Re: troubleshooting network settings
On 08/06/2006, at 12:06 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I am running freeBSD v6.0 security on a home network behind an adsl router. I cannot connect to localhost from a browser (apache is running!) I cannot connect to localhost port 22 (KPackage tries to use ssh) On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ be set up correctly. `ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0` ?? If that fixes it, then we have to figure out *why* it's not being doing automatically. Problem during init/rc, most likely ... weird. I've not had time to address this problem for a week. Going through all the advice again I found that this advice is good. That fixes the problem. Any pointers on getting it done automatically? What does /etc/rc.conf show for lo0 related things? (And just to check your defaults as well...) egrep lo0 /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/* Mine shows: /etc/defaults/rc.conf:ifconfig_lo0=inet 127.0.0.1 # default loopback device configuration. Same here malcolm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade question (solved)
I did define the to environment variables. For some reason, wget works just fine on the same machine. Thanks a lot. On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:35:12PM -0400, Michael S wrote: wget works like magic. I used the defaults. fetch I guess is the FreeBSD default for fetching files from the web. It was having problems fetching files from FTP sites. No idea what the problem is. Try setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. This is set in the default login class, but perhaps you have modified it. Kris On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:38:36AM -0400, Michael S wrote: Good day everyone! I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch doesn't appear to cope with it very well. What did you try? fetch works fine with proxies for the rest of us :) Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd error
Napoleon Dynamite wrote: [ ...top posting recovered... ] On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:44, Michael S wrote: I had the same kind of issue, also with 6.1-RELEASE, and just fixed it the Windows way - reboot. And it worked fine. I got that error pretty routinely for a while. The cd-r was always usable, though. I switched to k3b for cd burning and have not seen that error since. k3b uses dvd+rw-tools rather than burncd underneath. It's possible that they would work better for the original poster too. It also sounds like the issue with burncd is reproducible, anyone filed a PR...? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i wish to buy your site
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, June 4, 2006 11:54, Richard Collyer wrote:
bill hunt wrote:
dear webmaster.
My name is Bill Hunt and I'm interested in purchsing your site.
the price is nagotiable and I'm willing to pay as much as we can agree
on.
please let me know if it's ok by you and we'll start nagotiating.
yours,
Bill
Wow. Microsoft in a if you can't beat 'em buy 'em. From Bill
himselfbe scared...very scared!
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No, guys. All of *you* who responded to this mail failed to realize that
this is a spam message, and that it is most probably just an alternative
scam to the nigerian stuff.
No. They all realized it. That is why the responses were so silly -
such as the one included above.No-one took it seriously. Of course
it does serve to verify Email addresses for anyone who responds which
is what the spammer wants.
jerry
Jerry, if I ran a spam trap you can bet I'd have used that address to
reply. I'd also arrange to sound rather naive, foolish, and upset while
doing so. Of course, I could get a little dig in that people from
Ann Arbor would not be carrying on the way you are about it. But I'll
be nice and not post anything. Flames aren't worth it. (Of course, on
a Fedora group I might do differently.)
What in heaven's name are you talking about?
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Re: Delivery reports about your e-mail
Your Date line was Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:35:34 +0200 Now is Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:34:35 +0200 ECHO Server at sunic.sunet.se recieved your message with the following header: --- Original Header --- From freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 8 04:34:35 2006 Received: from freebsd.org (host-84-220-188-170.cust-adsl.tiscali.it [84.220.188.170]) by sunic.sunet.se (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k582Xb15090450 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:33:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery reports about your e-mail Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:35:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary==_NextPart_000_0014_E966ACDC.F591CCFB X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. --- End of Header --- Postmaster ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does cron exec jobs?
How can I simulate a cron job from the shell? There must be something different about the way cron is executing this command... Counld be different environment variables set, different working directory... Any diagnostic when it hangs? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade question (solved)
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:29:10PM -0400, Michael S wrote: I did define the to environment variables. For some reason, wget works just fine on the same machine. Different defaults. Thanks a lot. np. Kris pgpbQ76wJJ4Xj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how does cron exec jobs?
On 6/7/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I simulate a cron job from the shell? There must be something different about the way cron is executing this command... Counld be different environment variables set, different working directory... That's what I'm trying to find out. The cron man pages are ... empty on the subject. Any diagnostic when it hangs? Not that I can tell. It runs on schedule but it never clears it's locks (which it puts on files at is edits them) as it is supposed to; and it does when run from the shell. So it truth, it's not so much that it hangs, it does terminate, but it doesn't honor it's lock time-outs like it does when run outside of cron. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does cron exec jobs?
Counld be different environment variables set, different working directory... That's what I'm trying to find out. The cron man pages are ... empty on the subject. Remove every and any environment variable and try to run from / or from /root or from /tmp OK that's trial and error approach. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd error
On 6/8/06, Pablo Mora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/06, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 14:46, you wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm running 6.1-RELEASE Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB written this track 710566 KB (100%) total 710566 KB fixating CD, please wait.. burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error The 'funny' thing about this is that the CDs I burn work fine. (I've tried several different ISOs and have checked the md5's on all of them.) Anyone have an idea of what is going on? I never tried to burn anything with 6.0-RELEASE and it worked fine on 5.4-RELEASE I've seen the same thing for the past several weeks (worked fine at some point prior to 6.1). I'm running 6-STABLE, updated every couple weeks. As near as I've been able to determine, the fixate step doesn't actually do anything, so your CD's will still be open but should work fine under any modern OS. As a workaround you can repeat the fixate step at a lower speed: burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 4 fixate I haven't experimented enough to know at what speed the fixate step breaks, but that does seem to be what's going on. I also haven't tried turning off ATAPICAM, which would be another interesting data point. If you or someone else has the time to figure out exactly which (set of) commits started producing this behavior, that would be excellent material for a PR. I may get around to it myself but it's not a high priority. dmesg is attached. Looks like you forgot it. In my case (using ATAPICAM): acd1: CDRW SONY CD-RW CRX215E1/SYS2 at ata1-slave UDMA33 cd1 at ata1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd1: SONY CD-RW CRX215E1 SYS2 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd1: 33.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present JN My client says it included a dmesg...wonder what's going on with that. I've tried using different burn speeds all the way down to 32x. I am using ATAPICAM, I wonder if it is somehow related to that? I think I'll unload that and give it a shot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html quote Which tool to use to burn the CD depends on whether your CD burner is ATAPI or something else. ATAPI CD burners use the burncd program that is part of the base system. SCSI and USB CD burners should use cdrecord from the sysutils/cdrtools port. It is also possible to use cdrecord and other tools for SCSI drives on ATAPI hardware with the ATAPI/CAM module. /quote http://www.freebsddiary.org/cdrecord-ide.php -- Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
__P macro
Hi:
Most of the racoon code uses __P macro.
and the __P macro is defined as -
#undef __P
#ifndef __P
#if __STDC__
#define __P(protos) protos
#else
#define __P(protos) ()
#endif
#endif
It seems to make many expressions difficult to read -
eg.
static int (*pkrecvf[]) __P((caddr_t *)) = {
...
}
What is the downside if this macro is not used in defining new function
prototypes ?
(working with FreeBSD 5.4 and above with gcc 3.x compiler)
Thanks in advance.
thanks
Saifi
TWINCLING Society
http://www.twincling.org/
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Re: On mail principles
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:08:53AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-06-07 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A brief: How to use envelope from provided that I have a mailbox on ISP. A full explanation: My computer has no static IP-address, nor DNS-name in Internet. Internally, it has static name localhost and static IP-address 127.0.0.1. So, I have a mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED]. But I cannot send a mail to the world using this address in envelope from because of 1) Internet MTAs cancel mail whith such an address in envelope from; 2) such an address is useless to recipient. My address in the world is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. So, I make my MUA to send a letter using a command setting envelope from to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. (like sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] for sendmail, see X-Authentication-Warning in the header of this mail) But this way is bad for local purposes: my MTA's diagnostic messages are sent trough internet or lost at all, e. g. when my ADSL is in down. (Moreover, my letters sent to other local users have non-local envelope from address. Then local mail begin to go through external MTA.) What to do in such a situation? I use mutt, which has an option to set the envelope-from address: set envelope_from=yes# set the envelope-from address from From: For the rest of the programs, like mail(1), my Sendmail setup sets envelope-from to one of my valid outside-world addresses. This is accomplished with the following in my `sendmail.mc' file: dnl Trusted users, who are allowed to change their envelope-from address dnl without generating a warning in the message header, are listed, one per dnl line, in `sendmail.ct'. define(`confCT_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/sendmail.ct') FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl dnl Allow mail routing exceptions through a mailer table. FEATURE(`mailertable', `hash /etc/mail/mailertable') dnl Address masquerading. dnl dnl Making sure that all email that passes through my desktop's Sendmail dnl installation is masqueraded as coming from `gothmog.pc', even if its original dnl address is something slightly different (i.e. `ftp.pc' or `mail.pc'), is dnl ok here. It ensures that address rewriting and translation through dnl `genericstable' will also work for all `*.pc' host names. dnl dnl To make sure that remote hosts don't get a MAIL FROM address from a dnl hostname that doesn't resolve, envelope addresses are masqueraded too, and dnl then get rewritten by `genericstable' to real-world addresses, dnl i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. MASQUERADE_AS(`gothmog.pc') FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') dnl Rewriting the envelope-from address of all outgoing messages through a dnl `genericstable' lookup, ensures that envelope-from addresses seen by relay dnl hosts are real, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]' instead of the default dnl envelope-from of [EMAIL PROTECTED]' that Sendmail would use. This is dnl required some times, to avoid getting bounces for messages from ISP mail dnl relays that are misconfigured or are too strict about what can appear in a dnl MAIL FROM command. FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable') GENERICS_DOMAIN(`gothmog.pc') FEATURE(`generics_entire_domain') This looks like quite a mouthful of options, but it's not really that difficult to read. It's only big because of all the comments. The file `/etc/mail/sendmail.ct' contains my username, because I trust myself to use valid envelope-from addresses. This turns off the X-Authentication-Warning header which is so annoying for you too. Then, in `/etc/mail/mailertable' I have an exception for my internal, work-related email, and send it directly to the company's mail gateway: # Custom mail routing rules. This is currently useful only # for routing work-related email through the VPN connection # to my company's mail relay. # foo.com smtp:mailgate.foo.com .foo.com smtp:mailgate.foo.com Finally, in my `/etc/mail/genericstable' map, I rewrite the envelope-from of all the rest of email messages, like this: # Outgoing email address rewriting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] These options are, of course, just a suggestion. You don't *HAVE* to use a setup similar to mine. - Giorgos This is exactly what I want. Thank you. Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd error
On 6/7/06, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 14:46, you wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm running 6.1-RELEASE Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB written this track 710566 KB (100%) total 710566 KB fixating CD, please wait.. burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error The 'funny' thing about this is that the CDs I burn work fine. (I've tried several different ISOs and have checked the md5's on all of them.) Anyone have an idea of what is going on? I never tried to burn anything with 6.0-RELEASE and it worked fine on 5.4-RELEASE I've seen the same thing for the past several weeks (worked fine at some point prior to 6.1). I'm running 6-STABLE, updated every couple weeks. As near as I've been able to determine, the fixate step doesn't actually do anything, so your CD's will still be open but should work fine under any modern OS. As a workaround you can repeat the fixate step at a lower speed: burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 4 fixate I haven't experimented enough to know at what speed the fixate step breaks, but that does seem to be what's going on. I also haven't tried turning off ATAPICAM, which would be another interesting data point. If you or someone else has the time to figure out exactly which (set of) commits started producing this behavior, that would be excellent material for a PR. I may get around to it myself but it's not a high priority. dmesg is attached. Looks like you forgot it. In my case (using ATAPICAM): acd1: CDRW SONY CD-RW CRX215E1/SYS2 at ata1-slave UDMA33 cd1 at ata1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd1: SONY CD-RW CRX215E1 SYS2 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd1: 33.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present JN My client says it included a dmesg...wonder what's going on with that. I've tried using different burn speeds all the way down to 32x. I am using ATAPICAM, I wonder if it is somehow related to that? I think I'll unload that and give it a shot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html quote Which tool to use to burn the CD depends on whether your CD burner is ATAPI or something else. ATAPI CD burners use the burncd program that is part of the base system. SCSI and USB CD burners should use cdrecord from the sysutils/cdrtools port. It is also possible to use cdrecord and other tools for SCSI drives on ATAPI hardware with the ATAPI/CAM module. /quote -- Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On mail principles
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:43:23PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this way is bad for local purposes: my MTA's diagnostic messages are sent trough internet or lost at all, e. g. when my ADSL is in down. (Moreover, my letters sent to other local users have non-local envelope from address. Then local mail begin to go through external MTA.) What to do in such a situation? See the sendmail documentation [1] on MASQUERADE_AS(). -- -Chuck [1]: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README, or check the FAQ from www.sendmail.org... That is not a proper feature because of different local users can use world mail addresses with different hostnames. But masquerading is good only for one domain. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIDI
Hi, Since I have builtin sound on my motherboard on most of my systems, can I configure them to play midi files? So far it looks like I need thw voxware driver/.ko/whatever. I'd appreciate any clues here. thanks muchly, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache13 to 22
Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: Perttu Laine wrote: On 12/9/05, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apachectl stop cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 make deinstall cd /usr/ports/www/apache22 make install cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php5 make -DWITH_APACHE2 -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER reinstall Just to inform you people about this old apache13 to apache22 upgrade - worked just fine. I made config files ready earlier and it was only about 15mins downtime and everything went nicely and smoothly without problems with this process. Except instead of ports/www/mod_php5 I used ports/lang/php5, but that's same. :) Actually www/mod_php5 and lang/php5 isn't exactly the same. www/mod_php5 only includes the mod_php5 module, whilst lang/php5 includes the CLI php system as well :) Nice to hear it worked so smoothly for you though! www/mod_php5 doesn't exist any longer. and vehement claims that php5 is broken in ports persist, but aren't true as near as I can tell from both external evidence and personal experience. Kevin Kinsey Kevin, The latest version of php5 did not work for me. In my case I had a new install of a minimum system cvsuped to 6.1R P1 and then portsnapped before install. Yes I had read updating before and I had been following the posts re PHP5 and configured PHP5 with the apache module. What ever I did, including asking on this list did not work - PHP5 refused to run. Most of the replies I got said read updating - I refrained from relying read the question. In the end I ran out of time and installed centos which worked with no problems with an earlier version of PHP5. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache13 to 22
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:09:56PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: and vehement claims that php5 is broken in ports persist, but aren't true as near as I can tell from both external evidence and personal experience. Indeed, the current ports of PHP 5.1.4 and Apache 2.2.2 work fine together (also with MySQL 5.0.22 thrown into the mix). Also, they're both production releases, and not development snapshots like some here like to repeat over and over again ;) -- Riemer PalstraAmsterdam, The Netherlands [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.palstra.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to make one virtual address in sendmail
I use sendmail 8.13.6 and
I want all mail from my local host to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is going to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to? Can I use any standard feature?
I can add
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in virtusertable, but it will nor work without
external.host.name
in local-host-names, or VIRTUSER_DOMAIN(`external.host.name'),
or any other ruler putting
external.host.name in class {w} or something like that.
But I cannot make the last because of
my sendmail will try to deliver locally all mail from local host to
external.host.name. The sender of the mail will receive User unknown
immediately (except for the [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and nothing more.
Thank you in advance.
Elisej Babenko
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Ipfilter 4.1.13 and freebsd 6.1
I am currently running a couple of 6.1 and 5.4 servers as firewall / routers for my company. I am experiencing some problems on the 6.1 server with ipfilter where it blocks oow (out of window) packets. I have tried to update to the latest version of ipfilter but was unable to compile my kernel after running the kupgrade script in the ipf source folder. Does anyone have any hacks / patches that they have used to get ipfilter version 4.1.13 running on FreeBSD 6.1-Release? Regards, Nicholas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:42:30 -0400 Mark Moellering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick, I tried this maybe a month back. I added an ath card to a firewall (becoming the third NIC) and set it up following the directions. While I could connect to the access point/firewall, I could not get to anything beyond it. After some reading, I decdied to buy a standalone access point and replace the wireless ath card with a wired card to use to connect to the access point. The standalone access point (Netgear) wasn't that much more than the card and from everything I have read is the better way to go. I decided to go with a FreeBSD-based access point for a number of reasons, including (in no particular order): - Security: I trust FreeBSD in the security arena more that I do NetGear / D-Link / etc. - Security: I insisted on implementing a full-blown 802.11i / 802.1x / RADIUS configuration and as such was going to require an 802.1x / RADIUS server anyway (I'm not aware of these features being available on any cheap-ish stand-alone access point, but then I'm not aware of a lot of things!) - Configurability: Though I have no experience with stand-alone access points, my past experience with things like DSL routers tells me that I'll be able to a lot more, and see a lot more of what's going on, with a FreeBSD-based solution. This includes things like firewalling the segment at the router with both ingress and egress rules, implementing QoS, etc. - Consolidation: The customer wanted a server for things like web proxying with anti-virus filtering, file serving and routing anyway, so I figured I'd bundle it all into one. I did consider the fact that this means that if the server goes down, their LAN's down too, but this would be similar if the server were doing the network's 802.1x work, and they also don't plan on using the LAN extensively - it's more for internet access and the like - Cost: Though we did look at several access points which supported connecting to a backend 802.1x server, these appeared to cost at least twice as much as an appropriate wireless card. I should point out that my wireless knowledge is somewhat limited and am definitely keen on hearing any comments anyone may have. If you are able to sned data through the access point, I would love to hear about it... Certainly am. The setup's fully functional and routing traffic from the LAN to the 'net and vice-versa. Happy to provide more detailed information on the installation, if you like, though perhaps off-list would be best (unless others are interested, of course). Sincerely Mark On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: G'day all, I was recently asked to set up a wireless access point by a mate. Having read section 27.3.3.2 - Building a FreeBSD Access Point (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireles s.html) from the FreeBSD Handbook I duly advised my friend that they'd need to procure one of the Prism cards listed in the wi(4) man page, as, according to the Handbook, In order to set up a wireless access point with FreeBSD, you need to have a compatible wireless card. Currently, only cards with the Prism chipset are supported. When he got back to me the next day and said he couldn't find one in any major store and that he'd been told they were no longer available first-hand (whether all this is true or not, I'm not entirely sure - but it's not really all that relevant for the purposes of this question) I was a little surprised. After much more stuffing about, the ath(4) man page caught my eye and I found the magic sentence: Supported features include 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management, BSS, IBSS, and host-based access point operation modes. I've subsequently set the thing up and it's now chugging away merrily in hostap mode with hostapd helping out with 802.11i shennanigans. It appears to be fully operational. My question, then, is this: Is the access point I've set up not actually functioning as an access point in the strictest sense of the term? Is the Handbook in need of a little attention in this area? I'll happily create a patch for the doc and submit a PR to have it updated, but just wanted to check before doing so that I'm not just being an idiot (I'm particularly good at that!). Thanks all! -- Nick Withers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Withers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,
mount_smbfs LIBSMBCRYPTO [was Re: Kernel module path]
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:28:46 -0500 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) Do you know if they ever fix crypto bug in mount_smbfs in FreeBSD 6.1? Yeah, they did... Assuming you're thinking of the same thing I am, whereby attempting to authenticate to a server for SMB access resulted in being told that cryptography wasn't availabl e (or some such). I think it had something to do with a LIBSMBCRYPTO setting, or similar, but can't recall. -- Nick Withers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:05:08 -0400 John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:42, Mark Moellering wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: (snip) My question, then, is this: Is the access point I've set up not actually functioning as an access point in the strictest sense of the term? Is the Handbook in need of a little attention in this area? I'll happily create a patch for the doc and submit a PR to have it updated, but just wanted to check before doing so that I'm not just being an idiot (I'm particularly good at that!). I tried this maybe a month back. I added an ath card to a firewall (becoming the third NIC) and set it up following the directions. While I could connect to the access point/firewall, I could not get to anything beyond it. After some reading, I decdied to buy a standalone access point and replace the wireless ath card with a wired card to use to connect to the access point. The standalone access point (Netgear) wasn't that much more than the card and from everything I have read is the better way to go. If you are able to sned data through the access point, I would love to hear about it... Yes, ath(4) is actually the preferred driver for creating FreeBSD-based wireless access points, and the handbook probably does need to be updated. No one has been doing any work on the wi driver in quite some time, whereas Sam Leffler has been doing a LOT of work to keep ath up-to-date and highly functional. Righto, cheers for that. I've started drafting an update that I'll try to get in soon (depending on how much exam procrastination I can pack in!). I run a FreeBSD 6-STABLE machine as an access point at home and it works fine. I couldn't get it to work with if_bridge, so I just set up wireless to be its own subnet with the FreeBSD machine doing NAT and routing between the three interfaces (external, internal wired, and internal wireless). Sounds fairly similar to what I did. These guys didn't want an internal wired network though... JN -- Nick Withers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: troubleshooting network settings
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
On 08/06/2006, at 12:06 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ be set
up correctly.
`ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0` ??
If that fixes it, then we have to figure out *why* it's not being
doing automatically. Problem during init/rc, most likely ... weird.
I've not had time to address this problem for a week. Going through
all the advice again I found that this advice is good. That fixes
the problem. Any pointers on getting it done automatically?
What does /etc/rc.conf show for lo0 related things? (And just to
check your defaults as well...)
egrep lo0 /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/*
Mine shows:
/etc/defaults/rc.conf:ifconfig_lo0=inet 127.0.0.1 # default
loopback device configuration.
Same here
Just to confirm, since I didn't really read the beginning of this
thread, when you reboot your machine, the setting for lo0 is already
wrong, yes?
Since we now know that the rc settings look ok, maybe some script is
doing the dirty, so what does
egrep 'lo0|ifconfig' /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*
show? I do have numerous hits in /etc/rc.d, none of which look like
they would affect lo0 unless you specified lo0 in /etc/rc.conf. I have
no hits in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*, which is what I would expect -- if you
get any hits there then follow them up to see what they are doing. If
you get hits in /etc/rc.d not in my list then have a look. (I'm still
on FreeBSD 5 so if you are on 6 then you may get slightly fewer or more
hits, but I wouldn't expect too drastic differences).
My hits are:
/etc/rc.d/atm1: ifconfig ${natm} up
/etc/rc.d/dhclient: ifconfig ${ifn}
/etc/rc.d/initdiskless: iflist=`ifconfig -l`
/etc/rc.d/initdiskless: set -- `ifconfig ${i}`
/etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl: if ifconfig lo0 inet6 /dev/null 21; then
/etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl: if ifconfig lo0 inet6 /dev/null 21; then
/etc/rc.d/netif:# it will call ifconfig(8) to show, in long
format, the configured
/etc/rc.d/netif:ifconfig ${ifn}
/etc/rc.d/netif:ifconfig_up ${ifn} cfg=0
/etc/rc.d/netif:ifconfig_down ${ifn} cfg=0
/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6: ipv6_network_interfaces=`ifconfig -l`
/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6: ifconfig $i up
/etc/rc.d/pflog:if ! ifconfig pflog0 up; then
/etc/rc.d/rtadvd: for i in `ifconfig -l` ; do
/etc/rc.d/rtadvd:
lo0|gif[0-9]*|stf[0-9]*|faith[0-9]*|lp[0-9]*|sl[0-9]*|tun[0-9]*)
/etc/rc.d/sppp: # to go _before_ the general ifconfig since in the case
--Alex
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Re: reading process memory
James Riendeau wrote: I'm going to anticipate your next question, and say that if you're not the parent, you will have to attach to the process. How that's done? I don't know, probably through a system call to ptrace or writing to the procfs ctl directory. I'm speaking through erudite knowledge rather than any real experience working with procfs. -james Continue reading this thread and you will see, that you are right. In order to read/write process memory we need to use either ptrace(2) system call or procfs. Thanks for all useful thoughts! Sincerely, Tofik Suleymanov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange swap behaviour
Hello. A server of mine is running 6.1/amd64 with 1GiB of RAM. From time to time swap use will grow enormously and performance will suffer from this; also the nightly clamav run will not complete, as the process will get killed due to lack of swap space. The day after I'll look into top and see this two processes are the largest ones: 672 snort 1 -580 4007M 62344K bpf0 8:53 0.00% snort 669 snort 1 -580 323M 29704K bpf1 1:45 0.00% snort I kill them and start them again; I get: 10295 snort 1 -580 81708K 66432K bpf0 0:01 12.38% snort 10283 snort 1 -580 81704K 66368K bpf0 0:01 5.77% snort However swap utilization will drop from 4095/4096 MiB to 136/4096 MiB. Is this normal? Does the size figure in top only show physical RAM usage? Or is only swap space reclaimed after the process gets killed? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with disk
Hi, I have some errors about my disk vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error vm_fault: pager read error, pid 7318 (locate) ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=33973759 g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[READ(offset=15037333504, length=36864)]error = 5 vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error vm_fault: pager read error, pid 7318 (locate) pid 7318 (locate), uid 0: exited on signal 11 ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=33973759 g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[READ(offset=15037333504, length=36864)]error = 5 vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error vm_fault: pager read error, pid 7436 (locate) ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=33973759 g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[READ(offset=15037333504, length=36864)]error = 5 vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error vm_fault: pager read error, pid 7436 (locate) I would like to transfer data to other disk but with minimum downtime. I was wondering if this was possible with gmirror. For example I create gmirror on this disk and than add another so data would be synced. Does this make any sense or is there better idea. regards Uros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)
Help please with connection sa0 devices. I try to make the following: mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type The system gives out: Block device required I can not understand that occurs. It is simple I the first time on FreeBSD work with tape stores -- Nick mailto:[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: Firefox crashes and hangs my 6.1R system
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:02:16 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Try to reproduce the above described behaviour and jump over with
gdb. Sort of:
gdb /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/firefox-bin pid-of-firefox-bin
(... wait)
(gdb) t a a bt full
Excuse my ignorance - I take it I need to
o start firefox normally
o run gdb as above
o invoke the crash situation
1. If I were you, I'd go for the safer path and assure myself that I
don't use a system (OS apps) built with unusual compiler flags.
2. Try to use a pre-built Ff package from ftp.freebsd.org and see if
the problem still occurs.
3. Actually, to get a core file, the steps are:
- as a regular user open a console, make sure you are in a directory
with write permissions (${HOME} is ok) and launch firefox
- open another console, note the pid of firefox-bin and type the above
command (gdb /path/to/ff-bin pid) but don't press Enter yet
- try to fry the CPU again. If succeeded, press Enter in the gdb
console and get a full backtrace.
- alternately, if you can't attach to the process, try to send SIGABRT
when it goes crazy.
o then ... ?
I'm just hoping that there's enough cpu left to save something at that
point!
options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler
Do you need SCHED_ULE? Try SCHED_4BSD instead, Ff is very picky when
it comes to threads.
I probably don't - I added this after reading /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES
and it hadn't bitten me until maybe now. I'll recompile the kernel
with SCHED_4BSD before I carry on.
You should also consider rebuilding Firefox without optimizations.
Trying to use compiler optimizations for Gecko-based applications is the
perfect recipe for trouble :)
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Re: Kernel module path
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply make installkernel seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, but kldload seems to want to load them from /boot/modules. Obviously I can load modules by hand and/or copy the modules into /boot/modules, but surely there's a better way - either by modifying the installkernel behaviour or kldload. And in answer to my own question, I've found the answer. Despite the man page suggesting the default value for module_path being /boot/kernel;/boot/modules, my /boot/defaults/loader.conf had just /boot/modules. I've checked in /usr/src/sys/boot and this seems to be system default, does anyone know why this is? Regards, Richard -- Richard Jones MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y!M: rwkjones http://www.jonze.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help:Makefile template about device driver with multiple directories
Hi guys: I have one urgent question to ask, please help me on this! The following is a Makefile template for device driver with all sources codes locating in the same directory. My question is how to write the Makefile when the driver source codes located different directories. For example, my driver source codes maybe include: osd/*.c engine/*.c and cam/*.c. Could someone provide me such a Makefile template? Your help will be highly appreciated! .PATH: . KMOD= shasta SRCS= shasta.c event.c . SRCS += device_if.h bus_if.h pci_if.h SRCS += opt_scsi.h opt_cam.h .include bsd.kmod.mk Yours, Hong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling ports to packages on fast system, installing on slower one
Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:56:25 -0400, Dave wrote: Hello, I was wondering if this was possible? I've got a box that i'd like to install the latest gnome 2.14 desktop on, as well as some very intense apps to build. I would like to compile the needed apps on my fastest machine as packages, then transfer all the packages to the slower box, and do a pkg_add * and they're all installed. My catch is i don't want to install everything on my fastest box to pull this off. I am using portupgrade and was wondering if this was doable? On fast box install the misc/tinderbox and build all packets in tinderbox jail. -- Regards, Andrey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PostGIS LDFLAGS question on 4.11
Hello! I'm planning to install PostgreSQL 8.1 along with PostGIS and GEOS, from ports. Unfortunately, the server's operating system where I do this is 4.11 and it can't be easily upgraded. I found the following note in PostGIS documentation: -- If you plan to use GEOS functionality you might need to explicitly link PostgreSQL against the standard C++ library: LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ ./configure [YOUR OPTIONS HERE] This is a workaround for bogus C++ exceptions interaction with older development tools. If you experience weird problems (backend unexpectedly closed or similar things) try this trick. This will require recompiling your PostgreSQL from scratch, of course. -- I think that GCC 2.95 as found in FreeBSD 4 may qualify as an older development tool? I already installed GEOS and it pulled in lang/gcc34 as a dependency, but it seems that databases/postgresql81-server is going to be built with base system gcc. Is it likely to lead to the conflict described above? Is anyone running PostgreSQL + PostGIS on FreeBSD 4 and did you find it necessary to use this LDFLAGS trick? -- Toomas Aas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MIDI
Wed, 7 Jun 2006 23:06:12 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Since I have builtin sound on my motherboard on most of my systems, can I configure them to play midi files? So far it looks like I need thw voxware driver/.ko/whatever. I'd appreciate any clues here. You need install the ports/audio/timidity++. -- Regards, Andrey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade question (solved)
I solved thid problem after export to the environment the variable FETCH_CMD=fetch -p. -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. 51 - 9847 8825 -- Original Message --- From: Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 21:29:10 -0400 Subject: Re: portupgrade question (solved) I did define the to environment variables. For some reason, wget works just fine on the same machine. Thanks a lot. On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:35:12PM -0400, Michael S wrote: wget works like magic. I used the defaults. fetch I guess is the FreeBSD default for fetching files from the web. It was having problems fetching files from FTP sites. No idea what the problem is. Try setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. This is set in the default login class, but perhaps you have modified it. Kris On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:38:36AM -0400, Michael S wrote: Good day everyone! I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch doesn't appear to cope with it very well. What did you try? fetch works fine with proxies for the rest of us :) Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End of Original Message --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
Hi, I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck etc.). I'd welcome any advice and suggestions about how to do this. Currently the information on the system is updated in situ so the file systems can't be made read only (any ideas on how we could split the updating from the deployment welcome). We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a kiosk browser. Regards, drseuk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf-eu.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Ipfilter 4.1.13 and freebsd 6.1
I run 6.1 with ipfilter and LAN full of window boxes NO PROBLEM. You need to provide a much greater level of details before making such unfounded statements as ipfilter is broken. Your rule set is most likely incorrect. Post description of your firewall/LAN setup along with your complete rule set for review by list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nicholas von Waltsleben Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:16 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ipfilter 4.1.13 and freebsd 6.1 I am currently running a couple of 6.1 and 5.4 servers as firewall / routers for my company. I am experiencing some problems on the 6.1 server with ipfilter where it blocks oow (out of window) packets. I have tried to update to the latest version of ipfilter but was unable to compile my kernel after running the kupgrade script in the ipf source folder. Does anyone have any hacks / patches that they have used to get ipfilter version 4.1.13 running on FreeBSD 6.1-Release? Regards, Nicholas ___ 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: On mail principles
On 2006-06-08 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:08:53AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-06-07 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A brief: How to use envelope from provided that I have a mailbox on ISP. [...] [description of a masquerading+genericstable Sendmail setup] This is exactly what I want. Thank you. Cool! If you need more help setting things up, let us know :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beginner Questions
I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. Thanks, Rich Mayo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Ipfilter 4.1.13 and freebsd 6.1
Nicholas wrote: I am currently running a couple of 6.1 and 5.4 servers as firewall / routers for my company. I am experiencing some problems on the 6.1 server with ipfilter where it blocks oow (out of window) packets. I have tried to update to the latest version of ipfilter but was unable to compile my kernel after running the kupgrade script in the ipf source folder. Does anyone have any hacks / patches that they have used to get ipfilter version 4.1.13 running on FreeBSD 6.1-Release? Regards, Nicholas Fbsd wrote: I run 6.1 with ipfilter and LAN full of window boxes NO PROBLEM. You need to provide a much greater level of details before making such unfounded statements as ipfilter is broken. I never said that ipfilter was in any way broken, just that I was experiencing problems running it since moving to a 6.1 server. My apologies for not making myself clearer. Your rule set is most likely incorrect. Post description of your firewall/LAN setup along with your complete rule set for review by list. Very well, here is some more information but I am not about to post my entire ruleset on a publicly searchable mailing list Extract from ipfstat -ni @2 block in quick on em0 all head 1 ... @9 pass in quick on em0 proto tcp from 196.31.10.14/32 to any port = http flags S/FSRPAU keep state group 1 ... @19 block in log quick on em0 all group 1 Ipmon output 08/06/2006 14:23:01.652653 STATE:NEW 165.165.192.80,53269 - 196.7.156.157,80 PR tcp ... 08/06/2006 14:23:31.221693 em0 @1:20 b 165.165.192.80,53269 - 196.7.156.157,80 PR tcp len 20 64 -S IN OOW 08/06/2006 14:23:31.674548 STATE:NEW 165.165.192.80,50949 - 196.7.156.157,80 PR tcp 08/06/2006 14:23:32.915562 STATE:NEW 165.165.192.80,53465 - 196.7.156.157,80 PR tcp 08/06/2006 14:23:34.219658 em0 @1:20 b 165.165.192.80,53269 - 196.7.156.157,80 PR tcp len 20 64 -S IN OOW The 165.x.x.x IP address is from an ADSL line I was using to troubleshoot the problem (I was the only person using the line so it made tcpdumps etc easier to read, less noise). In our environment the problem was easily resolved by disabling SACKS on the Windows 2003 servers behind my firewall (something I have just finished testing). But I would still like someone to please point me in the right direction insofar as updating IPFilter to 4.1.13 under FreeBSD 6.1 as this solution is not to my liking. Regards, Nicholas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: __P macro
On 2006-06-08 10:45, Saifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi:
Most of the racoon code uses __P macro.
and the __P macro is defined as -
#undef __P
#ifndef __P
#if __STDC__
#define __P(protos) protos
#else
#define __P(protos) ()
#endif
#endif
It seems to make many expressions difficult to read -
eg.
static int (*pkrecvf[]) __P((caddr_t *)) = {
...
}
What is the downside if this macro is not used in defining new
function prototypes ? (working with FreeBSD 5.4 and above with
gcc 3.x compiler)
Your program may fail to compile with compilers that do not
support ANSI C function prototypes. This includes some old,
pre-ANSI compilers. How important these compilers are for your
particular application is debatable though.
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Re: On mail principles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:43:23PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this way is bad for local purposes: my MTA's diagnostic messages are sent trough internet or lost at all, e. g. when my ADSL is in down. (Moreover, my letters sent to other local users have non-local envelope from address. Then local mail begin to go through external MTA.) What to do in such a situation? See the sendmail documentation [1] on MASQUERADE_AS(). -- -Chuck [1]: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README, or check the FAQ from www.sendmail.org... That is not a proper feature because of different local users can use world mail addresses with different hostnames. But masquerading is good only for one domain. I believe newer postfixes have support for masquerading different local users with different external addresses when sending mail externally. Haven't tried it: just noted the feature in some email somewhere for future evaluation, so take with the usual pinch of salt. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)
Nick wrote: Help please with connection sa0 devices. I try to make the following: mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type The system gives out: Block device required I can not understand that occurs. It is simple I the first time on FreeBSD work with tape stores Why are you trying to mount a tape as if it contained a filesystem (which seems highly unlikely)? You don't need to mount anything to use a tape drive; just put the tape in and specify /dev/sa0 /or /dev/nsa0 (non-rewinding device) to whatever software needs to use the tape. What is it you are actually trying to do? Read the tape? Write something to it? Perform backups? Without that basic information it's hard to actually help. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling ports to packages on fast system, installing on slower one
Hi, there... One way to do it is to run a portupgrade -n ... to see what would be upgraded, then compile it on the fastest system, export the /usr/ports through nfs and then run a portupgrade -w -W ... using the exported filesystem on the slower system... Don't forget to sincronize both ports system with cvsup... Just a though... ;-) -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. Porto Alegre - RS Brasil 51 - 9847 8825 -- Original Message --- From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:56:25 -0400 Subject: compiling ports to packages on fast system, installing on slower one Hello, I was wondering if this was possible? I've got a box that i'd like to install the latest gnome 2.14 desktop on, as well as some very intense apps to build. I would like to compile the needed apps on my fastest machine as packages, then transfer all the packages to the slower box, and do a pkg_add * and they're all installed. My catch is i don't want to install everything on my fastest box to pull this off. I am using portupgrade and was wondering if this was doable? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End of Original Message --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling ports to packages on fast system, installing on slower one
Dave wrote: Hello, Hi I was wondering if this was possible? I've got a box that i'd like to install the latest gnome 2.14 desktop on, as well as some very intense apps to build. I would like to compile the needed apps on my fastest machine as packages, then transfer all the packages to the slower box, and do a pkg_add * and they're all installed. My catch is i don't want to install everything on my fastest box to pull this off. I am using portupgrade and was wondering if this was doable? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] man pkg_create Also check out: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html This is a pretty good guide to creating a build server, from your fastest machine, so it does all the work, from updating world and kernel source, to ports. Bascially it involves NFS and mounting the faster computers /usr/src /usr/ports after thier compiled on the faster machine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: USB-Serial ??
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Steve Bertrand wrote: The saga of the 3G modem. Labeled in AU as the Maxon MM 5500c. This device is a modem on the usb bus, it looks like and understands the at commands. Under XP. I am using fbsd 6.1. How do I get ppp to talk to it? The man pages keep pointing to /dev/cuaU? A device that does not exist yet. Don't know about the rest, but in FBSD 6+, the serial devices are /dev/cuad0 for COM1 and /dev/cuad1 for COM2. Try a: # cu -l /dev/cuad0 to see if you can connect to the device. He said it was USB, which should be /dev/ucom0. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)
Nick wrote: What is it you are actually trying to do? Read the tape? Write something to it? Perform backups? Without that basic information it's hard to actually help. I try to build reserve copy of information on it actually I want read and write information on it And what format is this information in? If it had been tar'ed to the tape you would say something like: tar -tv -f /dev/sa0 to list the contents and tar -xv -f /dev/sa0 to extract. But if it had been written with, say, dd then something like dd if=/dev/sa0 of=/your/output/file might do to read it, but you'd probably want to set a blocksize with e.g. bs=32k or bs=64k but that depends on how the tape was written. So how was the tape written? --Alex You should copy freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org on your replies. That way everyone sees the whole conversation, and someone else may have newer/better/brighter suggestions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make, help
Hi, I'm trying to install /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions but the installer cann't find the package PDFlib-Lite-6.0.2.tar.gz and it stops. My question is how do I configure the installer so that it doesn't require it? Thanks, Efren Bravo. - Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=ZWZyZW5iYQ%3D%3D __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does cron exec jobs?
* Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-07 15:48:35 -0700]: I have a cronjob ( cfexecd -F ) that often hangs; but no matter how I run it from the shell ( sh -c cfexecd -F ) it never hangs. How can I simulate a cron job from the shell? Whenever you have a problem like this (ie. foo works perfectly from the command line but not from cron), you should always run /usr/bin/env (or /bin/env) from cron, and then manually run your script with that same environment (unsetting any envariables you need to get your shell to match that of the cron environment) -- that will show you fairly quickly what is wrong. Usually it is just a PATH issue, but sometimes it may be some missing envariable that you didn't even realize existed (that your script depended on it). Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange swap behaviour
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:07:10AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. A server of mine is running 6.1/amd64 with 1GiB of RAM. From time to time swap use will grow enormously and performance will suffer from this; also the nightly clamav run will not complete, as the process will get killed due to lack of swap space. The day after I'll look into top and see this two processes are the largest ones: 672 snort 1 -580 4007M 62344K bpf0 8:53 0.00% snort 669 snort 1 -580 323M 29704K bpf1 1:45 0.00% snort I kill them and start them again; I get: 10295 snort 1 -580 81708K 66432K bpf0 0:01 12.38% snort 10283 snort 1 -580 81704K 66368K bpf0 0:01 5.77% snort However swap utilization will drop from 4095/4096 MiB to 136/4096 MiB. Is this normal? Yes. Does the size figure in top only show physical RAM usage? No, that is what the 'res' field (resident size) shows. Or is only swap space reclaimed after the process gets killed? It's reclaimed when the process releases the memory, which is either when it decides to stop hogging so much VM or when you kill it. Kris pgpxkZ655NdLz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)
Nick wrote: The tape is new and empty and I don't know what way is more likely for me may be You can give me Your advice what way I should choose for copy my information daily? (You should copy freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org on your replies). It depends. If you are just writing some small subset of files from a filesystem (e.g. your home directory) then tar would do. If you want to back up your machine, and the tape drive is big enough, then use dump. Both have good manual pages. Confusingly, FreeBSD has two versions of tar and which one is the default tar has changed recently. For simple stuff, they will be compatible with each other. bsdtar : bsd derived version of tar which in theory will know about filesystem flags, but if you don't use them then it won't matter. Also seems to mess up if the archive you write is compressed but happens to be empty (might be fixed by now). gtar or gnu tar : GNU GPL version of tar. This is the tar you get on Linux, for example. Won't know anything about specific FreeBSD filesystem things like flags. Other options include cpio (a bit like tar) or specialist backup software like bacula which you'll find in the ports. I can't comment either since I've never used them. You're still very vague about what you want to do; with more specific information better advice might be possible. E.g. I want to backup up my home directory and email files every day; or I have four 80Gb disks which I need to back up to a 40Gb compressing tape drive, what should I use?. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does cron exec jobs?
In the last episode (Jun 07), Atom Powers said: On 6/7/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I simulate a cron job from the shell? There must be something different about the way cron is executing this command... Counld be different environment variables set, different working directory... That's what I'm trying to find out. The cron man pages are ... empty on the subject. Any diagnostic when it hangs? Not that I can tell. It runs on schedule but it never clears it's locks (which it puts on files at is edits them) as it is supposed to; and it does when run from the shell. So it truth, it's not so much that it hangs, it does terminate, but it doesn't honor it's lock time-outs like it does when run outside of cron. Try running it from truss (truss -f -o /var/tmp/truss.out mycommand), and see if there's anything interesting in the log. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make, help
Hi, I'm trying to install /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions but the installer cann't find the package PDFlib-Lite-6.0.2.tar.gz and it stops. My question is how do I configure the installer so that it doesn't require it? Thanks, Efren Bravo. - Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=ZWZyZW5iYQ%3D%3D __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help redirect port
I try make redirect port by natd # natd -n ed1 -redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.100:80 8080 no work Not see traffic by tcpdump, Not see listen port (netstat or sockstat) why ? interfaces ~~~ ed1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet A.B.C.D netmask 0xffc0 broadcast A.B.C. ether 00:02:44:08:74:7a de0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:40:05:30:9f:ed media: autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX full-duplex 100baseTX 10baseT/UT kernel: ~ options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE ipfw =OPEN Thanks, Vasili ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: natd not starting on boot-up
On 6/6/2006 21:13, Roger Merritt seems to have typed: Everything starts on boot-up as it should -- except natd. I can start it manually from the command line after booting up and logging in and it works fine, but I can't tell what's going on that it's failing to start. Try adding: natd_flags=-dynamic to rc.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange swap behaviour
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. A server of mine is running 6.1/amd64 with 1GiB of RAM. From time to time swap use will grow enormously and performance will suffer from this; also the nightly clamav run will not complete, as the process will get killed due to lack of swap space. The day after I'll look into top and see this two processes are the largest ones: 672 snort 1 -580 4007M 62344K bpf0 8:53 0.00% snort 669 snort 1 -580 323M 29704K bpf1 1:45 0.00% snort I'm having the exact same problem on 6.0/amd64. I commented out the stream4 preprocessor lines in the snort.conf file and the problem went away. I just uncommented them this morning, to confirm that that is what is causing the problem. It appears that there is a memory leak in the stream4 preprocessor, but before I report it, I want to confirm that the symptoms are repeatable. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Beginner Questions
Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. Just about anything that has to do with user login can be set both globally and for the individual user. You didn't by any chance take a look at the FreeBSD handbook? There is a whole section on it, 5.6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession Default session script for logins. This is the default session script for XDM to run after a user has logged in. Normally each user will have a customized session script in ~/.xsession that overrides this script. If you take a look in the above file you will see that it starts twm, this is default behaviour. You can edit the file to start some other window manager as default or you can override by setting you choice in your own ~/.xsession Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
-- Original message -- From: Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. Thanks, Rich Mayo edit /etc/ttys to point to the kde display mgr, should look something like this, mine's for gnome though. ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon xterm on secure check out the handbook on this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html regards, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)
Nick wrote: Help please with connection sa0 devices. I try to make the following: mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type The system gives out: Block device required A tape drive isn't mountable as a filesystem because it is not a block device, ie, the tape drive is sequential access, not random access. Try using dump/restore or tar to access the tape drive. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
On Thursday 08 June 2006 08:14, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. You might want to check out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_us.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html It should get you started. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignorance is bliss. -- Thomas Gray Fortune updates the great quotes, #42: BLISS is ignorance. pgpkxCM5ZvNqy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
El día Thursday, June 08, 2006 a las 11:16:15AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck etc.). ... I was once involved running one of our library application in so called 'library buses' which are connected via GPRS and Internet to the central library and the readers of the library could borrow books in the bus at dedicated stations of the tour. Borrowing and book return was made directly in the central database (just for background). The personal in the bus is a mix of driver and librarian without deep system knowhow and so we had the same problem to solve: just powering-off the system before going to next station :-) I tested a self-mastered Knopix-CD, ie enhanced the Knopix-CD with our lookfeel and application clients, and so you had a read-only and for ever booting system. Don't know (and I'm to lazy to Google) if there is a FreeBSD live-CD project, sure it has to be... matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Help please with connection sa0 devices. I try to make the following: mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type The system gives out: Block device required I can not understand that occurs. It is simple I the first time on FreeBSD work with tape stores -- Nick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I assume that you actually _have_ spaces in the mount command you issue. Anyway, in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2004- April/001096.html they say that [QUOTE] [root at cpr]/dev(185): mount /dev/nsa0 /mnt/tape/ mount: /dev/nsa0: Block device required You can't mount a tape drive like that. mount only works for disk devices with filesystems. [UNQUOTE] So, seems that you need mt(1) to use tapes. :) Bob Goodman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.5 wkYEARECAAYFAkSISVUACgkQAQ09syE0bn5YRQCgmyj136nrllD+EvTKhlmtwPkKSXMA nREggQscYlQyi1csicpZHA8r5SXk =tAWe -END PGP SIGNATURE- Concerned about your privacy? Instantly send FREE secure email, no account required http://www.hushmail.com/send?l=480 Get the best prices on SSL certificates from Hushmail https://www.hushssl.com?l=485 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde-3.5.3 screensaver
Anybody experience the same as I do? After upgrading to the latest kde (from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3) the screensaver within kde stopped working. I can choose which one I would like, test it even, but after setting it nothing happens. Very strange, because this option has always just worked. So, is it just me, or is this a bug of some sort? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:14:06 +0200, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Many beginner problems can be solved with the handbook :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Welcome to FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
Look at the file .xinitrc in your home directory, this is where the window manager is usually run from. -Derek At 07:14 AM 6/8/2006, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. Thanks, Rich Mayo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. Hi Rich, Welcome to FreeBSD! The FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Is a fantastic source of information on how to use FreeBSD. In particular, there is a section which covers xdm (the graphical login screen): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html And another section on Desktop Environments (basically Gnome and KDE): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html In the KDE section, there are instructions for installing KDE, and for enabling it so that KDE starts when you login. Hope this helps, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
On 6/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Thursday, June 08, 2006 a las 11:16:15AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck etc.). Google for 'KDE Kiosk. There is at at least one project I used two years ago to completely lock down a FreeBSD box using KDE and Firefox (firebird at the time, I think) You shouldn't have power-off issues if you never write data to the drive, kind of tricky unless you make it a near-disktless system that runs firefox off a network drive. Don't know (and I'm to lazy to Google) if there is a FreeBSD live-CD project, sure it has to be... FreeSBIE 2 is nearing release. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck etc.). I'd welcome any advice and suggestions about how to do this. Currently the information on the system is updated in situ so the file systems can't be made read only (any ideas on how we could split the updating from the deployment welcome). We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a kiosk browser. Hi drseuk, Well, the best thing to do would be to make your kiosk machine totally diskless: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html This would make the kiosk machine totally resilient to unexpected reboots. However, it sounds like you only have one machine, and you have to make everything work there. In that case, you might be able to experiment with making certain file systems read-only, and only making them RW when you want to modify the system. It looks like some work has been done with getting Firefox to work in kiosk mode, here is what Google turned up for me: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6013296355.html Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. Welcome to FreeBSD! For some reason, the mail servers I use (or perhaps the FreeBSD server itself) are lagging a few hours behind, so I hope you've not been flooded with responses. The general answer is it depends. As near as I can tell in your case, it would be ~/.xsession; in my case, it is ~/.xinitrc (/home/myusername/.xinitrc). That is assuming that by graphical login screen, you meant that you were looking at xdm, the X Display Manager? I boot to a console prompt and then run startx, so xinit is actually setting up my session; I would have exec startkde in ~/.xinitrc if I wanted to run KDE. I assume (IANAE) that .xsession is similar. Take a look at Xorg(1) and especially xdm(1) for more information. If you have KDE installed, it comes with kdm; the thing to do might be modify /etc/ttys to run kdm instead of getty on one of your virtual terminals; lots of folks do this, from what I understand. I formerly had this box running GNOME; here's the relevant bits of /etc/ttys: ttyv0 /usr/X11R6/bin/gdmcons25 on secure #ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure So, this would run the Gnome Display Manager (gdm) on the first virtual terminal on boot-up, and by default, gdm called GNOME. I assume that kdm does the same for KDE. HTH, (and that I'm not late) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make, help
Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions but the installer cann't find the package PDFlib-Lite-6.0.2.tar.gz and it stops. My question is how do I configure the installer so that it doesn't require it? Looks like that's just a port option, so make config should do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:29:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck etc.). I tested a self-mastered Knopix-CD, ie enhanced the Knopix-CD with our lookfeel and application clients, and so you had a read-only and for ever booting system. Don't know (and I'm to lazy to Google) if there is a FreeBSD live-CD project, sure it has to be... Shouldn't be all that hard. Try simply changing your filesystems from rw to ro in /etc/fstab. I expect some logging functions may bellyache, but everything will still run. There is a Live CD in the standard CD set for each FreeBSD release that you could look at for reference. I've built controllers with FreeBSD on Soekris small boards with CF cards for disk drive and filesystems mounted ro. Used Apache, perl, mysql, php, and heck I don't remember what else. Our primary concern was write wear on the CF media. Think it was FreeBSD 4.6 or 4.7 that we used. Stripped it down to 10 MB. Compiled everything linked against shared libraries and put / and /usr in the same (my only) fs. We did add another fs for rw use. When needed it was mounted from script, written or read, then umounted on completion so that it was rarely vulnerable, but more importantly when umounted it wasn't being written to. We also used the noatime option. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
On Thursday 08 June 2006 13:35, Derek Ragona wrote: Look at the file .xinitrc in your home directory, this is where the window manager is usually run from. -Derek At 07:14 AM 6/8/2006, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. Thanks, Rich Mayo for all of my installs, i always have to create the .xinitrc file, as its never there by default (for me, anyway). to start kde, i populate my .xinitrc file with the line: exec startkde and thats it. KDE will start. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:16:15AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'd welcome any advice and suggestions about how to do this. Currently the information on the system is updated in situ so the file systems can't be made read only (any ideas on how we could split the updating from the deployment welcome). There are a couple of solutions involving NFS that could be used, if you've got the bandwidth. eg: You could make all the base file-systems read-only, and mount the run-file-system over NFS; or you could make the kiosks mount everything except the root-file-system over NFS. If I recall correctly, there are examples available in the Handbook. We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a kiosk browser. Put a script in /etc/ttys that starts up X and runs firefox; maybe `startx firefox'? Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear - Edmond Blackadder III ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading process memory
Hello! On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Tofik Suleymanov wrote: I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory used/utilized by a process (assuming right privileges). Yes, procfs allows it to user with the process's UID (or root). First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem' property of the given process, but no success. Yes, process's virtual address space is accessible via /proc/PID/mem file, just don't forget that it's sparse. So you can't just 'hd mem', you should specify valid offset. /proc/PID/map will help you to do so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /proc/curproc [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat map 0x8048000 0x80b 99 0 0xc68fc630 r-x 20 10 0x8004 COW NC vnode ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd if=mem bs=0x100 skip=0x80480 |hd|more 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF| 0010 02 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 24 6e 05 08 34 00 00 00 |$n..4...| 0020 e0 ac 06 00 00 00 00 00 34 00 20 00 05 00 28 00 |Ю╛..4. ...(.| P.S. I've once found the cause of the memory leak by examining virtual address space of my process and finding the repeated leaked pattern. Thanks, Tofik Suleymanov Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner Questions
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:14:06AM -0400, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of questions. I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding anything so here goes: What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on? I got the graphical login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm. With `startx', it is ~/.xinitrc WIth `kdm', it is ~/.xsession -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On mail principles
Thu, 8 Jun 2006 02:08:53 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [...] I use mutt, which has an option to set the envelope-from address: set envelope_from=yes# set the envelope-from address from From: For the rest of the programs, like mail(1), my Sendmail setup sets envelope-from to one of my valid outside-world addresses. This is accomplished with the following in my `sendmail.mc' file: You need write the howto sendmail for newbies :) -- Regards, Andrey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tcpdump dropping packets
Chuck Swiger wrote: Check sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize, but also do a search on this because there may be a patch needed for PCAP in order for buffers larger than 32K to actually work. [1] Hmmm sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize sysctl: unknown oid 'debug.bpf_bufsize' sysctl -a | grep bufsize net.bpf.maxbufsize: 524288 net.bpf.bufsize: 4096 I assume bufsize is the default? And maxbufsize is as high as it can go? So it defaults to 4 megs and maxes out at 512 megs? If true, how would I go about calculating a sufficiently large maxbufsize? If I have approximate 150Mbps traffic, how much has to be held in the buffer? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
RE: USB-Serial ??
Sorry dud but what you have is a winmodem. XP has special driver for that external modem to work. It is not supported in FreeBSD as far as I have seen. There is no such thing as USB-serial modem. External modem is connected to motherboard by serial cable or USB cable. Serial external modem works right out of the box and USB external modem are all winmodems. There is a port ltmdm which works for a limited number of PCI winmodems but nothing for USB-winmodems. You are SOL. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Warren Block Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:29 AM To: Steve Bertrand Cc: 'John Andrewartha'; 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: RE: USB-Serial ?? On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Steve Bertrand wrote: The saga of the 3G modem. Labeled in AU as the Maxon MM 5500c. This device is a modem on the usb bus, it looks like and understands the at commands. Under XP. I am using fbsd 6.1. How do I get ppp to talk to it? The man pages keep pointing to /dev/cuaU? A device that does not exist yet. Don't know about the rest, but in FBSD 6+, the serial devices are /dev/cuad0 for COM1 and /dev/cuad1 for COM2. Try a: # cu -l /dev/cuad0 to see if you can connect to the device. He said it was USB, which should be /dev/ucom0. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
Don't know (and I'm to lazy to Google) if there is a FreeBSD live-CD project, sure it has to be... I used FreeSBIE some time ago, and it ran fine (in some situations try disabling ACPI). A current search for FreeBSD live cd-s gives several results: http://www.freesbie.org/ http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ http://www.livebsd.com/ I just couldn't get how does the bus have books on it, but I guess it is not so important. :) Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading mysql-server
So, my nightly security report says that I should upgrade mysql-server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pkg_info | grep mysql-server mysql-server-4.1.15 Multithreaded SQL database (server) But, what port does this correspond to? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -d /usr/ports/databases/mysql*server /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server/ /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server/ /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server//usr/ports/databases/mysql51-server/ /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server/ I'm assuming mysql41-server, since it's version 4.1.15. Affected package: mysql-server-4.1.15 Type of problem: MySQL -- SQL-injection security vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/7f8cecea-f199-11da-8422-00123ffe8333.htm l Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpn0nYqv2otd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange swap behaviour
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm having the exact same problem on 6.0/amd64. I commented out the stream4 preprocessor lines in the snort.conf file and the problem went away. I just uncommented them this morning, to confirm that that is what is causing the problem. It appears that there is a memory leak in the stream4 preprocessor, but before I report it, I want to confirm that the symptoms are repeatable. I've been told that a memory leak in the stream4 preprocessor was fixed in the 2.6.0 release. So you may want to update to that now, or comment it out until the maintainer updates the port. (That port is usually pretty well maintained, so I suspect it won't be long before it's updated.) -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: kde-3.5.3 screensaver
On Thursday 08 June 2006 17:14, dick hoogendijk wrote: Anybody experience the same as I do? After upgrading to the latest kde (from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3) the screensaver within kde stopped working. Yes, it's broke. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128610 -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org pgpy4aSsbNBxz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
Andy Reitz wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck etc.). I'd welcome any advice and suggestions about how to do this. Currently the information on the system is updated in situ so the file systems can't be made read only (any ideas on how we could split the updating from the deployment welcome). We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a kiosk browser. Hi drseuk, Well, the best thing to do would be to make your kiosk machine totally diskless: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html This would make the kiosk machine totally resilient to unexpected reboots. However, it sounds like you only have one machine, and you have to make everything work there. In that case, you might be able to experiment with making certain file systems read-only, and only making them RW when you want to modify the system. It looks like some work has been done with getting Firefox to work in kiosk mode, here is what Google turned up for me: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6013296355.html Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A local library I have done some work for has a device from http://www.centuriontech.com/products/centurionguard/ It basically is a hardware solution that no mater what the user thinks they are doing, they cannot write to the disk. Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a kiosk browser. Alternative: http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/ -- Regards from Lars ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
restoring deleted files
Can you tell me a simple way of retrieving recently deleted files? Regards Phil Sweeney Superior Pest Management P.O Box 68 www.superiorpest.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] H.R.M.C NSW 2310 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tcpdump dropping packets
Paul Schmehl wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Check sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize, but also do a search on this because there may be a patch needed for PCAP in order for buffers larger than 32K to actually work. [1] Hmmm sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize sysctl: unknown oid 'debug.bpf_bufsize' This sysctl has changed names over time, it seems, and thus may vary depending on which version of FreeBSD you have. sysctl -a | grep bufsize net.bpf.maxbufsize: 524288 net.bpf.bufsize: 4096 I assume bufsize is the default? And maxbufsize is as high as it can go? So it defaults to 4 megs and maxes out at 512 megs? I think those sizes may be measured in bytes, not MB. :-) If true, how would I go about calculating a sufficiently large maxbufsize? I suspect that you will have to adjust the KVA region size to really increase the BPF buffer size. Tuning this stuff requires some experimentation, probably, although I will happily defer to someone with more knowledge... If I have approximate 150Mbps traffic, how much has to be held in the buffer? You'd like to be able to hold several times as much data as arrives per quantum (ie, 1ms if HZ=1000) to handle peaks and the machine getting busy with something else and not draining the buffer immediately. Ie, you'd want on the order of a few hundred KB of buffer space at 150Mbps, but your disks would have to be able to sustain 20+ MB/s continuous writes if you plan to keep all of the traffic, or you'd have to filter and do whatever live processing at that type of data rate, or else you'll drop huge amounts of traffic. [ I'm tempted to suggest you call your local phone company and ask them to recommend a wirespeed Internet recorder/analyzer. ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compile courier-imap 4.1.1 fails (solved)
(Sent off-group): The biggest thing is that if you have libs in non-standard locations then you need to set LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS CFLAGS appropriately before you compile for tcsh/csh % setenv LDFLAGS -L/usr/mylibs % setenv CPPFLAGS -I/usr/myincludes % setenv CFLAGS -I/usr/myincludes Chad Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net Chad, Thank you for your advice. I got there in the end, and cc the group for others' future reference (and mine): $setenv LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/include -L/usr/include/openssl $setenv CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/openssl $setenv CFLAGS -I/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/openssl (where -I = big i not small L) $./configure --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --enable-unicode=iso-8859-1,iso-8859-15,utf-8 --without-ipv6 --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs now... $make check Lots of complaints about FAM (which *is* installed, but not configured properly). I browsed a few posts wrt FAM, which led me to continue anyway, since it seems most applicable to many-user systems, particularly with shared folders. So, finally: $./configure --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --enable-unicode=iso-8859-1,iso-8859-15,utf-8 --without-ipv6 --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs $make check (More complaints expected due to --enable-workarounds... as documented), then: #make install #make install configure Up and running after a few tweaks, and first imap mails sent. Thank you! Imap over TLS/SSL next, then Sqwebmail Best wishes boink ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Midi and Linux compatibility
Hello; I'm interested in setting up midi and sound recording gear on a Linux system. There is a program I'm interested in getting installed and using called Rosegarden. I also have to contend with the availability of Linux compatible midi interfaces (which is a blurred subject as far as my research into availability is concerned) My question to the FreeBSD mailing list is: if I use FreeBSD with its Linux compatibility, how do I deal with drivers (for midi inter faces, for instance) and installation. Is there an area of ports for Linux software, specifically Rosegarden or something that will do audio recording, midi sequencing, audio/midi sync, and has a good score editor that will print sheet music? I would be using it on AMD 64 slot 939 FreeBSD v 6.0 Release. (commercial boxed set of cd's from FreeBSD Mall). I'm interested in this because my other option is to set up a machine with Debian and some Debian midi specific software. But I can't afford to build or buy another machine at present. I want to avoid dual boot if I can. One extra question re nvnet driver. I had trouble installing and using it and a response to a query to this list indicated that the port was broken. Can anyone tell me if it has been fixed? Thanks in advance: JK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Midi and Linux compatibility
jekillen wrote: Hello; I'm interested in setting up midi and sound recording gear on a Linux system. There is a program I'm interested in getting installed and using called Rosegarden. I also have to contend with the availability of Linux compatible midi interfaces (which is a blurred subject as far as my research into availability is concerned) My question to the FreeBSD mailing list is: if I use FreeBSD with its Linux compatibility, how do I deal with drivers (for midi inter faces, for instance) and installation. Is there an area of ports for Linux software, specifically Rosegarden or something that will do audio recording, midi sequencing, audio/midi sync, and has a good score editor that will print sheet music? You can check here http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ on ports you are looking, Your Rosegarden is listed. Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde-3.5.3 screensaver
On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Chris Howells wrote: On Thursday 08 June 2006 17:14, dick hoogendijk wrote: Anybody experience the same as I do? After upgrading to the latest kde (from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3) the screensaver within kde stopped working. Yes, it's broke. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128610 -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org I've had this same problem since 3.5.1. I installed xscreensaver and turned off KDE screensaver. When I want to adjust it I run xscreensaver-demo from the command line. When I lock the screen I get the KDE screen saver which will work for that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Directory and file comparison tool for X?
Hi all, I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( textproc/meld ) can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing what files are different withoug having to open each file and do a diff. There is a little app for Win32 called Beyond Compare (commercial, written in Delphi) , from Scooter Software (www.scootersoftware.com) which does all this - i need an similar tool :) Any suggestions? thanks in advance, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restoring deleted files
On 6/9/06, Phil Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me a simple way of retrieving recently deleted files? There is no simple way. And it depends on whether the inodes the file existed on have been overwritten. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading process memory
On 6/7/06, Tofik Suleymanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, folks I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory used/utilized by a process (assuming right privileges). First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem' property of the given process, but no success. Maybe there is another way of doing such things ? Any clue would be appreciated. If i understood correctly what you wish to do,then you can use the proc_rwmem() function in the kernel.But ofcourse, it can only be used through a KLD or directly through the kernel src.This is what ptrace ultimately uses. For 5.4 stable you can find it here : http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/ident?v=RELENG54i=proc_rwmem HTH. Regards, Pranav UNIX is a computer virus with an interface. -- The UNIX-HATERS Handbook ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Midi and Linux compatibility
Sean wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I'm interested in setting up midi and sound recording gear on a Linux system. There is a program I'm interested in getting installed and using called Rosegarden. I also have to contend with the availability of Linux compatible midi interfaces (which is a blurred subject as far as my research into availability is concerned) My question to the FreeBSD mailing list is: if I use FreeBSD with its Linux compatibility, how do I deal with drivers (for midi inter faces, for instance) and installation. Is there an area of ports for Linux software, specifically Rosegarden or something that will do audio recording, midi sequencing, audio/midi sync, and has a good score editor that will print sheet music? You can check here http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ on ports you are looking, Your Rosegarden is listed. Sean Note that the Rosegarden project refers to the 2.1 series that's in our ports as antique. The latest Rosegarden requires ALSA to work. To the OP, MIDI support on FreeBSD is non-existent aside from some kernel patches that turn up every now and then. If you need hardware MIDI support you need to use Linux, Windows, or OSX. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: natd not starting on boot-up
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:01:43 +0700 Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:12 AM 6/7/2006 -0700, you wrote: On 6/7/06, Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:18 +0700 Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700 Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD system to a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the instructions and had to make a completely new install. Everything now seems to be working the way it should, Apache, MySQL, PHP, syslog, Samba -- except natd. Everything starts on boot-up as it should -- except natd. I can start it manually from the command line after booting up and logging in and it works fine, but I can't tell what's going on that it's failing to start. My /etc/rc.conf contains the following: # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter=203.151.134.1 gateway_enable=YES hostname=poppy.international.stjohn.ac.th ifconfig_ed0=inet 10.3.16.125 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_ed1=inet 203.151.134.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 router_enable=YES firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=OPEN firewall_quiet=YES natd_enable=YES natd_interface=ed1 ipv6_enable=YES linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/sysmouse moused_type=auto screen=daemon nfs_client_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES That looks alright to me... What can I do to get some indication of where the problem is? Are there any error messages relating to IPFW / natd on boot? No, or at least none I could see. That's why I've asked for help. What version of FreeBSD are you running? 6.1-STABLE Perhaps there's something wrong in the branch at present...? Doubtful, I guess. What's the command you're running that _does_ launch natd successfully? /sbin/natd -n ed1. I hadn't thought about /etc/rc.d/natd start until someone suggested it, but that works too and reads the interface from /etc/rc.conf. What's the output of ls -l /etc/rc.d/natd? [poppy] ~# ls -l /etc/rc.d/natd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 978 May 31 09:52 /etc/rc.d/natd Hmmm... Well that all seems OK, then. The only other thing I can think of is that the 'router_enable'=YES' line's creating dramas. As I understand it, this'll cause /etc/rc.d/routed to attempt to launch the routing daemon specified by a 'router=...' line, which you don't appear to have. I don't think this'd interfere with natd anyway, but I don't really understand what the hell's going on in /etc/rc.d/routed. Sorry I can't be more helpful! -- I don't run route(daemon) so I don't know about router_enable, but here is what I have in my rc.conf to get natd working: #router stuff natd_program=/sbin/natd natd_enable=YES natd_interface=rl0 natd_flags=-dynamic -f /etc/natd.conf gateway_enable=YES So I use gateway_enable not router_enable. I don't know if this applies to your problem completely, but might be worth a shot. Well, I tried commenting it out and restarting. Everything seems to work without it, but natd still didn't start. I can't remember exactly why I decided it should be in there (I also have 'gateway_enable=YES'), but it must have been something I read when I first started using FreeBSD back eight or ten years ago. Well, I'll leave it commented out for a while and see if other problems show up. I've been doing a little hunting around to figure out how /etc/rc.d/natd's called in the first place and it seems this is done by the /etc/rc.d/ipfw script, which in turn is run when firewall_enable is set in /etc/rc.conf. /etc/rc.d/natd's not run directly by /etc/rc due to its having the nostart KEYWORD. Is IPFW definitely launched correctly on the system? Otherwise, perhaps it's worthwhile chucking a debug echo or two about the place (for instance, in /etc/rc.d/natd and / or /etc/rc.d/ipfw) and rebooting. Something like this should do the trick, I believe: echo echo echo echo '/etc/rc.d/natd' echo echo echo (without the outer quotes). -- Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Withers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
solved was Re: AC97 sound card on 6.1
Hello, Thanks to all who helped with my sound card issue. The fix was load the below driver in /boot/loader.conf: #sound driver snd_ich_load=YES Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need some help with PF rule letting two machines access each other
12.34.56.78 runs a server on port 1234 87.65.43.21 should connect to this Both of them have PF rulesets that block off most traffic, keeping open the publically available ports I need open. In this case though, any traffic over this port should only be between these two machines. I've tried to set this up, but I keep getting operation not permitted, connection refused, and connection reset by peer errors. Thanks for any info. Pat ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MIDI
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:57:24PM +0300, Andrey Slusar wrote: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 23:06:12 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Since I have builtin sound on my motherboard on most of my systems, can I configure them to play midi files? So far it looks like I need thw voxware driver/.ko/whatever. I'd appreciate any clues here. You need install the ports/audio/timidity++. This works! I do't rememer the changes in volume in the files I have from 1993, 4, and '96, but that may be a problem inthe MIDI src. Looking forward o explorig this stuff. gary -- Regards, Andrey. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling ports to packages on fast system, installing on slower one
On 6/8/06, Andrey Slusar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:56:25 -0400, Dave wrote: Hello, I was wondering if this was possible? I've got a box that i'd like to install the latest gnome 2.14 desktop on, as well as some very intense apps to build. I would like to compile the needed apps on my fastest machine as packages, then transfer all the packages to the slower box, and do a pkg_add * and they're all installed. My catch is i don't want to install everything on my fastest box to pull this off. I am using portupgrade and was wondering if this was doable? On fast box install the misc/tinderbox and build all packets in tinderbox jail. Can you use a custom make.conf for each tinderbox jail? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need some help with PF rule letting two machines access each other
Pat Maddox wrote: 12.34.56.78 runs a server on port 1234 87.65.43.21 should connect to this Both of them have PF rulesets that block off most traffic, keeping open the publically available ports I need open. In this case though, any traffic over this port should only be between these two machines. I've tried to set this up, but I keep getting operation not permitted, connection refused, and connection reset by peer errors. Thanks for any info. Hi, This'll do: EIF=eif # external interface HOSTA=12.34.56.78 # host A HOSTB=87.65.43.21 # host B # These lines go on host A pass in quick on $EIF from $HOSTB to $EIF port 1234 pass out quick on $EIF from $EIF to $HOSTB port 1234 # These lines go on host B pass in quick on $EIF from $HOSTA to $EIF port 1234 pass out quick on $EIF from $EIF to $HOSTA port 1234 Put those lines somewhere at the beginning of your pf.conf files. Also, if I may add, this is very basic and you should consult/read/learn PF's guide. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
