date:20030908

 Hello everybody,
 
 I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from
 4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...
 
 Is it safe ? What should I backup ? There is running well-configured
 sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration between
 versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
 FreeBSD 4.8.
 This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
 if something fails...
 
 Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))
 
 Peter Rosa

P.S. Sorry for duplicate mail, I'm not sure it is sending it to the list.

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FreeBSD upgrade on production server

 Hello everybody,
 
 I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from
 4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...
 
 Is it safe ? What should I backup ? There is running well-configured
 sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration between
 versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
 FreeBSD 4.8.
 This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
 if something fails...
 
 Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))
 
 Peter Rosa
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FreeBSD upgrade on production server

Hello everybody,

I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from
4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...

Is it safe ? What should I backup ? There is running well-configured
sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration between
versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
FreeBSD 4.8.
This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
if something fails...

Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))

Peter Rosa
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Re: Bootable CD Problems

OK,

here are 3 messages I can found now in my archive of Questions:

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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:17:26 +0300
From: Ville Lundberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATA command timeout
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Hi,

I posted a mail regarding the installation of 4.8-release a while ago. I
tried to install 5.1-release and got i running - the error occurred, still.
Where 4.8 just hung, 5.1 did manage to give me some more info: the problem
is ATA timeouts for my CD. This seemed to be a problem for many ppl out
there, and not once I came by aworking answer.

At boot time, after probing the HDs, its time for the CD, but it hangs for a
while, then following error messages start to appear. They appear anything
from 10 to 30 times before the computer boots up.

acd0: read data overrun 34/0
acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting
ata1: resetting devices... done

This problem seemed to come along 4.6RC2, and it's errdata sure has it
mentioned. The fixes there did not work on my computer, thou. I have tried
to play with sysctl and device.hints, and dis/enabling UDMA support in BIOS,
adjusting cables etc.,  all in vain. The problem seems to be with particular
CDROM brands, as one older Toshiba worked fine.

Should I make a bug report out of this? It seems like a big problem to many,
without any fixes. Is it a bug in the driver?

My computer is a MSI6330(KT133) mainboard, 30Gb UDMA100 HD as primary disk
in ata0-master,
10 Gb UDMA66 slave in ata0-slave where FreeBSD resides (master has Win98 and
FreeBSD boot manager),
and HP CD-Writer 8200i CD-RW in ata1-master. When adjusting the device.hints
I got FreeBSD to get it as UDMA33, as it should.

I don't need the CD in FreeBSD (but it wouldn't hurt to have it either), so
the only harm in this is that the booting takes forever. I don't want to
disable anything from BIOS, because I use it in Windows, and I don't want to
restrict it's use/efficiency.
Any thoughts appreciated.
  --Ville

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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:15:38 +0930
From: Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATA command timeout
To: Ville Lundberg [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Content-Type: text/plain;  charset=iso-8859-1

I recall having the same or, from somewhat vague memory, similar problem
some time ago. It was about the time when CD drives started being commonly
installed as master on the secondary port instead of as a slave. At that
time
moving the CD to slave fixed the problem.

But then it might not work with the current round of difficulties.

Malcolm

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From: SUPPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: 4.8 Install Failure

 Hello everybody,

 I just tried to install new 4.8 FreeBSD from ISO images. But it still ends
 with following:

 acd0: READ_TOC command timeout-resetting
 acd0: resetting devices...done
 acd0: read data overrun 12/0

 I have Compaq Pentium PRO, 200 MHz with 64 MB RAM, with Symbios Logic
53C875
 SCSI adapter and Compaq ST32171W HDD (2 GB), with Compaq Neteligent 10/100
 TX PCI UTP and 3Com590 NICs, Matrox MGA Millenium.
 My installation still end during probing all devices...

 There is no ATA HDD, CD was connected first as Cable Select, after install
 failure as Primary Master, after install failure replaced with another
 CD-ROM unit with same results.

 PC normally boots from this CD, but then install fails.

 What is the problem and how can I solve it ?

 PLEASE HELP..

 Peter Rosa

--

I think, nobody in FreeBSD team is working on this problem. Of course, there
is so many work on whole system, that such small problem is not so
interesting. And, may be, they do not know about it.

That's all, best regards to all FreeBSD funs.

Peter Rosa

- Original Message -
From: Dan Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Bootable CD Problems

 Hello Dan,

 you are the fourth person except me, who has this problem and wrote it to
 the list. FreeBSD is still doing nothing with it - is it such big problem
to
 solve it ? There is no useful advice yet, what can we do - nobody knows ?

 Peter Rosa

 If you're saying it's a bug in the system that a bootable CD won't
 mount, that's lousy.

 If you're making a general remark about the lack of information on
 the topic, I'll keep trying.

 If you're saying something else, please elaborate.
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Re: Bootable CD Problems

Hello Dan,

you are the fourth person except me, who has this problem and wrote it to
the list. FreeBSD is still doing nothing with it - is it such big problem to
solve it ? There is no useful advice yet, what can we do - nobody knows ?

Peter Rosa


- Original Message -
From: MacMan20001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:47 PM
Subject: Bootable CD Problems


 Hello.

 I'm trying to build a bootable BSD 4.8 CD. Nothing fancy, just a
 shell and maybe a few utilities, but I have a specific problem.

 Whenever I boot from the CD, the computer asks for the root
 filesystem. I point it toward the CD (cd9660:acd0), but it hangs on
 Mounting root from cd9660:acd0 My guess is that it can't find
 the mfsroot file. So, I tried all the possibilities: a zipped and
 unzipped file, upper and lower case filename, upper and lower case
 listing in /boot/loader.conf, and nothign worked. Does anyone know
 the proper way the mfsroot file should be done, or another problem
 that could be causing this?

 I have /sbin/init on the disk, and rc didn't load; I inserted 'echo
 rc loaded.' into the rc file, and didn't get any messages.

 Any help would be nice, and I wil answer what questions I can about this.
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 Signed,
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Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Kearney

I reckon you have not even bothered to read the docs
(Bavailable at the FreeBSD website nor the information that is
(Bgenerally available on the system itself.
(B
(BWhilst I am at it, don't double / triple post the same
(Bquestion.
(B
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(B
(B
(B Hello everybody,
(B
(B I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver /
(BDNS server from
(B 4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK,
(Bbut...
(B
(B Is it safe ? What should I backup ? There is running
(Bwell-configured
(B sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration
(Bbetween
(B versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
(B FreeBSD 4.8.
(B This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
(B if something fails...
(B
(B Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))
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removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Rob Lahaye



Hi,

man swapon says:

BUGS
 There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.  It is therefore
 not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
 operation.
Is that still a bug?

--

The Handbook explains how additional swap space can be added to a running system,
without need for reboot. I have added a swap file this way.
If I want to stop using that swap file, or use another one, that is bigger, smaller or
on another partition; how should I proceed?
Is a reboot the only way to go? Or is there a run-time command that disconnects the 
kernel
from certain swap space and allows its removal?
Thanks,
Rob.
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FreeBSD Upgrade on production server

2003-09-08 Thread Peter Rosa

Hello everybody,

I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from 4.3
to 4.8.
The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...

Is it safe ? What should I backup ? There is running well-configured
sendmail - are
there some changes in its configuration between versions 8.11.3 used in
FreeBSD
4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in FreeBSD 4.8.
This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary if something
fails...

Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))

Peter Rosa

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Re: Making a certain cron job

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Seaman

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:44:18PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote:

 Thank you for the response. Does the date part (Date=`date +%Y-%m-%d`) go as part
 of the cron job? Thanks again.

% characters are special in crontabs -- you need to escape them using
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RE: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Yonatan Bokovza

 -Original Message-
 From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 23:10
 To: Colin Watson
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

 Colin Watson wrote:
 [ ...rewrapped to 80-columns... ]
  Any way to bind a MAC address statically to an IP?. I wish 
 to do this to
  prevent a user from changing his IP address on the subnet, 
 so if he does he
  can't pass traffic. I have experimented with ipfw, but I 
 can't quite see how
  I could accomplish the binding of a IP statically to a 
 nic's MAC. Any ideas
  be appericated.

 IPFW2 lets you perform firewall actions on a MAC address, 
 rather than an IP.

 You can configure a DHCP server to staticly allocate an IP 
 address to that 
 machine via something like this in {/usr/local}/etc/dhcpd.conf:

 host pi.codefab.com {
  hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
  fixed-address 66.234.138.67;
 }

Look for static arp. The basic idea is that you tell your
interface to not use arp (see ifconfig(8) -arp) and give
it a static binding of MAC addresses to IP addresses
(see arp(8) -f).
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Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

2003-09-08 Thread Raphaël Marmier

Happened to me as well in the past. With Linux as well. I think I 
solved it by installing BSD first and then windows, I'm not sure though.

Raphael

Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 05:25 Europe/Zurich, Dan Harrison a écrit :

I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a system which will boot it 
and also Windows 2000 Server. I've done this with two multiboot 
utilities: the simple boot manager that comes with FreeBSD and V 
Communications' System Commander.

In both cases, I have found that when I install FreeBSD it corrupts 
neighboring NTFS and FAT partitions. After the install, the OSes in 
these partitions fail to boot or the partitions become entirely 
unreadable. Whether I tell FreeBSD not to install an MBR or whether I 
tell it to install its boot manager, the result is the same: 
Neighboring partitions are being corrupted to the point where one can 
not get to data on them.

I realize that dual booting is not common, but I need to do it on 
this laptop. Has anyone else on the lists encountered this problem?
Yes. I had it corrupt a copy of Win XP on a desktop I installed it on. 
My solution, I'm sorry to say, was to get another hard drive and 
re-install Windows on that. If I wanted to use windows, switch the 
hard drives in the OS detect order in the BOIS. :\

I don't know how practical it is on a laptop, but I wanted to tell you 
that you are not alone.

Good luck.
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Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Ceri Davies

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
 
 
 Hi,
 
 man swapon says:
 
 BUGS
  There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.  It is 
  therefore
  not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
  operation.
 
 Is that still a bug?

That depends on which version you are running.
If you have 4.x or 5.0 then you're out of luck, but a recent -current has
the swapctl command which does what you want.

Ceri

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Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Mark

- Original Message - 
From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua
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Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

Sorry for the tardiness of my reply (see below); I was otherwise engaged.

  But what if I just made a boo-boo on the root partition? My quandary has
  always been that I know of no way to restore the / slice on the existing
  disk-set (RAID-1). I can boot off the CD, but then I am still stuck on
  the same / slice. Although I have not yet messed up / to the point of
  having to do a full restore, this might well be needed at some point (an
  extended power-outage, for instance, ruining the file-system).

 Well, if you made a error on the root partition, this assumes you
 did not mirror your errors to the backup drive... Then all you have to do
 is boot using the backup drive from the Boot Manager.

  Would it work if I mounted a spare partition, on the same array,
  restore the root partition therein, and then edited /etc/fstab
  accordingly? It seems to me, though, that the kernel cannot possibly use
  /etc/fstab to determine what device the root partition will be, as
  /etc/fstab is itself on that root-partition. So, I then take it the MBR
  supplies the entry-point for FreeBSD to boot from (which will be
  considered the root partition), so that booting of a spare slice would
  require an edit in the MBR (which I am not too keen on doing, btw).

 No, you would not have to mount it. Assuming you had the FreeBSD
 Boot Manager on the drives...

Ok. But this still means that, in order to restore the root partition, I
will need to boot from a different drive, right? And I have no other,
bootable drive in the machine: just the array. I had hoped that booting from
the FreeBSD boot CD would have the same effect as booting from a different
hard disk; but alas, the FreeBSD boot CD mounts the existing array, which
brings me back to square one.

Which, of course, prompts the question: is there not a way to boot from the
FreeBSD boot CD that does not use the existing array?

Thanks,

- Mark

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Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Vincent Poy

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Mark wrote:

 - Original Message -
 From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua
 Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:16 AM
 Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

 Sorry for the tardiness of my reply (see below); I was otherwise engaged.

   But what if I just made a boo-boo on the root partition? My quandary has
   always been that I know of no way to restore the / slice on the existing
   disk-set (RAID-1). I can boot off the CD, but then I am still stuck on
   the same / slice. Although I have not yet messed up / to the point of
   having to do a full restore, this might well be needed at some point (an
   extended power-outage, for instance, ruining the file-system).

  Well, if you made a error on the root partition, this assumes you
  did not mirror your errors to the backup drive... Then all you have to do
  is boot using the backup drive from the Boot Manager.

   Would it work if I mounted a spare partition, on the same array,
   restore the root partition therein, and then edited /etc/fstab
   accordingly? It seems to me, though, that the kernel cannot possibly use
   /etc/fstab to determine what device the root partition will be, as
   /etc/fstab is itself on that root-partition. So, I then take it the MBR
   supplies the entry-point for FreeBSD to boot from (which will be
   considered the root partition), so that booting of a spare slice would
   require an edit in the MBR (which I am not too keen on doing, btw).

  No, you would not have to mount it. Assuming you had the FreeBSD
  Boot Manager on the drives...

 Ok. But this still means that, in order to restore the root partition, I
 will need to boot from a different drive, right? And I have no other,
 bootable drive in the machine: just the array. I had hoped that booting from
 the FreeBSD boot CD would have the same effect as booting from a different
 hard disk; but alas, the FreeBSD boot CD mounts the existing array, which
 brings me back to square one.

Yeah, basically you just need to get FreeBSD booted up so that you
can use the dump/restore commands.

 Which, of course, prompts the question: is there not a way to boot from the
 FreeBSD boot CD that does not use the existing array?

No idea about that one since you can always boot using the
root/mfs and fixit floppies and then mount/dump/restore.

 Thanks,

 - Mark

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Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Timur

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:07:33PM +0300, Yonatan Bokovza wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 23:10
  To: Colin Watson
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

  Colin Watson wrote:
  [ ...rewrapped to 80-columns... ]
   Any way to bind a MAC address statically to an IP?. I wish 
  to do this to
   prevent a user from changing his IP address on the subnet, 
  so if he does he
   can't pass traffic. I have experimented with ipfw, but I 
  can't quite see how
   I could accomplish the binding of a IP statically to a 
  nic's MAC. Any ideas
   be appericated.

  IPFW2 lets you perform firewall actions on a MAC address, 
  rather than an IP.

  You can configure a DHCP server to staticly allocate an IP 
  address to that 
  machine via something like this in {/usr/local}/etc/dhcpd.conf:

  host pi.codefab.com {
   hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
   fixed-address 66.234.138.67;
  }

 Look for static arp. The basic idea is that you tell your
 interface to not use arp (see ifconfig(8) -arp) and give
 it a static binding of MAC addresses to IP addresses
 (see arp(8) -f).

This solves the problem, but creates another one - your clients must
statically bound MAC address of your router (default gateway) to IP
address.

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RE: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Yonatan Bokovza

 -Original Message-
 From: Timur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:34
 To: Yonatan Bokovza
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:07:33PM +0300, Yonatan Bokovza wrote:
   -Original Message-
   From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 23:10
   To: Colin Watson
   Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

   Colin Watson wrote:
   [ ...rewrapped to 80-columns... ]
Any way to bind a MAC address statically to an IP?. I wish 
   to do this to
prevent a user from changing his IP address on the subnet, 
   so if he does he
can't pass traffic. I have experimented with ipfw, but I 
   can't quite see how
I could accomplish the binding of a IP statically to a 
   nic's MAC. Any ideas
be appericated.

   IPFW2 lets you perform firewall actions on a MAC address, 
   rather than an IP.

   You can configure a DHCP server to staticly allocate an IP 
   address to that 
   machine via something like this in {/usr/local}/etc/dhcpd.conf:

   host pi.codefab.com {
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
fixed-address 66.234.138.67;
   }

  Look for static arp. The basic idea is that you tell your
  interface to not use arp (see ifconfig(8) -arp) and give
  it a static binding of MAC addresses to IP addresses
  (see arp(8) -f).

 This solves the problem, but creates another one - your clients must
 statically bound MAC address of your router (default gateway) to IP
 address.

Correct. It is best for small, unchanging networks. DMZ for example.
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FreeBSD vs. Linux TechTV Clip - Edited and Sync'ed

2003-09-08 Thread Mike Maltese

An edited version of the FreeBSD vs. Linux Shootout that recently aired on
TechTV's The ScreenSavers will be available at around 4 AM PDT.  The audio
synchronization issues are fixed and by trimming out the other segments I
was able to get the file size down to 89 MB.

I've copied newbies and questions because I'm sure there are some folks
there that would be interested in seeing it.

http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/~mmaltese/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902-edited.avi

Enjoy, I'm going to bed. =)
Mike

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HP Compaq nx9000

2003-09-08 Thread Steven Ruiters

Hi,

1. I have purchase a HP laptop (HP Compaq nx9000) the network card, modem
and display card is working under FreeBSD 5.1. The only problems I have us
with the touch pad mouse and sound card. What am I doing wrong.

2. I also have a P3 laptop (Compaq). Question~ under win os's you can copy
installation files to the hard drive and do the installation from the hard
drive. The reason I'm doing this is because the Cdrom and Stiffly drive is
busted. the network and modem is working OK under win. Can I copy content of
FreeBSD CD on hard drive and run the installation from HD?
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Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux TechTV Clip - Edited and Sync'ed

2003-09-08 Thread Matt Olander

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:53:30AM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote:
 An edited version of the FreeBSD vs. Linux Shootout that recently aired on
 TechTV's The ScreenSavers will be available at around 4 AM PDT.  The audio
 synchronization issues are fixed and by trimming out the other segments I
 was able to get the file size down to 89 MB.

beautiful!

 I've copied newbies and questions because I'm sure there are some folks
 there that would be interested in seeing it.
 
 http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/~mmaltese/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902-edited.avi
 
 Enjoy, I'm going to bed. =)

you've earned it mate! thanks ;)

nite,
-matt
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Awesome! You++

I'm off to mirror this one and then download it again :-D

--Devon

Mike Maltese wrote:

An edited version of the FreeBSD vs. Linux Shootout that recently aired on
TechTV's The ScreenSavers will be available at around 4 AM PDT.  The audio
synchronization issues are fixed and by trimming out the other segments I
was able to get the file size down to 89 MB.
I've copied newbies and questions because I'm sure there are some folks
there that would be interested in seeing it.
http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/~mmaltese/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902-edited.avi

Enjoy, I'm going to bed. =)
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Awesome! You++

I'm off to mirror this one on the east coast (wr0d ph33r -- I feel like 
a rapper with a gun or something, heh) and then download it again :-D

--Devon

Mike Maltese wrote:

An edited version of the FreeBSD vs. Linux Shootout that recently aired on
TechTV's The ScreenSavers will be available at around 4 AM PDT.  The audio
synchronization issues are fixed and by trimming out the other segments I
was able to get the file size down to 89 MB.
I've copied newbies and questions because I'm sure there are some folks
there that would be interested in seeing it.
http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/~mmaltese/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902-edited.avi

Enjoy, I'm going to bed. =)
Mike


 

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JAVA and MOZILLA

2003-09-08 Thread David L

I have been trying for quite some tiime to get Mozilla a Java Plugin that it 
will actually use. I have tried the linux-xun-jdk versions 1.3.1 1.4.1  
1.4.2 , konqueror web browser uses these succesfully, however I symlink 
/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavapluginoji.so to 
/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/plugin/ and it wont accept it. I try the same with the 
native JDK1.4.1 however in /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/lib/i386/native_threads 
there is only libhpi.so wich doesnt do anything.

I have also tried 
/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavapluginoji.so without 
any succes.  

 I have a whole lot of other plugins that work perfectly , shockwave, mplayer, 
acrobat , flash, etc, etc
However I have not been able to get Java to work on Mozilla ever

Currently I have the diablo-jdk plugin symlinked into the mozilla plugin 
directory and this is the error I get when I star mozilla in a terminal 
window

%mozilla 
[1] 38656
%No running window found.
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library 
/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
[/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: 
Undefined symbol _vt$17nsGetServiceByCID]

any help, links, abuse , will be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks

David Lodeiro

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Re: I2O support in FreeBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer

On Monday 08 September 2003 01:06, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
 ** Reply to note from Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 7 Sep
 2003 14:57:38 +0200

   Does FreeBSD have anything comparable to Linux's I2O support?
   My impression is that it is dealt with on a driver by driver basis
   and there isn't an API per se'.
 
  I don't know Linux's I2O support but if it is something SMBus related you
  c= an=20
  find the following:

 BTW, what's the purpose of this?

In case of SMBus: I'ts part of the Philips i2c 2-Wire-Serial-Bus. It was 
developed especially to control tuner modules in TV-Sets which is applicable 
to PC-Tunerhardware (Brooktree e.g.).
Also newer Mainboards (round since Intels BX Chipset)use this slow but easy to 
integrate and very robust bus to communicate with their health sensors like 
the lm78 which implements temperature sensors, rpm-counters (fan), and 
voltage meters.

-Harry


  bye  Thanks
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Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux TechTV Clip - Edited and Sync'ed

For the -newbies and -questions lists: freebsd0 is a west coast server
at 100mbit. Please use it if you are west coast.

My other server is sitetronics.com, which is east coast at 10mbit.
Please use it if you are east coast. The files in question are:

Edited:

http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/~mmaltese/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902-edited.avi
http://sitetronics.com/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902-edited.avi
Original:

http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/~dodell/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902.avi
http://sitetronics.com/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902.avi
The originals are ~260MB and the sound is not synched. Additionally, they contain some extraneous stuff with miscellaneous people promoting various products and telling bad jokes :).

Please feel free to use either server to create your own mirror of the file. Due to the multi-group post, I don't expect the bandwidth to be light and honestly wouldn't mind if other mirrors were created :)

--Devon

Mike Maltese wrote:

An edited version of the FreeBSD vs. Linux Shootout that recently aired on
TechTV's The ScreenSavers will be available at around 4 AM PDT. The audio
synchronization issues are fixed and by trimming out the other segments I
was able to get the file size down to 89 MB.
I've copied newbies and questions because I'm sure there are some folks
there that would be interested in seeing it.
http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/~mmaltese/freebsd_vs_linux-techtv_20030902-edited.avi

Enjoy, I'm going to bed. =)
Mike

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Attention everybody downloading from freebsd0: Mike's not quite done 
uploading yet ;)

Please feel free to spare the 10Mbit you're using for approximately 15 
to 20 minutes :)

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Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux TechTV Clip - Edited and Sync'ed

2003-09-08 Thread Luke Kearney

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USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Christoph Kukulies


Hi,

I inserted an USB stick into a 5.1 FreeBSD box and
was pleasantly surprised to see it being autodetected:

umass0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
da0: 15MB (32000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 15C)

But when I try to mount it, I'm getting 

# mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt
msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument


Assumed I will get it working soon, how can I achieve that
it is automatically mounted?

Is there a user wrapper to mount/unmount the USB stick?


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Re: converting internet addresses

2003-09-08 Thread Michal F. Hanula

[...]
 The server recognizes the browser's request by
 name (bsdcon.kwiki.org) and serves from the
 web folder configured to receive that request.
 www.bsdcon.kwiki.org sends you to some
 other folder in the same way, or perhaps it
 is unconfigured and sends you instead to the
 'default' folder at that site.  Seems unusual that
 it would be in DNS and not specifically configured,
 but that's a possibility.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dnsip this.is.almost.certainly.a.dns.wild.card.kwiki.org
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Re: RE: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems

2003-09-08 Thread Simon Barner

[ top posting corrected ]

  I have that problem with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add 
  these sysctl
  values to /boot/loader.conf:
  
  hw.ata.ata_dma=0
  hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

 OH MAN.. You don't know how many hours you just saved me!!! It boots
 up beautifully with 3 drives.
 
 Thank you
 
 For future reference, do you know why this happens?

Because some chip set / drive combinations don't work in DMA mode (don't
know why).

You can list the modes your drives are currently using with the
following command (as root):

atacontrol mode 0 (1st channel)
atacontrol mode 1 (2nd   --  )

For performance reasons you can try whether disabling DMA mode for your
ATAPI devices is enough, i.e. your /boot/loader.conf should look like
this:

hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

Regards,
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Re: how to check which COM port modem is connected to?

2003-09-08 Thread Ramanan Selvaratnam


--- Alex Zivenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  You
must know it.
 

In windows name of port is comx
in Unix - /dev/cuax-1
com1 - cua0, com2-cua1, com3 - cua2
Have you win on this PC? Then you can see there.
What would be helpful to know (for future) is where one can find this 
detail on MS Windows filesystem once mounted from within a free system.
Any clues?

Regards,
Ramanan
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Re: how to check which COM port modem is connected to?

2003-09-08 Thread Raphaël Marmier

Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 14:04 Europe/Zurich, Ramanan Selvaratnam a 
écrit :

--- Alex Zivenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  You
must know it.
In windows name of port is comx
in Unix - /dev/cuax-1
com1 - cua0, com2-cua1, com3 - cua2
Have you win on this PC? Then you can see there.
What would be helpful to know (for future) is where one can find this 
detail on MS Windows filesystem once mounted from within a free  system.
Any clues?

You're not going to like it: AFAIK this is stored in the registery. But 
you can imagine having a dump of the proper keys done on windows exit 
(to a flat file). Under windows 2000, you would run that as a logoff 
script (group policies in the mmc). Under windows 9x, I don't know. I 
don't know if regedit can work as a command line, but maybe some 
command line tool exists.

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Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Ceri Davies

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:50:04PM +0500, Timur wrote:

 What I'd like to is to be able to assign unused IP
 addresses to some 'invalid' MAC address, so that my router responds with
 'host unreachable' to incoming packets destined to these addresses..

Well, do that then.

# arp -s 192.168.10.127 02:00:00:00:00:01
# arp -s 192.168.10.128 02:00:00:00:00:01
[...]
# ipfw add 1 deny mac 02:00:00:00:00:01 any
# ipfw add 1 deny mac any 02:00:00:00:00:01

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Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Rob Lahaye


Ceri Davies wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
 
man swapon says:

BUGS
 There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.  It is 
 therefore
 not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
 operation.

Is that still a bug?
 
 
 That depends on which version you are running.
 If you have 4.x or 5.0 then you're out of luck, but a recent -current has
 the swapctl command which does what you want.

Thanks. So I'm out-of-luck with 4.8 :).

I wonder if a brief note on this could go at the end of the adding swap space
section in the handbook. Something like

Removing swap space:
for OSversion = 5.0 only reboot can do
otherwise swapctl command does it on a running system.

Regards,
Rob.

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nwfs problems

2003-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hello,
I'm trying to mount some volumes from a Novell NetWare 5 using 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD.

dmesg shows the following error:
/kernel: module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (nwfs, c024387c, 0xc0541500) error 17

From the original install I've made these modifs:
#kernel config file
options NWFS
options NCP
options IPX
/boot/loader.conf
if_ef_load=YES
nwfs_load=YES
/etc/rc.conf
ipxrouted_enable=YES
ifconfig_rl0f2_ipx=ipx 12345678
What's wrong.
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Re: Installing Matlab R13 useing Linux compatibility

2003-09-08 Thread Dan Pelleg

Robert Stickney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have the student version installed and I am running FreeBSD 5.0 with linux
 binary compatibility.  I brandelf'ed the Matlab executable and I still get
 this error when I run Matlab.
 
 Matlab: error while loading shared libraries: libut.so: cannot open shared
 object file: No such file or directory 
 
 I am not sure that I have the linux binary compatibility installed correctly
 because when my computer boots i get many error that look like this:
 
 /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 is not a symbolic link
 
 Thanks for you help,
 
 Robert Stickney
 

I don't use linux compat on 5.X, but it looks like your installation is
broken. See if you can find any tips in the handbook:

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

Note it includes a Matlab section, which is known to work on 4.X.

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Re: linux_base

Scott Ballantyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 If I'm running multi-user (as toor), the build stops when installing
 glibc. In linux_base, there's actually a coredump, in linux_base-8, it
 just stops. This happens even running the GENERIC kernel (I had
 previously thought it was perhaps related to a custom kernel).
 
 However, if I drop to single user mode, and make install, it
 completes, although I get many of the following error messages
 intended for syslogd:
 
 linux: syscall mmap2 (obsolete or not implemented (pid = )

What version of FreeBSD?  
Do you have linux(8) running when you try the install?
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Re: [newbie] 4.8-STABLE became unreachable

admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am suspecting hardware issues - perhaps the RAM memory board.  512MB single
 board.

If your suspicion is strong, test this directly.  
Do a full memory test if you can take the machine offline long enough;
if not, do something that is both memory- and cpu- intensive (make buildworld
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Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Ceri Davies

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:30:49PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
 
 Ceri Davies wrote:
  On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
  
 man swapon says:
 
 BUGS
  There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.  It is 
  therefore
  not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
  operation.
 
 Is that still a bug?
  
  
  That depends on which version you are running.
  If you have 4.x or 5.0 then you're out of luck, but a recent -current has
  the swapctl command which does what you want.
 
 Thanks. So I'm out-of-luck with 4.8 :).

Afraid so.

 I wonder if a brief note on this could go at the end of the adding swap space
 section in the handbook. Something like
 
 Removing swap space:
   for OSversion = 5.0 only reboot can do
 otherwise swapctl command does it on a running system.

Already added to the todo list ;)

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simulating panic(9)

2003-09-08 Thread Andrew L. Neporada

How can I force FreeBSD 4.8 to panic? I just want to be sure that I can 
get a core dump/backtrace in this situation. 

Andrew.

P.S. Please CC me, I am not subscribed to the list.

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Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server

SUPPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from
 4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...

Right, so far.

 Is it safe ? 

It's not completely safe.  Of course, neither is running a
two-and-a-half year-old release of any operating system 
connected to the Internet.  Risk is something you have to 
manage, not avoid.

  What should I backup ?

Everything you'd mind losing.  For me, that's mostly /etc,
/usr/local/etc, user data, kernel configs, and the log directory.

 There is running well-configured
 sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration between
 versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
 FreeBSD 4.8.

There certainly are some changes.  Some of them are related to
important security fixes.  You will need to merge your configuration
into the updates.

 This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
 if something fails...

Well, the safest approach is to have a spare system, and build the
modifications on that.  If you can't do that, then almost as safe (and
actually safer from your own oversights) is to have a spare machine to
try out the upgrade on so you get used to the procedure.  If you
really can't spare a machine for any of these things, accept some
downtime and make sure you're *very* careful as you go through the
documented procedure.

 Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))

All of my specific advice is *in* the Handbook.  If I had any more
advice, I'd submit it to, well, the Handbook.

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Re: simulating panic(9)

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 How can I force FreeBSD 4.8 to panic? I just want to be sure that I can 
 get a core dump/backtrace in this situation. 

Usually with ddb(4); see the FAQ
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
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Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timur) writes:

 no, it doesn't..  what it does - establishing static mapping from IP to
 MAC address..  Now I'm facing the same problem as original poster - how
 can I prevent users from changing their IP address to some other (from
 the same subnet)?..  Let's say I have a network 192.168.1.0/24.. I have
 few users - 192.168.1.{3,4,5}..  How can I prevent one user from
 changing his ip from 192.168.1.3 to 192.168.1.5?  Now I see only one
 solution - use 'arp' command to statically assign MACs to used IP
 addresses and block traffic to unused IP addresses, but this looks a
 little ugly :)  What I'd like to is to be able to assign unused IP
 addresses to some 'invalid' MAC address, so that my router responds with
 'host unreachable' to incoming packets destined to these addresses..

Yeah, that's true.  My approach is to explicitly firewall off all of
the unused addresses.

 but.. there would be a tradeoff between having a large arp table and
 lot's of firewall rules.

Somewhat, but less than you'd think.  You need ARP entries for all of
the in-use addresses, anyway.  What I do on my own network is to keep
the subnet as small as possible, to minimize the number of unused
addresses.  
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network port

2003-09-08 Thread Brian Henning

Greetings:

I am in need of a tool that verifies if a network port is good or bad, is there
a tool for bsd that can do this?

Thanks,
Brian
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Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server - Solved

2003-09-08 Thread Peter Rosa

Many thanks to everybody.
Of course, I have read the Handbook, but there are very wide solution, not
so specific as I tried to find. There is never said e.g. Backup file
/etc/fstab or After installation mergemaster your previously backed
sendmail.cf with the new one to include your old changes. And I am so busy,
that I tried to find such very specific type of information. Yes, yes, yes,
it is bad idea to disturb you, but the list is the only live forum I have
found. Once again, thanks a lot.

However, I upgraded that machine and all works fine (finally the sendmail,
too). Except when I login, I get following errors (written twice):
Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1
Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: no modules loaded for `login' service
Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: pam_open_session: Permission denied

What is it ? Is it I have misconfigured pam ? And how can I repair it ?

Please, help.

Peter Rosa



- Original Message -
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: SUPPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server


 SUPPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from
  4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...

 Right, so far.

  Is it safe ?

 It's not completely safe.  Of course, neither is running a
 two-and-a-half year-old release of any operating system
 connected to the Internet.  Risk is something you have to
 manage, not avoid.

   What should I backup ?

 Everything you'd mind losing.  For me, that's mostly /etc,
 /usr/local/etc, user data, kernel configs, and the log directory.

  There is running well-configured
  sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration between
  versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
  FreeBSD 4.8.

 There certainly are some changes.  Some of them are related to
 important security fixes.  You will need to merge your configuration
 into the updates.

  This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
  if something fails...

 Well, the safest approach is to have a spare system, and build the
 modifications on that.  If you can't do that, then almost as safe (and
 actually safer from your own oversights) is to have a spare machine to
 try out the upgrade on so you get used to the procedure.  If you
 really can't spare a machine for any of these things, accept some
 downtime and make sure you're *very* careful as you go through the
 documented procedure.

  Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))

 All of my specific advice is *in* the Handbook.  If I had any more
 advice, I'd submit it to, well, the Handbook.

 Good luck.


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Re: Does Wine work on FreeBSD 5.1?

2003-09-08 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh

On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:52 am, Adam McLaurin wrote:
 On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 12:04, Dan Strick wrote:
  Does Wine work on FreeBSD 5.1?
 
snip

 It works here (well, as well as can be expected).

 I'd recommend using emulators/linux-winetools to configure it. That'll
 make life quite a bit easier.
Upgrade to -CURRENT.  I had many problems with wine from somewhere in 
5.0-CURRENT to somewhere in 5.1-CURRENT (post KSE enhancements) where I would 
get similar errors.  Now wine mostly works.
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Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server - Solved

2003-09-08 Thread Peter Elsner

Looks like you forgot to run mergemaster.

man mergemaster

Peter Elsner

At 03:48 PM 9/8/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Many thanks to everybody.
Of course, I have read the Handbook, but there are very wide solution, not
so specific as I tried to find. There is never said e.g. Backup file
/etc/fstab or After installation mergemaster your previously backed
sendmail.cf with the new one to include your old changes. And I am so busy,
that I tried to find such very specific type of information. Yes, yes, yes,
it is bad idea to disturb you, but the list is the only live forum I have
found. Once again, thanks a lot.
However, I upgraded that machine and all works fine (finally the sendmail,
too). Except when I login, I get following errors (written twice):
Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1
Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: no modules loaded for `login' service
Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: pam_open_session: Permission denied
What is it ? Is it I have misconfigured pam ? And how can I repair it ?

Please, help.

Peter Rosa



- Original Message -
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: SUPPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server
 SUPPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from
  4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...

 Right, so far.

  Is it safe ?

 It's not completely safe.  Of course, neither is running a
 two-and-a-half year-old release of any operating system
 connected to the Internet.  Risk is something you have to
 manage, not avoid.

   What should I backup ?

 Everything you'd mind losing.  For me, that's mostly /etc,
 /usr/local/etc, user data, kernel configs, and the log directory.

  There is running well-configured
  sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration between
  versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
  FreeBSD 4.8.

 There certainly are some changes.  Some of them are related to
 important security fixes.  You will need to merge your configuration
 into the updates.

  This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
  if something fails...

 Well, the safest approach is to have a spare system, and build the
 modifications on that.  If you can't do that, then almost as safe (and
 actually safer from your own oversights) is to have a spare machine to
 try out the upgrade on so you get used to the procedure.  If you
 really can't spare a machine for any of these things, accept some
 downtime and make sure you're *very* careful as you go through the
 documented procedure.

  Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))

 All of my specific advice is *in* the Handbook.  If I had any more
 advice, I'd submit it to, well, the Handbook.

 Good luck.

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Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Timur

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:50:04PM +0500, Timur wrote:
 
  What I'd like to is to be able to assign unused IP
  addresses to some 'invalid' MAC address, so that my router responds with
  'host unreachable' to incoming packets destined to these addresses..
 
 Well, do that then.
 
   # arp -s 192.168.10.127 02:00:00:00:00:01
   # arp -s 192.168.10.128 02:00:00:00:00:01
   [...]
   # ipfw add 1 deny mac 02:00:00:00:00:01 any
   # ipfw add 1 deny mac any 02:00:00:00:00:01
 
 Ceri

Good!  Thanks for the tip!

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Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server - Solved

Peter Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Of course, I have read the Handbook, but there are very wide solution, not
 so specific as I tried to find. There is never said e.g. Backup file
 /etc/fstab or After installation mergemaster your previously backed
 sendmail.cf with the new one to include your old changes.

There *is* no way to have such a comprehensive list that would be
accurate for everybody.  You need all of the locally-modified files,
which can include nearly anything in /etc, most of /var, locally
created data (including user directories, but possibly many other
things, like a web server root, as well), tuning files for ports, and
on and on.  If in doubt, the best thing is to back up the *entire*
system and you know you'll have a backup of anything you need.

You don't need to worry too much about what to merge, because
mergemaster takes care of finding the normal system configuration
files and helping you merge them -- but you need to know how the
system is set up, and how you *want* it to be set up.

 However, I upgraded that machine and all works fine (finally the sendmail,
 too). Except when I login, I get following errors (written twice):
 Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1
 Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: no modules loaded for `login' service
 Sep  8 08:35:01 ns login: pam_open_session: Permission denied
 
 What is it ? Is it I have misconfigured pam ? And how can I repair it ?

Sure looks like a PAM misconfiguration.  The configuration is
/etc/pam.conf and the default file is /usr/src/etc/pam.conf and unless
you have intentional configuration changes, they should probably be
identical.  mergemaster(8) should have caught that for you.
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Re: network port

Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am in need of a tool that verifies if a network port is good or bad, is there
 a tool for bsd that can do this?

It kind of depends what you mean by good and bad.
For varying definitions of those terms, you might want 
sockstat(1), nessus, nmap, or any of several other things.  
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Re: converting internet addresses

2003-09-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.

From: Michal F. Hanula [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 6:13 AM
Subject: Re: converting internet addresses

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dnsip
this.is.almost.certainly.a.dns.wild.card.kwiki.org
65.214.160.247

Yes, this certainly explains it, LOL...

Wonder if lee_shackleton caught this?

KDK

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Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-08 Thread Jesse Guardiani

Matthias Teege wrote:

 Vledder, Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that
 I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode).
 Does anyone known a brand/model (PCI) that's being supported by FreeBSD ?
 
 Netgear PCI Cards (401a?) are supported but this may change.

Look for something with an Atheros chipset. See the ath man page for details:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=athapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-currentformat=html

You'll have to run -CURRENT to drive it though. ath was added after 5.1-RELEASE.

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Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-08 Thread Heinrich Rebehn

Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:45:03PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:

Matthew Seaman wrote:


However, I just keep a backup copy of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
directory handy:
  # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
  # rsync -avx --delete xdm/ xdm.bak/
	Cheers,

	Matthew

Ok, this would help for xdm. I wonder however, how many other packages are 
out there with similar behaviour and what other directories i should have a 
copy of handy.

Or, to put it this way: I would like a port/package system that i can rely 
on :-)


In practice, this really doesn't bite port/package users very often.
The Porter's Handbook states:
If your port requires some configuration files in PREFIX/etc, do
not just install them and list them in pkg-plist. That will cause
pkg_delete to delete files carefully edited by the user and a new
installation to wipe them out.
Instead, install sample files with a suffix (filename.sample will
work well) and print out a message pointing out that the user has
to copy and edit the file before the software can be made to work.
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-config.html)
I filed a pr against XFree86-clients. See what happens...

which perhaps should be generalized to configuration files installed
anywhere, rather than just under PREFIX/etc.
Of all the ports I have installed, which is several hundred
encorporating general desktop usage, web serving, databases, etc., the
only ones I've had problems with regarding trashing my original
configuration files are XFree86-4-clients and the Horde, Imp, Turba
etc. group of web apps.  (These last, to be fair, always preserve my
config files as filename.previous and updates do tend to involve
non-compatible changes to the configuration file contents.)
This is good to hear. Otherwise i would have considered moving to Debian/Linux. :-)

The only other Gotcha! of this type is when a /usr/local/etc/rc.d
startup script gets changed to the new rc.subr(8) style.  Previously
those scripts were generally held to be configurable files and you had
to copy the sample file into place, edit it and make sure it was
executable before the service would be set up to auto-start on reboot.
With the new rc_subr style, the script doesn't need to be edited, but
you generally have to add some lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable the
service.
	Cheers,

	Matthew

Cheers,
Heinrich
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RE: aliasing ethernet cards in FBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Barry Byrne


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary
 Sent: 08 September 2003 15:40

 How would I do this in FBSD, setting up an aliased ether to an Ip address?

 my current rc.conf file currently contains just the address of the
 machine, as such.

 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0

Gary:

Add something like:

ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 192.168.0.200 netmask 0x

to rc.conf

if you want to bring this up without rebooting, try

ifconfig rl0 alias 192.168.0.200 netmask 0x


Note. That the netmask is 0x if the alias is on the same subnet as
the original IP, if different, then use the appropriate submask for the new
alias.

 - Barry

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Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-09-08 Thread Heinrich Rebehn

Chuck Swiger wrote:
Heinrich Rebehn wrote:

Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]

6-sec% touch ~/.cvspass
7-sec% cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs login
Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/home/ncvs
CVS password:
[ Use anoncvs for the password. ]

8-sec% cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co src
cvs server: Updating src
U src/COPYRIGHT
U src/MAINTAINERS
U src/Makefile
U src/Makefile.inc1
U src/README
U src/UPDATING
cvs server: Updating src/bin
^C...


This looks like you still have to type in the password from the terminal.
I would like to update the source each night from a cron job.
Is there really no way to do that?


I had to enter the password for the cvs login; the CVS checkout 
operation did not require a password.

How do you enter a password from within a cron job?

Heinrich

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perl version trouble.

2003-09-08 Thread Matthias Meyser

Hi

when I tried to build /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server on my 
freshly build 4.9-PRERELEASE box (I think this will also hit 4.8 boxes), 
make broke in /usr/ports/databases/p5-DBI.

This is required by /usr/ports/databases/p5-Mysql which is required 
by /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server.

It just says: This port is for perl 5.6.0 and later only.

Any chance to get this going *WITHOUT* switching to perl 5.6.x ?

CU
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Re: aliasing ethernet cards in FBSD

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:53:15PM +0100 or thereabouts, Barry Byrne wrote:

 
  How would I do this in FBSD, setting up an aliased ether to an Ip address?
  my current rc.conf file currently contains just the address of the
  machine, as such.
  ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0
 
 Add something like:
 
 ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 192.168.0.200 netmask 0x
 to rc.conf

Perfect solution, thank you for your geat input.

 if you want to bring this up without rebooting, try
 ifconfig rl0 alias 192.168.0.200 netmask 0x

Right..

 Note. That the netmask is 0x if the alias is on the same subnet as
 the original IP, if different, then use the appropriate submask for the new
 alias.

Yes, when I build these systems, I usually put them on the same subnet to
keep it simple...unless I can't. 

Thanks very much Barry... In many ways, I find FBSD more powerful, yet
more simple to use than Linux (at least so far).. g 
-- 
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Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the
job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
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Re: JAVA and MOZILLA

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:04:08PM +1000, David L wrote:
 I have been trying for quite some tiime to get Mozilla a Java Plugin that it 
 will actually use. 

I am also trying to get Java working but for Opera. I know from my past
that the jdk1x port worked. So my first guess is that you don't want to
use the linux port. I am currenly waiting for fixes in the 1.4 port.

I also notice something written about Mozilla en Java in the handbook of
FreeBSD.

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Not able to finish new 4.8 install on Compaq Alphaserver DS20

2003-09-08 Thread Gavin Hubbard

Hello

I am new to *BSD and I'm doing a FreeBSD 4.8 installation for the first
time. My target system is my Compaq Alpahserver DS20 (dual 500MHz EV6, 2GB
RAM, 4x4GB RAID 0+1 and 2x9GB RAID 1 on storage works RA230 controller,
CDROM + DDS3 on Symbios UW + ethernet controller, plus some misc I/O
options). My installation media is a 4.8 ISO image I downloaded and burned
to CD-R. The system was formerly running VMS in a development environment
and is known to be fully operational.

After moving the Symbios controller onto another system hose I was able to
get the system to boot into the Sysinstall utility from the local CDROM
drive *using the miniroot disk). I am then able to create the file-systems,
nominate the distribution I require, choose an installation source, and
begin the installation. I have used the auto-layout tool for the 8GB RAID
0+1 array and created a new 9GB /usr filesystem on the RAID 1 array.

The problem I have is that once Sysinstall keeps stopping towards the end of
the installtion with the following message:

Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media.

This may be because the packages collection is not available on the
distribution media you've chosen, most likely an FTP site without the
packages collection mirrored. Please verify that you media, or your path to
the media, is correct and try again.

The curious thing is that this always happens at the end of the
installation, regardless of the particular distribution I have chosen. If I
switch to the holographic shell on ALT-F4 and run ls on /cdrom I get an
empty directory listing. If I try mount /cdrom I get a cd9660: /dev/cd0c:
Device busy message. This must be why it can no longer see the installation
path.

Once I hit Ok to the warning message I get a message that says The commit
operation completed with errors. Not updating /etc files. and I am returned
to Sysinstall. Interestingly, if I try to simply recommit the distribution
in the custom installation options menu I get the same warning. However if I
reselect a distribution and then run commit, it will repeat the installation
tasks but stop at exactly the same point (or a different point if I choose
another distribution or choose to install ports).

I have searched on google before posting here and the only reference I found
suggested that it might be a good idea to check the CDROM drive in another
machine or replace it with a new drive. I have tested this drive on another
machine and it seems to be working fine.

Thank-you in advance for your assistance in solving this problem.

Regards,

Gavin Hubbard

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[no subject]

2003-09-08 Thread Brian J. McGovern

  
  
  Hi,
  
  I inserted an USB stick into a 5.1 FreeBSD box and
  was pleasantly surprised to see it being autodetected:
  
  umass0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
  da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
  da0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
  da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
  da0: 15MB (32000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 15C)

... and I've been sending patches as I get my hands on more brands/types.
Unfortunately, this isn't one of mine, so I can't claim credit ;)

  But when I try to mount it, I'm getting 
  
  # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt
  msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument
  

See if there is a slice for the device, e.g. /dev/da0s1. Also, you can try
a fdisk on the device, in case it doesn't use the first slice (I've yet
to see this on USB devices, but ZIP drives used to use slice 4 for their
DOS partition).

If you still can't get it to work, drop me a line, and I can try to provide
some other pointers. On most devices, its a matter of tweaking the protocol
settings in umass.c.

  
  Assumed I will get it working soon, how can I achieve that
  it is automatically mounted?
  Is there a user wrapper to mount/unmount the USB stick?


You should be able to set something up in /etc/usbd.conf for attach. Detach
may be a bit tricker, as you should unmount the filesystem before pulling the
stick.
-Brian
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Re: your mail

2003-09-08 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:27:51AM -0400, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
   
   
   Hi,
   
   I inserted an USB stick into a 5.1 FreeBSD box and
   was pleasantly surprised to see it being autodetected:
   
   umass0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
   da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
   da0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
   da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
   da0: 15MB (32000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 15C)
 
 ... and I've been sending patches as I get my hands on more brands/types.
 Unfortunately, this isn't one of mine, so I can't claim credit ;)
 
   But when I try to mount it, I'm getting 
   
   # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt
   msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument
   
 
 See if there is a slice for the device, e.g. /dev/da0s1. Also, you can try
 a fdisk on the device, in case it doesn't use the first slice (I've yet
 to see this on USB devices, but ZIP drives used to use slice 4 for their
 DOS partition).

Thanks, it was the slice, as I later detected.

 
 If you still can't get it to work, drop me a line, and I can try to provide
 some other pointers. On most devices, its a matter of tweaking the protocol
 settings in umass.c.
 
   
   Assumed I will get it working soon, how can I achieve that
   it is automatically mounted?
   Is there a user wrapper to mount/unmount the USB stick?
 
 
 You should be able to set something up in /etc/usbd.conf for attach. Detach
 may be a bit tricker, as you should unmount the filesystem before pulling the
 stick.
   -Brian

Thanks. Will try that.

So at least I was able now to mount it under root.
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Lire PDF Output?

2003-09-08 Thread Fernando Gleiser

I'm trying to use lire generate some PDF reports from logfiles.

I followed the instructions given by make pdf:

I did install teTeX, link /usr/local/bin/pdfjadetex to
/usr/local/bin/pdftex
and bumped pool_size.pdfjadetex to 50 in
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

But I still can't get lire to generate a PDF report. It gives the following
error:
all syslog lr_tag-20030908121645-70061 lr_check_prereq err Jade or Openjade don't seem 
to be installed.
all syslog lr_tag-20030908121645-70061 lr_check_prereq err Please install jade or 
openjade

Does anybody know what I'm missing?

Thanks in advance


Fer

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Re: 3c905b-tx not working on fresh install of FreeBSD 5.0

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:58:13PM +0900, Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG 
WESTPAC wrote:
 To all:
 
 I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3-8 GB
 HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U).  My NIC is a 3c905b-tx.  The motherboard is set
 to non-plug-and-play.  While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no
 activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to
 the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything.  I know the NIC works
 fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0.
 I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to
 be fine.  This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the
 novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this
 before...
 
 The NIC does state (hw-loopback) in ifconfig, but I can not find a way to
 get this changed.  I have tried to set the mediaopt setting to 100baseTX or
 even 10baseT/UTP, but neither fix the issue.  ifconfig sees the card fine
 before I send the IP settings to the NIC, but once I set the IP the link
 lights disappear.  The ifconfig command still shows my card, but I can't
 ping outside the box.  I can ping the IP that I set to the NIC and the local
 loopback.
 
FreeBSD 5.x isn't labed stable yet. Since 5.0 is the first version of
the brance it still has a high change that one can run in to some bugs.
Your best change of solving this is to install another version of
FreeBSD or update (if you can).

I also experianced this with 3c905C-TX on the 4.4. I solved this by
installing 4.5.

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Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-09-08 Thread Chuck Swiger

Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
I had to enter the password for the cvs login; the CVS checkout 
operation did not require a password.
How do you enter a password from within a cron job?
You don't/can't.  That's why you cvs login by hand, enter the password. 
Later, when you run cvs co, it will use the saved password (in ~/.cvspass).

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Re: Help! I need a small(old ?) FreeBSD release

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:26:49AM -0700, Dorin-Constantin Scutarasu wrote:
 Hi,
  
 I have an old computer (AMD DX2486 @80MHz and 16MB RAM) and I want to install 
 FreeBSD on an empty 53 MB partition. I couldn't find an old release small enough to 
 fit. Can you help? The smallest all purpose release I could find is release 2.2.8 
 but it's still not small enough.
  

You could try picobsd. Its based on FreeBSD but so small you can place
it on a floppy. There are versions you can download or you could create
your own version.

http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html

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Slow Adaptec Quad-Nic

2003-09-08 Thread Alexandre Biancalana

Hi All,
  
   I have a Firewall/Gateway with an Quad-NIC Adaptec ANA6944A, that 
when I'm doing a big download, the switch port where the machine is 
connected points that's is down and the following messages appear in 
/var/log/messages:

Sep  8 10:53:41 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
Sep  8 10:54:59 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
Sep  8 11:01:53 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
Sep  8 11:01:57 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
Sep  8 11:14:37 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
Sep  8 11:20:11 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
Sep  8 11:20:14 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
Sep  8 11:45:26 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
Sep  8 12:03:38 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
Sep  8 12:03:41 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
The transfers are been slowed down by 1/2 off total bandwitch available 
in this link, that's 1Mbit/s but the transfers don't exceed 700 Kbit/s.

After google, I have seen some case about that but without an solution.

 Best Regards,

  Alexandre

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Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:48:42PM +0200, SUPPORT wrote:
  Hello everybody,
  
  I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from
  4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but...
  
  Is it safe ? What should I backup ? There is running well-configured
  sendmail - are there some changes in its configuration between
  versions 8.11.3 used in FreeBSD 4.3 and 8.12.8p1 used in
  FreeBSD 4.8.
  This is my only mailserver and I don't have an secondary
  if something fails...
  
  Please, advice if you have some know-how :-)))
  
  Peter Rosa
 
 P.S. Sorry for duplicate mail, I'm not sure it is sending it to the list.
 
I only saw one, so i guess you only send it one time to the list.

Is it safe? Yes, but there's always a chance that something goes wrong.
If you can't take any change then don't update. You don't have a
secondary procution server, but do you have a secondary computer? If so
use this a test server. (Go for the most identical one) Install 4.3 on
this one and then update this one, using the same source. Also set it up
to sepport the most critical functions. This not only gives you the
change to gain some experinace but also let you test it. You won't
upgrade the production computer if this fails.

( On later version (4.6 or 4.7) you could let your production computer
compile the source and use its /usr/src/ and /usr/obj/ through nfs. )

You wan't to backup /etc/ /usr/local/etc/ and you data.

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Re: Not able to finish new 4.8 install on Compaq Alphaserver DS20

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Seaman

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:23:55AM +1200, Gavin Hubbard wrote:

 The problem I have is that once Sysinstall keeps stopping towards the end of
 the installtion with the following message:
 
 Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media.
 
 This may be because the packages collection is not available on the
 distribution media you've chosen, most likely an FTP site without the
 packages collection mirrored. Please verify that you media, or your path to
 the media, is correct and try again.

That's because the mini-iso doesn't contain any packages.  However,
apart from installing some third party packages, you have, in fact,
successfully installed FreeBSD.

I suggest that you quit out of sysinstall, boot up your system in
FreeBSD, log in, make sure you set up the networking correctly and:

Either: install the cvsup-without-gui port by:

# pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui

Then use cvsup(1) to pull down the latest ports tree (see Appendix A.5
of the handbook for instructions:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html)
and install the extra software that you want via the ports(7) system.
Each time you update the ports tree, remember to run 'make index' to
regenerate the INDEX file.  That takes a little time, as it has to
chew through about 9,100 ports and sort out all of the dependencies
and so forth.

Highly recommended (if you choose this route) that the first port
you install should be sysutils/portupgrade, then use portupgrade to
install everything else.

Or: from within FreeBSD, run sysinstall -- for 4.{8,9} it's
/stand/sysinstall, for 5.x it's /usr/sbin/sysinstall, go into the
Options section, set your installation media to FTP, choose a nearby
FTP server, then go into the 'Configuration' section and 'Packages'
within that.  This will download the packages/INDEX from the FTP
server and give you a fairly easy way to install what packages you
require.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

Hard to define this one fully in a subject line...

I have two FreeBSD 4.x systems running sendmail.  I'm trying to send
mail to a site that recently started using the WebShield virus
protection system for incoming mail.  If I send from Mutt, the mails
are refused by the WebShielded site; if I send from Pine or from a
Windows mail client (still through the same SMTP servers in both
cases), the mail goes through.

The difference is that Mutt-generated messages' SMTP stream contains a
line like

MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTH=

whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like

MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

In other words, the AUTH= only appears in Mutt-generated mail.

I have no earthly idea how this is possible.  If anyone does, please
let me know.  I am trying to figure out (1) how to get Mutt mail
through to these people again (it worked fine until they installed
WebShield), and (2) whether they need to be notified that they may be
rejecting a lot of mail.  So far, it looks like very few people's mail
will be rejected.  I just happen to be one of them...

Please Cc me on responses so I don't miss something in a huge list
mail box.

Thanks much.


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RE: Not able to finish new 4.8 install on Compaq Alphaserver DS20

2003-09-08 Thread Gavin Hubbard


 -Original Message-
 From: Matthew Seaman

 That's because the mini-iso doesn't contain any packages.  However,
 apart from installing some third party packages, you have, in fact,
 successfully installed FreeBSD.

 I suggest that you quit out of sysinstall, boot up your system in
 FreeBSD, log in, make sure you set up the networking correctly and:

 Either: install the cvsup-without-gui port by:

 # pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui

 Then use cvsup(1) to pull down the latest ports tree (see Appendix A.5
 of the handbook for instructions:
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html)
 and install the extra software that you want via the ports(7) system.
 Each time you update the ports tree, remember to run 'make index' to
 regenerate the INDEX file.  That takes a little time, as it has to
 chew through about 9,100 ports and sort out all of the dependencies
 and so forth.

 Highly recommended (if you choose this route) that the first port
 you install should be sysutils/portupgrade, then use portupgrade to
 install everything else.

 Or: from within FreeBSD, run sysinstall -- for 4.{8,9} it's
 /stand/sysinstall, for 5.x it's /usr/sbin/sysinstall, go into the
 Options section, set your installation media to FTP, choose a nearby
 FTP server, then go into the 'Configuration' section and 'Packages'
 within that.  This will download the packages/INDEX from the FTP
 server and give you a fairly easy way to install what packages you
 require.


Hi Matthew

Thank-you very much for your carefully considered reply - I now have a
working system.

With very best regards,

Gavin Hubbard

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Problem with initialize the system

2003-09-08 Thread Ricardo Javier Aranibar León


   Hi,

   I have this problem with the system initialize:

   Local Package initialization:pgsql [warm] loaded DSO
   libexec/apache/libphp4.so uses plain apache 1.3 API this module might
   crash under EAPI please recompile it with -DEAPI

   DSO libexec/apache/mod_auth_pgsql.so uses plain Apache 1.3 API this
   module might crash under EAPI please recompile it with -DEAPI

   sshd fatal error: Creating listener failed port 22 probably already in
   use

   Regards,
   Ricardo
 _

   Las mejores tiendas, los precios mas bajos, entregas en todo el mundo,
   YupiMSN Compras: [1]Haz clic aquí...

References

   1. http://g.msn.com/8HMCES/2749??PS=
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Re: Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:25:59PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
 
 I have two FreeBSD 4.x systems running sendmail.  I'm trying to send
 mail to a site that recently started using the WebShield virus
 
 The difference is that Mutt-generated messages' SMTP stream contains a
 line like
 MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTH=
 whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like
 MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 In other words, the AUTH= only appears in Mutt-generated mail.
 
 I have no earthly idea how this is possible.  If anyone does, please
 let me know.  I am trying to figure out (1) how to get Mutt mail

I don't use sendmail, but I am sure it has something to do with your
.muttrc file. Do you have a line to set your from address?

set sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Gary wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:25:59PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
  
  I have two FreeBSD 4.x systems running sendmail.  I'm trying to send
  mail to a site that recently started using the WebShield virus
  
  The difference is that Mutt-generated messages' SMTP stream contains a
  line like
  MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTH=
  whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like
  MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  In other words, the AUTH= only appears in Mutt-generated mail.
  
  I have no earthly idea how this is possible.  If anyone does, please
  let me know.  I am trying to figure out (1) how to get Mutt mail
 
 I don't use sendmail, but I am sure it has something to do with your
 .muttrc file. Do you have a line to set your from address?
 
 set sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No, and I just tried sending without a .muttrc file at all, and I got
the same error back from the WebShielded site.

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Re: linux_base

2003-09-08 Thread Scott Ballantyne

Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Scott Ballantyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  If I'm running multi-user (as toor), the build stops when installing
  glibc. In linux_base, there's actually a coredump, in linux_base-8, it
  just stops. This happens even running the GENERIC kernel (I had
  previously thought it was perhaps related to a custom kernel).
  
  However, if I drop to single user mode, and make install, it
  completes, although I get many of the following error messages
  intended for syslogd:
  
  linux: syscall mmap2 (obsolete or not implemented (pid = )
 
 What version of FreeBSD?  
 Do you have linux(8) running when you try the install?
 

Sorry, I should have included this: FreeBSD 4.8-p3. Linux.ko isn't
running. For various reasons, I needed to compile the kernel with it
included.

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FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

2003-09-08 Thread admin


running:
FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE


okay I am having a strange issue.

after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and
required a power cycle.  mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
did not start.  this only happens very rarely and has happens after FreeBSD
crashed or is not brought down very cleanly.  can somebody recommend a way to
auto run these scripts - and make sure these files get executed on boot up.

how can I make sure processes are running correctly with automation.   

the following line exists in my /etc/defaults/rc.conf file:

--- snip ---

local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d # startup script dirs.

--- snip ---


- noah

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Re: Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
   MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTH=
   whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like
   MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   In other words, the AUTH= only appears in Mutt-generated mail.
 
  set sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 No, and I just tried sending without a .muttrc file at all, and I got
 the same error back from the WebShielded site.

The above in your .muttrc file would set your envelope sender to the
above address.

last thought, do you have a from address in your .muttrc file? 

my_hdr From: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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[newbie] 4.8-STABLE became unreachable

2003-09-08 Thread admin

well my machine just became unreachable and trying to figure out what to do
about it.  Its the first time in my history of using freeBSD to experience
this.  we have kernel firewall enabled and running portsentry as well.  we
power cycled to clear the situation as we could not log in via the console. 
there is nothing in the hosts.deny file to create this situation. 

uname -a output:
FreeBSD typhoon.enabled.com 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: 

there was one recent modification to the Kernel to from 14 days ago.  we
increased PMAP_SHPGPERPROC.

options PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=300

this is the post we read:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000695.html

I am suspecting hardware issues - perhaps the RAM memory board.  512MB single
board.

can somebody provide documentation or suggestions of ways we can figure out
what is going on here?  there is simply nothing in /var/log/messages relevant
to anything creating this situation.   in fact the machine remained having
link and stuff.

- Noah
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Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould

On Monday 08 September 2003 09:42 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
 Matthias Teege wrote:
  Vledder, Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that
  I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode).
  Does anyone known a brand/model (PCI) that's being supported by FreeBSD
  ?
 
  Netgear PCI Cards (401a?) are supported but this may change.

 Look for something with an Atheros chipset. See the ath man page for
 details:

 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=athapropos=0sektion=0manpath=Fr
eeBSD+5.1-currentformat=html

 You'll have to run -CURRENT to drive it though. ath was added after
 5.1-RELEASE.

Another option are D-Link 900AP+.  They connect to your ethernet card and can 
be configured as a wireless access point, client, or wireless bridge.  
Configuration is done via web browser, so the hardware is fairly OS-neutral.

Andrew Gould
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Re: Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:00:31PM -0500, Gary wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTH=
whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like
MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In other words, the AUTH= only appears in Mutt-generated mail.
  
   set sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
  No, and I just tried sending without a .muttrc file at all, and I got
  the same error back from the WebShielded site.
 
 The above in your .muttrc file would set your envelope sender to the
 above address.
 
 last thought, do you have a from address in your .muttrc file? 
 
 my_hdr From: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No, but as I said in my last message, I tested the whole .muttrc
possibility just now by disabling (renaming) my .muttrc and running
Mutt afresh without a .muttrc in effect at all.  Same error.

By now I'm fairly sure this is related to my having started to set up
SMTP authorization on both FreeBSD systems.  This doesn't explain,
though, why only Mutt-generated mail is affected, particularly with no
.muttrc in effect.  Pine mail sends out fine to this site.

So I see it as a three-pronged problem:  (1) WebShield refuses From:
lines containing AUTH=, and WebShield just went into effect at the
destination site; (2) my SMTP installation probably sometimes sends
the AUTH= line because I started configuring that a while back
(months ago); and (3) Mutt and somehow ONLY Mutt triggers the sending
of the AUTH= on From: lines.

I hope to identify how (3) can be happening, then maybe if (2) can or
should be fixed or if AUTH= is supposed to be legal SMTP syntax on
a From: line, and finally whether the destination site is likely to be
refusing much mail as a result of their WebShield installation.
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Re: JAVA and MOZILLA

2003-09-08 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, David L wrote:

 I have been trying for quite some tiime to get Mozilla a Java Plugin that it
 will actually use. I have tried the linux-xun-jdk versions 1.3.1 1.4.1 
 1.4.2 , konqueror web browser uses these succesfully, however I symlink
 /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavapluginoji.so to
 /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/plugin/ and it wont accept it. I try the same with the
 native JDK1.4.1 however in /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/lib/i386/native_threads
 there is only libhpi.so wich doesnt do anything.
One issue might be that recent versions of mozilla need a gcc3.2
compiled jre. Please have a look at the release notes on
www.mozilla.org .

I can run linux mozilla1.5b binaries with linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 from
ports (on a -CURRENT machine).

Perhaps this helps?

Uli.


 I have also tried
 /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavapluginoji.so without
 any succes.

  I have a whole lot of other plugins that work perfectly , shockwave, mplayer,
 acrobat , flash, etc, etc
 However I have not been able to get Java to work on Mozilla ever

 Currently I have the diablo-jdk plugin symlinked into the mozilla plugin
 directory and this is the error I get when I star mozilla in a terminal
 window

 %mozilla 
 [1] 38656
 %No running window found.
 LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
 /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
 [/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so:
 Undefined symbol _vt$17nsGetServiceByCID]

 any help, links, abuse , will be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks

 David Lodeiro

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Re: Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:08:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:00:31PM -0500, Gary wrote:
  On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
 MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTH=
 whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like
 MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 In other words, the AUTH= only appears in Mutt-generated mail.
   
set sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   
   No, and I just tried sending without a .muttrc file at all, and I got
   the same error back from the WebShielded site.
  
  The above in your .muttrc file would set your envelope sender to the
  above address.
  
  last thought, do you have a from address in your .muttrc file? 
  
  my_hdr From: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 No, but as I said in my last message, I tested the whole .muttrc
 possibility just now by disabling (renaming) my .muttrc and running
 Mutt afresh without a .muttrc in effect at all.  Same error.

testing or disabling your .muttrc is absolutely meaningless to me since I
am not privy if the above lines are included in there to begin with, which
is why I suggested this first line approach to begin with.  Your lack of
info caused me to speculate. 
 
 By now I'm fairly sure this is related to my having started to set up
 SMTP authorization on both FreeBSD systems.  This doesn't explain,
 though, why only Mutt-generated mail is affected, particularly with no
 .muttrc in effect.  Pine mail sends out fine to this site.

this is the first time you mentioned that you have previously set up, or
attempted to set up SMTP auth. 
 
 So I see it as a three-pronged problem:  (1) WebShield refuses From:
 lines containing AUTH=, and WebShield just went into effect at the
 destination site; (2) my SMTP installation probably sometimes sends
 the AUTH= line because I started configuring that a while back
 (months ago); and (3) Mutt and somehow ONLY Mutt triggers the sending
 of the AUTH= on From: lines.

why is your auth sending a null value? Webshield could be hanging on this,
yes, or I agree with you regarding the other 2 possibilities. 

 I hope to identify how (3) can be happening, then maybe if (2) can or
 should be fixed or if AUTH= is supposed to be legal SMTP syntax on
 a From: line, and finally whether the destination site is likely to be
 refusing much mail as a result of their WebShield installation.

To my knowledge, no, and I have never seen Auth included on the From:
line, it is on a separate line, and yes, something is broken. My
experience with sendmail ends here, as I have not used it in years, but
moved on to qmail. Sorry I could not have been more help. 

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RE: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-08 Thread Jim

Had to set the drive detection type in the BIOS to user (manual) instead
of auto, and make sure the drive itself was set as a single master without
slave (e.g. all jumpers removed) as well as specifying LBA directly, but
with the drive set up manually in the BIOS, the jumpers yanked, and LBA
specified, the install ran through (using the geometry FreeBSD picked) and
it fired up just fine.

For reference, this was a FreeBSD 5.1 standard minimal installation on a
single Western Digital 80GB special edition IDE (ATA100) drive connected to
an ECS P4VXMS mainboard running Award BIOS rev 1.2c (the latest).

Thanks much to everyone who helped with this.

Jim

 -Original Message-
 From: Hendrik Hasenbein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 3:09 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: Jerry McAllister; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: 5.1  WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry


 Jim wrote:
  Same deal.  Installation runs through fine, does the
 post-install, finishes
  nicely, and reboots to a void (system runs POST, shows the devices, then
  hangs indefinitely (pre-os startup)).

 Turn on LBA access for that disk in your bios instead of auto and dont
 touch the geometrie in the editor. That worked for me.

 Hendrik


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FreeBSD 5.1 Installation Problem

2003-09-08 Thread Reinhart Steyaert

Hi,

I want to install FreeBSD 5.1 but have the following problem: during the 
installation, you have to choose Installation Media. I choose the first 
option, 'install from a CD/DVD', but get the message Cannot find CD/DVD 
devices... (or something like that). But I can boot from the CD (it's a 
Mitsumi ATAPI CD-ROM, not a DVD). The module cd9660 seems to be loaded. When 
I choose Floppy... in the Installation Media menu, I also get the message 
Cannot find floppy devices... So, FreeBSD recognizes the CD-ROM drive, but 
it seems to forget those devices at a certain point. I was able, years ago, 
to install FreeBSD 3.2.

Wattoodoo?

-R.

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Re: Opera print issues

2003-09-08 Thread Petre Bandac

my opera (7.11) won't show flash pages, though 

kgb# pkg_info | grep flash
flashpluginwrapper-0.20021113 A wrapper allowing use of linux-flashplugin with 
native moz
linux-flashplugin-5.0r51 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux 
Netscape and
linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux 
Mozilla and 
kgb# 

and neither konqueror, nor mozilla/mozilla firebird

any ideas ?

thanks,

petre

On Monday 08 September 2003 11:01 Anno Domini, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote using 
one of his keyboards:
 On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Kees Jan Koster wrote:
  Dear All,
 
  Opera won't print a site that I use regularly. I would like to know if
  this is a local issue, or something that the Opera folks should know
  about.
 
  To reproduce:
 
   * start Opera
   * browse to http://www.routenet.nl
   * in the ik wil naar box marked plaats enter Amsterdam
   * in the ik vertrek van box marked plaats enter Rotterdam
   * Press plan route
   * in the next screen, press plan route once more.
   * press Opera's print button
   * print print in the dialog
   * move the popup around for a bit for additional effect
 
  My platform is a very recent FreeBSD-stable, Opera 7.20 B7, Cups 1.1.19.

 On my -current with Opera 7.20 B7, I can't print that page: Opera starts
 chewing CPU while the Opera window is not updated anymore (ie. switching
 virtual desktop causes only the window decoration to be drawn, and moving
 the popup is funny). After a couple of minutes I kill the process. I'm
 using lpr for printing btw, if that matters.

 I think I've seen earlier problems (last week) with printing, resulting
 in a coredump but I didn't keep track of it since Opera coredumps quite
 often for me lately, on -current as well as -stable (nevertheless it's my
 favorite browser).

 Karel.
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Re: Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:40:39PM -0500, Gary wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:08:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
  On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:00:31PM -0500, Gary wrote:
   On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote:
  MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTH=
  whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like
  MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  In other words, the AUTH= only appears in Mutt-generated mail.

 set sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No, and I just tried sending without a .muttrc file at all, and I got
the same error back from the WebShielded site.
   
   The above in your .muttrc file would set your envelope sender to the
   above address.
   
   last thought, do you have a from address in your .muttrc file? 
   
   my_hdr From: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  No, but as I said in my last message, I tested the whole .muttrc
  possibility just now by disabling (renaming) my .muttrc and running
  Mutt afresh without a .muttrc in effect at all.  Same error.
 
 testing or disabling your .muttrc is absolutely meaningless to me since I
 am not privy if the above lines are included in there to begin with, which
 is why I suggested this first line approach to begin with.  Your lack of
 info caused me to speculate. 

Lack of info admitted; I was initially not sure what info would be
required.  I sorta started out asking how Mutt could affect the
contents of a From: line in an SMTP stream (beyond the address on that
line, that is) and ended up (in my latest message) covering the whole
three-element situation.  Sorry for any confusion.

These are the lines that look potentially relevant from my .muttrc:

set edit_hdrs   # let me edit the message header when composing
set editor=vi '+/^$/' # start below header
set hdrs# include `my_hdr' lines in outgoing messages
set noheader# include message header when replying
set from=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
set realname=Doug Lee
set use_from# always generate the `From:' header field
set noreverse_realname # Override the real name with the realname variable
set dsn_notify='failure,delay'  # when to return an error message
set dsn_return=hdrs # what to return in the error message
my_hdr Organization: Bartimaeus Group

I don't remember which of these (if any) is just reestablishing
default behavior, but these lines were not in effect during the
.muttrcless test.

  By now I'm fairly sure this is related to my having started to set up
  SMTP authorization on both FreeBSD systems.  This doesn't explain,
  though, why only Mutt-generated mail is affected, particularly with no
  .muttrc in effect.  Pine mail sends out fine to this site.
 
 this is the first time you mentioned that you have previously set up, or
 attempted to set up SMTP auth. 
  
  So I see it as a three-pronged problem:  (1) WebShield refuses From:
  lines containing AUTH=, and WebShield just went into effect at the
  destination site; (2) my SMTP installation probably sometimes sends
  the AUTH= line because I started configuring that a while back
  (months ago); and (3) Mutt and somehow ONLY Mutt triggers the sending
  of the AUTH= on From: lines.
 
 why is your auth sending a null value? Webshield could be hanging on this,

My first question exactly. :-)

Thanks much for your help so far.

 yes, or I agree with you regarding the other 2 possibilities. 
 
  I hope to identify how (3) can be happening, then maybe if (2) can or
  should be fixed or if AUTH= is supposed to be legal SMTP syntax on
  a From: line, and finally whether the destination site is likely to be
  refusing much mail as a result of their WebShield installation.
 
 To my knowledge, no, and I have never seen Auth included on the From:
 line, it is on a separate line, and yes, something is broken. My
 experience with sendmail ends here, as I have not used it in years, but
 moved on to qmail. Sorry I could not have been more help. 
 
 -- 
 Gary

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Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread Charlie Schluting


FBSD 5.1:
Using Bind9.2.2, and I have query logging turned on:

logging {
   channel querylog { file /var/log/query.lo~g; print-time yes; };
   category queries { querylog; };
};

After a logrotate, it stops logging completely. The permissions are
correct, and all I have to do to make it start logging again is: rndc
reload.

Anyone heard of this? Any ideas?

TIA,

-Charlie
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Re: Empty AUTH= in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail