FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?
Hi, I plan to have a FreeBSD (4.9 stable) system serving as a router between my provider and a set of my home computers connected via a home network. My provider does not really like this, but I don't care so much, as long as s/he cannot detect (too easily) my home network. My plan is to use the following setup in my rc.conf: gateway_enable=YES natd_enable=YES natd_interface=rl0 firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=open (with, of course, the proper options compiled into the kernel). Is it correct, that the combination of firewall and natd divert all requests and thus hide the home network for my provider? Are requests from all other networked home PC's done on behalf of the router, so that my provider will only see requests from my router? Or do I need some better (firewall?) configuration for this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing directory permissions recursively
Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, dave wrote: Hello, I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Now my user's can't get to the files within the area. I could go around and do chmod permissions directoryname, but i was wondering if there was a perl or shell script that would do this? cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 Better safe than sorry. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Is it correct, that the combination of firewall and natd divert all requests and thus hide the home network for my provider? Are requests from all other networked home PC's done on behalf of the router, so that my provider will only see requests from my router? Your firewall and natd ensure that anyone outside of your network, including your ISP, will only be aware of your external, routable IP address. What will be visible to the world are the ports accessible on that IP that are being redirected to the RFC 1918 addresses on your local network. The only way to conceal those is to lock them down when you don't need to allow a connection through them, or to reassign them to non-standard ports, as most ISP's are only bothered about ports 25 and 80. I'm not aware of any ISP's that have done any major crackdown on customers merely for having those ports open, generally they monitor traffic and check on ones generating a lot of throughput on the assumption they are hosting porn, warez or a commercial site. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enabling S.M.A.R.T on drives attached to Adaptec 2400A RAID controller
Guido Kollerie wrote: In my server I have four 40GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP drives attached to an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller in a RAID-5 configuration with one of the drives configured as a hot spare. According to Adaptec's raidutil utility the four drives do not have the S.M.A.R.T. capability for detecting potential problems. However according to the IBM/Hitachi datasheet for these drive they _do_ have this capability: http://ssddom01.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/E0B26749E1A7728C87256B290055ECA5/$file/D120GXP_ds.PDF Is there a way to convince the 2400A that these drives do support S.M.A.R.T, and if so how do I enable it? In my experience the fact that 'raidutil -L all' doesn't flag the S.M.A.R.T capability is not really relevant. I've seen 2400A controllers in the past that didn't flag that capability, either, and still disk drives (IBM) failed because of excessive S.M.A.R.T errors, according to the controller's event log. I have no idea, though, how to check in advance whether S.M.A.R.T is enabled by default in a specific disk drive. However, there is a check box for S.M.A.R.T in the controller's BIOS setup (if I remember correctly), and it was selected by default in all cases I've seen. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rc.firewall question on 'simple' and 'client' setup.
Hi, In /etc/rc.firewall, the 'simple' and 'client' options have following that needs adjusted: # set these to your outside interface network and netmask and ip oif=ed0 onet=192.0.2.0 omask=255.255.255.240 oip=192.0.2.1 # set these to your inside interface network and netmask and ip iif=ed1 inet=192.0.2.16 imask=255.255.255.240 iip=192.0.2.17 What is the difference between onet and oip, and same for inet and iip? Or are they in most common router setups the same (I mean, onet = iop, and inet = iip)? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?
On Apr 9, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Rob wrote: I plan to have a FreeBSD (4.9 stable) system serving as a router between my provider and a set of my home computers connected via a home network. My provider does not really like this, but I don't care so much, as long as s/he cannot detect (too easily) my home network. Most ISP's do not care a toss, expcept perhaps for port 25 and port 80. However there is a fair chunk of software (we did some, and found there was competition :-) which uses TCP sequence numbers to detect NAT. Various forms of through-nat fingerprinting can also be used to make a stab as to wether there is 1 or 1 machines behind a router. (Note that for legal reasons only the case N=1 versus N1 is of interested; generally not the exact number) Even if the TCP and signatures are cloaked there is some easy to run software which will look at application level signatures (HTTP Agent strings) or things as simple as two IM log in's in parallel. The objective is generally to run such software over the 2-5% of your top bandwidth hoggers to bring it down to a small number - and look at those in depth. What you are really after is blatent abuse. Dw ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Viewing pointer addresses...
On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:25 pm, Jamie wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.9REL. Is there a way to find the current value of the stack and instruction pointers of a running process with ps or something similiar? Greetings from Minneapolis, MN, United States A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. St. Paul, MN here. Have you thought of joining the TCBUG (Twin Cities BSD Users Group)? We have a meeting on April 17th and you're welcome to join us. http://www.tcbug.org I believe for more information and to join our mailing list. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
vmware trouble
I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1. I cannot Power it On. I have just error Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. Failed to initialize SVGA device. I tryed to set up different OS there (DOS and Win98) but always I had this error. Regards -- Yuriy Gerasimov ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need advice on smbldap-passwd I/O Error when normal user want to change passwd
Hi All, Need some advise regarding smbldap-tools-0.8.4. I have configure this tools and make it work with my LDAP server. FYI ...ldap+samba is on the same server. I manage to change normal user password when I a root. However if I'm normal user I got I/O Error? What can be wrong here? Really appreciate if some can advice me. For detail please see below my-svr# id uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator), 512(Domain Admins) my-svr# smbldap-passwd sambauser2 Changing password for sambauser2 New password : Retype new password : my-svr# su sambauser2 %id uid=1003(sambauser2) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=513(Domain Users) %smbldap-passwd I/O Error at /usr/local/sbin//smbldap_tools.pm line 189, DATA line 283. % -- Regards, Suhaimi, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Viewing pointer addresses...
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Eric F Crist wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:25 pm, Jamie wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.9REL. Is there a way to find the current value of the stack and instruction pointers of a running process with ps or something similiar? Greetings from Minneapolis, MN, United States A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. St. Paul, MN here. Have you thought of joining the TCBUG (Twin Cities BSD Users Group)? We have a meeting on April 17th and you're welcome to join us. http://www.tcbug.org I believe for more information and to join our mailing list. Yes, thanks! I actually joined the tcbug list a few weeks ago and plan on attending the meetings. So, I'll probably see you there, then. - Jamie -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 Greetings from Minneapolis, MN, United States A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get memory usage for process?
Artem Koutchine wrote: Hi! I need to figure out how much memory process really takes. For example, i am running 100 perl scripts, they are all the same source and i guess some memory is shared among them (mostly perl interperter i guess). So, i need to know how much memory is shared and how much memory is used for each new running script (including buffers, e.t.c.). What command shoud do the trick and with what options? In case you have the PROCFS mounted (usually under /proc) you can get a detailed listing of the memory map of a process, together with the relevant flags for the various memory segments that indicate memory sharing etc. Try this: cat /proc/pid/map 'pid' is of course to be replaced by the PID of the process you want to examine. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newbie questions
I hope this is the right place to post this.Sorry if it isn't Just some stupid newbie questions: 1) I have an alias made in my .profile alias vi='/usr/local/bin/vim' but the alias is not made when i log in X. If a log in console or using ssh from a remote host the alias is made but when i log in x it is not. Anybody know why? As shell i use bash. 2)In /etc/syslogd.conf i have comented the line #*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console so that i wouldn't get any logs on my first console. But there are some logs that get printed on the first console. They're printed in bright white :) and they appear for example when someone tries to scan for opened ports on my computer. My question is who makes these logs? 3)Why does pine say: [Folder vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection] these are the rights on /var/mail/taipan where taipan is my user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# ls -l /var/mail/taipan -rw--- 1 taipan wheel 11089 Apr 9 11:08 /var/mail/taipan and alsoe the rights on /var/mail: drwxrwxr-x 2 rootmail 512 Apr 9 11:07 mail That's about it for now. Happy Easter to everybody! Radu Molnar Babes-Bolyai Comunication Center ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Natd and natd_interface
Hi I have configuration like this: Intrenet - fxp0 (public IP) [freebsd box] - fxp1 (public IP) class /28 and some workstatins connected, mail daemon, www and others - fxp1 alias 192.168.0.1/24 and LAN And now what interface in rc.conf must be natd_interface, fxp1 or fxp0? Secend question is: This rule for ipfw is OK for configuration what i have? ipfw add 50 divert natd all from 192.168.0.0/24 to any via fxp1 I'm new in freebsd world. Can somebody help me? Arek P.S. My english is awful, sorry. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote install of freebsd via ssh
From: Brian Sent: April 8, 2004 05:21 Hello, Is there a way (or what is the best way) for installing freebsd remotely? I have a nontechnical person at the site that can put in a cd or enter a few commands, but the thought of walking through a full install via the phone is not fun. I would prefer to be able to use ssh for configuring. Any suggestions would be a great help. Burn a freesbie[1] and mail it to them. Have them boot up in it. Have them start sshd if it isn't. You can log in and take over. [1] http://www.freesbie.org/ Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT ConsultingTechnology to Your (858) 705-1655 Business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WebMail
Shawn Guillemette wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 8 19:59:55 2004 From: Shawn Guillemette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Freebsd-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 22:59:57 -0400 Subject: WebMail I'm looking into options for webmail.. was looking for ideas... Looking for something with a good how to .. ;-) I also looked into this recently. There are a number of options, and they all work quite differently. Some are just a web-based mail client, that expect to talk to an existing IMAP server (squirrelmail) which may or may not live on the same server; others are a client AND mail server in their own right and expect to directly manipulate mailboxes/maildirs (openwebmail, sqwebmail). In my case, we had users already with OE/Mozilla via IMAP/POP3 connecting to a dovecot mail server. Since this already provides IMAP funcationality, and maintains indexes etc, it didnt make sense to run something that wanted to directly touch the maildirs - so I went with squirrelmail. Currently, its installed on a different server to the mail server, and is quite happy talking imaps (secure IMAP, port 993) to dovecot. It was relatively easy to setup (hardest part was probably the PHP4 dependency, which I'd never touched before), and has good documentation online (though not always easy to find what you're looking for). It has a nice selection of plugins, too, which I've started to play around with and customise. Cheers, Eric. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Natd and natd_interface
Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hi I have configuration like this: Intrenet - fxp0 (public IP) [freebsd box] - fxp1 (public IP) class /28 and some workstatins connected, mail daemon, www and others - fxp1 alias 192.168.0.1/24 and LAN And now what interface in rc.conf must be natd_interface, fxp1 or fxp0? fxp0, the one that connects to the outside network. Secend question is: This rule for ipfw is OK for configuration what i have? ipfw add 50 divert natd all from 192.168.0.0/24 to any via fxp1 I don't think you have to do this yourself. I believe by adding natd_enable=YES to your rc.conf, you get the following rule as a result: divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 which does what you want (I think). Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WebMail
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM -0400, Shawn Guillemette wrote: I'm looking into options for webmail.. was looking for ideas... Looking for something with a good how to .. ;-) First pick a package, then worry about a howto. Openwebmail is nice, it reads mail directly off of the mail spool. However it only works with mbox format. If this doesn't mean much to you it's not a big deal. Squirrelmail is also good but works through an imap server. This means it is independent of the underlying format, but it is slower. Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT ConsultingTechnology to Your (858) 705-1655 Business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing directory permissions recursively
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 Please explain the safer difference in your eyes, Uwe. Are you thinking the admin might have ./ in their path? Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT ConsultingTechnology to Your (858) 705-1655 Business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can I shrink an existing slice
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:53:35PM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: I know this might not be possible; but can I shrink a freeBSD slice to make room for linux? Not easily. You have to backup the data, change the slicing using fdisk(8), rebuild the FreeBSD partitions using disklabel(8) or bsdlabel(8), create new filesystems using newfs(8) and then restore all of your data from the backup. As you'll presumably be wiping out the OS installation you usually boot from in the course of that, you'll need a bootable CD Rom or somesuch to work from. 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: Natd and natd_interface
Rob wrote: fxp0, the one that connects to the outside network. Yes. It is. I don't think you have to do this yourself. I believe by adding natd_enable=YES Yes, i have this. And gateway_enable, firewall_enable, firewall_type to your rc.conf, you get the following rule as a result: divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 which does what you want (I think). But i have 10 workstations with public IP from my subnet 213.216.67.80/28 connected to fxp1. Is this rule do NAT for this IP too? Arek -- Arkadiusz Czereszewski | gg: 1349941 arek(at)wup-katowice.pl | jid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *NIX is like wigwam - no windows, no gates and apache inside. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail/strace hanging
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: Stopping sendmail with `sh /etc/rc.sendmail stop` works quickly. Starting it takes about 3min. Both sendmail-submit and sendmail-clientmqueue take a while before moving. Booting also has this delay. In the interests of eliminating the obvious: you have confirmed that this is not some sort of DNS timeout? Delays of that length on starting up sendmail are usually due to waiting out the DNS timeouts. 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
Question about multipath patch for FreeBSD
Hello all. I've just patched my kernel with option MULTIPATH http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~tanzer/multipath/mpath-48S.tgz patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-sys patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-route patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-netstat patch -p0 /usr/src/mpath/mpath-diff-man #here made a backup of files ;) cp /usr/include/net/route.h /home/hugle/multipath/route.h cp /usr/include/net/if_var.h /home/hugle/multipath/if_var.h cp /usr/src/sys/net/route.h /usr/include/net/route.h cp /usr/src/sys/net/if_var.h /usr/include/net/if_var.h did config make depend and while doing make i get this error: cast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -I../../contrib/dev/acpica -I../../contrib/ipfilter -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ../../netinet/if_ether.c ../../netinet/if_ether.c: In function `arplookup': ../../netinet/if_ether.c:923: too few arguments to function `rtrequest' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/MULTIPATH. can someone help me? I've cvsupeed with RELENG_4 today on 2004-4-09 -- Best regards,Hugle ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing directory permissions recursively
Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 Please explain the safer difference in your eyes, Uwe. Are you thinking the admin might have ./ in their path? No, but specially crafted file names can contain spaces and newlines. Since xargs(1) by default considers whitespace to be argument separators users can easily inject absolute paths to files somewhere else in the filesystem and wreak havoc this way. They just have to wait until 'root' traverses over their files with 'find' and 'xargs'. The '0' options for find(1) and xargs(1) have been introduced to counter these attacks. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing directory permissions recursively
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:03:51AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 Please explain the safer difference in your eyes, Uwe. Are you thinking the admin might have ./ in their path? But putting a space in a filename, or by several other means, you can fake the first version of the command into working on directories outside what was intended. However the more usual effect is that the command fails to change the permissions on the whole tree as desired. 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: Install world fails, computer almost unusable
From: Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Artem Koutchine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-08 06:44]: IMHO the upgrade pricedure is unstable and wrong in either case. What do you think? I don't pretend to understand *all* of the reasoning behind the recommended upgrade procedure. Since I began using FreeBSD, I have performed somewhere around 50 system upgrades on various machines, most of them 4.x, and have upgraded 5.1-5.2 on four machines. Of those system upgrades, two have failed, or 'not worked.' One of them was due to the fact that I didn't follow the recommended procedure (admittedly, supplemented with list wisdom), the other, because I didn't follow the recommended procedure. It just works. Actually it failed only once for me since 1996. But! I alway fill shaky when upgrading a remote server and rebootting it. Never failed once but i CAN SEE a case when it will fail because some utility does not match kernel at the time of installation. The ideal upgrade procedure must allow fall back to the previous version. So, the ideal upgrade must install everything into a temporary storage space and after reboot, try to replace existing files with the new onces and if after that boot failes after the next reboot restore the originals while keeping log. I don't think it is as hard to implement as 5.2 locking :) Artem ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Natd and natd_interface
Hello Arek, Write to /etc/natd.conf strings like: redirect_address 192.168.0.10 213.216.67.80 redirect_address 192.168.0.11 213.216.67.81 ... redirect_address INSIDE_IP PUBLIC_IP and write into /etc/rc.conf : natd_flags= -f /etc/natd.conf Friday, April 9, 2004, 1:13:18 PM, you wrote: AC Rob wrote: fxp0, the one that connects to the outside network. AC Yes. It is. I don't think you have to do this yourself. I believe by adding natd_enable=YES AC Yes, i have this. And gateway_enable, firewall_enable, firewall_type to your rc.conf, you get the following rule as a result: divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 which does what you want (I think). AC But i have 10 workstations with public IP from my subnet AC 213.216.67.80/28 connected to fxp1. Is this rule do NAT for this IP too? AC Arek -- Best regards, vasilkinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: WebMail
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Paetzel Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 5:04 AM To: Shawn Guillemette Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: WebMail On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM -0400, Shawn Guillemette wrote: I'm looking into options for webmail.. was looking for ideas... Looking for something with a good how to .. ;-) Shawn Guillemette I've had pretty good luck with openwebmail Josh Paetzel ducking and covering... I use Microsoft Exchange 2003 with postfix / spam-assassin / amavis-d as the mta / frontend and then reverse proxy the webmail through apache. Though I hate to say it I simply haven't found any webmail / open source collaboration software that really matches the functionality in OWA 2003 :-(. The cost sucks tho... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I remove this file ?
Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with - ? TIA Pote Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I remove this file ?
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with - ? Use rm ./- -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. - Ferris Bueller ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I remove this file ?
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with - ? If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already know that since the following paragraph appears there: The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to accept the --' option which will cause it to stop processing flag options at that point. This will allow the removal of file names that begin with a dash (-'). For example: rm -- -filename The same behavior can be obtained by using an absolute or relative path reference. For example: rm /home/user/-filename rm ./-filename -- 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]
Re: changing directory permissions recursively
At 2004-04-09T05:41:33Z, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Out of curiosity, how is it that your permissions were different after the restore than before? -- Kirk Strauser 94 outdated ports on the box, 94 outdated ports. Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done, 82 outdated ports on the box. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Why the 30-second pause after executing this script?
One of my programs (plug: JailAdmin! Stays crunchy in milk!) uses 'jexec' to attach to a jail to execute /etc/rc.shutdown. I've noticed that this works as expected, unless its output is being piped into another program, in which case 'sh' waits about 30 seconds after the 'exit 0' line is executed before closing its end of the pipe. For example: The command dumping to STDOUT: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# time jexec 8 sh -x /etc/rc.shutdown + stty status ^T + trap : 2 + trap : 3 ... + kill -TERM 80521 Terminated + echo . . + exit 0 real0m0.575s user0m0.043s sys 0m0.195s The command dumping to a pipe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# time jexec 8 sh -x /etc/rc.shutdown | cat + stty status ^T + trap : 2 + trap : 3 ... + kill -TERM 80638 Terminated + echo . . + exit 0 real0m30.049s user0m0.070s sys 0m0.162s I'm at a loss. Why would this be? Are there workarounds? -- Kirk Strauser 94 outdated ports on the box, 94 outdated ports. Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done, 82 outdated ports on the box. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: When I'm all done..
Mark wrote: For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories, after the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is anything needed, at runtime, from those directories? You have a couple of options for creating small emergency disks: 1] The Live CD is precisely for that - booting from in an emergency. 2] See the following entries on my blog for links to small distros: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/37.html http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/28.html And PicoBSD, a 3.0 FreeBSD that can be put on a single floppy! http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/43.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I remove this file ?
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with - ? If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already know that since the following paragraph appears there: The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to accept the --' option which will cause it to stop processing flag options at that point. This will allow the removal of file names that begin with a dash (-'). For example: rm -- -filename The same behavior can be obtained by using an absolute or relative path reference. For example: rm /home/user/-filename rm ./-filename I've never run across that. % cd tmp % ls % touch - % ls - % rm - % ls % although if it was giving you trouble, I suppose you could do a rm ./\- -- David Piniella University of Miami ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?
Your assumption is correct. For all practical purposes ISP's can not determine that an customer is using NAT or not. But like all things on the internet, with special custom packet interrogation focused on an particular customer it is possible to technically determine if that customer is using NAT. The cost and effort for an ISP to do that is cost prohibitive when the only result is to terminate the customers account. ISP's have more pressing security and usage abuse matters to invest money in than to look for home users who use NAT. Home Lan environments using Nat are very common, so feel free to join the rest of us who are doing it now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 2:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network? Hi, I plan to have a FreeBSD (4.9 stable) system serving as a router between my provider and a set of my home computers connected via a home network. My provider does not really like this, but I don't care so much, as long as s/he cannot detect (too easily) my home network. My plan is to use the following setup in my rc.conf: gateway_enable=YES natd_enable=YES natd_interface=rl0 firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=open (with, of course, the proper options compiled into the kernel). Is it correct, that the combination of firewall and natd divert all requests and thus hide the home network for my provider? Are requests from all other networked home PC's done on behalf of the router, so that my provider will only see requests from my router? Or do I need some better (firewall?) configuration for this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [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: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
Me wrote: --- When I try to change to udma100 --- atacontrol mode 0 udma100 biosdma Master = UDMA33 Slave = BIOSPIO - console output after i use atacontrol - ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device What does : $ atacontrol list say? It sure looks like you have a PIO device on the same cable as your UDMA hard drive. And are you sure you have a UDMA 100 cable? It should have a blue female plug for the motherboard side. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How can I remove this file ?
-Original Message- From: David Piniella Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:02 AM I've never run across that. % cd tmp % ls % touch - % ls - % rm - % ls % although if it was giving you trouble, I suppose you could do a rm ./\- -- David Piniella University of Miami David, I think you missed the part where the hypen was the first character of the filename, not the only character. $ touch -file touch: illegal option -- i usage: touch [-acfm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file ... $ touch -- -file $ rm -file rm: illegal option -- l usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... unlink file $ rm -- -file -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 866.477.5638 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Complete system restore software for FreeBSD?
Has the Mondo method made it to the official Freebsd port system yet? How about an status update? Thanks. I have used the Mondo Rescue backup and restore system before with my Linux machines with great success. What Mondo allows one to do is a complete system backup and restore from a bootable CD, meaning a system can survive a harddrive failure without a whole lot of fiddling around in reconfiguring software and such. What I'm wondering is, is there similar software available for FreeBSD (preferably free)? For reference, more info on Mondo Rescue can be found here: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ From the above pages: FreeBSD users - Joshua Oreman has ported Mondo to FreeBSD. Click to download his Mondo[1] and Mindi[2] packages. They are standard tarballs, so just use tar xzf and gmake gmake install to build them. We need testers. The FreeBSD port is a work-in-progress, not a stable product (yet). We'll keep you posted. Note that the FreeBSD support is still beta, in a sense. It has not been tested extensively on 4.x, so please send any problems (with logfiles! - read the Mondo support page) to me. Better yet, subscribe to the mondo-devel mailing list send them there. Thanks! -- Josh ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
Hi, Thanks for your response. Yes, It is a ata cable attached. This is a Averatec 3050HW Laptop. with 2 IDE channels. the HDD is in channel 0 and a CDRW-DVD drive is in channel 1. In the bios the drives are deteched on each channel. the drive was running at UDMA100 in windows. I have scsi emulation enabled. could atapicam be causing this? who knows, but now that I think about it, I will ssh and recompile with out atapicam. any suggestions are greatly appriciated. --- Jonathan Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me wrote: --- When I try to change to udma100 --- atacontrol mode 0 udma100 biosdma Master = UDMA33 Slave = BIOSPIO - console output after i use atacontrol - ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device What does : $ atacontrol list say? It sure looks like you have a PIO device on the same cable as your UDMA hard drive. And are you sure you have a UDMA 100 cable? It should have a blue female plug for the motherboard side. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KMail seeing local maildirs differently than IMAP-server
Hi, i see some ambiguity in using maildirs through IMAP and directly through the filesystem, especially when using KMail. The canonical directory for maildirs is ~/Maildir, where the inbox is in the root of that directory, and any other mail-directory is a subdirectory of it. The IMAP-servers I tried (courier-imap, imap-uw and dovecot, all in /usr/ports/mail) only use the subdirectories whose name starts with a dot. KMail on the other hand, when using maildirs as local folders, always assumes they are in ~/Mail, where every folder -including inbox- is a subdirectory of it. And only folders NOT starting with a dot are seen. So it can be pretty tough to handle your maildirs in both ways together, that is to say, through the filesystem and through IMAP. I usually use Mutt for the latter case, as it is very flexible and it can handle most cases, but KMail seems to insist doing things its own way, which is not compatible with most IMAP-servers. Creating some symlinks to mirror the situation might be a usable solution, but that's not very elegant. Anyone knows a better solution? GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: remote install of freebsd via ssh
hi, I agree, best way would be to do as suggested. then ssh that way, the only thing you may have to do is walk the user on entering single user mode to do a make installworld if you're updating your system. -Jose lima --- JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install FBSD on local pc and when completed, remove HD and send to remote site to be swapped with HD there. Then you can ssh into box and do what ever you want to fine tune install. Anything else is just asking for problems and down time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: remote install of freebsd via ssh Hello, Is there a way (or what is the best way) for installing freebsd remotely? I have a nontechnical person at the site that can put in a cd or enter a few commands, but the thought of walking through a full install via the phone is not fun. I would prefer to be able to use ssh for configuring. Any suggestions would be a great help. Thanks, Brian D. ___ [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] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk Partition Sizing
Hi all, I want to change my backup strategy a bit. Please review: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 484M 219M 227M49%/ /dev/amrd0s1d 3.8G 2.7G 764M78%/backup /dev/amrd0s1h 7.6G 5.7G 1.3G81%/home /dev/amrd0s1g 992M 444M 469M49%/mail /dev/amrd0s1e 4.7G 2.3G 2.0G53%/usr /dev/amrd0s1f14G 2.1G11G16%/var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc What I would like to do is: downsize the /var part by 2.0 GB; loose the /backup part alltogether; add 1 GB to the /mail part; add the remaining 4.8 GB to the /ome part. Any ideas on strategy / directions for accomplishing this? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk Partition Sizing
Any ideas on strategy / directions for accomplishing this? -Grant Hope your familiar with the FreeBSD installer. ;) Josh Paetzel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie questions
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:18:34 +0300 (EEST) Radu MOLNAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this is the right place to post this.Sorry if it isn't Just some stupid newbie questions: 1) I have an alias made in my .profile alias vi='/usr/local/bin/vim' but the alias is not made when i log in X. If a log in console or using ssh from a remote host the alias is made but when i log in x it is not. Anybody know why? As shell i use bash. Its definitely the right place to ask questions. I can only comment on the first question. Its more of a question of how your shell is being invoked in your window manager. It sounds as if the window manager is invoking the shell as a non-login shell. You can test this by using xterm -ls and see if your alias settings are being read. This causes the xterm to act as a login shell and bash will act accordingly. Take a look at man page for bash in the section INVOCATION for a complete description of how bash behaves depending on whether or not its a login or non-login shell. There are several different ways to address it. You could simply duplicate your alias settings in a ~/.bashrc file which bash will read when invoked in a non-login shell. I personally don't like having more than one place for any configuration. It would probably be easier to change the way your window manager invokes a shell. I use xterms and blackbox so it was easy to change the menu configuration from xterm to xterm -ls. If you are using a different type of terminal window in XFree86, then look in its documentation for a way to make it behave as a login. If you're using some other terminal type, check its documentation for similar things and change your window manager menus accordingly. HTH, Randy -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk Partition Sizing
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:54:09AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I want to change my backup strategy a bit. Please review: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 484M 219M 227M49%/ /dev/amrd0s1d 3.8G 2.7G 764M78%/backup /dev/amrd0s1h 7.6G 5.7G 1.3G81%/home /dev/amrd0s1g 992M 444M 469M49%/mail /dev/amrd0s1e 4.7G 2.3G 2.0G53%/usr /dev/amrd0s1f14G 2.1G11G16%/var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc What I would like to do is: downsize the /var part by 2.0 GB; loose the /backup part alltogether; add 1 GB to the /mail part; add the remaining 4.8 GB to the /ome part. Any ideas on strategy / directions for accomplishing this? Well, you're going to modify 4 of your 6 partitions directly: many of which modifications will involve moving the start of the partition. You'll also end up moving the /usr partition which means that the only untouched partition will be / There's no point fiddling about with this sort of wholesale change: backup the system (onto different media, clearly) and reinstall from scratch, with your new partitioning scheme. Then restore your backups -- note that since you've taken out the /backup partition, the partition numbering may change, so don't overwrite /etc/fstab. 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: KMail seeing local maildirs differently than IMAP-server
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:48:23PM +0200 or thereabouts, Geert Hendrickx wrote: i see some ambiguity in using maildirs through IMAP and directly through the filesystem, especially when using KMail. although I do not use Kmail, I do know it works perfectly using IMAP, but you have to set up your Maildir as below. The canonical directory for maildirs is ~/Maildir, where the inbox is in the root of that directory, and any other mail-directory is a subdirectory of it. The proper format for Maildir is ~/Maildir/ not ~/Maildir .. in other words it is a dir, not a file. This dir contains three dir, new, tmp, and cur. Courier will build this for you and subsequent folders inside the main /Maildir/ Courier only works with /Maildir/ format. It will not work with /Maildir format, that is to say a file format. The IMAP-servers I tried (courier-imap, imap-uw and dovecot, all in /usr/ports/mail) only use the subdirectories whose name starts with a dot. this is typical of IMAP servers, and does not represent a problem. KMail on the other hand, when using maildirs as local folders, always assumes they are in ~/Mail, where every folder -including inbox- is a subdirectory of it. And only folders NOT starting with a dot are seen. Kmail will read both /Maildir/ POP folders, and read IMAP /Maildir/ folders, you just have to specify what type of protocol you are using either POP or IMAP. It does read IMAP /Maildir/ folders that begin with a dot, which are inside the main /Maildir/ without any problems. You must also specify a default INBOX with IMAP which will be read in the /Maildir/ folder. So it can be pretty tough to handle your maildirs in both ways together, that is to say, through the filesystem and through IMAP. I usually use Mutt for the latter case, as it is very flexible and it can handle most cases, but KMail seems to insist doing things its own way, which is not compatible with most IMAP-servers. yes, it is, you just have to set it up properly as to the type of protocol you are using. Creating some symlinks to mirror the situation might be a usable solution, but that's not very elegant. Anyone knows a better solution? as above. -- Gary Your E-Mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting the dreaded ad1s1a: hard error reading fsbn 524543 of 96-127 (ad1s1 bn 524543; cn 520 tn 6 sn 5) status=59 error=40 errors. Based on what I've read, it means my drive's going bye-bye. As it is, it won't even boot - fortunately I have another FBSD drive to boot from, and I get these errors while trying fsck it. Shame on me for not noticing the errors sooner and an even bigger shame for not having a proper backup. In any case, the milk is spilled and I need to mop it up as best I can. While I can mount the partition, I can't cd to it (more hard errors...), and since fsck isn't apparently helping, what can I do to recover what's left? I'm thinking dd's the tool to use, but I'm not really sure how to go about it. Here's what I get when I try to read from the beginning on the partition: # dd if=/dev/ad1s1a bs=64k dd: /dev/ad1s1a: Input/output error However, when I add skip=1, the drive spits back data. That leads me to believe that if I skip over the bad sectors, I can read what's left. I've got a spare drive I can use as a sandbox, but how should I dump the data? Should I label the second drive with the same partition size and dd if=/dev/ad1s1a of=/dev/ad2s1a? Is there any chance of recovering filesystem data going this route? [Quoting myself as it's been 2 weeks since the first post] Here's what's new: ad0: 21557MB IBM-DJNA-372200 [43800/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 ad1: 39083MB Maxtor 5T040H4 [79408/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 ad2: 29311MB Maxtor 5T030H3 [59554/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 ad2 is the 30GB drive reporting errors; ad1 is the new 40GB drive I copied the partition to. I tried to fdisk the 40G to be identical to the 30G, but I could never get the size to match exactly. In the end, I just set up the 256M swap, and hoped the 524288 offset for the 'a' partition would work. Here's relevant disklabel output: # disklabel -r /dev/ad1s1 # /dev/ad1s1: type: ESDI disk: ad0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 4981 sectors/unit: 80035767 [...] 8 partitions: #size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 79511479 524288 4.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl. 32*- 4981*) b: 524288 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 32*) c: 80035767 0 unused0 0# (Cyl. 0 - 4981*) # disklabel -r /dev/ad2s1 # /dev/ad2s1: type: ESDI disk: ad0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 59553 sectors/unit: 60030369 [...] 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 59506081 5242884.2BSD 2048 1638416 # (Cyl. 520*- 59553*) b: 524288 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 520*) c: 60030369 0unused 0 0# (Cyl. 0 - 59553*) I used lewiz' suggestion to add 'conv=noerror,sync' to dd. I was able to copy the readable data from the bad drive to a new one. I changed it to bs=512b (redundant, I know) since if the old disk was bad on 512-byte block 0, I figured dd would skip to the next 64k. Here's what I used: dd if=/dev/ad2s1a of=/dev/ad1s1a conv=noerror,sync bs=512b Of course, I got about 165 ad2s1a: hard error reading fsbn ... errors, but it appeared to copy everything else okay. The first 16 blocks of ad2s1a are null, but there is 16 blocks of data at block 32, so it appears the first backup superblock survived. Is there a remote chance that I'll be able to fsck this fs and recover? I know that fsck will complain about the first alternate superblock not matching because the last superblock won't be in the first 30GB. Do the different sized partitions make this impossible? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing manpages
+++ Chris Hill [freebsd] [08-04-04 19:40 -0400]: | On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote: | | [...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage. | The closest man man gives me is: | | -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the | output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man may need | to be passed through some filter or another before being printed. | | Any suggestions on what the command line for that filter looks like? | | I get good-looking results using, for example, | | man -t ipfw | lpr | | ...or plain-vanilla (but readable) results using | | man ipfw | lpr | | FWIW, this is with a Postscript printer. HTH. | | | -- | Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ** [ Busy Expunging | ] man ipfw | col -bx | less man ipfw | col -bx | lpr ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2.1-RELEASE boot problem
I know I'm going to regret asking this, because it's undoubtedly something simple that I'm missing, but I can't for the life of me make this work. A little background: I have FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE installed on an ATA133 drive, which is connected to a Soyo SY-P4S Dragon Ultra motherboard. The motherboard has 4 onboard IDE ports -- two regular (slower) IDE ports (labeled 1 2 on the board), controlled by the BIOS; and two faster RAID ports (3 4), controlled by an onboard Highpoint HPT370/372 controller. When installing from CD, everything works as expected with no errors, regardless of which IDE channel/port I have the hard drive connected to. And, just to note, when I have it connected to IDE port 3 (an ATA133-capable port), FreeBSD addressed the drive as ad4 after booting. When attempting to boot after the install, however, the boot loader is apparently defaulting to a floppy drive, as this is all I get: Verifying DMI Pool Data error 1 lba 0 error 1 lba 0 No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 22:fd(22,a)/kernel boot: If I type 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader at the boot: prompt, though, it actually runs the loader and presents me with the ASCII daemon and the boot menu. I've tried putting that 0:ad statement in /boot.config, but it didn't seem to have any effect on the boot process (i.e., it still defaulted to 22:fd and gave me the same errors). Can anybody tell me what I might have missed, or what I might be doing wrong? My head is getting a little sore from beating it on random hard, flat surfaces. TIA, Jamie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to stop some problems. Some ports have failed and been flagged as configure error or install error. Then I have tried to do a manual install of those ports and found that a make deinstall; make reinstall have worked, just like the port instructed me to do when it failed. I found it strange that portupgrade didn't do that for me. Having done that I restarted portupgrade and it would proceed a bit before stumbling to a halt again. Now I have reached the end of what I can fix manually, though. For some reason portupgrade stubbornly complains that: ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1) (port directory error) And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Can I get the atk ports from somewhere? Is it really needed? Why has it dissapeared and why is it still mentioned as a dependency then? If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested in getting this to work. I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... Help? /andreas It is best to have a ports tree that contains almost everything except foreign languages when using BSD on a workstation or in a desktop environment --- there are so many dependancies. That said, you haven't told us how old your ports tree is; please look at /usr/ports/UPDATING and note that in the last few months there have been a couple of big issues, namely new versions of expat and gettext, IIRC, that affect many, many of the commonly used 3rd party sw packages/ports. Kevin Kinsey Daleco, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Friday 09 April 2004 11:55 am, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to stop some problems. Some ports have failed and been flagged as configure error or install error. Then I have tried to do a manual install of those ports and found that a make deinstall; make reinstall have worked, just like the port instructed me to do when it failed. I found it strange that portupgrade didn't do that for me. Having done that I restarted portupgrade and it would proceed a bit before stumbling to a halt again. Now I have reached the end of what I can fix manually, though. For some reason portupgrade stubbornly complains that: ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1) (port directory error) And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Can I get the atk ports from somewhere? Is it really needed? Why has it dissapeared and why is it still mentioned as a dependency then? If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested in getting this to work. I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... Help? Firefox depends on gtk-2.4.0, which depends on atk. All of these problems relate back to updating dependancies of glib-2.4.0. The question at this point is what you updated and the order. If you were starting out clean, a portupgrade -rR glib would have done most of this but I wouldn't bet money. I eventually did a -rf glib to get things built cleanly. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested in getting this to work. I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... Did you remember to execute 'pkgdb -Uu' after cvsup and before portupgrade? So be quite frank, I have no idea! I think I followed all instructions quite litterally. But portupgrade was mentioned in the handbook and the cookbook examples I found on the web differed somewhat. I no longer remembered if I did a 'pkgdb -Uu' or not. I there any telltale signs showing in the narrative in my first post that indicates I forgot it? Is it recommendable I run it now then? /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct ports, at least one of which you must have installed GNOME, perhaps Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
Hello, I am using portupgrade -airR for a long long time without any signs of trouble :), just for few days I am observing a message from portaudit regarding of upgrading my Midnight Commander that due to bug in mc (as do portaudit say) there will be no upgrade :). I thought that that bug was fixed in 4.6.0_9 version, but portaudit still complains.. Cheers, Martin On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:12:47PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kent Stewart wrote: The question at this point is what you updated and the order. If you were starting out clean, a portupgrade -rR glib would have done most of this but I wouldn't bet money. I eventually did a -rf glib to get things built cleanly. -- =-- : :. kind regards :.. Martin Hudec :.: :.: :m: +421.907.303393 :.: :@: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :.: :w: http://www.aeternal.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: It is best to have a ports tree that contains almost everything except foreign languages when using BSD on a workstation or in a desktop environment --- there are so many dependancies. So I thought. I edited away everything that was exotic languages ports and kept the rest. That said, you haven't told us how old your ports tree is; please look at /usr/ports/UPDATING and note that in the last few months there have been a couple of big issues, namely new versions of expat and gettext, IIRC, that affect many, many of the commonly used 3rd party sw packages/ports. Stupid me. I had 5.2-RELEASE installed, and did a cvsup 4 days ago. I have followed all the instructions in the UPDATING file. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rsync autologin over ssh question
Here is what I need to do: I need to somehow automate an rsync from 1 box to several others. I have set up SSH for RSAAuthentication, the method I'd prefer to use (over RHostsRSA). I am able to slogin to the other boxes w/o supplying the passphrase. But here is where I'm stuck. How do I make a script run w/o the passphrase? The goal is to put this script in the users crontab. I've googled for help on this, which is how I got to the point I'm at, but now I need some further guidance. I am notified by email when the boxes reboot, so logging back into them to add the passphrase back into memory isn't a problem. I'd rather not use Rhosts if I can avoid it, and I also want to avoid running rsync daemon. If anyone has suggestions on a better and/or more secure method to do this, happy to hear it. Ultimately, I'd also like to be able to trigger this sync from a webpage, so if anyone has done that (using sudo I'd imagine), feel free to suggest things there too. Brent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? cheers, Martin On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:55:04PM +0200 or thereabouts, Andreas Davour wrote: And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Can I get the atk ports from somewhere? Is it really needed? Why has it dissapeared and why is it still mentioned as a dependency then? -- =-- : :. kind regards :.. Martin Hudec :.: :.: :m: +421.907.303393 :.: :@: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :.: :w: http://www.aeternal.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kent Stewart wrote: Firefox depends on gtk-2.4.0, which depends on atk. All of these problems relate back to updating dependancies of glib-2.4.0. Ok, that at least explains why atk seems so important. The question at this point is what you updated and the order. If you were starting out clean, a portupgrade -rR glib would have done most of this but I wouldn't bet money. I eventually did a -rf glib to get things built cleanly. Well, I started out with a clean 5.2-RELEASE and did cvsup 4 days ago. I don't remember seeing glib being upgraded, but I guess I could always try to '-rf glib' if it is a problem. It still don't tell me why I have no directory for atk, though... /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Andreas Davour wrote: Hi! And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? Because it's a dependancy of about 538 distinct ports, at least one of which you must have installed GNOME, perhaps 538!! Well, I haven't installed GNOME, but some other port might depend on some GNOME component, I guess. That sounds like an important port. I don't understand why I wasn't getting it when I cvsup'ed then. Is there a line the the ports-supfile which should read 'ports-accessibility'? Maybe I should add it and cvsup again. /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? No. Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? No, I have it commented out, since I left all the individual ports collections in there instead, except for arabic, hebrew and some other exotic languages. Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem. One should never *expect* a computer to do something I guess. Would something strange happen now if I added a line for 'ports-accessability' in my ports-supfile and tried to cvsup again? I guess I *really* should do a pkgdb -Uu then? /Andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:34:09PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? No. Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? No, I have it commented out, since I left all the individual ports collections in there instead, except for arabic, hebrew and some other exotic languages. That was a bad idea, since new collections are added from time to time. If you really feel the need to avoid fetching some ports-categories it is better to use a refuse file instead. Personally I stopped doing even that some time ago, since some make targets require a complete ports tree. Unless you are seriously short on diskspace I would strongly recommend using 'ports-all' to a complete ports tree. Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem. It does seem as if your ports-supfile is at fault, yes. One should never *expect* a computer to do something I guess. Would something strange happen now if I added a line for 'ports-accessability' in my ports-supfile and tried to cvsup again? Probably not. I guess I *really* should do a pkgdb -Uu then? -- 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]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Friday 09 April 2004 12:34 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Hi Andreas, don't you really have atk in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk directory? No. Perhaps look into ports-supfile.. do you have there ports-all enabled? No, I have it commented out, since I left all the individual ports collections in there instead, except for arabic, hebrew and some other exotic languages. Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem. One should never *expect* a computer to do something I guess. Would something strange happen now if I added a line for 'ports-accessability' in my ports-supfile and tried to cvsup again? I guess I *really* should do a pkgdb -Uu then? You have to remember the INDEX is created by make and when you leave items out, things can go to hell very quickly. If you want an real INDEX, you cvsup ports-all and don't refuse anymore than ports/INDEX. You never know when a new dependancy has been added that depends on something you don't think is important. Ports-all keeps you on top of it. Kent /Andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That sounds like an important port. I don't understand why I wasn't getting it when I cvsup'ed then. Is there a line the the ports-supfile which should read 'ports-accessibility'? Maybe I should add it and cvsup again. There probably wasn't such a category when you created your supfile, but there is now. For the complete list, see /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile on a recently updated system (or check cvsweb). I find it easier to to use the ports-all category, and then use a refuse file for the categories I *don't* want. That way new categories are added by default, rather than left out by default. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
inode problems...
Just to bring you (and the -questions list) up to date re my 4.9-RELEASE snafu. I did a upgrade last night. I have stable-supfile pointing to RELENG_4_9. I was trying to get back to 4.9-STABLE. No-joy. I now have FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4 #4: Thu Apr 8 19:50:47 PDT 2004. I don't know if this upgrade made any difference, but I think I fixed my partially alloc'd and otherwise bad inode by hand. find / -inum [inode] -print showed me what was whhere and I dealt with each one. Bottom line is that fsck now runs clean; no errors. I think I'll hack fsck to output a -L logfile in /var/log. I could script it with | tee logfile too. In rare cases like these, having a log of inodes could be a great help. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rsync autologin over ssh question
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Brent Wiese wrote: Here is what I need to do: I need to somehow automate an rsync from 1 box to several others. I have set up SSH for RSAAuthentication, the method I'd prefer to use (over RHostsRSA). I am able to slogin to the other boxes w/o supplying the passphrase. But here is where I'm stuck. How do I make a script run w/o the passphrase? The goal is to put this script in the users crontab. I've googled for help on this, which is how I got to the point I'm at, but now I need some further guidance. I am notified by email when the boxes reboot, so logging back into them to add the passphrase back into memory isn't a problem. I'd rather not use Rhosts if I can avoid it, and I also want to avoid running rsync daemon. If anyone has suggestions on a better and/or more secure method to do this, happy to hear it. Ultimately, I'd also like to be able to trigger this sync from a webpage, so if anyone has done that (using sudo I'd imagine), feel free to suggest things there too. This is covered in the SSH FAQ -- http://www.snailbook.com/faq/no-passphrase.auto.html Since you have ruled out RhostsRSA, you're left with two options: i) SSH key with plaintext key file (ie. no passphrase). If you choose this method, be sure to read the section in sshd(8) about the options you can use in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, to minimize the possible damage that could occur if that key gets stolen. ii) Public key with SSH agent. Read about ssh-agent(1) and ssh-add(1). For scripting purposes, you can start up a long-running ssh-agent process, saving the output to a file: # ssh-agent -s ssh-agent-env Then manually ssh-add the key and passphrase to that agent: # sh -c '. ssh-agent-env ; ssh-add my-remote-access-key' All your scripts need to do then is source the environment settings you saved: #!/bin/sh . ssh-agent-env [... etc ...] In either of these cases be sure that each machine has the ssh public key of the other in the appropriate known-hosts files and that you verify that you can use ssh with your key on the command line to get into the machine without being challenged for a password. 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: Portupgrade problem
Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Martin Hudec wrote: Could it be I have made such a basic mistake as to not cvsup'ed a vital dependedcy?! I kind of figured the newly cvsup'ed port of cvsup would have included a new example file of ports-supfile if that had been the problem. One should never *expect* a computer to do something I guess. Would something strange happen now if I added a line for 'ports-accessability' in my ports-supfile and tried to cvsup again? Your supfile must predate 1/24/2004, when the accessibility category was added. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile If you've updated your source tree, a new copy should be in /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/. If you've done a recent installworld then it'd also be in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/. Lastly, but not leastly, you could grab the latest version from: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile?rev=1.31content-type=text/plain Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:55:04PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! accessibility/atk (atk-1.4.1_1) (port directory error) And it is correct in that there *is* no accessibility/atk port in my new cvsup'ed ports tree. But why is it then telling me it needs it!? You need to cvsup(1) again -- the accessibility/atk port is definitely in the tree now: % ls -la accessibility/atk/ total 11 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 5 09:49 ./ drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 512 Apr 2 09:58 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 776 Apr 5 09:49 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 107 Apr 5 09:49 distinfo drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 5 09:49 files/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 252 Apr 5 09:49 pkg-descr -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4202 Apr 5 09:49 pkg-plist 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: Portupgrade problem
Andreas Davour writes: Well, I started out with a clean 5.2-RELEASE and did cvsup 4 days ago. I don't remember seeing glib being upgraded, but I guess I could always try to '-rf glib' if it is a problem. And on that day, your karma really sucked. GNOME-of-the-myriad-compoments-which-are-used-by-non-GNOME-things had a red flag day upgrade (2.4 - 2.6) right around then. To unbreak a whole bunch of ports, one had to do the whole GNOME rebuild. (Which, though time sunsuming, was surprisingly painless for something of that size.) Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested in getting this to work. I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... Did you remember to execute 'pkgdb -Uu' after cvsup and before portupgrade? So be quite frank, I have no idea! I think I followed all instructions quite litterally. But portupgrade was mentioned in the handbook and the cookbook examples I found on the web differed somewhat. I no longer remembered if I did a 'pkgdb -Uu' or not. I there any telltale signs showing in the narrative in my first post that indicates I forgot it? Is it recommendable I run it now then? /andreas If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. When I do a portupgrade, my script runs pkgdb -F as a first steps. ...Just my dime's worth. cheers! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think that might be an option. I must feel confident that it works before I dare script it by cron. One thing confuses me, though. I refers to 'pkgdb -Uu', but the man page for that program don't mention a -U flag. There is another program called 'portsdb' that have both a -u and a -U flag. Which one am I supposed to use. Both? /andreas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] If anyone can shed some light on those matters, then I'm all ears. I can't get a new version of Firefox to compile without atk so I'm very interested in getting this to work. I have run 'pkgdb -F' and tried to remove the dependecy, but have not succeeded. I'm not even sure it would be wise to do it... Did you remember to execute 'pkgdb -Uu' after cvsup and before portupgrade? So be quite frank, I have no idea! I think I followed all instructions quite litterally. But portupgrade was mentioned in the handbook and the cookbook examples I found on the web differed somewhat. I no longer remembered if I did a 'pkgdb -Uu' or not. I there any telltale signs showing in the narrative in my first post that indicates I forgot it? Is it recommendable I run it now then? /andreas If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. I run a cvsup of ports-all on a machine I usually use for testing. If something breaks down, I have the other machines to recover it from. I log everything and convert it into html using Ben Smithurst's cvsuplog. Then, I upade my INDEX[-5] and INDEX.db; however, before I build the new INDEX, I convert the current INDEX into a bzip2'ed file and keep 3 backups. A major disaster building INDEX is easily overcome by unzipping one of the backups and the appropriate INDEX. When I do a portupgrade, my script runs pkgdb -F as a first steps. ...Just my dime's worth. My dimes worth is that I won't run anything in a cronjob that may require an answer from me. I also don't run pkgdb -F until portupgrade tells me to do that. Since it updates the information when it is doing upgrades, you only need to do it when it really has to be done. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:08 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think that might be an option. I must feel confident that it works before I dare script it by cron. One thing confuses me, though. I refers to 'pkgdb -Uu', but the man page for that program don't mention a -U flag. There is another program called 'portsdb' that have both a -u and a -U flag. Which one am I supposed to use. Both? You figured out the right one. I frequently mix the 2 up but only one has the -uU option :). I use make index instead of portsdb -u but portsdb now uses make index to build INDEX[-5]. So my way isn't different any more. I also forgot to add that I use a cronjob to do the cvsup but I do it twice a day. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:31 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:08 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think that might be an option. I must feel confident that it works before I dare script it by cron. One thing confuses me, though. I refers to 'pkgdb -Uu', but the man page for that program don't mention a -U flag. There is another program called 'portsdb' that have both a -u and a -U flag. Which one am I supposed to use. Both? You figured out the right one. I frequently mix the 2 up but only one has the -uU option :). I use make index instead of portsdb -u but portsdb now uses make index to build INDEX[-5]. So my way isn't different any more. One more correction. It is portsdb -U to build the INDEX. I do use portsdb -u to build INDEX.db. Kent I also forgot to add that I use a cronjob to do the cvsup but I do it twice a day. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix
I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that cat shows me the error of my ways. vi apparently doesn't exist or is stored somewhere that I cannot find because find does not work either. I did find ed and thought I would be learning how to use it, but alas trying to launch it tells me that I have a readonly file system. So, is there any way for me to fix my typo, or is reinstall my only option. Thanks, Larry Nobs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inexpensive wireless suggestions
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote: : On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:31:52PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: : On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Jonathon McKitrick clacked the keyboard to produce: : : I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive wireless setup for home that will : work with FreeBSD and an older laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions? : : NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. It is possible to use just the Access Point portion of consumer broad-band Router devices. I found this to be easier and cheaper than purchasing stand-alone AP's. Basically, disable all the router functions (DHCPD, NAT), and leave the WAN port that connects to the cable modem unconnected. Connect the gateway to the LAN ports, and that's it. I have written an Wifi-IPSEC guide here, the first portion of which has some more info: http://sahara.lbl.gov/~tham/wifi-ipsec.txt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:55:39PM -0500, lrnobs wrote: I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that cat shows me the error of my ways. vi apparently doesn't exist or is stored somewhere that I cannot find because find does not work either. I did find ed and thought I would be learning how to use it, but alas trying to launch it tells me that I have a readonly file system. So, is there any way for me to fix my typo, or is reinstall my only option. Your boot apparently halted before any filesystems had been mounted yet (except for '/' which is mounted read-only.) Do a 'mount -u /' to make sure that the root-filesystem is mounted read/write, and then a 'mount /usr' to mount /usr where vi and find lives. Then you should be able to fix rc.conf without much trouble. -- 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]
Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:55:39PM -0500, lrnobs wrote: I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that cat shows me the error of my ways. vi apparently doesn't exist or is stored somewhere that I cannot find because find does not work either. I did find ed and thought I would be learning how to use it, but alas trying to launch it tells me that I have a readonly file system. So, is there any way for me to fix my typo, or is reinstall my only option. Thanks, Larry Nobs mount -rw / mount -rw /usr and edit rc.conf as needed with vi Josh Paetzel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fun with IPSEC and racoon - 5.2.1
Hi I've been having some fun with IPSEC, owing to the need to put in a VPN between two offices. At the far end, they've got a PIX, and I was pretty sure I could do this end with one of out FreeBSD boxen. As an experiment, I set up IPSEC (with keying provided by Racoon) between my (linux) desktop and that FreeBSD machine. That worked Just Fine. Sounds like you're bitten by the broken IPSEC in 5.2 which still hasn't been fixed in 5.2.1. For some reason the ISAKMP traffic that should go around the ipsec policy isn't, and only on outgoing packets. Some info here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040203070435.GB46486 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix
lrnobs wrote: I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that cat shows me the error of my ways. vi apparently doesn't exist or is stored somewhere that I cannot find because find does not work either. I did find ed and thought I would be learning how to use it, but alas trying to launch it tells me that I have a readonly file system. So, is there any way for me to fix my typo, or is reinstall my only option. Thanks, Larry Nobs First thing to do would be to mount / as r/w so you can use ed. Your $PATH is shot to heck so maybe: /sbin/mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1a / Of course, that should be the correct device and slice for your machine... Have you tried just /sbin/mount -a to get the whole thing back? Maybe then vi or emacs or whatever would be accessible... Either way, this is completely recoverable. Don't wipe your HDD yet!! Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix
It works. Thanks all. XP recognizes my Samba Server now too. Apparently XP did not like my old hostname: localhost, claimed someone else on the network was already using that name, probably itself. Larry Nobs - Original Message - From: Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lrnobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: RE: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix Yeah, I know this. :) You are obviously in single user mode so, 'mount -a' will mount all your file systems according to fstab '/usr/bin/vi /etc/rc.conf' to correct your config save and reboot. -- The meek will inherit the earth; the rest of us will go to the stars. Atom Powers Pyramid Brewery 206.682.8322 x251 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lrnobs Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Syntax error in rc.conf - cannot fix I am setting up a new server so I could just reinstall, but this is a learning opportunity. I was changing the hostname of the computer. In rc.conf I apparently left the leading off the name. BSD doesn't like this. It stops the boot and allows/forces me to a shell. So I found that cat shows me the error of my ways. vi apparently doesn't exist or is stored somewhere that I cannot find because find does not work either. I did find ed and thought I would be learning how to use it, but alas trying to launch it tells me that I have a readonly file system. So, is there any way for me to fix my typo, or is reinstall my only option. Thanks, Larry Nobs ___ [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: Portupgrade problem
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] I run a cvsup of ports-all on a machine I usually use for testing. If something breaks down, I have the other machines to recover it from. I log everything and convert it into html using Ben Smithurst's cvsuplog. Then, I upade my INDEX[-5] and INDEX.db; however, before I build the new INDEX, I convert the current INDEX into a bzip2'ed file and keep 3 backups. A major disaster building INDEX is easily overcome by unzipping one of the backups and the appropriate INDEX. (Wisdom personified) When I do a portupgrade, my script runs pkgdb -F as a first steps. ...Just my dime's worth. My dimes worth is that I won't run anything in a cronjob that may require an answer from me. I also don't run pkgdb -F until portupgrade tells me to do that. Since it updates the information when it is doing upgrades, you only need to do it when it really has to be done. To clear things up a bit, my upgrade scripts are not cron'd. --Experience is a solid teacher.-- One script does basically a portupgrade -ia, the other simply a -a; either way I have to sit thru the pkgdb -F. The rest of the scripts do portclean and leave a log of what needs to be upgraded. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2-machines IP network through user-ppp
Can anybody help to configure user(!)-ppp to make such an IP network. E.g. I need the next: 0) I'm not connected to any network 1) somebody calls me, I run ppp (not pppd) (in any way, I use getty) 2) he must log in through PAP with predefined login-password 3) I do !dynamically! assign him IP 10.0.0.2 4) now I need him to see me as 10.0.0.1 back I see him as 10.0.0.2 - so how to make ppp do such NAT? man says it can. If someone can send me such ppp.conf entry template? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade problem
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:22 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:00 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] To clear things up a bit, my upgrade scripts are not cron'd. --Experience is a solid teacher.-- One script does basically a portupgrade -ia, the other simply a -a; either way I have to sit thru the pkgdb -F. The rest of the scripts do portclean and leave a log of what needs to be upgraded. One of the things I don't log is the ports that need to be updated after I have new INDEX* files. That made redoing things after the glib-2.4.0 update more difficult. The process I used had built something out of order and had a port that still wanted libglib-2.0.so.200 instead of the new .so.400. If I had the log, I could have just force rebuilt everything instead of letting ruby (an AMD 2400+) spend 13 hours doing a -rf glib. When I get back from dinner, I think I will create a script to log the portversion -c. Then, I will have a list of ports that need to be updated. Hindsight after a problem is a good teacher. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Finding how the machine was rebooted
Hi, I am trying to trouble shoot a problem where one of the machines got rebooted. I can see last shows a shutdown was done. How do I know if it was a Cntrl-Alt-Del done from the console or if it was a shutdown command executed via a ssh/remote login? I would also like to know if it was some panic/bug etc also. Also I have a dmesg.today that is couple of days older than /var/run/dmesg.boot. How is that possible? Doesn't dmesg.today mean the the dmesg of the last (current) boot? BTW, /var/ is running on a vinum-ed partition (if that would help) Any help is appreciated. Thanks for your time. -- Hari Bhaskaran ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deleting directories with ??? in name
Hi Parv, It looks like another directory structure has appeared in the ftp directory that Lynx does not see and that find . -inum inode -delete does not delete. It does have a dot as the first character, with some other non-printing characters, but no /. I haven't yet tried to delete it with emacs or Midnight Commander. Do you still want to look at it?? If so, as I'm not overly conversant with tar (or too much else that's *nix), please send me the 'tar' command you'd like me to archive the directory structure with, and I'll send the result. I'm not subscribed to the List, so please CC me. Thanks. Walter Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Walter thusly... I apologize for the late reply. Parv wrote: # find . \( -inum inode-1 -o -inum inode-2 \) -print0 \ # | xargs -0 rm -rfv Thanks, but when I did: ls -i and then typed in the inode in the command (saved in an old List e-mail): find . -inum inode -delete it didn't delete them. Do you think your way would work where manual command wouldn't? But, they are gone now, so I can't try it anyway. My _speculation_ is that if '-delete' option did not work from w/in find(1), i doubt that above quoted command chain would cause any difference. I suppose, you also guessed the same. OTOH, the description of -delete option does say... -delete ... It will not attempt to delete a filename with a ``/'' character in its pathname relative to ``.'' for security reasons. ...that is one thing to consider. It would have been fun to experiment w/ the offending directory structure. Next time it happens, send me a sample/small tar'd copy, will you? - Parv ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding how the machine was rebooted
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:15:39 -0500 Hari Bhaskaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to trouble shoot a problem where one of the machines got rebooted. I can see last shows a shutdown was done. How do I know if it was a Cntrl-Alt-Del done from the console or if it was a shutdown command executed via a ssh/remote login? ssh (third column is the remote host): itetcu ttyp0it.buh Tue Apr 6 09:06 - 18:23 (3+09:17) reboot ~ Tue Apr 6 08:56 shutdown ~ Tue Apr 6 08:54 itetcu ttyp2it.buh Tue Apr 6 08:51 - shutdown (00:02) console: root ttyv1 Fri Apr 9 18:44 - 18:48 (00:04) reboot ~ Fri Apr 9 18:44 shutdown ~ Fri Apr 9 18:43 root ttyv1 Fri Apr 9 18:41 - shutdown (00:01) I would also like to know if it was some panic/bug etc also. You wouldn't get the last -shutdown line. You probably would have something in the logs. Also I have a dmesg.today that is couple of days older than /var/run/dmesg.boot. How is that possible? Doesn't dmesg.today mean the the dmesg of the last (current) boot? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/postfix [1:58:33] 0 # ll /var/log/dmesg.* /var/run/dmesg.boot -rw--- 1 root wheel 13784 Apr 9 03:08 /var/log/dmesg.today -rw--- 1 root wheel 13600 Apr 8 03:06 /var/log/dmesg.yesterday -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 21713 Apr 9 18:43 /var/run/dmesg.boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/postfix [1:58:34] 0 # uptime 1:58AM up 7:15, 2 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.18, 0.25 BTW, /var/ is running on a vinum-ed partition (if that would help) Shouldn't mater. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: KDM always starts failsafe (Philip Payne)
Now, whenever I try to login to KDE it always starts the failsafe i.e. a single xterm. It doesn't matter what session type I select in KDM, I always get failsafe so no KDE for me. If I start KDE using startx and a .xinitrc with exec startkde everything is fine and KDE starts. However, multiple users on the machine so having KDM working would be good. Any ideas what could be wrong?... if you need output from certain logs etc. just let me know. Thanks, Phil. -- I just upgraded too, and ran into similar problem I couldn't even get to failsafe from kdm I turned off /etc/ttys tty8(kdm) and rebooted and started with startx and it came up from root acct I typed in kdm and got the same problemb so I restarted the x server and noticed a couple of warnings about not being able to find files Xreset Xsetup in /usr/local/share/config/kdm when I looked the files that used to be there were not there or empty except for read me. I deleted all files in this dir then from a consol I ran; genkdmconf --help genkdmconf --no-old all works well now hope this helps Larry ___ [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: Portupgrade problem
The freebsd gnome website suggests downloading their gnome upgrading script instead of using the standard portupgrade process. In some cases, they claim that things may break if you don't do it with their script. freebsd.org/gnome Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) 'I try to think but nothing happens' -- Homer Jay Simpson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deleting directories with ??? in name
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Walter thusly... It looks like another directory structure has appeared in the ftp directory that Lynx does not see and that find . -inum inode -delete does not delete. It does have a dot as the first character, with some other non-printing characters, but no /. ... Do you still want to look at it?? If so, as I'm not overly conversant with tar ... Wow, i didn't expect that to happen so soon. Here is the tar command pipe... tar cf - parent of offending directory \ | bzip2 -9 foul-name.tbz2 ...tar will send the output on stdout (-f -) of tarball (-c) of the parent directory of the offending directory name. Bzip2 will then compress the tar output (given on the stdout) to the fullest extent (-9) possible. Tar'ed compressed output will then be stored in file named 'foul-named.tbz2'. If the size of foul-named.tbz2 is ~30 kB, send me this file as email attachment. Otherwise, please allow me to download it via FTP or HTTP. In all case, please keep the size less than a MB or so. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail/strace hanging
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: Stopping sendmail with `sh /etc/rc.sendmail stop` works quickly. Starting it takes about 3min. Both sendmail-submit and sendmail-clientmqueue take a while before moving. Booting also has this delay. In the interests of eliminating the obvious: you have confirmed that this is not some sort of DNS timeout? Delays of that length on starting up sendmail are usually due to waiting out the DNS timeouts. Would dns timeouts affect mailq? My dns is setup correctly locally, which is where I was trying to send my tests, to my local mailhub. What is also interesting is that it has started working again at a normal speed, without any changes or restarts. It was slow over config changes, make world, and reboots. But became slow, then became normal just by sitting idle. I have a p4 with HT and an SMP/HT kernel. Could that have anything to do with it? Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT ConsultingTechnology to Your (858) 705-1655 Business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)
Hello. Im struggling with my first install of FreeBSD (4.9 from CDROM). I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli) but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I have tried to supply as much relevant information as possible from Windows98 that is currently installed, and put what I see from an ls in cli kernel config mode in [..]. Im looking for some advice to move forward likely problem areas / other debug I can obtain that might help. Im more experienced with redhat, and if I try booting that in text mode it dies as soon as it tries to boot the kernel. Thanks for any help at all, Dave Hardware; PentiumIII MMX 500MHz, 128Mb RAM ATAPI CDROM (Secondary slave) Seagate 3GB Generic IDE Disk Type46 (Primary master) NEC Multisync XV15 monitor Standard PCI Graphics adaptor VGA (in AGP slot) IRQ11 [vga0 0 0 .. (I set this with irq sc0 11) Sc0 0 irq11 flags 0x100] Hard disk controllers; Intel82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller IRQ14 Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ14 [ata0 0x1f0 irq14] Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ15 [ata1 0x170 irq15] Compaq Standard 101/102-key Keyboard IRQ1 [atkbdc0 0x60 atkbd0 0 irq1 flags 0x1] Standard serial mouse Floppy drive IRQ6 [fdc0 0x3f0 irq6 drq2] Numeric data processor IRQ13 [npx0 0xf0 irq13] Programmable interrupt controller IRQ2 [nothing assigned irq2] CMOS real time clock IRQ8 [nothing assigned irq8] System timer IRQ0 [unset irqs appear as 0] PCI to USB controller IRQ12 [psm0 0 irq12] Additional info; Other drivers assigned irqs; sio0 0x3f8 irq4 sio1 0x2f8 irq3 sio2 0x3e8 irq5 sio3 0x2e8 irq9 ppc0 0 irq7 ed0 0x280 irq10 ie0 0x300 irq10 lnc0 0x280 irq10 sn0 0x300 irq10 number of EISA slots to probe: 10 BIOS; Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A (PnP OS disabled in BIOS). When booting the BTX info looks like this; BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive B: is disk1 BIOS drive C: is disk2 BIOS drive C: is disk3 ---?? Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)
David Jones wrote: Hello. Im struggling with my first install of FreeBSD (4.9 from CDROM). I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli) but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I have tried to supply as much relevant information as possible from Windows98 that is currently installed, and put what I see from an ls in cli kernel config mode in [..]. Im looking for some advice to move forward likely problem areas / other debug I can obtain that might help. You *probably* should just skip the kernel configall those drivers are legacy hardware (ISA stuff with jumpers for IRQ, etc...) It could be that skipping it would solve an issue or two, even. I certainly see nothing in your list below that FreeBSD can't handle with the GENERIC kernel ... it could be that fudging with kernel config is breaking GENERIC Hmm, tell us about the CD Im more experienced with redhat, and if I try booting that in text mode it dies as soon as it tries to boot the kernel. That doesn't sound too good. Does removing various hardware components help at all? Thanks for any help at all, Dave Hardware; PentiumIII MMX 500MHz, 128Mb RAM ATAPI CDROM (Secondary slave) Seagate 3GB Generic IDE Disk Type46 (Primary master) NEC Multisync XV15 monitor Standard PCI Graphics adaptor VGA (in AGP slot) IRQ11 [vga0 0 0 .. (I set this with irq sc0 11) Sc0 0 irq11 flags 0x100] Hard disk controllers; Intel82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller IRQ14 Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ14 [ata0 0x1f0 irq14] Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ15 [ata1 0x170 irq15] Compaq Standard 101/102-key Keyboard IRQ1 [atkbdc0 0x60 atkbd0 0 irq1 flags 0x1] Standard serial mouse Floppy drive IRQ6 [fdc0 0x3f0 irq6 drq2] Numeric data processor IRQ13 [npx0 0xf0 irq13] Programmable interrupt controller IRQ2 [nothing assigned irq2] CMOS real time clock IRQ8 [nothing assigned irq8] System timer IRQ0 [unset irqs appear as 0] PCI to USB controller IRQ12 [psm0 0 irq12] Additional info; Other drivers assigned irqs; sio0 0x3f8 irq4 sio1 0x2f8 irq3 sio2 0x3e8 irq5 sio3 0x2e8 irq9 ppc0 0 irq7 ed0 0x280 irq10 ie0 0x300 irq10 lnc0 0x280 irq10 sn0 0x300 irq10 number of EISA slots to probe: 10 BIOS; Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A (PnP OS disabled in BIOS). When booting the BTX info looks like this; BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive B: is disk1 BIOS drive C: is disk2 BIOS drive C: is disk3 ---?? That last is a tad unusual ... is the HDD partitioned in two pieces? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)
Responses inline. I just tried an lsdev at the console and it dies when accessing the disk; cd@ 0xff5c disk@ 0xef68 disk0: BIOS drive A: disk0a: FFS disk0c: FFS disk1: BIOS drive B disk2: BIOS drive C Any ideas? --- Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Jones wrote: snip You *probably* should just skip the kernel configall those drivers are legacy hardware (ISA stuff with jumpers for IRQ, etc...) It could be that skipping it would solve an issue or two, even. I certainly see nothing in your list below that FreeBSD can't handle with the GENERIC kernel ... it could be that fudging with kernel config is breaking GENERIC The install hangs at this point (just before sysinstall screen) Hmm, tell us about the CD The CD or CDROM ;) ? I've just booted a minimal install on vmware so the disk seams ok. I'll have to pull the cdrom out to find anymore about it. Im more experienced with redhat, and if I try booting that in text mode it dies as soon as it tries to boot the kernel. That doesn't sound too good. Does removing various hardware components help at all? There is nothing else to pull out except the floppy drive. Thanks for any help at all, Dave Hardware; PentiumIII MMX 500MHz, 128Mb RAM ATAPI CDROM (Secondary slave) Seagate 3GB Generic IDE Disk Type46 (Primary master) NEC Multisync XV15 monitor Standard PCI Graphics adaptor VGA (in AGP slot) IRQ11 [vga0 0 0 .. (I set this with irq sc0 11) Sc0 0 irq11 flags 0x100] Hard disk controllers; Intel82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller IRQ14 Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ14 [ata0 0x1f0 irq14] Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ15 [ata1 0x170 irq15] Compaq Standard 101/102-key Keyboard IRQ1 [atkbdc0 0x60 atkbd0 0 irq1 flags 0x1] Standard serial mouse Floppy drive IRQ6 [fdc0 0x3f0 irq6 drq2] Numeric data processor IRQ13 [npx0 0xf0 irq13] Programmable interrupt controller IRQ2 [nothing assigned irq2] CMOS real time clock IRQ8 [nothing assigned irq8] System timer IRQ0 [unset irqs appear as 0] PCI to USB controller IRQ12 [psm0 0 irq12] Additional info; Other drivers assigned irqs; sio0 0x3f8 irq4 sio1 0x2f8 irq3 sio2 0x3e8 irq5 sio3 0x2e8 irq9 ppc0 0 irq7 ed0 0x280 irq10 ie0 0x300 irq10 lnc0 0x280 irq10 sn0 0x300 irq10 number of EISA slots to probe: 10 BIOS; Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A (PnP OS disabled in BIOS). When booting the BTX info looks like this; BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive B: is disk1 BIOS drive C: is disk2 BIOS drive C: is disk3 ---?? That last is a tad unusual ... is the HDD partitioned in two pieces? Not as far as I can see in windows - just 3.2GB FAT32 Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
