Re: High levels of breakin attempts
Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address, temporarily block that address (perhaps at the firewall)? It'd be real satisfying to just dump the attackers' packets to the bit bucket and slow 'em down a bit. Sorry, but this topic was discussed just before you posted - see Blacklisting IPs and it is regularly discussed on various lists. Everyone asks that same question, and everyone propose the same solutions, could this be added to the faq? Cheers, 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: ip address behind router ?
Looks to me that this page is not entirely accurate. (at least from where I am) It would appear to get a proxy server somewhere along the way. I would consider using the dynamic dns services - such as no-ip - and use a perl script that updates then ping your dns name. Not sure if they are more accurate that the below idea though. On 11/1/05 8:26 AM, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Davis wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:38:56 +0100 FreeBsdBeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I find what ip address I'm really having ? My adsl modem/firewall gives me a dynamic private address : 192.168.1.101, which is what I see with an ifconfig. But how do I find the real (dynamic) address given to my modem by my provider ? I'm using 5.3-rel-p4. -- Beni. If you just need a simple solution to see your external IP address, just go to: http://www.ostrosoft.com/OIT/external_ip.asp It will show your outside IP address in red. Good luck, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shane Ambler Sales Department 007Marketing.com [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: High levels of breakin attempts
Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html Thanks for volunteering! Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:12 AM To: Gene Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: High levels of breakin attempts Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address, temporarily block that address (perhaps at the firewall)? It'd be real satisfying to just dump the attackers' packets to the bit bucket and slow 'em down a bit. Sorry, but this topic was discussed just before you posted - see Blacklisting IPs and it is regularly discussed on various lists. Everyone asks that same question, and everyone propose the same solutions, could this be added to the faq? Cheers, 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TV Card problem
Hello everyon I am newbie using FreeBDS 5.3; and I am just starting to learn about TV Cards supported by FreeBSD. Unfortunately my pci TV Card (PINNACLE PCTV Stereo) does not have Brooktree/Conexant Chip. Intead it uses something like SAA7134HL CC4492 Tt03461 At least that's what I found written on the Chip. So... does this mean that I am DOOMED There is no Light at the end of the tunnel unless I change my TV Card!! Thanks Jadukor - Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High levels of breakin attempts
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html Thanks for volunteering! I'll take a look at it, but on the documentation list there was recently a discussion as to what to do with the FAQ: Merge it into the handbook or a complete rewrite. In many cases, questions should be merged into the handbook, after all if a question continuously reappears so as to create an entry in the FAQ it may be because it is not explained well enough in the man-pages or the handbook. But for the above question, I don't see this fit particularly well into the handbook. Not to offend OP, the occasional reappearance of a question is fine, it was only the short latancy (5h) that made me think, please, read the list also. Cheers, 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]
A question occured when installing FreeBSD5.3
When I use an installing CD to Boot my Computer,it stopped at the beginning with this Error: acpi_cmbat0:battery initialization failed So I know that is because my computer's motherboard's battery run out.But because my computer is ASUS PortblePC D1,it's unconvenient for me to change the battery. Question: So I want to know if there is a method to install FreeBSD without the initializing of battery or Skip this step? _ Do You Yahoo!? http://cn.rd.yahoo.com/mail_cn/tag/1g/*http://cn.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: nvidia driver problem
craig wrote: first off, the colour depth issue is resolved. once restarted, x loads the nvidia driver with the full 24bit colour depth. thanks for that. (II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): CRT-1, DFP-0 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed; (WW) NVIDIA(0): using first display You have 2 monitors? If so, I recommend the TwinView config. It's tricky, but works well. no, i dont - i have a single samsung syncmaster 213t - but it has both analog and digital cables, as does the graphics cards. so i plugged them both in. this is where things are not perfect now. the nvidia drivers select the first of the two cables, ie. analog. whereas i would like to to take the digital. i cannot quite explain it, but the analog view is not as 'crisp' as the digital. how can i specify to use the 'second' monitor? i'll help where i can - this is a very fresh install of 5.3, and onto an empty disk - so no upgrades or changes, just a straight install. and i can pretty much remember most of what i've done to get here - if it helps i can certainly note the steps. perhaps you could see something in the sequence? gl seems to work fine - cracking render rates too! so...how can i be sure out the linux compatibitily answer? thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bad file descriptor
Hi all, I have no idea what's causing the problem here but it seems that mail cannot be delivered to the root account - I know I should have mail forwarded to a different user in the aliases file... I'm running 5.3-RELEASE-p2 (haven't applied the latest patch yet) and GENERIC kernel. The MTA is sendmail, the box is only used for web services for a few friends. Anyway, last night, when the daily periodic was run by cron it appears the mail could not be delivered to root. The sendmail logs show the error DSN: Service unavailable (/var/mail/root: lstat: file changed after open) I have tried emailing other user accounts, and that works fine. I have tried emailing root again, and I get exactly the same errors. So, I checked /var/mail - here's the interesting thing. # ls some user accounts root some more user accounts # ls -a . .. some user accounts root some more user accounts # ls -la . .. some user accounts some more user accounts i.e. root's file does not show. # touch root touch: root: Bad file descriptor I tried # vi /var/mail/root (which created a new file, I saved it (empty), and the box paniced and rebooted) I've checked google / the mailing list archives but can't seem to find anything relevant (I must be searching for the wrong keywords). If someone could give me a few pointers that would be great. Cheers, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: High levels of breakin attempts
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:43 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Gene; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: High levels of breakin attempts Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html Thanks for volunteering! I'll take a look at it, but on the documentation list there was recently a discussion as to what to do with the FAQ: Merge it into the handbook or a complete rewrite. The FAQ and the handbook serve different needs. If the official FAQ is got rid of then someone else will just write one on their website and post it because the need is still there - and the info on theirs could be pretty -wrong-. It's better I think to have an official one even if every question is answered by see section XYZ in the handbook, here's the link to it In many cases, questions should be merged into the handbook, after all if a question continuously reappears so as to create an entry in the FAQ it may be because it is not explained well enough in the man-pages or the handbook. There's different ways of explaining the same thing, and an alterative way may be better for some people than others. There's plenty of people who read my book and felt it explained things better than the Handbook, and vis-versa. But both my book and the handbook had the same info in many cases - so what it boiled down to is that my style was easier for some people to absorb, the handbooks style was easier for other people to absorb. But for the above question, I don't see this fit particularly well into the handbook. Section 14 is where it would fit. Not to offend OP, the occasional reappearance of a question is fine, it was only the short latancy (5h) that made me think, please, read the list also. You obviously forgot when you were in High School and the teacher gave the assignment for the next day, then at 2 minute intervals following this for about 10 minutes kids were asking what's the assignment for tomorrow ;-) Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia driver problem
craig wrote: this is where things are not perfect now. the nvidia drivers select the first of the two cables, ie. analog. whereas i would like to to take the digital. i cannot quite explain it, but the analog view is not as 'crisp' as the digital. how can i specify to use the 'second' monitor? a quick r through nvidia's tfm indicates a very simple solution. by adding Option IgnoreDisplayDevices CRT i get exactly what i am looking for. sorry for abusing your time... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to reliably measure user time (getrusage(2))
Hi all, I need to measure the time spent in user mode for rather short-lived processes. Sadly the results vary highly % while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n /user/p;done user 1.13 user 0.67 user 0.65 user 0.65 user 0.64 user 0.65 % while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n /user/p;sleep 1;done user 1.22 user 0.87 user 0.75 user 0.67 user 0.86 user 0.74 % while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n /user/p;sleep 3;done user 1.24 user 1.23 user 1.27 user 1.27 user 1.10 user 1.19 I fail to see how sleeping or waiting between consecutive runs could affect user time. Everything from page faults to I/O is handled inside the kernel, so it shouldn't affect user-time, no? The only library function not taking constant time I could think of would be malloc(3), is that a possibility? Inside the program I'm using getrusage(2) to measure the time my program is executing. kern.hz is set to 1000, this is on a 5-STABLE 1.5GHz Pentium-M. What to do? Ulrich Spoerlein -- PGP Key ID: F0DB9F44 Encrypted mail welcome! Fingerprint: F1CE D062 0CA9 ADE3 349B 2FE8 980A C6B5 F0DB 9F44 Ok, which part of Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. didn't you understand? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I quit
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:11:38 -0500 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Scott Bennett wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:01:26 -0600 David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] That may be true. I don't really know because I haven't looked at Darwin source. However, essentially everything in NextStep above the kernel that was not part of the OOPS was taken directly from 4.3BSD. ...or from the FSF, or from Sun, or from CMU, or from MIT, or from Adobe, depending. Well, well. So Steve Jobs now thinks UNIX utilities might be important after all? Wonders never cease... Almost all of the compiler toolchain was GNU, Sun provided minor things like NFS, NIS, and RPC, CMU provided Mach itself, and together with MIT provided AFS and X11, Adobe provided PostScript, fonts font management, and DPS. BSD tradition Apple freely picked from here and there, whatever they thought best, and made what can only be said to be their own. Looks great. Keep in mind that Mach 2.x *was* a heavily modified 4.3BSD kernel. Mach 3.x and later is not. The NeXT Mach 2.5 kernel was not a modified BSD kernel. Sigh. It was indeed. Keep reading. It was a monolithic kernel which supported dynamic loading of kernel objects, Mach messaging and exception handling (rather than BSD signals, which were emulated for BSD compatibility purposes), SMP NUMA aSMP, and an integrated task/thread paradigm unrelated to normal BSD process semantics, etc. All that stuff was hacked onto a 4.3BSD kernel. That's how Mach 2 got its start. The CMU folks did not start out be reinventing the wheel, the transmission, the engine, etc. Much 4.3BSD stuff was replaced at CMU, and much was simply added onto it, but the source they started with was 4.3BSD. Mach stopped using a 4.3BSD-based kernel at Mach 3.0, which was the first microkernel release of Mach. NEXTSTEP didn't make the leap to the Mach 3.x architecture. If Mac OSX/Darwin has done so, then that's great. If not, then a great opportunity was missed. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army. * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAQ vs Handbook (was: High levels of breakin attempts)
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The FAQ and the handbook serve different needs. If the official FAQ is got rid of then someone else will just write one on their website and post it because the need is still there - and the info on theirs could be pretty -wrong-. It's better I think to have an official one even if every question is answered by see section XYZ in the handbook, here's the link to it True, but what has happened is that what started out with simple questions and simple answers has evolved into pages and pages of documentation. A question in the FAQ should be answered in one paragraph. If not, before adding a new entry in the faq one should ask: Are people asking this because it's not documented or documentation is badly written? If so, it's better to take a look at the appropriate section of the handbook. There's different ways of explaining the same thing, and an alterative way may be better for some people than others. There's plenty of people who read my book and felt it explained things better than the Handbook, and vis-versa. But both my book and the handbook had the same info in many cases - so what it boiled down to is that my style was easier for some people to absorb, the handbooks style was easier for other people to absorb. Yes, sometimes it is easier to search questions - but having more sources of information introduces the risk of only one source being updated. Right now, you have the FAQ, the Handbook and the man-pages, keeping things in sync is a mess. My personal oppinion is that instead of a completly separate FAQ, at the end of each section/chapter should be a FAQ. This would enforce the same organization of both FAQ and Handbook (which was one reason that the discussion arose) and it would be easier to merge things into the handbook when appropriate. You obviously forgot when you were in High School and the teacher gave the assignment for the next day, then at 2 minute intervals following this for about 10 minutes kids were asking what's the assignment for tomorrow ;-) He he, my teachers were smart enough to write the assignments on the blackboard for that very same reason :-) Now, I think this thread has gone too far off topic, so let it end here, I'll see if I can come up with an entry for the FAQ. Cheers, 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]
VNCviewer fullscreen under Gnome 2.8 - loosing window decorations
Hi, I'm running in a strange problem using VNCviewer (VNC 3.3.7 built from ports) in fullscreen mode: vncviewer uses function key F8 to switch between normal and fullscreen mode. When I drop out of VNC fullscreen-mode using F8 I'm loosing the window decorations of VNCViewer under X. When pressing F8 again to bring up the vncviewer popup window that should allow me to go back to vnc fullscreen mode nothing happens. The only way to get back out again of vnc is to terminate the vnc-connection on the server-side in order to kill the vnc-client window running on my machine - really annoying. From what I can tell this problem *might* have to do something with Gnome(desktop) handling the vnc-session and going in- and out of VNC fullscreen mode. Here's my environment: FreeBSD 5.3 Gnome 2.8 VNC 3.3.7 from ports all ports current up to the minute (i.e. I've done portupgrade -arR some days ago) Has anybody else experienced this problem? Anything that can be done against it? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building a package without installing it
daniel quinn wrote: is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i want to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add there. Correct. This is something that comes up every so often on the lists, in a wouldn't it be nice if... sort of way. Unfortunately, to get the ports tree from working the way it does now changed into doing things in a way that would make what you want possible is a major feat of engineering. There have been some PRs proposing changes that would facilitate such a change, but those patches haven't been applied -- eg. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/28155 You can see why it hasn't been applied by reading the follow-ups in that PR. Too much stuff in the ports tree would break. The canonical answer to this problem is to set up a jail(8) environment specifically for building ports in -- which is essentially the way the FreeBSD package building cluster works. A somewhat less popular answer would be to look at NetBSD's pkgsrc system or whatever the OpenBSD packaging system is called -- either of which can be ported to FreeBSD relatively easily, and which I think have the capability to create their own style of packages without installing them first. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3
Hi, Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting the following error on boot: ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:1 ::204:61ff:fe46:be89, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address ntpd seems to be working from what I can see in it's log file, but I can't do anything with ntpq to check it. Wether I run it as my normal user or as root, running ntpq -p always gives: ntpq: write to localhost.foo.com failed: Permission denied I can run ntpq without any flags (and get the ntpq prompt), but as soon as I try to run commands in it like associations or peers, it just comes back with that same error message. I assume this has something to do with the first error message that ntpq is trying ( failing) to bind to ipv6, but I'm unsure why that's the case. Here's the output of ifconfig in case that helps: vr0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::204:61ff:fe46:be89%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:04:61:46:be:89 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 I've tried disabling my firewall and running ntpq -p again, but I still get the same response. I've tried googling for a solution, but haven't found anything as yet so I hope someone here can help! Here is my ntpd entries in rc.conf: ntpd_enable=YES # Run ntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO). ntpd_program=/usr/sbin/ntpd # path to ntpd, if you want a different one. ntpd_flags=-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid and the contents of ntp.conf: server 210.48.130.204 server augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au driftfile /var/db/ntpd.drift logfile /var/log/ntpd Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgp6RektuyCqN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)
Joe Schmoe wrote: I have a new laptop that has the FN (function) key in the very lower left, and the CTRL key one key to the right of it ... but I like the CTRL key to be in the far lower left ... Is it possible to switch the function of these two keys (not just in X, but in the console, virtual terminals, etc.) Yes, this is certainly possible. In fact, there are two separate mechanisms for doing this -- one for use under X-win, the other for use under the console. Under X, see xmodmap(1) and the sections in X(7) on keyboards, and these other man pages: % man -k xkb setxkbmap(1) - set the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension xkbcomp(1) - compile XKB keyboard description xkbevd(1)- XKB event daemon xkbprint(1) - print an XKB keyboard description For modifying the console see kdbcontrol(1), kbdmap(1), kbdmap(5) -- the keymap files in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps are pretty easy to understand and create customised versions of. See also the allscreens_kbdflags variable in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for how to get your changes to happen automatically on reboot. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: NFS export of evolution
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:43:05PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be shared at all of the computers. I would like to have the ability to retrieve mail from any of the computers I happen to be logged into. I have tried various permutations of exporting /home, /home/reg-user, and /home/reg-user/.evolution and I always get the same error when trying to read mail. If your main concern is being able to read/send email from any host on the network, why not run an IMAP server? I use use courier-imap from the ports on a machine that, among many other things, also exports nfs file systems. It's easy to get working, and works really well for a small setup. If you don't run your own smtp server, you can retrieve mail from your ISP's pop or imap servers using fetchmail, passing messages to procmail, which can deliver them in a format that courier-imapd can understand. Just a thought. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpaQSQ7aSHmg.pgp Description: PGP signature
CDROM of OpenOffice?
Is OpenOffice available for 5.3 on a CDROM? I'm on a dial up, and its too big. Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libintl.so.5 issue when installing logrotate
Hi, I ran into a rather funny issue (fbsd 5.3-release, i386). I have an updated ports tree (that is: twice per week cron updates it using cvsup). Now, I tried installing /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate (make install) O.k., it failed, mentioning that it required gettext version 0.13 or higher. No problem, just install that, right? O.k., so I installed /usr/ports/devel/gettext (make deinstall, make reinstall) All fine so far (it installef version 0.14.1). Then I tried again to make install the /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate and again it failed, this time the error is: [...] === Building for logrotate-3.7_3 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.5 not found Hmmm, no what can that be? A quick look-up on Google shows: http://tomster.org/geek/freebsdcookbook/tidbits/gettextupgrade Nice, a chicken and the egg problem: logrotate requires gettext 0.13 or higher, but when installing that, apparently out goes a required library! Duh! The same page mentions the following: The solution is to force the upgrade of the already currently installed version of gettext (by using the -f option) and doing the upgrade recursively (by using the -r option). I guess this means doing a pkg_add -f -r gettextpkg as opposed to make install-ing the port, right? Now, before doing this (and possibly messing up the installation by doing a force install), has anyone already done this, and is this really the best solution? Tnx and cheerz, Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM
Hello FreeBSD friends. In previous post I told you that I was unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz and 16 MB RAM, with the three floppies (FreeBSD 4.10 installs well). After the daemon screen, the system rebooted just before loading the kernel. That strange behaviour made me try everything at the boot loader prompt along several weeks, without success. In the floppies directory of the 5.3 installation CDROM states that FreeBSD can be installed with at least 8MB RAM: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and run(although FreeBSD can run on 386 processors with a custom kernel) and at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run. *** I read on the internet that some people could not install FreeBSD 5.3 in 16 MB, needing as much as 24 MB to success. I think I have confirmed that. A couple of days before, I received from a friend another fast machine ;-), it was a pentium 75 MHz with 32 MB RAM. I tried to remove the memory bank from the pentium75 to the pentium100, but this kind of memory did not work on the later one.( it did not like EDO RAM). :-( So I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on the Pentium 75 machine flawlessly, everything went fine. Then I removed two 8MB banks, so that the machine was 16 MB RAM. I tried the install floppies, and YES!!!, it rebooted before the kernel load. So FreeBSD can not be installed with floppies and 16 MB RAM. I needs more. How much? I do not know, 32MB work here, but I can not test 24 MB. I think the files on the manuals should be corrected to avoid this kind of issues. Whell, that is the story, although I have not been able to get Xorg work on this machine, but you will know that in the next post to the list. Thanks Ramiro Aceves ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can not get Xorg work on S3 card
Hello friends. I have never had this problem before. I have installed X many times with all kinds of old machines in Linux, also did it in my FreeBSD athlon 1200GHz machine, and in a pentium 100 FreeBSD 4.10 machine, but I cant install X in an old pentium75 a friend of mine gave to me a couple of days before. I do not understand what is happening. My machine is a pentium 75 MHz and 32 MB RAM. Motherboard has got 4 PCI slots and 4 ISA slots. In the first PCI slot I have a S3 PCI video card plugged in. I can read in the chip: S3 Trio32, 86c732-p. I have tried to config xorg.conf file with the *vga*, *vesa* and *s3* chipsets but I always get the same error. Desperately, I read /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES or /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES and compiled a new kernel with options VESA and options VESA_DEBUG, without success (this was a desperate action, :-)) . It is horrible to compile the kernel on such slow machine. I took several hours to finish. Just to test, I removed FreeBSD and installed an old Debian Linux3.0 with XFree instead Xorg. It worked ok with the vesa driver, so the machine works. I removed Debian and installed FreeBSD again. I do not know where to tweak things now, and compiling the kernel is not a quick test and error method :-( with this ultraspeed machine. I attach the following files: *dmesg* *pciconf -lv* *uname -a* *Xorg.0.log* *xorg.conf* Thank you very much in advance. Ramiro Aceves. *** Xorg.0.log *** Release Date: 18 December 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.3 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD freebsd.remigio 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 10 23:46:37 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MIKERNEL i386 Build Date: 16 October 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Jan 11 10:50:17 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout MiLayout (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) XKB: model: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout es (**) XKB: layout: es (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/). (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/). (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/). (==) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,122d card , rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,122e card , rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,1230 card , rev 02 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:08:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 08:00:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 08:01:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 08:02:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 08:03:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 08:04:0: chip 5333,8811
Re: How to reliably measure user time (getrusage(2))
On 2005-01-11 10:40, Ulrich Spoerlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I need to measure the time spent in user mode for rather short-lived
processes. Sadly the results vary highly
% while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n
/user/p;done
user 1.13
user 0.67
user 0.65
user 0.65
user 0.64
user 0.65
The first time is the one that varies. This is usually normal, since
the system hasn't loaded the program's image in memory and is taking the
penalty of reading from slow media (i.e. a disk).
% while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n
/user/p;sleep 1;done
user 1.22
user 0.87
user 0.75
user 0.67
user 0.86
user 0.74
Same here.
% while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n
/user/p;sleep 3;done
user 1.24
user 1.23
user 1.27
user 1.27
user 1.10
user 1.19
The load of a system is constantly changing. The fact that you have
observed larger times by running exactly the same program multiple times
may be an effect of an increase in the system load.
I fail to see how sleeping or waiting between consecutive runs could
affect user time.
Other processes get more time to load and start doing their own things
more often. If those other processes fill up the buffer cache so much
that your program image gets pushed out of it, you constantly take the
penalty of reloading the program from disk.
Everything from page faults to I/O is handled inside the kernel, so it
shouldn't affect user-time, no?
Unless, of course, the program has to wait for I/O operations and
changes its behavior depending on user data. The following program is
CPU-bound and *does* run within a pretty stable user time period:
% orion:/tmp/foo$ nl foo.c
% 1 #include err.h
% 2 #include stdlib.h
% 3 #include strings.h
%
% 4 #define BUFLEN 8192
% 5 #define RUNS(1024 * 1024)
%
% 6 int
% 7 main(void)
% 8 {
% 9 char *p;
% 10 int k;
%
% 11 p = malloc(BUFLEN * sizeof(char));
% 12 if (p == NULL)
% 13 err(1, malloc);
%
% 14 for (k = 0; k RUNS; k++)
% 15 bzero(p, BUFLEN);
% 16 return (0);
% 17 }
%
% orion:/tmp/foo$ for count in $(jot 10 1 10); do
% ( time -p ./foo ) 21 | sed -n /user/p ; done | tslog
% 2005-01-11 11:04:20 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:21 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:22 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:23 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:24 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:25 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:26 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:27 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:28 - user 0.97
% 2005-01-11 11:04:29 - user 0.97
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Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel
Grettings every body. Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that channel im new in irc if anyone can help me in this shortcomming. Thank in advance. Jesus Boadas __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows
Hi all, I'm looking for an efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows. I don't want to use utility like dd because it don't understand the file systems and I want to make backup on a different hd (geometry and size). So, anyone have a links for a good program that can do what I am looking for? Thank you Eric _ Take charge with a pop-up guard built on patented Microsoft® SmartScreen Technology. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jboadas Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 19:04 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel =20 Grettings every body. =20 Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: =20 * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that channel =20 im new in irc if anyone can help me in this shortcomming. =20 Thank in advance. =20 Jesus Boadas =20 =20 =20 __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page =16 Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20 First of all, IRC is not official FBSD support means. Although some = really learned people hang out there. The problem you are facing is, you need = to have a registered nick to join the channel. Register your nick with the services to join the channel Regards, S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:34, jboadas wrote: Grettings every body. Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that channel It means you need a registered handle and hostname with FreeNode for the #FreeBSD channel im new in irc if anyone can help me in this shortcomming. ...type the following command in you irc client. /msg nickserv IDENTIFY your_chosen_password_here_less_the_angle_brackets You'll have to re-run that command everytime you connect to the FreeNode network. Thank in advance. No worries Jesus. Jesus Boadas -Alastair ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd question
Dear Sir or Madam: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup a freedsb server, but not much success. Do you have any links or tutorials on how to setup my own ftp server using freebsd? Second, is it possible for me to use one hard drive and use it as a ftp server, and while using a secondary hard drive as a webserver for my niece on one computer? Sincerely, Tri __ 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: Odd kernel error on an NFS server
M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I occasionally see this on an NFS server under heavy load ufs_rename: fvp == tvp (can't happen) Any idea what this means and where I should look to fix it? It means that somehow the UFS code got a request to rename a file to itself, and the kernel code didn't think it was possible for such a request to get into the kernel. [e.g., the mv(1) command checks for that before issuing the system call, so it can't happen that way] The error *is* handled cleanly, so it isn't necessarily a problem, but if you figure out what's causing it, preferably in a way that someone else can reproduce, please report it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question occured when installing FreeBSD5.3
Peng Shan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I use an installing CD to Boot my Computer,it stopped at the beginning with this Error: acpi_cmbat0:battery initialization failed So I know that is because my computer's motherboard's battery run out.But because my computer is ASUS PortblePC D1,it's unconvenient for me to change the battery. Question: So I want to know if there is a method to install FreeBSD without the initializing of battery or Skip this step? The boot menu offers you the option of booting without ACPI. That should get your system to boot. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unplanned reboot failed
Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir; yesterday my box rebooted itself... probably because of a power blink since other boxes did the same. Now it won't reboot; the kernel starts, a msg display very quickly then I get a box showing - Message -- Loading module aac.ko failed Adaptec AAC RAID (100%)- When I cr past this box get a box saying Message Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system (100%)- What can I do from this point? Before this problem became apparent I noticed that sendmail appeared to be gone from my system. I've apparently messed up some critical paths, and wonder if it might be better to just rebuild this sandbox from the mini-iso... just need to recreate the bootable floppies in that case, right? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High levels of breakin attempts
Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address, temporarily block that address (perhaps at the firewall)? It'd be real satisfying to just dump the attackers' packets to the bit bucket and slow 'em down a bit. Not that I'm an expert (and not that that's stopping me), but this can be done by configuring sshd to use PAM and selecting a PAM module such as pam_abl that can blacklist sites that send too many attempts. See http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html for examples. -- Carleton Vaughn College Park, Georgia, USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3
Ian Moore wrote: Hi, Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting the following error on boot: ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:1 ::204:61ff:fe46:be89, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address ntpd seems to be working from what I can see in it's log file, but I can't do anything with ntpq to check it. Wether I run it as my normal user or as root, running ntpq -p always gives: ntpq: write to localhost.foo.com failed: Permission denied I had once a problem with ntpd, when also running named. Some hostname resolution failed, because the servers were started in the wrong order. Are you also running named? Here is my ntpd entries in rc.conf: ntpd_enable=YES # Run ntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO). ntpd_program=/usr/sbin/ntpd # path to ntpd, if you want a different one. ntpd_flags=-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid I use: ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_flags=-g and the contents of ntp.conf: server 210.48.130.204 server augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au driftfile /var/db/ntpd.drift logfile /var/log/ntpd And here I use: driftfile /var/db/ntpd.drift pidfile /var/run/ntpd.pid server nr1.time.server server nr2.time.server server nr3.time.server Does that help you? Rob. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd question
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 03:00 am, Tri wrote: Dear Sir or Madam: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup a freedsb server, but not much success. Do you have any links or tutorials on how to setup my own ftp server using freebsd? You can learn about installing and using FreeBSD by reading the online handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Chapter 23 has sections for both FTP and Apache Web Server. Other good, online resources include: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 http://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php Second, is it possible for me to use one hard drive and use it as a ftp server, and while using a secondary hard drive as a webserver for my niece on one computer? Yes, you can put ftp accessible areas and web pages on separate hard drives. This may get a little complicated if you're allowing users to both ftp to/from their home directories and have personal web pages in a public folder within their home directories. Sincerely, Tri Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd question
Tri wrote: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup a freedsb server, but not much success. Do you have any links or tutorials on how to setup my own ftp server using freebsd? You must have come accross the FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ when you visited the freebsd site and subscribed to the list - it tells you everything you need to know - or at least get started. Second, is it possible for me to use one hard drive and use it as a ftp server, and while using a secondary hard drive as a webserver for my niece on one computer? You can use one hard disk or as many as you can fit into your box. You don't need to keep the ftp server and web server on separate harddisks unless you don't have enough disk space. But, take it easy, don't try and do everything in your first install. I recommend you take one step at a time and get comfortable with where you got - it is easier to locate where something went wrong. Cheers, 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]
Mrtg question
Im using net-snmp-5.2.1 with mrtg on a Alpha CPU. I want to monitor my memorry usage. However when I add the following to the mrtg.cfg file I find that SNMPD shuts down and I get these errors in the logs. I add this to mrtg.cfg LoadMIBs: /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt ### Memmory Target[freemem]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11.0.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11.0:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Options[freemem]: nopercent,growright,gauge,noinfo Title[freemem]: Free Memory PageTop[freemem]: H1 Free Memory /H1 MaxBytes[freemem]: 100 kMG[freemem]: k,M,G,T,P,X YLegend[freemem]: bytes ShortLegend[freemem]: bytes LegendI[freemem]: Free Memory: LegendO[freemem]: Legend1[freemem]: Free memory, not including swap, in bytes I get this in the snmpd.log file kvm_openfiles: Permission denied kvm_openfiles: /dev/mem: Permission denied I do see the file in /dev/mem ls -la mem crw-r- 1 root kmem2, 0 Jan 6 17:45 mem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High levels of breakin attempts
Carleton Vaughn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address, temporarily block that address (perhaps at the firewall)? It'd be real satisfying to just dump the attackers' packets to the bit bucket and slow 'em down a bit. Not that I'm an expert (and not that that's stopping me), but this can be done by configuring sshd to use PAM and selecting a PAM module such as pam_abl that can blacklist sites that send too many attempts. See http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html for examples. Always remember, however, to be careful that this doesn't open you up to an easy denial-of-service attack. If all somebody has to do is try to log in a half-dozen times to lock out the IP address they're connecting from, you may be making it possible for them to attack your operation without breaking into your machine. 5 or 6 login attempts doesn't remotely constitute a brute force attack. From what I've seen on my own machine, these attempts seem to be trying passwords from a particular Linux distribution that shipped with default passwords on a number of accounts. Sometimes it makes me feel better to lock out such attacks, but I don't actually kid myself into thinking that I'm either improving my own security or inconveniencing the attacker noticeably. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blacklisting IPs
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:07 PM To: artware Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blacklisting IPs artware wrote: Hello again, My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I've already had a few breakin attempts -- they show up as Illegal user tests in the /var/log/auth.log... It looks like they're trying common login names (probably with the login name used as passwd). It takes them hours to try a dozen names, but I'd rather not have any traffic from these folks. Is there any way to blacklist IPs at the system level, or do I have to hack something together for each daemon? - ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's what I do - as root: route -nq add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 127.0.0.1 -blackhole To the attacker, it looks as if you dropped off the net. This actually isn't the best advice since the incoming packets from the attacker are still using up your bandwidth. It's best to report them and it's not hard to do it. There are automated tools that will do it. As the CTO of an ISP let me tell you that we get about 1 of those reports every few months - that is how few people are reporting them - and we look closely at every one of them. This isn't a situation where the abuse departments of most ISP's are overflowing with so many network abuse notifications that they aren't interested in getting more of them. I've had these showing up in my auth.log since mid-December. Most of the time, my lookups have gone to domains registered in Elbonia and frankly I have my doubts about any administrators over there caring. The only Western abuse@ I found sent me an automated reply. I'm waiting to get one from Singapore---maybe I can get somebody caned... -- Carleton Vaughn College Park, Georgia, USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to back-rev?
I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD. I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards freezing the system, and trying to make the swith from XFree86 to Xorg. Can you use the /stand/sysinstall upgrade to go backwards? What about filesystem formats? I know that FreeBSD 5 added some really cool filesystem capabilities, like snapshots - but did that make changes in the filesystem format? Thanks! -- John Lind [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: Can not get Xorg work on S3 card [fixed]
It works now!!! I fixed the problem telling where PCI card is on the xorg.conf file. I do not understand it cause I suposed that Xorg searched for it : BusID PCI:0:8:0 Thank you very much. Ramiro Aceves ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:37:31 +, eric wyzerski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows. I don't want to use utility like dd because it don't understand the file systems and I want to make backup on a different hd (geometry and size). So, anyone have a links for a good program that can do what I am looking for? dump(8) is good. A level 0 dump is a full image of a filesystem, and you can save dump output into a file for later use with restore(8). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore Bryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to back-rev?
John wrote: I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD. I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards freezing the system, and trying to make the swith from XFree86 to Xorg. if i were you i would backup your data and try a fresh 5.3 install, one other thing to try first is to boot without ACPI ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linksys WPC11 Wireless Card.
Hi I apologise for asking this, as I know for a fact this question has been asked before, however when searching the archives, I am finding conflicting answers. I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 4 wireless notebook adapter, and am wondering if anyone has successfully set this up using FreeBSD 5.3. I have read that Version 4 of the card uses a different chipset to previous versions and that this could cause some issues, how true is this? Also what options do I need to enable in my custom kernel, I read somewhere in the archives that I also need to disable some items in the kernel as well, could someone please elaborate? Thanks in advance. Mick Walker NAAFI Finance International ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. *** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High levels of breakin attempts
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Always remember, however, to be careful that this doesn't open you up to an easy denial-of-service attack. If all somebody has to do is try to log in a half-dozen times to lock out the IP address they're connecting from, you may be making it possible for them to attack your operation without breaking into your machine. An excellent point, although if they're doing this from their own, valid IP it seems they're DOSing themselves. 5 or 6 login attempts doesn't remotely constitute a brute force attack. From what I've seen on my own machine, these attempts seem to be trying passwords from a particular Linux distribution that shipped with default passwords on a number of accounts. Sometimes it makes me feel better to lock out such attacks, but I don't actually kid myself into thinking that I'm either improving my own security or inconveniencing the attacker noticeably. There's been discussion of this specific script around and speculation as to who patrick, rolo and horde are. Since the script isn't actually doing anything *clever*, it's probably not worth confronting with tools. I am, however, curious as to *how* to confront it with tools, on account of I have lots and lots to learn about security and have been relying more or less on the sensibilities of FreeBSD's default install. -- Carleton Vaughn College Park, Georgia, USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
To get accelerated OpenGL, i installed Nvidia's drivers for my Geforce4 MX 440 on a FreeBSD 5.3-release machine. The problem is, most of the games and apps that use OpenGL do not run smoothly - every second or so they would freeze for a little while which makes it impossible to enjoy them. At first I thought my system could be too slow or something, however, this also happens with simple apps, even screensavers. What's more, the game Tuxracer runs smoothly without any problems, and since it's a pretty fancy one, i guess that rules out system performance. Does anybody have a clue as to what could be causing this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bash version?
Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b as the default. Does anybody know of any good reason why I should stick to 2.05b? I would like to use the latest stable version, but I don't want to go to version 3 if there are any issues that might bite me in the butt or if it will disrupt any other FreeBSD convention/issue that I don't know about. Looking at the the gnu bash site, I don't see any reason *not* to go to version 3, but I tend to let any FreeBSD considerations trump others when coming up with installation standards. Thanks for any info, cheers, DW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash version?
Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b as the default. Does anybody know of any good reason why I should stick to 2.05b? I would like to use the latest stable version, but I don't want to go to version 3 if there are any issues that might bite me in the butt or if it will disrupt any other FreeBSD convention/issue that I don't know about. Looking at the the gnu bash site, I don't see any reason *not* to go to version 3, but I tend to let any FreeBSD considerations trump others when coming up with installation standards. Thanks for any info, cheers, DW shells/bash (in ports) is now 3.0. Maybe there just isn't a (pre-compiled) package yet. I use 3.0 on my 5.3 system, and I am still using 2.05b on my 4.9 system. I haven't actually noticed any differences. -- 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]
Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
On 01/11/05 06:01 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: To get accelerated OpenGL, i installed Nvidia's drivers for my Geforce4 MX 440 on a FreeBSD 5.3-release machine. The problem is, most of the games and apps that use OpenGL do not run smoothly - every second or so they would freeze for a little while which makes it impossible to enjoy them. At first I thought my system could be too slow or something, however, this also happens with simple apps, even screensavers. What's more, the game Tuxracer runs smoothly without any problems, and since it's a pretty fancy one, i guess that rules out system performance. Does anybody have a clue as to what could be causing this? Are you loading the glx module in your Xorg config? Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ QOTD: I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.2 RELENG source fails to build
Thanks, That seems to have worked. Joe --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:23:10PM -0800, Joe wrote: Hmm, now 5.2.1 is having problems with config.h missing. cd /usr/src rm -rf contrib gnu cat supfile *default host=cvsup6.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default tag=RELENG_5_2 *default compress # this is all that is needed for the base system src-all ports-all tag=. cvsup supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld ERROR as follows: === gnu/usr.bin/man/man cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DSTDC_HEADERS -DPOSIX -DHAS_TROFF -DDO_COMPRESS -DCATMODE=0644 -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DSTDC_HEADERS -DPOSIX -DHAS_TROFF -DDO_COMPRESS -DCATMODE=0644 -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.c cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DSTDC_HEADERS -DPOSIX -DHAS_TROFF -DDO_COMPRESS -DCATMODE=0644 -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/glob.c cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib -DSTDC_HEADERS -DPOSIX -DHAS_TROFF -DDO_COMPRESS -DCATMODE=0644 -o man man.o manpath.o glob.o /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/../lib/libman.a -lz echo Making man.1 from man.man gzip -cn man.1 man.1.gz === gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath make: don't know how to make /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/lib/config.h. Stop *** Error code 2 I can't see how gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/Makefile should be trying to build /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/lib/config.h. Try cd /usr/src make cleandir make cleandir (yes, twice). Kris ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. 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: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:37:23PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: To my knowledge, the effects in /etc/hosts.allow are immediate as soon as you save the modified file. And I have been using it that way for many years. No need to killall -HUP inetd, no need to reboot. If after a change the service is still not available: - you did not allow the right thing - the servcie would not be working even without tcp wrapper Try to add ALL : ALL : allow at the top of /etc/hosts/allow. Does the service work? Then you made a mistake when trying to open tcp wrapper for that specific service. Else the problem is not with tcp wrapper / hosts.allow. Thanks for the comments, but changes to /etc/hosts.allow don't take effect until the system is rebooted. And when the system is rebooted, they definitely take effect. Two entries that take effect if and only if the system is rebooted: smbd : .krig.net : allow afpd : .krig.net : allow Commenting these out and saving the file has no effect. Rebooting the system stops Windows and Mac file sharing. Uncommenting them and saving the file has no effect. Rebooting the system restores Windows and Mac file sharing. uname -a FreeBSD kongemord.krig.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Sep 13 00 :17:04 EDT 2004 kongemord.krig.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KONGEMORD0 i386 Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:34:02 -0800 (PST), jboadas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grettings every body. Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that channel im new in irc if anyone can help me in this shortcomming. Thank in advance. Jesus Boadas Be aware however, from my experience, IRC should be a last resort for getting help. If you want to hang out and learn some cool stuff, that's encouraged. But if you begin asking questions that are covered in the handbook and easily found from google you're liable to get a negative response. It's best to lurk a while since you're new to irc to get the feel of things. And trust me, you will learn alot just listening in. --chip Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ip address behind router ?
Shane Ambler wrote: Looks to me that this page is not entirely accurate. (at least from where I am) It would appear to get a proxy server somewhere along the way. Yes this is true. If your behind a proxy or have a complicated network setup, this will fail. For most DSL/Cable modem customers this simple solution will work fine. These services are going to get the IP address of the last packet sent from the network. If you have more than one router, this will be the last router (NAT device) in your setup. It should work for most simple cases though. There are also some other web servers out there that offer this functionality. Just Google on external or outside IP and see if any of the other sites show any differences. I would consider using the dynamic dns services - such as no-ip - and use a perl script that updates then ping your dns name. Not sure if they are more accurate that the below idea though. That is an interesting idea. I would bet they may have the same problems with proxy servers and such but it would be worth a try. Good Luck, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blacklisting IPs
Hi, It's best to report them and it's not hard to do it. There are automated tools that will do it. I would be very interested in setting up such a tool on my server as well. My passwords are not easy to guess, and root is not allowed to login anyways, and changes are extremely slim that someone will guess the one and only username/password combination that is actually allowed to SSH and to su -. Nonetheless, I find it annoying that some kids with nothing better to do download these stupid brute force tools in order to call themselves hackers. Duh! Therefore, I could well do without having 22,000 lines of failed attempts in my securityy logs (though as of late they haven't been that long), and I wouldn't mind reporting the critters to their ISPs. Does anyone have a good suggestion for such a tool? It would be cool if the tool could spot such brute force attempts, and when it sees e.g. more than 5 failed attempts from the same IP within say 5 minutes of time, it would blacklist the IP, and would automatically report the crack attempt to the ISP of the critters. Anyone? Cheerz! Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Mrtg question
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Guillemette Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mrtg question Im using net-snmp-5.2.1 with mrtg on a Alpha CPU. I want to monitor my memorry usage. However when I add the following to the mrtg.cfg file I find that SNMPD shuts down and I get these errors in the logs. I add this to mrtg.cfg LoadMIBs: /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt ### Memmory Target[freemem]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11.0.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11.0:[EMAIL PROTECTED] alhost Options[freemem]: nopercent,growright,gauge,noinfo Title[freemem]: Free Memory PageTop[freemem]: H1 Free Memory /H1 MaxBytes[freemem]: 100 kMG[freemem]: k,M,G,T,P,X YLegend[freemem]: bytes ShortLegend[freemem]: bytes LegendI[freemem]: Free Memory: LegendO[freemem]: Legend1[freemem]: Free memory, not including swap, in bytes I get this in the snmpd.log file kvm_openfiles: Permission denied kvm_openfiles: /dev/mem: Permission denied I do see the file in /dev/mem ls -la mem crw-r- 1 root kmem2, 0 Jan 6 17:45 mem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Shawn, Try these OID: ucd/net - Memory - Buffers: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.14.0 ucd/net - Memory - Cache: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.15.0 ucd/net - Memory - Free: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.6.0 http://www.kende.com/cacti/graph.php?local_graph_id=14rra_id=all Andras Kende http://www.kende.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unplanned reboot failed
Hi! Hmm seems to me like your filesystem got damaged. No need to make boot floppies. What I would do is use a live CD and boot and then from there run fsck to repair. HTH Ben On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:18 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir; yesterday my box rebooted itself... probably because of a power blink since other boxes did the same. Now it won't reboot; the kernel starts, a msg display very quickly then I get a box showing - Message -- Loading module aac.ko failed Adaptec AAC RAID (100%)- When I cr past this box get a box saying Message Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system (100%)- What can I do from this point? Before this problem became apparent I noticed that sendmail appeared to be gone from my system. I've apparently messed up some critical paths, and wonder if it might be better to just rebuild this sandbox from the mini-iso... just need to recreate the bootable floppies in that case, right? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Benjamin Sobotta [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: unplanned reboot failed
At 12:42 PM 1/11/2005, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: Hmm seems to me like your filesystem got damaged. No need to make boot floppies. What I would do is use a live CD and boot and then from there run fsck to repair. Thanks for the reply Ben. However I'm unable to boot from the mini-iso for some reason. Set cdrom to bootable from bios setup, and it won't take. I can set bios to boot from floppy and then it does, albeit tried a w98 floppy cuz don't have my fbsd floppies anymore. But, can I run fsck from the sysinstall screen? Because that's what I eventually get thrown into after those error msgs. Except nothing seems to worth viz. the Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system msg. Marty On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:18 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir; yesterday my box rebooted itself... probably because of a power blink since other boxes did the same. Now it won't reboot; the kernel starts, a msg display very quickly then I get a box showing - Message -- Loading module aac.ko failed Adaptec AAC RAID (100%)- When I cr past this box get a box saying Message Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system (100%)- What can I do from this point? Before this problem became apparent I noticed that sendmail appeared to be gone from my system. I've apparently messed up some critical paths, and wonder if it might be better to just rebuild this sandbox from the mini-iso... just need to recreate the bootable floppies in that case, right? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Benjamin Sobotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
well, yes. the module section looks like this: Section Module Load freetype # Load xtt Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load speedo EndSection Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/11/05 06:01 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: To get accelerated OpenGL, i installed Nvidia's drivers for my Geforce4 MX 440 on a FreeBSD 5.3-release machine. The problem is, most of the games and apps that use OpenGL do not run smoothly - every second or so they would freeze for a little while which makes it impossible to enjoy them. At first I thought my system could be too slow or something, however, this also happens with simple apps, even screensavers. What's more, the game Tuxracer runs smoothly without any problems, and since it's a pretty fancy one, i guess that rules out system performance. Does anybody have a clue as to what could be causing this? Are you loading the glx module in your Xorg config? Lou ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ empty directory
The directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release is empty! Why is this? Thanks Florian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM of OpenOffice?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:49:46AM -, John Conover wrote: Is OpenOffice available for 5.3 on a CDROM? I'm on a dial up, and its too big. I think bsdmall sells it, but I don't know. Kris pgpZ04mVCnnH0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
Top Posting to try keeping this readable Next set of questions: Are you running Xorg? What version? Did you install it from ports or as a package? Did you install the binaries from nvidia or did you install them from ports? If installed from ports, how did you build? What is the card def block in your X config? What are your hw.nvidia sysctls (command: sysctl hw.nvidia just in case)? Caveat: Nvidia driver problems have come up twice already in the last week, and several times in the last month or two. Every time it seems there is a magic sword hiding there that causes some poor guy to just not be able to get it working. My setup: FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE. My kernel is build WITHOUT the agp device. NVidia GeForce FX5200. Drivers built from ports with Linux and ACPI support. Xorg 6.8.1 built from ports Xorg config enables the NVidia AGP. I am getting OpenGL acceleration, 8X AGP, and have two monitors presenting an extended desktop. I still haven't figured out the tiny ingredient that makes it all work for me, but keeps it eluding others. That's kinda bugging me - and, I'm sure, those others that can't get it working. Present the info requested above; if I see anything that looks off, you can try it. Maybe we'll finally find the missing link. Good luck. Lou On 01/11/05 06:59 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: well, yes. the module section looks like this: Section Module Load freetype # Load xtt Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load speedo EndSection Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/11/05 06:01 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: To get accelerated OpenGL, i installed Nvidia's drivers for my Geforce4 MX 440 on a FreeBSD 5.3-release machine. The problem is, most of the games and apps that use OpenGL do not run smoothly - every second or so they would freeze for a little while which makes it impossible to enjoy them. At first I thought my system could be too slow or something, however, this also happens with simple apps, even screensavers. What's more, the game Tuxracer runs smoothly without any problems, and since it's a pretty fancy one, i guess that rules out system performance. Does anybody have a clue as to what could be causing this? Are you loading the glx module in your Xorg config? Lou ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Nick the Greek's Law of Life: All things considered, life is 9 to 5 against. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libintl.so.5 issue when installing logrotate
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:53:52AM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, I ran into a rather funny issue (fbsd 5.3-release, i386). I have an updated ports tree (that is: twice per week cron updates it using cvsup). Now, I tried installing /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate (make install) O.k., it failed, mentioning that it required gettext version 0.13 or higher. No problem, just install that, right? O.k., so I installed /usr/ports/devel/gettext (make deinstall, make reinstall) All fine so far (it installef version 0.14.1). Then I tried again to make install the /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate and again it failed, this time the error is: [...] === Building for logrotate-3.7_3 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.5 not found Hmmm, no what can that be? A quick look-up on Google shows: http://tomster.org/geek/freebsdcookbook/tidbits/gettextupgrade Nice, a chicken and the egg problem: logrotate requires gettext 0.13 or higher, but when installing that, apparently out goes a required library! Duh! It's probably some other binary that is missing libintl.so.5 (you probably yanked it out from underneath when doing a previous upgrade - if you'd used portupgrade, this wouldn't have happened because it saves copies of the old libraries in case they're still in use). gmake is a likely candidate; you'd need to rebuild it. The libchk port will tell you if any other applications need to be rebuilt. Kris pgpyzTTQvjqHt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unplanned reboot failed
Hi again.
I'm not really sure whether you can run fsck from sysinstall. I never
tried. But if I'm not mistaken there is something like an repair mode
listed with an emergency shell. You might try that.
Ben
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:54 -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
At 12:42 PM 1/11/2005, Benjamin Sobotta wrote:
Hmm seems to me like your filesystem got damaged. No need to make boot
floppies. What I would do is use a live CD and boot and then from there
run fsck to repair.
Thanks for the reply Ben. However I'm unable to boot from the mini-iso for
some reason. Set cdrom to bootable from bios setup, and it won't take. I
can set bios to boot from floppy and then it does, albeit tried a w98
floppy cuz don't have my fbsd floppies anymore.
But, can I run fsck from the sysinstall screen? Because that's what I
eventually get thrown into after those error msgs. Except nothing seems to
worth viz. the Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system
msg.
Marty
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:18 -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir; yesterday my box
rebooted itself... probably because of a power blink since other boxes did
the same.
Now it won't reboot; the kernel starts, a msg display very quickly then I
get a box showing
- Message --
Loading module aac.ko failed
Adaptec AAC RAID
(100%)-
When I cr past this box get a box saying
Message
Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system
(100%)-
What can I do from this point? Before this problem became apparent I
noticed that sendmail appeared to be gone from my system. I've apparently
messed up some critical paths, and wonder if it might be better to just
rebuild this sandbox from the mini-iso... just need to recreate the
bootable floppies in that case, right?
Marty
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Re: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ empty directory
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:19:19PM +0100, Florian Hengstberger wrote: The directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release is empty! Why is this? Removed to save space, since it's an old release that is no longer supported. Try a mirror (http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org) if you really need those packages. Kris pgpCc9ldnUyaM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bash version?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:00:52AM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b as the default. FreeBSD uses whatever version of bash you tell it to (none are used by default). bash 1.x, 2.x and 3.x are available in the ports tree. Kris pgpXvsQjiQ1QT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ empty directory
Florian Hengstberger wrote: The directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release is empty! Why is this? Because the contents were deleted to make room for the 5.3-RELEASE and 5-STABLE package sets on the FTP sites. 5.2.1-RELEASE was a developer preview release, is known to be buggy and is no longer supported. (Part of no longer supported is packages are not generally available on FTP sites). Upgrading to 5.3-RELEASE-pN or 5.3-STABLE is highly recommended. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
finding installation date ?
how can i find what date did i install my freebsd box ? thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.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: Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM
- Original Message - From: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions-en freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:22 AM Subject: Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM Hello FreeBSD friends. In previous post I told you that I was unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz and 16 MB RAM, with the three floppies (FreeBSD 4.10 installs well). After the daemon screen, the system rebooted just before loading the kernel. That strange behaviour made me try everything at the boot loader prompt along several weeks, without success. In the floppies directory of the 5.3 installation CDROM states that FreeBSD can be installed with at least 8MB RAM: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and run(although FreeBSD can run on 386 processors with a custom kernel) and at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run. *** I read on the internet that some people could not install FreeBSD 5.3 in 16 MB, needing as much as 24 MB to success. I think I have confirmed that. A couple of days before, I received from a friend another fast machine ;-), it was a pentium 75 MHz with 32 MB RAM. I tried to remove the memory bank from the pentium75 to the pentium100, but this kind of memory did not work on the later one.( it did not like EDO RAM). :-( So I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on the Pentium 75 machine flawlessly, everything went fine. Then I removed two 8MB banks, so that the machine was 16 MB RAM. I tried the install floppies, and YES!!!, it rebooted before the kernel load. So FreeBSD can not be installed with floppies and 16 MB RAM. I needs more. How much? I do not know, 32MB work here, but I can not test 24 MB. I think the files on the manuals should be corrected to avoid this kind of issues. Whell, that is the story, although I have not been able to get Xorg work on this machine, but you will know that in the next post to the list. Thanks Ramiro Aceves snip i two had the same issues of not getting freebsd 4.9 , 4.10 or 5.3 installed and running with 16 meg of ram on an old 233 box that i whanted to use as a firewall/router .. so i put 32 in it and it works just fine with 5.3-stable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linksys WPC11 Wireless Card.
On Jan 11, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Walker, Michael wrote: Hi I apologise for asking this, as I know for a fact this question has been asked before, however when searching the archives, I am finding conflicting answers. I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 4 wireless notebook adapter, and am wondering if anyone has successfully set this up using FreeBSD 5.3. I have read that Version 4 of the card uses a different chipset to previous versions and that this could cause some issues, how true is this? Also what options do I need to enable in my custom kernel, I read somewhere in the archives that I also need to disable some items in the kernel as well, could someone please elaborate? Thanks in advance. Mick Walker NAAFI Finance International You're better off trying to find a version 3 card. I've, personally, never been able to get a ver 4 card working. You can find them on ebay for pretty cheap. Also, if you've got any friends that use the WPC11, and have had it for a year or so, there's a good chance you could just trade with them. Push comes to shove, let me know, I might have one I can sell you. I don't have an x86 lappy anymore, but I kept the ver3 card. I love my Powerbook, so I don't think I'll need the other card any time soon. 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
Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
well, Xorg -version says X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 I think it was installed by sysinstall as a package. I downloaded the drivers from nvidia. the device section: Section Device Identifier MyGeForce Driver nvidia VendorName NVIDIA BoardName GeForce4 MX 440 EndSection the sysctls: hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f17:0x hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6113 Mon Aug 2 16:08:32 PDT 2004 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce4 MX 440 hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 04.17.00.24.00 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP kernel is basically the default one, built with agp device. I *am* getting the acceleration, however, something is not quite right. As i said, tuxracer runs just fine, so maybe it's some OpenGL feature which most of the apps use, but tuxracer doesn't? Anyway, i should probably try updating everything to the latest versions and see what happens then. Not so sure that it would help though :( One more thing, I can't find any line in Xorg config relating to agp. How is it enabled? Louis LeBlanc wrote: Top Posting to try keeping this readable Next set of questions: Are you running Xorg? What version? Did you install it from ports or as a package? Did you install the binaries from nvidia or did you install them from ports? If installed from ports, how did you build? What is the card def block in your X config? What are your hw.nvidia sysctls (command: sysctl hw.nvidia just in case)? Caveat: Nvidia driver problems have come up twice already in the last week, and several times in the last month or two. Every time it seems there is a magic sword hiding there that causes some poor guy to just not be able to get it working. My setup: FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE. My kernel is build WITHOUT the agp device. NVidia GeForce FX5200. Drivers built from ports with Linux and ACPI support. Xorg 6.8.1 built from ports Xorg config enables the NVidia AGP. I am getting OpenGL acceleration, 8X AGP, and have two monitors presenting an extended desktop. I still haven't figured out the tiny ingredient that makes it all work for me, but keeps it eluding others. That's kinda bugging me - and, I'm sure, those others that can't get it working. Present the info requested above; if I see anything that looks off, you can try it. Maybe we'll finally find the missing link. Good luck. Lou On 01/11/05 06:59 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: well, yes. the module section looks like this: Section Module Load freetype # Load xtt Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load speedo EndSection Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/11/05 06:01 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: To get accelerated OpenGL, i installed Nvidia's drivers for my Geforce4 MX 440 on a FreeBSD 5.3-release machine. The problem is, most of the games and apps that use OpenGL do not run smoothly - every second or so they would freeze for a little while which makes it impossible to enjoy them. At first I thought my system could be too slow or something, however, this also happens with simple apps, even screensavers. What's more, the game Tuxracer runs smoothly without any problems, and since it's a pretty fancy one, i guess that rules out system performance. Does anybody have a clue as to what could be causing this? Are you loading the glx module in your Xorg config? Lou ___ 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: finding installation date ?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:49:26AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote: how can i find what date did i install my freebsd box The date of the files in /rescue will tell you the date of your last installation or installworld. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash version?
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:00:52AM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b as the default. FreeBSD uses whatever version of bash you tell it to (none are used by default). bash 1.x, 2.x and 3.x are available in the ports tree. If you install from port, then yes, all three are available and you have to choose. But up until now, we have always installed bash (and emacs) as additional packages during the initial CD installation, and it was always version 2.05 that ended up being installed. I'm changing our procedures so that we have cleaner installations, and not installing bash or emacs during the install anymore, but rather as the first ports we install after a our intial cvsup, in an effort to get rid of dependency conflicts (primarly expat) that need special instructions. That's when I discovered that there was a version 3 of bash available. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE: Konqueror - LAN Browser
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Re: FreeBSD 5.3-R, postfix smtp dying with sig11
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:47:44 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:47:24PM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote: So... what could cause this? Is the sig 11 causing the failure, or is master killing off smtp as a result of some other issue? Anything I can poke at? Usually hardware failure. Consult the mailing list archives or google for extensive discussion. If it was hardware failure I'd expect to see sig11's elsewhere -- I've never seen anything else sig11 on the box except postfix smtp processes, including repeatedly building world and kernel and dozens of other ports (it's a jail system, so I build package updates on the host OS and deploy them to the jails). I suspected yesterday that the problem might be controller write cache and softupdates combining to return success on writes before the data actually hit the drives, which could cause a short read of the on-disk queue file if it was accessed before the write completed. But I disabled the controller cache using the tw_cli command and I'm still seeing the same thing (unless tw_cli isn't really disabling all the write caching and I need to do something in the controller BIOS). I've also tried running a non-SMP kernel (it's a HTT system), but that didn't help. I'll try disabling APIC/ACPI today (which will of course also kill SMP) and see if that helps. Thanks, Bryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
Ok, according to your sysctls, you aren't getting the AGP acceleration at all. Try adding these lines to your card device section: Option RenderAccel True Option NvAGP 1 # Use NVIDIAs agp Then restart X. Check your hw.nvidia.agp sysctls, particularly these: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) You want status to be enabled, and rate to be 2x or 4x. From the sysctls below, it looks like the NvAGP setting is already turned on, so that appears to be a default. Since it's still not working, I suspect that if you check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file for warnings (WW) or errors (EE) related to AGP use, you'll find something about the native FreeBSD AGP. If you are using a GENERIC kernel (uname -a will tell you), that's almost certainly what's happening. From what I've read, the native FreeBSD AGP doesn't always work with NVidia cards. You'll have to compile a custom kernel with the following line removed: device agp Check here for details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Also, I'd recommend updating your ports and upgrading Xorg. You might also want to build and install the x11/nvidia-drivers port. Lou On 01/11/05 08:24 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: well, Xorg -version says X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 I think it was installed by sysinstall as a package. I downloaded the drivers from nvidia. the device section: Section Device Identifier MyGeForce Driver nvidia VendorName NVIDIA BoardName GeForce4 MX 440 EndSection the sysctls: hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f17:0x hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6113 Mon Aug 2 16:08:32 PDT 2004 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce4 MX 440 hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 04.17.00.24.00 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP kernel is basically the default one, built with agp device. I *am* getting the acceleration, however, something is not quite right. As i said, tuxracer runs just fine, so maybe it's some OpenGL feature which most of the apps use, but tuxracer doesn't? Anyway, i should probably try updating everything to the latest versions and see what happens then. Not so sure that it would help though :( One more thing, I can't find any line in Xorg config relating to agp. How is it enabled? Louis LeBlanc wrote: Top Posting to try keeping this readable Next set of questions: Are you running Xorg? What version? Did you install it from ports or as a package? Did you install the binaries from nvidia or did you install them from ports? If installed from ports, how did you build? What is the card def block in your X config? What are your hw.nvidia sysctls (command: sysctl hw.nvidia just in case)? Caveat: Nvidia driver problems have come up twice already in the last week, and several times in the last month or two. Every time it seems there is a magic sword hiding there that causes some poor guy to just not be able to get it working. My setup: FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE. My kernel is build WITHOUT the agp device. NVidia GeForce FX5200. Drivers built from ports with Linux and ACPI support. Xorg 6.8.1 built from ports Xorg config enables the NVidia AGP. I am getting OpenGL acceleration, 8X AGP, and have two monitors presenting an extended desktop. I still haven't figured out the tiny ingredient that makes it all work for me, but keeps it eluding others. That's kinda bugging me - and, I'm sure, those others that can't get it working. Present the info requested above; if I see anything that looks off, you can try it. Maybe we'll finally find the missing link. Good luck. Lou On 01/11/05 06:59 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: well, yes. the module section looks like this: Section Module Load freetype # Load xtt Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load speedo EndSection Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/11/05 06:01 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: To
NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3
Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. Im just checking to see if that is all that I should be doing. Thanks for your time ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE: Konqueror - LAN Browser
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 11:35 am, aksis wrote: Hi, When I use konqueror in su mode, I have access to the +LAN Browser, in the side pannel and am able to brows the network, but it is non-existant as a normal user. How do I fix this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I fixed this. I had to delete ~/.kde When I restarted xorg it worked. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows XP disappears from Workgroup (Net Hood) w/ Samba + WINS
I have a funny situation where Windows XP (Home) computers appear briefly under Network Neighbourhood (View All Computers in Workgroup under XP) and disappear throughout the day. Win95/Win98 and Samba boxes are always available, only Windows XP Home disappear. The boxes are still online, and I can still access them using the \\name\share notation (UNC). I have a feeling they are not announcing themselves on the network as they are supposed to. How do I get them to announce themselves. I tried making the samba server the prefered and local master (and WINS server - dished out by DHCP) but that didn't help. I can't figure this one out. Is there some packet I can craft and throw on the wire to force all these computers to announce themselves? -OR- can I modify/add a windows services on the XP boxes -OR- add a registry key. -- David Vincelli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
ok.. even though there wasn't anything useful in the Xorg logfile, after recompiling the kernel i get: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled Now this almost doubles the frame rates, which is nice to see :) Alas, the problem still remains :( Will try upgrading everything tomorrow.. Louis LeBlanc wrote: Ok, according to your sysctls, you aren't getting the AGP acceleration at all. Try adding these lines to your card device section: Option RenderAccel True Option NvAGP 1 # Use NVIDIAs agp Then restart X. Check your hw.nvidia.agp sysctls, particularly these: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) You want status to be enabled, and rate to be 2x or 4x. From the sysctls below, it looks like the NvAGP setting is already turned on, so that appears to be a default. Since it's still not working, I suspect that if you check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file for warnings (WW) or errors (EE) related to AGP use, you'll find something about the native FreeBSD AGP. If you are using a GENERIC kernel (uname -a will tell you), that's almost certainly what's happening. From what I've read, the native FreeBSD AGP doesn't always work with NVidia cards. You'll have to compile a custom kernel with the following line removed: device agp Check here for details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Also, I'd recommend updating your ports and upgrading Xorg. You might also want to build and install the x11/nvidia-drivers port. Lou On 01/11/05 08:24 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: well, Xorg -version says X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 I think it was installed by sysinstall as a package. I downloaded the drivers from nvidia. the device section: Section Device Identifier MyGeForce Driver nvidia VendorName NVIDIA BoardName GeForce4 MX 440 EndSection the sysctls: hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f17:0x hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6113 Mon Aug 2 16:08:32 PDT 2004 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce4 MX 440 hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 04.17.00.24.00 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP kernel is basically the default one, built with agp device. I *am* getting the acceleration, however, something is not quite right. As i said, tuxracer runs just fine, so maybe it's some OpenGL feature which most of the apps use, but tuxracer doesn't? Anyway, i should probably try updating everything to the latest versions and see what happens then. Not so sure that it would help though :( One more thing, I can't find any line in Xorg config relating to agp. How is it enabled? Louis LeBlanc wrote: Top Posting to try keeping this readable Next set of questions: Are you running Xorg? What version? Did you install it from ports or as a package? Did you install the binaries from nvidia or did you install them from ports? If installed from ports, how did you build? What is the card def block in your X config? What are your hw.nvidia sysctls (command: sysctl hw.nvidia just in case)? Caveat: Nvidia driver problems have come up twice already in the last week, and several times in the last month or two. Every time it seems there is a magic sword hiding there that causes some poor guy to just not be able to get it working. My setup: FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE. My kernel is build WITHOUT the agp device. NVidia GeForce FX5200. Drivers built from ports with Linux and ACPI support. Xorg 6.8.1 built from ports Xorg config enables the NVidia AGP. I am getting OpenGL acceleration, 8X AGP, and have two monitors presenting an extended desktop. I still haven't figured out the tiny ingredient that makes it all work for me, but keeps it eluding others. That's kinda bugging me - and, I'm sure, those others that can't get it working. Present the info requested above; if I see anything that looks off, you can try it. Maybe we'll finally find the missing link. Good luck. Lou On 01/11/05 06:59 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: well, yes. the module section looks like this: Section Module Load freetype # Load xtt Load extmod
Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers
On 01/11/05 10:29 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: ok.. even though there wasn't anything useful in the Xorg logfile, after recompiling the kernel i get: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled Now this almost doubles the frame rates, which is nice to see :) Most Excellent Dude. Alas, the problem still remains :( Totally Bogus. What app are you getting the hinky video from? Will try upgrading everything tomorrow.. Most Righteous. Just make sure you get all the dependencies when you do. Good luck Lou Louis LeBlanc wrote: Ok, according to your sysctls, you aren't getting the AGP acceleration at all. Try adding these lines to your card device section: Option RenderAccel True Option NvAGP 1 # Use NVIDIAs agp Then restart X. Check your hw.nvidia.agp sysctls, particularly these: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) You want status to be enabled, and rate to be 2x or 4x. From the sysctls below, it looks like the NvAGP setting is already turned on, so that appears to be a default. Since it's still not working, I suspect that if you check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file for warnings (WW) or errors (EE) related to AGP use, you'll find something about the native FreeBSD AGP. If you are using a GENERIC kernel (uname -a will tell you), that's almost certainly what's happening. From what I've read, the native FreeBSD AGP doesn't always work with NVidia cards. You'll have to compile a custom kernel with the following line removed: device agp Check here for details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Also, I'd recommend updating your ports and upgrading Xorg. You might also want to build and install the x11/nvidia-drivers port. Lou On 01/11/05 08:24 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: well, Xorg -version says X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 I think it was installed by sysinstall as a package. I downloaded the drivers from nvidia. the device section: Section Device Identifier MyGeForce Driver nvidia VendorName NVIDIA BoardName GeForce4 MX 440 EndSection the sysctls: hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f17:0x hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6113 Mon Aug 2 16:08:32 PDT 2004 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce4 MX 440 hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 04.17.00.24.00 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP kernel is basically the default one, built with agp device. I *am* getting the acceleration, however, something is not quite right. As i said, tuxracer runs just fine, so maybe it's some OpenGL feature which most of the apps use, but tuxracer doesn't? Anyway, i should probably try updating everything to the latest versions and see what happens then. Not so sure that it would help though :( One more thing, I can't find any line in Xorg config relating to agp. How is it enabled? Louis LeBlanc wrote: Top Posting to try keeping this readable Next set of questions: Are you running Xorg? What version? Did you install it from ports or as a package? Did you install the binaries from nvidia or did you install them from ports? If installed from ports, how did you build? What is the card def block in your X config? What are your hw.nvidia sysctls (command: sysctl hw.nvidia just in case)? Caveat: Nvidia driver problems have come up twice already in the last week, and several times in the last month or two. Every time it seems there is a magic sword hiding there that causes some poor guy to just not be able to get it working. My setup: FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE. My kernel is build WITHOUT the agp device. NVidia GeForce FX5200. Drivers built from ports with Linux and ACPI support. Xorg 6.8.1 built from ports Xorg config enables the NVidia AGP. I am getting OpenGL acceleration, 8X AGP, and have two monitors presenting an extended desktop. I still haven't figured out the tiny ingredient that makes it all
Re: NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3
Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. Im just checking to see if that is all that I should be doing. Thanks for your time I just noticed this in the logs - Jan 11 15:23:37 hivemind rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6 Jan 11 15:23:38 hivemind rpc.lockd: 100024 RPC: Program not registered I've googled a bit, and Im coming up with references that IP6 doesn't have to built into the kernel, of which I do not have it built in the kernel anyway. Im not sure of what else to do to get lockd running. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks Here is my rc.conf file - defaultrouter=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx hostname=name.domain.tld ifconfig_bge0=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 keyrate=fast sshd_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NONE inetd_enable=YES mysql_enable=YES apache2_enable=YES ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_flags=-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g samba_enable=YES rpcbind_enable=YES nfs_server_enable=YES mountd_flags=-r rpc_lockd_enable=YES Here is my kernel config -- machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident HIVEMIND options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options INET# InterNETworking options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server options GEOM_GPT# GUID Partition Tables. options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options SCSI_DELAY=8000 # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI # PostgreSQL stuff options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options SHMMAXPGS=65536 options SEMMNI=40 options SEMMNS=240 options SEMUME=40 options SEMMNU=120 options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev # Bus support. Do not remove isa, even if you have no isa slots device isa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device da # Direct Access (disks) device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller device atkbd # AT keyboard device vga # VGA video card driver # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc # Floating point support - do not disable. device npx # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! device miibus # MII bus support device bge # Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet # Pseudo devices. device loop# Network loopback device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices device io # I/O device device random # Entropy device device ether # Ethernet support device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) device ccd # Concatenated disk driver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba server (freebsd 5.2.1) and clients not able to communicate.
I have several windows based clients that work perfectly fine. However, linux based machines (FC3 and Slackware 10) all give Error in cp Input/Output error. I can mount them fine, browse folders, but copying to and from it gets that error, googling doesn't get me anything, and I've disabled iptables on the linux machine. Has anyone seen this? Thanks, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3
Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. I just noticed this in the logs - Jan 11 15:23:37 hivemind rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6 Jan 11 15:23:38 hivemind rpc.lockd: 100024 RPC: Program not registered I've googled a bit, and Im coming up with references that IP6 doesn't have to built into the kernel, of which I do not have it built in the kernel anyway. Im not sure of what else to do to get lockd running. Well, I guess google haven't searched the archives resently. I wrote just yesterday (NFS export of evolution-thread) that you need to enable statd _and_ lockd. lockd will not start without statd enabled. You don't need to reboot, just /etc/rc.d/nfslocking restart rpcbind_enable=YES nfs_server_enable=YES mountd_flags=-r rpc_lockd_enable=YES I don't see you have enabled mountd, but you had nfs running and mounted succesfully? - or maybe just a typo copy/paste? Cheers, 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: Freebsd 5.3 Performance
I have noticed with all the work gone in to 5.x to optimise SMP performance in return uniprocessor performance has suffered considerably I think this is what the concerns are about? Will future releases such as 5.4 remedy this by fixing the drop in performance on uniprocessor machines? Chris On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:05:56 +, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0154 09:54]: Mark writes: M Ah, this point fascinates me. Running for years? Do you ever have M to recompile your kernel? :) Usually once when I first install the OS, then never again (unless I change something in the hardware, which I hardly ever do). Windows often has to be rebooted just to install a new application (although that's a problem with the application, not a problem with the OS, in most cases). And what about security patches? -- 'If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate!' -- Zapp. Brannigan Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns ___ 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]
Which OS should we use?
We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. These servers need to be stable. Should we install 4.10/11? Or move up to 5.3? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which OS should we use?
In the immortal words of Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]... We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. These servers need to be stable. Should we install 4.10/11? Or move up to 5.3? Personally, I would consider moving to the 5.x branch as it has now been declared to be the Stable branch, and the 4.x versions won't be supported much longer. I've set up several servers using 5.3 and they seem reasonably stable. I'm now in the process of upgrading one of my older servers to 5.3 from 4.8. Of course, others may have different ideas, but in the end, if the test server you set up works like it should, what reason do you have for not using it? Cheers Tim -- Tim Aslat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3
Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. I just noticed this in the logs - Jan 11 15:23:37 hivemind rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6 Jan 11 15:23:38 hivemind rpc.lockd: 100024 RPC: Program not registered I've googled a bit, and Im coming up with references that IP6 doesn't have to built into the kernel, of which I do not have it built in the kernel anyway. Im not sure of what else to do to get lockd running. Well, I guess google haven't searched the archives resently. I wrote just yesterday (NFS export of evolution-thread) that you need to enable statd _and_ lockd. lockd will not start without statd enabled. You don't need to reboot, just /etc/rc.d/nfslocking restart Thanks for the tip. It seems to be running now. $ ps aux | grep lockd root 361 0.0 0.2 1632 1292 ?? Ss4:23PM 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd daemon372 0.0 0.2 1632 1292 ?? S 4:23PM 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd rpcbind_enable=YES nfs_server_enable=YES mountd_flags=-r rpc_lockd_enable=YES I don't see you have enabled mountd, but you had nfs running and mounted succesfully? - or maybe just a typo copy/paste? The config is correct, according to the manual. Never had a problem with it (knocks on wood) Now to go test if php will work now... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which OS should we use?
Paul Schmehl wrote: We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. These servers need to be stable. Should we install 4.10/11? Or move up to 5.3? While there are ongoing discussions on how long 4.x will be supported and when/if 5.x is mature for production, there is no doubt that at some point, 4.x will no longer be supported and 5.x will be _the_ production release. For this reason, you should consider the extra work involved in later upgrading to 5.x, the recommended way is a complete reinstall which will lead to downtime. Apart from stability, you should also consider if 5.x provides specific features you need or want which are not supported under 4.x, or support for specific hardware. Considering this, I'd recommend 5.x. I have not found it more unstable or worse performing than 4.x, but ofcourse, could be that I'm just not stressing the system enough. Cheers, 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]
Unreal Tournament ??
Does anyone know if I can play UT 2004 on FreeBSD. I'm running 5.3 r4. I've been googling and I have found very little information on the 2004 version. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which OS should we use?
On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. These servers need to be stable. Should we install 4.10/11? Or move up to 5.3? If the servers need to be stable, and you've been using 4.10 and are satisfied with it, *and* you don't have time to test 5.3 to achieve a similiar level of confidence, go with 4.10/4.11. However, it sounds like you've had some time to test 5.3, and such testing ought to give you feedback on how 4.x versus 5.x performs for your particular workload, and you can make a decision from there. I have a number of 4.x systems in production, and I won't upgrade them to 5 simply for the sake of updating, but new machines are getting 5.3. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buildup of Windows time_wait talking to fbsd 4.10
We have a windows mailserver that relays its outbound to a fbsd gateway. We changed to a different fbsd gateway running 4.10. Windows then began having trouble sending to 4.10. Windows netstat -an shows dozens of lines like this: source IP desitination IP == TCP10.1.16.3:1403 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1407 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1415 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1419 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1435 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1462 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1470 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1473 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1478 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1493 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1504 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1507 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1508 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1521 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1526 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1546 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1550 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1568 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1571 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1589 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1592 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1616 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1620 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1629 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1644 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1647 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT TCP10.1.16.3:1654 192.168.200.59:25 TIME_WAIT Eventually, the windows SMTP logs line like cannot connect to remote IP or address already in use because no local tcp/ip sockets are available, we think. The new gateway/fbsd 4.10 sockstat -4 shows no corresponding tcp connections when the Windows server is showing as above. On the fbsd 4.10 machines, smtp logs, syslog, and dmesg show no errors. We switch the windows box to smtp gateway towards the old box/fbsd 4.7, all is cool. Suggestions with how to proceed debugging, please. I'm trying to get the dmesg.boot for the 4.7 and 4.10 boxes now, sorry. Len Just off the top of my head... You mentioned the freebsd machine is the gateway. Do you have a firewall on the host blocking connections from the windows machine? the two mail servers that send outbound to the fbsd gateway are on the subnet, same rules. the firewall is outside the subnets of the mail servers and gateways. We haven't put a sniffer yet. there's none on windows boxes, and tcpview on the fbsd boxes. We going to start changing NIC model/brands. thanks Len _ http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blacklisting IPs
These types of attacks don't seem directed -- it's more like fishing for unprotected systems. FWIW, changing the ssh port dropped the illegal user attempts to 0 instantly... - ben On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:29:10 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm going to attack you I'm going to use nessus to scan all ports on your machine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smtp pull
Hi, Looking for some thoughts on the following scenario. firewall smtp2 | | smtp1 smtp1 is on the DMZ. So smtp1 is the first point of call for incoming mail. Mail ultimately has to end up on smtp2 however I do not want smtp1 to simply forward the mail to smtp2 as I'll have to explicitly allow the setup of port 25 through the firewall to smtp2. I would like smtp2 to connect to smtp1 and pull back the mail so that it's smtp2 that initiating an outgoing connection to smtp1. Is there any smtp type approach I can use? Obviously I can make smtp1 drop the mail in a mailbox on smtp1 and then get smtp2 to imap or pop the mail out however I'm looking for something that's fast and pop doesn't really excite me.. Anyone have any other thoughts? Thanks, ajt. -- Andrew Thomson [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: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:31:47AM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: Three questions: How do I cause changes in the hosts.allow file to take effect without rebooting? Everything I've seen says to restart inetd, but I'm not using inetd. I searched with different keywords and found the answer to this in the archives. Searching the archives, Googling, and experimentation still haven't turned up an answer to the two below. How do I compile netatalk without CUPS? I don't see any obvious switches, but there has to be something that tells Make to use CUPS, because it gives a message saying that it's checking if CUPS can be included. How do I get netatalk to use the dbd cnid scheme? It ignores the path name cnidscheme:dbd setting in AppleVolumes.default and the - -cnidserver localhost:4700 setting in afpd.conf. Regardless of what the cnidscheme setting is, it announces that's there's no cnid scheme selected and uses the default. Bob Hall ___ 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: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3
As to good ideas Ronnie, I do not think so, but here are some things you may not have tried: Since you found me you probably have already gone the Google route but if you have not try your exact configuration. Try the FreeBSD mobile and hardware lists. Freshports may help with Xorg as well as XFree86 XFree86 has the advantage of better documentation about bugs, at least currently. Try their resource page. The development snapshots list pretty specifically what was fixed in each snapshot. You can download binaries for FreeBSD and these are pretty quick to install (10-15 mins after the first one). The XFree86 newbie list is pretty helpful; subscribe and post your question there. If any of the above works, I would then drop back to 4.11 unless you do not mind using ports (rather than packages). My Unix workstations and laptops are far too slow to consider building X or KDE. BTW if the above is wrong I would sure like to be clued in. Aside from the fact that the packages are built with Xorg, some of the low level dependencies have mutually exclusive version dependencies. Portupgrade may allow the use of packages by rewriting the dependencies. I would think Xorg and XFree are still compatible at the BPI level. Because of processor speed I can start from scratch and build my laptop 4-5 times before Qt would finish building. On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Ronny Fischer wrote: Hi there I have updatet to xorg-server-6.8.1_1 X.Org X server and related programs via FreeBSD Ports.. ..but it is still not possible to get more the 8 bit color on the sony c1ve. the vesa driver is fine in 640x480 but it is not possible to have it with 1024x480 on this machine... any other ideas ? could it work with xfree86 instead of xorg ? thanx a lot, HAVE FUN and with my best regardz ronny Am 08.01.2005 um 18:14 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Joe I will try to upgrade. My experience was the same, in that the problem tracked X (both projects) across several levels of 4.x and 5.x. The vesa drive works okay, but I miss the larger screen and better font rendering. On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Joe Altman wrote: Doug, Ronny... I'm running 4.11 with xorg 6.8.1, built from source on December 28, 2004 using a Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x on an IBM ThinkPad A20m. I have a default depth of 24 bits, and a resolution of 1024x768. I am using the ati driver. Ronny: I see that the query is for 5.3, but I thought that perhaps my experience would indicate that the ATI chip seems to work fine w/ the most recent version of xorg; or rather, the source as it existed on December 28th. Doug: I remember that you and I encountered the same issue, back in September or thereabouts, WRT the ATI chip? I'm happy to report what is above: it seems to be safe to use the ati driver w/ the newest source for xorg and the chip in question. HTH, best regards, Joe _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 Beschtae Dank, HAFE FUN und mit aemae Gruaess Ronny --- http://the.fischerman.ch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- /EndOfTransmission This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal, the e-mail content security solution Output from pgp Signature by unknown keyid: 0x5E41EEFB _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which OS should we use?
Thanks to those who provided (and may provide in the future) their responses to my question. I appreciate the input. Frankly, when I saw a recent post about instabilities in 5.3, I think I may have gotten overly concerned about it. The 5.3 server we have in test is working fine, so we'll install that on the new ones. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: smtp pull
Someone broke the silence: Hi, Looking for some thoughts on the following scenario. firewall smtp2 smtp1 smtp1 is on the DMZ. So smtp1 is the first point of call for incoming mail. Mail ultimately has to end up on smtp2 however I do not want smtp1 to simply forward the mail to smtp2 as I'll have to explicitly allow the setup of port 25 through the firewall to smtp2. I would like smtp2 to connect to smtp1 and pull back the mail so that it's smtp2 that initiating an outgoing connection to smtp1. Maybe fetchmail is what you need? That is what most of dialup users use when they run their own MTA servers. Chris Is there any smtp type approach I can use? Obviously I can make smtp1 drop the mail in a mailbox on smtp1 and then get smtp2 to imap or pop the mail out however I'm looking for something that's fast and pop doesn't really excite me.. Anyone have any other thoughts? Thanks, ajt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which OS should we use?
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 05:54 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: Thanks to those who provided (and may provide in the future) their responses to my question. I appreciate the input. Frankly, when I saw a recent post about instabilities in 5.3, I think I may have gotten overly concerned about it. The 5.3 server we have in test is working fine, so we'll install that on the new ones. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu I used to read all problems posted on this list and start second guessing my OS decisions. It's easy to forget that people post their problems far more often than their successes -- appropriately so. A better indication of trouble would be if the list members got excited about postings such as My server's still up!. :-) Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?
summary: should I disable hypertheading in the BIOS when running 5.3? Background info: I have a new Dell Dimension 3000 running 5.3. I noticed some huge pauses when copying a large # of files across the network. Googling around found some information about earlier versions of 5.x and Hyperthreading being detrimenatl for performance. Whether or not it was the source of the network copy problem, I am trying to decide if I should disable Hyperthreading. Iif YES, I wasn't clear if people meant disable in BIOS or just some configuration setting in a *.conf file. (disabling HT will apparently mean I have to reinstall XP on the other drive. Not necessarily a bad thing, as it is supposedly also the way to solve the problem of my modem causing a BSOD in XP) thanks TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATI TV Wonder VE
I recently found in my hardware pile an ATI TV Wonder VE. I vaguely remember using this card with v4l on linux and decided I would give it a go on freebsd. Its apparently supported by bktr(4) I went ahead a kldload'd the module. this the what dmesg told me: bktr_mem: memory holder loaded bktr0: BrookTree 878 mem 0xee043000-0xee043fff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0 bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] bktr0: Unable to allocate 1310720 bytes of memory. bktr0: Unable to allocate 3555328 bytes of memory. bktr0: Warning - card vendor 0x1002 (model 0x0003) unknown. bktr0: Pinnacle/Miro TV, Temic NTSC tuner. asside from those memory errors all seemed well. i attempted to run xawtv -hwscan and got this: /dev/bktr0: initialization failed I decided to try fxtv for the hell of it and got this error message: ioctl(BT848_SAUDIO, 128) failed: Cannot allocate memory mmap of driver buffer failed: Invalid argument has anyone had simular issues with this card? Or have any information that may help to solve it? I am running: FreeBSD dungeon.franksworld.org 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Fri Dec 31 11:11:28 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DUNGEON i386 Any help is greatly appriciated. Regards, Frank Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVSup the port collection
Hi, I was trying to cvsup the port collection, but all it did was deleting some ports, and never replaced them with new ones. I would have thought that the following configuration file would do the trick, but it did not. What have I wrong? TIA Olivier *default tag=RELENG_5_3 #*default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org *default host=cvsup4.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-base ports-databases cvsroot-common cvsroot-ports ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
