Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address
+--- On Thursday, June 26, 2003 13:20, | Alfonso Romero proclaimed: | | Thanks for your reply. The reason I wanted to have two DNS servers is | because I want to register several domains and don´t want to depend on an | external DNS service, but I found out the two DNS servers required by | Internic must be physically separated also, so I´ll have to ask someone | else to host my secondary DNS server, or stick with the available DNS | options. I just wondered if it could be possible to have two DNS servers | inside a LAN, behind a FreeBSD box with NAT. | | Regards, | | Alfonso Romero Alfonso, If you are thinking of running named on serverA and serverB (both in RFC1918 space), and have them both use one globally routable IP address, there is a way. I did this for a while before getting external secondary services. Here is what I did: 1) go to http://www.bsdshell.net/hut_fvrrpd.html and read about the HUT project. Very interesting. 2) cd /usr/ports/net/freevrrpd make install distclean 3) read the configuration stuff for vrrpd (if you are like me, read twice), and configure the daemon on both servers. Now, say serverA is 192.168.0.51, and serverB is 192.168.0.52, and your VRRP address will be 192.168.0.50. Just make sure that your VRRP configuration is correct, but that isn't all. When the VIP moves from the primary machine to the backup machine, named won't give a crap. It won't listen on the new IP alias (in my case anyway, YMMV). I created a script that triggers on a VRRP state change that would kill named and then restart it once the new IP alias was installed (my script also installed a (V)IPv6 alias upon master election... not sure if that is important to you). Of course, make sure that natd on your gateway is forwarding DNS stuff to 192.168.0.50. I work with cisco IOS constantly, and HSRP is easy to take for granted. It is beyond cool to be able to do the same thing with the servers themselves. Not saying that this is the best solution, but it worked for me. -- +-+--+ | Michael W. Oliver, CCNP | The tree of liberty must be | | IPv6 FreeBSD mark | refreshed from time to time | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| with the blood of patriots | | http://michael.gargantuan.com/| and tyrants.| | ASpath-tree, Looking Glass, etc. | - President Thomas Jefferson | | +--+ | gpg key - http://michael.gargantuan.com/gnupg/pubkey.asc | ++ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:20:30PM -0500, Alfonso Romero wrote: Thanks for your reply. The reason I wanted to have two DNS servers is because I want to register several domains and don?t want to depend on an external DNS service, but I found out the two DNS servers required by Internic must be physically separated also, so I?ll have to ask someone else to host my secondary DNS server, or stick with the available DNS options. I just wondered if it could be possible to have two DNS servers inside a LAN, behind a FreeBSD box with NAT. This item on devshed is relevant to this thread: http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?s=threadid=50100 Can anyone confirm that it's no longer a requisite to provide 2 distinct DNS servers for a domain you register? I say no longer because as I understand it there was a time when 2 distinct nameservers were required... Also, in the case an admin has only one auth nameserver for a domain but a registrar _requires_ you list two, what is the best strategy for listing the second nameserver? Is there any way to avoid using a third party DNS provider as your secondary nameserver (providing some sort of dummy listing)? As mentioned above in thread there are no doubt many cases where all services are hosted on one single IP address and so if the server goes down, losing DNS is the least of your worries. In this case wouldn't having a second nameserver listed actually be a bad thing (since queries to that second NS waste some (ok, minimal, but still some) bandwidth)? Cheers, Jez ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Online Content Management Tool - question
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:06:45AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: Well, thanks for telling me. If I have time I'll take another look at it, but I was frankly daunted by their website. I got the impression that zope was primarily designed for weblogs and outside news feeds, and it seems to be *big*. The intranet I'm trying to set up will have pretty static content, but I want to use a content management system to make it easier for the teachers to update their course outlines and homework assignments. Quite coincidentally I came across something called 'blackboard' whilst searching for a link to a CMS I had in mind for this thread. You can see it here: http://products.blackboard.com/ Could be overkill, but it's aimed at learning systems - worth investigating perhaps. Good luck, Jez ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
information regarding managed colocation and managed firewall,managed backup services
Sir, I being a student of management have been assigned with the reseach forMANAGED COLOCATION , MANAGED FIREWALLS ,MANAGED BACKUP software.as a leading organization your company have been dealing with this product,I would be highly oblige if u could give or assist by giving information on 1.the product 2.competitor 3.target market 4.service in related area 5.pricing policy 6.partner sales model if any. 7.market share ,growth,size etc. I would be oblige to receive a positive response. Thanking you, Regards Sandeep das [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do i uninstall Jdk1.3 or any jdk version fron freebsd .
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Re: vmstat question
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:26:30PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.7 on a P3 933mhz, 18 GB U320 HD, Adaptec 29160 controller, and 512 MB DDR ram. When I ran vmstat -w 3 the b under processes shows a constant 10 forever. Is this a concern or is it nothing? Our system is a DNS, web, and email server. Thanks. Well, it means that 10 process are blocked for resources (see vmstat(8)). That is not a good thing. What are you running on this server-machine? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm on bootup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote: Hiya - What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what might that line look like. The file you have to change is /etc/ttys The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure So you probably just have to replace /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon with the path to kdm plus options you want to give. Hope it helps, Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Der Hoffnung beraubt sein, heißt noch nicht - verzweifeln. (Albert Camus) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE++/3doYumWdMvhMQRAicGAJ4qf/nm5MFd/R1Iv8oKrSIn1umZxwCfbre8 +k1ofKlKwDoWbK61+U1leYc= =iUnk -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
virus found in sent message Re: Application
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virus found in sent message Re: Movie
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Promise FastTrak TX2000 Raid card
Hi all, I have this question about the FastTrak TX2000 and other RAID cards as well. I looked up from FreeBSD home page that the card i supported which is great. But I haven't used hardware RAID1 before and I was thinking if there are any specific things I have to keep in mind when installing FreeBSD on hardware RAID1, in this case with the card in the subject? How does FreeBSD see the drives for example? And if I have to (hopefully not! :)) recover from a disk failure do I have to do anything else than replace the failed IDE drive and power up the machine and everything should work as normally on the RAID1? And RAID1 on the other drive should be rebuild automagically in the background by the card? This is what I am looking for :-) Regards, Johan Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvsup tag for 4.8-STABLE?
I wanted to cvsup src-all from 4.8-STABLE and tried with *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 Is this correct? The cvsup went fine but building the src tree resulted in errors. First I got some from some multiply defined typedef (first make world). Then I did a 'make includes' FWIW, and the subsequent make world then gave a different error: In file included from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info/../../../../contrib/texinfo/info/terminal.c:35: /usr/include/termcap.h:42: ncurses_dll.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 I could have a tainted installation with traces from 5.0R but I thought that a cvsup would wipe them out in /usr/src and /usr/include as well. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd + win98 in separate disks
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:41:38 +0300, Ramunas M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, maybe someone had this problem and can help me. I installed freebsd 5.0 with boot manager in to ad1. ad1 is slave hdd. Ad0 is master hdd (with win98). When I rebooted freebsd, win98 booted, because of ad0 is a first boot device, from which pc boots. In bios settings I changed boot order, ad1 with freebsd became first boot hdd. So pc starts to boot from ad1, boot manager shows menu: F1 Freebsd F2 Freebsd F5 Drive 1 If I choose F5 (I want to load win98), and then boot manager shows: Error loading operating system. Setup cannot continue. If I choose F1 - boots freebsd (it is ok if I want to load freebsd). Maybe is the only one way: every time I need to change hdd boot order from pc bios? :(( Ramunas You should probably be installing 4.8. Version 4.x is the stable version of the operating system at this point. Whether you install 4.8 or 5.0, what you want to do is install FreeBSD's bootloader on *both* drives. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nano / nanorc
FreeBSD 4.8 Im trying to customize nanorc but i cant seem to either get the syntax activated or the colors to work (hard to tell). Does anyone know what the requirements are for using color? Oh, im doing this remotely via ssh using securecrt. Nano v 1.2.1 built from ports. - Sten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dual boot, java
Olivier DAVY FreeBSD Fan ;) Hi, I am very fond of FreeBSD since I tried it on a single little hard drive (*1). However, I cannot delete my Linux for FreeBSD on my dual boot Pc (Win...ws + Linux) since I do not know the following things, t hat are essential for me to well manage my PC : 1. when installing FreeBSD on a partition on the same disk as Windows, what kind of boot manager should I use. During the install, the boot manager choosing screen suggest to install nothing. But how to boot on BSD ? So I tried to install BSD with Linux and Windows, and use Lilo to boot BSD. Well, it works, but I am not satisfied, since Linux is still necessary to boot. What option should I choose ? How should I partition my disk to have this dual boot. What kind of bootmanager should I use ? Does Windows XP (or 2000) could boot FreeBSD (hum ?) ? 2. On my standalone disk (cf. (*1)), I use the default bootloader of FreeBSD. But I can not delete if from my HD, whereas I can delete lilo by executing fdisk /MBR ? So what is the issue ? Is the BSD boot loader not in the Master Boot Record ? How can i delete it, to delete all FreeBSD from my disk (just in case...) ? 3. Why there is only 2 CD-ROM for the 5.1 whereas there is 4 for the 4.X ? 4. Is Java now well supported (I tried once to install it, but it did not work since I did not found the right version of the JDK to port). I 'd like to install a true J2EE plateform on BSD ! Thank you for your attention, I am waiting for your reply, Olivier -- -- Olivier DAVY ENSIMAG engineer - HEC alumnus E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +33/(0)1.42.67.19.85 -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: got load 1 but no CPU state is showing?
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:34:29PM -0500, Michael D Hughes wrote: What does systat -vm show? OK, it happened again, so I tried your suggestion. Guess what, it waits 5 seconds then prints this: The alternate system clock has died! Reverting to ``pigs'' display. I don't know what the 'alternate system clock' is supposed to be but my guess is the CMOS battery ran out or something like that. I'm going to check that at the next available opportunity. Thanks for your suggestion! --Stijn -- Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Slow machine - I need FreeBSD
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:38:52AM +0400, Alex Zivenko wrote: Thank's very much, but where can i get FreeBSD ver.4.0 or later? You can download FreeBSD 4.7 and higher from the ftp site. (ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD and then ISO or something) There are archives held of the earlier version but i don't know where these are. Alex P.S. Please don't top post and cut you text. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm on bootup
On Friday 27 June 2003 03:18 am, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote: Hiya - What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what might that line look like. The file you have to change is /etc/ttys The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure So you probably just have to replace /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon with the path to kdm plus options you want to give. Odd, on my 4.8 box - I did this. Didn't/dosn't work. Unless instead of just using tty8, I add that to 1 - 7 perhaps? Hope it helps, Kind regards, Benjamin -- Best regards, Chris __ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers __ 01010010011101100011011001010111001001011000 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
realtek 8139
Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.8 Release. At one time I pulled out the network cable and I got this message: rl0: reset never completed The system was doing something, not much, like pinging, I don't recall exactly. After that, at the first boot, in dmesg I found this: rl0: chip is is in D3 power mode -- setting to D0 Just that dmesg, no others, and with 'is' twice :). Now every ping I do, results in: sendto: host is down and it isn't. On the same sistem resides a windows which is not bothered by anything. What is wrong? What did I do? How can I undo it? Point me to the path of my salvation, please :) Thank you. - Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
realtek 8139
Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.8 Release. At one time I pulled out the network cable and I got this message: rl0: reset never completed The system was doing something, not much, like pinging, I don't recall exactly. After that, at the first boot, in dmesg I found this: rl0: chip is is in D3 power mode -- setting to D0 Just that dmesg, no others, and with 'is' twice :). Now every ping I do, results in: sendto: host is down and it isn't. On the same sistem resides a windows which is not bothered by anything. What is wrong? What did I do? How can I undo it? Point me to the path of my salvation, please :) Thank you. - Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmstat question
Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.7 on a P3 933mhz, 18 GB U320 HD, Adaptec 29160 controller, and 512 MB DDR ram. When I ran vmstat -w 3 the b under processes shows a constant 10 forever and now today it's up to 12. Is this a concern or is it nothing? Our system is a DNS, web, and email server. Thanks. -- Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: libpcap install problem.
Same error from /usr/sec/lib/libpcap ... # pwd /usr/src/lib/libpcap # make obj ; make ; make install cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Dyylval=pcap_lval -I/usr/src/l ib/libpcap -I. -DINET6 -I/usr/src/lib/libpcap/../../contrib/libpcap -c /usr/src/lib/libpcap/../../contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c -o pcap-bpf.o /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c: In function `pcap_open_live': /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:207: storage size of `bdl' isn't known /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:334: `BIOCGDLTLIST' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:334: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:334: for each function it appears in.) /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c: In function `pcap_set_datalink': /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:487: `BIOCSDLT' undeclared (first use in this function) *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libpcap. install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libpcap.a /usr/lib install: libpcap.a: No such file or directory *** Error code 71 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libpcap. -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:32 PM To: David Markle Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: libpcap install problem. In the last episode (Jun 26), David Markle said: I am having a problem installing libpcap. Have a fresh 5.0-CURRENT installed, ran cvsup and am all up to date with the tree. enter the directory /usr/src/contrib/libpcap and run ./configure /usr/src/contrib is for raw 3rd-party sources. You shouldn't build anything in there. Cd into /usr/src/lib/libpcap instead and run make obj ; make ; make install. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual boot, java
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:35:40PM +0200, Olivier DAVY wrote: However, I cannot delete my Linux for FreeBSD on my dual boot Pc (Win...ws + Linux) since I do not know the following things, t hat are essential for me to well manage my PC : 1. when installing FreeBSD on a partition on the same disk as Windows, what kind of boot manager should I use. You can use the FreeBSD boot manager -- it's minimalistic (you WinXP partition will show up labelled as '???'), but it generally works. If you want something with a few more options and settings to play with, try Grub, which is in ports. Note that Grub doesn't yet recognise the ufs2 filesystem available in 5.x -- there are some easy workarounds that you can find by searching in the mailing list archives. During the install, the boot manager choosing screen suggest to install nothing. But how to boot on BSD ? So I tried to install BSD with Linux and Windows, and use Lilo to boot BSD. Well, it works, but I am not satisfied, since Linux is still necessary to boot. What option should I choose ? How should I partition my disk to have this dual boot. Using Lilo without linux is probably not the best choice -- if you modify anything that entails reconfiguring lilo, I believe you'll need a bootable Linux partition to do that. What kind of bootmanager should I use ? Does Windows XP (or 2000) could boot FreeBSD (hum ?) ? Indeed, the WinXP boot manager is reputedly capable of booting FreeBSD: http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticleartid=88 2. On my standalone disk (cf. (*1)), I use the default bootloader of FreeBSD. But I can not delete if from my HD, whereas I can delete lilo by executing fdisk /MBR ? So what is the issue ? Is the BSD boot loader not in the Master Boot Record ? How can i delete it, to delete all FreeBSD from my disk (just in case...) ? Running 'fdisk /MBR' from DOS, or equivalently running: # fdisk -i -B -b /boot/mbr from within FreeBSD, will over-write the FreeBSD bootloader with a default master boot record and wipe out any custom bootloaders. 3. Why there is only 2 CD-ROM for the 5.1 whereas there is 4 for the 4.X ? If you buy FreeBSD CD Roms from on of the resellers, you'll get 4 CDs as per usual. The 3rd and 4th CD Roms simply contain pre-built packages which are all available by FTP already. 4. Is Java now well supported (I tried once to install it, but it did not work since I did not found the right version of the JDK to port). I 'd like to install a true J2EE plateform on BSD ! The java/jdk14 and java/jdk13 ports are both running excellently for me. Note that these give you J2SE, not J2EE, but that makes very little difference for almost all applications. Installing the native jdk ports involves a great deal more palaver than it really should. Sun's licensing requirements mean that you can just go and grab the sources from a website or ftp server in the usual way. So you have to go to Sun's website and register and click on buttons that say that you agree to their terms. Then in order to compile the native java for the first time, you need to have a pre-compiled version of java at pretty much the same release level. That means that you'll need to temporarily install eg. the linux-sun-jdk14 port in order to compile the native jdk14 port. Once you've got a native jdk14 port, you can pkg_delete linux-sun-jdk14 and any other now redundant dependency required to install the port. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dual boot, java
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:35:40 +0200, Olivier DAVY [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Olivier DAVY FreeBSD Fan ;) Hi, I am very fond of FreeBSD since I tried it on a single little hard drive (*1). However, I cannot delete my Linux for FreeBSD on my dual boot Pc (Win...ws + Linux) since I do not know the following things, t hat are essential for me to well manage my PC : 1. when installing FreeBSD on a partition on the same disk as Windows, what kind of boot manager should I use. During the install, the boot manager choosing screen suggest to install nothing. But how to boot on BSD ? On the boot manager choosing screen, choosing nothing is an option, not a suggestion. Perhaps it is the default because of a first, do no harm perspective. So I tried to install BSD with Linux and Windows, and use Lilo to boot BSD. Well, it works, but I am not satisfied, since Linux is still necessary to boot. What option should I choose ? How should I partition my disk to have this dual boot. Partitioning is a separate consideration from booting (though Windows usually likes to have its system partition as the first partition on the first hard drive; there are ways to get around this, but it's easier just to allow it). Partition as you like. You then have several options regarding booting. What kind of bootmanager should I use ? FreeBSD's boot manager will work. Grub is in the ports and is an excellent, very configurable bootloader/manager. Read the Grub documentation (it's available online) *very* carefully before you use it (as in fact you should with all boot managers). If you want a boot manager that does things more automagically and needs less configuration, try GAG. Does Windows XP (or 2000) could boot FreeBSD (hum ?) ? This is an item in both the FAQ and the Handbook available at the FreeBSD web site. 2. On my standalone disk (cf. (*1)), I use the default bootloader of FreeBSD. But I can not delete if from my HD, whereas I can delete lilo by executing fdisk /MBR ? So what is the issue ? Is the BSD boot loader not in the Master Boot Record ? How can i delete it, to delete all FreeBSD from my disk (just in case...) ? A moment's thought will tell you why you don't want to *delete* FreeBSD's bootloader or any other: What results is an unbootable disk! If you want to *replace* it with another bootloader/manager, go right ahead - it won't resist. Of course, if you are trying to remove FreeBSD's bootloader from disk 2 by running fdisk/mbr on disk 1, I can understand why it doesn't work. ;) 3. Why there is only 2 CD-ROM for the 5.1 whereas there is 4 for the 4.X ? I don't have an answer, except to recommend that you stay with 4.x until (a) it becomes the -STABLE development track, or (b) you consider yourself more of a hacker than a newbie. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual boot, java
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:00:35 -0400, Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:35:40 +0200, Olivier DAVY [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] 3. Why there is only 2 CD-ROM for the 5.1 whereas there is 4 for the 4.X ? I don't have an answer, except to recommend that you stay with 4.x until (a) it becomes the -STABLE development track, or (b) you consider yourself more of a hacker than a newbie. Sorry, I meant until *5.x* becomes the -STABLE development track. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm on bootup
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0500, Chris wrote:
On Friday 27 June 2003 03:18 am, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote:
Hiya -
What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what
might that line look like.
The file you have to change is /etc/ttys
The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this:
ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure
So you probably just have to replace /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon with
the path to kdm plus options you want to give.
Odd, on my 4.8 box - I did this. Didn't/dosn't work. Unless instead of just
using tty8, I add that to 1 - 7 perhaps?
No - did you also change off to on? Tell your kernel to reread
/etc/ttys (among others):
# kill -HUP 1
and, provided you got your command line right, {k,x}dm will start.
Your character terminals will still be available by hitting CTRL-ALT-Fn.
Dan
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Re: dual boot, java
3. Why there is only 2 CD-ROM for the 5.1 whereas there is 4 for the 4.X ? There are no cdroms with precompiled packages for 5.1.. You must install everything from ports. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm on bootup
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0500, Chris wrote:
On Friday 27 June 2003 03:18 am, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote:
Hiya -
What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what
might that line look like.
The file you have to change is /etc/ttys
The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this:
ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure
So you probably just have to replace /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon with
the path to kdm plus options you want to give.
Odd, on my 4.8 box - I did this. Didn't/dosn't work. Unless instead of just
using tty8, I add that to 1 - 7 perhaps?
No - did you also change off to on? Tell your kernel to reread
/etc/ttys (among others):
# kill -HUP 1
Ahhh, my bad,. I didn't set the off to on. Thanks much to all that
offered me answers on this one.
Chris
and, provided you got your command line right, {k,x}dm will start.
Your character terminals will still be available by hitting CTRL-ALT-Fn.
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Re: NAT Dropping Internal Connection
Is there any reason you are running both ipfw + ipfilter? Although they probably should play nice together, it might be best not to tempt fate, especially when you're experiencing problems. Also, are you using ipnat or natd to perform NAT? - Original Message - From: Jeremy Bingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: Re: NAT Dropping Internal Connection On 25/06/03 14:39 -0400, FBSD_User wrote: Sounds like hardware problem with the switch or hub on your LAN. Rebooting the machine makes the NAT stuff work again. Could the hub still be a problem in that case? -j -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Bingham Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NAT Dropping Internal Connection I have a P-200 running 4.8-STABLE running as a NAT box at home. It runs well, except that periodically it will drop it's connection on the internal side of the network. The external interface still works, but the internal machines can't ping the NAT box at all and the NAT box can't ping the internal machines. I've looked through the mailing lists and google for hints why this might be happening, but I can't find anything. /var/log/messages also reveals nothing. Here are the relevant kernel options: options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT options IPDIVERT options IPFILTER options IPSTEALTH options RANDOM_IP_ID options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN Would any of those cause the problem, or is there a kernel option that I'm accidentally leaving off? Thanks, -Jeremy Bingham -- /* You are not expected to understand this. */ Captain_Tenille http://www.satanosphere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- /* You are not expected to understand this. */ Captain_Tenille http://www.satanosphere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name
Chuck Swiger wrote: There's no way to avoid the port number in the URL, then. Consider switching to a provider that lets you host local services... Does that then nullify your previous recommendations? Can you recommend any such providers? By hosting local services, do you mean DNS? Thanks. ~John - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifconfig
Are you including the alias as part of the directive, or as one of the parameters of the directive? i.e. are you doing: ifconfig_if0_alias0=inet ip netmask 0x or ifconfig_if0=inet ip netmask 0x alias? If you're using the second method, try using the first. If you're already using the first method though, I don't know what to tell you. Hope this helps. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca - Original Message - From: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:52 PM Subject: ifconfig Is there any reason ifconfig will re-order the names of aliases IPs? Example, in my rc.conf. I have all IPs grouped by network, sorted by IP. WHen I add them using ifconfig, they wind up in a different order (jumbled). Everything still works fine, its just screwing my scripts up. -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difference between ipf/ipfw and ipnat/natd
- Original Message - From: Andreas Dahlén [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:03 AM Subject: Difference between ipf/ipfw and ipnat/natd Hello! I'm going to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a firewall/gateway for my homenetwork. I've seen that there are two implementations of firewalls in FreeBSD; ipf and ipfw and fot NAT ipnat/natd. As I understand ipf and ipnat works together and ipfw and natd. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. Which one of them should I use? Is there some major differences between them? ipfw is a part of FreeBSD, whereas ipfilter is written by Darren Reed and runs not only on FreeBSD, but also on OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris (and perhaps others?) if I recall correctly. If you plan to take advantage of the builtin rc scripts to run a predefined set of firewall rules, you'll probably want to stick with ipfw/natd. Also, just fyi ipfw is fairly conventional: the first firewall rule that matches will apply whereas with ipfilter, the last matching rule will apply unless you specify quick. /Andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Web Server not allowing external visitors
This is because natd is being run before ppp is. Just disable natd in rc.conf, and run it from rc.local instead: /sbin/natd -n interface - Original Message - From: Gav... [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Web Server not allowing external visitors | First of all you have two different nats running. The ppp_nat=YES | option says use nat function of pppd and natd_enable=YES says to | use NATD function of firewall. So you have nated your private lan ip | address 2 times which is a user config error. You need option | gateway_enable=YES to pass packets to lan. I would comment out to | disable the firewall options until you have thinks working and them | add firewall. To many things happening and you do not know who is at | fault so limit testing to one thing at time. With apache server on | gateway box you do not need port 80 forwarding. | | | in /etc/rc.conf. | | ppp_nat=YES | gateway_enable=YES | defaultrouter=NO | | #firewall_enable=YES | #firewall_type=OPEN // (Yes I know but whilst testing!) | #natd_enable=YES | #natd_interface=tun0 | #natd_flags=-f /etc/natd.conf | | Ok, I did all this and lost all access to the internet from the other LAN computers. - even with firewall disabled, ipfw is not letting anything through. It seems maybe that ppp_nat is not working or not fully configured, what are all the files and options I need to change for this to work properly? When I boot the computer, the ADSL Modem automatically dials my ISP and connects fine, but then to gain access to the internet properly I have to do this: killall natd killall ppp ppp -background adsl natd -dynamic -n tun0 I can then access the internet fine - without the natd line I can not access the internet, I tried without this line. So maybe a bit more firewall and natd config is required I dont know.? As the Web Server at the moment then is on my FreeBSD machine I do not need any kind of port forwarding, but maybe I still need to more IPFW rules? At the moment one tester has reported that he is getting the following:- 'Gateway Timeout ' error A gateway timeout error has occured.The Server is unreachable, please retry the request. (GATEWAY_TIMEOUT) Please contact the Administrator. Any ideas, thanks for all the help so far. Gav... (Original message left intact for now for those that missed it first time) | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gav | Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:59 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Web Server not allowing external visitors | | Hi, | | Subject says it all really, what good is a website if only I can | view it? | | Ok, brief history of problem and setup details, I'm sure I'll leave | something out you need. | | I had 3 computers all run MS and Apache2 Web Server was on the main | one | connecting to the net via ADSL and using dyndns.org client to update | the | dynamic IP address. No probs. | | I then decide to change my setup and add a FreeBSD Router/Firewall | .and. a | separate (NT) Web Server. | I installed my dns update client onto the new web server , enabled | NATd (am | connected via PPPoA/E) , enabled port_forward tcp rules on port 80 | to point | to this Web Server machine. I also tried IPFW rules etc etc and | could not | get the outside world to connect. I thought I would instead put the | Web | Server (until I know better) onto the FreeBSD router machine. | | Still no go, All my internal machines can - by typing in the | registered | domain names, access the web server ok, the Apache Test page comes | up ok. So | by typing in www:mysite:com I get the sites ok. This I don't really | understand. Surely my other computers must be going to the external | www , | getting the domain name resolved, getting the dynamic IP address | allocated | to me , and then coming back to my FreeBSD router where it gets | served the | web site. So why can't anyone else now access it.?? | | I'd love to give you a url to test it but this is a public forum and | my | router is still not very secure at the moment, however I do have | trusted | people testing it for me regularly. | | Now , settings I think of relevance (having tried all sorts of | setups using | different techniques , I may have mixed up some settings and | probably have a | cocktail of settings) are (syntax copied exactly) :- | | in /etc/rc.conf. | | ppp_nat=YES | defaultrouter=NO | firewall_enable=YES | firewall_type=OPEN // (Yes I know but whilst testing!) | natd_enable=YES | natd_interface=tun0 | natd_flags=-f /etc/natd.conf | #hostname=mydomain // I left this commented out for now ? | | There are other settings in this file of course but felt only the | above | relevant to this post. | | in /etc/natd.conf. | | interface tun0 | dynamic yes
Re: libpcap install problem.
In the last episode (Jun 27), David Markle said: Same error from /usr/sec/lib/libpcap ... # pwd /usr/src/lib/libpcap # make obj ; make ; make install cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Dyylval=pcap_lval -I/usr/src/lib/libpcap -I. -DINET6 -I/usr/src/lib/libpcap/../../contrib/libpcap -c /usr/src/lib/libpcap/../../contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c -o pcap-bpf.o /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c: In function `pcap_open_live': /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:207: storage size of `bdl' isn't known /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:334: `BIOCGDLTLIST' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:334: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:334: for each function it appears in.) /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c: In function `pcap_set_datalink': /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/pcap-bpf.c:487: `BIOCSDLT' undeclared (first use in this function) *** Error code 1 BIOCGDLTLIST was added to /sys/net/bpf.h after 5.0 was released, which means you'll have to install a new kernel and copy its includes ( cd into /usr/src/include and run make copies ) before libpcap will build. If you're planning on building more than just libpcap, you might want to just make world instead of trying to figure out what needs to be updated for each thing you build to work. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name
I believe the ServerName directive in Apache is what you're looking for; it's what people's browser address field will show once they connect to your site. As far as your security concerns go, you can not run a website without exposing the IP address of the webserver machine, with or without masking. If a client machine didn't know your IP address, it would not know where to retrieve your web pages from. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca - Original Message - From: John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: Mask IP:port with Domain Name In order to solve some IP/port resolution issues, I registered a domain at godaddy.com on the advice of a few people on this list. Seems like a nice interface, decent service, and a great price. My question is on what I assume to be IP masking. When someone punches in my domain name to reach the web site running on FBSD, their browser's address field (well, actually it's the DNS doing it) instantly translates the domain name into my actual IP address and port number. This is alarming for security reasons, as well as relatives who know nothing about technology asking inane questions about the disappearing web site name. I have searched the handbook, archives, even apache docs, but I can't find any information regarding how to get this to happen on my FBSD (assuming I'm searching on the correct terms?). Of course, godaddy.com offers a masking service for an additional fee, but then what was once a bargain wouldn't be much of a bargain any longer. Thanks, John - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless nic
Check the hardware notes for the version of FreeBSD you plan to install. Most common wireless nic's out there should work. - Original Message - From: Josh Richesin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: Wireless nic I am going to buy a wireless nic for my laptop. Are there any models that will automaticaly work when I put it in? What are the best ones? I found that the dlink-650+ is just not going to work. Thanks, Josh ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm on bootup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 27. June 2003 15:15, Chris wrote: The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure No - did you also change off to on? Tell your kernel to reread /etc/ttys (among others): Ahhh, my bad,. I didn't set the off to on. Thanks much to all that offered me answers on this one. Uh, that was my bad as well. ;-/ I wonder why my entry in /etc/ttys was set to off (h, it really makes me wonder...). What makes me wonder is that xdm *does* start up correctly on my machine... I can only think of Linux having problems reading UFS-partitions, but I cannot really imagine Linux coming up with such *weird* read-errors... Well, I'm glad your problem is solved now, Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Der Hoffnung beraubt sein, heißt noch nicht - verzweifeln. (Albert Camus) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE+/FpioYumWdMvhMQRAkvaAJwP5EnGM+pKqp+wHd+OdYbx3P7+WQCcCIeg XauMk53AyIYrikvX2BSMiXE= =R7DI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Arcserve on FreeBSD
Hi! I am putting together a FreeBSD samba box and need to get the arcserve client agent loaded on this box but when I run the rpm command rpm -I uangent.rpm I get this output /bin/sh is needed by uagent-7.0-1 ld-linux.so.2 is needed by uagent-7.0-1 libarclic98_api.so is needed by uagent-7.0-1 libc.so.6 is needed by uagent-7.0-1 libdl.so.2 is needed by uagent-7.0-1 /bin/sh is needed by uagent-7.0-1 has anyone else got arcserve to run on their bsd box I tried copying over the lib directory from a redhat 6.2 box which has all the required files except libarclic98_api but I don't know where to put these files I don't think ARCserve Client Agent for Linux would work on FreeBSD. It's designed for ext2/ext3 filesystem, after all. I'd love if you proved me wrong, though. Anyway, copying libraries over from RH box is not the right way to go at it. The right way would be to install the Linux compatibility package. And then you would need to run something like rpm --nodeps to install the ARCserve rpms. libarclic98_api is part of ARCserve itself, and on my Slackware box it lives in /opt/CA/CAagent directory. You probably need to install CAagent.rpm before uagent.rpm. If you ever get ARCserve to work on FreeBSD, I would be glad to hear about it. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Jesus has changed your life. Save changes (Y/N)? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name
Han Hwei Woo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the ServerName directive in Apache is what you're looking for; it's what people's browser address field will show once they connect to your site. Thanks, but as I mentioned when Chuck brought this up yesterday, my ServerName directive is set properly in the format: ServerName www.mydomain.com in httpd.conf. This does not seem to make any difference at all. As far as your security concerns go, you can not run a website without exposing the IP address of the webserver machine, with or without masking. If a client machine didn't know your IP address, it would not know where to retrieve your web pages from. Agreed (though not entirely true; you can use a web redirect service to successfully cloak a true IP address; I've done this successfully), but that's not really what I'm after. I just don't want my IP address and port number combination glaring in a web browser's address bar when a user visits my web site. I realize that if someone really wanted to resolve my IP, they could, but I'm also thinking of people who don't know what an IP address is, and are asking me questions like What happened to the web site? I typed in the words you told me to, and it turned into a bunch of numbers! - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
crontab root not found
Hi, I seem to be having some trouble with cron. I edited my crontab file and added a line then ran #crontab /etc/crontab Now my email box is full of cron root not found. Nonsense, I said, I am root and I'm right here, I then tried waving my hands so the computer could find me more easily. Then it occurred to me that perhaps the contab file was being interpreted as a normal user crontab file and it was trying to run the command root as that is what appeared in the 6th column. So I went and read the crontab man page and found that I should run crontab with the -u option when using su. I tried that too and I'm still getting the e-mails every 5 minutes. So what command should I run to load the master crontab? I tried #crontab -u root crontab but that too seems to interpret the crontab as a user crontab too. I have removed any changes I made to the crontab so I won't bother including it in the e-mail since it is the default file. Thank you kindly, Simon This email communication is intended as a private communication for the sole use of the primary addressee and those individuals listed for copies in the original message. The information contained in this email is private and confidential and if you are not an intended recipient you are hereby notified that copying, forwarding or other dissemination or distribution of this communication by any means is prohibited. If you are not specifically authorized to receive this email and if you believe that you received it in error please notify the original sender immediately. We honour similar requests relating to the privacy of email communications. Cette communication par courrier électronique est une communication privée à l'usage exclusif du destinataire principal ainsi que des personnes dont les noms figurent en copie. Les renseignements contenus dans ce courriel sont confidentiels et si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, vous êtes avisé, par les présentes que toute reproduction, tout transfert ou toute autre forme de diffusion de cette communication par quelque moyen que ce soit est interdit. Si vous n'êtes pas spécifiquement autorisé à recevoir ce courriel ou si vous croyez l'avoir reçu par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur original immédiatement. Nous respectons les demandes similaires qui touchent la confidentialité des communications par courrier électronique. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
webmin
hi, i need to resolve this problem when i run webmin in freebsd show this error in boot local packages usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 cannot open usr/lib/libpam.so.1 thanks for you support. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re-building sendmail
For an excellent fix for sendmail see: http://www.postfix.org/ I'm actually thinking of going this route. Is the migration that difficult? Any special gotchas for someone who has been using the default sendmail stuff in FreeBSD? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab root not found
I seem to be having some trouble with cron. I edited my crontab file and added a line then ran #crontab /etc/crontab Now my email box is full of cron root not found. Nonsense, I said, I am I'd say you should post the new line you added to cron. Sounds like you have the formatting incorrectlying, and it is trying to run a bogus command called either 'cron' or 'root'. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unix mail home to microsoft dbx format
Hello all, I want to little question on converting unix mail home (May be Inbox file) to microsoft outlook program dbx file because , if our costumer has arrive our isp , we want to give their mail home in that format. Many Thanks. Murat Ustuntas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: crontab root not found
Sure thing, here is the file. But the line I added (right at the bottom) is commented out. BTW I am running 5.1 release. I also get operator not found when it tries to run the second entry. # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $ # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log # #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command # */5 * * * * root/usr/libexec/atrun # # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot. */11* * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy # # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * rootnewsyslog # # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly # # Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to # UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details. 1,310-5 * * * rootadjkerntz -a # Run portupgrade #* 2 * * * root /usr/local/scripts/cron.portupgrade -Original Message- From: Jonathan Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:18 AM To: Timms, Simon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: crontab root not found I seem to be having some trouble with cron. I edited my crontab file and added a line then ran #crontab /etc/crontab Now my email box is full of cron root not found. Nonsense, I said, I am I'd say you should post the new line you added to cron. Sounds like you have the formatting incorrectlying, and it is trying to run a bogus command called either 'cron' or 'root'. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog This email communication is intended as a private communication for the sole use of the primary addressee and those individuals listed for copies in the original message. The information contained in this email is private and confidential and if you are not an intended recipient you are hereby notified that copying, forwarding or other dissemination or distribution of this communication by any means is prohibited. If you are not specifically authorized to receive this email and if you believe that you received it in error please notify the original sender immediately. We honour similar requests relating to the privacy of email communications. Cette communication par courrier électronique est une communication privée à l'usage exclusif du destinataire principal ainsi que des personnes dont les noms figurent en copie. Les renseignements contenus dans ce courriel sont confidentiels et si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, vous êtes avisé, par les présentes que toute reproduction, tout transfert ou toute autre forme de diffusion de cette communication par quelque moyen que ce soit est interdit. Si vous n'êtes pas spécifiquement autorisé à recevoir ce courriel ou si vous croyez l'avoir reçu par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur original immédiatement. Nous respectons les demandes similaires qui touchent la confidentialité des communications par courrier électronique. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re-building sendmail
At 11:16 AM 6/27/2003, Jonathan Arnold wrote: For an excellent fix for sendmail see: http://www.postfix.org/ I'm actually thinking of going this route. Is the migration that difficult? Any special gotchas for someone who has been using the default sendmail stuff in FreeBSD? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain I have used Postfix on both FreeBSD and Solaris. No worries and quite easy to set up. There is suppose to be better security in postfix than sendmail. Also should be rather easy to configure in comparison. I think you will like it. I have never migrated, so I cannot offer any comments. --Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Online Content Management Tool - question
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:06:45AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: Well, thanks for telling me. If I have time I'll take another look at it, but I was frankly daunted by their website. I got the impression that zope was primarily designed for weblogs and outside news feeds, and it seems to be *big*. The intranet I'm trying to set up will have pretty static content, but I want to use a content management system to make it easier for the teachers to update their course outlines and homework assignments. Check out phpgroupware.org, one of the apps is called sitemgr. I think theres a port for it. I don't know how up to date though. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab root not found
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Timms, Simon wrote: Hi, I seem to be having some trouble with cron. I edited my crontab file and added a line then ran #crontab /etc/crontab Now my email box is full of cron root not found. Nonsense, I said, I am root and I'm right here, I then tried waving my hands so the computer could find me more easily. Then it occurred to me that perhaps the contab file was being interpreted as a normal user crontab file and it was trying to run the command root as that is what appeared in the 6th column. So I went and read the crontab man page and found that I should run crontab with the -u option when using su. I tried that too and I'm still getting the e-mails every 5 minutes. So what command should I run to load the master crontab? I tried #crontab -u root crontab but that too seems to interpret the crontab as a user crontab too. I have removed any changes I made to the crontab so I won't bother including it in the e-mail since it is the default file. /etc/crontab is not in the same format as a user's personal crontab file (even root's). You don't need to reinstall /etc/crontab, because cron will pick this up automatically. If you try, you'll find it misinterpreting the sixth column (as is happening). Either: just edit /etc/crontab, or: add a root crontab entry using crontab -e. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Impact of vulnerability: Run code of an attacker's choice Maximum Severity Rating: Moderate -- M$ security bulletin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NAT Dropping Internal Connection
On 27/06/03 10:43 -0300, Han Hwei Woo wrote: Is there any reason you are running both ipfw + ipfilter? Although they probably should play nice together, it might be best not to tempt fate, especially when you're experiencing problems. Also, are you using ipnat or natd to perform NAT? I tried taking IPDIVERT out of my kernel, but that killed NAT, so I had to revert to the old kernel. I'm still playing with it. I had been told that running both IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT was unecessary. I am running natd to perform NAT (with the -dynamic flag). -j - Original Message - From: Jeremy Bingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: Re: NAT Dropping Internal Connection On 25/06/03 14:39 -0400, FBSD_User wrote: Sounds like hardware problem with the switch or hub on your LAN. Rebooting the machine makes the NAT stuff work again. Could the hub still be a problem in that case? -j -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Bingham Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NAT Dropping Internal Connection I have a P-200 running 4.8-STABLE running as a NAT box at home. It runs well, except that periodically it will drop it's connection on the internal side of the network. The external interface still works, but the internal machines can't ping the NAT box at all and the NAT box can't ping the internal machines. I've looked through the mailing lists and google for hints why this might be happening, but I can't find anything. /var/log/messages also reveals nothing. Here are the relevant kernel options: options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT options IPDIVERT options IPFILTER options IPSTEALTH options RANDOM_IP_ID options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN Would any of those cause the problem, or is there a kernel option that I'm accidentally leaving off? Thanks, -Jeremy Bingham -- /* You are not expected to understand this. */ Captain_Tenille http://www.satanosphere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- /* You are not expected to understand this. */ Captain_Tenille http://www.satanosphere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- /* You are not expected to understand this. */ Captain_Tenille http://www.satanosphere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name
John DeStefano wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: There's no way to avoid the port number in the URL, then. Consider switching to a provider that lets you host local services... Does that then nullify your previous recommendations? Nope. It just means that you can only get one of the two things you asked for. Can you recommend any such providers? Of dynamic DNS? Yes: www.dyndns.org. By hosting local services, do you mean DNS? No, I meant being able to run Apache on port 80. You said you didn't want to see IP or port number; the former can be solved by dynamic DNS, the latter can't be solved if your ISP blocks port 80. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop install problem - usb cd drive
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:04:15PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: The Challenge: An old laptop, with no OS that can only boot from a floppy. I want to install FreeBSD. I have a USB CDROM, but I cannot make it bootable at the BIOS level. I have a network card (PCMCIA) but no knowledge of how to get drivers for it on a FreeBSD install floppy. I'm pretty sure I'll have to either install entirely from floppies (not worth the time) or from the CDROM or network, but I don't know how to make those devices work from a blank hd and a floppy. Couldn't you install with the two floppys, then download the rest via ppp or pppoe? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm on bootup
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:28, Chris wrote: On Friday 27 June 2003 03:18 am, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: On Friday, 27. June 2003 05:40, Chris wrote: Hiya - What file might I modify to enable kdm to start on bootup? And what might that line look like. The file you have to change is /etc/ttys The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure So you probably just have to replace /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon with the path to kdm plus options you want to give. And change the 'off' to 'on' Odd, on my 4.8 box - I did this. Didn't/dosn't work. Unless instead of just using tty8, I add that to 1 - 7 perhaps? Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CHECKSUM.MD5
What is the function of the CHECKSUM.MD5 file on your freebsd server in the directory of your ISO images and do I need to use it? _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:34:49AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: ... Can anyone confirm that it's no longer a requisite to provide 2 distinct DNS servers for a domain you register? I say no longer because as I understand it there was a time when 2 distinct nameservers were required... Not having multiple servers may be OK for vanity domains, but certainly isn't advisable if one wants reliable DNS. It's a Good Idea(tm) to have secondary servers geographically separated so that local problems don't take out all the DNS for a domain (e.g. earthquakes, floods, etc.). One of the more amusing examples of this occurred within the last two years when all of Microsoft's DNS failed. M$ had multiple servers all right, but they were all on the same class C network so a routing problem brought them all down. Similar reasoning applies to having multiple MX (Mail eXchange) servers for a domain. Backup MX servers get a bit more complicated though if one is doing any spam blocking as all the backup servers have to have at least as restrictive rules as the primary or the spammers just get to you through the back door. Also, in the case an admin has only one auth nameserver for a domain but a registrar _requires_ you list two, what is the best strategy for listing the second nameserver? Is there any way to avoid using a third party DNS provider as your secondary nameserver (providing some sort of dummy listing)? Do you have local user groups, ISPs, or businesses that run DNS servers that would provide backups? We provide backup DNS for most of our customers including some fairly large regional ISPs with hundreds of domains. It's frequently possible to set up reciprocal deals with others. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[drm] failed to load kernel module i830
Hardware: Dell Optiplex GX260 FreeBSD: 5.1 XFree86 : XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (27 February 2003) build 24 May 2003 /var/log/messages indicates: kernel: agp0: Intel 82845G (845G GMCH) SVGA controller mem 0xff68-0xff6f,0xe800-0xefff irq 9 at device 2.0 on pci0 kernel: agp0: detected 892k stolen memory kernel: agp0: aperture size is 128M /var/log/XFree86.0.log contains: ... (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0 (--) Chipset 845G found ... drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) ... [drm] failed to load kernel module i830 ... How do I manage to get DRM working? May be it is ( http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html ): TODO: (please help) Port the i810 and i830 drivers -- Jacques Beigbeder| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service de Prestations Informatiques | http://www.spi.ens.fr Ecole normale supérieure | 45 rue d'Ulm |Tel : (+33 1)1 44 32 37 96 F75230 Paris cedex 05|Fax : (+33 1)1 44 32 20 75 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stand-a-lone NAT PGM
I have been looking for NAT program which is not part of some other program like NATD is part of IPFW or IPNAT is part of IPFILTER or NAT of user ppp. I can not find any NAT program in the FBSD ports collection unless I mis-understood some description. If anybody knows of one please let me know. Yes I know that I can set firewall rule to pass all packets just to use NAT function, but I don't want overhead of firewall logic, just simple NAT like PPP NAT function with out the PPP stuff. I was wondering if the NAT logic code from user ppp could be copied and made into stand-a-lone NAT program. My programming ability is not great so I am asking for opinions on weather this is technical possible? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with this questions list since mailman
To the other members of this list. I have noticed a reduction in the number of emails to this list since mailman became the replacement. I used to get 150 to 200 email daily and now it's under 100. When I follow a subject I can see email in a more current response that I did not receive. Before the cutover to mailman I was sending my questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now I see the supported email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I never received notification of this email address change. When I use email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send me questions I get no bounce error message and my question does not show in the email I receive for this list. There is major bug in the question list since mailman application took over. Have any of you noticed this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Burning audio cd with burncd command
At 12:03 AM on Friday 27 June 2003, David wrote: Hello, I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series I read the freebsd handbook on mp3 and making audio cd's. First I use the mpg123 command to convert the mp3's to wavs in 16 bit 44.1k stereo, then I use the sox utility to remove the headers that produces the pop click sound at the begining of each track. Then I burn the cd using burncd. I still get the pop click sound when I play the audio cd. Is there a switch missing in the command syntax I'm using? mpg123 -w - anysong.mp3 newsong.wav sox -t wav -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 newsong.wav new-song.wav The example in the handbook reads: % sox -t wav -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 track.wav track.raw Note that the output file has a .raw extension. burncd -f /dev/acd1c -s 8 audio *.wav fixate You should be writing the headerless .raw files to the disc, rather than the .wav files. If you had a similar situation, let me know how you fix the problem. Any suggestions is helpful -- David Siebörger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: realtek 8139
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:02:08PM +0100, Florin Betivoiu wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.8 Release. At one time I pulled out the network cable and I got this message: ... and it isn't. On the same sistem resides a windows which is not bothered by anything. What is wrong? What did I do? How can I undo it? Point me to the path of my salvation, please :) Thank you. I can't say for sure about FreeBSD being a newbie myself, but Realtek NICs have proven flakey at best on Linux systems and generally to be avoided. We generally stick to Intel and 3COM NICs (there's a local PC recycler here that usually has 3c905bs available for about $20 each and 3COM honors their lifetime warranty if there are problems with them). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The Income Tax has made more Liars out of American people than Golf has.'' Will Rogers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stand-a-lone NAT PGM
I have been looking for NAT program which is not part of some other program like NATD is part of IPFW or IPNAT is part of IPFILTER or NAT of user ppp. I can not find any NAT program in the FBSD ports collection unless I mis-understood some description. If anybody knows of one please let me know. Yes I know that I can set firewall rule to pass all packets just to use NAT function, but I don't want overhead of firewall logic, just simple NAT like PPP NAT function with out the PPP stuff. I was wondering if the NAT logic code from user ppp could be copied and made into stand-a-lone NAT program. My programming ability is not great so I am asking for opinions on weather this is technical possible? Thanks As far as I know, you HAVE to use a Firewall because there has to be some way to redirect the packets to the nat program. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CHECKSUM.MD5
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:27:41PM +, dark matrix wrote: What is the function of the CHECKSUM.MD5 file on your freebsd server in the directory of your ISO images and do I need to use it? This file lists the md5 hashes of the iso image files. It's there so you can verify the integrity of each image after it's downloaded on your system. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Dijkstra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Movie
Hi, The message you sent was too large to be received. It has been automatically deleted. If you wish to send me this file, you have to re-send the e-mail and include the text big in the subject of the e-mail. Sorry for this inconvenience but this is needed to filter out spam and e-mail viruses filling up my mailbox. If you did not send this e-mail, it is possible that your computer is infected by a virus that sends out itself to people in your address book. Best regards, Erik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
native jdk compilation
Hi, I am trying to compile native java support for freebsd. All checksums for files are okay, and after a long time of compiling, it stops with this error: /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.h: In method `jboolean JNIEnv_::GetBooleanField(_jobject *, _jfieldID *)': /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.h:1269: syntax error b efore `return' gmake[3]: *** [cInterpreter.o] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/h otspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/product' gmake[2]: *** [the_vm] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/h otspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/product' gmake[1]: *** [product] Error # Please help me get around this. I will appreciate any advice. (/usr/ports/java/jdk14). I am using a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine, using the ports from the CURRENT tree. Best regards, Alin. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CHECKSUM.MD5
What is the function of the CHECKSUM.MD5 file on your freebsd server in the directory of your ISO images and do I need to use it? It is just an additional integrity check you can make after you ftp things to your machine. When the ISOs are made they run an md5 checksum on them and then record the numbers in that file. When you finish ftping the ISO or other file, you can run an md5 on it and compare to the number in the CHECKSUM.MD5 file to help make sure they arrived clean. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: answer me plz
Version 4.8 is the one for you. 5.0 5.1 are development versions and are for people who can debug the operating system. 4.8 is the stable production version. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dark matrix Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: answer me plz I want to build my own server on a p1 233 mhz 64M ram and 4gb hd Wich FreeBSD version 4.8 - 5.0 - 5.1 do you recommend me? thank for your answer _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4.8, Tomcat and Java servelts
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Java will work better on 5.x then it will on 4.x. If it is just a home server, I wouldn't hesistate to give 5.1 a try first. A question regarding Java and 4.8. We are planning to setup a FreeBSD box that would for example run Java servelts on the Tomcat platform. I read on the FreeBSD page that it is possible (and not even that difficult to set up...) but can anyone shed a light on the question regarding stability? Best regards, Johan Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Softupdates: df, du, sync and fsck [quite long]
Hello, I've a couple of questions about soft updates. I've Googled heavily on this but not really found a satisfactory answer. The story: I'm running on numerous FreeBSD 4.7 SMP machines as primary MX machines. The mail is not stored on the FreeBSD machines but on NetApps via NFS. However the mail is temporarily spooled on the FreeBSD machines during normal MTA handling and passing to an anti-virus scanner. I have one large partition /var on each machine where basically all the work and temporary/transient files for the MTA and AV scanner takes place. These machines are heavily utilised, running quite hot with a load average of anything from 2 to 8. Many thousands of temporary files are thus created and deleted a minute. I have no problem with this as nearly all email is delivered in under 1 minute whatever. I notice that after a while the amount of free space as shown by df considerably varies from a du on /var. I'm aware of why this happens with soft updates, but that's not the whole story. If I turn off incoming email on a machine, the space does not seem to sync back to what it should be. No matter how long I turn off the MTA, the space is simply not returned, and df/du show differences of about 5:1. Nothing else is writing/holding open files on that partition (even turned off syslog, cron, etc. and checked using lsof). In comparison, if, for example, on my normal desktop machine I create a 500MB file, then delete it, the space shortly afterwards is returned to me when I run df. The only way I've been able to recover this space to what it should be is to reboot the machine. Which brings me to the next problem... As an example, here is a snippet from the console from when I rebooted an affected machine: boot() called on cpu#2 Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...timed out syncing disks... 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 giving up on 22 buffers Uptime: 27d23h1m27s Rebooting... As you can see the file system is unable to sync. When the machine reboots it literally takes hours to fsck the /var partition (only about 15GB). And the fsck output is full of messages like this: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY Now, is there a problem here with soft updates losing track of what is going on on this busy partition? It would appear to be so as quietening the machine does not lead to a proper sync. Secondly, why does the fsck take such an inordinate amount of time for a smallish partition? I really like the performance benefits of soft updates, but it seems that I'm going to have to turn it off on /var because of the problems that eventually occur. If anyone has some advice I'd be grateful. Cheers, John. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FAQ pointer] crontab root not found
Timms, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to be having some trouble with cron. I edited my crontab file and added a line then ran #crontab /etc/crontab Don't do that, then. Or, in the wording of the FreeBSD FAQ, Why do I keep getting messages like ``root: not found'' after editing my crontab file?http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading 5.0 - 5.1; make buildkernel failes
Hi, I've been trying to upgrade my desktop pc, which ran 5.0-R without any problems for months, to 5.1-R. After a make clean, I cvsup the latest sources and then go 'make buildworld' and 'make installworld'. This doesn't give any problems, but then the 'make buildkernel' fails miserably: linking kernel init_main.o: In function `proc0_init': init_main.o(.text+0x2b9): undefined reference to `kse0_sched' init_main.o(.text+0x2c3): undefined reference to `ksegrp0_sched' init_main.o(.text+0x2cd): undefined reference to `proc0_sched' init_main.o(.text+0x2d7): undefined reference to `thread0_sched' kern_clock.o: In function `statclock': kern_clock.o(.text+0x6a4): undefined reference to `sched_clock' kern_condvar.o: In function `cv_waitq_add': kern_condvar.o(.text+0x1483): undefined reference to `sched_sleep' kern_exit.o: In function `exit1': kern_exit.o(.text+0x14a8): undefined reference to `sched_exit' kern_fork.o: In function `fork1': kern_fork.o(.text+0xc61): undefined reference to `sched_fork' kern_idle.o: In function `idle_proc': kern_idle.o(.text+0x1d6): undefined reference to `sched_runnable' kern_thr.o: In function `thr_exit1': kern_thr.o(.text+0xe8): undefined reference to `sched_exit_kse' kern_thr.o(.text+0x17b): undefined reference to `sched_exit_thread' kern_thr.o: In function `thr_create': kern_thr.o(.text+0x46f): undefined reference to `sched_fork_kse' kern_thr.o(.text+0x481): undefined reference to `sched_fork_thread' kern_mutex.o: In function `propagate_priority': kern_mutex.o(.text+0x7a): undefined reference to `sched_prio' kern_proc.o: In function `procinit': kern_proc.o(.text+0xe3): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_proc' kern_proc.o: In function `fill_kinfo_proc': kern_proc.o(.text+0x1706): undefined reference to `sched_pctcpu' kern_resource.o: In function `donice': kern_resource.o(.text+0x968): undefined reference to `sched_nice' kern_resource.o: In function `rtp_to_pri': kern_resource.o(.text+0xd25): undefined reference to `sched_class' kern_subr.o: In function `uio_yield': kern_subr.o(.text+0x57e): undefined reference to `sched_prio' kern_switch.o: In function `choosethread': kern_switch.o(.text+0x11): undefined reference to `sched_choose' kern_switch.o: In function `kse_reassign': kern_switch.o(.text+0xea): undefined reference to `sched_add' kern_switch.o: In function `adjustrunqueue': kern_switch.o(.text+0x168): undefined reference to `sched_rem' kern_switch.o(.text+0x170): undefined reference to `sched_add' kern_switch.o(.text+0x19e): undefined reference to `sched_rem' kern_switch.o: In function `setrunqueue': kern_switch.o(.text+0x293): undefined reference to `sched_rem' kern_switch.o(.text+0x34d): undefined reference to `sched_add' kern_synch.o: In function `msleep': kern_synch.o(.text+0x538): undefined reference to `sched_sleep' kern_synch.o: In function `mi_switch': kern_synch.o(.text+0xe36): undefined reference to `sched_switchout' kern_synch.o(.text+0xe5f): undefined reference to `sched_switchin' kern_synch.o: In function `setrunnable': kern_synch.o(.text+0xf5b): undefined reference to `sched_wakeup' kern_synch.o: In function `yield': kern_synch.o(.text+0x11a9): undefined reference to `sched_prio' kern_thread.o: In function `threadinit': kern_thread.o(.text+0x1547): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_thread' kern_thread.o(.text+0x1591): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_ksegrp' kern_thread.o(.text+0x15db): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_kse' subr_trap.o: In function `userret': subr_trap.o(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `sched_userret' subr_trap.o: In function `ast': subr_trap.o(.text+0x67f): undefined reference to `sched_prio' ksched.o: In function `ksched_attach': ksched.o(.text+0x2e): undefined reference to `sched_rr_interval' ksched.o: In function `ksched_setscheduler': ksched.o(.text+0x2d3): undefined reference to `sched_prio' ksched.o(.text+0x3c3): undefined reference to `sched_prio' ffs_snapshot.o: In function `ffs_snapshot': ffs_snapshot.o(.text+0xb4a): undefined reference to `sched_nice' ffs_snapshot.o(.text+0x24f4): undefined reference to `sched_nice' vm_zeroidle.o: In function `vm_pagezero': vm_zeroidle.o(.text+0x40d): undefined reference to `sched_runnable' vm_pageout.o: In function `vm_pageout_scan': vm_pageout.o(.text+0x1c14): undefined reference to `sched_nice' machdep.o: In function `cpu_idle': machdep.o(.text+0x16ee): undefined reference to `sched_runnable' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FOOKERN. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root. Any pointers to what am I doing wrong here are much appreciated... -- http://unsavoury.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading 5.0 - 5.1; make buildkernel failes
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:37:03PM +0200 or thereabouts, Maarten de Vries wrote: Hi, I've been trying to upgrade my desktop pc, which ran 5.0-R without any problems for months, to 5.1-R. After a make clean, I cvsup the latest sources and then go 'make buildworld' and 'make installworld'. This doesn't give any problems, but then the 'make buildkernel' fails miserably: Make sure you have exactly one of the next two lines in your kernel configuration file. (I'd recommend the first.) options SCHED_4BSD options SCHED_ULE -- Josh linking kernel init_main.o: In function `proc0_init': init_main.o(.text+0x2b9): undefined reference to `kse0_sched' init_main.o(.text+0x2c3): undefined reference to `ksegrp0_sched' init_main.o(.text+0x2cd): undefined reference to `proc0_sched' init_main.o(.text+0x2d7): undefined reference to `thread0_sched' kern_clock.o: In function `statclock': kern_clock.o(.text+0x6a4): undefined reference to `sched_clock' kern_condvar.o: In function `cv_waitq_add': kern_condvar.o(.text+0x1483): undefined reference to `sched_sleep' kern_exit.o: In function `exit1': kern_exit.o(.text+0x14a8): undefined reference to `sched_exit' kern_fork.o: In function `fork1': kern_fork.o(.text+0xc61): undefined reference to `sched_fork' kern_idle.o: In function `idle_proc': kern_idle.o(.text+0x1d6): undefined reference to `sched_runnable' kern_thr.o: In function `thr_exit1': kern_thr.o(.text+0xe8): undefined reference to `sched_exit_kse' kern_thr.o(.text+0x17b): undefined reference to `sched_exit_thread' kern_thr.o: In function `thr_create': kern_thr.o(.text+0x46f): undefined reference to `sched_fork_kse' kern_thr.o(.text+0x481): undefined reference to `sched_fork_thread' kern_mutex.o: In function `propagate_priority': kern_mutex.o(.text+0x7a): undefined reference to `sched_prio' kern_proc.o: In function `procinit': kern_proc.o(.text+0xe3): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_proc' kern_proc.o: In function `fill_kinfo_proc': kern_proc.o(.text+0x1706): undefined reference to `sched_pctcpu' kern_resource.o: In function `donice': kern_resource.o(.text+0x968): undefined reference to `sched_nice' kern_resource.o: In function `rtp_to_pri': kern_resource.o(.text+0xd25): undefined reference to `sched_class' kern_subr.o: In function `uio_yield': kern_subr.o(.text+0x57e): undefined reference to `sched_prio' kern_switch.o: In function `choosethread': kern_switch.o(.text+0x11): undefined reference to `sched_choose' kern_switch.o: In function `kse_reassign': kern_switch.o(.text+0xea): undefined reference to `sched_add' kern_switch.o: In function `adjustrunqueue': kern_switch.o(.text+0x168): undefined reference to `sched_rem' kern_switch.o(.text+0x170): undefined reference to `sched_add' kern_switch.o(.text+0x19e): undefined reference to `sched_rem' kern_switch.o: In function `setrunqueue': kern_switch.o(.text+0x293): undefined reference to `sched_rem' kern_switch.o(.text+0x34d): undefined reference to `sched_add' kern_synch.o: In function `msleep': kern_synch.o(.text+0x538): undefined reference to `sched_sleep' kern_synch.o: In function `mi_switch': kern_synch.o(.text+0xe36): undefined reference to `sched_switchout' kern_synch.o(.text+0xe5f): undefined reference to `sched_switchin' kern_synch.o: In function `setrunnable': kern_synch.o(.text+0xf5b): undefined reference to `sched_wakeup' kern_synch.o: In function `yield': kern_synch.o(.text+0x11a9): undefined reference to `sched_prio' kern_thread.o: In function `threadinit': kern_thread.o(.text+0x1547): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_thread' kern_thread.o(.text+0x1591): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_ksegrp' kern_thread.o(.text+0x15db): undefined reference to `sched_sizeof_kse' subr_trap.o: In function `userret': subr_trap.o(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `sched_userret' subr_trap.o: In function `ast': subr_trap.o(.text+0x67f): undefined reference to `sched_prio' ksched.o: In function `ksched_attach': ksched.o(.text+0x2e): undefined reference to `sched_rr_interval' ksched.o: In function `ksched_setscheduler': ksched.o(.text+0x2d3): undefined reference to `sched_prio' ksched.o(.text+0x3c3): undefined reference to `sched_prio' ffs_snapshot.o: In function `ffs_snapshot': ffs_snapshot.o(.text+0xb4a): undefined reference to `sched_nice' ffs_snapshot.o(.text+0x24f4): undefined reference to `sched_nice' vm_zeroidle.o: In function `vm_pagezero': vm_zeroidle.o(.text+0x40d): undefined reference to `sched_runnable' vm_pageout.o: In function `vm_pageout_scan': vm_pageout.o(.text+0x1c14): undefined reference to `sched_nice' machdep.o: In function `cpu_idle': machdep.o(.text+0x16ee): undefined reference to `sched_runnable' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FOOKERN. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root. Any pointers to what am I doing wrong here are much appreciated... --
routed 'forgets' it's path (or something)
I have run into a strange problem: Suddenly has my nic no routingtables so name lookups etc doesn't work. The only solution is to SU and kill routed and then start it again. Everything will then work for an hour or so and then I'm back on step one again. I have laborated with cvsup etc the last day, so it's probably something that's been changed, but I'm to novice to understan what. I am running 5.0p7 now. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Variables Listings
Is there a way to list what the variables on the system are with one simple command, such as $HOME, $PATH, $CVSROOT, $TMPDIR, etc, etc? Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name
Sorry, I missed the original reply to this. What you can do is setup an extra redirect to the URL. i.e. have your redirection service point to a different URL (vhost) that still points to your machine. Since it seems you do not have a lot of flexibility with DNS, it would probably be easiest to run this vhost on a different port. Then, on your vhost, setup your own http redirect http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect to your actual site with the URL you want your clients to see, and the client's browser should then show this URL. The port will still show up using this method, but this is the only way to go if you want your own domain to show up without paying for any additional services. The masking method dyndns uses, is to essentially serve up a frameset, and redirect to your URL through a frame, thus the original URL is what will show in the client's address bar. Dyndns charges for this service however, and you will not be able to use it with your own domain name unless you buy their custom dns service. Hope this answers your questions. - Original Message - From: John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Han Hwei Woo [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name Han Hwei Woo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the ServerName directive in Apache is what you're looking for; it's what people's browser address field will show once they connect to your site. Thanks, but as I mentioned when Chuck brought this up yesterday, my ServerName directive is set properly in the format: ServerName www.mydomain.com in httpd.conf. This does not seem to make any difference at all. As far as your security concerns go, you can not run a website without exposing the IP address of the webserver machine, with or without masking. If a client machine didn't know your IP address, it would not know where to retrieve your web pages from. Agreed (though not entirely true; you can use a web redirect service to successfully cloak a true IP address; I've done this successfully), but that's not really what I'm after. I just don't want my IP address and port number combination glaring in a web browser's address bar when a user visits my web site. I realize that if someone really wanted to resolve my IP, they could, but I'm also thinking of people who don't know what an IP address is, and are asking me questions like What happened to the web site? I typed in the words you told me to, and it turned into a bunch of numbers! - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
calcru error on FBSD 5.0
Hi, I'm looking for an efective solution for the calcru error. I read many posts in many freebsd mail lists, but any solution solved the problem. I saw the problem listed on fbsd known problems ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP1/errata.html ) and it leaded me to this list. Does exist some kind of workaround, or corrective procedure for this problem? Thanks in advance, Murilo Woigt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Variables Listings
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:13:51PM -0800, Jon Reynolds wrote: Is there a way to list what the variables on the system are with one simple command, such as $HOME, $PATH, $CVSROOT, $TMPDIR, etc, etc? man env Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.'' Will Rogers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fsck!
Often, after a FreeBSD 4.x system has been powered down without a proper shutdown, the system complains of inconsistencies on the disk. Yet, if one runs the command fsck -f after it's rebooted, the fsck program doesn't fix the problems it finds; instead, it says NO WRITE at the beginning of each report. (It seems not to want to touch things unless they're unmounted.) So, the system has to come down AGAIN. What's the best and fastest way of ensuring disk consistency on a system that you're powering up after an abrupt outage? What about a system that powered up again before you arrived to nurse it through a reboot? --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck!
In the last episode (Jun 27), Brett Glass said: Often, after a FreeBSD 4.x system has been powered down without a proper shutdown, the system complains of inconsistencies on the disk. Yet, if one runs the command fsck -f after it's rebooted, the fsck program doesn't fix the problems it finds; instead, it says NO WRITE at the beginning of each report. (It seems not to want to touch things unless they're unmounted.) So, the system has to come down AGAIN. What's the best and fastest way of ensuring disk consistency on a system that you're powering up after an abrupt outage? What about a system that powered up again before you arrived to nurse it through a reboot? An fsck that fails with UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. should cause the boot process to stop right there and drop to single-user mode. Under 4.x, it will run fsck -p on any dirty filesystems, and only if the preen returned success on all filesystems will it continue to multi-user mode. 5.x is a bit more lenient, since it can clean softupdates filesystems in the background. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4-CD set
I've noticed that the FreeBSD 4-CD set is now available for 5.1-RELEASE from FreeBSDmall.com for $40. I'm willing to order it and support the cause, but nowhere have I been able to find out just what is on the additional two CDs. Is it the ports collection, or source code, or something else? If anyone has previously purchased a 4-CD set, I'd be interested to hear what advantage it offers over the downloadable 2-CD set. TIA, Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4-CD set
On Friday 27 June 2003 05:57 pm, Robert Storey wrote: I've noticed that the FreeBSD 4-CD set is now available for 5.1-RELEASE from FreeBSDmall.com for $40. I'm willing to order it and support the cause, but nowhere have I been able to find out just what is on the additional two CDs. Is it the ports collection, or source code, or something else? If anyone has previously purchased a 4-CD set, I'd be interested to hear what advantage it offers over the downloadable 2-CD set. It is the ports collection. The advantage is simply this - when you /stand/sysinstall and want to add more ports etc, it reads off of the last 2 CD's and installes them - opposed to the cd /usr/ports/(somedir) make install clean which downloads them off the net. well worth the investment if bandwith is an issue TIA, Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards, Chris __ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers __ 01010010011101100011011001010111001001011000 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and he will sort things out for you. Don't send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? === Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In addition, the FreeBSD-newbies list caters
The Complete FreeBSD, third edition: errata and addenda
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, ``The Complete FreeBSD'', published by Walnut Creek, is no exception. In- evitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The following is a list of modifications which go beyond simple typos. They relate to the third edition, formatted on 17 May 1999. You'll find this information on page iv (the page before the beginning of the Table of Contents). See the end of this document for instructions on how to find the errata for an older version. You can get the current document in four forms: o A PostScript version, suitable for printingout,at ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-3.ps. See page 302 of the third edition to find out how to print out PostScript. If at all possible, please take this document: it's closest to the original text. Be careful selecting this file with a web browser: it is often impossible to reload the document, and you may see a previously cached version. o An enhanced ASCII version at ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-3.txt. When viewed with more or less, this version will show some highlighting and underlining. It's not suitable for direct viewing. o An ASCII-only version at ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-3.ascii. This version is posted every week to the FreeBSD-questions mailing list. Only take this version if you have real problems with PostScript: I can't be sure that the lack of different fonts won't confuse the meaning. o A web version at http://www.lemis.com/errata-3.html. All these modifications have been applied to the ongoing source text of the book, so if you buy a later edition, they will be in it as well. If you find a Page 1 The Complete FreeBSD bug or a suspected bug in the book, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page ii ___ The instructions on page ii (opposite the title page) tell you to look at ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-2 for the errata list. That's wrong. Look at this list. Pages 190 and 191 _ The description is not very clear about which text appears when booting from floppy for initial install, and which appears when booting normally. The procedure is very similar, but there are some differences. Add the following text after the heading Boot messages: You'll boot your system in at least two different ways: initially you'll boot from floppy or CD-ROM in order to install the system. Later, after the system is installed, you'll boot from hard disk. The procedure is almost identical, so we'll look at both versions in the following examples. Replace the text from the middle of page 191 with: If you're booting from 1.44 MB floppies, you will then see: Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: When you insert the MFS root floppy and press Enter, you see more twirling batons, then the UserConfig screen appears. UserConfig: Modifying the boot configuration After the kernel has been loaded, the following screen will appear if you are installing the system, or if you have requested it with the -c option to the boot loader: Page 206 The bottom two lines on this page should be in bold constant font, indicating that this is input for your /etc/rc.config file Page 2 Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition nfs_client_enable=YES # This host is an NFS client (or NO). nfs_server_enable=YES # This host is an NFS server (or NO). Page 265 The example on the second half of the page refers to the old SCSI driver. The scsi program is no longer available in FreeBSD 3.x. Instead, use the camcontrol program. Replace the text with:. Modern disks make provisions for recovering from such errors by allocating an alternate sector for the data. IDE drives do this automatically, but with SCSI drives you have the option of enabling or disabling reallocation. Usually it is turned on when you buy them, but occasionally it is not. When installing a new disk, you should check that the parameters ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enable) and AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enable) are turned on. For example, to check and set the values for disk da1, you would enter: # camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3 # scsi -f /dev/rda1c -m 1 -e -P 3 This command will start up your favourite editor (either the one specified in the EDITOR environment variable, or vi by default) with the
Xine quit on starting DivX
Can somebody help me out or give me some hints ? Xine just quit after trying to start a DivX movie ? Worked before, I have only change add some web services like OpenWebMail and CUPS bktr2jpeg and some depending Liberals ! I have tired to deinstall/install all known packages suporting Xine and Codec but didn't help. demux_avi: input capabilities = 649 demux_avi: 145300 frames system layer format 'AVI' detected. demux_avi: video format = div3 demux_avi: video frame size 704 x 384 demux_avi: audio format[0] = 0x55 demux_avi: audio type MPEG layer 2/3 (wFormatTag 0x55) demux_avi: start pos is 0, start time is 0 demux_avi: video codec is 'Microsoft MPEG-4 format v3' metronom: video discontinuity #7, type is 0, disc_off is 0 metronom: waiting for audio discontinuity #7 audio_oss_out: AO_CTRL_FLUSH_BUFFERS metronom: audio discontinuity #7, type is 0, disc_off 0 metronom: audio vpts adjusted with prebuffer to 19378018 metronom: waiting for in_discontinuity update #7 video_out: possible still frame (old) metronom: video vpts adjusted to 19378018 video_decoder: new pts 0 metronom: video discontinuity #8, type is 3, disc_off is 0 metronom: waiting for audio discontinuity #8 metronom: audio discontinuity #8, type is 3, disc_off 0 metronom: waiting for in_discontinuity update #8 video_decoder: using decoder divx4 video decoder using video decoder plugin 'divx4 video decoder' divx4: caught SIGSEGV, caused by libdivxdecore. divx4: please uninstall this library or disable the libdivxdecore divx4: version check by setting the following line in HOME/.xinerc: divx4: divx4_forceversion:1 divx4: see xine-ui/doc/README.divx4 for details. divx4: fatal error; exiting. South be the divx codec ? Kind regards. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading 5.0 - 5.1; make buildkernel failes
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:57:56PM -0700, root wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:37:03PM +0200 or thereabouts, Maarten de Vries wrote: Hi, I've been trying to upgrade my desktop pc, which ran 5.0-R without any problems for months, to 5.1-R. After a make clean, I cvsup the latest sources and then go 'make buildworld' and 'make installworld'. This doesn't give any problems, but then the 'make buildkernel' fails miserably: Make sure you have exactly one of the next two lines in your kernel configuration file. (I'd recommend the first.) options SCHED_4BSD options SCHED_ULE This and other upgrading pitfalls are documented in /usr/src/UPDATING, which you should read (along with the release notes, errata and other release documentation) before attempting an upgrade. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fsck!
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 04:55:45PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: Often, after a FreeBSD 4.x system has been powered down without a proper shutdown, the system complains of inconsistencies on the disk. Yet, if one runs the command fsck -f after it's rebooted, the fsck program doesn't fix the problems it finds; instead, it says NO WRITE at the beginning of each report. (It seems not to want to touch things unless they're unmounted.) So, the system has to come down AGAIN. What's the best and fastest way of ensuring disk consistency on a system that you're powering up after an abrupt outage? What about a system that powered up again before you arrived to nurse it through a reboot? You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 4-CD set
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:48:39PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Friday 27 June 2003 05:57 pm, Robert Storey wrote: I've noticed that the FreeBSD 4-CD set is now available for 5.1-RELEASE from FreeBSDmall.com for $40. I'm willing to order it and support the cause, but nowhere have I been able to find out just what is on the additional two CDs. Is it the ports collection, or source code, or something else? If anyone has previously purchased a 4-CD set, I'd be interested to hear what advantage it offers over the downloadable 2-CD set. It is the ports collection. The advantage is simply this - when you /stand/sysinstall and want to add more ports etc, it reads off of the last 2 CD's and installes them - opposed to the cd /usr/ports/(somedir) make install clean which downloads them off the net. The ports collection is on disc 1. The extra discs are: A live filesystem CD that can be booted and used for repair purposes, Two CDs of commonly-used packages. The entire package collection takes up about 6 GB (for i386 5.1), which would take about 9 CDs to ship in its entirety. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
jexec broken?
is jexec working in 5.1 release? #jls 1 192.168.1.100 example.com /usr/jail/192.168.1.100 #jexec 1 sendmail jexec: execv(): sendmail: No such file or directory ok i will try w/ full path #jexec 1 /usr/jail/192.168.1.100/usr/sbin/sendmail jexec: execv(): /usr/jail/192.168.1.100/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory sendmail was an example this is the same with any app i read all 18 lines of the man thanks all __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jexec broken?
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:36:37PM -0700 or thereabouts, jon wrote: is jexec working in 5.1 release? #jls 1 192.168.1.100 example.com /usr/jail/192.168.1.100 #jexec 1 sendmail jexec: execv(): sendmail: No such file or directory ok i will try w/ full path #jexec 1 /usr/jail/192.168.1.100/usr/sbin/sendmail jexec: execv(): /usr/jail/192.168.1.100/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory sendmail was an example this is the same with any app Just grasping at straws here... Maybe jexec jail()s itself before execing the program. In that case, you would need: #jexec 1 /usr/sbin/sendmail See if it works! i read all 18 lines of the man Hehe :-) -- Josh thanks all __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck!
At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no UPS, or maybe the power company -- like ours -- is so slow to fix outages that the UPS battery was fully drained.) What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run fsck, it can be frustrating. Sometimes a partition takes two or three passes to clean up. Sometimes fsck randomly refuses to work on one. It's a mess. Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if powering down without shutting down is that rare of an occurrence. (It eats holes in any system, and is responsible for gradual bit rot in both Windows machines and BSD machines.) --Brett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jexec broken?
--- Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just grasping at straws here... Maybe jexec jail()s itself before execing the program. In that case, you would need: #jexec 1 /usr/sbin/sendmail See if it works! thanks that was it. seems counterintuitive, the first command seems as though it would work since what you suggested does. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck!
Brett Glass wrote: At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no UPS, or maybe the power company -- like ours -- is so slow to fix outages that the UPS battery was fully drained.) Normally, fsck is able to automatically handle the problem after a dirty shutdown. In all the dirty shutdowns I've seen, I've only had to manually run fsck maybe twice. As far as the power sit is concerned: if you have a UPS and you don't have some sort of monitoring software to gracefully shutdown the machine during extended outages, you're shooting yourself in the foot! Kind of like getting a car with all the fancy safety features so you can drink a bottle of vodka before you drive. Regardless, isn't this the reason background fsck was developed in 5? What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run fsck, it can be frustrating. Sometimes a partition takes two or three passes to clean up. Yeah, that is a PITA, but I can understand the reason. Sometimes fsck randomly refuses to work on one. It's a mess. Never had that happen. Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if powering down without shutting down is that rare of an occurrence. Really? Doesn't happen all that often to me. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck!
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:55:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no UPS, or maybe the power company -- like ours -- is so slow to fix outages that the UPS battery was fully drained.) What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run fsck, it can be frustrating. Sometimes a partition takes two or three passes to clean up. Sometimes fsck randomly refuses to work on one. It's a mess. Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if powering down without shutting down is that rare of an occurrence. (It eats holes in any system, and is responsible for gradual bit rot in both Windows machines and BSD machines.) --Brett Please read the documentation; there are rc.conf options for handling unattended installations. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD on Toshiba Satellite 2455
Hi, Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD 5.1 Release on a Toshiba Satellite 2455-S305 Laptop? Are there any known problems with this Toshiba model? Thanks, Luciano ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to downgrade from 5.0 to 4.8-stable using thecvsup-buildworld procedure?
I installed 5.0 when I first tried out freeBSD this spring, and after some months of testruns I'm still very impressed and will choose freeBSD as our *nix clone standardized OS. Unfortunately everywhere I look and read the recommendation is to go with 4.8 not 5.x, and especially would I like the nvidia drivers to work, therefor do I need to downgrade my system. Is that possible? To go from 5.0 to 4.8 by using the cvsup and buildworld procedure? Are there any pitfalls? The system is mainly used for samba-filesharing and web-service provided by Apache-Tomcat. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it possible to downgrade from 5.0 to 4.8-stable using thecvsup-buildworld procedure?
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:57:04AM +0200 or thereabouts, freeBSD wrote: I installed 5.0 when I first tried out freeBSD this spring, and after some months of testruns I'm still very impressed and will choose freeBSD as our *nix clone standardized OS. Unfortunately everywhere I look and read the recommendation is to go with 4.8 not 5.x, and especially would I like the nvidia drivers to work, therefor do I need to downgrade my system. Is that possible? To go from 5.0 to 4.8 by using the cvsup and buildworld procedure? Are there any pitfalls? The system is mainly used for samba-filesharing and web-service provided by Apache-Tomcat. It's possible, but not supported. I did this once and my system threw up all over me. (/bin/sh wouldn't run, etc.) So : try it, but make a backup first. -- Josh ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there such a thing as the famous How-To's in Linux for freeBSD?
I have finally got my dream solution on how-to automatically filter and sort my IMAP based mailbox using three different 3d party solutions. And I plan to contribute back by writing an easy-to-follow how-to. But before I start that work I want to know that there's somewhere to list it so that it gets most impact. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved! Was: Re: routed 'forgets' it's path (or something)
Odd, but the soo simple solution which however I can't explain was to do a: route add default 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1 is my gateway) If someone can explain how the system could work for a while after the route daemon was started and then suddenly forget all routing tables it would be great, however it works for me know so I'm pleased again! ;) On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 00:04, freeBSD wrote: I have run into a strange problem: Suddenly has my nic no routingtables so name lookups etc doesn't work. The only solution is to SU and kill routed and then start it again. Everything will then work for an hour or so and then I'm back on step one again. I have laborated with cvsup etc the last day, so it's probably something that's been changed, but I'm to novice to understan what. I am running 5.0p7 now. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there such a thing as the famous How-To's in Linux forfreeBSD?
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:14:46AM +0200 or thereabouts, freeBSD wrote: I have finally got my dream solution on how-to automatically filter and sort my IMAP based mailbox using three different 3d party solutions. And I plan to contribute back by writing an easy-to-follow how-to. But before I start that work I want to know that there's somewhere to list it so that it gets most impact. There's a list of FreeBSD Articles on the website. -- Josh ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell Provider - DDoS Attacks - IPFW Ratelimiting
Hi, Regarding your main question I'm afraid I can't really help - although what the other person said about not being able to do a whole lot about it I think is generally the case unfortunately. I run a number of eggdrop bots on my home network (about 20 full time bots in all, around 100 shell users in all) and have seen a few similar DDoS attacks from botnets (characterized by open ports 80 and 113) which really clogged the system. Luckily in my case the last attack was a relatively simple ICMP attack with fragmented packets (_lots_ of them, around 30MB in 5 minutes on a 512k ADSL connection). This was easy enough to block with ipf (incidentally you are using ipf aren't you:). Very annoying and generally I just felt like stopping my users from running their eggdrops (as you no doubt know there's little way to tell exactly what/who caused the attack to be brought about, banning one user who has brought it on isn't possible). And a last thing, I use right now tcpdump, trafshow, ipfm to trace the source(attackers) and the destination(which one of my ips is attacked) ips. Do you suggest any other tools to make my life easier? lsof is very useful for gaining additional insight into network connections. I found the perl scripts located in the scripts directory to be very insightful, particularly in how to incorporate lsof into a custom tool. I particularly needed to know which eggdrop was attempting to connect to private address ranges which were blocked by the firewall and causing lots of log entries. lsof easily allowed me to determine what user owned the process that spawned these connection attempts (sockstat/netstat is ok, but filtering lsof output is a lot easier). Anyway, good luck, Regards, Jez ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there such a thing as the famous How-To's in Linux forfreeBSD?
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:14:46AM +0200, freeBSD wrote: And I plan to contribute back by writing an easy-to-follow how-to. But before I start that work I want to know that there's somewhere to list it so that it gets most impact. Check on the freebsd site, particularly the fdp project articles. You can find info on getting started with the fdp here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ which includes a step-by-step guide to contributing articles/handbooks. Good luck, Jez ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Softupdates: df, du, sync and fsck [quite long]
John Ekins wrote: Hello, I've a couple of questions about soft updates. I've Googled heavily on this but not really found a satisfactory answer. The story: I'm running on numerous FreeBSD 4.7 SMP machines as primary MX machines. The mail is not stored on the FreeBSD machines but on NetApps via NFS. However the mail is temporarily spooled on the FreeBSD machines during normal MTA handling and passing to an anti-virus scanner. I have one large partition /var on each machine where basically all the work and temporary/transient files for the MTA and AV scanner takes place. These machines are heavily utilised, running quite hot with a load average of anything from 2 to 8. Many thousands of temporary files are thus created and deleted a minute. I have no problem with this as nearly all email is delivered in under 1 minute whatever. I notice that after a while the amount of free space as shown by df considerably varies from a du on /var. I'm aware of why this happens with soft updates, but that's not the whole story. If I turn off incoming email on a machine, the space does not seem to sync back to what it should be. No matter how long I turn off the MTA, the space is simply not returned, and df/du show differences of about 5:1. Nothing else is writing/holding open files on that partition (even turned off syslog, cron, etc. and checked using lsof). In comparison, if, for example, on my normal desktop machine I create a 500MB file, then delete it, the space shortly afterwards is returned to me when I run df. The only way I've been able to recover this space to what it should be is to reboot the machine. I don't know what's wrong, but does unmounting and remounting the partition reclaim the lost space? As an example, here is a snippet from the console from when I rebooted an affected machine: boot() called on cpu#2 Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...timed out syncing disks... 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 giving up on 22 buffers Uptime: 27d23h1m27s Rebooting... As you can see the file system is unable to sync. When the machine reboots it literally takes hours to fsck the /var partition (only about 15GB). And the fsck output is full of messages like this: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY Well, this sure isn't good. Now, is there a problem here with soft updates losing track of what is going on on this busy partition? It would appear to be so as quietening the machine does not lead to a proper sync. Secondly, why does the fsck take such an inordinate amount of time for a smallish partition? If there's a LOT of inodes with problems, it could easily take a while to fix. Also, if you run fsck without specifying a filesystem to fix, it exhaustively checks all filesystems. So even if the problem is on /var, it might spend a long time checking /usr as well. You can work around this by calling fsck with the filesystem to check. I really like the performance benefits of soft updates, but it seems that I'm going to have to turn it off on /var because of the problems that eventually occur. If these are production boxes, I'd recommend turning it off until you resolve the problem. If anyone has some advice I'd be grateful. I don't know if this would qualify as advice, but since nobody else seems to have any suggestions, I figured I'd throw my thoughts in. Are you using ATA or SCSI drives? Does issuing a manual sync once you've stopped the spooling process help any? Are these all identical mobos ... possibly a BIOS update available? These aren't IBM ATA drives are they? I had one of those give me grief for months (if you look in the archives, you should be able to find details on which drives caused problems). Have you tried updating one of the machines to 4.8 to see if the problem has been fixed? Like I said, not good advice, just some ideas for you. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can the FreeBSD handbook be sold?
On Thursday, 26 June 2003 at 12:50:04 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: Hi, I came across this: http://store.fultus.com/product_info.php?cPath=5_10products_id=1 These guys are selling a pdf version of the handbook for 35 bucks a pop. Is that legal? Because, if it is, I'll wget the online doc, pipe it to a pdf creator and sell it for $25 ;-P I'm just curious about the status of documentation. I beleave the handbook has the same licence as the system, which is BSD. As long as they don't act against this licence then its legal. And there is a lot you are allowed to do. Yes, it's legal. I don't understand why anybody would pay this kind of money, though. As it says at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html, you can download it for free from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.pdf.bz2. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
