The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-12-12 - 2005-01-01
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Re: FreeBSD Gateway
Victor Foulk wrote:
Hello all,
I have been looking into setting up a network gateway
using a FreeBSD box, so that I may employ many of the
network security features of the system (and to
overcome the fact that the current network is
insecurely connected to a much larger ~public LAN).
The configuration would be much like this:
{Internet}--{Huge/NastyLAN}--{FreeBSDGate}--{SafeLAN}
Most of what I see states that I should use
a *minimum* of:
266Mhz processor
64MB RAM
1GB HD (actually ~2GB based on number
desired security apps)
2 Compatible NIC's
The minimum is what you can get FreeBSD to run on, If you can can get
FreeBSD working on a 386 then that is the minimum but for practicality a
486 is the absolute minimum. As far as the minimun amount of disk space
is conserned the same thing as above goes, here is a FreeBSD router
project that works on as little as 5MB: http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ . Same
thing goes for RAM and obviously you need to have at least two Network
Interface Cards unless you wanted to route all traffic to /dev/null.
What I really had hoped to find, was more of an experienced
networking guru's thumb rule equating the number of safeLAN
workstations with the required gateway RAM/Processor; to
enable all safeLAN users to experience a minimal network
transaction time roughly equivalent to what they would see
if plugged directly into a really good hub.
Something maybe in the form of:
Proc Speed = X*Users+Y
RAM = W*Users+Z
You would plug them into a switch not a hub if you did that then the
router would be the least of your problems as the bottleneck is the hub now.
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kern.maxfiles formula?
I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual CPU system with 1 GB of RAM with under a dozen of very active users and a few rather active processes. The system keeps running out of FDs, causing any number of problems, such as preventing ssh logins. sysctl kern.maxfiles shows a maximum of 12328 FDs. My kernel config file has maxusers set to 0, which means the kern.maxfiles limit must be the OS default. What is the maximum number of FDs that can be set on a system with 1 GB of RAM? What would it be for 2 GB of RAM? In other words, how many FDs can a FreeBSD 5.3 system safely support for each GB of RAM? Thanks, --Lucky This email was not PGP encrypted. The next email can be PGP encrypted, but for this to happen you need to first click on to the URL below: https://keys.cypherpunks.to/b/b.e?r=freebsd-questions%40freebsd.orgn=IAwOVV4jo0Vi3U6uOkiaEA%3D%3D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot
Has anyone considered or accomplished allowing FreeBSD to write it's current state (including window manager, windows, etc) to swap and allowing a subsequent reload of the system to last state? This would be sort of like the sleep mode of a laptop, but would allow the user to boot into another OS (like Winblows) briefly and then resume their FreeBSD system state. I'd love to use FreeBSD as my primary desktop, but there may be times where I'll need to boot into Windows for apps that don't run under Wine. Since I tend to have a lot of application windows open, it's a PITA to have to reload everything on boot. Thoughts? This isn't a direct answer to your question, but you might want to have a look at vmware. vmware and qemu (open source semi-alternative) are good ways to accomplish booting Windows from inside of FreeBSD. What you want, however, is something that has been on the wishlist for a little while now. Suspend-to-RAM has been around and works fine for a while, but Suspend-to-disc (which Linux currently has) is yet to be written. There have been suggestions of saving the RAM to swap space and shutting down. I hope to see someone put this into action soon. It'd be a great feature. (Especially for mobiles) -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Mounting and Permissions (easy)
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Hi, I need to mount /dev/acd0 (cdrom) from the standard user account. Do I have to give the user account write access to /dev/acd0 device or there is another way I don't know about? http://groups-beta.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/a4811769719d0538 (look at the date on the thread :-) ) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Prism GT Chipset, hostap?
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Re: courier-imap installation
Thanks, though I've switched to qpopper, and it's working fine. Now my only problem is trying to get postfix working with TLS and SASL. I'm working off of these instructions: http://yocum.org/faqs/postfix-tls-sasl.html But even though postfix and saslauthd are running with no problems, I can't seem to coax the server to accept TLS connections with SASL authentication... Telneting into port 25, the server is totally silent. - ben On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:51:43 +0100, Volker Kindermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ben, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/courier-imap-pop3d.sh.sample (because I'm trying to run a POP3 server) and now I get: /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/pop3d does not exist, forgot make install-configure? perhaps you should rename the courier files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d from servicename.sample to servicename? Like: cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d mv courier-imap-pop3d.sh.sample courier-imap-pop3d.sh And then try again? -volker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does freeBSD have CORBA specs and does it have J2sdk1.4.2 ?
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:31:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been told it does have both already, but I can't find it in any of documentations. I'm specifically talking about freebsd on emulab.net. Yes, freebsd has had both corba and sun java for a long time. corba is needed by the gnome desktop which is very well supported on freebsd plus many gnome app even if you don't use the gnome desktop. Your pretty much guaranteed that freebsd will have corba already installed and running because of this. It uses ORBit, the same implementation used on linux and so all the same docs apply to freebsd, just check out orbits website. For java, freebsd can use ibm or sun's java implementation. ibm runs under linux emulation and sun can run under linux emulation or natively. There are also a few open source jvm's like kaffe available. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does freeBSD have CORBA specs and does it have J2sdk1.4.2 ?
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:25:38 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:31:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been told it does have both already, but I can't find it in any of documentations. I'm specifically talking about freebsd on emulab.net. Yes, freebsd has had both corba and sun java for a long time. corba is needed by the gnome desktop which is very well supported on freebsd plus many gnome app even if you don't use the gnome desktop. Your pretty much guaranteed that freebsd will have corba already installed and running because of this. It uses ORBit, the same implementation used on linux and so all the same docs apply to freebsd, just check out orbits website. For java, freebsd can use ibm or sun's java implementation. ibm runs under linux emulation and sun can run under linux emulation or natively. There are also a few open source jvm's like kaffe available. Also, you have the blackdown-java project. AFAIK it's open source as well, and it uses the Linux compatibility. Last time I compiled Java you required a working Java enviroment before you were able to compile Sun's Java implementation. Might be handy to keep that in mind. Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TCP_RESTRICT_RST in 5.2.1
Following the istructions of Mrs. Lavigne on ONLamp.com I was trying to build a kernel with the options TCP_RESTRICT_RST. config ignores this option. How can I include this in 5.2.1, I can't find a similar option in my LINT file. Thanks Florian -- Linux/BSD: The daemons are not longer just in my head! -- Florian Hengstberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0025265 -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern.maxfiles formula?
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:18:56AM -0800, Lucky Green wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual CPU system with 1 GB of RAM with under a dozen of very active users and a few rather active processes. The system keeps running out of FDs, causing any number of problems, such as preventing ssh logins. sysctl kern.maxfiles shows a maximum of 12328 FDs. My kernel config file has maxusers set to 0, which means the kern.maxfiles limit must be the OS default. What is the maximum number of FDs that can be set on a system with 1 GB of RAM? What would it be for 2 GB of RAM? In other words, how many FDs can a FreeBSD 5.3 system safely support for each GB of RAM? A truly enormous number :-) You just need to increase the value of kern.maxfiles in /boot/loader.conf as appropriate for your workload. kris pgpLcHvcg77w0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Setting IMAPd MAILDIR?
Hi there,
I recently upgraded courier-imap using portupgrade, and I've noticed
that it no longer uses the proper maildir directory (./Maildir), but
rather just the user home directory.
This seems to have to do with the change of courier-imap to rc.subr
style scripts. It uses a variable called MAILDIRPATH which isn't defined
anywhere that I can find:
/usr/local/libexec/courier-imap/couriertcpd
-address=$ADDRESS \
-stderrlogger=${exec_prefix}/sbin/courierlogger
\
-stderrloggername=imapd \
-maxprocs=$MAXDAEMONS -maxperip=$MAXPERIP \
-pid=$PIDFILE $TCPDOPTS \
$PORT ${exec_prefix}/sbin/imaplogin
$LIBAUTHMODULES \
${exec_prefix}/bin/imapd ${MAILDIRPATH}
If I delete ${MAILDIRPATH} and replace it with ./Maildir, then
everything works fine. However, I imagine there is a better (i.e.
recommended) place for me to put this information. This is a machine
running 4.10REL.
Can somebody tell me where MAILDIRPATH is supposed to be defined within
this new rc.subr scheme and also if anybody has any idea why the rc
script uses a variable which is undefined?
Thanks!
Leonard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/libexec/courier-imap# more imapd.rc
#! /bin/sh
# $Id: imapd.rc.in,v 1.26 2004/04/18 15:54:38 mrsam Exp $
#
# Copyright 1998 - 2002 Double Precision, Inc.
# See COPYING for distribution information.
prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=/usr/local
bindir=${exec_prefix}/bin
libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/courier-imap
if test ! -f /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd
then
echo /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd does not exist, forgot
make install-configure?
exit 1
fi
if test ! -f /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl
then
echo /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl does not exist,
forgot make install-configure?
exit 1
fi
TLS_CACHEFILE=
. /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl
. /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd
case $1 in
start)
LIBAUTHMODULES=
for f in `echo $AUTHMODULES`
do
LIBAUTHMODULES=$LIBAUTHMODULES
/usr/local/libexec/courier-imap/authlib/$f
done
if test -x ${libexecdir}/authlib/authdaemond
then
/usr/bin/env - DEBUG_LOGIN=$DEBUG_LOGIN
${libexecdir}/authlib/authdaemond start
fi
if test $TLS_CACHEFILE !=
then
rm -f $TLS_CACHEFILE
fi
ulimit -v $IMAP_ULIMITD
/usr/bin/env - /bin/sh -c set -a ;
prefix=/usr/local ;
exec_prefix=/usr/local ;
bindir=${exec_prefix}/bin ;
libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/courier-imap ;
. /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd ; \
. /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl
; \
IMAP_STARTTLS=$IMAPDSTARTTLS ; export IMAP_STARTTLS ; \
TLS_PROTOCOL=$TLS_STARTTLS_PROTOCOL ; \
/usr/local/libexec/courier-imap/couriertcpd
-address=$ADDRESS \
-stderrlogger=${exec_prefix}/sbin/courierlogger
\
-stderrloggername=imapd \
-maxprocs=$MAXDAEMONS -maxperip=$MAXPERIP \
-pid=$PIDFILE $TCPDOPTS \
$PORT ${exec_prefix}/sbin/imaplogin
$LIBAUTHMODULES \
${exec_prefix}/bin/imapd ${MAILDIRPATH}
^
;;
stop)
/usr/local/libexec/courier-imap/couriertcpd -pid=$PIDFILE -stop
if test -x ${libexecdir}/authlib/authdaemond
then
${libexecdir}/authlib/authdaemond stop
fi
;;
esac
exit 0
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Re: Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot
On Friday 31 December 2004 14:03, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo munchies wrote: I downloaded ISO images disc 1 disc 2 the boot disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX machine. None of these discs will boot for the installation! What happens is the CD drive fires up, I see a couple of lines from FreeBSD--the bootloader or something--it acts like it's trying to boot. The CD drive spins up, the two or three lines flash on the screen but then the whole computer restarts. It keeps doing this over and over again for each disc. I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 disc and it booted fine. I thought maybe my burner had problems so I burned a Linux distro and it booted fine. So the problem cannot be the CD medium (3 cds w/ same problem?), not the CD burner and not the machine. What's going on? This is the third time I've tried FreeBSD and failed to get it to work. I just give up and revert to linux because at least I can install it each and every time. But I want to use FreeBSD. Any help would be appreciated. Perhaps the problem is with the iso image. Try downloading the iso file for CD1 again. Comparing the md5sum of the image with the one at the server might save bandwidth. Regards Fabian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Weird problem with 3C509 ISA NIC
I was looking at the dmesg output on my firewall and re-remembered that I have this 3Com 509 card that doesn't work quite right. take a look at the demsg output below... dmesg: ep0: 3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: No irq?! ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6) device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 ep1: 3Com 3C509B-TPO EtherLink III (PnP) at port 0x210-0x21f irq 3 on isa0 ep1: Ethernet address 00:10:4b:54:39:52 There is only one of those cards in the system yet there are two ep devices. IIRC I have always had problems with this card in any system/OS I put it in, infact FreeBSD is the only OS I can get it to work in... I also have an identical clone of this card (might be a diffrent revision) that works perfectly in FreeBSD or any system I stick it in. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting IMAPd MAILDIR?
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:47:37AM -0800, Leonard Chung wrote:
Hi there,
I recently upgraded courier-imap using portupgrade, and I've noticed
that it no longer uses the proper maildir directory (./Maildir), but
rather just the user home directory.
This seems to have to do with the change of courier-imap to rc.subr
style scripts. It uses a variable called MAILDIRPATH which isn't defined
anywhere that I can find:
If I delete ${MAILDIRPATH} and replace it with ./Maildir, then
everything works fine. However, I imagine there is a better (i.e.
recommended) place for me to put this information. This is a machine
running 4.10REL.
Can somebody tell me where MAILDIRPATH is supposed to be defined within
this new rc.subr scheme and also if anybody has any idea why the rc
script uses a variable which is undefined?
$MAILDIRPATH gets defined with the MAILDIRPATH configuration option in
either /usr/local/libexec/imapd or /usr/local/libexec/pop3d; dependent
on which protocol you choose to run.
Example: MAILDIRPATH=Maildir
-Stephen
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Re: Please help: burncd errors
On Saturday 01 January 2005 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:35:39PM +0100, Xinizul Xinizul wrote: Could I use another burner tool ? Of course. You can try cdrecord from /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools. For this to work, you need to add device atapicam to your kernel config file, recompile, reinstall and reboot the kernel. Once you've done that, you should see a device 'cd0' in dmesg and /dev. You can try burncd on /dev/cd0, or cdrecord with the appropriate SCSI ID: # cdrecord -scanbus should then give you the correct SCSI ID a,b,c to use. # cdrecord -v dev=a,b,c speed=4 mp3_1.iso for data CDs. # cdrecord -v dev=a,b,c speed=1 -audio track*.wav for audio CDs. I'd be surprised, if the drive supported speed=1. Low speed == better quality is a myth, so I'd change the speed option with -sao (I believe -tao is still the default) and burn at maximum speed. Regards Fabian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP, FIN_WAIT_1 and ppp hangup delay
Hello. For connecting to internet I am using PPP via ISDN. One of my FreeBSD (4.10) boxes uses kernel sppp, the other one is configured with userland ppp. My isp charges the connection time in seconds resolution so I configured a very short hangup delay of 25 seconds after inactivity. This works fine for udp connections and also for smtp/pop/nntp, but not for http. After closing a web browser (I use konqueror or opera) netstat -nf inet shows a lot of active or closing connections. So I reduced all net.inet.tcp.* times I could find to not more than 15 seconds. This helped, but still from time to time I see a connection slowly dying in FIN_WAIT_1 state. That means, ppp disconnects and immediately dials again, disconnects again after 25 seconds without any traffic and dials again and so on... for about 3 minutes. I read through the tcp codebut, well, can't say, I really look through it. May be, there is still a hard-coded timeout, I could manipulate through an additional sysctl? I am rather sure that it is a problem of the tcp protocol (or its misuse), and not an isdn or ppp problem. (BTW, the windows software Fritz!ISDN, shipped with the AVM isdn card, does quite a good job with short hangup delays, but I don't know how) Any ideas? May be there is a way to RST a tcp connection in the ppp-down script? Or perhaps some stateful ipfw rule? Thank you, Norbert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help: burncd errors
Fabian Keil wrote: Low speed == better quality is a myth why so? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question on odd acl/permissions.
Hey all, I'd like to make a live backup of a file system on a regular basis, and maintain permissions, but have such a thing be only writable by root at any given time. (i.e. I keep a backup drive unmounted, and mount it read-only when users need their data). The thing is, I have to mount it read-write in order to create the archive. Is there any way to make a file system read-only for normal users but read-write by root? This is a local filesystem. -Dan -- It doesn't matter where I live, because I live in dataspace. That's my hometown. -Steve Roberts, Builder of BEHEMOTH Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does freeBSD have CORBA specs and does it have J2sdk1.4.2 ?
Jorn Argelo jorn at wcborstel.nl writes: Also, you have the blackdown-java project. AFAIK it's open source as well, and it uses the Linux compatibility. Unfortunately, as it's a Linux port of Sun's SCSL'd code base, it's also bound by the SCSL, so it's not open source ;( If you need CORBA in an open source VM like Kaffe, you could try using JacORB, a java ORB written in Java, open source, and available from JacORB.org cheers, dalibor topic ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Gateway
Victor Foulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I have been looking into setting up a network gateway
using a FreeBSD box, so that I may employ many of the
network security features of the system (and to
overcome the fact that the current network is
insecurely connected to a much larger ~public LAN).
The configuration would be much like this:
{Internet}--{Huge/NastyLAN}--{FreeBSDGate}--{SafeLAN}
Most of what I see states that I should use
a *minimum* of:
266Mhz processor
64MB RAM
1GB HD (actually ~2GB based on number
desired security apps)
2 Compatible NIC's
What I really had hoped to find, was more of an experienced
networking guru's thumb rule equating the number of safeLAN
workstations with the required gateway RAM/Processor; to
enable all safeLAN users to experience a minimal network
transaction time roughly equivalent to what they would see
if plugged directly into a really good hub.
Something maybe in the form of:
Proc Speed = X*Users+Y
RAM = W*Users+Z
I am far too new at this to have a clue what numbers to use
to even approximate. Any advice on this matter would be most
appreciated.
Thanks!
Victor
Unfortunatley, there isn't a simple way to develop such an
equation. How much CPU/RAM you need is going to be dependant
on more than just the number of computers involved. Two additional
factors can play a large part: 1) The number of firewall rules and
2) the amount of traffic (such as UDP) that creates dynamic rules.
Rules take time to process, and more traffic takes more time with
more rules. UDP traffic usually requires stateful rules, and that
generates dynamic rules, which increases the amount of time to
process each packet. So it's important to design your ruleset
carefully to avoid unnecessary processing.
However, in my experience, the most critical hardware choice is
the network cards themselves. Cheapo network cards will really
hurt performance under load. So toss the cheapo Realtek cards
into the trash and spend a little extra on an Intel or other name
brand card designed for a server.
As a general rule of thumb, I won't put FreeBSD on anything smaller
than a 1Ghz with 128M of RAM and 4G of disk space. While you can
get away with smaller, that's about the minimum before using the
box for maintenance purposes becomes a terrible burdon. Try upgrading
and rebuilding world on a 266!
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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Re: FreeBSD Gateway
Bill Moran wrote: Victor Foulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What I really had hoped to find, was more of an experienced networking guru's thumb rule equating the number of safeLAN workstations with the required gateway RAM/Processor; to enable all safeLAN users to experience a minimal network transaction time roughly equivalent to what they would see if plugged directly into a really good hub. Something maybe in the form of: Proc Speed = X*Users+Y RAM = W*Users+Z I don't think _anybody_ can give such a formula. Especially not whithout knowing how much and what kind of traffic your users generate. But as others have said already, good NICs are essential. As a general rule of thumb, I won't put FreeBSD on anything smaller than a 1Ghz with 128M of RAM and 4G of disk space. While you can get away with smaller, that's about the minimum before using the box for maintenance purposes becomes a terrible burdon. Try upgrading and rebuilding world on a 266! You can always build world remotely. 1GHz seems to be overkill for a router. Just think of energy consumption. Regards, Phil. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fxp driver on freebsd 4.7?
Hi, all I tried to install a new intel 82550 based ethernet adapter on my freebsd 4.7. In the first time, I don't want to recompile my kernel. So, I add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: if_fxp_load=YES The driver loaded and the adapter identified as fxp0. But the system reboot every time while I tried to run ifconfig on fxp0. Did I do anything wrong using loadable module? Or loadable module support not stable on this release. The second time, I compile fxp driver to my new kernel and every thing seem work ok. This 82550 adapter has 3des support bulletin, how can I identify this function enabled? I alread use link0 parameter on ifconfig to load microcode as manual page instructed. Thanks, Vincent Chen - Yahoo! http://tw.avatar.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple OS one machine hda: hda1: windows, hda2: freeBSD, hda3: fat32 (emply), hda5: secundary on 4 Swap, Slackware Fedora more Linux, fdisk report up to 15 partitions, my configuration is ...
hda: 1 (win xp), 2 (freeBSD), 3 (DOS fat32 empty), 4 Extended 5 first ( linux OS all on / ), 6 ( second Linux OS on 7), 8, 9. 10. 12 hda2: freeBSD BSD: 12 ( 12 linux, 13, 14, 15, 16 . now either GRUB or LILO can boot up to 5 OS either way, OS 6+ dont boot with various KERNEL PANIC errors at the end, then try MBR on hda12 ( SLACK) and try add more then 4 OS and nothing, soo ... fi i fdisk /mbr, fdisk (create) hda1 , hda2, hda3, hda4 (extended), then create 7,8,9,19,11,12,13,14,15 and install every one in it (with out any SWAP), say 12 OS on it. Whats the steps to create a multiple operating systems on one computer?? thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
just an inquiry
i just like to know how i can be qualified to post a hardware request from your donors like i would like to have a replacement for my hard disk drive for my laptop. I am using my laptop for our church. I suspect ants ate the wire coat of my hard disk. I can't find replacement here in our country because i think my hard disk model is already phased out. Please help me i need a replacement. I live in the Philippines. Thanks Willy Ortega - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! What will yours do? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot
Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone considered or accomplished allowing FreeBSD to write it's current state (including window manager, windows, etc) to swap and allowing a subsequent reload of the system to last state? This would be sort of like the sleep mode of a laptop, but would allow the user to boot into another OS (like Winblows) briefly and then resume their FreeBSD system state. I'd love to use FreeBSD as my primary desktop, but there may be times where I'll need to boot into Windows for apps that don't run under Wine. Since I tend to have a lot of application windows open, it's a PITA to have to reload everything on boot. Thoughts? This isn't a direct answer to your question, but you might want to have a look at vmware. vmware and qemu (open source semi-alternative) are good ways to accomplish booting Windows from inside of FreeBSD. Actually, not really, as I've been unable to make modern versions of VMWare work on FreeBSD. But it's a great way to boot Linux under Windows, or FreeBSD under either, or have multiple OSes running simultaneously under a single computer. What you want, however, is something that has been on the wishlist for a little while now. Suspend-to-RAM has been around and works fine for a while, but Suspend-to-disc (which Linux currently has) is yet to be written. There have been suggestions of saving the RAM to swap space and shutting down. I hope to see someone put this into action soon. It'd be a great feature. (Especially for mobiles) I agree that it would be a great feature. I was just offering a potential alternative until it's written. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNS problems - slow to resolve
I'm running BIND 9 for my own DNS and I'm connecting to the Internet through cable modem. In my named.conf I have a forwarders section where I put the IPs for my ISPs DNS. Since my connection to the ISP is DHCP how can I determine the DNS IPs that have been assigned? I don't see it when man'ing ifconfig. Are there tools/commands I can use to determine the resolution time that my lookups are taking? A lot of my web browser requests are timing out (name lookups) and I have to keep hitting refresh until it finally resolves. -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TCPDUMP performance
Hello, We've installed some FreeBSD machines as Gigabit sniffers, and I'm wondering if there are any things I can tweak (e.g., buffer size) to help TCPDUMP capture better (we often see packets dropped by the kernel). Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, James __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help: burncd errors
Thanks to all. Definetely I have to compile the kernel as suggested above with the atapicam entry. Now I'm burning succesfully with the cdrecord tool. Regards, Xinizul On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 07:48:03 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabian Keil wrote: Low speed == better quality is a myth why so? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TCPDUMP performance
James Kilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We've installed some FreeBSD machines as Gigabit sniffers, and I'm wondering if there are any things I can tweak (e.g., buffer size) to help TCPDUMP capture better (we often see packets dropped by the kernel). Any advice would be appreciated. When using tethereal to do captures, I found that nicing the capture process reduced the incidence of dropped packets to 0. Not exactly the same circumstance, but I would guess that tcpdump would respond simularly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Gateway
Victor Foulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] However, in my experience, the most critical hardware choice is the network cards themselves. Cheapo network cards will really hurt performance under load. So toss the cheapo Realtek cards into the trash and spend a little extra on an Intel or other name brand card designed for a server. [...] Similarly to Mr. Foulk, I'm also in the market for a pair of NICs for a small organization's firewall/gateway (in this case using IPFilter). Per your plug for Intel, I'm browsing 3Com and Intel NICs right now on mwave.com. Intel 10/100 w 3DES - $63 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=1562535 3Com 10/100 w 3DES - $92 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3387169 Why do you suppose that while the 3Com seems very similar to the Intel it costs $30 more? Perhaps because it specs more types of encryption than the Intel NIC? How would this hardware acceleration integrate w FreeBSD? Per some Linux binary compat (as both cards are compat w Linux kernel 2.2+)? Will the hardware encryption on these cards ever be useful in a firewall/gateway application? Sorry for all the questions and thanks for your time, -- Micah Bushouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS problems - slow to resolve
David Daugherty wrote: Are there tools/commands I can use to determine the resolution time that my lookups are taking? A lot of my web browser requests are timing out (name lookups) and I have to keep hitting refresh until it finally resolves. I'd try using dig: dig www.freebsd.org At the end look for the query time: ;; Query time: 3 msec ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 2 09:33:07 2005 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 211 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
named exits on SIGHUP?
Hi folks, when I kill -HUP named on 5.3 (BIND 9), it exits, instead of reloading, as stated in the manpage. Is this normal? I think it's rather impractical, since it prevents proper log rotation through newsyslog.conf (when using file logging in named.conf). It doesn't seem to matter if it's running chrooted or not. mkb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS problems - slow to resolve
On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:22, David Daugherty wrote: I'm running BIND 9 for my own DNS and I'm connecting to the Internet through cable modem. In my named.conf I have a forwarders section where I put the IPs for my ISPs DNS. Since my connection to the ISP is DHCP how can I determine the DNS IPs that have been assigned? I don't see it when man'ing ifconfig. /etc/resolv.conf lists which nameservers your system is using. (Hope I didn't completely interpret your question) :-/ -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS problems - slow to resolve
The problem with resolv.conf is that it just puts insightbb.com in there. Doing a whois on insightbb.com gives a few DNS servers but none of them are any speedier lookups then the others. If I put the IP that insightbb.com resolves to it's still slow. On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:41:20 -0600, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:22, David Daugherty wrote: I'm running BIND 9 for my own DNS and I'm connecting to the Internet through cable modem. In my named.conf I have a forwarders section where I put the IPs for my ISPs DNS. Since my connection to the ISP is DHCP how can I determine the DNS IPs that have been assigned? I don't see it when man'ing ifconfig. /etc/resolv.conf lists which nameservers your system is using. (Hope I didn't completely interpret your question) :-/ -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS problems - slow to resolve
Ah, yes..dig. Forgot that it had a resolve time in there. Here's a perfect example of the slowness I'm talking about: su-2.05b# dig yahoo.com ; DiG 8.3 yahoo.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; res_nsend: Operation timed out su-2.05b# dig yahoo.com ; DiG 8.3 yahoo.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1563 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 5M IN A 216.109.112.135 yahoo.com. 5M IN A 66.94.234.13 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns2.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns3.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns4.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns5.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns1.yahoo.com. ;; Total query time: 6179 msec ;; FROM: datasphereweb.com to SERVER: 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 2 09:55:17 2005 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 149 First one didn't resolve in time. Second one, 6 seconds!!! On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:49:28 -0500, David Daugherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with resolv.conf is that it just puts insightbb.com in there. Doing a whois on insightbb.com gives a few DNS servers but none of them are any speedier lookups then the others. If I put the IP that insightbb.com resolves to it's still slow. On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:41:20 -0600, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:22, David Daugherty wrote: I'm running BIND 9 for my own DNS and I'm connecting to the Internet through cable modem. In my named.conf I have a forwarders section where I put the IPs for my ISPs DNS. Since my connection to the ISP is DHCP how can I determine the DNS IPs that have been assigned? I don't see it when man'ing ifconfig. /etc/resolv.conf lists which nameservers your system is using. (Hope I didn't completely interpret your question) :-/ -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Device timeout
I get a similar error for ath0, which is my wireless card. inexplicably, I'll get ath0: device timeout for some unknown reason. Have not seen this with wired ethernet cards, only this wireless one. --- Alexei Stukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After a reinstalltion of FreeBSD 5.3, I get the following error : nv0 : Device timout That NIC is on-board and the motherboard is a brand-new ASUS SK8N. Everything worked fine until I reinstalled. Any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do I need atapicam?
I'm running 5.3-RELEASE and want to use k3b for CD burning. I have an IDE CD burner and IDE DVD drive. Do I need to have atapicam loaded in the kernel? Has this been depricated in 5.3? I notice the following in my GENERIC kernel config: salamander# cat /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC | grep atapi device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives device atapist # ATAPI tape drives And trying to load atapicam results in: salamander# kldload atapicam kldload: can't load atapicam: No such file or directory Do I need to add a line for atapicam in my GENERIC file and rebuild the kernel? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. -- Dorothy Parker 10:58AM up 18:11, 0 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.08, 0.07 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-RELEASE i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I need atapicam?
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:59:05AM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'm running 5.3-RELEASE and want to use k3b for CD burning. I have an IDE CD burner and IDE DVD drive. Do I need to have atapicam loaded in the kernel? Has this been depricated in 5.3? I notice the following in my GENERIC kernel config: [snip] Do I need to add a line for atapicam in my GENERIC file and rebuild the kernel? Yes. You can't kldload atapicam. You need a 'device atapicam' line in your kernel config file, then rebuild, install and reboot the kernel. Cheers, Trey Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS problems - slow to resolve
Ok, I wasn't getting the IPs in my resolv.conf because I had dhclient.conf modified to supersede to the local DNS. Here's what I did to determine the DNS that my ISP was assigning me. I changed the dhclient.conf back to empty and restarted the network. This then put the IPs of the two DNS servers assigned into my resolv.conf. I then took these two IPs and added them to my forwarders section in my named.conf. Rebooted and name lookup is much faster now. It only took my wife grumping about having to hit refresh 20+ times to bring up a web page in order for me to fix this since we've moved and changed ISPs. Thanks for the ideas everyone. On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:52:14 -0500, David Daugherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, yes..dig. Forgot that it had a resolve time in there. Here's a perfect example of the slowness I'm talking about: su-2.05b# dig yahoo.com ; DiG 8.3 yahoo.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; res_nsend: Operation timed out su-2.05b# dig yahoo.com ; DiG 8.3 yahoo.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1563 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 5M IN A 216.109.112.135 yahoo.com. 5M IN A 66.94.234.13 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns2.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns3.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns4.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns5.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns1.yahoo.com. ;; Total query time: 6179 msec ;; FROM: datasphereweb.com to SERVER: 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 2 09:55:17 2005 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 149 First one didn't resolve in time. Second one, 6 seconds!!! On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:49:28 -0500, David Daugherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with resolv.conf is that it just puts insightbb.com in there. Doing a whois on insightbb.com gives a few DNS servers but none of them are any speedier lookups then the others. If I put the IP that insightbb.com resolves to it's still slow. On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:41:20 -0600, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:22, David Daugherty wrote: I'm running BIND 9 for my own DNS and I'm connecting to the Internet through cable modem. In my named.conf I have a forwarders section where I put the IPs for my ISPs DNS. Since my connection to the ISP is DHCP how can I determine the DNS IPs that have been assigned? I don't see it when man'ing ifconfig. /etc/resolv.conf lists which nameservers your system is using. (Hope I didn't completely interpret your question) :-/ -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Gateway
Micah Bushouse wrote: Victor Foulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] However, in my experience, the most critical hardware choice is the network cards themselves. Cheapo network cards will really hurt performance under load. So toss the cheapo Realtek cards into the trash and spend a little extra on an Intel or other name brand card designed for a server. [...] Similarly to Mr. Foulk, I'm also in the market for a pair of NICs for a small organization's firewall/gateway (in this case using IPFilter). Per your plug for Intel, I'm browsing 3Com and Intel NICs right now on mwave.com. Intel 10/100 w 3DES - $63 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=1562535 3Com 10/100 w 3DES - $92 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3387169 Why do you suppose that while the 3Com seems very similar to the Intel it costs $30 more? Perhaps because it specs more types of encryption than the Intel NIC? How would this hardware acceleration integrate w FreeBSD? Per some Linux binary compat (as both cards are compat w Linux kernel 2.2+)? Will the hardware encryption on these cards ever be useful in a firewall/gateway application? Sorry for all the questions and thanks for your time, $92 -$63 --- $29=Branding? --- INTEL PRO 100S, Model PILA8460C3 Specifications: Standard: 802.2, 802.3, 802.3u, 802.3x, 802.1p/Q Encryption: DES(56bit)/3DES(168bit) On-board Memory: 18KB Special Features: Integrated security co-processor, Advanced management for lower support costs, intel SingleDriver technology simplifies installation and maintenance [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: named exits on SIGHUP?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote: Hi folks, when I kill -HUP named on 5.3 (BIND 9), it exits, instead of reloading, as stated in the manpage. Is this normal? I think it's rather impractical, since it prevents proper log rotation through newsyslog.conf (when using file logging in named.conf). It doesn't seem to matter if it's running chrooted or not. i noticed the same behavior. it did not exit if named is running in foreground, started with -f. it's also impractical as '/etc/rc.d/named' is using the HUP signal for the reload command which causes the process to exit silently. the named(8) manpage says in the SIGNAL section: [snip] In routine operation, signals should not be used to control the name- server; rndc(8) should be used instead. [snip] i tried 'rndc reload' and it's working and did not cause the named process to exit. maybe '/etc/rc.d/named' should be changed to use this as reload command. i have not looked deeper into this because my spare time is currently very limited. regards Joerg - -- The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB2CenSPOsGF+KA+MRAuu2AJ9cS1wJIhYw3SyhqQyjVy5EP5e1YACglMWt dMpKdIEqWEVjAB6CF7BoVbw= =4lP4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buildworld fails with sendmail
I think I got it! Some more searching revealed a comman problem with the standard refuse file having src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc* in it. Hopifully this will solve the problem. Thanks for the help, Keep up the good work. Nope, it still is not working. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: named exits on SIGHUP?
Joerg Pulz wrote: i tried 'rndc reload' and it's working and did not cause the named process to exit. maybe '/etc/rc.d/named' should be changed to use this as reload command. Yes, this works here also. In the long run, it would probably be a good idea to make newsyslog understand arbitrary commands for restarting, instead of just sending a signal. mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple OS one machine hda: hda1: windows, hda2: freeBSD, hda3: fat32 (emply), hda5: secundary on 4 Swap, Slackware Fedora more Linux, fdisk report up to 15 partitions, my configuration is ...
On 01 Jan alex wrote: Whats the steps to create a multiple operating systems on one computer?? thanks. Install GAG (do a google search on it). Piece of cake ;-) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Device timeout
And have you found the way to fix it? It may be the same issue for both of our NICs. Thanks. On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:57:01 -0800 (PST), scott renna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a similar error for ath0, which is my wireless card. inexplicably, I'll get ath0: device timeout for some unknown reason. Have not seen this with wired ethernet cards, only this wireless one. --- Alexei Stukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After a reinstalltion of FreeBSD 5.3, I get the following error : nv0 : Device timout That NIC is on-board and the motherboard is a brand-new ASUS SK8N. Everything worked fine until I reinstalled. Any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buildworld fails with sendmail
On 01/02/05 12:13:31, jason henson wrote: I think I got it! Some more searching revealed a comman problem with the standard refuse file having src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc* in it. Hopifully this will solve the problem. Thanks for the help, Keep up the good work. Nope, it still is not working. Now I found out that http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/ sendmail/ has different files and some files I don't. I was using cvsup4.FreeBSD.org but I am switching to another. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern.maxfiles formula?
Kris Kennaway wrote: A truly enormous number :-) You just need to increase the value of kern.maxfiles in /boot/loader.conf as appropriate for your workload. would it be possible to make this dynamically allocated in the future? imho, such limits are a bit anachronistic. mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
basic freebsd programming
Hello and Happy New Year! I need to write some very basic C programs under FreeBSD. I am new to Unix programming and not very good at C programming either, so I'm looking for documentation on some topics. The ones that are the most interesting for me now is how to write small daemons best and how to read ipfw info from a program. Man pages help me very much, but I really need some guide. The problem is that doc project doesn't seem to have released anything like it. I looked through dev-, arch-, porters- handbooks, read design-44bsd - but I didn't find what I want. Of course I can refresh my C skills and gain some Unix-coding knowledge by reading a couple' thousand pages, but I don't feel like it's necessary for what I want to write - just a basic statistics collector. Should I explore FreeBSD source code or is there some solid piece of documentation? Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4.10, USB problems
For several months I've been using an external USB hard drive, under 4.10 and the EHCI driver. It's worked perfectly for months. As of a month ago, when I swapped the drive for another one, the drive has not worked properly. A few days ago, my employer went on-site (the server is colocated) to swap the drive. The new drive had the same problem, and rebooting the server did not correct the problem. It was also reported that the last time he unplugged the drive (the fs on the drive was not mounted) the system crashed; he has since not plugged in the drive. Now the details... dmesg shows that it found a mass storage device and properly identifies it, and usbdevs also reports the drive; however, attempting to mount the drive causes mount: /dev/da0s1e: Device not configured and the message umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT appears in the dmesg. The external drive uses device usb4, since usb0 through usb3 are reported as USB1. It was suggested that having both the USB1 (uhci) and USB2 (ehci) driver may be causing confusion in the kernel. I find this unlikely, though, since it's been working for months. Any thoughts or troubleshooting tips? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: News from several NNTP Servers
Are the servers listed going to allow me to pull all those feeds? On Jan 1, 2005, at 10:24 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: open nntp server list ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: sharing printers with Mac - Rendezvous?
On Jan 1, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 1, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: I would recommend setting up the lpd daemon. This is supported by Mac OS X be default, so there's not a whole lot to setup. No Rendevous necessary. Thanks Eric. I'll try that. I was thinking Rendezvous would be easier than setting up lpd, but I might be wrong. I'm not even sure that my printers (Brother 1240 and HP Deskjet something) support Rendezvous or how it works. TjL No problem. If that Brother 1240 is a b/w laser, you're going to need to setup apsfilter first. Then just make that printer accessible from the rest of the network. The other thing you *could* do is purchase a network print server. I got one off eBay for about $40 from Zero One Technologies 01tech.com (that's a zero-one). A little difficult to setup at first, but works great! HTH ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
smbfs module + securelevel
I am trying to mount a SMB share in the usual fashion: mount -t smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /mnt And in response I get this: smbfs: vfsload(smbfs): Operation not permitted I am running at securelevel 1, so it would make sense if that were why I'm not allowed to load the module. My question is: How do I have this module loaded during the boot process, before the securelevel is set? Is there a rc.conf variable to set? Or is mentioning this smbfs share in the fstab sufficient? __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smbfs module + securelevel
Am 02.01.2005 um 20:04 schrieb Gregor Mosheh: I am trying to mount a SMB share in the usual fashion: mount -t smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /mnt And in response I get this: smbfs: vfsload(smbfs): Operation not permitted I am running at securelevel 1, so it would make sense if that were why I'm not allowed to load the module. My question is: How do I have this module loaded during the boot process, before the securelevel is set? Is there a rc.conf variable to set? Or is mentioning this smbfs share in the fstab sufficient? To make sure a module is loaded, add a line to /boot/loader.conf: smbfs_load=YES I believe that you also might need to load libiconf.ko, if it isn't pulled in automatically when loading smbfs: libiconf_load=YES HTH, Stefan -- Stefan Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fon +49 170 346 0140 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freebsd remote install howto
Hi, Had to install freebsd on a machine without a floppy disk nor a cd drive. This machine is on the lan. Is there any way I can install freebsd from another freebsd machine in the lan. Regards SSR _ Redefine team work. Discover your true potential. http://www.microsoft.com/india/office/experience/ With the MS product suite. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic freebsd programming
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:11:42PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: The ones that are the most interesting for me now is how to write small daemons best and how to read ipfw info from a program. Of course I can refresh my C skills and gain some Unix-coding knowledge by reading a couple' thousand pages, but I don't feel like it's necessary for what I want to write - just a basic statistics collector. Of course you could do that in C, but if all you need is a program that reads the output of other programs, and presents stats on some port as a daemon (and a client to read that out), why not just go for a scripted solution in Perl or Python? Both languages are much better than C when it comes to parsing strings, and they are very good at networking too. IMHO, the only reason (besides efficiency) to write a monitoring program in C is if you don't want (or can't afford) to install a perl or python interpreter on the nodes that you want to monitor. Should I explore FreeBSD source code or is there some solid piece of documentation? That's not necessary. If you want to write that in C, you'll have to familiarize yourself with the popen(3) call for executing a program and capturing its output. Then you need a few string processing functions like str*(3) sscanf() etc... to parse the output (that's the tricky part). Finally you will need a small example of a client and server in C that uses the sockets API (that's pretty generic and not FreeBSD-specific at all, just google for it). Combine all this and voila, you've got your nice monitoring app in C. Alternatively, you could extract the info directly from the kernel by performing exactly the same steps that your utility program (ipfw...) does, but it's overkill for such a simple app. But again, consider giving Python a try. It's well worth it for such basic tasks. Best wishes, Andrew P. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smbfs module + securelevel
Viel danke, Stefan! --- Stefan Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 02.01.2005 um 20:04 schrieb Gregor Mosheh: I am trying to mount a SMB share in the usual fashion: mount -t smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /mnt And in response I get this: smbfs: vfsload(smbfs): Operation not permitted I am running at securelevel 1, so it would make sense if that were why I'm not allowed to load the module. My question is: How do I have this module loaded during the boot process, before the securelevel is set? Is there a rc.conf variable to set? Or is mentioning this smbfs share in the fstab sufficient? To make sure a module is loaded, add a line to /boot/loader.conf: smbfs_load=YES I believe that you also might need to load libiconf.ko, if it isn't pulled in automatically when loading smbfs: libiconf_load=YES HTH, Stefan -- Stefan Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fon +49 170 346 0140 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd remote install howto
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:05:26AM +0530, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: Hi, Had to install freebsd on a machine without a floppy disk nor a cd drive. This machine is on the lan. Is there any way I can install freebsd from another freebsd machine in the lan. You could try a pxeboot(8)-based method, if your machine supports PXE: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/09/diskless_server.html I've done something similar to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Soekris net4801 board that comes without keyboard, floppy drives, CD drives, nor VGA; just a serial console and ethernet ports. It was amazingly simple and effective. Good luck! Regards SSR Cheers, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why might my USB devices be detected?
My USB devices are not being detected on my tower. I'm running 5.3-STABLE and have the following in my /etc/rc.conf: salamander# cat /etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Dec 6 13:36:23 2004 # Created: Mon Dec 6 13:36:23 2004 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. hostname=salamander.thesizemores.net ifconfig_vr0=DHCP linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_flags=-bd sendmail_pidfile=/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO devfs_system_ruleset=local_ruleset and this in a /etc/devfs.rules file that I created per another post I saw on the forum: [local_ruleset=10] add path 'ugen*' mode 664 The following lines appear in my /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file (this is out-of-the-box, I have not recompiled the kernel since initial install): # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device usb # USB Bus (required) #device udbp# USB Double Bulk Pipe devices device ugen# Generic device uhid# Human Interface Devices device ukbd# Keyboard device ulpt# Printer device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da device ums # Mouse device urio# Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player device uscanner# Scanners # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device ch # SCSI media changers device da # Direct Access (disks) device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE) However, when I connect my camera via the USB connector (or via a SanDisk card reader) and turn it on, I get no messages in dmesg and usbdevs shows salamander# usbdevs addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA I also have an Epson Stylus C84 printer connected directly to one of the box's USB ports and it doesn't appear either. I have PNP turned off in the BIOS. What else could I check? These ports were working as recently as a month ago with a Linux flavor installed. Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. -- Aristotle 3:06PM up 1:15, 0 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-STABLE i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. Furthermore, can someone recommend a decent POP3 and IMAP server? Thanks in advance, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. You're liable to get a LOT of opinion on this. Personally, the only thing I have against sendmail is that it's configuration makes me dizzy. I use Postfix, and I recommend it to most, as it does a nice job of being secure, yet easy to configure. Furthermore, can someone recommend a decent POP3 and IMAP server? I've been using Dovecot for quite some time now. It's not even a 1.0 product yet, and I still find it excellent for both POP and IMAP. It includes support for both POP3S and IMAPS, which I find very important in this day and age. Postfix delivering to maildirs + Dovecot for POP3S/IMAPS makes a very reliable and secure setup in my opinion. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic freebsd programming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:11:42PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: The ones that are the most interesting for me now is how to write small daemons best and how to read ipfw info from a program. Of course I can refresh my C skills and gain some Unix-coding knowledge by reading a couple' thousand pages, but I don't feel like it's necessary for what I want to write - just a basic statistics collector. why not just go for a scripted solution in Perl or Python? Well, I am going to dump all the ipfw counters to disk (and process some data) in a loop of a single second. Perl adds too much overhead for this task. Should I explore FreeBSD source code or is there some solid piece of documentation? That's not necessary. If you want to write that in C, you'll have to familiarize yourself with the popen(3) call for executing a program and capturing its output. Then you need a few string processing functions like str*(3) sscanf() etc... to parse the output (that's the tricky part). Finally you will need a small example of a client and server in C that uses the sockets API (that's pretty generic and not FreeBSD-specific at all, just google for it). Combine all this and voila, you've got your nice monitoring app in C. As a matter of fact, I already do have a functional C program, processing and dumping data, which it gets from stdin. So I have a shell loop, invoking `ipfw show | c_program` every 10 seconds. But it seems to be ineffective. What I'm thinking about is a closer-to-real-time daemon dumper. Alternatively, you could extract the info directly from the kernel by performing exactly the same steps that your utility program (ipfw...) does, but it's overkill for such a simple app. ipfw show takes up to 0.1s and 500kb to run on my system. Which is great for manual checks, but almost unacceptable for continuous monitoring on a server under heavy load. I guess I'll have to learn how to look up the counters in the kernel. Thanks anyway! Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:20:51PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. sendmail is also bundled with OpenBSD, which is proactively rabid about security. Considering sendmail's track record, the OpenBSD FAQ says something to the effect that the maintainers of sendmail are responsive to security issues, unlike many projects, and the code now appears to be as secure as anything else out there. Configuration is pretty easy with the m4 macros, and sendmail still amounts to something of a de-facto standard. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Bill Moran wrote: I've been using Dovecot for quite some time now. It's not even a 1.0 product yet, and I still find it excellent for both POP and IMAP. It includes support for both POP3S and IMAPS, which I find very important in this day and age. I've had bad experience so far with dovecot, including, but not limited to, lock file problems, hung imap processes in the bulk, and behaviour that neither matched the comments in the sample config file, nor the documentation (and both were contradictory), like the way to configure inbox and folder locations. Unless the OP has the time and resources to experiment, I'd suggest leaving that software alone for a while still until it has been stabilized, and go for proven alternatives like Cyrus or Courier (or even uw-imapd, if it's a one-person setup). mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment
Hi, I am trying to setup a diskless client, so I have created a directory /usr/diskless and installed FreeBSD 5.3 into it. I then unpacked ports.tgz from the release and cvsup'ed yesterday. If I chroot into /usr/diskless and try to compile perl5.8 I get the following error: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.5 ./miniperl -Ilib -e 'use AutoSplit; autosplit_lib_modules(@ARGV)' lib/*/*.pm make lib/re.pm makefile, line 915: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8. It only fails in the chroot'ed environment, even though the chroot has a full bootable base. I have successfully installed lynx, bash, libiconv, libtool and gettext in this environment. How do I correct this? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fxp driver on freebsd 4.7?
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:47:43PM +0800, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I tried to install a new intel 82550 based ethernet adapter on my freebsd 4.7. In the first time, I don't want to recompile my kernel. So, I add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: if_fxp_load=YES The driver loaded and the adapter identified as fxp0. But the system reboot every time while I tried to run ifconfig on fxp0. Did I do anything wrong using loadable module? Perhaps, if it wasn't compiled at the same time as the kernel, it might be incompatible and this will cause this kind of probblem. Or loadable module support not stable on this release. 4.7 is very old, so I doubt anyone remembers specific problems in this release. The second time, I compile fxp driver to my new kernel and every thing seem work ok. This 82550 adapter has 3des support bulletin, how can I identify this function enabled? I doubt this is supported in 4.7. Kris pgpzJV1TP8PAF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Hi Matthias, --On Sunday, January 02, 2005 9:41 PM +0100 Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in part: Unless the OP has the time and resources to experiment, I'd suggest leaving that software alone for a while still until it has been stabilized, and go for proven alternatives like Cyrus or Courier (or even uw-imapd, if it's a one-person setup). There is also one other IMAP server called bincimap which is in ports. This is made for Maildir mail type only. It works quite well and is actively supported by its author. I have several production FreeBSD boxes using it without problems. It is extremely easy to set up, even the certs for IMAPS. -- Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern.maxfiles formula?
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: A truly enormous number :-) You just need to increase the value of kern.maxfiles in /boot/loader.conf as appropriate for your workload. would it be possible to make this dynamically allocated in the future? Having a hard limit is by design, or users could run your machine out of memory and cause it to panic. imho, such limits are a bit anachronistic. No, you're just using an abnormal workload on your machine, for which the defaults are not sufficient. Kris pgpmBX2Fl7RLf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: TCP_RESTRICT_RST in 5.2.1
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:21:22AM +0100, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Following the istructions of Mrs. Lavigne on ONLamp.com I was trying to build a kernel with the options TCP_RESTRICT_RST. config ignores this option. How can I include this in 5.2.1, I can't find a similar option in my LINT file. It was removed; check the CVS logs on cvsweb.freebsd.org. Kris pgpInW4o7Adey.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:36 -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: Configuration is pretty easy with the m4 macros, and sendmail still amounts to something of a de-facto standard. I am not saying senmail is bad. In fact, I have no plans to get rid of it. I just want to know where to find the information about sendmail when I need it. Where do I go to learn about sendmail configuration? Any HOWTO do something standard instructions? Where do I send newbie questions to? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:44:00PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup a diskless client, so I have created a directory /usr/diskless and installed FreeBSD 5.3 into it. I then unpacked ports.tgz from the release and cvsup'ed yesterday. If I chroot into /usr/diskless and try to compile perl5.8 I get the following error: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.5 ./miniperl -Ilib -e 'use AutoSplit; autosplit_lib_modules(@ARGV)' lib/*/*.pm make lib/re.pm makefile, line 915: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8. It only fails in the chroot'ed environment, even though the chroot has a full bootable base. I have successfully installed lynx, bash, libiconv, libtool and gettext in this environment. How do I correct this? Do you have devfs mounted in the chroot? Kris pgpLbkUMqE1KW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Hi Bill, I use Postfix, and I recommend it to most, as it does a nice job of being secure, yet easy to configure. Nicely put. It's been my favorite MTA aswell for a number of years now. I liked your presentation on antispam measures using postfix, which shows its flexibility. Heck, I'll link it: http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/spam.pdf Thanks for that... Nico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Michael Madden wrote: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. Furthermore, can someone recommend a decent POP3 and IMAP server? Thanks in advance, Mike I use qmail + dovecot. I have some rough drafts of howto's here: http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/qmail.html http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/dovecot.html -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
java question.
On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be able to build/rebuild everything Java?? (I'd like it if we had a FBSD version of everything but [*sigh*] that's not the way it is? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment
Kris Kennaway wrote: Do you have devfs mounted in the chroot? Nope, ... but it doesn't seem to help either. Maybe I am doing it wrong: mount -t devfs devfs /usr/diskless/dev ? I also tried chroot first, then 'mount -t devfs devfs /dev' - no difference. But I don't see what devfs has got do do with make? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:59 pm, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:36 -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: Configuration is pretty easy with the m4 macros, and sendmail still amounts to something of a de-facto standard. I am not saying senmail is bad. In fact, I have no plans to get rid of it. I just want to know where to find the information about sendmail when I need it. Where do I go to learn about sendmail configuration? Pick up the O'Reilly Bat Book Sendmail book. The sendmail.org site is also a very good resource as well as IRC on freenode. Any HOWTO do something standard instructions? Where do I send newbie questions to? -- Anish Mistry pgpcTIy5tzrdI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kern.maxfiles formula?
Kris Kennaway wrote: Having a hard limit is by design, or users could run your machine out of memory and cause it to panic. # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2 kern.maxfiles: 12328 - 2 Ok, I agree. Must've confused something here. I was under the impression that it was fixed at boot. The user issue could be tackled with ulimit, however probably not in a completely satisfactory way (with resource limits being per-process, not per-user. Sometimes a bit of VMS would be nice ;). mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved: Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment
Erik Norgaard wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Do you have devfs mounted in the chroot? Nope, ... but it doesn't seem to help either. Hmm. Ok, I tried again: # chroot /usr/diskless # mount -t devfs devfs /dev # su -l # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 # make that worked.!? Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java question.
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:15:31 -0800, Gary Kline wrote On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be able to build/rebuild everything Java?? Well, I can't say for sure. You have to make sure that your system is indeed using the proper executable and the proper libs. If you have things mixed you can have a serious problem. AFAIK everything is put in /compat/linux ... so deinstalling it wouldn't bring in too much problem. However, unless you have serious disk space problems, I can't see why risk to break stuff if it is not needed. Correct me if any of the above things are wrong, of course :) Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Bill Moran wrote: But it's a great way to boot Linux under Windows, or FreeBSD under either, or have multiple OSes running simultaneously under a single computer. How good is device support from within vmware? Can I get to serial/usb/audio/network ports seamlessly? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Weird problem with 3C509 ISA NIC
Run the DOS configuration program 3c5x9cfg.exe and look at how the card is setup. Like many ISA cards the 3c509 has an eeprom instead of jumpers that you move around on the card. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:06 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Weird problem with 3C509 ISA NIC I was looking at the dmesg output on my firewall and re-remembered that I have this 3Com 509 card that doesn't work quite right. take a look at the demsg output below... dmesg: ep0: 3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: No irq?! ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6) device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 ep1: 3Com 3C509B-TPO EtherLink III (PnP) at port 0x210-0x21f irq 3 on isa0 ep1: Ethernet address 00:10:4b:54:39:52 There is only one of those cards in the system yet there are two ep devices. IIRC I have always had problems with this card in any system/OS I put it in, infact FreeBSD is the only OS I can get it to work in... I also have an identical clone of this card (might be a diffrent revision) that works perfectly in FreeBSD or any system I stick it in. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Michael Madden wrote: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. So have other MTAs, including one for Postfix not so long ago. Sendmail configuration can be charitably called odd, but it's so widely used that answers can usually be found on google or groups.google.com. Then there's comp.mail.sendmail, and sendmail.org, the bat book, and even sendmail.com. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Where do I go to learn about sendmail configuration?
Pick up the O'Reilly Bat Book Sendmail book. The sendmail.org site is
also a very good resource as well as IRC on freenode.
Any HOWTO do something standard instructions?
Where do I send newbie questions to?
Does anyone know of a good tutorial/howto for configuring
sendmail on FreeBSD. My two books ('Absolute BSD' and
'The Complete FreeBSD') make little mention of sendmail
configuration and focus on setting up postfix.
The FreeBSD Handbook seems incomplete and glosses over details:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html
1.) How do I edit /etc/rc.conf to start sendmail at boot.
2.) Most of the configurations files seem pretty normal, but
sendmail.cf seems quite obtuse.
I guess I'm looking for a document that would walk a newbie
through setting up sendmail on FreeBSD without being too arcane
or not detailed enough. My experience with some of the other
Oreilly books leads me to believe they're pretty generic;
I doubt I'd find information on how to setup sendmail for FreeBSD.
Thanks again,
Mike
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Re: just an inquiry
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:57:11PM -0800, ortega willy wrote: i just like to know how i can be qualified to post a hardware request from your donors like i would like to have a replacement for my hard disk drive for my laptop. The donation request list you see on the freebsd website is only for FreeBSD committers, sorry. Kris pgp2xsGZTsiHl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
On 01/01/05 11:08 PM, Eric Kjeldergaard sat at the `puter and typed: I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. Good choice :) So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... Well, as far as hardware goes for my tri-monitor, I usually have a Radeon 7500 and an geforce2 mx400 (or some other cruddy pci card) though I'm using a matrox G450 for the primary right now. Really, any combination of supported video cards will work about equally well. Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. I think you'll get this through the window manager. I'm only running two monitors with the Xinerama extensions (Xorg) but I use fvwm as my window manager. Just define your desktop to be a 1X2 area, and you'll have 2 screens for each monitor. I use 3X2, so I have 3 screens for each monitor. You can even use the pager to define multiple desktops, all using the same geography. If you want each screen to scroll individually of the others, meaning changing the screen on one monitor doesn't change the screen on the others, I'm not sure that's possible. Think of the monitors as a 3 paned window onto the desktop, and everything makes sense. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java question.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:45, Gary Kline wrote: On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be able to build/rebuild everything Java?? (I'd like it if we had a FBSD version of everything but [*sigh*] that's not the way it is? gary Yes you can. I deinstalled my linux-java a while back have successfully updated jdk-14 twice since then - you only need the linux version the first tim. Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpkNAt7mSSHg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: java question.
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:57:17PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:15:31 -0800, Gary Kline wrote On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be able to build/rebuild everything Java?? Well, I can't say for sure. You have to make sure that your system is indeed using the proper executable and the proper libs. If you have things mixed you can have a serious problem. AFAIK everything is put in /compat/linux ... so deinstalling it wouldn't bring in too much problem. However, unless you have serious disk space problems, I can't see why risk to break stuff if it is not needed. Thanks. On my laptop that's currently being ports-upgraded I have seen /compat/linux complaints (mostly re mozilla). I *think* future Java builds will work and java will work from the browser... but better to be safe than bashing my head :) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java question.
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:47:49AM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:45, Gary Kline wrote: On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be able to build/rebuild everything Java?? (I'd like it if we had a FBSD version of everything but [*sigh*] that's not the way it is? gary Yes you can. I deinstalled my linux-java a while back have successfully updated jdk-14 twice since then - you only need the linux version the first tim. Outstanding!! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd training/certification
Hello, I am wondering if there are any training/certification courses that I could take to become a FreeBSD guru? I have been using the OS for over a year now and have become very familiar with installation/configuration but would like to be able to add some sort of certification to my CV. Also how much of a threat is Solaris 10 x86 to FreeBSD and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? Thanks, Jayton Garnett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd training/certification
Jayton Garnett wrote: Hello, I am wondering if there are any training/certification courses that I could take to become a FreeBSD guru? I have been using the OS for over a year now and have become very familiar with installation/configuration but would like to be able to add some sort of certification to my CV. Also how much of a threat is Solaris 10 x86 to FreeBSD and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? Thanks, Jayton Garnett Search this list - you will find all your answers. This has been hashed over many, many times. Do a little work on your part - and you'll find out on your own. -- Best regards, Chris Real programmers don't announce how many times the operations department called them last night. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd training/certification
Jayton Garnett wrote: Hello, I am wondering if there are any training/certification courses that I could take to become a FreeBSD guru? I have been using the OS for over a year now and have become very familiar with installation/configuration but would like to be able to add some sort of certification to my CV. Also how much of a threat is Solaris 10 x86 to FreeBSD and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? Thanks, Jayton Garnett ... come to think of it... This has to be a troll. Let's ponder this... The user states, I have been using the OS for over a year now, Hmmm seems to me that the user should KNOW the answer to, and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? In addition - using it for a year now, this would make one think that the user would have read the cert thread of not even a month ago. But let's really notice how the user unfolds the message. Starts off nice, curious to a point and even showing that the user wishes to possibly contribute to the foundation as a whole. Once the user softens the audience, delivers the one-two punch tactic of the evil creature known as a troll. However, this one don't look like Shrek ... Just my comical way of looking at things. -- Best regards, Chris A budget is spending $15.00 on gas to drive to a shopping mall to save $4.30 on a 20 pound turkey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups
Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups quite nicely. It seems to me that mailing lists still expose senders email address. I am worried about getting spam because of this. Ok, nntp is even worse, but I can manage that. I also find that email applications don't deal as well with high volume email messages. I am comparing against newsreaders like: - Emacs GNUS - slrn I like these newsreaders, because they allow me to assign scores based on the subject and authors. I can easily handle a very high volume ruby newsgroup. The longer I use the newsreader the faster I become. For example, if I did not pay attention the the original message the replies are ignored automatically for me. I will read 2 - 3 messages I am interested out of 1000 post list in 30 seconds. Ok, may be I am using the wrong tools... I settled on Evolution as my primary application and I like it. Thunderbird is not bad either. Neither can handle high volume subscriptions. I'd appretiate advice on how to improve email handling. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Why might my USB devices *not* be detected?
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 15:13 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: snip Sorry for replying to myself, but wanted to fix the subject (less confusing). Might this have something to do with the usbd.conf file (I've not changed mine, but perhaps something to be added?). -- Cheers, Trey --- This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. -- Dorothy Parker 8:20PM up 6:28, 0 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.12, 0.41 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-STABLE i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic freebsd programming
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:11:42 +0300, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello and Happy New Year! I need to write some very basic C programs under FreeBSD. I am new to Unix programming and not very good at C programming either, so I'm looking for documentation on some topics. The ones that are the most interesting for me now is how to write small daemons best and how to read ipfw info from a program. Man pages help me very much, but I really need some guide. The problem is that doc project doesn't seem to have released anything like it. I looked through dev-, arch-, porters- handbooks, read design-44bsd - but I didn't find what I want. Of course I can refresh my C skills and gain some Unix-coding knowledge by reading a couple' thousand pages, but I don't feel like it's necessary for what I want to write - just a basic statistics collector. Should I explore FreeBSD source code or is there some solid piece of documentation? Best wishes, Andrew P. This could be useful: http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/index.html Table of Contents: * I. Introduction * Chapter 1: FreeBSD's Make * Chapter 2: Bootstrapping BSD * Chapter 3: Processes and Kernel Services * Chapter 4: Advanced Process Controls and Signals * Chapter 5: Basic I/O * Chapter 6: Advanced I/O * Chapter 7: Processes Resources and System Limits * Chapter 8: FreeBSD 5.x * All source code * Entire book in a tarball ==Adriaan== ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups
In the last episode (Jan 02), Sergei Gnezdov said: Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. You can use gmane.org to read almost all of the FreeBSD lists via nntp. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups quite nicely. It's a lot easier to read email offline than nntp, for one, and conversations progress much quicker on email lists because people interested in the topic get messages immediately instead of having to constantly poll the news server. I subscribe to mailing lists that I am active on, and less-frequently used ones I read via gmane's nntp interface every few days. I use mutt's scoring rules to sort topics (mutt is both an email client and a newsreader, but I only use it for mail; I read my news with mozilla). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic freebsd programming
J65nko BSD wrote: This could be useful: http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/index.html Table of Contents: * I. Introduction * Chapter 1: FreeBSD's Make * Chapter 2: Bootstrapping BSD * Chapter 3: Processes and Kernel Services * Chapter 4: Advanced Process Controls and Signals * Chapter 5: Basic I/O * Chapter 6: Advanced I/O * Chapter 7: Processes Resources and System Limits * Chapter 8: FreeBSD 5.x * All source code * Entire book in a tarball Thanks! Kinda what I'm looking for. I'll print it and read carefully, and I'd be very glad if I knew about similar sources of information (except for official doc project). Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd training/certification
On 01/02/05 07:01 PM, Chris sat at the `puter and typed: Jayton Garnett wrote: Hello, I am wondering if there are any training/certification courses that I could take to become a FreeBSD guru? I have been using the OS for over a year now and have become very familiar with installation/configuration but would like to be able to add some sort of certification to my CV. Also how much of a threat is Solaris 10 x86 to FreeBSD and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? Thanks, Jayton Garnett ... come to think of it... This has to be a troll. Let's ponder this... Not nececelery, but yes, lettuce ponder . . . The user states, I have been using the OS for over a year now, Hmmm seems to me that the user should KNOW the answer to, and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? Obviously not a well thought out question, but I have to admit that I *don't* read *every* single thread on the list. In fact I probably read half - or less, of what comes to me through the list. I just don't have time. As far as why FreeBSD isn't as popular as RH/Fedora - wait, you really mean it isn't? :) In addition - using it for a year now, this would make one think that the user would have read the cert thread of not even a month ago. There are threads from yesterday I didn't read. I try to limit what I read to those that indicate (reasonably) from the subject that it is something I can answer, something related to a particular problem I'm working on, or something otherwise of interest. I've been using FreeBSD for almost 5 years, and my knowledge of it is still a drop in the bucket. But let's really notice how the user unfolds the message. Starts off nice, curious to a point and even showing that the user wishes to possibly contribute to the foundation as a whole. Ah, yes. I was naieve once too. Thought I was the answer to all FreeBSDs problems :) Chalk it up to Newbie Zeal. Yeah, even though he's been using it for a year. Using it doesn't mean learning the internals, architecture, etc. I can install the OS, ports, set up a mail services, web services, ftp, firewall (more or less) and still I'm a newbie. FreeBSD is definitely my OS of preference, but I've lost a little of that zeal. Once the user softens the audience, delivers the one-two punch tactic of the evil creature known as a troll. However, this one don't look like Shrek Not sure he's necessarily a troll, but I see your angle. ... Just my comical way of looking at things. Most entertaining :) -- Best regards, Chris Ditto Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd training/certification
On 01/02/05 06:47 PM, Chris sat at the `puter and typed: Jayton Garnett wrote: Hello, I am wondering if there are any training/certification courses that I could take to become a FreeBSD guru? I have been using the OS for over a year now and have become very familiar with installation/configuration but would like to be able to add some sort of certification to my CV. Also how much of a threat is Solaris 10 x86 to FreeBSD and how come FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora? Thanks, Jayton Garnett Search this list - you will find all your answers. This has been hashed over many, many times. Do a little work on your part - and you'll find out on your own. That last line: Do a little work on your part - and you'll find out on your own. That's the certification program :) You can learn more about FreeBSD in a month on the list and reading the books written on it than you'll ever learn (or care to retain) from some MS cert program. Best part is it only costs book fees and . . . what's the brains equivalent of elbow grease? Hard work, anyway. The thing to remember is that using FreeBSD isn't learning FreeBSD. Not in the sense of a cert program. I've been using FreeBSD for almost 5 years, but I'd be up the creek if I had to perform a major crash recovery. I just haven't gotten round to that yet. If you want a FreeBSD cert, find the goals list of any major Unix cert program, learn how to do that on FreeBSD (on at least two major releases, like 4.10 and 5.3) then do it a lot. That's your cert, but it's really a self signed cert. If you did all the work, it's every bit as good as the one you'd have paid $2850 for, but there's no fancy plaque to hang up (unless you make it yourself) and nobody has to honor it - not that they *have* to place much stock in the MS or Sun certs. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Alexander Graham Bell is alive and well in New York, and still waiting for a dial tone. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Bill Moran wrote: But it's a great way to boot Linux under Windows, or FreeBSD under either, or have multiple OSes running simultaneously under a single computer. How good is device support from within vmware? Can I get to serial/usb/audio/network ports seamlessly? I can't speak for all of those, but audio and network seem fine. I haven't really experimented with usb/serial yet, but I would expect support for both of them to be very good. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent
Warren Block wrote: So have other MTAs, including one for Postfix not so long ago. Sendmail configuration can be charitably called odd, but it's so widely used that answers can usually be found on google or groups.google.com. Then there's comp.mail.sendmail, and sendmail.org, the bat book, and even sendmail.com. FYI: With help from a decent tutorial for sendmail at http://www.technoids.org/freebsdsendmailfaqs.html and some detailed explanation from the bad book, I got sendmail setup fine. I found the tutorial to be a good initial walk through, and the bat book was a great reference. Thanks for all the suggestions, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
