FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and Adaptec 2400A Controller
I am having an issue with the Adaptec 2400A controller using the latest FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE code. The server is hanging with this message: asr0: Blink LED 0x3 resetting adapter The server doesn't reboot or halt, it just sits there with that error message until you manually reboot it with the reset switch. I have tried switching the cache RAM with no luck. This happens once every couple of days, but it's been known to happen after 1 day, or take as long as 10 days. There is nothing in /var/log/messages. I'm using four 60GB ATA/100 disks in a RAID 5 array. Has anyone had a similar issue, and if so what was the solution? ///Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:37:46PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: There's lots of stuff that might go into XF86Config which isn't mentioned in the automatically generated config file, produced by But I meant, in *my* XF86Config there is no mention of the blanktime or standby or suspend timings, and yet, after about 5-10 minutes of idle time my monitor somehow KNOWS to dim itself. Where else might I find the cause? I suspect that XFree86 is just applying its default settings, given that you haven't told it to do otherwise. Is xset the only thing that can make use of DPMS or is there a binary in the default / standard / minimum *BSD installation to control it too? Look at vidcontrol(1) -- specifically the '-t blanktime' option. You can go direct to the screen saver on a console screen by hitting Shift-Pause -- see splash(4). However whether this involves DPMS directly or not, I don't know. 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: ssh keepalives
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:04:51 +0200 From: Christian Stigen Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Steve Coile ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote: | I'm having a problem with premature termination of ssh sessions [...] | | Is this a common problem with firewalls? We suffer from this problem | here, also, and I've thought it must be a misconfiguration with the | firewall or elsewhere in the netwrok. But since you mentioend it, | I'm rethinking my assessment. As Michal F. Hanula, it might be due to the firewall dropping idle TCP connections. I'm quite sure this is the case, and I know this is a characteristic of the stateful firewalls on both sides. (which I administer) One of those firewalls is quite flexible about protocol state timeouts, I can set this on a service-by-service basis. (ie I could increase it for SSH and no other service) Unfortunately the firewall on the other side isn't so accommodating. It has a single timeout setting that affects all traffic that traverses the firewall, and I'd rather not increase that too high. At work I use PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) for my outbound ssh sessions, and it supports a useful option: Sending of null packets to keep session active Settings this to, say, 60 seconds effectively prevents my sessions from being cut off. Unfortunately I haven't found any similar feature in the OpenSSH clients. Do they support such a feature? I've used that feature with PuTTY and it's handy. As far as I can tell there is no equivalent in OpenSSH. The KeepAlive feature appears to be used primarily to detect if a connection has died due to a broken link. (probably the thing that allows the client to report connection reset by peer right away without sitting there for a hour before figuring it out) -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers Communications for the New Millenium ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Staying up to date - easy way?
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing seems a little much to do for just security updates. Is it just a huge thing the first time you do it and get smaller / faster after that or am I just completely missing something else. Could I make a refuse file and refuse everything except what I need? Am I clueless? I take it you're tracking one of the release branches -- eg. RELENG_4_8 -- in which case, I don't think there has been any updates to that branch since 4.8 was released. If you subscribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security-notifications you'll be notified whenever there's a security problem that needs attention --- and it usually is just important security patches that get applied to the release branches. Fixes to make important functionality work properly might also be made, but these are very rare. Given the security advisory, you will be able to run cvsup(1) to grab the updated sources, and you can usually just recompile only the affected part of the system according to the instructions in the advisory. Managing ports with cvsup(1) is always going to involve a lot more effort. That's because there's about 9000 ports each of which could be updated at any time. At a very rough count there's something like 20 port updates committed per day. When you cvsup(1) the ports, that means you're going to see a lot of output scrolling past. But remember, the whole ports tree is only 140Mb or so, and you're probably not seeing much more than a megabyte of actual changes in a week. The thing that makes port management a real dream is using portupgrade(1) -- this automates all of the tedious chores and generally is the best thing since sliced bread. I always used Debian's apt-get update / upgrade stuff before and it was a really simple process. I don't doubt that FreeBSD is very powerful but I like to be up to date with patches and stuff but don't want to rebuild everything every time. portupgrade(1) is in my opinion equally as easy to use as apt-get(1). There's a difference in philosophy: ports is really all about downloading and compiling the source code, and the ports system generally makes that a no-brainer. However, by giving the '-P' flag to portupgrade(1) you can download precompiled packages --- for certain ports like OpenOffice, the compilation is a real monster, so downloading the package is the way to go. Other ports --- like the natie JDKs --- are *only* available if you compile them yourself from source. Note that updated packages are generally not available as quickly as the updates to ports, especially at the moment when the package building cluster is doing double duty building packages for both 4.x and 5.x branches. 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: Staying up to date - easy way?
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: Hi everbody, I'm new to FreeBSD and coming back after a long time away from UNIX like OSs in the first place. I decided to try out FreeBSD because it seems to be a better controlled product than most of the Linux stuff out there and what I'd really want FreeBSD for is servers anyway, no X or anything like that. I'm gonna give you a point of view of someone who likes to compile code, essacialy for server. They have one advange over binairy updates. They give you control about how to build them. Cutting support for the i386 process makes the apps go faster. A binairy, on the otherhand, is faster installed. Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing seems a little much to do for just security updates. Is it just a huge thing the first time you do it and get smaller / faster after that or am I just completely missing something else. Could I make a refuse file and refuse everything except what I need? Am I clueless? There usaly are binairies updates when a security update is repored comes availble. Usaly the website despribes a way to install them. Make sure that you are on the rigth mailinglists. (www.freebsd.org; i can't give you the exact link, since i am in a somewhat limet enverioment right now. The proces you desribe takes a couple of hours and is compicated to do the first time. After that it easy. The /etc/make.conf file allow you control over the build process. This includes some controle about what not to build. A build proces normaly looks like this: mergemaster -p make buildworld; make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC This all can run in the background. After that, and there are no errors, you can get the machine in single user mode and install it with: make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC check for errors make installworld mergemaster reboot It looks more compicated than it is, realy. I usaly run the build pard on the backgound with the commands: idprio 30 make buildworld; idprio 30 make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC This effectivly makes it give preference to all other processes as much as posible. I also written a script for my self to make this process easier for my self. I included it as an atachement. Its smart not to use this for the first time you build the world in order to get a feeling for the proces. I always used Debian's apt-get update / upgrade stuff before and it was a really simple process. I don't doubt that FreeBSD is very powerful but I like to be up to date with patches and stuff but don't want to rebuild everything every time. The apt-get system realy is nice. On FreeBSD there is a port availble called portupgrade that allows you to update you ports/packages. Only the last time it wasn't able to update packages if you had security updates because it didn't parse a system varible the right way. Again i usaly compile and use an alias set in the /root/.cshrc for that: alias pi idprio 30 portinstall (for installing) alias pu idprio 30 portupgrade (for upgrading) alias pv portversion | grep -v \= (for commandline checking) Thanks in advance for advising this newbie and I hope I didn't say anything offensive, overall I'm falling in love with FreeBSD but this one issue bothers me. There's nothing wrong with liking FreeBSD ;) Alex ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Staying up to date - easy way?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: Here's my question. Is there a simple way to stay up to date with FreeBSD? The install was great! But the whole CVSup, rebuild thing seems a little much to do for just security updates. Is it just a huge thing the first time you do it and get smaller / faster after that or am I just completely missing something else. Could I make a refuse file and refuse everything except what I need? Am I clueless? There usaly are binairies updates when a security update is repored comes availble. Usaly the website despribes a way to install them. Make sure that you are on the rigth mailinglists. (www.freebsd.org; i can't give you the exact link, since i am in a somewhat limet enverioment right now. The proces you desribe takes a couple of hours and is compicated to do the first time. After that it easy. The /etc/make.conf file allow you control over the build process. This includes some controle about what not to build. A build proces normaly looks like this: mergemaster -p make buildworld; make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC This all can run in the background. After that, and there are no errors, you can get the machine in single user mode and install it with: make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC check for errors make installworld mergemaster reboot It looks more compicated than it is, realy. I usaly run the build pard on the backgound with the commands: idprio 30 make buildworld; idprio 30 make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC This effectivly makes it give preference to all other processes as much as posible. I also written a script for my self to make this process easier for my self. I included it as an atachement. Its smart not to use this for the first time you build the world in order to get a feeling for the proces. Oesp here's the atachement. Alex ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client
I would have to agree. I have tried loads of mail clients in my time and mutt does it for me. I don't go in for bells and whistles so I find gui-based clients somewhat tiresome. mutt is very flexible and the sort-by-thread option is brilliant. It doesn't do html, but then e-mail should be text - if I receive an e-mail message in html-only I have no qualms about deleting it without reading it ;o) Try mutt - you won't be disappointed. Unless you crave a gui ;o) Tony On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:21:35AM -0400, parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joachim Dagerot thusly... I do miss an oportunity to choose sender each time I post a message, only way to solve that is to set up multiple accounts... In Evolution it's basically only the sort messages in thread that's really useful. Based on the two criterias above (Possibility to have multiple sender addresses on one account, and messages sorted in threads) can you give me some hints on good software? You can do all that and some more w/ mutt. Mutt can run both in X (in xterm) or in console. (I use -devel port w/ almost all the options, plus some external (to port) nifty patches: tag_prefix_cond threadcomplete.) - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** * Tony Hacche* * ULCC * * 20 Guilford Street * * London WC1N 1DZ* ** * JOD: 0870 850 6672 * * DDI: 020 7692 1440 * * FAX: 0870 850 6673 * * MOB: 07866 623093 * ** There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. (Samuel Johnson) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron executes entries twice
Another item to check: Faulty time service might produce such duplication. The first cron job would run on the old time; the time updates; it then runs the job again. There would not be a 3rd run because the clock is now correct. On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:23:30PM -0400, John wrote: For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously for the periodic scripts, but also on some scripts that I added for nightly, weekly, or runs at reboot. This started not long after a buildworld upgrade from one 4.x to another 4.x. Which upgrade, I don't recall unfortunately. The executions of the scripts appear to occur within minutes of each other, if not seconds. I checked /var/cron/tabs/root, and all entries are in there only once. Cron is also only running as a single process. The system is running 4.8-RC. Any thoughts of where to look and what to look for? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vt/ansi codes
You don't think you're alone because you've Googled a lot? heh :) namely, i am not happy with the current selection of text editors (i find joe(1) to be very good, but it's got some problems and is aging without good development), 136-sec# ls /usr/ports/editors | wc -l 200 yeah, 200 - great :) tried all of them ... i've been using FBSD for almost 10 years, since version 1.X (1995 or so?). and the same old rebuttals continue - with no real advance. look - 200 editors. heh (in good humor) :) more of my favorites are: Q. i want to know how to write to the display like i used to in DOS ... A. UNIX is not DOS. what a stupid question. have a nice day. goodbye. heh. or: Q. isn't there an editor for non-gurus to use to set up a system? A try vi, you'll like it, it's smarter, better. if you're too stupid to use vi, you're too stupid to use this OS (pre-ee days :). heh. i have used vi, and i did learn it, and IMHO, it still sucked because whatever i could do in vi in 10-20 keystrokes of crypto, i could do in 2-3 mnemonic keystrokes in joe. plus, i could do even more stuff in joe that i couldn't do in vi. of the 200 editors, most are either graphic apps, vi/emacs clones, or total pieces of garbage - they really need to be weeded out. and the various language specific stuff should really be in their own trees. i would guess people looking for a Korean text editor don't want to wade thru Japanese editors, and people looking for plain ascii editors don't want to wade thru gobs of Japanese, Korean, and graphic editors. my point is things need to be rethought. redone. reworked. and the failure to do so is crippling OSOS's (Open Source OS's). and all OS's in general. my specific point (as an example) was that if a decent fully functional ANSI escape sequence standard was adopted by all terminal drivers - cross platform code would be much more efficient in size and CPU time with less dependencies, much easier to maintain and port, accessible by ALL programming languages in the same way, displays would look nicer, much more useful and interesting code would be developed, and i don't see or hear an intelligent reason not to do so. and the same goes for FS hierarchies and many other things, and all the configure/libtool/automake/pkgconfig stuff. people say oh it's great, more stuff to do more stuff on more things. but after this tree of more stuff grows a while, hello world becomes a complication where one has to hack termcap, ncurses, termios and sys/ioctl; and then configure/libtool/automake/pkgconfig, and then figure out numerous OS packaging schemes. all opposing arguments are to the effect of what about using this library, and what about this hack and that hack. forget it - people only have so much time in life. a goal should be to create OS's that allow effective and efficient and lasting creation - not endless and fundamentally pointless years of study to climb mountains around bad foundations. extended regex's should be standard - things like sed -E and grep -E and find -E and all this nonsense needs to go. it's causing more hours of pain dealing with the nonsense than it would have caused to simply say starting January 1, 2002, sed/grep/find will all link with extended regex libraries - please update any scripts. and further continuation should be shunned. IMHO, there's too much consideration given to compatibility with ancient code sitting on obscure PDP mainframes with VT100 terminals, and far too little consideration given to the evolution of quality technical product (i don't know anything about kernel developments, this is only a engineer with a programming/OS hobby viewpoint). and that's why in the MS windows arena you find countless more quality programs and software. cuz those same programmers in the UNIX world would quit before completion of any project due to the endless and pointless overhead and mundane incompatibilities and nuisances across UNIX platforms. in UNIX, arguments (more or less) come down to ATT did such and such in 197X, so therefore ... bunk. if ATT (or DEC, et al) did something lame (compared to todays understandings/technology) in 197X, it's really not a good reason to continue with it. it's past time to do things better than ATT (or DEC et al) did them in 197X. methods should evolve more and more on technical merit and less on ancient history or however SUN/IRIX does it (remaining backwards compatible when not in danger of creating a real kludge); and driven with the goal of a more intelligent/higher quality product that evolves without regard to marketing hype and schedules. if a programmer is gonna spend time and work in the open source arena, that should be (and is) a major justification - what else? (albeit, many are driven by socialistic/anti-MS energies). the open source community as a whole has power to lead and forge standards, and to continue to follow blindly in the proprietary footsteps of quarter century old
how to influence load order of kernel modules
Hi all, first of all about the background of my question: if I start vmware (version 2 from the ports tree) on my FreeBSD 4.8 system, the system reboots :(( I found that if I restart /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh (stop, start) the kernel module vmmon gets unloaded and loaded again and I get a new order in the kldstat list (see below). I am wondering how I can influence the initial load order of kernel modules, because the problem with vmware my disappear if vmmon is always loaded after if_tap.ko (which is also part of the vmware.sh script, but which does not unload by vmware.sh stop). Thanks for you help, Stefan ... Stefan Farrenkopf - Goettingen State and University Library Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 D-37070 Goettingen, Germany phone: +49(0)551-39-5827 || fax: +49(0)551-39-5222 ... PGP Public Key: http://www.gwdg.de/~sfarren/public-key.txt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.
PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? mod_php runs as the same user as the Web Server, giving file permission to look at any file the web server can. Safe_dirs are turned off by default I've been hosted on commercial sites where I could easily read the files of the other virtually hosted users, able to rip database passwords and steal source code. (reading through some of that code taught me about PHP class semantics but that's another story 8) Beautiful C-like syntax (/usr/src/* might even make more sense to you after learning it...) great user community. beautiful? the function names alone are a pile of cruft upon cruft take a look here : http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php or http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.html PHP reveals what it is - a hotch potch of stuff built one function at a time by a hundred monkeys string *strchr* ( string haystack, string needle) mixed *str_replace* ( mixed needle, mixed new_needle, mixed haystack) chop cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alias of *rtrim()* cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want beauty, use python I'm a professional PHP programmer of 5+ years; secure, elegant and beautiful are not words I would instantly think of. Easy to learn, with a big target painted on your shoes. Ever seen something like this : $r = mysql_execute(select * from table_1 where id=$_GET[id];); ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system info
Hi all, Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed ram, CPU etc? Cheers, -Morten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system info
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Re: system info
Hi, Well, yeah, sort of. But it doesn't tell me cpu speed... Cheers, -Morten Luke Kearney wrote: top LK - Original Message - From: Morten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: system info Hi all, Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed ram, CPU etc? Cheers, -Morten ___ [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] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system info
Le Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:11:29PM +0200, Morten ecrivait: Hi, Well, yeah, sort of. But it doesn't tell me cpu speed... less /var/run/dmesg.boot Regards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Claranet France -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system info
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:00:13PM +0200, Morten wrote: Is there a command line utility that I can use to get info on installed ram, CPU etc? less(1), as in % less /var/run/dmesg.boot 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: how to influence load order of kernel modules
Hi again, I would like to correct the information I send before. After I rebooted my machine once more (by starting vmware :( ) I had to realize, that the vmware.sh stop/start procedure is obviously not always sufficient. Without starting any applications I opened a Terminal window and started vmware and it got up without booting my box. So I suppose the problem is somewhere else. But I would still like to know how I can influence the load order of kernel modules, even if it does not solve my problem ;) best wishes, Stefan --On Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:34:22 +0200 Stefan Farrenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, first of all about the background of my question: if I start vmware (version 2 from the ports tree) on my FreeBSD 4.8 system, the system reboots :(( I found that if I restart /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh (stop, start) the kernel module vmmon gets unloaded and loaded again and I get a new order in the kldstat list (see below). I am wondering how I can influence the initial load order of kernel modules, because the problem with vmware my disappear if vmmon is always loaded after if_tap.ko (which is also part of the vmware.sh script, but which does not unload by vmware.sh stop). Thanks for you help, Stefan ... Stefan Farrenkopf - Goettingen State and University Library Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 D-37070 Goettingen, Germany phone: +49(0)551-39-5827 || fax: +49(0)551-39-5222 ... PGP Public Key: http://www.gwdg.de/~sfarren/public-key.txt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Stefan Farrenkopf - Goettingen State and University Library Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 D-37070 Goettingen, Germany phone: +49(0)551-39-5827 || fax: +49(0)551-39-5222 ... PGP Public Key: http://www.gwdg.de/~sfarren/public-key.txt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, DanB wrote: I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the file to a xp box with a cd writer. Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added to the transfer? Possibly; as Joshua mentioned, FTP clients may try to translate line feeds to CRLF if they think it's a text file. However, more likely IME is that Windows is just calculating the number slightly differently. 265 * 1024 = 271360, which might be called 271 by a program using even thousands instead of 1024. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A softupdates problem?
Hello, Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates effect, the size of that large file is added to the dump-file size, as if it were still on the partition! I have been able to circumvent that, in the past, by waiting a few minutes before starting the dump (until df reflects the correct size). This is not really ideal, though, as I disallow outside connections while in backup (so as not to change the /var partion with log-files being filled and such). Is there not a command to force 'softupdates' to write out its cache immediately? Much obliged, - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A softupdates problem?
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Mark wrote: Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates effect, the size of that large file is added to the dump-file size, as if it were still on the partition! I have been able to circumvent that, in the past, by waiting a few minutes before starting the dump (until df reflects the correct size). This is not really ideal, though, as I disallow outside connections while in backup (so as not to change the /var partion with log-files being filled and such). Is there not a command to force 'softupdates' to write out its cache immediately? I didn't try, but `sync' should do the job, shouldn't it? Regards Konrad Heuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ ___ GWDG / __/__ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__//___// Germany ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A softupdates problem?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:15:14AM +, Mark wrote: Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates effect, the size of that large file is added to the dump-file size, as if it were still on the partition! I have been able to circumvent that, in the past, by waiting a few minutes before starting the dump (until df reflects the correct size). This is not really ideal, though, as I disallow outside connections while in backup (so as not to change the /var partion with log-files being filled and such). Is there not a command to force 'softupdates' to write out its cache immediately? Hmmm... not an answer to the question you asked, but does not: # chflags nodump your-very-large-file in combination with using the '-h 0' flag to dump(8) let you backup the partition without including the file in question? 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: cron executes entries twice
At 04:03 AM 7/3/2003, Andrew Boothman wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote: Hi All, For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously for the periodic scripts, but also on some scripts that I added for nightly, weekly, or runs at reboot. This started not long after a buildworld upgrade from one 4.x to another 4.x. Which upgrade, I don't recall unfortunately. The executions of the scripts appear to occur within minutes of each other, if not seconds. Hmmm - that is strange. My only thought off-hand would be that someone has managed to install /etc/crontab as a personal crontab? Try 'crontab -l' as root and any other possible users to see if they have a crontab that is similar to the /etc/crontab Just a thought.. Andrew Your suggestion was dead on - I'm not sure why I kept overlooking this. For some reason the entire contents of /etc/crontab were duplicated in root's crontab. I got rid of it last night, and lo - only one run of the scripts. Thanks very much for the help! -John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot hangs after install 4.8
From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS. The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots. Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 Snip... FDISK Partition Editor (with A = Use Entire Disk): DISK Geometry: 21858 cyls/34 heads/54 sectors = 40131288 sectors (19595MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc SubtypeFlags 0 54 53- 6 unused0 54 40131234 40131287ad0s1 3freebsd 165C I suspect you need to set ad0s1 slice bootable (using S key in fdisk screen). Flags should be CA, not simply C. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * @dress: A garment worn by some people when emailing at home. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cpu
Hi! How do I find out if 4.7 saw is using both of my CPU's One way would be to read /var/run/dmesg.boot. Another way would be to run top and see if different processes run on different CPUs (the 'C' column). -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of devices available. So far it appears that querying or searching this list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid days of messing around ;-). Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD burner would present the least possible hassle in installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, make a new kernel and simply use it to write complete CD snapshots to store offsite. TIA, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7
I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located? Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number? Dan Jerry McAllister wrote: Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around but could not find any place to download the whole install CD from the web. First, something you can do to help make your messages more useful and make it easier for many of us to respond: Please break your lines at around 72 characters. Some Email readers can be configured to do that. If yours cannot, then please hit a RETURN/ENTER (however yours is labeled) at around 70 or characters to start a new line. Now, I never use the web interface to get the ISO-s. I just go in with ftp to ftp.freebsd.org. But, the location will be the same. When you get in, you need to cd to pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.8 (It is recommended that you start with V-4.8 and not any of the V-5.X) In that directory will see 3 ISO files and one CHECKSUM.MD5 file. Download the file called 4.8-RELEASE-i386-mini-iso Make sure you are using a binary transfer for that file. If you are using regular ftp, type the command 'binary' minus the quotes. Then, you can also download the file called CHECKSUM.MD5. If you are doing the ftp from a Microsloth system, then that file should be downloaded in ASCII text mode (type 'ascii' while in ftp) because it is just a text file with the MD5 checksum numbers to use to verify a good download. If you accidently download the checksum file in binary it is no big problem. It will just have extra CR-s in it. But, you mush download the ISO in binary mode or it will be junk. If you are where you can run md5 on the ownloaded ISO, then do it and compare the number it gives with the one for that file in the checksum file. If they are the same the ISO download should be good. Then, burn the ISO directly as is on to a CD. If you are using the whole disk for FreeBSD, you can just proceed. If you are trying to dual boot it with Win-something or Linux along with the FreeBSD, then you will have to slice the drive. If it already has the Win-something on it, the easiest thing is to use a program that will shrink the Win slice and make room for a FreeBSD slice. I have successfully used a utility called Partition Magic. It is available for around $50 in most electronics mass market stores like Best Buy, etc. There are freeware ones, but generally they don't work for XP and NTFS type file systems, but do just fine with old FAT stuff with Win95-98, etc. Although you will see lots of warnings about boot sectors needing to be in no higher than a certain cylinder on the disk, most modern BIOSes don't have that problem. But, if you get things all installed and it won't boot because it can't find your bootable filesystem, then you may have to rethink your disk divisions and put a smaller MS-Win slice low, then a FreeBSD slice and then the rest of the space for the remainder of your MS stuff, or something. If you enjoy juggling such thing, you will be in paradise, but I prefer to just have a more current BIOS. Some systems have downloadable upgrades available that will fix the problem. This is all below the FreeBSd level and must be decided and fixed before installing FreeBSD. Of course, the easiest thing is to just blow off the MS-Win stuff and make the whole machine a FreeBSD machine. Then, there is no problem. Just make one FreeBSD slice covering the whole disk. You can do all that during install and choose to make it bootable, etc. When you get your disk use issues all settled Pop the CD in to the machine where you want to install FreeBSD and boot it off the CD. You may have to tinker with the BIOS boot order to get it to boot from the CD. It must have the CD before the hard disk in the boot order list. The mini-iso disk is the only one you really need. It has the entire installation stuff and knows how to get the rest via ftp.After you finish doing the config stuff and carve up the disk, you just select installing via FTP and it will download everything you ever need and want. Of course, if you have a slow connection, it will take a while, but not really any longer than downloading those other two ISO-s. If your connection is too slow to install over, then you should just buy the CD set from BSD Mall or one ot the other contributing vendors that package a CD set and sell them for a nonimal cost and contribute a bit of the revenue to the FreeBSD foundation. jerry Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks, Nowman Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download but it asks for the password for ftp. I
Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box
I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the file to a xp box with a cd writer. Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added to the transfer? Most probably you downloaded the file in ASCII mode. You must use BINARY mode or ftp will interpret the data and try to convert it to MS style text. When the ftp session is established, type the command binary to set binary mode. If you are doing it via a web browser, I don't know how to set it because I never do that. (I just use an ftp utility straight up) But, there must be some way, so check around. jerry Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:47:09AM -0700, cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? The hardware notes for 4.8 mention chip sets that are supported but it's not always listed on the specs for the cards :-) Thanks, Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, that really is my last name. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
Go here... http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsddoll-s?id=pqS7TiPemv_pc=56 Peter At 06:20 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hello, My place of employment recently purchased your services. My boss received a little red devil bean bag beanie toy which he gave to me. I brought it home to my son and he just loved it. He brought it with him every where we go. Unfortunately, yesterday he forgot it at day camp and was just hysterical over it. This morning it was gone and both myself and the camp counselor could not find it any where. Would it please be possible for me to get another one of these bean bag beanie red devils from your company. Below is my name and mailing address. If there is a charge, please let me know. Thank you so much. Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Chris Higens 7813 South Neenah Avenue Burbank, IL 60459 USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything below this line, is considered a signature line. If you do not know what a signature is within an email STOP here and do not read any further. Thank you. _ Peter Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet? -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE. (NOTE: UCE is Unsolicited Commercial Email also known as SPAM or junk mail). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem building galeon port on STABLE
I'm trying to build galeon, using the ports mechanisi8m. This is no a machine that was cvsup'd about the end of last week. The build process is dying when regxpcom core dumps. What can I do to solve this problem? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IDE reboot after power outage problem
Hello, My system used to be an all SCSI system. After rare power outages the system would automatically fsck the disks and boot up. Recently I added an IDE drive to the system. Now, after power outages the system boots and when it gets to the ide drive it prompts for single user mode shell. I drop into single user mode, fsck all the disks so they are marked clean, and reboot. Why is the system not automatically fsck'ing the disk on boot, and is there some setting I need to enable to return to the old desired behavior? Thanks, Alex uname -a FreeBSD ..com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #4: Tue May 6 00:26:04 PDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DUALP3-4_8_0-RELEASE i386 df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a97M49M40M55%/ /dev/da0s1e 7.7G 3.2G 3.9G45%/usr /dev/ad0s1e72G42G24G64%/home procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp 4.8iso 265k transfer to windows 98 box
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:09, DanB wrote: I am ftping 4.8iso to a windows 98 box with ftppro then transferring the file to a xp box with a cd writer. Is there any down falls to this? I notice that Freebsd file size is 265k the download size is 271k on the Windows 98 box is somthing being added to the transfer? Dan Before getting too excited have a look at the actual byte count. 'ls' will do this in FreeBSD and 'dir' at the command prompt will do it in XP There is some flexibility in in the meaning of k Other possibility is ftp translating it as a text file-- setb binary mode. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of devices available. So far it appears that querying or searching this list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid days of messing around ;-). Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD burner would present the least possible hassle in installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, make a new kernel and simply use it to write complete CD snapshots to store offsite. Soeren has a Sony DRU500A that we bough him for development, so I would assume that support for that particular make/model of DVD burner is the best right now and will continue to be the best. -- 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]
mozilla stalls
I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. What tends to happen is that I'll try to load/reload a page, and the browser will stall indefinitely -- forcing me to kill it. Strangely, when I run the browser again it has no problems loading the page that it stalled on previously. The pages are neither flash nor java embedded. I'm running STABLE. Here are some specs: mozilla-1.3.1,2 mozilla-firebird-0.6 flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_2 mozilla-fonts-1.0_1 Thanks for the help. - Jim -- Jim Allen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Probems building amanda client port
On a recently cvsup'd achine, building the amanda-client port fails when it gets to the gtart port as a dependency. It seesm gtar is now part of the base system. Shouldn't this be OK? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
buildworld errors
I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj and started over again. It goes for about 4 hours each time, and this is now the error I received while doing a make buildworld. What is it that is going wrong here? Any help would be greatly appreciated... === sbin/gbde cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc1: warnings being treated as errors /usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api-fst.c: In function `rijndael_padEncrypt': /usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api-fst.c:222: warning: implicit declaration of function `panic' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sbin/gbde. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sbin. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. apex# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?
I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user (ftpuser) has login rights to the ftp system, although it's not jailed with its own /bin directory, etc. The question: How do I take the available space in /storage and make it available to the ftpuser? Adding a symlink to /storage within the FTP area doesn't seem to work. Any help much appreciated. G. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bandwidth Question
Hello, I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP addresses? I've read some about dummynet. Would this be the preffered tool to use? Also, if someone could recommend a program to log how much bandwidth a particular IP uses per month etc..., and also display graphs about bandwidth usage I would appreciate it. Thank You -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla stalls
I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD
- Original Message - From: Alexander Haderer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD At 12:39 02.07.2003 -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote: [...] It works equally well with Adaptec hardware raid with 5 SCSI drives in a Raid 5 configuration. Gotta love FreeBSD. Although, not everyone needs raid 5, but it's nice to know that it works and works well. hello Michael, please could you tell us which Adaptec hardware you are using at which FreeBSD version. How do you manage the raid on the running system? Is there a console application to do things like configuration, drive-shutdown etc... with best regards, Alexander As I recall, that particular system is running an Adaptec 2100S under FreeBSD 4.8. I've not found any software that can access that particular raid directly for configuration from within the running OS. The only way to access it that I'm aware of is with the standard Control A at system startup to access the on board settings of the card. Here, the raid type can be configured. I will say that I've had a drive failure on this system with little effect on the normal operation of the OS. However, since there aren't any hot swappable bays in this particular system (company didn't want to spend for them), the system has to be shut down to replace the failed drive. However, the system will still boot in diminished mode and continue this way until the new drive has been restored. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buildworld errors
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:23:19 -0400 quadrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj and started over again. It goes for about 4 hours each time, and this is now the error I received while doing a make buildworld. What is it that is going wrong here? Any help would be greatly appreciated... === sbin/gbde cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W$ cc1: warnings being treated as errors /usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api-fst.c: In function `rijndael_padEncrypt': /usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api-fst.c:222: warning: implicit declaration of function `panic' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sbin/gbde. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sbin. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. apex# It's not wise going from 4.x to 5.x.. so many changes (gcc, etc).. I'd backup do a clean install of 5.1-RELEASE if I were you. :-) -- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT Re: mozilla stalls
On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too My mozilla will hang for a few minutes when I enter a url in the location bar. If I fire it up and click on the link that are already there it's fine. The moment I try to type a new URL in the bar it just hangs. I am using the nvidia drivers on bsd 4.8. Never had a problem (that I can recall) until I installed the nvidia drivers.. could be wrong tho. -- Matthew Bettinger System Administrator Champion Elevators, Inc. Houston, Texas 77061 713.640.8500 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder if it didn't exist. So freebsd-questions list items were put in the 'questions' folder, freebsd-stable in the 'stable' folder, and so on. I have search the archives for this post for the past two days but have been unsuccessful. I've tried to write it myself but this is not my area of expertise. Does anyone have such a recipe they are willing to share? Thanks, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
Quoting Drew Tomlinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD | lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name | from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder | if it didn't exist. Probably the most appropriate field to match against in the mailheader is ``List-Id'', which for this mailinglist is: List-Id: User questions freebsd-questions.freebsd.org I do not have that particular script which you refer to, but I'd just like to give a note of warning on automatically executing shell commands based on email data (since an attacker could easily insert hazardous commands). Why not just have some extra lines in your procmailrc file? Also, I've written some notes on sorting incoming mail: A guide to simple mail filtering on UNIX systems http://csl.sublevel3.org/docs/mailfiltering.php -- Christian Stigen Larsen -- http://csl.sublevel3.org -- mob: +47 98 22 02 15 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?
I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user (ftpuser) has login rights to the ftp system, although it's not jailed with its own /bin directory, etc. The question: How do I take the available space in /storage and make it available to the ftpuser? Adding a symlink to /storage within the FTP area doesn't seem to work. Any help much appreciated. G. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:53:30AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder if it didn't exist. So freebsd-questions list items were put in the 'questions' folder, freebsd-stable in the 'stable' folder, and so on. I have search the archives for this post for the past two days but have been unsuccessful. I've tried to write it myself but this is not my area of expertise. Does anyone have such a recipe they are willing to share? Easy enough: :0: * List-Id:[^]+\/freebsd-[^.] $MATCH This will store each list in a folder prefixed by freebsd-. If you want freebsd-questions to be stored in a folder named questions, just move the \/ (which marks the beginning of the MATCH variable) to after the freebsd-. And if you want it to support other RFC2919-compliant lists (that is, ones which include the List-Id: header), simply remove freebsd- from the recipe. -- Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ Free PHP web hosting!http://www.it.ca/web/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bandwidth Question
In ports under Net there is IPFM i haven't played with it yet but it is supposed to do some of what you are looking for. Do a google search and you can find the homepage of the author. I would be interested in any information you find out on this subject. Greg From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bandwidth Question Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:45:39 -0400 Hello, I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP addresses? I've read some about dummynet. Would this be the preffered tool to use? Also, if someone could recommend a program to log how much bandwidth a particular IP uses per month etc..., and also display graphs about bandwidth usage I would appreciate it. Thank You -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
Woops... On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote: Easy enough: :0: * List-Id:[^]+\/freebsd-[^.] $MATCH That should have been: :0: * ^List-Id:[^]+\/freebsd-[^.]+ $MATCH But I'm sure everyone already knew that... ;) -- Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ Free PHP web hosting!http://www.it.ca/web/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache Security
Hello Everyone, Is Apache with fp extention (apache-fp) not secure to run in a machine ? In the meantime that this machine is made for this purpose, web hosting! im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Please Advise. Marwan Sultan _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* 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]
Re: Need guidance in choosing mail-client
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Tony Hacche thusly... It doesn't do html, but then e-mail should be text - if I receive an e-mail message in html-only I have no qualms about deleting it without reading it ;o) True. If somebody does desire to view HTML, add appropriate entries to mutt configuration mailcap... ~/.mailcap text/html ; w3m -T text/html %s text/html ; w3m -dump -T text/html %s ; copiousoutput ~/.muttrc auto_view text/html ...See manual.txt of mutt port for details on the above (section 5 on mime support, in version 1.5.4i) and evrything else. - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache Security
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Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly...
About a year or two ago, someone posted his recipe for sorting FreeBSD
lists. This particular one was nice in that it extracted the list name
from the From line (I think) and then created the appropriate folder
if it didn't exist. So freebsd-questions list items were put in the
'questions' folder, freebsd-stable in the 'stable' folder, and so on. I
I use 'f-list' named folder. Change the following (part of larger recipes)
as you desire...
# get list id
:0
* ^List-ID:[]*.*\/[a-z]+.*
{ list_id = $MATCH }
# identify other lists on different criteria
# based on $list_id, assign $list
#
list=
# freebsd lists
:0
* list_id ?? ()\/[a-z]+[-.a-z]+freebsd\.org
{
# consider -gnats-submit list same as -bugs, but not -ports-bugs
:0
* list_id ?? ()(ports-bugs|cvs-ports)
{ list = f-ports }
:0 E
* list_id ?? ()(gnats-submit|bugs)
{ list = f-bugs }
# most interesting freebsd mailing lists
:0 E
* MATCH ?? ()\/(stable|ppc|cvs|mobile|questions|ports|java)
{ list = f-${MATCH} }
# dafault $list for/from any freebsd list
:0 E
{ list = f-misc }
}
# do other things
# file message
:0:
* list ?? ^^f-[a-z]+^^
$list
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Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results. I've used several of the SIIG dual cards (FireWire and USB2 on the same PCI card) on SuSE 8.2 Linux which of course doesn't address the FreeBSD question, but I have had excellent results with all the SIIG cards I've used over the years. 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/ ``I don't make jokes, I just watch the Government and report the facts...'' Will Rogers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results. Is this the dual Adaptec card that has both USB and Firewire? I've used several of the SIIG dual cards (FireWire and USB2 on the same PCI card) on SuSE 8.2 Linux which of course doesn't address the FreeBSD question, but I have had excellent results with all the SIIG cards I've used over the years. That's good to hear. I know that SIIG cards are easy to find. Thanks! Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, that really is my last name. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to encrypt data on backup?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:35:51AM -0700 or thereabouts, Tak Pui LOU wrote: Hi Josh, Thanks. That may work for me if the GBDE works on tape device. Does it? I don't know... get a tape and try it! -- Josh --- Lou On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:56:20PM -0700 or thereabouts, Tak Pui Lou wrote: Hello, Is there any way to encrypt the backup created by dump while it is writing to the media? I mean without pipe because I want dump to calculate the media length by itself. I don't know if this will work for you, but have you thought about GBDE? Or are you running 4.x? -- Josh --- Lou ___ [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: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: ... While we're on this topic has anyone used a Firewire DVD burner yet and to what success? (This would be for 4.8) Also any recommended Firewire cards or cards to avoid? I'm using a current Adaptec on FreeBSD 4.8 with good results. Is this the dual Adaptec card that has both USB and Firewire? This is the vanilla firewire only card. I've used several of the SIIG dual cards (FireWire and USB2 on the same PCI card) on SuSE 8.2 Linux which of course doesn't address the FreeBSD question, but I have had excellent results with all the SIIG cards I've used over the years. That's good to hear. I know that SIIG cards are easy to find. Yup. CompUSA generally has them (there's been a thread on the local Linux mailing list with ``hide your wallets'' as the subject -- we're getting our first Fry's store here shortly :-). 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/ In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up. -- Pastor Martin Niemoller ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:09:28AM -0500, Greg Brooks wrote: I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along with a partition called /storage that's currently empty. Only one user (ftpuser) has login rights to the ftp system, although it's not jailed with its own /bin directory, etc. Do you really mean jailed, or are you talking about the user being chrooted, as is normally done with ftp users? The question: How do I take the available space in /storage and make it available to the ftpuser? Adding a symlink to /storage within the FTP area doesn't seem to work. You could try mount_null (or mount_nullfs in 5.x), though the man page gives warnings about bugs. Or you could simply mount the filespace in a directory to which ftpuser has access. Or you could create another user with access to /storage. Or you could use an FTP server that supports directory aliases. I don't know of one that does, but perhaps some searching would find one. For your reading pleasure, there's discussion of this for proftpd at http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite/Userguide/linked/chroot-symlinks.html Lots of options. -- Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ Free PHP web hosting!http://www.it.ca/web/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400 or thereabouts, Bill Moran wrote: cp wrote: We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There are no USB devices being used now and only a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. I read the compatibility notes and searched Google for the wide range of devices available. So far it appears that querying or searching this list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid days of messing around ;-). Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD burner would present the least possible hassle in installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, make a new kernel and simply use it to write complete CD snapshots to store offsite. Soeren has a Sony DRU500A that we bough him for development, so I would assume that support for that particular make/model of DVD burner is the best right now and will continue to be the best. I have one too! It's great. You can write +RW with burncd, -R and -RW with dvdrecord (which I may someday submit a port for; it needs some patches to install) and +R with... well... why would you use +R anyway? :-) You can also write CD-R and CD-RW w/cdrecord. And if you want video DVDs, encode the MPEG yourself, and there's a program that comes with dvdrecord to generate the layout. So get the internal IDE DRU500A, and you won't regret it! -- Josh -- 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] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL Modem
On your SpeedTouch 330 modem, did you have any problems with the USB port just shutting off? I have to reboot to get it back. I am wondering if I need to increase a buffer somewhere, or if it is caused by the phone ringing. - Original Message - From: Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: Re: SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL Modem On Wednesday 25 June 2003 23:45, you wrote: Is your modem the 330, or does it even matter? Yes, it was the 330. grtz, Daan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports does not exist
Installed 5.1-RELEASE clean from CDROM on new HD and new filesystems
earlier this week. Installed XFree86 and KDE from ports during the
initial install. Installed /usr/ports and /usr/src later via CVS and
am up to date as of yesterday.
Attempting to add certain ports that I'm missing got stuck on
/usr/ports/news/pan. It breaks while installing docbook stuff for lack
of /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports.
=== docbook-xml-4.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/xmlcatmgr - found
for file in `unzip -l /usr/ports/distfiles/docbook-xml-4.2.zip|/usr/bin/awk
'/:[0-9].*[^\/]$/{print $4}'`; do install -o root -g wheel -m 444
/usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xml/work/$file /usr/local/share/xml/docbook/4.2/$file;
done
=== Generating temporary packing list
xmlcatmgr: catalog /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports does not exist
*** Error code 1
[...]
Stop in /usr/ports/news/pan.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/home/dkelly/tmp/portinstall37524.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed)
! news/pan (unknown build error)
Attempts to locate whoever creates catalog.ports have failed.
Searching my old 4.8 installation indicates it didn't exist there
either. But its mentioned quite often in /usr/ports/textproc/*/Makefile.
So how do I get past this error?
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ipfw/natd/divert question
I'd like to come up a ruleset that handles the following example. Suppose I have a daemon listeing on port 2000 and I'd like outside clients to be able to communicate with the daemon by addressing traffic to port 2000 or port 2001. So, suppose I have for my natd configuration: -redirect_port tcp 1.2.3.4:2000 1.2.3.4:2001 And then in my ipfw ruleset, if I use: add 100 divert natd tcp from any to 1.2.3.4 2001 in via rl0 add 101 divert natd tcp from 1.2.3.4 2000 to any out via rl0 It seems that traffic coming in normally to 1.2.3.4:2000 would enter fine. And traffic coming into 1.2.3.4:2001 would be diverted to natd which would rewrite the destination port as 1.2.3.4:2000. So far so good. But my concern is with the 101 ipfw rule...wouldn't it always rewrite traffic leaving from 1.2.3.4:2000 as 1.2.3.4:2001? In which case is there a way to distinguish the outbound divert to only take place if the traffic was initially diverted on the way in...some sort of divert keep-state? Thanks for any help or explanations. _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* 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]
Seting baclground color in fvwm95?
How can I set the background color for a session using fvwm95? xsetroot sets the color, but when the window manmager starts up, it overwrites that change. I fell certain it's a setting in the .fvwm95rc file, but I cna't find any docs on the syntax. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: 2 NIC's (one dhcp) and default route issue
I'm building a machine with 2 nic's. They will be on seperate subnets, and in the long run both will have fixed addresses. However at the moment I've set one of these up for dhcp. The fixed addres NIC should be the one thta has the default route associated with it, and I have a defaultrouter= statement in /etc/rc.conf. However, when i boot the machine netstat shows that teh dhcp interface has aquired the default route. How can I correct this? I tried adding supersede routersxxx.xxx.xxx.xx in /etc/dhclient.conf, but this does not seem to work. The machine is 4STABLE, if thta matters. Thanks. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin - End forwarded message - -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 09:44 US/Mountain, Micheal Patterson wrote: As I recall, that particular system is running an Adaptec 2100S under FreeBSD 4.8. I've not found any software that can access that particular raid directly for configuration from within the running OS. Actually Adaptec has FreeBSD management software for the 2100S. I had/have two machines running 2100S and FreeBSD 4.7 and on one of them I can get the management software to run and on one of them I can't. There is no difference in the machines themselves. But you can download and try the software from the adaptec website. Chad The only way to access it that I'm aware of is with the standard Control A at system startup to access the on board settings of the card. Here, the raid type can be configured. I will say that I've had a drive failure on this system with little effect on the normal operation of the OS. However, since there aren't any hot swappable bays in this particular system (company didn't want to spend for them), the system has to be shut down to replace the failed drive. However, the system will still boot in diminished mode and continue this way until the new drive has been restored. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 ___ [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]
CVSupping 5
Hi, Please forgive my stupidity. What is the cvsup tag for the 5 branch? RELENG_5 doesnt work. I have searched the archives, the site and I cant find anything that would help me. I just installed a 5.1 box, and would like to cvsup and rebuild my kernel. Thanks alot. Ian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSupping 5
Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, Please forgive my stupidity. What is the cvsup tag for the 5 branch? RELENG_5 doesnt work. I have searched the archives, the site and I cant find anything that would help me. I just installed a 5.1 box, and would like to cvsup and rebuild my kernel. RELENG_5_1 for the 5.1-RELEASE critical updates . for the bleeding-edge -CURRENT update (yes that's a '.') If you look in /usr/share/examples/cvsup there are several example cvsup files. The one called 'standard-supfile' should get you -CURRENT. -- 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]
archive search broken?
I'm fairly certain that there was a thread in -current regarding work on a 'health and wellness' type driver for HP ProLiant machines but I can't seem to actually get any results for any searches since at least yesterday afternoon. Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong? -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem adding user (4.8R)
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: -- 8 -- ...whatever I type in as username, the system rejects it. I can add users via sysinstall. But this bothers me... what could be wrong? Regards, Johan Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no /usr/src/etc/
I was trying a 'mergemaster' as seen here but kept getting the following error: cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment I verified that this file indeed does not exist, then realized something else when trying to 'cd' to /usr/src/etc/: the entire /usr/src/etc/ directory doesn't exist! The only subdirectory of /usr/src/ is sys/conf/ . Have I broken something??? 'man' tells me all about 'master.passwd' but not how to regenerate it if it's missing (including encrypted info). Is the proper method as simple as the following: # cp /etc/master.passwd /usr/src/etc/master.passwd ...or should I instead do this recursively: # cp /etc/ /usr/src/etc/ Thanks, ~John # uname -a FreeBSD gandalf.istari 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 - 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: Problem adding user (4.8R)
From: Johan Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:41 PM Subject: Problem adding user (4.8R) Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: -- 8 -- ...whatever I type in as username, the system rejects it. Does 'foo' match the regexp that you entered or already had setup when you were 'answering a few questions?' Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs co CVSROOT
dear list i just tried to cvs co CVSROOT in order to try out setting up a CVS repository - the FreeBSD way as described in the article of the same name in the docs section but there seem to be a few file missing in the CVSROOT i got trying modules as access got me an error message that the file disapeard?! can someone tell me what is going on? thanks -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Jetzt ein- oder umsteigen und USB-Speicheruhr als Prämie sichern! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)
Johan Paul wrote: Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: -- 8 -- ...whatever I type in as username, the system rejects it. I can add users via sysinstall. But this bothers me... what could be wrong? I'm guessing that during the startup portion of adduser, you entered foo as the username regex. This isn't where you enter a username, but where you enter a pattern that limits the possible usernames. Deleting /etc/adduser.conf will get you back to the shipped defaults. -- 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: Apache Security
As I recall Microsoft offered a Unix version of frontpage server extensions actually. I do however remember it being a serious pain in the neck that wasn't worth the time it took to manage it. But that's just my $0.02. Jason - Original Message - From: Matt Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dead Line [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:36 AM Subject: Re: Apache Security Dead Line wrote: Hello Everyone, Is Apache with fp extention (apache-fp) not secure to run in a machine ? it is best to assume that nothing is secure 8) In the meantime that this machine is made for this purpose, web hosting! im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Please Advise. your customers will be irritated when their ActiveX based Frontpage components don't work on Unix. other than that, well done good luck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)
I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: -- 8 -- ...whatever I type in as username, the system rejects it. Does 'foo' match the regexp that you entered or already had setup when you were 'answering a few questions?' Well, I think so This is what I did: -- 8 -- silakka# adduser mats Use option ``-silent'' if you don't want to see all warnings and questions. Check /etc/shells Check /etc/master.passwd Check /etc/group Usernames must match regular expression: [kypeli]: mats Enter your default shell: bash csh date no sh tcsh [bash]: Your default shell is: bash - /usr/local/bin/bash Enter your default HOME partition: [/home]: Copy dotfiles from: /usr/share/skel no [/usr/share/skel]: Send message from file: /etc/adduser.message no [/etc/adduser.message]: Use passwords (y/n) [y]: Write your changes to /etc/adduser.conf? (y/n) [n]: Ok, let's go. Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [mats]: Please enter a username Enter username [mats]: Please enter a username Enter username [mats]: mats Please enter a username Enter username [mats]: -- 8 -- Did I do something wrong? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. Best regards, Johan Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem adding user (4.8R)
Stefan Prestele wrote: I think the problem is, that you have entered a user name when you were asked for a regex for user names. So restart adduser and read the questions properly. The question for a regular expression that user names have to match should be 'a-z0-9_-´ (whithout the quotes). Then when the question for the user name to add appears you should be able to enter every name matching the obove regex. Thanks - this was the problem! :-) I'm used to the Linux way of adding users which doesn't have this setup phase - I just have to remember to use the -silent toggle when adding further users. Thanks! :-) On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:41:58PM +0300, Johan Paul wrote: Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 and tried to add a user to the system using 'adduser foo'. I get a few questions and then this: -- 8 -- Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [foo]: Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: foo Please enter a username Enter username [foo]: -- 8 -- ...whatever I type in as username, the system rejects it. I can add users via sysinstall. But this bothers me... what could be wrong? Regards, Johan Paul ___ [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: 2 NIC's (one dhcp) and default route issue
The correct syntax is: supersede routers 0.0.0.0; Did you forget the semicolon in the config also? /etc/dhclient.conf is the way to do this, so make sure everything in the file is correct. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca/~hhw - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free BSD Questions list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:00 AM Subject: FW: 2 NIC's (one dhcp) and default route issue I'm building a machine with 2 nic's. They will be on seperate subnets, and in the long run both will have fixed addresses. However at the moment I've set one of these up for dhcp. The fixed addres NIC should be the one thta has the default route associated with it, and I have a defaultrouter= statement in /etc/rc.conf. However, when i boot the machine netstat shows that teh dhcp interface has aquired the default route. How can I correct this? I tried adding supersede routersxxx.xxx.xxx.xx in /etc/dhclient.conf, but this does not seem to work. The machine is 4STABLE, if thta matters. Thanks. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin - End forwarded message - -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [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]
list archives not searchable anymore?
Hi Using the page http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists I try and search for any term at all and they all come back with no results. This happens on OS X Safari browser, OS X IE, and Windows XP IE6. Is this broken or am I just doing something wrong? thanks Chad ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0500, Matthew Bettinger wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic fashion. I get that too My mozilla will hang for a few minutes when I enter a url in the location bar. If I fire it up and click on the link that are already there it's fine. The moment I try to type a new URL in the bar it just hangs. I am using the nvidia drivers on bsd 4.8. Never had a problem (that I can recall) until I installed the nvidia drivers.. could be wrong tho. I you go into Mozilla preferences, under Advanced : Keyboard Navigation and disable Find As You Type, then you'll avoid the several minutes of hang the first time you try and type into a text field or the location bar. Presumably the same trick would work with Firebird, but unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a control for disabling that feature. I don't think this has anything to do with the video hardware or drivers you're using -- I guess that was just a coincidence. You must have installed or upgraded Mozilla around the same time. This pausing thing was introduced around the same time as Mozilla 1.3 was released. It's not just FreeBSD that suffers either. There have been bug reports in Mozilla's Bugzilla DB for some time, but the problem still persists. 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: A softupdates problem?
- Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: A softupdates problem? Hmmm... not an answer to the question you asked, but does not: # chflags nodump your-very-large-file in combination with using the '-h 0' flag to dump(8) let you backup the partition without including the file in question? Thanks for the suggestion. :) I will use that. - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list archives not searchable anymore?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:50:39PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Using the page http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists I try and search for any term at all and they all come back with no results. This happens on OS X Safari browser, OS X IE, and Windows XP IE6. Is this broken or am I just doing something wrong? This appears to be problem with the website, perhaps a consequence of the move of all of the FreeBSD mailing lists from majordomo to Mailman a few months ago. You should go to http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo where if you follow the links to the archives of any particular list, you can then search within that list -- unfortunately, just one list at a time though. A handy trick, I find, is to use Googles' site: feature. Eg, this search will pick up references to the Adaptec 2100S Raid Controller in FBSD mailing lists: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=site%3Alists.freebsd.org+adaptec+2100SbtnG=Google+Searchmeta= 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: Bandwidth Question
From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP addresses? I've read some about dummynet. Would this be the preffered tool to use? Yes - dummynet must be used in conjunction with ipfw. ipfw is for firewalling, but you can use it to select traffic which must be limitted by dummynet. 'man ipfw' and 'man dummynet' Also, if someone could recommend a program to log how much bandwidth a particular IP uses per month etc..., and also display graphs about bandwidth usage I would appreciate it. check out mrtg in the ports collection. Thank You -Chris ___ [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]
Transporting RAID-1 image from a 40G to a 80G set
Ok, I know this issue has been brought up in many variations in the past, but I would like to know how to make a disk-image of my RAID-1, in such a way that I can transport the image from a 40G to a 80G set (FreeBSD 4.7R). I know I can use dd to copy the data to another blank hard disk. But I wonder whether a hard disk with such an image can really be used as 'template' for the new 80G array. For one because I suspect the RAID-controller (the onboard Promise 20276 RAID) actually marks the disks in its array set (as in: writes to a specific sector, so as to know who is who), so that I can not just swap it for another disk which, seemingly, has the same image (made with dd). And for two, of course, because I doubt I can get the RAID-controller to do the RAID-equivalent of a growfs. It may just be I have to rebuild a 80G array from scratch. But still then the same problem exists: how to restore the root-partition onto the new array? The normal procedure would be to place an extra blank disk, onto which I would restore a dump-file, after which I cable the extra disk to be the primary disk again; but that would bring the same issue as above: such an extra disk cannot take the place of one of the disks in the array (as the RAID-controller marks those). So, has anyone any ideas? - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FReeBSD 5.1 and Promise TX4
Hello, Has nay one gotten FreeBSD 5.1 Release to install on a system that has both a Promise Ultra 66 and a Promise TX4 controller cards. The Promise Ultra 66 controller controls one 20GB hard disk drive (which I would like to be the boot disk) and the Promise TX4 has 4 HD's configured in raid mode 01. I have try to get the install to work many time but it keeps failing. The FreeBSD install see the following hard disk drives - ad10, ad12, ad4, ad6, ad8, ar0. I think the disk drives I want is ad4 but the install complains that it cannot write to the disk. I have also tried ad10 with the same effect. I would like to install to the hard disk drive that is control by the Promise Ultra 66. If I take the Promise TX4 out, the install runs just fine and install with our problems to the AD4 disk. FreeBSD boots up and running happy. However, when I then put the Promise TX4 back in and the system would not boot - I get dump to the following prompt mountdrive or something like that. Also, I did have this same setup working just fine under FreeBSD 4.7 Release, so I am download the ISO for 4.8 Release and will try that. System is home made, Abit BE6-II motherboard, PIII 600Mhz, 256MB, Matrox G200 AGP Video card, CDROM (on the motherboard primary controller as master) Promise Ultra66 controlling one 20GB hard disk drive, and Promise TX4 with 4 HD's in raid 01 configuration. Right now I am learning FreeBSD and so I can blow the system up any way I like. Any help would be nice, Thanks, Andrew AKA Dyslextic ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disable PING command
How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* 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]
Re: Disable PING command
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Nucking Futs wrote: How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. Well - anyone could compile a fresh version; or copy a version from another machine into his home dir or /tmp; but if you ignore that type of level of ability in your user a small obstacle would be: # ls -l /sbin/ping -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 421060 Apr 28 15:49 /sbin/ping # chmod a-rx /sbin/ping which makes it executable only to the owner and those member of wheel. Which users generally are not. But ping is not exactly a dangerous command - so why worry about it ? Dw ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disable PING command
- Original Message - From: Nucking Futs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Disable PING command How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. I'm guessing you could set the permissions on the binary file so that 'users' don't have permission? I don't know for sure but it seems like that might work. Others may have better suggestions. HTH, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GDM and Metacity
Hi all, I'm trying to get GDM and Metacity running on FreeBSD 4.8. The first time I ran GDM, I got a message saying no XDMCP running. I then ran gdmsetup in an X session and set Enable XDMCP. Now I can run gdm and it exits without errors, but nothing comes up on screen 9. I see gdm-binary running in a ps list. I've also tried changing /etc/ttys entry for xdm to gdm, but it still does nothing. My other question is with regards to metacity. I have changed my .xinitrc file to just have metacity on a line by itself, and I think metacity is running because CTRL-ALT-LEFT and CTRL-ALT-RIGHT appears to be cycling desktops (window appears in the middle of my screen), but I'm not getting a taskbar, dock, background or anything else of use. If anyone has any advice on these issues, I'd be greatful. I have checked the archives, but they appear to be down. Any search term, including FreeBSD returns The archive freebsd-questions contains the following items relevant to `freebsd': and no results. Regards, -- Wayne Pascoe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: I suspect that XFree86 is just applying its default settings, given that you haven't told it to do otherwise. Makes sense. I'm not complaining. Is xset the only thing that can make use of DPMS or is there a binary in the default / standard / minimum *BSD installation to control it too? Look at vidcontrol(1) -- specifically the '-t blanktime' option. You can go direct to the screen saver on a console screen by hitting Shift-Pause -- see splash(4). However whether this involves DPMS directly or not, I don't know. Good ideas, vidcontrol and splash . . . I just tried the Shift+Pause trick and it did not work, probably because I have X running elsewhere. By the way, is there a good write-up somewhere why I cannot run xscreensaver while logged in as root? Thanks for entertaining this thread of mine for so long, Dr. Seaman. 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 -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
format of /etc/crontab?
The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see crontab(5)). The crontab(5) man page, however, says nothing about any differences in the file formats. Instead, it appears to describe only the format that is used in /var/cron/tabs/* files. I would like to know precisely how the format of /etc/crontab differs, but I can't find any man page that addresses this. Help? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FReeBSD 5.1 and Promise TX4
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:35, Andrew Batson wrote: Hello, Has nay one gotten FreeBSD 5.1 Release to install on a system that has both a Promise Ultra 66 and a Promise TX4 controller cards. The Promise Ultra 66 controller controls one 20GB hard disk drive (which I would like to be the boot disk) and the Promise TX4 has 4 HD's configured in raid mode 01. For what it's worth: I have a similar configuration, (other disks though). And I dont boot on a disk controlled by Promise, but I do have my /home and /usr located on a raid-5 system controlled by Promise TX2. I didn't do anything on the disks controlled by Promise during installation, instead I installed a software RAID controller and started to move various mounts to the RAID system. (Phu, it sounds so simple when I wrote that, believe me if I tell it wasn't, just because I'm one of those idiots that still think it's best to try out without the manual first. :-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disable PING command
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:53:17PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mykroft Holmes IV wrote: Nucking Futs wrote: How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. chmod 700 /usr/bin/ping (or /bin/ping) can't remember where ping lives. /sbin/ping Or you could just chmod u-s it... it needs SU privleges so if its not SUID, uses can't run it. At all. -- Josh Adam ___ [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: format of /etc/crontab?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700 or thereabouts, Rich Morin wrote: The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see crontab(5)). The crontab(5) man page, however, says nothing about any differences in the file formats. Instead, it appears to describe only the format that is used in /var/cron/tabs/* files. I would like to know precisely how the format of /etc/crontab differs, but I can't find any man page that addresses this. Help? Normal crontabs have the time fields, and then the command to run. /etc/crontab has an additional field after the time fields but before the command -- the user to run the command as (usually root). This is said in comments in /etc/crontab. -- Josh -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series ___ [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: Disable PING command
Nucking Futs wrote: How would I go about disabling users command to ping? If need be I would be willing to just disable the ping command altogether as a last resort. Adverspam removed Good luck. All it takes is a user to port, transfere, compile, copy, move or hack in a ping command of their own. Any languages could be used, PERL, PHP, Python and much more. Your other option is to administratively block any and all traffic that might be created via the ping command so that it just gets dropped by the firewall. Of course there might be other ways around that too. HTH and good luck. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: format of /etc/crontab?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote: The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see crontab(5)). The crontab(5) man page, however, says nothing about any differences in the file formats. Instead, it appears to describe only the format that is used in /var/cron/tabs/* files. I would like to know precisely how the format of /etc/crontab differs, but I can't find any man page that addresses this. Help? Hmm, cron(8) mentions that /etc/crontab is in a difference format and refrences crontab(5), but you seems to be correct that crontab(5) doesn't mention the differences. I'm fairly sure the only difference is the who field between the time and command specifications. A bit of digging in the cron code found this comment: /* this function reads one crontab entry -- the next -- from a file. * it skips any leading blank lines, ignores comments, and returns * EOF if for any reason the entry can't be read and parsed. * * the entry is also parsed here. * * syntax: * user crontab: * minutes hours doms months dows cmd\n * system crontab (/etc/crontab): * minutes hours doms months dows USERNAME cmd\n */ -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: format of /etc/crontab?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote: The crontab(5) man page, however, says nothing about any differences in the file formats. Instead, it appears to describe only the format that is used in /var/cron/tabs/* files. I would like to know precisely how the format of /etc/crontab differs, but I can't find any man page that addresses this. Help? The /etc/crontab is largely self-documenting. It is similar to the format of the other crontab files, and includes a comment line: #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command What further information do you need? -- Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operations / Abuse / Whatever it.canada, hosting and development http://www.it.ca/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
- Original Message - From: Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:37 AM On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:12:22AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: :0: * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/new And I'm getting messages like this in my procmail log: procmail: Assigning PATH=/home/drew/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin procmail: Lock failure on Maildir/FreeBSD/alpha/new.lock procmail: Error while writing to Maildir/FreeBSD/alpha/new OK, I assume the error is because Maildir/FreeBSD/alpha/new does not exist. How can I get procmail to create the directory it needs? As you no doubt read on the procmail manpage: | If the mailbox name ends in /, then this | directory is presumed to be a maildir folder; i.e., proc- | mail will deliver the message to a file in a subdirectory | named tmp and rename it to be inside a subdirectory | named new. Now ... I obviously don't use maildir format, but to me, this would imply a format something like: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ FreeBSD/$MATCH/ I'm assuming that the leading Maildir/ is redundant, as is the pointer to the new folder. Thanks for pointing out my oversight and all of the help so far. I've added the / and now my recipe is: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ /Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/ However I get these messages from the procmail log: procmail: Matched test procmail: Match on ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ procmail: Unable to treat as directory /Maildir/FreeBSD/test procmail: Assigning LASTFOLDER=/Maildir/FreeBSD/test procmail: Opening /Maildir/FreeBSD/test procmail: Error while writing to /Maildir/FreeBSD/test I've tried without the leading /, without the Maildir, and without /Maildir/ but I keep getting the same type of error. Maildir is owned by me and is mode 700. I tried changing to 777 but that didn't help so I put it back to 700. According to the man page, the directory should be created if it doesn't exist. From the man page: If the mailbox is specified to be an MH folder or maildir folder, procmail will create the necessary directories if they don't exist, rather than treat the mailbox as a non-existent filename. I feel I am close. Can anyone enlighten me and point out what I'm missing? Thanks, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
crontab same time execution order
If two entries in the crontab are for the same time, which entry gets ran first? __ 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: About newsyslog behavior
At 12:08 PM +0300 7/2/03, Jim Xochellis wrote: I suspected that some processes are confused because a *new* log file is created and these processes are making the assumption that their log file will be always the same and perhaps they open it once and then work with the FILE pointer. If a program responds to SIGHUP by re-opening all of it's files, then it really should re-open the log file. If the program does not re-open the logfile when it get a SIGHUP, then it is more accurate to say it is ignoring the SIGHUP (as far as that log file is concerned). Ie, there is no way that it is correct for the program to behave in the way you describe, if it is trying to do the right thing with the log file. I have confirmed that newsyslog actually creates a new log file (instead of copying it and then disposing its contents) by reading the source of the newsyslog.c file Yes, and that doen because it is the safest and most reliable way for it to rotate a logfile without any hitting any race-conditions. Having the above in mind, isn't it worthwhile to add an option in newsyslog in order to avoid the creation of a new log file when it is inconvenient? This does not seem like a good idea to me. It might work okay in the case where you are keeping no backup files, but it is a really bad idea if you want to rotate the information to backup files. Isn't it feasible to dispose the contents of the old log file instead of creating a new one? Anything that I am missing here? (giving the fact that I am not a unix guru, only a C programmer) If the program does not have some way to REALLY re-open the log file, then the file-pointer might also be pointing to a specific point in the file. Let's say it is at byte 125000 into the file. You empty the file. The next time the program writes to the log file, it will write to byte 125001 (depending on how the program is written). Some programs may work with this strategy, but others will not. I think you should look at the programs you are having trouble with, and see if there is some alternate way to get them to correctly handle the log file that you want to rotate. disclaimer: I am about to go on holiday/vacation for a few days, so all of the above comments were just my initial reaction. I realize this reply is not very helpful, but I'll try to write up something more helpful if no one else comes up with a good solution for you. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eterm / imlib2 / image loaders.
Hi, I've just tried to install Eterm so I can use Esetroot for images, etc. However, I was getting messages and decided to try Eterm -- at which point I get: Eterm: Error: Unable to load image file bar_horizontal_1.png -- No loader available for that file format I get quite a few, but they're all the same with different image names. A bit of Googling helped me locate this to imlib2, which I rebuilt until I discovered the image handlers were ripped out, or something. I then installed graphics/imlib2_loaders, which has extra image loader plugins. I've rebuilt everything and it still doesn't work. In /usr/X11R6/lib/loaders/image I have plenty of .so files (I actually don't believe that imlib2_loaders provided the ones I required (the pkg-plist doesn't include jpeg)). Anybody with any ideas? It's getting a bit frustrating now... -lewiz. -- If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:26:49PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ FreeBSD/$MATCH/ Thanks for pointing out my oversight and all of the help so far. I've added the / and now my recipe is: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ /Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/ You're storing your Maildir in the root directory of the server? However I get these messages from the procmail log: procmail: Matched test procmail: Match on ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+ procmail: Unable to treat as directory /Maildir/FreeBSD/test procmail: Assigning LASTFOLDER=/Maildir/FreeBSD/test procmail: Opening /Maildir/FreeBSD/test procmail: Error while writing to /Maildir/FreeBSD/test It looks as if procmail doesn't have permissions to create directories in the root directory of your server. That's a Good Thing. I've tried without the leading /, without the Maildir, and without /Maildir/ but I keep getting the same type of error. Maildir is owned by me and is mode 700. That's the right mode, but think about where the directory is, and where procmail wants to find out. Look in the procmail documentation (manpage for procmailrc) for variables like $DEFAULT, $MAILDIR, $HOME, etc. If the mailbox is specified to be an MH folder or maildir folder, procmail will create the necessary directories if they don't exist, rather than treat the mailbox as a non-existent filename. I feel I am close. Can anyone enlighten me and point out what I'm missing? Remember that paths that start with a / are absolute, and all other paths are relative to $MAILDIR. -- Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ Free PHP web hosting!http://www.it.ca/web/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
