualization and begin to rethink what you were planning. I  
really recommend doing it if your deadlines allow 10 hours of playing  
(I'm a bit slow ;-)).


Bear in mind that the most understandable guides on the web all seem  
to be dated and adjustment is necessary. Also, I've yet to find any  
targeted guides on specifically what to do with natd once you've  
diverted the IPs but it would appear to be similar to how people use  
natd to support private IP space but just stays within the machine.  
I'm flying blind there so I have nothing to provide.


Here are the jail links.

http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/ 
Creating_a_FreeBSD_Jail#Getting_services_to_not_listen_to_.2A


http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/03/09/jails-virtualization.html? 
page=1



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Re: dovecot port not compiling with mysql support

2006-09-26 Thread Martin Hudec


Hello Eric,


Eric wrote:

i believe they just checked in an update to rc7 for dovecot with the fix
for high kqueue loads yesterday. Update your ports tree and you should
see it. The check in notes specifically mentioned the kqueue fix.


It's okay, but issue with compiling is reoccuring.


Martin
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Re: Missing cd0 device node

2006-09-26 Thread Nate Eldredge

I forgot to mention, this is on 6.1-RELEASE-p4/amd64.  Also, the /dev/acd0 
node remains in existence and seems to work fine.


On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Nate Eldredge wrote:


Hi all,

In the course of various screwing around with my ATAPI CDROM device 
(including some dvd ripping and playing that got aborted at odd moments), I 
got the following messages:

... [see original message]
I also have atapicam in use for DVD burning, and I now find that /dev/cd0 is 
missing, and I can't figure out how to get it back.  "camcontrol rescan all" 
completes successfully, and I have


vulcan# camcontrol devlist
   at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 ()


 (see original message)

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Re: pf + ipv6 + keep state - any known issues?

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Schuller

> Are you using antispoofing rules on your external interface?  If you've got
> something like this in your ruleset:
>
>antispoof log quick for $ext_if
>
> Then it will expand into a series of rules containing the following when
> you load them:

Thank you for responding!

No, this is not the issue. I *am* performing antispoof on my physical 
interface, but not on the tunnel interface.

After some further investigation my current theory is that I have run into the 
trouble with pf and a packet traversing an interface twice.

Having a 'keep state' on the *incoming* direction results in a state entry 
according to pfctl. But no state entry for the 'keep state' in the outgoing 
direction.

The result being that while packets coming into port 22 are allowed and state 
set up, but the responding packets (to some random source port) are NOT 
allowed because the outgoing direction yielded no state entry.

I am not sure what the behavior is supposed to be with a packet traversing the 
same interface twice, except I have seen references to the effect of "don't 
be stupid, don't do that, get another NIC" (for the typical firewall/gateway 
case). Except in this case that does not apply, even if you agree with the 
sentiment to begin with.

Can anyone confirm or deny whether "double" traversal *IS* supposed to work 
without difficulties/special cases on current versions of pf/FreeBSD?

Thanks!

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Re: calendar

2006-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On   Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
Michael S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   wrote

> Good day all.

> Where does one get an updated calendar.judaic? Mine seems to be out
of > sync.

> Thanks in advance.
> Michael

On the internet, google  "Jewish calendar", try it both with the quotes
and without them (I forget which one I used, but I think with is better).

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Re: How to load iwi firmware at boot time

2006-09-26 Thread Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov


Hello,

On 9/26/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,

I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it.
I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use
successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf:

## Intel Wireless Adapter settings
iwi_enable="YES"
iwi_interfaces="iwi0"
iwi_mode="bss"
ifconfig_iwi0="ssid  DHCP"

This used to bring up my iwi0 interface at boot time and I had a
working internet connection after the machine had booted.

However, this morning I did "make world" (attaching cvsup files for
the kernel and ports for completeness). The iwi firmware was not
loaded at boot time and the following messages are given:

$ dmesg | grep iwi
iwi0:  mem 0xb0101000-0xb0101fff irq 17
at device 4.0 on pci6
iwi0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xb0101000
iwi0: bpf attached
iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:0c:45:a1
iwi0: bpf attached
iwi0: bpf attached
iwi0: [MPSAFE]
iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
iwi0: Please load firmware

I have to manually load the firmrare invoking the following commands as root:
# iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss
# ifconfig iwi0 up

Could you please advise me how I can load automatically the firmware
during boot time?

Regards
Ivan

P.S. Here is the output of uname -a:
FreeBSD . 6.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Sep 26
13:13:00 EEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
i386


I was able to fix it.

I created an executable script located at /etc/start_if.iwi0. It
contains the following line:

iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss

This script is executed at boot time and it loads the firmware.

Thank you for the nice docs althought scattered in the Web.

Regards
Ivan

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Tared by TAR

2006-09-26 Thread Bob

 
Please forgive me if this is all due to my newbie status. I HAVE RTFM!, and 
that is essentially my problem.

I use tar daily, to make a file-backup of /usr/home. I put a tape in the dat 
(DDS3) drive before I go to bed, and in the morning put it into the 30 day 
rotation box. 

I have recently moved from Linux, to FreeBSD. And pretty much copied my 
scripts from the old Linux box to the new BSD one. A veritable joy I might 
add! AThis is so much better!!!

I went nuts, and got tar'ed and feathered with TAR. I have always used tar 
with the -M option (--multi-volume) which allows you to span more than one 
tape on a big ta archiver;  but you won't find this -M option in BSD's TAR! 
Nor will you find a proper man page, for BSD's port of gtar (gnutar) which I 
THIINK is equivalent to Linux's tar. 

What I ended up doing is a BADF HACK! I copyiny my old linux tar.1.gz manpage 
to gtar on my new system. 
 
HOWEVER, this man page from my old Linux system may, or may not  not be 
correct, given the fact that BSD giggers the makefile with it's own patches  
for every "make install", and when you make gtar from 
"/usr/ports/archivers/gtar" you do NOT get a manpage! BAD! BAD! BAD!  Bug??? 
The differences between bsdtar, and gnutar are quite IMMENSE!
 
Being a stickler, and constant user of,  proper documentation,  I am just a 
bit lost here! Help!

Bob
 
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calenders .. silly question !

The thread on calendars has got me thinking 
   
  The 'non-profit' organisation I mentioned, is a school.  
   
  Here in France (and no doubt in dozens of other countries), many universities 
have constructed 'virtual campuses'.  By that, I mean that the student logs in, 
he has not only his grades, but his timetable (classes, seminars etc), and he 
can send and receive e-mail to and from his tutors.  
   
  Can this be done under FreeBSD (that was the 'silly' part of the question) ? 
   
  Any pointers to where I can start learning about that stuff?  Setting up the 
MX is the most urgent, but afterwards, we can start to have fun with SQL, 
forums, campuses etc?
   
  Thanks.
  
D.


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ipfw, ftp and wget

2006-09-26 Thread vittorio

I'm using ipfw as firewall. 
What rules should I add to use both wget and ftp from my box only towards the 
internet through my iwi0?

(I found the following lines for ftp but they don't seem to work:
..
ipfw add 45 allow tcp from any to any 21 in setup keep-state
ipfw add 46 allow udp from any to any 21 in setup keep-state)

Vittorio 
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Re: Best way to "renice" a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn


At 9:32 AM -0600 9/26/06, Brett Glass wrote:


Is there a "renice by name" utility for FreeBSD (sort of an 
equivalent of "killall")? I could gin one up, but since this seems 
like something that people would want to do frequently, find it hard 
to believe that someone hasn't already written one.


FreeBSD added the `pgrep' command sometime ago.  Your renice-by-name
script would turn into something like:

renice +2 `pgrep diskd`

(I have not tested that, and you might want to embellish it by adding
some of the other options to the `pgrep' command)

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Re: ezjails, jails

2006-09-26 Thread Don Munyak


Thanks, I have no actual deadline. Just something I want/need to do in
the near future. The tearing down and restarting is also something I
was planning on.

Somewhat off-topic, but have you thought about using vmware,
specifically vmplayer. There have been many a propellar-head that have
reverse engineered the process of creating vmware templates. There are
several places on the web that you can either create a blank template
or download a preconfigured template. Then just install the OS. You
can even link the virtual CD drive to an ISO image so that during the
startup of the image, the VM is running from what it thinks is a live
cd.

This is how I am doing some of my practice build/tear down stuff

here some of my links

http://www.easyvmx.com/
http://www.easyvmx.com/tutorial.html
http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux … eation.php
http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/ … mware.html
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000153064739/
http://sanbarrow.com/
http://www.brunofreitas.com/portal/viewtopic.php?t=41

Thanks again
Don
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Re: Tared by TAR

2006-09-26 Thread Dan Nelson

In the last episode (Sep 26), Bob said:
> Please forgive me if this is all due to my newbie status. I HAVE
> RTFM!, and that is essentially my problem.
> 
> I use tar daily, to make a file-backup of /usr/home. I put a tape in
> the dat (DDS3) drive before I go to bed, and in the morning put it
> into the 30 day rotation box.
> 
> I have recently moved from Linux, to FreeBSD. And pretty much copied
> my scripts from the old Linux box to the new BSD one. A veritable joy
> I might add! AThis is so much better!!!
> 
> I went nuts, and got tar'ed and feathered with TAR. I have always
> used tar with the -M option (--multi-volume) which allows you to span
> more than one tape on a big ta archiver; but you won't find this -M
> option in BSD's TAR!  Nor will you find a proper man page, for BSD's
> port of gtar (gnutar) which I THIINK is equivalent to Linux's tar.
>
> What I ended up doing is a BADF HACK! I copyiny my old linux tar.1.gz
> manpage to gtar on my new system.
>  
> HOWEVER, this man page from my old Linux system may, or may not  not
> be correct, given the fact that BSD giggers the makefile with it's
> own patches for every "make install", and when you make gtar from
> "/usr/ports/archivers/gtar" you do NOT get a manpage! BAD! BAD! BAD! 
> Bug???  The differences between bsdtar, and gnutar are quite IMMENSE!

Hey, don't blame us!  If you look at the extracted tar-1.15.1
directory, you'll note that they don't even /provide/ a manpage, so
there's not much we can do here.  :(  You'll have to use the info docs,
or do as you did and copy an older gnutar manpage from another system.

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HP deskjet 520

2006-09-26 Thread justin



Hello,

I am trying to configure my printer but i`m running into some trouble.
The hand books talks about the polled and the interrupt driven mode.
Some hp printers got problems with the interupt driven mode on the 
parallel port.
The hand book comes with a sollution allthought they say that in some 
cases it`s not enough.
I`ve did the thinge in order to come into the pollede mode but still my 
printer is not working.

Does any one know what i can do more to come into the polled mode.

The printer is printing some lines and then it blocks, weird.

Thanks,
justin.



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Re: Tared by TAR

2006-09-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw


Bob wrote:

I went nuts, and got tar'ed and feathered with TAR. I have always used tar 
with the -M option (--multi-volume) which allows you to span more than one 
tape on a big ta archiver;  but you won't find this -M option in BSD's TAR! 
Nor will you find a proper man page, for BSD's port of gtar (gnutar) which I 
THIINK is equivalent to Linux's tar. 
 

The manual page for gtar on FreeBSD 5.4 is about 30% longer than the one 
on a random Linux system I looked at, and looks like a proper man page 
to me.  It mentions -M.  Linux tar *is* gtar, though the specific 
version will of course vary between different Linuxes and different 
FreeBSDs.


That aside, try "info tar" for full blown gory details of gnu tar.

Also, for incremental backups, dump is easy to use, handles multi-tape 
archives and incrementals, and works on Live filesystems; but it does 
only work at the level of a filesystem not random directories.


--Alex


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FreeBSD Install

2006-09-26 Thread Edward and Nancy Powers



  I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize
  myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment.   I would like
  something fairly easy to install and maintain.  I do not want to
  replace Windows, but would like to switch between Windows and FreeBSD.

  Is it possible to do this with FreeBSD?


  Ed Powers
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Re: Best way to "renice" a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas

On 2006-09-26 09:32, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working with a machine that's operating as a NAT router and
> recursive DNS resolver and is also running the Squid disk cache.
> Squid, in turn, spawns the "diskd" daemon, which does disk accesses on
> behalf of Squid. When Squid spawns diskd, it gives it a priority level
> 6 greater than itself. In other words, if Squid is launched normally,
> it gets a priority of 2 (normal) while diskd gets a priority of -4
> (very high).
>
> Unfortunately, diskd is not an efficient user of CPU (it seems to be
> polling for I/O completion) and is starving other processes on the
> machine (for example, natd) which need to operate in near real time.
>
> I'd like to keep diskd running on that machine, because having disk
> access done by a separate process is very efficient -- even more so if
> the system uses SMP. But I need to re-prioritize Squid and diskd to
> keep the rest of the machine functional. In particular, I'd like to
> nice Squid down by 1 (so that natd and named have priority over it)
> and have diskd run at standard priority (so that it can't starve other
> processes). This will keep diskd at a higher priority than Squid
> itself, which in turn will hopefully prevent message queues from
> overflowing.
>
> Reducing Squid's priority is simple; I can just edit the script that
> starts Squid so that /usr/bin/nice is used to invoke it. But taming
> diskd is more difficult, because diskd is a child process of Squid. I
> have to make sure it has started (which may require a delay loop),
> find out its PID, and then "renice" it by whatever increment is
> required to get it to the system's standard priority (2 by
> convention). Is there a "renice by name" utility for FreeBSD (sort of
> an equivalent of "killall")? I could gin one up, but since this seems
> like something that people would want to do frequently, find it hard
> to believe that someone hasn't already written one.

Maybe something like this helps?

$ echo renice -n +10 -p `echo \`pgrep httpd\` | sed -e 's/ /,/g'`
renice -n +10 -p 1023,656,655,654,653,652,610
$

There is always a fair chance you might attempt to renice a process
which just happened to die, but this should be ok, unless you start
seeing PIDs being recycled too fast :)

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Re: nested labels

2006-09-26 Thread Adam Martin


Jeffery,

On 2006 Sep 23 , at 16:15, J65nko wrote:


On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have hit the limit of 8 disklabels per slice.  Supposedly, one can
create lables within a label, thus overcoming this limit.  I googled
everything but could only find references to gpt-- nothing about 
nested
labels or partitions.  Can anyone detail the steps involved in 
setting up

nested labels or partitions?


	There was some previous discussion in this thread about the merits of 
multiple partitions, and why one would need so many.  I will not delve 
into a long discussion on this; suffice it to say that there are many 
valid reasons to create more than 8 partitions on one disc, and that 
these reasons are usually unique to the site in question.  If a system 
administrator feels that he needs more division of storage, he likely 
has a good reason.



A slice can have 8 labels, a disk can have 4 slices, so 4 x 8 labels =
32 labels
Deduct from those 32 the reserved "c" and possibly "b" and you still
have a lot to spare ;)


	Although, the above, using PC partitions with nested BSD labels 
within, is a viable solution, and can be used safely with sysinstall, 
to give you a nice GUI (well, not gui, but menu at least) to work with 
the partitions; the biggest problem here, and the reason I stopped 
doing this, is that you have to know in advance how many 
meta-partitions you want, and what sizes they are.  For example, my old 
160 GB disc was divided into a 32 GB and a "remainder" PC partition.  
Those each had 7 major partitions therein.  (You can use partitions a 
and b for filesystems.  It's just convention that we use a and b for 
root and swap.)  As this can be done safely, and straightforward from 
the sysinstall program, I won't go into details here.


	What you can also do is use the bsdlabel(8) program on any slice.  In 
FreeBSD, geom labels devices very simply, and sensibly.  E.G.:  
/dev/ad0s1hs2def is a valid device name.  Granted it is a very absurd 
case, but it illustrates how one can use it.  In geom, any PC 
partitions are appended as "sN" where N is 1 thru 4 for primary 
partitions, and 5 thru (unknown?) for logical partitions.  In the case 
of bsdlabel (disklabel) partitions, they receive letters a thru h.  In 
the above example, the primary master disc's first primary partition 
has a bsdlabel, which the last partition of it has a PC partition table 
within, which has a primary partition in slot two.  That nested PC 
partition has a BSD partition, with a partition in slot d, which has 
more BSD sub-labels.  (Need I go on, with this pathological example?)


	In summary, you can make bsdlabels, inside of a partition (PC or BSD). 
 This is done by just running bsdlabel -w on the partition in which you 
wish to create the sub-partitions.  (bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s1h, for 
example)  You can then create unlimited levels of partitions.  Remember 
that after running bsdlabel -w, you must run bsdlabel -e, to edit the 
partition.  Do not forget to create filesystems in the partitions 
(newfs -UO2 for UFS 2 with softupdates.)  As far as conventions, I 
prefer to put the "extended" partition into slot a, and set its type to 
"unknown."  In cases where slot a is taken by a root partition, I use 
slot h.  I find that sticking to this convention helps keep me 
organized when employing this technique.


Regards,

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Re: FreeBSD Install

2006-09-26 Thread albi

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:28:47 -0400
"Edward and Nancy Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
>I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize
>myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment.   I would like
>something fairly easy to install and maintain.  I do not want to
>replace Windows, but would like to switch between Windows and
> FreeBSD.
> 
>Is it possible to do this with FreeBSD?

imho fastest and easiest is to use a live-cd e.g. :
http://www.freesbie.org/

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Re: system gets panic

2006-09-26 Thread César Amaya


Le Cocq Michel wrote:

the only thing i can say is for me if i had a such message with "inode"
i should try in first a fsck.

César Amaya a écrit :

  

Hi list,

I have a HP dx5150 SFF system with FreeBSD 6.1 Release running on it.
The system worked fine the first 4 weeks, after that, the server begun
to reboot while it was booting, and two or three times 5 minutes 
after booting. The error message said:


   panic: softdep_setup_inomapdep: found inode
   ...
   rebooting after 15 segs.

Do you know what´s going on here?
Thanks!
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Actually, there was a problem with the disk partitions, they wasn´t 
properly unmounted. I did fsck -y to every partition and problem resolved.


Atte.
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can't assign resources

2006-09-26 Thread Perry Hutchison

Do I need to do anything about these lines near the end
of the dmesg?

  unknown:  can't assign resources (memory)
  unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
  unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
  unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
  unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
  unknown:  can't assign resources (irq)
  unknown:  can't assign resources (port)

The box is a Dell Optiplex GX1, and it does seem to be working OK,
but I suppose this may indicate that something is not configured
properly.

== complete dmesg ==

Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #3: Mon Sep 25 21:49:18 PDT 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (447.69-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
  
Features=0x383f9ff
real memory  = 201326592 (192 MB)
avail memory = 187494400 (178 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
cpu0 on motherboard
pcib0:  pcibus 0 on motherboard
pir0:  on motherboard
pci0:  on pcib0
agp0:  mem 0xf000-0xf3ff at 
device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1:  at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1:  on pcib1
pci1:  at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0:  at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0:  on isab0
atapci0:  port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0:  on atapci0
ata1:  on atapci0
uhci0:  port 0xcce0-0xccff irq 11 at 
device 7.2 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0:  on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0:  at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
pcib2:  at device 15.0 on pci0
pci2:  on pcib2
pci2:  at device 9.0 (no driver attached)
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xcc00-0xcc7f mem 
0xff00-0xff7f irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0
miibus0:  on xl0
xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:b0:d0:28:ad:4f
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0:  at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc on isa0
atkbdc0:  at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0:  irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0:  irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
fdc0:  at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0:  at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0:  on ppc0
plip0:  on ppbus0
lpt0:  on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0:  on ppbus0
sc0:  at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0:  at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
unknown:  can't assign resources (memory)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (irq)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 447691600 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 157066MB  at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master UDMA33
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
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Re: ipfw, ftp and wget

2006-09-26 Thread Josh Paetzel

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 20:07, vittorio wrote:
> I'm using ipfw as firewall.
> What rules should I add to use both wget and ftp from my box only
> towards the internet through my iwi0?
>
> (I found the following lines for ftp but they don't seem to work:
> ..
> ipfw add 45 allow tcp from any to any 21 in setup keep-state
> ipfw add 46 allow udp from any to any 21 in setup keep-state)
>
> Vittorio

You want to allow traffic out.  The keep state will take care of 
allowing responses back in.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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Has anyone on this list set up an internet connection using a Westell WireSpeed ADSL modem? If so, please

2006-09-26 Thread ograbme


let me know what gotcha's, if any, I should be aware of.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: FreeBSD Install

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:28:47PM -0400, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote:

> 
>   I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize
>   myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment.   I would like
>   something fairly easy to install and maintain.  I do not want to
>   replace Windows, but would like to switch between Windows and FreeBSD.
> 
>   Is it possible to do this with FreeBSD?

Yes it is.
It will take some learning.
The environment and complete mindset is very different from MS.
Really, it is more server oriented where MS is more application oriented.

In other words FreeBSD provides a platform for you to build what you
want on it, but doesn't say much about the applications.  That is up to you.
On the other hand, MS gives you a bunch of applications and doesn't
let you very near the platform.

So, MS makes a lot of decisions and assumptions for you and  you have
little choice about them.   FreeBSD UNIX makes almost no assumptions
and forces you to make all your own decisions - some of which you will
not be accustomed to seeing.

But, with all that difference in point of view, with FreeBSD you can 
build a very good and servicable desktop system that is reliable and 
relatively secure as well as have a top level server system if you plan 
to provide any computing services such as Email or web service, etc.

The first thing to do is to try and wade through the FreeBSD handbook
that is available online from the FreeBSD web site.  There are a 
number of links to it on that site.   Don't worry if you do not 
understand it all from the start/first reading.  Just absorb what you
can and learn where you can go back to to find various pieces of information.

Then, do a little more serious work on the parts that are a step by step
set of things to do to install and configure FreeBSD.

Then, download a copy of the latest full release ISO (presently 6.1)
and install it and start experimenting.   At this time you will become
intimately familiar with the handbook and the man pages and probably
some of the online publications at sites such as onlamp.com

Play with it for a while - week/month whatever your patience will
endure - and then rethink things out a bit and do another install.
By that time, the next release may be out, so download it and make
a CD for the install.Most of the things you will change are
how you divide up the disk for various things and which extra things
from ports you really want to install.  For example, some of the games
read pretty good, but really aren't worth trying to play or you may
want to skip some of the really extreme security stuff or might
want to add more security.   You might want to change your X-windows
manager and/or desktop utility choices.   I don't even bother to
install KDE or Gnome any more because I really don't want that much
desktop junk.   I like simpler Afterstep better.  It gives me good 
working windows and supports my browser, XPDf, etc and I really hate
having stuff tied in to the browser that I want to run separately,
such as Email.

Anyway, you will be better able to make these kinds of choices after
you have played with it for a while.

Installation at first looks difficult and confusing.  It is not so
bad once you have been through it.   Most of all those choices are
not really relavant and you learn to look past what you do not need.
Following a good step by step procedure such as the handbook or
in FreeBSD Unleashed or The Complete FreeBSD books is the way to
get through it the first couple of times.   Just don't get caught up
in the authors whime and prejudices.   They all have favorites and
axes to grind that may not be the favored choice for you.   You will
catch on to which things as you experiment and learn.

jerry 
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Re: calenders .. silly question !

Desmond Coughlan wrote:
The thread on calendars has got me thinking

The 'non-profit' organisation I mentioned, is a school.

Here in France (and no doubt in dozens of other countries), many universities have constructed 'virtual campuses'. By that, I mean that the student logs in, he has not only his grades, but his timetable (classes, seminars etc), and he can send and receive e-mail to and from his tutors.

Can this be done under FreeBSD (that was the 'silly' part of the question) ?

Any pointers to where I can start learning about that stuff? Setting up the MX is the most urgent, but afterwards, we can start to have fun with SQL, forums, campuses etc?

Honestly, I think you will have a hard time getting any useful answers:
Your question is vague and broad and posting under a completely
different topic is not helping.

Before asking the "how" question, you gotta understand the problem you
want to solve - that is first, figure out what is the problem:

- how many users?
- how will you manage users?
- who will manage users?
- how will users access services?
- from where will users access services? - routing? - firewall?
- does the infrastructure exist to provide access to services?
- network? wireless? dns? etc.
- how often will users access services?
- how much data will be handled by the servers?
- what hardware is required to support the expected traffic?
...
and on and on.

Once you have a clear idea of that you can start asking more concrete
questions:

- which MTA?
- how do I setup that MTA?
- what MDA? can the MTA work as MDA?
- how do I setup that MDA?
etc.

So, I recommend you rethink your problem and make it clear what you want
to achieve in your next post - under a suitable subject...

Re: FreeBSD Install