Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:47:51 -0600 (MDT) SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, SoloCDM wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:43:39 -0600 (MDT) From: SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED], FreeBSD-Questions (Request) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD-Questions (Request) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:59:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD-Questions (Request) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs? Well, sort of. FreeBSD itself does not offer any CDs. It has some ISO-s. Recently FreeBSD decided to quit putting out ISOs with all the source for all the ports. So, the two ISO-s called disk1.iso and disk2.iso contain the installation system, the full operating system and some of the more popular ports. They used to put out two more ISO-s that contained the rest of the ports in a four ISO set, but FreeBSD no longer does that. You can easily obtain any and all of it through FreeBSD because the ISO-s have the complete ports tree skeleton from which you can install any of the ports directly over the net - and that is how you really want to install ports anyway. BUT, some other companies package the larger sets on CDs - usually 4 CDs. Try FreeBSD Mall, for example. There are a couple of others as well. Those sets have the whole schmear. The other combination is to download the mini-iso which has essentially just the installation system and the OS and everything else in then brought down over the net during installation. Does FreeBSD come with an installation package? Yes. You boot the install CD and voila. Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX? FreeBSD is BSD which has its origins in the Berkeley U written version of Bell Labs UNIX way way back in deep and dark history long before Linux was ever conceived, let alone birthed. All of you did a great job of describing many features of BSD. It makes it enticing. When RedHat started out, it had some conveniences, but it quickly become so bizarre and discombobulated that I am feed-up, a voodoo act and standing on one's head is involved. Most of the so-called-experts in RPMs don't know what they're doing from one minute to the next. Usually installing the tarball (my form of description) is the only available option. So many of the RPM distributors are inventing and reinventing new ways to reroute the file to its original location. Often the files go through 6 links before you capture the original file. That doesn't include the original program from recognizing other renamed filenames that produce optional executions. This usually keeps some of the RPM installations from installing, *unless*, all the rubble is ripped out before you start. Often that *breaks* the whole structure/hierarchy apart. Now distributors have moved to an option that supposedly entices enterprises. Usually it forces the installations to conform to their type of networking. Is it possible to go from one distribution version to another (4.x to 5.x) without entirely removing the old version? Do the upgrades with the ports allow this possibility? Can packages and their dependencies be removed through a package that does the uninstalling? What CPU (i386, i486, i586, ...) are the packages compiled and geared towards? on the x86 side it is i386 for 4.x and i486 for 5.x... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does FreeBSD support USB Wireless Adapter ?
That would interest me, too. Especially if 802.11g devices should work Peschm Am Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:56:33 +0800 schrieb Michael Lee: Hi, I use Gemtek WL-382F USB Wireless Adapter. I've set the options for USB and wireless ethernet and recompiled the kernel. While plugging in the USB Wireless Adapter, it shows: ugen0: Atmel product 0x7605, rev.1.10/1.00, addr 2 I noticed that the Handbook ( chap. 19.3 ) only mentioned for PCMCIA wireless ethernet adapter. However, I wonder if FreeBSD does support USB Wireless Adapter. Of course I failed to find any wi0 devices while typing ifconfig -a Any suggestion ? Thank you! Michael Lee ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java 1.3
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:41:21PM -0700, Michael J Ruhl wrote: Howdy, I am trying to get the java/jdk13 port to install on FreeBSD 5.1, and am having a problem. When the diablo java script is run (/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/bin/java) (which runs .java_wrapper), I get the following error message: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libm.so.2: Undefined symbol __fpclassifyd Does anyone have any ideas on how I can make this work? You want to read http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml This was mentioned before. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IDE RAID controllers
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Chris Shenton wrote: I got a DELL 600SC server a while back, not expensive, came with a DELL CERC-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI controller card. thanks Chris and other who replied! Much appreciated. Cheers, Irvine I've been running them as a couple RAID-5 volumes under FreeBSD-5.x. Do a search on the lists for CERC and you should find my other postings on this. I had some problems with drives failing but it appears it was an early run of flakey WD1200JB 120GB drives, not the controller. I haven't tried hot swapping or other stuff, but that's not why I bought it. Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 cel: +27-82-494 3828 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X on a Soyo
Hi there, My old box died just the other day and I picked up a Soyo bare bones kit to get back up and running asap. The old one was an IBM with an i810 on-board video and I had no trouble getting it up and running. This new one has some sort of Trident on-board video and it wasn't hard to get it running, but the display is pulled off to the right and has sparkley's. If anyone is familiar with this setup could you please give me some ideas of how to tweak the system to get everything squared away. It's a SY-K7VEMPRO motherboard, with VIA VT8361 AGP/PCI onboard video. -- Lute * Power Provided * * by * * FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
SoloCDM wrote: Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX? http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html :-) A more serious link: http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html BSD is UNIX. Linux is a kernel. Good luck, Richard. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't get the Linux aaccli to work under 4.8-RELEASE, 4.9-RC1, 5.1-RELEASE
Yup, it works on 4.8, as well as on 4.9-RC1 and 5.1. Only on 5.1, AAC_COMPAT_LINUX doesn't exist anymore. But COMPAT_LINUX still seems to be necessary. I guess I'll post a summary to USENET news. Frank Rysanek options AAC_COMPAT_LINUX _and_ options COMPAT_LINUX ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
R. Zoontjens wrote: SoloCDM wrote: Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX? http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html :-) A more serious link: http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html it's quite outdated... interesting for indiana jones maybe... ignores many new features of linux and freeBSD... some smilies should be changed to smilier smilies:-) there are pretty exciting developments in both freeBSD and linux world since it was written... BSD is UNIX. Linux is a kernel. oh yeah, the GNU/Linux is OS! (Gnu/X/Mozilla/KDE/Gnome/.../Linux) erik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making packages with dependicies
Hello all, I have a little question on packages. I created /usr/posts/packages directory. Then, i go to the program port directory then make package eveything is ok. But, the program dependecy packages not in All directory.. What is the command from ports making packages wits the dependies? Regards Murat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java 1.3
The native 1.3 java for FreeBSD won´t work with FreeBSD 5.1 (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java-errata.shtml) I also wanted to try it, I guess I have to wait till they make it work on 5.1, in the mean time I tried installing some of the versions from the ports collection but failed (don´t remember the cause). I finally got the Linux-Blackdown jdk 1.3 version to run. Then later I downloaded the Linux-Sun JDK 1.4.0 version (not the 1.4.1 which core dumps) and it also works. I have just started using FreeBSD (after trying Linux, still using Windoze as a client machine). I haven´t tested the jdk extensively but I am running Resin 2.1.11 (www.caucho.com) and it works flawlessly. Bye Javier __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Filter by MAC Address
Hello, I get router on FreeBSD. I want to filter packet by MAC Address fitering. Pls let me know how can i this using ipfw. Or how can install iptables on freeBSD (with iptables, this is possible). REgards! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Modem for PPP
I have a USB Modem, and FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE discovers it as ugen0: STMicroelectronics USB Communicator, rev 1.00/2.00, addr 2 Any possibility that I can use this device for PPP?? Looking for hints. Thanks -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD. GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) ...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a courtesy detail. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem installing FreeBSD in M754LMR Motherboard.
Hello there, This is the fisrt time I'm trying to install FreeBSD. I really like the project and I decided to study it and learn from it. I have not been able to install it in my PC: Motherboard: M754LMR (http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M754LMR.html): Video adapter (onboard): NVIDIDA Aladdin TNT2 Devices (onboard): ALi M1533 PCI to ISA bridge ALi M1621 CPU to PCI bridge ALi M1621 PCI to AGP bridge Processor: Celeron 600MHz Memory: 192MB RAM (-16MB taken to video adapter NVIDIDA Aladdin TNT2 ) Hard Drive: 4GB The problem I'm having is that when the kernel start loading, it gives me the following error. ... pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Ali Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xd800-0xdbff at device 0.0 on pci0 panic: contigmalloc1: size must not be 0 Uptime: 0s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds I have search for a posible solution but I have not found anything helpfull. I flash the EPROM of the motherboard with the last version (ftp://ftp.pcchips.com.tw/BIOS/M754LMR/) and it din't work. I'm getting the same error for FreeBSD 4.8 release or 5.1 current, but in different moments. With FreeBSD 4.8 release the installation reach the Configure X Server section and allways fail when I specify the video card I have. Then, when I reboot, I receive the error message mentioned above. With FreeBSD 5.1 current the error is show when the Installation CD boots and try to load the kernel. Can someone tell me if this motherboard and configuration is not supported by FreeBSD? What can I do to get my FreeBSD running in this configuration? Thank you in advance, Guillermo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java 1.3
I forgot to mention that I had installed Linux compatibility when installing FreeBSD 5.1 --- Javier Soques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The native 1.3 java for FreeBSD won´t work with FreeBSD 5.1 (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java-errata.shtml) I also wanted to try it, I guess I have to wait till they make it work on 5.1, in the mean time I tried installing some of the versions from the ports collection but failed (don´t remember the cause). I finally got the Linux-Blackdown jdk 1.3 version to run. Then later I downloaded the Linux-Sun JDK 1.4.0 version (not the 1.4.1 which core dumps) and it also works. I have just started using FreeBSD (after trying Linux, still using Windoze as a client machine). I haven´t tested the jdk extensively but I am running Resin 2.1.11 (www.caucho.com) and it works flawlessly. Bye Javier __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
Jerry McAllister wrote: SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs? There are some packages which are only available through FTP. Some packages aren't included on CDs because 3 cds is a little excessive. Does FreeBSD come with an installation package? Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX? FreeBSD is a child of System V, so UNIX. Linux was written from scratch by Linus with the GNU Public License, as opposed to FreeBSD which originated from BSD, which originated from System V. No doubt you will hear a lot of corrections to your statement. That is because it is not true.First of all, System V is a UNIX, but UNIX is not a System V. You sound like you have confused which set is the larger and contains the other set. The set of all UNIX contains System V (and BSD and Linux). The set of all System V does you can't say that linux is unix. both legally (somebody would have to pay) and because it's independent implementation. you can call them unix-like ... Linux started with supposedly a clean (in the same sense that BSD was cleaned of Bell Labs code) System V type of kernel and people then added on all the rest of the stuff, also supposedly clean code. Now Linux seems to be in the same place BSD was years ago proving they are clean and not using any code now owned by SCO. I have no idea how clean it really is or how seriously SCO is in its claims or if it is just trying to position itself into a marketable position. the difference is that linux started from scratch while bsd started from bell code. not that it makes one or the other better but you can say that bsd IS unix (one of them) but you cannot say that linux is unix. erik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
starting named and httpd
Hello: I'm sorry to ask this. I have searched the archive mailing list. I've just installed 5.1 and I notice that named and httpd is started by gndc. I've checked /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf and named_enable=NO. I'm not sure waht I'm missing. Is there some script starting these? Thanks in Advance Tony America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?
Dear Sirs (B (BI have been using FreeBSD4.5 as a File server. (B (BI like to use 200GB IDE HDD(WD 2000) with FreeBSD4.5. (B (BBIOS supports bigLBA. (B (BDoes FreeBSD4.5 support big LBA/ (B (BIf not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA? (B (B (BY.Nishimura (B (B (B___ (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (Bhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions (BTo unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:46:42PM +0900, topaz wrote: Dear Sirs I have been using FreeBSD4.5 as a File server. I like to use 200GB IDE HDD(WD 2000) with FreeBSD4.5. BIOS supports bigLBA. Does FreeBSD4.5 support big LBA/ The release notes for 4.5 says: The ata(4) driver now has support for 48-bit addressing. Devices larger than 137GB are now supported. So the answer would seem to be Yes. If not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA? -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNIX, FreeBSD, Linux (Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat)
Just educational... Probably old news but it's an interesting site and the Unix Timeline is quite awesome. (There is also a Windows Timeline for those interested). http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Bye Javier Soques __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
var partition is too small
hi all the var partition on my apache box may be too small. this is a problem because - i originally had newsyslog set at /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 7 100 24B /var/run/httpd.pid 30 which sets httpd-access.log to be rotated in binary format everytime it reaches 100 mb or once every hour for 24 hours. which basically means we only archive less than a day's worth of httpd-access.log's on this machine... the /var partition on this machine is 252 mb. yesterday i was told asked to start archiving httpd-access.logs for analysis over longer periods of time - that i should be keeping a year's worth of logs, if possible. i remember the original reason i set up newsyslog.conf to rotate httpd-access.logs on this machine so frequently is because the webserver is really busy, and this file tends to grow pretty rapidly, and i didn't want to have to log in, stop apache, and archive the logs by hand every day... yesterday i looked into expanding the size of my /var partition by symlinking. -drop to single user mode -stop syslogd -mv /var to /usr/var -umount /var -delete /var directory -create symlink from /usr/var to /var it seems easy, and i did it successfully once, but i hosed a (non)production box yesterday practicing the above procedure. i have a number of questions: -if i copy the contents of /var to /usr/var, then delete the var directory, do i need to modify my fstab? my fstab right now looks like /dev/aacd0s1g /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/aacd0s1e /varufs rw 2 2 -do i need to modify this so that /var now points to a directory inside /usr? and how? -i'm thinking that this may be too risky a procedure to try on a production box (i guess i'm spooked from ruining the practice box...) - anyone think i should just archive these logs by hand to someplace in my home directory (/usr is very large on this box - 65 gb - and hardly used)? my goal is basically to keep an archive of httpd-access.logs for as long as possible to produce a comprehensive webalizer report... thanks again redmond -- FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Sep 24 09:12:23 CDT 2003 8:30AM up 1 day, 17:54, 2 users, load averages: 0.61, 0.58, 0.55 Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant ? lights up in the center of the dashboard. The experienced driver, he says, will usually know what's wrong. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: var partition is too small
Redmond Militante wrote: hi all the var partition on my apache box may be too small. this is a problem because - i originally had newsyslog set at /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 7 100 24B /var/run/httpd.pid 30 which sets httpd-access.log to be rotated in binary format everytime it reaches 100 mb or once every hour for 24 hours. which basically means we only archive less than a day's worth of httpd-access.log's on this machine... the /var partition on this machine is 252 mb. Looks like sysinstalls defaults. Maybe this should be fixed some fine day :-) yesterday i was told asked to start archiving httpd-access.logs for analysis over longer periods of time - that i should be keeping a year's worth of logs, if possible. i remember the original reason i set up newsyslog.conf to rotate httpd-access.logs on this machine so frequently is because the webserver is really busy, and this file tends to grow pretty rapidly, and i didn't want to have to log in, stop apache, and archive the logs by hand every day... yesterday i looked into expanding the size of my /var partition by symlinking. -drop to single user mode -stop syslogd -mv /var to /usr/var -umount /var -delete /var directory -create symlink from /usr/var to /var That's really bad, because this means that there will be permanent write accesses to you /usr label. A better way could be a cron job which moves the old http-logs once a day into a place in /usr, eg. /usr/save-logs. it seems easy, and i did it successfully once, but i hosed a (non)production box yesterday practicing the above procedure. i have a number of questions: -if i copy the contents of /var to /usr/var, then delete the var directory, do i need to modify my fstab? If you've done it as described, that would be better. But I think you should re-think about the procedure. my fstab right now looks like /dev/aacd0s1g /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/aacd0s1e /varufs rw 2 2 -do i need to modify this so that /var now points to a directory inside /usr? and how? -i'm thinking that this may be too risky a procedure to try on a production box (i guess i'm spooked from ruining the practice box...) - anyone think i should just archive these logs by hand to someplace in my home directory (/usr is very large on this box - 65 gb - and hardly used)? my goal is basically to keep an archive of httpd-access.logs for as long as possible to produce a comprehensive webalizer report... thanks again redmond Best, Jens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AFS
I am wondering how I might go about connecting to an AFS cell on my FreeBSD 4.8 system. Any input would be helpful. Currently, as far as I know, there is no version of AFS client available for FreeBSD although I keep hearing about openAFS coming.I wish it would. We use AFS here and so have to use something besides FreeBSD on those systems that need AFS access - unfortunately. I know a BSD port of AFS was done at least once. I know the person[s] who did it as we were working in the same group at the time (I didn't do any porting work). But, I suppose creating a complete OpenAFS has the same legal considerations as creating the clean BSD (clean of any Bell Labs / ATT code) and that Linux is currently being harrassed by SCO about is more of a total project than doing a port to BSD. I keep hoping it will come along though. If someone has any more encouraging information than this, please post it and indicate where this can best be tracked. jerry Thank you, Brian Gehrs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD SPAM
I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail/mutt-devel and S/MIME?
Hi Bruce, * Bruce M Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-10-2003 16:15]: Can someone point me at a concise set of instructions which enables me to get the mutt-devel port to verify/decipher S/MIME signed/encrypted email messages? Get a recent version of the development branch, the latest is 1.5.4. You can fetch it via ftp from ftp.mutt.org, and look for the devel subdirectory. Read doc/smime-notes.txt on information how to activate the SMIME capabilities of mutt. HTH, -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - PGP: 0x9ACE0AC7 Retteb sif lahd, noces ehttub, but the second half is better. -A palindrome ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD SPAM
Joseph Koenig wrote: I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about spamassassin ? (/usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin) It works great here and catches about 95% of the spam hitting us. Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: var partition is too small
hi a cron job that moves httpd-access.logs to an archive directory sounds like a fine idea - is it safe, though to move these logs while apache and syslogd are running? or would the cron job need to stop those apps first, move the logs, then restart apache/syslogd? thanks redmond [Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:27:00PM +] This one time, at band camp, Jens Rehsack said: Redmond Militante wrote: hi all the var partition on my apache box may be too small. this is a problem because - i originally had newsyslog set at /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 7 100 24B /var/run/httpd.pid 30 which sets httpd-access.log to be rotated in binary format everytime it reaches 100 mb or once every hour for 24 hours. which basically means we only archive less than a day's worth of httpd-access.log's on this machine... the /var partition on this machine is 252 mb. Looks like sysinstalls defaults. Maybe this should be fixed some fine day :-) yesterday i was told asked to start archiving httpd-access.logs for analysis over longer periods of time - that i should be keeping a year's worth of logs, if possible. i remember the original reason i set up newsyslog.conf to rotate httpd-access.logs on this machine so frequently is because the webserver is really busy, and this file tends to grow pretty rapidly, and i didn't want to have to log in, stop apache, and archive the logs by hand every day... yesterday i looked into expanding the size of my /var partition by symlinking. -drop to single user mode -stop syslogd -mv /var to /usr/var -umount /var -delete /var directory -create symlink from /usr/var to /var That's really bad, because this means that there will be permanent write accesses to you /usr label. A better way could be a cron job which moves the old http-logs once a day into a place in /usr, eg. /usr/save-logs. it seems easy, and i did it successfully once, but i hosed a (non)production box yesterday practicing the above procedure. i have a number of questions: -if i copy the contents of /var to /usr/var, then delete the var directory, do i need to modify my fstab? If you've done it as described, that would be better. But I think you should re-think about the procedure. my fstab right now looks like /dev/aacd0s1g /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/aacd0s1e /varufs rw 2 2 -do i need to modify this so that /var now points to a directory inside /usr? and how? -i'm thinking that this may be too risky a procedure to try on a production box (i guess i'm spooked from ruining the practice box...) - anyone think i should just archive these logs by hand to someplace in my home directory (/usr is very large on this box - 65 gb - and hardly used)? my goal is basically to keep an archive of httpd-access.logs for as long as possible to produce a comprehensive webalizer report... thanks again redmond Best, Jens -- FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Sep 24 09:12:23 CDT 2003 9:30AM up 1 day, 18:54, 2 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.17, 0.18 Rules for Academic Deans: (1) HIDE (2) If they find you, LIE -- Father Damian C. Fandal pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD SPAM
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Joseph Koenig wrote: I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice, Try SpamAssassin (mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin). I use it in many of the servers I administer and it works great. it has Bayesian filters, so it can learn to tell spam from ham. I don't use any ORBL directly, since for me they're more trouble than they're worth, but I use them to bump the spamassassin score. SpamAssassin also integrates very nicely with MIMEDefang to stop malware sent via email. Hope this helps Fer Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD SPAM
Joseph: We use a combination of a number of DNSBLs and MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin, which between them detect on average 66% of inbound mail as spam/virus, a small amount of other spam gets through undetected, but it's very little. MIMEDefang is a great solution that you can customize to suit your environment, assuming you use sendmail and know a little perl. - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
FreeBSD is a child of System V, so UNIX. Linux was written from scratch by Linus with the GNU Public License, as opposed to FreeBSD which originated from BSD, which originated from System V. No doubt you will hear a lot of corrections to your statement. That is because it is not true.First of all, System V is a UNIX, but UNIX is not a System V. You sound like you have confused which set is the larger and contains the other set. The set of all UNIX contains System V (and BSD and Linux). The set of all System V does you can't say that linux is unix. both legally (somebody would have to pay) and because it's independent implementation. you can call them unix-like Technically correct, but everybody still says it that way, just like almost everyone calls a Canon or other brand photo copier a xerox machine and other brands of geletin dessert jello. As long as they keep the distinction clear in their official paper-work the remaining misstatements will go by the wayside and cause no misunderstanding. ... Linux started with supposedly a clean (in the same sense that BSD was cleaned of Bell Labs code) System V type of kernel and people then added on all the rest of the stuff, also supposedly clean code. Now Linux seems to be in the same place BSD was years ago proving they are clean and not using any code now owned by SCO. I have no idea how clean it really is or how seriously SCO is in its claims or if it is just trying to position itself into a marketable position. the difference is that linux started from scratch while bsd started from bell code. not that it makes one or the other better but you can say that bsd IS unix (one of them) but you cannot say that linux is unix. The original BSD UNIX could legitimately be called UNIX as it came from Bell code.But, you can't really say that the Open-software BSDs are UNIX because even though they have a memory of Bell code, they got cleaned of it to eliminate the legal problems and essentially were re-written from scratch. And Linux has some memory of System V even if it is clean of ATT-SCO owned code regardless of it supposedly being written from scratch. BSDs are about as scratch as Linuxen, but have memories of different and somewhat earlier families of UNIX. jerry erik --h93Eo3Og022073.1065192603/clunix.cl.msu.edu-- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD SPAM
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:42:11 -0300 (ART) Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Joseph Koenig wrote: I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice, You might want to consider investigating a hardware appliance. Two that come to mind is Borderware MailXtreme and Bluecat Networks Meridius. re, - Matthew Bettinger System Administrator Champion Elevators, Inc Houston, Texas 77061 713.640.8500 - KeyID: 68F0AAC4 Key Fingerprint: 096F 98AE 74FB 984B 2134 5C41 0E94 CF91 68F0 AAC4 Public Key: http://www.championelevators.com/~mbettinger/pub_key.asc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New branch on /usr/ports
Hi all, I would like create a new branch on ports (spanish or espanol), how can i do it?. Thxs Carmelo Zubeldia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD SPAM
I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any Check www.kaspersky.com for anti-virus and anti-spam tools for FreeBSD. If you decide to use SpamAssassin and if you have a lot of spam-mail coming and a slow server, mind that it will clog you CPU very, very soon. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New branch on /usr/ports
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:11:17PM +0200, Carmelo Zubeldia wrote: I would like create a new branch on ports (spanish or espanol), how can i do it?. Join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Lurk on the list for a week or so, until you get the feel for the way things run there. In the mean time, read the Porter's Handbook -- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html and prepare and submit as many Spanish related PRs (either new ports, or updates to existing ports) as you can. Find other like minded Spanish speaking people and persuade them to do the same. Then at some point propose to that list that since there are so many Spanish language ports in the tree, perhaps it is high time for there to be a new 'spanish' category, and give a list of ports that should be moved into it. (Curiously enough, language localised categories always seem to be named after the Englist name for the language...) If [EMAIL PROTECTED] agrees with you, and a ports committer is available to commit the changes, then the new category will be created PDQ. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Onboard Sound Card
Hello, I have Intel P4I865G Chipset with AC'97 v.2.2 onboard audio and I would like to know if it is supported by the FreeBSD 4.8-Stable kernel. If it is - how can I bring my sound card up ? What line should I add to my kernel configuration file ? Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerelly, Mihail Stoyanov ___ Free e-mail by Bulgaria.com at http://mail.bulgaria.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chroot and su user
Hi all Can you teach me what is the different between chroot and su user Thank you -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Onboard Sound Card
Hello, I have Intel P4I865G Chipset with AC'97 v.2.2 onboard audio and I would like to know if it is supported by the FreeBSD 4.8-Stable kernel. If it is - how can I bring my sound card up ? What line should I add to my kernel configuration file It might work with pcm driver. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html#AEN1685 Audio howto http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
calcru: negative time of...
I guess this probably came up before, but I could find any helpful info in the list's archive... I am getting a lot of calcru: negative time of I am on 5.1 RELEASE. I have tried troubleshooting hints but without luck. sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1 gives me sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.timecounter.method' Could somebody point me to the right direction? Please! Thanks a lot. -Roman ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Archives
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 01:45:23 +0200 Simon Barner [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Hi, I am new to this list and in an attempt to avoid asking the same question over and over I was wondeing if there is an archive of messages that the public has access to? The official archive of this mailing list is at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/, but I find http://freebsd.ramblers.ru/ more intuitive. That's http://freebsd.rambler.ru/;, in fact. Regards, Simon -- DoubleF If you smile when everything goes wrong, you are either a nitwit or a repariman. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: var partition is too small
hello i have a practice box set up, i've been trying to resizing /var by symlinking it to /usr/var in theory this is simple - my methodology is drop to single user mode fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a adjkerntz -i mkdir /usr/var cd /var cp -R * /usr/var cd ../ mv /var /var-old ln -s /usr/var comment out the var line in fstab reboot -this works, except the permissions in the var directory are lost. dmesg shows that /var/spool/clientmqueue needs to be owned by smmsp:smmsp and be chmod 770. i get around this by going to one of my backups, unzipping the var directory, and trying the above procedure again, only this time mv'ing the /var contents i extracted from backup into /usr/var this seems to work ok - no errors in dmesg - however, i was using the machine, and i opened up mutt - mutt complained about /var/tmp's permissions not being set right. so - it looks like i may run the risk of losing the correct permissions on some files/directories in var if i decide to try symlinking to give my var partition more space... is there anything i'm missing? i'd really like this to go seamlessly... thanks again redmond [Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:32:30AM -0400] This one time, at band camp, Robert Huff said: Redmond Militante writes: which sets httpd-access.log to be rotated in binary format everytime it reaches 100 mb or once every hour for 24 hours. the /var partition on this machine is 252 mb. In my opinion, if you acknowledge the real possibility of haveing a 100mb file (never mind 100 users' mailboxes) there then /var is _way_ too small. I would have 500mb, and do 1gb if I could afford it. Robert Huff pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
ATI Radeon IGP 340M
Hello, Im not able to configure XF86Config to work with this chipset, I'm currently using vesa driver. Has anyone ever had something better than vesa ? I'm using XFree86-4.3.0 on FreeBSD-4.8-RELEASE Please answer me directly because I'm not subscribe to the list. Thanks! -- JFRH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Archives
The official archive of this mailing list is at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/, but I find http://freebsd.ramblers.ru/ more intuitive. That's http://freebsd.rambler.ru/;, in fact. Oops. Thanks for the correction! Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: chroot and su user
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:45:47AM -0400, Your Name wrote: Can you teach me what is the different between chroot and su user Even a cursory glance at the chroot(8) and su(1) man pages will answer this. 'chroot' is change root directory: that is confine a process and all of it's children to a subsection of the disk space. 'su' is substitute user identity -- run programs using the identity and credentials of a different user. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Onboard Sound Card
device pcm should work. - Original Message - From: Mihail Stoyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 8:12 AM Subject: Onboard Sound Card Hello, I have Intel P4I865G Chipset with AC'97 v.2.2 onboard audio and I would like to know if it is supported by the FreeBSD 4.8-Stable kernel. If it is - how can I bring my sound card up ? What line should I add to my kernel configuration file ? Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerelly, Mihail Stoyanov ___ Free e-mail by Bulgaria.com at http://mail.bulgaria.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading sendmail-8.12.10 from /usr/ports
FreeBSD 4.8-Stable okay I jsut installed sendmail-8.12.10 from /usr/ports the other day. and I try to start version 8.12.10 but 8.12.9 still gets executed. this is really strange? from /etc/mail/Makefile snip - SENDMAIL?= /usr/local/sbin/sendmail MAKEMAP?= /usr/local/sbin/makemap --- snip these files were updated October 2nd. --- snip --- # ls -l /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 660582 Oct 2 18:47 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # ls -l /usr/local/sbin/makemap -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 82495 Oct 2 18:47 /usr/local/sbin/makemap --- snip --- but going to port 25 - version 8.12.9 is getting run: # telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost Escape character is '^]'. 220 localhost ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.10; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:44:45 -0700 (PDT) --- snip --- what am I doing wrong? - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
opera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Anyone had any luck getting java working with Opera? I'm using the port opera-7.20.20030925 and the freebsd native java port jdk-1.3.1p8_2. My ~/.opera/javapath.txt file reads: /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/ I'm starting opera with the default shell script at /usr/X11R6/bin/opera. It will either not start at all, or sometimes: /usr/X11R6/bin/opera Segmentation fault (core dumped) with a corresponding messages log entry of: Oct 2 16:26:44 andy /kernel: pid 751 (works), uid 1002: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) No, I do not have the linux version of opera installed as well. ~~ Andy Harrison (full headers for details) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBP3yMMFPEkLgodAWVAQEQoQQApjHznhjjpOOb4chlX9k4ft5kGNbMpd2B GsV/d0Qp5iaF1ayNwnPb5CNFJtE3cbE/s+eiN3TDocLVeUffI+5FyfMaYlYG68lc C7xzMP8Rx6oM0WAW1DejAFtAKT730xbMyQ9gD63/xe/dRER/tKQB5OnVyKbeNDEn fh0O/AyYuXM= =G7/Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raid 5 - Vinum or Raidframe?
Plus some other questions. I'm currently unable to get vinum to work in FreeBSD 4.8, even after careful reading of the docs. 4.8 is giving me Operation Not Permitted when I attempt to start vinum. I've read the 4.8 specific section in the docs, followed it. Still no joy. Muchly thanks for any assistance. Bill Nicholls___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Raid 5 - Vinum or Raidframe?
Are you root ? On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, billn wrote: Plus some other questions. I'm currently unable to get vinum to work in FreeBSD 4.8, even after careful reading of the docs. 4.8 is giving me Operation Not Permitted when I attempt to start vinum. I've read the 4.8 specific section in the docs, followed it. Still no joy. Muchly thanks for any assistance. Bill Nicholls ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trafshow
Hello, I have installed my first port! But don't appear to know where to run it from... Getting file not found all over but can read the man so believe it's there. If this question belongs somewhere else, let me know that also. Thanks advance, Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making packages with dependicies
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:01:25PM +0300, Murat USTUNTAS wrote: Hello all, I have a little question on packages. I created /usr/posts/packages directory. Then, i go to the program port directory then make package eveything is ok. But, the program dependecy packages not in All directory.. What is the command from ports making packages wits the dependies? make package-recursive Regards Murat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
using use.perl
I'm running 4.7-RELEASE as my home desktop. I've compiled perl 5.8 from the ports. It was installed in /usr/local/bin/perl. After that installation # perl -v resulted in perl, version 5.005_3 # /usr/local/bin/perl -v resulted in perl, v 5.8.0 If I call /usr/local/bin/perl in my scripts, I realize that the new version will be used. However after running the command # use.perl port, I wonder if old scripts that call /usr/bin/perl will be interpreted under v 5.8.0. If there was a symbolic link placed between /usr/local/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl which version would be used? Thanks for straightening out my confusion. Gary Schenk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trafshow
I have installed my first port! But don't appear to know where to run it from... Getting file not found all over but can read the man so believe it's there. # cd /usr/ports/net/trafshow # make all install clean ... # trafshow trafshow: Command not fount # rehash # trafshow :))) This is most common error with csh shell. Use rehash or just log off and log back on, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RC1 ... PGP signing ...
My friend just notified me that rc1 is out. I have been working the past few days, so was not aware. Now, I wonder if I must reinstall the system with an rc1 .iso, or if a CVSup, portupgrade/make world will do? Second question: why do many users on the list PGP sign messages? Is there something nefarious out there about which I should worry? Is PGP-signing really providing a great deal of security? Esse quam videri, --Bob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LANG changed with recent buildworld
Hi; I cvsup'd to RELENG_4 today and rebuilt my system. Now the LANG environment variable has been set to de_DE.ISO8859-1 I do not remember seeing anything about this while running mergemaster, and I do not see where it is set in make.conf or anywhere else in /etc Did I do something wrong? Where should I be setting my choice for LANG? _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Group Calendar Server on FreeBSD?
Is there a group calendar software (client/server or peer-to-peer) solution that can run on FreeBSD? Ideally has both a web front end as well as a client application. Thanks for any tips, Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble installing Endeavour Mark 2 from source.
I decided to give up on Konquer as a file manager (sucks royally anyways) and switch to Endeavour. The version 1.x is kinda lame so I went to try and install the Mark II 2.x version from the source on the homepage. It won't install. I did what it said to do for freebsd and configure said that all was good minus an option file that was missing. So I went and did Make All like it said and it complained about 2 key files missing. So I go up into the Endeavour directory and tried to build it directly from there. It says that the first file it wants to build is missing. Can anyone help me get this installed? Or do I have to write the ports people to have them do a port of this for the ports tree? I'd realy like to start using this soon if possible. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RC1 ... PGP signing ...
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:15, Robert G. Waycott wrote: My friend just notified me that rc1 is out. I have been working the past few days, so was not aware. Now, I wonder if I must reinstall the system with an rc1 .iso, or if a CVSup, portupgrade/make world will do? Second question: why do many users on the list PGP sign messages? Is there something nefarious out there about which I should worry? Is PGP-signing really providing a great deal of security? Although I don't sign my messages to mailing lists, PGP signatures are a good way to determine if a message really came from the person that the headers indicate. If you are really sure that a particular key belongs to someone, than you can rest assure that a message signed by that key came from the sender (unless he got his private key and passphrase stolen) *and* that the message arrived unchanged. You can do a lot of damage by either forging E-mails from someone, or modifying E-mails (I saw that kind of stuff in my college-days, some kids send offensive Emails to teachers from other kids addresses). No PGP signatures should solve this problem. One cautionary note, PGP/Mime signed mails are not displayed by Outlook at all (its MIME implementation is a complete mess). Esse quam videri, --Bob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where to find pam_unix documentation?
Hey *, I'm trying to do something fairly simple. On a 4.6 Release box I would like to force all users to choose passwords over a certain length and of a certain complexity. Now before anyone jumps and says to edit /etc/login.conf, please note that I tried that and it did not work. I don't want to get into too much detail there because my req's that management handed down go beyond the stated abilities there anyway; I need PAM. So basically from the docs here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-freebsd-modules.html I gather that the module I need is pam_unix, but when I look for the man page...nothing. I've spent about an hour on google now also and found plenty of developers and admins talking about using it, but nothing resembling a man page or even a how-to. Specifically I need to enforce the use of a mix of alphanumeric and special chars, a minimum length, passwd expiration (with forewarning preferably), passwd history, and account lockouts. Note: I will gladly RTFM. Muchas thnx. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] PGP signing ...
Second question: why do many users on the list PGP sign messages? Is there something nefarious out there about which I should worry? One reason why I personally sign my email to the mailing lists is that there is lots of spam with forged From-adresses (and that does not only apply to spam). When you recieve a signed message from me, you can be somewhat more sure that that message really orginates from me (unless you think I sent some spam without signature, of course, or someone somehow got my private key). Another reason is to spread the word and make digitally signed email a more common thing. Something that has got to do with both points is that IMO you have to sign every single message or none in order not to confuse people. Is PGP-signing really providing a great deal of security? The most important thing is of course, that there is the often-quoted web of trust, i.e. that the key an incoming is signed with is trusted by the receiver - I admit at least for my own part, that is not the case far too often. Regards, Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature
building sendmail-sasl-8.12.10 problems
FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine okay I just built sendmail-sasl version 8.12.10 from /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-sasl but my system is complaining that SASL support is required. what am I doing wrong. why isnt SASL support being recognized? sasl2 'PORTVERSION=2.1.15' is in /usr/ports --- make stop make start from /etc/mail --- # make start [/etc/mail] Starting: sendmailWarning: Option: AuthMechanisms requires SASL support (-DSASL) Warning: Option: AuthOptions requires SASL support (-DSASL) sendmail-clientmqueue. --- snip from the /etc/mail/hurricane.enabled.com.mc file --- snip --- ### password authentication for relaying only define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `p y')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/usr/local/openssl/certs') define(`confCACERT',`/usr/local/openssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/usr/local/openssl/certs/sendmail.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`/usr/local/openssl/certs/sendmail.pem') #define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `/usr/local/openssl/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl #define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `/usr/local/openssl/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl --- snip --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD SPAM
Granted it's not an inexpensive solution, but we switched from SpamAssassin to PureMessage by ActiveState. http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage We are thoroughly impressed with the accuracy and the dynamic feature set of the product. Automatic updates come down at least a couple of times a week to keep up with the latest tactics, and the support is second to none. Just my $.02 worth Sean. -Original Message- From: Kliment Andreev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 3, 2003 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD SPAM I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any Check www.kaspersky.com for anti-virus and anti-spam tools for FreeBSD. If you decide to use SpamAssassin and if you have a lot of spam-mail coming and a slow server, mind that it will clog you CPU very, very soon. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
explain annoying You have XXX mail messages
Hi! I'd like to understand why every time I open a new terminal (or just type 'csh' in a terminal) I get a message similar to: You have XXX mail messages. The default mailbox (/var/mail/fernan) is empty, since I use procmail to deliver messages to several different mailboxes under ~/mail. Still, I keep receving this message all the time. Right now it says I have 50 messages. What are they? Where are they? I've already read the man pages for csh(1), looked in sourced rc files (~/.cshrc, /etc/csh.cshrc, ~/.login, /etc/csh.login) and, as far as I can see, there is nothing that looks like checking on available messages. It's been also difficult to google a common phrase like 'you have mail messages' to look for already answered questions. I apologize is this is a FAQ. Thanks in advance, Fernan -- F e r n a n A g u e r o http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD.
Hello, mergemaster will take care of /etc. But how about the other configuration files?, Could you please tell me where i can find proper documentation for upgrading freebsd4.5 to 4.8. Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:13:59AM -0700, Naveen Glore wrote: Hello all, I have a freeBSD 4.5-Release server. I could not find any packages available for 4.5 version at freebsd ftp site. So i decided to upgrade it to FreeBSD 4.8-Release. Can i upgrade the server without any change in its current configuration. There are always changes to the configuration files in /etc as part of the ongoing development of FreeBSD. One of the upgrade steps is to run the mergemaster utility, which lets you merge in these changes into your existing configuration files. Please read the associated documentation, and remember to make a full backup before attempting any upgrades. Kris ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trafshow
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:56:42AM -0700, Chris Appleton wrote: Hello, I have installed my first port! But don't appear to know where to run it from... Getting file not found all over but can read the man so believe it's there. If this question belongs somewhere else, let me know that also. Thanks advance, Chris Hi Chris! You can view the installation prefix and other goodies by using the following command: pkg_info -f trafshow-3.1_3 Of course, you would use the real name of the package that you have installed. In the case of trafshow, it would be: /usr/local/bin/trafshow Congratulations on your first port install... now are you ready to rebuild your kernel? ;-) Welcome! -- Mike perl -e 'print unpack(u,88V]N=%C=\!I;F9O(EN(AE861EG,*);' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
init / (idle) CPU USAGE
Hello, I just setup a new machine, And I installed 5.1 on the system. I have been using and running FreeBSD for over 3/4 years and I have never seen this problem. The question is if I killed pid #11 would init die? The process has been using 99% CPU for the past 2 days and wont stop. What is casuing this idle ghost process and cant it be stoped and can i kill it without problems. All replys will be appreciated. thanks USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 11 99.0 0.0 0 12 ?? RL9:27AM 509:10.58 (idle) root 10 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:00.00 (ktrace) root 1 0.0 0.2 740 392 ?? ILs 9:27AM 0:00.06 /sbin/init -- root 12 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL9:27AM 0:06.47 (swi1: net) root 13 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL9:27AM 0:16.53 (swi7: tty:sio clock) root 2 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:01.23 (g_event) root 3 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:01.24 (g_up) root 4 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:01.30 (g_down) root 15 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:02.91 (random) root 5 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL9:27AM 0:00.00 (acpi_task0) root 6 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL9:27AM 0:00.00 (acpi_task1) root 7 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL9:27AM 0:00.00 (acpi_task2) root 23 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL9:27AM 0:00.44 (irq14: ata0) root 25 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL9:27AM 0:06.89 (irq10: sis0) root 8 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:00.04 (pagedaemon) root 9 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) root 30 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:07.85 (pagezero) root 31 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:00.18 (bufdaemon) root 32 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:02.31 (syncer) root 33 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL9:27AM 0:00.17 (vnlru) root 34 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL9:27AM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 0) root 35 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL9:27AM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 1) root 36 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL9:27AM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 2) root 37 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL9:27AM 0:00.00 (nfsiod 3) Thank You, Mr. Thomas Sr. UNIX Administrator ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install latest 4.8?
If I do a floppy boot and a FTP install will I get the latest patched version or 4.8 or do I still need to patch up? Is there anyway I can do an FTP install of the latest patched version of 4.8? I do not want to go thru the CVS compile thing. Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE
In the last episode (Oct 03), James said: I just setup a new machine, And I installed 5.1 on the system. I have been using and running FreeBSD for over 3/4 years and I have never seen this problem. The question is if I killed pid #11 would init die? The process has been using 99% CPU for the past 2 days and wont stop. What is casuing this idle ghost process and cant it be stoped and can i kill it without problems. All replys will be appreciated. thanks USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 11 99.0 0.0 0 12 ?? RL9:27AM 509:10.58 (idle) You can't kill it. It's a pseudo-process that runs when no other processes are runnable. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE
Ok so in other words the machine is not really using 99% cpu and the process is ok. Hence my loads are 0.00 Thank You, Mr. Thomas Sr. Administrator - Original Message - From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:22 PM Subject: Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE In the last episode (Oct 03), James said: I just setup a new machine, And I installed 5.1 on the system. I have been using and running FreeBSD for over 3/4 years and I have never seen this problem. The question is if I killed pid #11 would init die? The process has been using 99% CPU for the past 2 days and wont stop. What is casuing this idle ghost process and cant it be stoped and can i kill it without problems. All replys will be appreciated. thanks USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 11 99.0 0.0 0 12 ?? RL9:27AM 509:10.58 (idle) You can't kill it. It's a pseudo-process that runs when no other processes are runnable. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel panic at reboot/shutdown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey again, I get the following message when I reboot/halt my system. If someone could explain what it means and give me a hint on how to fix it, I'd really appreciate it. Terminate ACPI Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address =0x18 fault code =supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer =0x8:0xc041462d stack pointer =0x10:0xd1c70c8c frame pointer =0x10:0xd1c70cb8 code segment=base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b processor eflags=DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 =interrupt enabled, resume, 10PL=0 current process =22 (irq 9: dc0 uhci0+) trap number =12 panic: page fault uptime 8h59m48x Terminate ACPI Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort - --Press a key on the console to reboot, - --or switch off the system now. Thanks for all your help! - -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (952) 403-9000 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ff2rWxy3JtXvWloRAlFVAJ0TmDWdqj2Elujdya7RH7u3//i/TQCeM7lE g5Z9aR8dEF2CZoUAzM+j0Jo= =g1Kd -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using use.perl
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:04:16AM -0700, Gary Schenk wrote: I'm running 4.7-RELEASE as my home desktop. I've compiled perl 5.8 from the ports. It was installed in /usr/local/bin/perl. After that installation # perl -v resulted in perl, version 5.005_3 # /usr/local/bin/perl -v resulted in perl, v 5.8.0 If I call /usr/local/bin/perl in my scripts, I realize that the new version will be used. However after running the command # use.perl port, I wonder if old scripts that call /usr/bin/perl will be interpreted under v 5.8.0. If there was a symbolic link placed between /usr/local/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl which version would be used? That's precisely what use.perl does: xor# ls -l /usr/bin/perl lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Jun 19 17:34 /usr/bin/perl - /usr/local/bin/perl Therefore, scripts that call /usr/bin/perl will execute the version installed in /usr/local/bin/perl, i.e. 5.8.0 in your case. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
CMedia8738
On my Athlon 2000XP+ under FreeBSD 5.1 I have installed a Trust Soundcard 511 5.1 Sound Expert Digital. I compiled a new kernel with device pcm. After typing grep pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot I get: pcm0: CMedia CMI8738 port 0xe400-0xef44 irq 5 at device 7.0 on pci0 but as in the FreeBSD handbook, I should get something like on sbc0 at the end, which is not the case here. Has anybody yet made this chipset (CMedia8738) running under FreeBSD 5.1 Thanks for any hints Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:26:36PM -0400, James wrote: Ok so in other words the machine is not really using 99% cpu and the process is ok. Hence my loads are 0.00 Yes. See the archives for more discussion..this is turning into a FAQ. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: explain annoying You have XXX mail messages
Fernan Aguero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The default mailbox (/var/mail/fernan) is empty, since I use procmail to deliver messages to several different mailboxes under ~/mail. Still, I keep receving this message all the time. Right now it says I have 50 messages. What are they? Where are they? # echo $MAIL should tell you... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with comserv
Hello, I'm trying to use the comserv daemon in the ports tree to share a SIIG Cyber 4S multiport serial board. The ports work locally, and it appears that comserv is, in fact, working. However, I can't write to the ports once I open them on the remote end. I don't think it is a permissions problem. I changed the ownership of /dev/cuaa? to root:wheel, and assigned permissions 664. Other programs running as root can access the ports properly. gearbox# ls -l | grep cuaa crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 28, 128 Oct 3 19:43 cuaa0 crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 28, 129 Oct 3 16:40 cuaa1 crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 28, 130 Oct 3 16:13 cuaa2 crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 28, 131 Oct 3 16:13 cuaa3 crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 28, 132 Oct 3 16:13 cuaa4 Lastly, when connecting to the comserv control port, typing status produces this: comservd status COMSERV revision timestamp 2002/06/20 01:52:48 GMT logdir = /var/log devdir = /usr/local/comserv Srl TCP Local Endpoint Remote Endpoint Id HostPort Port Device Conn Fd Rd Wr Data Conn Fd Rd Wr Data --- --- - --- --- -- -- --- -- -- comserv0 0 comserv yes 5 X 0 no rcom2 gearbox2 2200 statnet yes 4 X 0 yes 9 X 0 rcom3 gearbox3 2300 rcuaa2 yes 6 X 0 yes 10 X 0 rcom4 gearbox4 2400 rcuaa3 yes 7 X 0 yes 11 X 0 rcom5 gearbox5 2500 rcuaa4 yes 8 X 0 yes 12 X 0 (sorry for the wrap) I configured the server as such: # default directory for device log files logdir /var/log # default directory from which to make symlinks to /dev pty's devdir /usr/local/comserv # a control port that we can use to issue commands to the daemon ctl comserv comserv # don't block the remote side of a connection if there is no one # listening locally set default options=noblock # Serve up our own local serial ports com1 and com2 at ports 2100 and # 2200 respectively # # DevId Device Com# TCP/IP Port LogFile Spec # - -- --- #serve com1 /dev/cuaa0 1 2100 nolog serve com2 /dev/cuaa1 2 2200 log serve com3 /dev/cuaa2 3 2300 log serve com4 /dev/cuaa3 4 2400 log serve com5 /dev/cuaa4 5 2500 log #DevId Device TermSrv TermsrvTermSrv LogFile # Symlink Hostname Port # TCP/IP Port # Spec #- --- --- - --- add mir0 statnet gearbox1 2200 nolog add mir1 lcuaa2 gearbox2 2300 nolog add mir2 lcuaa3 gearbox3 2400 nolog add mir3 lcuaa4 gearbox4 2500 nolog Note that the local serial ports are also mirrored by comservd on the local host. These don't work properly either. I configured the client as such: # default directory for device log files logdir /var/log # default directory from which to make symlinks to /dev pty's devdir /usr/local/comserv # a control port that we can use to issue commands to the daemon ctl comserv comserv # don't block the remote side of a connection if there is no one # listening locally set default options=noblock # Serve up our own local serial ports com1 and com2 at ports 2100 and # 2200 respectively # # DevId Device Com# TCP/IP Port LogFile Spec # - -- --- #serve com1 /dev/cuaa0 1 2100 nolog #serve com2 /dev/cuaa1 2 2200 nolog #DevId Device TermSrv TermsrvTermSrv LogFile # Symlink Hostname Port # TCP/IP Port # Spec #- --- --- - --- add rcom2 statnet gearbox2 2200 nolog add rcom3 rcuaa2 gearbox3 2300 nolog add rcom4 rcuaa3 gearbox4 2400 nolog add rcom5 rcuaa4 gearbox5 2500 nolog It would appear that comserv is the one preventing the write access, but poking through the man pages revealed nothing about this. The log files which should be created on the server are empty. Any help is greatly appreciated, Seth Henry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diskless 4.8
Hi, Wondering if there is someone that can help me with setting up Diskless ? I have got a far as booting the kernel, dhcp gets address, root-path, swap-path and swap-size, then. Adjusted interface xl0 Shutdown interface faith0 Mounted root from nfs: NFS ROOT: 192.168.1.2:/pxeroot NFS SWAP: 192.168.1.2:/netswapvolume/netswap/ And then the system hangs indefinitely (I assume while doing something with /sbin/init) Two other quick questions 1) does diskless work in 5.1 2) can pcmcia be used for diskless (I don't think the card is recognized in time for boot) Thanks in advance ! .Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and he will sort things out for you. Don't send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? === Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In addition, the FreeBSD-newbies list caters
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Raid 5 - Vinum or Raidframe?
On Friday, 3 October 2003 at 10:49:30 -0700, billn wrote: Plus some other questions. I'm currently unable to get vinum to work in FreeBSD 4.8, even after careful reading of the docs. 4.8 is giving me Operation Not Permitted when I attempt to start vinum. I've read the 4.8 specific section in the docs, followed it. Still no joy. Muchly thanks for any assistance. You show me yours, I'll show you mine. How can I help when I don't know what you've done? There are detailed instructions about how to report problems in the man page, and also at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. NOTE: Due to the currently active Microsoft-based worms, I am limiting all incoming mail to 131,072 bytes. This is enough for normal mail, but not for large attachments. Please send these as URLs. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDM and FreeBSD?
Hey all, I'm a huge nut of the CLI, but my girlfriend is not. I've gone through a bunch of the documentation on http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/kdm/Configuring-your-system-for-kdm.html and have gotten as far as test whether I can run grog# kdm -nodeamon and I get a KDE login screen after a few breif seconds. Now, how do I implement this so that kdm initalizes at boot so my gf can use my FreeBSD system without having to type what is, in her words, some arcane fucking command from the old world of DOS. Any script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ gets started at boot time. A script usaly has a echo -n 'script name' that print a message at boot time. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: KDM and FreeBSD?
Change this in /etc/ttys file - reboot, live happy. ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdmxterm on secure -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex de Kruijff Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KDM and FreeBSD? Hey all, I'm a huge nut of the CLI, but my girlfriend is not. I've gone through a bunch of the documentation on http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/kdm/Configuring-your-system-for -kdm.html and have gotten as far as test whether I can run grog# kdm -nodeamon and I get a KDE login screen after a few breif seconds. Now, how do I implement this so that kdm initalizes at boot so my gf can use my FreeBSD system without having to type what is, in her words, some arcane fucking command from the old world of DOS. Any script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ gets started at boot time. A script usaly has a echo -n 'script name' that print a message at boot time. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Too little swap to dumpon
Hello! I have on one of my boxes too little swap partition to dumpon on it. Actually, it is too little by several bytes # swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/da0s1b 1048448 100 1048348 0%Interleaved /dev/da1s1b 10484480 1048448 0%Interleaved Total 2096896 100 2096796 0% real memory = 1073741824 (1048576K bytes) but I still cannot dumpon. Moreover, I don't need any dumping besides kernel memory. Does there exist any solution to dump on two swap partition, or to dump only limited amount of memory, or to dump on both swap partitions? Or I have to repartition my disk? -- Alex. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:02:00 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Lehey) wrote: How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ [...] II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't mean to nitpick, but shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something along those lines, nowadays? -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS on 4.9 RC1
Hello all, after successfully loading Cups on 5.1 I attempted an install on 4.9 RC 1 , but I get the below listed errors, RC 1 had to be loaded from expert mode because standard install has a bug that doesn't write to the swap file and errors out.. I was wondering if the above error is the problem.. Regards..Mike D [03/Oct/2003:17:38:42 -0700] [Job 2] perl: warning: Setting locale failed. D [03/Oct/2003:17:38:42 -0700] [Job 2] perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: D [03/Oct/2003:17:38:42 -0700] [Job 2] LC_ALL = (unset), D [03/Oct/2003:17:38:42 -0700] [Job 2] LANG = en D [03/Oct/2003:17:38:42 -0700] [Job 2] are supported and installed on your system. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growing vinum raid 1+0
On Thursday, 2 October 2003 at 14:16:19 -0600, Matthew Emmett wrote: Hello all, I have a question about vinum. I'd like to end up with a setup like this: disk1 mirrored with disk2 = mirror1 Vinum calls this a volume. disk3 mirrored with disk4 = mirror2 This is another volume. mirror2 concatenated with mirror1 This doesn't work. You concatenate first, then mirror. I understand that this is a RAID 1+0 setup. I'm pretty sure vinum can do RAID 1+0. RAID-0 is striping. This is RAID-1. Vinum has four levels of objects: Drives, the physical hardware (more or less; they're really partitions). Subdisks, a contiguous chunk of a drive. Plexes, put together out of one or more subdisks. This is where you would concatenate. Volumes, put together out of one or more plexes. This is where you would mirror. This doesn't really make much difference to what you want to do. Now, in the future, will I be able to add two more disks: disk5 mirrored with disk6 = mirror3 and concatenate mirror3 with the other mirrors? And then use growfs to expand the filesystem? If you're not striping (i.e. RAID-1 only), you do this by adding subdisks to each plex. There are more details at http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. NOTE: Due to the currently active Microsoft-based worms, I am limiting all incoming mail to 131,072 bytes. This is enough for normal mail, but not for large attachments. Please send these as URLs. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Too little swap to dumpon
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:04:14AM +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! I have on one of my boxes too little swap partition to dumpon on it. Actually, it is too little by several bytes # swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/da0s1b 1048448 100 1048348 0%Interleaved /dev/da1s1b 10484480 1048448 0%Interleaved Total 2096896 100 2096796 0% real memory = 1073741824 (1048576K bytes) but I still cannot dumpon. Moreover, I don't need any dumping besides kernel memory. Does there exist any solution to dump on two swap partition, or to dump only limited amount of memory, or to dump on both swap partitions? Or I have to repartition my disk? Limit the amount of RAM used by FreeBSD by using the MAXMEM kernel option or the corresponding loader tunable. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sound not working.
Hi all, I read the FreeBSD handbook and installed new kernel with 'device pcm'. Also used 'cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV snd0'. dmesg | grep pcm returns: pcm0: CMedia CMI8738 port 0xa400-0xa4ff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci0 pcm1: Creative EMU10K1 at device 9.0 on pci0 pcm1: unable to map register space device_probe_and_attach: pcm1 attach returned 6 I used xmms to play a .wav and mplayer to play a .avi. No sound was produced by sound card, but mplayer has video output. Wondering what the problem could be. Thanks. Foo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
small problem
hi all, i want to make a duplicate copy of a server hard disk so that i get a reserver hdd with all settings if my present hdd fails. please tell me a way so that i can do this job very fast. i won't linke to make reinstall . please help me fast. i have not tried using dd , will it work abhijeet sane [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AFS - OpenAFS
At 10:27 AM -0400 10/3/03, Jerry McAllister wrote: I am wondering how I might go about connecting to an AFS cell on my FreeBSD 4.8 system. Any input would be helpful. Currently, as far as I know, there is no version of AFS client available for FreeBSD although I keep hearing about openAFS coming.I wish it would. We use AFS here and so have to use something besides FreeBSD on those systems that need AFS access - unfortunately. For 4.x systems, you might be able to use the ARLA port. It's an afs-compatible client. I *think* it works under the 4.x-branch, but I have never tried it. But, I suppose creating a complete OpenAFS has ... If someone has any more encouraging information than this, please post it and indicate where this can best be tracked. All that the OpenAFS client needs is more developers who have time to work on it. Recently Garrett Wollman has started to work on getting OpenAFS to work on freebsd 5.x. He is hoping that he won't break the progress which has been made on the openafs client for freebsd-4.x, but he does not have a lot of 4.x systems to test on, and he needs to concentrate on 5.x. The openafs project has a web site at http://www.openafs.org/ Recently a request went out to the openafs-info mailing list, for people to help test Garrett's changes on the 4.x branch. Ie, to take his changes for 5.x, and test those changes on 4.x to make sure that patches needed for 5.x will not cause problems for 4.x. There is also a openafs mailing list for the port of openafs to freebsd. So, Check: https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/port-freebsd https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
permissions on umass device
On a 5.1-RELEASE system, I attach a umass device, and it appears in /dev like this: $ ls -l /dev/da3 crw-r- 1 root operator4, 28 Sep 19 23:29 /dev/da3 $ How do I get it to use different permissions, or a different group? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: var partition is too small
[ sorry about not quoting - braindead mail client ] Moving a filesystem on a live server is *never* a risk-free activity. If you intend to do this, use tar(1) or dump(8) instead of cp(1) - they will deal with special files and other unusual conditions. But if you haven't done this often enough to be confident, I wouldn't start with a production server. Look at the -a option to newsyslog(8) - this allows you to put archived files in a different directory to the live ones. For example, I've modified /etc/crontab so that the newsyslog line reads 0 * * * * rootnewsyslog -a archives This means that all the archived logs will end up in /var/log/archives. If you create this directory as a symlink to a larger filesystem, then /var only has to hold the current logs. (Do this before changing the crontab, otherwise newsyslog will create the directory for you.) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: permissions on umass device
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:46:06PM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote: On a 5.1-RELEASE system, I attach a umass device, and it appears in /dev like this: $ ls -l /dev/da3 crw-r- 1 root operator4, 28 Sep 19 23:29 /dev/da3 $ How do I get it to use different permissions, or a different group? /etc/devfs.conf Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
FW: Too much swap space...best way to take some of it away
Ok, I'm not totally a newbie but, I'm definitely no expert in FBSD. When I was doing my original install, it was on a p100 w/ 32 megs of ram, so I gave myself a 1 gig swap partition to help alleviate some of the server load. Now, I have moved this install to a AMD K6/2 500MHz with 512 megs of RAM, so I really don't need a 1 gig swap partition on only a 3 gig hard drive. What is the best way to repartition this disk without having to reinstall? Here is my current disk structure: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 253678 54430 178954 23% / Devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 253678 26 233358 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 1284302 688048 493510 58% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 253678 31542 201842 14% /var Thanks in advance ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: var partition is too small
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote: hi all the var partition on my apache box may be too small. this is a problem because - i originally had newsyslog set at /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 7 100 24B /var/run/httpd.pid 30 fwiw I have the following entry in /etc/crontab: 0 * * * * root/home/munk/bin/sh/newsyslog.sh where that script reads: #!/bin/sh YEAR=`date +%Y` ROTATE_DIR=/home/munk/backup/log/$YEAR if [ ! -d $ROTATE_DIR ] then mkdir $ROTATE_DIR fi /usr/sbin/newsyslog -a $ROTATE_DIR /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel $ROTATE_DIR \ /bin/chmod -R 750 $ROTATE_DIR so the logfiles get rotated out into /home/munk/backup/log/$YEAR with whatever compression/triggers are setup in /etc/newsyslog.conf. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: ATI Radeon IGP 340M
Juan, it recently became possible to use the 340M in its native mode; simply cvsup to the latest ports tree, and install the XFree86-4-Server-snap port; the ati driver in it supports the 340M in my laptop just fine. (I have not tested any 3d or tv out functions, however.) Mike Silby Silbersack ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:46:42 +0900 topaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs I have been using FreeBSD4.5 as a File server. I like to use 200GB IDE HDD(WD 2000) with FreeBSD4.5. BIOS supports bigLBA. Does FreeBSD4.5 support big LBA/ If not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA? Currently using a 160GB here with out problems. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
