Re: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000
- Original Message - From: Lee Shackelford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:23 AM Subject: Re: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000 Good morning, Mr. Mittelstaedt. Again, many thanks for your response to my question. My original purpose in purchasing the computer was to install multiple operating systems for hobbyist purpose. The computer's major selling point was that it has five hard drives. My original idea was to install a different operating system on each one. When I discovered that it had the rather sophisticated RAID-5 system implemented in hardware, I discarded that idea in favor of partitioning the hard drive to install the operating systems. The next operating system that I wanted after Windows Server 2000, with which it came equipped was FreeBSD. This project has become painfully involved, first of all, because I did not understand the fact, documented nowhere, that the BIOS of a computer intended to be a server is totally different from the BIOS of a computer intended to be a workstation. With experience, and with information eventually traded across the internet from other computer enthusiasts trying to do the same thing, I have eventually gained enough understanding of the BIOS to proceed. OK, you bought the computer to install operating systems on to do - what? Seems to me you wanted to install them to LEARN. Well, a computer OS is an integral part of the computer - like ying and yang, each requires the other. How exactly did you think that you were going to be able to learn anything whatsoever of value about an operating system by completely ignoring the hardware it was running on? Seems to me your money has been well spent on training. I'm sorry if the training isn't teaching you things that you think you thought you needed to know. But guess what, life is like that. Let me put it another way. If I needed to hire someone to install a Windows server, which would be a better choice? Someone who actually knows that server BIOS's are somewhat different than Workstation BIOSES? Someone who has actually installed a server OS and solved problems with getting it to work on hardware they are unfamiliar with? Or, some newly-minted MSCSE who has only installed Windows on his desktop computer, but by golly, knows all the definitions in the Microsoft literature? Think about it. The process has also been stymied by the fact that the developers of the boot program for sysinstall have failed, even in its latest edition, to install in BOOT the necessary features to read the output of a Compaq server BIOS, in particular the ability to correctly interpret the size of memory. The developers know all about the Compaq issues. Those are first of all solved in the latest Compaq BIOSES that ship with the current HP/Compaq servers. Secondly, there's workarounds. Thirdly, Compaq did it wrong back then. What good reason do we want to break sysinstall to have it do things the wrong way, so that it can work with old Compaq gear? Thanks to you, other respondents, and experience, I feel that I now have a grip of that issue. My latest problem stems from the fact that I had intended to install a portion of the BSD operating system in a primary Windows partition (BSD slice) below the 1024 cylinder limit, and the rest of it in a larger Windows logical partition within the extended partition, above 1024 cylinders. You need to throw most of this cylinder nonsense out the window it is meaningless to any OS that will run on that hardware, with the exception of DOS. Even though the handbook, as well as several other documents, clearly states that the operating system cannot be loaded into a logical partition, the implication of that statement did not register in my brain until I tried to do it. More learning that a lot of more advanced techs than you still don't understand. I wonder if system designers realize the extent to which the requirements that the entire system, or at least the boot BSD partition be loaded below 1024 cylinders, and the requirement that the operating system not be loaded into the extended Windows partition are in conflict in a multiple operating system environment. They do. They don't care. Multiple boot systems are for the birds. Mostly what happens is that people load multiple OS's on a system, intending to use all of them, then discover 3-4 months into it that it's too much of a PIA to keep rebooting all the time to get into a different system, and end up spending all their time in one system. If you really want multiple OS, buy multiple computers and plug them into a single console with a KVM switch. Much more practical. But, by all means, do it anyway, you probably won't really understand what I mean when I say they are for the birds until you have experienced a multiboot system. One again, more learning. Some
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:28:22PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not supported in Unknown. Any ideas on how to fix this, please? TIA What's your user agent showing?: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/UserAgent.html -- Frank echo f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k | sed 's/ //g' ---PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RSS feeds for important sites?
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a list of BSD related RSS feeds that they'd be willing to share? There are FreeBSD feeds on the freebsd site. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X Configuration Woes
I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my Seagate harddrive ... connected to the Primary master IDE interface. Now I had these two FreeBSD 5.4 ISOs ... CD1 and CD2, and I booted from CD1 directly and did the install. There is no automatic X configuration in the installer so I tried running it manually. 1. I tried running Xorg -configure. For some reason Xorg -configure threw an error: xf86EnableIO: could not open /dev/io for extended IO. However, when I did run: ls -l /dev/io I got: crw--- root wheel 246, 14 /dev/io 2. Never figured out what went wrong there but instead used xorgconfig and that worked, as in, it wrote my config file. Here are my Screen details: *** Samsung Samtron 45Bn monitor (33-55 KHz HorSyncRate, 50-120 Hz Vert Refresh Rate). *** Cirrus Logic GD 5465 graphics card on a PCI slot - with 4MB video memory. *** For one, I have an immovable mouse ... it is an old haggardly Logitech 3-button serial mouse and I could not make it work. Don't know which is the device name to use for the port it is connected to. Should it be /dev/tty00 or /dev/cuad0 or /dev/sysmouse or /dev/mse0? So could not configure it. - Tried running sysinstall to configure it but that would not work either ... tried Logitech, Microsoft and MouseMan protocols and /dev/tty00 and /dev/cuad0 for device names ... all combinations. Did not work. I would have liked to attach my xorg.conf file but don't have access to it right away. I guess there are no probs in it ... I read through the relevant sections of it and from what I remember of my RedHat Linux 6.0 days, this file seems fine. 3. Finally I tried changing the /etc/ttys file and for /dev/ttyv8, turned xterm on from off. == Now each time I boot into FreeBSD, I get a flickering blank, black screen with nothing on it. I keep try [Ctrl+] Alt + Fn ...n=1..12 ... but no success. == I keep trying Ctrl + Alt + Backspace ... but no breakthrough. == I tried Ctrl + Alt + KP_+/- also, with the Num Lock on ... but again no respite. Some observations: 1. While the screen continuously flickers, the Num Lock of the Keyboard keeps blinking too (if it was on, to start with). 2. A while back, when I had not yet configured X with xorgconfig and just like that switched on xterm on /dev/ttyv8, I rememeber the getty program was respawning too quickly, due to which it was going into 30 second sleeps. So I switched xterm off. Of course, after that I found xorgconfig. 3. Here are the modes I have allowed in xorgconfig: a. 8 bit - 800x600, 640x480 (removed 1024x768, 1280x1024) b. 16 bit (default) - 800x600, 640x480 (removed 1024x768, 1280x1024) c. 24 bit - 800x600, 640x480 (removed 1024x768, 1280x1024) 4. Earlier, after completing xorgconfig, while xterm was off on ttyv8 in /etc/ttys, I tried: startx -- -depth 16 :1 vt10 and it gave me the same problems. 5. Finally, during sysinstall installation of the OS, I could not configure moused with my mouse ... and while I would briefly see a tiny pointer, I would not see it move with my mouse movements. If you can wade through this gibberish, please help. Cheers, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Configuration Woes
I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my Seagate harddrive ... connected to the Primary master IDE interface. If you can wade through this gibberish, please help. Cheers, Andy Some updates: Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg installed is 6.9.0. I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf either. From the command-line I ran xdm and the GUI started ... I could login ... and then that's about it. 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can make do with a very minimal one. But I want a minimal one at least now, I just have to get this running or I can't sleep. Cheers, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uninstall firefox then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on this step) Now cd into /usr/ports/www and look at any port whose name starts with linux the ones I found most helpful where: linux-firefox linux-flashplugin7 linuxpluginwrapper you might also want to look at linux-mplayer-plugin if you use mplayer for windows media files Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs Firefox, multimedia, cutting edge video drivers, wi-fi, and a bunch of apps that are troublesome to configure on FreeBSD. You can then install VMware Server (also painless) and run a local FreeBSD VM for quick desktop access when you need the Real Thing. It's easy to SSH and VNC back and forth and open X windows between the two systems and have the best of both worlds. Don't get me wrong; I far prefer working in FreeBSD to any other system, and spend most of my time there. But life is just easier when you have more tools close to your work area. It's simple to set up, and has been rock solid for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RSS feeds for important sites?
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:57, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Napoleon Dynamite wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 19:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a list of BSD related RSS feeds that they'd be willing to share? Thankx ... Hi Mark, I think you're asking about all the BSDs, so here is what I have. For FreeBSD I use the RSS feeds off the main project page, for NetBSD off theirs, and for OpenBSD, which doesn't have any on their page, I get them off of http://undeadly.org (the busiest of these first three.) I also subscribe to the BSD related feeds off of Secunia. I don't know DragonflyBSD well enough to point you anywhere. Other than that I haven't found any others. The security feeds are the best because the instant I get one on FreeBSD, I recompile userland and the kernel. Actually, in this case, I'm more interested in FreeBSD stuff ... but, for instance, I can't find an RSS feed for Daemonnews or bsdnews, whcih would be cool ... an RSS feed for the 'In the News' section on the FreeBSD site would be cool ... that sort of thing ... Thanks ... Hi Marc, the newsfeeds you are looking for should be relatively easy to find on their respective websites, at least I managed to find them. Right now both feeds seem to be unfetchable, but attached you'll find all my FreeBSD feeds as an opml file, so as soon as they are back online, you can start reading. Should the mailinglist software cut off the attachment, feel free to contact me off list. michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Configuration Woes
On 9/12/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. You need to put the proper protocol in xorg.conf 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can make do with a very minimal one. But I want a minimal one at least now, I just have to get this running or I can't sleep. Try ratpoison if you are more keyboard friendly or try out enlightenment if you are mouse friendly. Cheers!! Subhro -- Subhro Kar Security Engineer iViZ Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Dhanshree Bldg, 1st Floor Plot XI-16, Sector V Salt Lake City 700091 India ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports
Hi, I am upgrading a few servers. I have noticed that on pentium III, it takes a VERY long time to upgrade Ruby 1.8. It blocks at some stage saying: zlib.c: mcc... Generating RI... Eventually it will finich installing. I am running RELENG 4.11 p21. Any clue? TIA Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ambiguous output redirect
I don't understand why when I execute this script I have an Ambiguous output redirect. ? p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/sbin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345 Can you help ? «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
On 12/09/06, Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uninstall firefox then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on this step) Now cd into /usr/ports/www and look at any port whose name starts with linux the ones I found most helpful where: linux-firefox linux-flashplugin7 linuxpluginwrapper you might also want to look at linux-mplayer-plugin if you use mplayer for windows media files Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs Firefox, multimedia, cutting edge video drivers, wi-fi, and a bunch of apps that are troublesome to configure on FreeBSD. You can then install VMware Server (also painless) and run a local FreeBSD VM for quick desktop access when you need the Real Thing. It's easy to SSH and VNC back and forth and open X windows between the two systems and have the best of both worlds. Don't get me wrong; I far prefer working in FreeBSD to any other system, and spend most of my time there. But life is just easier when you have more tools close to your work area. It's simple to set up, and has been rock solid for me. Well, I'm sorry you've all been beavering away offering helpful suggestions, because following rance's first suggestion i installed linux-firefox instead. Coincidentally, Pete - this FreeBSD install is already on a VMware image! The bare hardware is running SuSE. I had intended to run FreeBSD on the bare hardware, but it doesn't recognise either of the two wireless NICs (one was bought for use with Linux/BSD, the other is a Broadcom, argh!). As an aside, before finding that SuSE works with the PC card wifi NIC, I used FreeBSD on a VMware image in XP (thank God those days are over). It (FreeBSD) runs faster in VMware (which I understand is a customised Linux), running on SuSE Linux than XP did on the bare hardware. Go figure. In fact I just can't believe how fast it is - it used to crawl running Enlightenment stuck on top of XP, now it flies running KDE. Thanks for your suggestions, all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
On 11/09/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-) Heh. Maybe I ought to have said almost! Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see what the problem is with sysinstall. Credits: It's highly functional. It can configure a lot of things about a FreeBSD system, either during or after the installation of the system. It's CLI/remote-serial-console friendly. Actually there is one problem with sysinstall: Access to certain features (such as (g)vinum) is not possible from it - FreeBSD seems to have had (g)vinum for almost as long - if not longer - than Linux has had LVM. Nowadays, outside of Slackware, it seems that everyone not only has support for LVM, but also allows you to put / in it. Debits: It's oriented towards technical people. People who don't understand computers well in general, and the details of disk layouts in particular, tend to get hopelessly confused. Hmm. Windows has a partitioner too. Even worse, unlike most Linux/BSD installers' counterparts, unless you want to do something really simple (like wipe everything that isn't Windows off the first hard drive and install it on the first partition there; ugh) in my eXPerience it doesn't. bloody. work. Of course it's possible/probable that people who come to FreeBSD/Linux have never reinstalled Windows, though I know some technically pretty unsavvy people who have, by necessity (thanks to viruses). Not only do they usually not know how to access the help inside sysinstall, many times the help text is not available, or is not comprehensible unless you have the already-mentioned technical background. I guess I'm just jaded, I hardly notice... Fortunately, the outstanding docs available for FreeBSD do a lot to walk people through the process, even novices. Unfortunately, people want to use computers without having to read the docs. Just ask your mom/grandparents/etc. :-) I know; the infuriating thing for me is that this also applies to people who WOULD read the manual for something as simple as a food mixer! To me it's the best thing this side of YaST for getting (certain areas of) system administration done. (Yeah, I know a lot of you probably hate YaST in particular or Linux in general... Why would you think that? I'd imagine that most of the people using FreeBSD end up having a Linux box or two around for one reason or another. Hate is probably a strong word; nevertheless, a lot of BSD people I know/whose responses I've read on this and other lists don't rate Linux much. As for YaST, well, whatever gets the job done. It reminds me a bit too much of SMIT from AIX, or perhaps cPanel or Webmin, but other people seem to prefer such interfaces to a CLI prompt. The advantage of those over CLI's (I can't believe I'm saying this) is that what you can do is all laid out bare before you, instead of being squirrelled away in handbooks, FAQs, man and info pages, however good they may be. Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Page fault while in kernel mode
Hi, I am running 5.3-RELEASE on a P4 2.4GHz with 512 MB RAM. It is a normal PC hardware not a real server hardware. Today in the morning (while I was away from the console) kernel panicked and the output was Page fault while in kernel mode (the guy who wrote that down didn't write other information). The box was rebooted and the error appeared again in about 3 minutes. After second reboot everything seems to be back to normal. The load on this machine is quite low, about 0.1; it runs mail server, serves some web pages and does NAT via pf. Finally the question: what is more likely: that it is hardware which is causing troubles or that an upgrade to FreeBSD 5.5 (or eventually 6.1) would help? Or is there a third possibility? Thanks, Nejc smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Newbie Experience
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-) Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see what the problem is with sysinstall. I'm in that club myself. It takes a few times to get it down, but it is simple once you know the basic steps of getting FreeBSD on a box. The trick is of course understanding the basic steps which is where most don't take the time to research. I know I read through tha handbook a few times before I attempted my first go, and I know I messed up royally even still. But now its more frustrating to figure out what I want to do while the packages are downloading then anything else. Heh! Now it makes perfect sense to have one partition and multiple slices. It makes an fstab look a lot nicer. nothing more annoying then not having say a linux box boot because you selected the extended partitions number instead of the logical drive contained therein... and keeping track of a million partitions get old quick. Nowadays of course you can (almost) do this by having one /boot and one LVM partition, with the logical volumes within it. Plus, most filesystems allow for resizing (in both directions) and you can combine two or more disks into one volume group. Fortunately, the outstanding docs available for FreeBSD do a lot to walk people through the process, even novices. Unfortunately, people want to use computers without having to read the docs. Just ask your mom/grandparents/etc. :-) most people want to use everything without reading the manual. I think thats why there's labels on the toaster not to stick a fork in it, or a tag to not use a hair dryer in the shower... Personally I turn to the Cadillac shop manual when I want to tune up my eldo, it makes sense to me. I know software is the same way, but most people don't want to take any time figuring out what their doing; pardon my vulgarity but Taco Bell exists for a reason, man pages... To me it's the best thing this side of YaST for getting (certain areas of) system administration done. (Yeah, I know a lot of you probably hate YaST in particular or Linux in general... Why would you think that? I'd imagine that most of the people using FreeBSD end up having a Linux box or two around for one reason or another. I find it was for not reading the FreeBSD manuals... if people think FreeBSD is hard I cannot imagine what they think about Linux. Sure it has that flashy install program, well except Gentoo and maybe a few others, but upgrading the kernel can make setting up a FreeBSD box from scratch WITHOUT the manuals seem like a cake walk... Hmm. I'm pretty used to reconfiguring/upgrading the kenel on Linux, but never having done so in FBSD I'm a bit wary. I guess a lot of it depends on what you're used too. A lot of people using Linux these days, anyway, for good or ill probably don't reconfigure or upgrade the kernel - the distributors put everything but the kitchen sink in. These people would CERTAINLY be scared off by having to edit a text file to reconfigure the kernel, whereas these days in Linux you get a nice KDE window (make config is still horrible - but though it's uncommented (and undocumented) it's perfectly possible to reconfigure a linux kernel by editing /usr/src/.config) The nice thing about Linux is that in spite of all the noob-friendly gubbins, it's still possible to do things the same way you did 'em when FVWM was the hot news in the X Window world. Try getting the XP installer to let you choose which of several useless packages you want to forgo installing, a la Win9x. Jeff Rollin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2. I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need Disc2. What is the purpose of Disc2 and what can I do with it. I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. Does Disc2 contain some of the ports collection? Finally, what is the ports collection? Cheers! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative OS) among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple requirements (i.e., spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, email). FreeBSD has an awful out of the box experience. It's too bad, because I think FreeBSD is probably a better OS, but I'll never really know. Regards, too bad, you experienced that, the FreeBSD sysinstall is not that really hard, it may seem daunting at first because of its text mode but it is very straight forward, i guess you have to read the handbook over and over again to fully comprehend the things you missed why things like X is not working, it will also help if you will include the error messages as to why you can't run/install gnome or kde. imo you missed some dependencies that's why you're having a hard time. When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003, version 4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and Debian were the simplicity of the installation and good manual. The install process on REdhat and Debian was awkward, at least for me, and I could not make them work on my old compaq armada laptop. In contrast just following the manual and choosing default install parameters I got Freebsd working fast. During the installation I actually learned a lot about unix and Freebsd, the sort of details which are important to know anyway. It is hard to find the right balance between simplicity and functionality. It seems the balance in the Freebsd install is about right. anton I've only been around since FreeBSD 5.4 myself, and found during installs that sysinstall would get confused if you changed your mind and went backwards through the menus to reconfigure options. it seems like the one in 6.1 is a lot better, but maybe I just move back and forth less... That being said once it is installed it is a million times easier to maintain and upgrade then any Linux I've used. I had an old Digital 486 I had to install Redhat 7.3 thinking I could easily update to the latest kernel. I found I had to go through so many dependancies to do so I finally said whatever kernel was there was good enough. Talk about having to be a GNU guru to get things installed correctly without clobbering the old stuff and running into trouble... I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and run the kernel from 6.1 on it without changing anything else. Of late I was using Gentoo which I found to be FreeBSD like with its portage system, until recently when it seems they changed many system level interface stuff sometime after April 2006 and now I cannot seem to update it. The developers say you should not leave updating too long... True, if you are running FBSD 5.1 and need to update to 6.1, 5.3 is still there on the servers, but you do have to go through the steps of installing that intermediate version. Even a full system rebuild has blocking packages that boggle my mind as they were compile from source originally... Stuff usually blocks if something about the way it's installed has changed in an incompatible way - X.org moving from monolithic to modular builds, for example. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with (binary) packages. sysinstall isn't all that bad. It could be flashier, it could be graphical, it could be a lot of things. If it really bothers you that much you can make yourself a livecd system that brings up X and restores a basic install, or cvsups whatever system you want on your pc/sparc/whatever and builds it from source. that is the beauty of Unix. True Unix not an emulator like Linux. I let a lot of BSD comments about Linux go unpunished, but this one has always got me. BSD had to be *almost totally rewritten* to avoid ATT licensing issues... added to the fact that I wouldn't be surprised if it's hard to find a single line of code IRIX, Solaris et al these days share between themselves and with V7. Not only that, but I understand that a lot of Unix sysadmins download the GNU tools as well, because (among other things) they do nifty things like being able to unzip, gunzip or bunzip a tarball before untarring it. And the amount of software available from people like KDE to install in FreeBSD is staggering. That and the fact you get an OS with a set of base software and a compiler out of the box. Linux is only the kernel, you have to make hundreds of independant software packages work together to get a system running. Each one with their own independant configuration files, and hundreds of man pages to read. Even the rc.d system is a separate package. I doubt things magically work in FBSD, either. The maintainers probably have build scripts that automate fetching this or that, but it's all gotta be done. now I'm sure things have
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2. I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need Disc2. What is the purpose of Disc2 and what can I do with it. I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. Does Disc2 contain some of the ports collection? Finally, what is the ports collection? To take your last question first: The ports collection allows you to install software from source that does not come as part of the base distribution - that equates, more or less, to stuff that on FreeBSD installs itself to directories in / and /usr. The base distribution includes stuff like the X Window System, but not KDE, Firefox or MH, the mail handler. These latter three are available as ports, which when compiled go into /usr/local by default on FreeBSD. The FreeBSD installation program asks if you want to install the ports collection, but what it actually does is install a bunch of directories (under /usr/ports) that you can use to browse what's available in the ports collection. For example, to download a port, say, Firefox compiled for use with the Linux compatibility layer, go into /usr/ports/linux/linux-firefox and type: $ make install clean (note you need to have Linux compatibility already installed and turned on to make this work). ($ stands for the prompt, as you probably know); make reads the Makefile, and according to instructions in it, downloads the sources and compiles them; make install and make clean (given here in shorthand) respectively install the compiled port and clean up after make. The alternative way to install software is from packages, which are pre-compiled ports. You can use sysinstall to install them, or pkg_add from the commandline. Disc2 mostly contains some of these packages (others are on Disc1). Cheers You're welcome! Jeff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ambiguous output redirect
bsd wrote: I don't understand why when I execute this script I have an Ambiguous output redirect. ? p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/sbin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345 One answer would be that this is bourne shell syntax and you shell is csh. Try 0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' | /usr/local/sbin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345 or change your shell to a bourne shell compatible one like bash. --Alex PS In csh the means redirect to a file including stderr, in this case the file 1; then you are telling it to also pipe to something, which is impossible since you just redirected to a file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:41, Jeff Rollin wrote: To take your last question first: The ports collection allows you to install software from source that does not come as part of the base distribution - that equates, more or less, to stuff that on FreeBSD installs itself to directories in / and /usr. The base distribution includes stuff like the X Window System, but not KDE, Firefox or MH, the mail handler. The base system doesn't include X Windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Jeff Rollin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell
On 11/09/2006 16:39, backyard wrote: --- Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day everyone, I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be used by non-technical people. I'm sure some will ask why would I need that - it's an USB modem connecting to ADSL line that locks up sometimes and all my attempts to make it restart itself have failed. I came up with this idea: - add another user to the system, let it be 'restart' - add 'restart' to group operator - let 'restart' to login through SSH from LAN with a key (passwords forbidden) - put a restart command as it's shell (so it automagically restarts the router) Does that sound reasonably? Security is not an issue, it's secure enough for me. OK, now for technical question. I realise I cannot put arguments to the command in the shell area in passwd file, so I wrote a short script: $ cat /home/restart/restart.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/shutdown -r now $ ls -l /home/restart/restart.sh -rwx-- 1 restart restart 33 Sep 11 15:24 put that as restart's user shell: # grep restart /etc/master.passwd restart:*:1017:1017::0:0:restart:/home/restart:/home/restart/restart.sh and tried locally but it's not working: # su - restart su: /home/restart/restart.sh: Permission denied I'm not sure where 'Permission denied' come from. Setup looks to be OK, here's what I get with /usr/bin/id as a shell: # su - restart uid=1017(restart) gid=1017(restart) groups=1017(restart), 5(operator) I'm sure I'm missing something here. Anyone have some pointers? make the shell script group executable and make it group operator maybe try making it owned by root. I think what is happening is it is running under the priveledges of restart not operator because operators groups cannot execute the command only the restart user can due to the priveledges. And when the restart.sh passes its group priveledges to the sript callout to shutdown it fails because shutdown can only run as operator. That would be my guess -brian Hi brian, I tried to test it further together with Alex's suggestion to use -x in the script first line, only to discover I don't know why it won't work :) If anyone has some (possible) explanations I'll be glad to hear them. Meanwhile I moved to much cleaner and elegant solution based on what Kirk Strauser proposed in other email. For the record here's what I additionally tested: # chmod 4550 /home/restart/restart.sh # chown root:operator /home/restart/restart.sh # ls -l /home/restart/restart.sh -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 36 Sep 11 16:46 /home/restart/restart.sh result from the same machine: # su - restart su: /home/restart/restart.sh: Permission denied and from other: # ssh -l restart -i restart_rsa router Last login: Tue Sep 12 12:47:02 2006 from blablabla [...] /home/restart/restart.sh: Permission denied Connection to orchid closed. Interestingly (or not ;) execution of the script (with default permissions) works if I log in as a user 'restart' (after giving him /bin/sh as shell). A suid binary seems to work: # cp -p /usr/bin/id /sbin/ # chown root:operator /sbin/id # chmod 4550 /sbin/id # vipw [ restart:*:1017:1017::0:0:restart:/home/restart:/sbin/id ] # su - restart uid=1017(restart) euid=0(root) gid=1017(restart) groups=1017(restart), 5(operator) # ssh -l restart -i restart_rsa router Last login: Tue Sep 12 13:11:10 2006 from blablabla [...] uid=1017(restart) euid=0(root) gid=1017(restart) groups=1017(restart), 5(operator) Connection to orchid closed. Looks like some suid issue which I don't really understand. Thanks for suggestions though! Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell
On 11/09/2006 16:56, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 09:20, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Good day everyone, I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be used by non-technical people. First of all, it's easy enough to do this securely that you might as well do it. Install sudo, and use visudo to create a sudoers file with entries like: User_AliasREBOOTERS = username1,username2,username3 REBOOTERS ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot Next, create a reboot script for them: # cat /usr/local/sbin/reboot.sh sudo /sbin/reboot Finally, use OpenSSH's built-in options to run the script at login. From sshd(8): AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT [] command=command Specifies that the command is executed whenever this key is used for authentication. So, make each user's authorized_keys file look something like: ssh-rsa [long base64 string] [EMAIL PROTECTED] command=/usr/local/sbin/reboot.sh Alternatively, do all the above for one single account: your restart user. Use authorized_keys to limit which of your real users has access to reboot the machine, and use ssh -l restart balkyrouter.example.com to trigger it. You could even go so far as to add a clause to /etc/ssh/ssh_config (or ~/.ssh/config for each individual user) like: Host rebootrouter Hostname balkyrouter.example.com User restart so that your users just run ssh rebootrouter. So, to recap, when a user logs in, the reboot.sh script will be executed. It will use sudo to run the reboot command as root, without prompting the user to enter any password. It's easy, it works, and it doesn't require any setuid trickery or special accounts or anything else. Hi Kirk, I wasn't aware of 'command' option in authorized_keys file and that's exactly what I need :) The rest is more or less what I was thinking of with the exception I tried to avoid installing sudo just to do this. So here's what I ended up with: - user 'restart' in group 'operator' (I need another user because there are no 'normal' users on the router except me) - public/private key par for authorization - command=/sbin/shutdown -r now in /home/restart/.ssh/authorized_keys Works as expected even with windows/putty clients :) Thanks for your reply. Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:25, Pete Slagle wrote: Another,(possibly heretical) approach is to take 10 minutes to slap Ubuntu (or the like) on your desktop box. Out of the gate it easily runs Firefox, multimedia, ... Has this changed? I have an Ubuntu live cd and wasn't very inpressed. It's Firefox has no flash support and no video plugin. I've never had any serious problems with FreebSD and Multimedia in general - quite the opposite actually. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't you also be able to: cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean -- This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On 12/09/06, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't you also be able to: cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean -- That sentence was intended not to mean you have to install XWS as a package from sysinstall but It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a package built from ports. Jeff Rollin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4x Kernel
Good Day, We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID. The same version installs on the 2u with the RAID controller no problem. Best I can tell, 6.1 has the proper ATA driver. ICH7 is what I'm looking for. The build of our boxes are ISO'd on a CD, so I'm wondering the best way to get this done - as I've never had to recompile anything and the more and more I'm reading, the more and more it looks like I'm going to have to a) figure out where/how to pull the ICH7 ATA driver from the 6.1 build b) how I can recompile the kernel that goes with the ISO It'd be easy (so google says) if it were anything other than the drive controller - but since I can get to the drive, I can't load the OS properly, can't just replace the kernel that way. Any and all ideas, resources, etc.. would be helpful, as this was just sort of dropped on my plate. Thanks! -Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003, version 4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and Debian were the simplicity of the installation and good manual. The install process on REdhat and Debian was awkward, at least for me, and I could not make them work on my old compaq armada laptop. In contrast just following the manual and choosing default install parameters I got Freebsd working fast. During the installation I actually learned a lot about unix and Freebsd, the sort of details which are important to know anyway. It is hard to find the right balance between simplicity and functionality. It seems the balance in the Freebsd install is about right. anton I've only been around since FreeBSD 5.4 myself, and found during installs that sysinstall would get confused if you changed your mind and went backwards through the menus to reconfigure options. it seems like the one in 6.1 is a lot better, but maybe I just move back and forth less... That being said once it is installed it is a million times easier to maintain and upgrade then any Linux I've used. I had an old Digital 486 I had to install Redhat 7.3 thinking I could easily update to the latest kernel. I found I had to go through so many dependancies to do so I finally said whatever kernel was there was good enough. Talk about having to be a GNU guru to get things installed correctly without clobbering the old stuff and running into trouble... I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and run the kernel from 6.1 on it without changing anything else. well cvsupping to Rel_5 and running a make buildworld make buildkernel make install kernel a reboot some mergemaster magic an installworld some more mergemaster magic and then cvsupping to Rel_6 and repeating is still lighttyears easier then watching the Linux kernel build stop, downloading the sources, configuring the dependancy properly, uninstalling the old, and reintalling the new. Especially when you will be tracing dependancies for weeks, unless your a pretty good programmer, which I am not, and know the dependancy chain of the core system. My point was the relative ease of upgrading, not the technical points of having missing object stubs. Of course you can't put a cummins deisel in a pinto without working on the frame first. Of late I was using Gentoo which I found to be FreeBSD like with its portage system, until recently when it seems they changed many system level interface stuff sometime after April 2006 and now I cannot seem to update it. The developers say you should not leave updating too long... True, if you are running FBSD 5.1 and need to update to 6.1, 5.3 is still there on the servers, but you do have to go through the steps of installing that intermediate version. well it was current as of april 8th when I made the tape. I went on vacation in May and got back on or about the 17th of May. Updating HAS NOT WORKED SINCE THEN. so if waiting 6 weeks is too long then so be it. I'm not going to constantly be emerging an update on a daily basis to stay current, especially since Openoffice seems to change its release tag everyother day on Gentoo and it puts a machine out of commission for 8-12 hours to build it. When: emerge --update --deep --newuse --emptytree world fails with PAM blocking, mozilla blocking, and now Xorg blocking as well as some other odds and ends thats when I say BSD is for me. to me it is incomprehensible why I cannot rebuild the system tree from scratch without software blocking the build. It was fun while it lasted, and it was nice to be away from winblows but in my experience linux is slower, a pain to configure, impossible to update, and a project started to emulate Unix. I'd much rather spend my time learning Unix, then fighting with the emulator. Even a full system rebuild has blocking packages that boggle my mind as they were compile from source originally... Stuff usually blocks if something about the way it's installed has changed in an incompatible way - X.org moving from monolithic to modular builds, for example. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with (binary) packages. well if I just delete the blockers and let them be fixed in the rebuild via them being dependancies it still fails. and use flags are basically useless in binary packages right? I don't like packages, I like to see that the port(age) will build on my machine, because I am a firm believer if you build it, it will run... Not to mention you can set the options you want. sysinstall isn't all that bad. It could be flashier, it could be graphical, it could be a lot of things. If it really bothers you that much you can make yourself a livecd system that brings up X and restores a basic install, or cvsups
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 12:29, Jeff Rollin wrote: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). That's actually my biggest problem with sysinstall, that it's standard installation mixes-up base system options and package options. I only use sysinstall once in a blue moon, and I find that Choose Distributions menu, baffling - even though I know what I want installed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
One question I often forget to ask myself is ; What is my end goal ? These days, if I want a non Windows desktop that is quick and easy to install / update I use this ; www.zenwalk.org [400MB .iso] For servers, I use FreeBSD :) Of course, you can use FreeBSD as a desktop machine too ... but the learning curve might be a bit steeper !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
On 12/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003, version 4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and Debian were the simplicity of the installation and good manual. The install process on REdhat and Debian was awkward, at least for me, and I could not make them work on my old compaq armada laptop. In contrast just following the manual and choosing default install parameters I got Freebsd working fast. During the installation I actually learned a lot about unix and Freebsd, the sort of details which are important to know anyway. It is hard to find the right balance between simplicity and functionality. It seems the balance in the Freebsd install is about right. anton I've only been around since FreeBSD 5.4 myself, and found during installs that sysinstall would get confused if you changed your mind and went backwards through the menus to reconfigure options. it seems like the one in 6.1 is a lot better, but maybe I just move back and forth less... That being said once it is installed it is a million times easier to maintain and upgrade then any Linux I've used. I had an old Digital 486 I had to install Redhat 7.3 thinking I could easily update to the latest kernel. I found I had to go through so many dependancies to do so I finally said whatever kernel was there was good enough. Talk about having to be a GNU guru to get things installed correctly without clobbering the old stuff and running into trouble... I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and run the kernel from 6.1 on it without changing anything else. well cvsupping to Rel_5 and running a make buildworld make buildkernel make install kernel a reboot some mergemaster magic an installworld some more mergemaster magic and then cvsupping to Rel_6 and repeating is still lighttyears easier then watching the Linux kernel build stop, downloading the sources, configuring the dependancy properly, uninstalling the old, and reintalling the new. Especially when you will be tracing dependancies for weeks, unless your a pretty good programmer, which I am not, and know the dependancy chain of the core system. My point was the relative ease of upgrading, not the technical points of having missing object stubs. Of course you can't put a cummins deisel in a pinto without working on the frame first. Shrug. I've had problems trying to recompile the FreeBSD kernel too. Of late I was using Gentoo which I found to be FreeBSD like with its portage system, until recently when it seems they changed many system level interface stuff sometime after April 2006 and now I cannot seem to update it. The developers say you should not leave updating too long... True, if you are running FBSD 5.1 and need to update to 6.1, 5.3 is still there on the servers, but you do have to go through the steps of installing that intermediate version. well it was current as of april 8th when I made the tape. I went on vacation in May and got back on or about the 17th of May. Updating HAS NOT WORKED SINCE THEN. so if waiting 6 weeks is too long then so be it. 6 weeks too long? 6 months, *maybe*. I'm not going to constantly be emerging an update on a daily basis to stay current, especially since Openoffice seems to change its release tag everyother day on Gentoo and it puts a machine out of commission for 8-12 hours to build it. When: emerge --update --deep --newuse --emptytree world fails with PAM blocking, mozilla blocking, and now Xorg blocking as well as some other odds and ends thats when I say BSD is for me. to me it is incomprehensible why I cannot rebuild the system tree from scratch without software blocking the build. It was fun while it lasted, and it was nice to be away from winblows but in my experience linux is slower, a pain to configure, impossible to update, and a project started to emulate Unix. I'd much rather spend my time learning Unix, then fighting with the emulator. That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the ground up to avoid ATT patents. So whilst some might consider BSD real unix, it's really only emulating V7 with Berkeley extensions. Even a full system rebuild has blocking packages that boggle my mind as they were compile from source originally... Stuff usually blocks if something about the way it's installed has changed in an incompatible way - X.org moving from monolithic to modular builds, for example. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with (binary) packages. well if I just delete the blockers and let them be fixed in the rebuild via them being dependancies it still fails. and use flags are basically useless in binary packages right? I don't like packages, I like to see that the port(age) will build on my machine, because I am a firm
Re: 4x Kernel
Keith Phipps wrote: Good Day, We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID. The same version installs on the 2u with the RAID controller no problem. Best I can tell, 6.1 has the proper ATA driver. ICH7 is what I'm looking for. The build of our boxes are ISO'd on a CD, so I'm wondering the best way to get this done - as I've never had to recompile anything and the more and more I'm reading, the more and more it looks like I'm going to have to a) figure out where/how to pull the ICH7 ATA driver from the 6.1 build b) how I can recompile the kernel that goes with the ISO It'd be easy (so google says) if it were anything other than the drive controller - but since I can get to the drive, I can't load the OS properly, can't just replace the kernel that way. Any and all ideas, resources, etc.. would be helpful, as this was just sort of dropped on my plate. Thanks! -Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any particular reason why you can't just use 6.1? I know it's probably not what you want to hear, but it's highly likely it's going to be said if I don't anyway :-) If it's because of stability, you *could* give NetBSD or OpenBSD a try perhaps? I had even 4.x panic'ing and locking up on my machine, where NetBSD 3 is totally stable. I *think* NetBSD 3 supports ICH7 at least. -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSc (Hons), Computer Science ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:16, Jeff Rollin wrote: I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and run the kernel from 6.1 on it without changing anything else. No, but the fact that you upgrade world+kernel in one go helps. FreeBSD also mantains a good level of back-compatibility. The 6x kernels have back compatibility options, and when you upgrade, the libraries from previous major releases are still usable by your packages.There are also compatibility ports if you want to install binaries built against previous versions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:05, Jeff Rollin wrote: That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the ground up to avoid ATT patents. So whilst some might consider BSD real unix, it's really only emulating V7 with Berkeley extensions. My understanding was that it was copyright rather than patents - and that the main reason for the settlement of the case between ATT and BSD/University of California was that when they started comparing code, there was actually more Berkeley code in ATT Unix than the other way round. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4x Kernel
On 9/12/06, Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Phipps wrote: Good Day, We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID. The same version installs on the 2u with the RAID controller no problem. Best I can tell, 6.1 has the proper ATA driver. ICH7 is what I'm looking for. The build of our boxes are ISO'd on a CD, so I'm wondering the best way to get this done - as I've never had to recompile anything and the more and more I'm reading, the more and more it looks like I'm going to have to a) figure out where/how to pull the ICH7 ATA driver from the 6.1 build b) how I can recompile the kernel that goes with the ISO It'd be easy (so google says) if it were anything other than the drive controller - but since I can get to the drive, I can't load the OS properly, can't just replace the kernel that way. Any and all ideas, resources, etc.. would be helpful, as this was just sort of dropped on my plate. Thanks! -Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any particular reason why you can't just use 6.1? I know it's probably not what you want to hear, but it's highly likely it's going to be said if I don't anyway :-) If it's because of stability, you *could* give NetBSD or OpenBSD a try perhaps? I had even 4.x panic'ing and locking up on my machine, where NetBSD 3 is totally stable. I *think* NetBSD 3 supports ICH7 at least. I wish that were possible, and it will be in a few months. We've got to keep the production boxes the same as the ones in the field until we do the big upgrade post new year. Believe me, I've run my head into the lets just get to 6.1 stable head into the wall over this one. Got to love red tape :) -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSc (Hons), Computer Science -- They call me Hadoken 'cause I'm down-right fierce. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12:03:47 PM, Jeff confabulated: On 12/09/06, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated: The base system doesn't include X Windows. _ Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it must be installed as a package from sysinstall). Shouldn't you also be able to: cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean -- That sentence was intended not to mean you have to install XWS as a package from sysinstall but It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a package built from ports. I wasn't for sure as I don't install many things using sysinstall. Thanks for clarifying. -- This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience #2
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:46 -0400, Bob Walker wrote: Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS products. Regards, Bob Walker Sounded like you were frustrated and venting to me. I cringed when you said you took a few production workstations to install to. Take one box, and some free time, no pressure, start with the handbook from scratch: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html You'll be pleased with your efforts when you're finished, and it only gets better from there. As other's have said, it's a community of people and we've all been there before at one time or another. Post your questions and you'll get answers, and probably in a more timely manner than you may expect. Don't give up. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Configuration Woes
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:28 +0530, Subhro wrote: On 9/12/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. I've found I have to use /dev/sysmouse and Protocol auto instead of PS/2 despite my mouse most definitely being PS/2. You already have moused_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf as well? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Configuration Woes
1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. I've found I have to use /dev/sysmouse and Protocol auto instead of PS/2 despite my mouse most definitely being PS/2. You already have moused_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf as well? Unfortunately we are discussing a different problem ... if you read my (rather long) post, I have a serial mouse and there are more devices as well as protocols to choose from. So PS/2 mouse doesn't figure in here. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wow, i didnt realize we were so close!
next seems to be upon us! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a FreeBSD athena.dfwlp.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 11 20:42:48 CDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA i386 cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Configuration Woes
Arindam writes: I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my Seagate harddrive ... connected to the Primary master IDE interface. Well, installing FreeBSD for the first time is more compatible with an ambitious weekend than an lazy one - as you probably have discovered. It does take considerable work, though the rewards are commensurate. If you can wade through this gibberish, please help. Cheers, Andy Some updates: Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg installed is 6.9.0. I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf either. From the command-line I ran xdm and the GUI started ... I could login ... and then that's about it. 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. I can't say much about the mouse. I usually let it figure out things itself and it works. Is it a plain ps2 mouse (with round ps2 connector)? I just do the mouse test during sysinstall and it works. 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can make do with a very minimal one. But I want a minimal one at least now, I just have to get this running or I can't sleep. If you don't want a fancy GUI desktop, then skip KDE and Gnome. I prefer to use Afterstep. It installs nicely. It is found in ports at/usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep It can be a little confusing at first to set up and configure - as are all X things - but after getting it configured for me, it gives me what I need: several windows for logging in to various hosts, a button to bring up Firefoxand X support for whatever I run, such as OpenOffice or Xpdf or Xmahjongg and a couple of other games, etc. The only thing I haven't managed to my liking is getting it to create anchor buttons for each thing when I bring it up. It only does so for the minimized windows. I got that in one version, but it seemed to mess up the focus control and click to bring forward action so I gave up on that. I edited: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to make it work my way. I think you can make individual .xinitrc files in home directories as well, but I wanted mine to work for all of my small handful of accounts so I edited the main one. Have fun, jerry Cheers, Andy ___ 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]
multiple slices and invalid partition table problem
Hello. I am trying to install 6.1 on a Dell 2950 with a Dell PERC 5/i (LSI Logic) SAS RAID controller. The controller is supported by the mfi driver. The system has six 300GB drives configured in a RAID 5 array for a total of 1.5TB. I would like to setup jails on this system with each jail in its own partition. To maximize the number of jails I am trying to slice the RAID volume into 4 slices and 7 partitions per slice. This is when problems start cropping up. In the first instance I keep getting warning messages about CHS geometry being incorrect and sysinstall defaults to what it thinks are the correct values. Unfortunately Dell BIOS or the controller BIOS does not report any CHS values. Is there a way to get the correct values from the controller? But going with the sysinstall values, if I allocate the entire volume (1 slice) I can install the OS and it boots fine. If however I create two or more slices, the OS does install but upon reboot produces an Invalid partition table error. Here is an odd thing - I created two RAID volumes, one 300GB RAID 1 mirror and another 900GB RAID 5 array. When installing FreeBSD it sees the two volumes as mfid0 and mfid1, however it reports the 300GB size for both volumes. In this configuration the CHS errors are not reported for mfid0 but still come up for mfid1. Also any partitions I create in mfid0 are also shown for mfid1 and I still get the Invalid partition table error upon reboot. I have tried this on two identical systems with the same results. Any ideas? TIA for any assistance in resolving this puzzling issue. Viren Patel Chemistry Biochemistry University of Texas at Austin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Configuration Woes
On 12/09/06, Jerold McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arindam writes: I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my Seagate harddrive ... connected to the Primary master IDE interface. Well, installing FreeBSD for the first time is more compatible with an ambitious weekend than an lazy one - as you probably have discovered. It does take considerable work, though the rewards are commensurate. If you can wade through this gibberish, please help. Cheers, Andy Some updates: Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg installed is 6.9.0. I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf either. From the command-line I ran xdm and the GUI started ... I could login ... and then that's about it. 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. I can't say much about the mouse. I usually let it figure out things itself and it works. Is it a plain ps2 mouse (with round ps2 connector)? I just do the mouse test during sysinstall and it works. 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can make do with a very minimal one. But I want a minimal one at least now, I just have to get this running or I can't sleep. If you don't want a fancy GUI desktop, then skip KDE and Gnome. I prefer to use Afterstep. It installs nicely. It is found in ports at/usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep It can be a little confusing at first to set up and configure - as are all X things - but after getting it configured for me, it gives me what I need: several windows for logging in to various hosts, a button to bring up Firefoxand X support for whatever I run, such as OpenOffice or Xpdf or Xmahjongg and a couple of other games, etc. Another you might like to try is XFCE. It's sort of midway between the likes of Afterstep and GNOME/KDE. Its own file manager has traditionally sucked, but the beauty of Linux is, you can mix and match. Plus, the new file manager (Thunar) in the newest versions looks lovely (I don't think you'll get the newest versions of anything if you install the ports collection from the RELEASE CDs though.) I edited: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to make it work my way. I think you can make individual .xinitrc files in home directories as well, but I wanted mine to work for all of my small handful of accounts so I edited the main one. That's correct; an awful lot of stuff in places like /usr/X11R6/lib and /etc, including .xinitrc and the .z* Z Shell configuration files, consists of global default settings and can be modified for each user in analogous configuration files in $HOME. Jeff Rollin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with xscreensaver stealing my mouse
uname -a FreeBSD vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com 6.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 #6: Thu Sep 7 11:25:03 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VANQUISH i386 $ pkg_info | grep xorg linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Xorg libraries, linux binaries xorg-clients-6.9.0_3 X client programs and related files from X.Org xorg-fonts-100dpi-6.9.0_1 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-75dpi-6.9.0_1 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1 X.Org font encoding files xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-6.9.0_1 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0 X.Org TrueType fonts xorg-libraries-6.9.0 X11 libraries and headers from X.Org xorg-manpages-6.9.0 X.Org library manual pages xorg-server-6.9.0_4 X.Org X server and related programs $ pkg_info | grep screen xscreensaver-5.00 Save your screen while you entertain your cat The box is a Dell Optiplex GX520, with a Radeon 9200 Pro configured for dual-head. I'm using the radeon driver. Mouse and KB are USB. Symptoms are that every so often, when returning from the screensaver, I have no mouse. This happens about once a day on average, although I've been able to discern no other pattern or event that triggers it. Most of the time, when I come back from screensaver, everything is fine. When the problem occurs I can get mouse function back by waiting until the screensaver starts again, when I move the mouse or hit a key to disable the screensaver the second time, all is well. I've tried unplugging/plugging the USB mouse, but this doesn't help. Occasionally, I get these messages in /var/log/messages: Sep 12 08:38:20 vanquish kernel: uhub5: vendor 0x0424 product 0x2504, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 Sep 12 08:38:20 vanquish kernel: uhub5: multiple transaction translators Sep 12 08:38:20 vanquish kernel: uhub5: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ... as if the mouse were recently plugged in. The appearance of these messages does _not_ coincide with the problem. Any thoughts on what could be wrong? I'm not sure whether this is a problem with xorg or FreeBSD, but I'm suspecting FreeBSD because of the messages. Any suggestions on how to debug? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AMD64 SSH Port Forwarding?
Has anybody noted any issues with port forwarding using SSH tunnels on FreeBSD 6.1 AMD64? I just recently upgraded my machine from i386 to amd64, using nearly all the same configuration files. Now, remotely, I make an SSH session to my machine and attempt to forward ports, as usual, and I find that all of these fail. The listener exists on localhost, but nothing is forwarded. Trying to connect to the localhost listener results in a connection, but no traffic. I can verify all services are running. For what its worth: FreeBSD 6.1-p6 AMD64 PF (same configuration as previous machine that worked) Ports - 25, 443, 3128 All above ports are active and functioning, but forwarding to them via a tunnel consistantly fails. Only changes are motherboard, CPU, memory and of course moved from i386 to amd64. The NICs, hard drives and cd/dvd drives all came from the old machine and are the same physical pieces of hardware. I have not been table to find any configuration changes that can account for this behavior and I find no record in the logs what-so-ever. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flatscreen Monitor Specifications
Howdy Y'all, I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything. I looked for my monitor specifications last night and have found nothing resembling the 35Hz, 800x600 stuff that is discussed in the handbook. this would make sense, of course,... All I've found in Windows Device Manager is something like Intel 42985G Chipset. Whenever I've tried liveCDs (FreesBie, various linuces), they have all picked out the monitor just fine (and most everything else). I just want to cover my bases, in case I end up with a flickering screen, I want to be able to do something about it. Do you have any suggestions for where I should look for any monitor specifications? What do I enter when I do my X configuration? Thanks, Joel Joel J. Adamson Arlington, MA - Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA sil problems ...
Hello I have SATA SIL 3112 controller. Unfortunately it is not working correctly under FreeBSD. It does not work for me, and i found on google that it doesn't work correctly for many other people. I tried Freebsd 4.x, 5.x and 6.1. Here are the errors which occur when system works: Sep 12 11:03:35 multix kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Sep 12 11:03:35 multix kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=8159967 Sep 12 11:55:36 multix kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=8878591 Sep 12 11:55:36 multix kernel: ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. RAID1 array in DEGRADED mode Sep 12 11:55:36 multix kernel: ar0: writing of Silicon Image Medley metadata is NOT supported yet Do You have similar problems ? What SATA controller could you suggest ? I must be on card (PCI?) so i could plug in to my current server. It have to work stable under Freebsd 6.1. It should be chip. It doesn't have to be real hardware RAID (it can use software from BIOS). Thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NIC Questions for 6.1 Release
I've had nightmares with my AMD65 Tyan quad that were most likely caused by the Broadcom built-in NICs. There are a lot of folks who've reported problems not only on FreeBSD, but also Windows and Linux. The issues seem to be negotiation problems and then packet loss if negotiation is disabled. I found that if you include a bad cable in the mix, FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE gave unannounced hard hangs and FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE would panic. With the cable replaced, the system finally stayed up but I found that it would just tend to drop off the net occasionally for a few seconds here and there. Too often to really be usable. I'm bringing that server back in to rebuild it on p6 in hopes of getting it stable enough to finally go into production. I have to verify that the bge driver problems have been fixed since the May release (if they are fixable) but have been unable to determine if changes have been made. Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. The notes, errata, hardware.txt, UPDATING, and many other normal places one looks doesn't really provide this this level of detail. I can research if someone has an idea where you would research? On the other hand, any of you have inside information on the broadcom itself, is it hopeless, and would going to the Intel PRO/1000 MT fix my problems with more surety? These are coming out of the boot as: bge0: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003 The computer is a Tyan s4884 quad opteron (duals). Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flatscreen Monitor Specifications
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:25 -0700, Joel Adamson wrote: Howdy Y'all, I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything. I looked for my monitor specifications last night and have found nothing resembling the 35Hz, 800x600 stuff that is discussed in the handbook. this would make sense, of course,... All I've found in Windows Device Manager is something like Intel 42985G Chipset. Whenever I've tried liveCDs (FreesBie, various linuces), they have all picked out the monitor just fine (and most everything else). I just want to cover my bases, in case I end up with a flickering screen, I want to be able to do something about it. Do you have any suggestions for where I should look for any monitor specifications? What do I enter when I do my X configuration? Thanks, Joel Joel J. Adamson Arlington, MA Assuming you have a dell monitor, have you tried looking it up on http://support.dell.com ? Most likely, you could even google it. My DELL 1901FP, came up when I googled it. Just worry about the horizontal and vertical synch/refresh rates for now, if they're wrong you can fry it. This is mine: Section Monitor Identifier DELL 1901FP HorizSync 30-80 VertRefresh 56-76 ModeLine 1024x768i 45 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 Interlace EndSection That's the minimum for monitor, I believe, mine works great anyway. This is my Screen section for that monitor: Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device i810 Monitor DELL 1901FP DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 Option rgb bits 8 Visual StaticColor EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 EndSubSection EndSection Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).
Hi everyone, Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem? FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for FreeBSD 6.1/i386: Affected package: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 Type of problem: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postscript fonts in OpenOffice on 6.1
Has anyone gotten OpenOffice to use a Postscript printer's built-in fonts? If so, how did you do it? I haven't found the answer in the docs or FAQs, and got no response on the OpenOffice list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipfw - bandwidth throttling (sanity check!)
Hello Security guy ;) I have tried very hard to understand ipfw just for the purpose of bandwidth throttling for smtp service. Basically, I want to throttle the bandwidth used by my SMTP server outbound to _anyone_ else except my ip blocks. My Server is 1.2.3.4 and my ip blocks are a.b.c.d/19 and e.f.g.h/20 Are the following rules sane enough? ipfw pipe 1 config bw 256Kbit/s ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from 1.2.3.4 to not a.b.c.d/19 25 ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from 1.2.3.4 to not e.f.g.h/20 25 Any smtp traffic not to these netblocks should be throttled. By that, I am thinking it will match everything smtp outbound only, not inbound. Thank you for your time. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[HACK-AROUND] Re: OpenOffice build crashes the compiler
This hack presumably results in a broken slidesorter, but at least Writer seems to work (after a fashion), and that's all I really need. Since the *.obj are just empty sentinel files indicating that the corresponding *.o have been built, this # cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2.0 # touch work/OOD680_m1/sd/unxfbsdi.pro/slo/SlideSorterView.obj allows a rebuild to start *after* the failing compilation, instead of reattempting it (and crashing again). The missing module results in an undefined symbol in libsd680fi.so; to keep that from stopping the build, apply this hack to work/OOD680_m1/solenv/bin/checkdll.sh: *** checkdll.sh.origWed Apr 26 07:42:21 2006 --- checkdll.sh Wed Apr 26 07:42:21 2006 *** *** 83,89 esac $checkdll $* ! if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1 ; fi for parameter in $*; do library=$parameter; --- 83,90 esac $checkdll $* ! # message has been printed, but don't kill the build ! # if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1 ; fi for parameter in $*; do library=$parameter; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release
On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/09/12 10:52, Chris seems to have typed: These are coming out of the boot as: bge0: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003 The computer is a Tyan s4884 quad opteron (duals). I have a Tyan S2882G3NR-D with: bge0: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003 mem 0xfc9c-0xfc9c,0xfc9b-0xfc9b irq 24 at device 9.0 on pci2 running on the AMD64 version of FreeBSD: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 #4: Sun Jul 2 22:27:35 AKDT 2006 (dual Opteron 246's) Its been stable since the update to 6.1 (went from 6.0 directly to 6.1-p2). This is encouraging. I will forego the cost of the Intel NICs and just go to 6.1-p6. Thank you very much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
This will probably be kind of wordy, but I could use some advice on how to track it. I have a freebsd system acting as a gateway (it's using IP forwarding) so it can act as a web proxy server and filter for the users. It is also filtering incoming email to act as a mail filter between the Internet and our internal Exchange server. The firewall rules used for forwarding information to Squid are rather simple. Ipfw -list gives: *** 00049 allow tcp from 10.46.255.253 to any 00050 fwd 10.46.255.253,3128 tcp from any to any 80 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 65000 allow ip from any to any 65535 deny ip from any to any The DHCP server then hands out the IP of the FreeBSD server as the gateway address. Something inside our network is infected with a spam-mailing trojan. We now have our PIX firewall set to block all outgoing traffic to port 25 unless it is from our mail server. After setting up a syslog monitor and checking the logs to see if the culprit would appear, what should appear but...the FreeBSD server. Then I smack my forehead; of course it would show up. It's supposed to be the gateway. The trojan computer hits the BSD system and from there hits the PIX...the PIX will be useless to find the culprit. Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience #2
Must have missed your rant Bob. You may want to check out PC-BSDhttp://www.pcbsd.org, a graphical installer that loads the KDE desktop on completion and rides on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2. If your hardware is supported in FreeBSD then it's pretty painless. I dropped Windows at my home over 4 months ago and am not missing it. On 9/11/06, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS products. Regards, Bob Walker Surveys Forecasts, LLC 2323 North Street Fairfield, CT 06824-1738 T +1.203.255.0505 F +1.203.549.0635 M +1.203.685.8860 www.safllc.com NOTICE: The information in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, immediately contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email and all other documents included with it. Thank you. ___ 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[2]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others, Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote: JR On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. snip I too took this same approach as the box I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release is not hooked up to the Internet. I bypassed installing the Ports collection. The installation went well and I have been refamiliarizing myself with Unix CLI commands and reading bits and pieces of documentation here and there. FreeBSD is pretty neat and has quite a few subtle differences from systems I worked on some years back, i.e., Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Anyway, now I would like to install the ports collection without having to reinstall the whole system again, if possible, thus my interest in this thread. For instance, I decided I wanted to install sudo ... snip JR The FreeBSD installation program asks if you want to install the ports JR collection, but what it actually does is install a bunch of directories JR (under /usr/ports) that you can use to browse what's available in the ports JR collection. For example, to download a port, say, Firefox compiled for use JR with the Linux compatibility layer, go into /usr/ports/linux/linux-firefox JR and type: JR $ make install clean Using the above info, I created /usr/ports directory (/usr was there, but not /ports of course as I hadn't installed the Ports collection). I created another directory under /usr/ports/ named /sudo, thus resulting in /usr/ports/sudo. I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. I then made sure I was in the directory containing sudo.c and all its attendent other files and tried the above make install clean. Unfortunately it was a no-go. Resultant message I received was: make: Don't know how to make install. Stop Obviously I've done something wrong here ... misstepped or tried to do the impossible, huh? LOL! Perhaps, sudo can only be installed via the pkg-add route per your mention below? I invoked sysinstall, but didn't see right away anything clearly indicating the path to take in resolving my dilemma. I'll keep reading and trying and may be stumble across the proper way to accomplish this, but all the while monitoring this email list for further enlightenment. Then again, may be I should just do a complete new install and select Yes to installing the Ports collection at that time, huh? Nah, one has to mess up to learn! And trust me, I've learned quite a bit by reading yours and others comments and suggestions. Thank for all of you being so willing to share your knowledge. Thanks in advance. P.S. Please advise what the proper mode of responding is in terms of replying. I did a reply all (to both Jeff and the list) for my first submission. However, perhaps I should of only replied to the list to eliminate unnecessary traffic. snip JR ($ stands for the prompt, as you probably know); make reads the Makefile, JR and according to instructions in it, downloads the sources and compiles JR them; make install and make clean (given here in shorthand) respectively JR install the compiled port and clean up after make. JR The alternative way to install software is from packages, which are JR pre-compiled ports. You can use sysinstall to install them, or pkg_add from JR the commandline. Disc2 mostly contains some of these packages (others are on JR Disc1). snip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
In response to Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This will probably be kind of wordy, but I could use some advice on how to track it. I have a freebsd system acting as a gateway (it's using IP forwarding) so it can act as a web proxy server and filter for the users. It is also filtering incoming email to act as a mail filter between the Internet and our internal Exchange server. The firewall rules used for forwarding information to Squid are rather simple. Ipfw -list gives: *** 00049 allow tcp from 10.46.255.253 to any 00050 fwd 10.46.255.253,3128 tcp from any to any 80 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 65000 allow ip from any to any 65535 deny ip from any to any The DHCP server then hands out the IP of the FreeBSD server as the gateway address. Something inside our network is infected with a spam-mailing trojan. We now have our PIX firewall set to block all outgoing traffic to port 25 unless it is from our mail server. After setting up a syslog monitor and checking the logs to see if the culprit would appear, what should appear but...the FreeBSD server. Then I smack my forehead; of course it would show up. It's supposed to be the gateway. The trojan computer hits the BSD system and from there hits the PIX...the PIX will be useless to find the culprit. Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal? Off the top of my head ... ipfw add 25 log tcp from any to any 25 should work. There are certain kernel configs you have to have in place for logging to work, though. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal? Off the top of my head ... ipfw add 25 log tcp from any to any 25 should work. There are certain kernel configs you have to have in place for logging to work, though. Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider running something like: tcpdump -nt 'port 25 and (tcp[tcpflags] tcp-syn != 0)' -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
In response to Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal? Off the top of my head ... ipfw add 25 log tcp from any to any 25 should work. There are certain kernel configs you have to have in place for logging to work, though. Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup Yeah, that would be more concise. As a more permanent solution, why not set up ipfw on the FreeBSD machine to refuse to allow this to happen ever? ipfw add 5 allow tcp from any to me 25 setup ipfw add 6 allow tcp from me to any 25 setup ifpw add 7 drop tcp from any to any 25 setup I don't remember the rest of the rulset, but if you have an established rule, this should force all SMTP to use this machine as a relay, although you may need to tweak the rules to get them working right around nat. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal? Off the top of my head ... ipfw add 25 log tcp from any to any 25 should work. There are certain kernel configs you have to have in place for logging to work, though. Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider running something like: tcpdump -nt 'port 25 and (tcp[tcpflags] tcp-syn != 0)' Maybe my ipfw is old; it kept telling me that log is an invalid action. However, I think I may be able to get the tcpdump idea to work. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:02, ograbme wrote: I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. I then made sure I was in the directory containing sudo.c and all its attendent other files and tried the above make install clean. Unfortunately it was a no-go. Resultant message I received was: make: Don't know how to make install. Stop Obviously I've done something wrong here ... misstepped or tried to do the impossible, huh? LOL! Perhaps, The ports collection is a set of recipes that enable the the ports system to automatically fetch the source, extract it, patch it, build and install the result. You can do all this manually, but it's often not straightforward. And the added advantage is that software that's installed through the ports system is also registered in the package database- making it easier to deinstall and upgrade. Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider running something like: tcpdump -nt 'port 25 and (tcp[tcpflags] tcp-syn != 0)' Maybe my ipfw is old; it kept telling me that log is an invalid action. However, I think I may be able to get the tcpdump idea to work. There's a kernel option you need to enable for IPFW to do logging. If you're kldload'ing the ipfw module, it probably wasn't compiled with IPFW_LOGGING or whatever the exact name is. Anyway, tcpdump should be your friend. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Better to use something like: ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider running something like: tcpdump -nt 'port 25 and (tcp[tcpflags] tcp-syn != 0)' Maybe my ipfw is old; it kept telling me that log is an invalid action. However, I think I may be able to get the tcpdump idea to work. There's a kernel option you need to enable for IPFW to do logging. If you're kldload'ing the ipfw module, it probably wasn't compiled with IPFW_LOGGING or whatever the exact name is. I had set the verbosity (I think that was the parameter) from googling around earlier, but that doesn't seem to help. I'm probably missing an option somewhere else. But you're right...tcpdump will be my friend :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).
David Robillard wrote: Hi everyone, Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem? FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for FreeBSD 6.1/i386: Affected package: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 Type of problem: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html Many thanks, David Hello david, I corrected the entry, it should be fixed within little notice :) Thanks for the report! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD** [EMAIL PROTECTED] /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw - bandwidth throttling (sanity check!)
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello Security guy ;) I have tried very hard to understand ipfw just for the purpose of bandwidth throttling for smtp service. Basically, I want to throttle the bandwidth used by my SMTP server outbound to _anyone_ else except my ip blocks. My Server is 1.2.3.4 and my ip blocks are a.b.c.d/19 and e.f.g.h/20 Are the following rules sane enough? ipfw pipe 1 config bw 256Kbit/s ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from 1.2.3.4 to not a.b.c.d/19 25 ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from 1.2.3.4 to not e.f.g.h/20 25 This queues all outgoing smtp to the pipe. You also need to set net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1 to avoid the packets re-entering the rules on the next line. Setting that means that the packets cannot pass through dynamic rules. It is possible to use dynamic rules with dummynet, but it's a pain. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. OP might be better off loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the rest of the system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RSS feeds for important sites?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a list of BSD related RSS feeds that they'd be willing to share? There are FreeBSD feeds on the freebsd site. Ya, got those ... at least they were nice and obvious :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
There's a kernel option you need to enable for IPFW to do logging. If you're kldload'ing the ipfw module, it probably wasn't compiled with IPFW_LOGGING or whatever the exact name is. I had set the verbosity (I think that was the parameter) from googling around earlier, but that doesn't seem to help. I'm probably missing an option somewhere else. Rebuild your kernel with the following options: options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE=1000 Will have it log up to 1000 entries on a rule that specifies the log option. Alternatively, you can do something like: # ipfw add 100 allow log logamount 5 to override the kernel config log amount. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).
On 2006-09-12, at 13:52:40, Remko Lodder wrote: David Robillard wrote: Hi everyone, Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem? FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for FreeBSD 6.1/i386: Affected package: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 Type of problem: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f- ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html Many thanks, David Hello david, I corrected the entry, it should be fixed within little notice :) Hey, hold on a second... are you sure this has been fixed? As far as I know, Sun has never issues a patch for this vulnerability. Yay Sun! Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine [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: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release
Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Especially for changes to limited components like a specific ethernet driver, it quite easy to see if anything has changed recently, as well as the comments in the commit logs. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Perry Hutchison wrote: Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. OP might be better off loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the rest of the system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[4]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On 12/09/06, ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jeff, First of all ... thanks for your help and suggestions ... please see comments interwoven below. Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4:20:51 PM, you wrote: snip JR You need to go back into sysinstall and install the ports JR collection. That will give you the framework for downloading JR ports, but you will not be able to install them without network JR access. Understand. JR If you want to install a package, the easiest way without JR network access is to go back into sysinstall and choose it from JR the Packages item. But, if the package you want is not available JR on the FreeBSD install discs (if you need to eject one and insert JR the other, it will tell you to), and you don't have a network JR connection, I'm afraid you're out of luck. This is the approach I took. All looked like it was going well until the point of needing to switch cdroms. Couldn't do it. My cdrom would not eject so I could switch CDROMs. Not sure what the problem was/is, but got to thinking because it was mounted, i.e., mount /cdrom manually initially by me before starting the sysinstall command. Anyone I just ignored trying to install those packages that I had selected and eventually finished up, but when finished, I could not find the /usr/ports directory ... even though sysinstall reported individually the selected packages were installed properly during the process. Oh well, something went awry. I'll try again with hopefully only selecting items from one cdrom to try to control the process in that regard and see if I experience the same result. JR If there's nothing else wrong with your system, you don't JR need to reinstall; just type sysinstall as the root user and JR you're in. I cannot with certainly vouch there is nothing wrong with my system. It hasn't locked up; it hasn't conked out on me; I've been able to do a number of things (albeit they are cursory type things ... nothing big ... executing various Unix commands, creating a few small C programs and compiling them with gcc tool, etc) thus far, without incident. JR BTW, I would delete your manually-created /usr/ports JR directory and everything in it, just in case. I did this prior to the above steps. The release I have installed is FreeBSD 6.1 Release #0 May 07 ... perhaps this is part of the problems I'm experiencing. I bought the FreeBSD Mall 4 CDROM, May 2006 set. May be I need to try to get a newer version. I think I saw where there is some release #2 mentioned by various list members. I suppose I could download it from the web site and burn it. I'd only need the first cdrom, right? Thanks in advance. While I may not be making leaps and bounds, I do feel I'm making some headway! Take care. This sounds like a bug to me; before you do anything else I would: 1. Make sure there is no /usr/ports directory; 2. Insert the FBSD CDROM, *without mounting it* 3. Run sysinstall and attempt to install the ports tree again. If this doesn't work, I would download the FBSD 6.1 CD from a mirror (it was 6.1 you were using, wasn't it?), burn it, and reinstall. If you are sure you don't need any packages from CD2, you can forgo downloading and burning that one. In fact if you have the net connection (and the patience), you can download a bootonly iso that, when used to boot the system, downloads everything else needed from the net. HTH (especially as if it does not, I'm out of ideas! :-/) BTW, if you DO end up reinstalling, make sure you reformat your partitions, as I have sometimes run out of space when attempting to reinstall on partitions with data still on them. Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release
On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Wow! That's an excellent resource and the bge driver does have numerous changes that all dance around or on the same issues. It appears they've been being addressed for months. Supporting that, two people have responded and said both a Tyan and several IBMs are working perfectly with the Broadcom. Based on the 6.1-RELEASE-p6 AMD64 system I did yesterday (a different server), I didn't see any of these changes on the source date for if_bge.c. I'm guessing this has to do with how I cvsup and the fact that I remain tracking only 6.1-RELEASE. I used: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1 in the supfile and these changes are not pulled under that tag. How does one approach that, set the tag to RELENG_6 which does grab these. From the handbook it seems to recommend not moving forward from a RELEASE for a production type of implementation. How does one grab specific changes to a driver without actually cvsupping to that entire revision or am I missing something really basic and I should be using the RELENG_6 tag for my production servers? It really looks like that's the version of the bge driver I should be using. Thanks for all this input, it's pretty embarrassing to idle such a cool server for 6 months ;-), Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent their inclusion.) I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Perhaps sysinstall's rather strong recommendation to install the ports ought to be toned down a bit, e.g. to suggest installing the ports from CD only if one does not have a high-speed Internet connection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
Hye everyone.. For my customer i need to install Kaspersky antivirus for mailserver and for this case I'm using pkg build for version 5x.. ( no pkg for 6x yet ) the problem is, installation seems like successfull but when i want to key in the key ( for antivirus verification ), then this msg appears.. freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by licensemanager I've checked with google and also this link: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-August/025330.html freebsdmail# uname -a FreeBSD freebsdmail.mine.nu 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 my plan is to cvsup to -p6 and see if the problem already solved or not.. but during this time, can anyone give me clue what am i missing here? TQ Arafat System Engineer -- ___ Now you can search for products and services http://search.mail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pci modem question
FreeBSD mori.ranmaru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 5 02:09:57 PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHOGUN i386 is there a dialup pci modem that is compatible with FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question about fortune at login
what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file from my homedir... and it still runs at login! i would just as soon prefer to not see it when i log into my systems. can someone point me in the right direction? chmod -x on the binary seems to work... but i would rather know the proper way. cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:01, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: Hye everyone.. For my customer i need to install Kaspersky antivirus for mailserver and for this case I'm using pkg build for version 5x.. ( no pkg for 6x yet ) the problem is, installation seems like successfull but when i want to key in the key ( for antivirus verification ), then this msg appears.. freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by licensemanager I've checked with google and also this link: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-August/025330.html freebsdmail# uname -a FreeBSD freebsdmail.mine.nu 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 my plan is to cvsup to -p6 and see if the problem already solved or not.. but during this time, can anyone give me clue what am i missing here? TQ Arafat System Engineer cvsuping to -p6 wil not fix the problem. i had the exact same issue (except it was a list of 6 different .so files) getting the NetBackup 5.1 agent for UNIX to run on freebsd. my solution was as simple as: ln -s /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.2 (NetBackup agent was looking for so.2) so in your case, just symlink the existing .4 to a .3, and you should be good to go. backwards compatibility should not be an issue. hth, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Perry Hutchison wrote: ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent their inclusion.) I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Perhaps sysinstall's rather strong recommendation to install the ports ought to be toned down a bit, e.g. to suggest installing the ports from CD only if one does not have a high-speed Internet connection. You've asked a question, given some clarification as to what you are referring to, and I can tell you I don't have anything other than possibilities - which may be far from the truth - as to why this is. You're referring to a 4 CD set, that can't be downloaded from FreeBSD.org, that has to come from somewhere else, such as the FreeBSD Mall or somewhere else. I would use that if I couldn't connect to the Internet at all. Maybe, I should say: I can't tell you why it is that way. I've never been very concerned about it, just understood that it was that way and lived with it. I've never had a problem with an up-to-date ports tree not playing nicely with a RELEASE or a STABLE install. I suspect the reason is that I just never happened to up-date the ports tree at a time when there were problems. It does happen at times, but then... You've probably heard the advice somethings wrong with your ports tree, blow it off and re-install it. It's not a big problem to deal with, the problem comes when you need to do it and don't. Sysinstall only asks if you want to install the ports tree. If I was going to update it with cvsup, I would install it from there. I use portsnap, so I don't install it from the CD. Yes, I have a hi-speed connection. It makes things easier. I wouldn't be without it. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:02:33PM -0400, ograbme wrote: Howdie Jeff (if I may) and others, Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 6:41:38 AM, you wrote: JR On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I chose not to install the ports collection because as of now, I do not have access to Internet in my home-network and it would take a little while before I can set it up for browsing. snip I too took this same approach as the box I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release is not hooked up to the Internet. I bypassed installing the Ports collection. The installation went well and I have been refamiliarizing myself with Unix CLI commands and reading bits and pieces of documentation here and there. FreeBSD is pretty neat and has quite a few subtle differences from systems I worked on some years back, i.e., Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Anyway, now I would like to install the ports collection without having to reinstall the whole system again, if possible, thus my interest in this thread. For instance, I decided I wanted to install sudo ... snip JR The FreeBSD installation program asks if you want to install the ports JR collection, but what it actually does is install a bunch of directories JR (under /usr/ports) that you can use to browse what's available in the ports JR collection. For example, to download a port, say, Firefox compiled for use JR with the Linux compatibility layer, go into /usr/ports/linux/linux-firefox JR and type: JR $ make install clean Using the above info, I created /usr/ports directory (/usr was there, but not /ports of course as I hadn't installed the Ports collection). I created another directory under /usr/ports/ named /sudo, thus resulting in /usr/ports/sudo. I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. I then made sure I was in the directory containing sudo.c and all its attendent other files and tried the above make install clean. Unfortunately it was a no-go. Resultant message I received was: make: Don't know how to make install. Stop Obviously I've done something wrong here ... misstepped or tried to do the impossible, huh? LOL! Perhaps, sudo can only be installed via the pkg-add route per your mention below? I invoked sysinstall, but didn't see right away anything clearly indicating the path to take in resolving my dilemma. I'll keep reading and trying and may be stumble across the proper way to accomplish this, but all the while monitoring this email list for further enlightenment. Then again, may be I should just do a complete new install and select Yes to installing the Ports collection at that time, huh? Nah, one has to mess up to learn! And trust me, I've learned quite a bit by reading yours and others comments and suggestions. Thank for all of you being so willing to share your knowledge. Thanks in advance. Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree: $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz (warning! 35MB compressed) and: # mv ports.tar.gz /usr/ports # cd /usr/ports # tar xvzf ports.tar.gz to build sudo, first check that there's nothing funny with building sudo: $ cat /usr/ports/UPDATING | grep sudo if there's nothing then: # cd /usr/ports/security/sudo/ # make install clean Then read the handbook about keeping your ports tree up to date using portsnap or cvsup. P.S. Please advise what the proper mode of responding is in terms of replying. I did a reply all (to both Jeff and the list) for my first submission. However, perhaps I should of only replied to the list to eliminate unnecessary traffic. snip That's OK. I usually post to the list and cc to the person who posted in the first place as they may not be subscribed to the list. Welcome to FreeBSD! -- Frank echo f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k | sed 's/ //g' ---PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience
{expunged the old, typ}
I've only been around since FreeBSD 5.4
myself,
and
found during installs that sysinstall would
get
confused if you changed your mind and went
backwards
through the menus to reconfigure options. it
seems
like the one in 6.1 is a lot better, but maybe
I
just
move back and forth less...
That being said once it is installed it is a
million
times easier to maintain and upgrade then any
Linux
I've used. I had an old Digital 486 I had to
install
Redhat 7.3 thinking I could easily update to
the
latest kernel. I found I had to go through so
many
dependancies to do so I finally said whatever
kernel
was there was good enough. Talk about having
to be
a
GNU guru to get things installed correctly
without
clobbering the old stuff and running into
trouble...
I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and
run
the kernel from 6.1 on
it without changing anything else.
well cvsupping to Rel_5 and running a make
buildworld
make buildkernel make install kernel a
reboot
some mergemaster magic an installworld some more
mergemaster magic and then cvsupping to Rel_6 and
repeating is still lighttyears easier then
watching
the Linux kernel build stop, downloading the
sources,
configuring the dependancy properly, uninstalling
the
old, and reintalling the new. Especially when you
will
be tracing dependancies for weeks, unless your a
pretty good programmer, which I am not, and know
the
dependancy chain of the core system. My point was
the
relative ease of upgrading, not the technical
points
of having missing object stubs. Of course you
can't
put a cummins deisel in a pinto without working on
the
frame first.
Shrug. I've had problems trying to recompile the
FreeBSD kernel too.
It happens, I will admit it. I find things like
enabling wpa_supplicant and forgeting device wlan is
what trips me up most, or things along those lines...
dependancies can be frustrating at best... And I have
had experiences where a patch had a few typos in the
commit and nothing works until it is recommitted
correctly. I'm not going to even try to say FreeBSD is
always sunshine and linux is farts. I still like the
fullscreen console on my linux console, vs the tiny
have utilized LCD on my FreeBSD console with my Dell
Inspiron 1100. Know there has to be a fix, but haven't
liked the answers I've read so far...
Of late I was using Gentoo which I found to be
FreeBSD
like with its portage system, until recently
when
it
seems they changed many system level interface
stuff
sometime after April 2006 and now I cannot
seem to
update it.
The developers say you should not leave updating
too
long... True, if you
are running FBSD 5.1 and need to update to 6.1,
5.3
is still there on the
servers, but you do have to go through the steps
of
installing that
intermediate version.
well it was current as of april 8th when I made
the
tape. I went on vacation in May and got back on or
about the 17th of May. Updating HAS NOT WORKED
SINCE
THEN. so if waiting 6 weeks is too long then so be
it.
6 weeks too long? 6 months, *maybe*.
yeah between that tape which was the last update I
recall doing (always TAPE things up before messing
with it, learned that the hard way too many
times) and me getting back home from Tortola to plug
in to the net and update portage and try to update. At
that point I was only updating, and PAM was Blocking.
I deleted it, the update failed at some point I got
sick turned off the box and without PAM could never
log back in. VERY FRUSTRATING, and I actually liked
Gentoo a whole lot. But updating the penguin has never
gone smooth for me in the long run...
I'm not going to constantly be emerging an update on
a
daily basis to stay current, especially since
Openoffice seems to change its release tag
everyother
day on Gentoo and it puts a machine out of
commission
for 8-12 hours to build it. When:
emerge --update --deep --newuse --emptytree world
fails with PAM blocking, mozilla blocking, and now
Xorg blocking as well as some other odds and ends
thats when I say BSD is for me. to me it is
incomprehensible why I cannot rebuild the system
tree
from scratch without software blocking the build.
It
was fun while it lasted, and it was nice to be
away
from winblows but in my experience linux is
slower, a
pain to configure, impossible to update, and a
project
started to emulate Unix. I'd much rather spend my
time
learning Unix, then fighting with the emulator.
That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the
ground up to avoid ATT
patents. So whilst some might consider BSD real
unix, it's really only
emulating V7 with Berkeley extensions.
BSD was always trying to rewrite the original ATT
code, while being compatible with the
Re: question about fortune at login
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file from my homedir... and it still runs at login! Depends on what shell you are using, but with tcsh moving ~/.login to ~/dot.login ended fortune for me via ssh login. What I don't much care for is the large /etc/motd which ships stock with FreeBSD. So that and /etc/hosts are the only files I hack and override manually when using mergemaster. -- 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: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:23:46 -0500 On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:01, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: Hye everyone.. For my customer i need to install Kaspersky antivirus for mailserver and for this case I'm using pkg build for version 5x.. ( no pkg for 6x yet ) the problem is, installation seems like successfull but when i want to key in the key ( for antivirus verification ), then this msg appears.. freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by licensemanager I've checked with google and also this link: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-August/025330.html freebsdmail# uname -a FreeBSD freebsdmail.mine.nu 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 my plan is to cvsup to -p6 and see if the problem already solved or not.. but during this time, can anyone give me clue what am i missing here? TQ Arafat System Engineer cvsuping to -p6 wil not fix the problem. i had the exact same issue (except it was a list of 6 different .so files) getting the NetBackup 5.1 agent for UNIX to run on freebsd. my solution was as simple as: ln -s /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.2 (NetBackup agent was looking for so.2) so in your case, just symlink the existing .4 to a .3, and you should be good to go. backwards compatibility should not be an issue. hth, jonathan TQ so much Jonathan.. I've do link the libm.so and libc.so. freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager -a /home/trunasuci/ /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by licensemanager freebsdmail# cd /lib freebsdmail# ln -s libm.so.4 libm.so.3 freebsdmail# ls -l total 3096 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 5 20:37 geom -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 48260 May 7 11:56 libalias.so.5 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 10720 May 7 11:56 libatm.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel8388 May 7 11:56 libbegemot.so.2 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 114524 May 7 11:56 libbsdxml.so.2 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 48472 May 7 11:56 libbsnmp.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 882116 May 7 11:56 libc.so.6 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 56276 May 7 11:56 libcam.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 28680 May 7 11:55 libcrypt.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 995056 May 7 11:57 libcrypto.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 18548 May 7 11:56 libdevstat.so.5 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 84248 May 7 11:56 libedit.so.5 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 12952 May 7 11:56 libgeom.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel7604 May 7 11:56 libgpib.so.1 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 22728 May 7 11:56 libipsec.so.2 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel5700 May 7 11:56 libipx.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel8304 May 7 11:56 libkiconv.so.2 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 21936 May 7 11:55 libkvm.so.3 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Sep 13 10:42 libm.so.3 - libm.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 98120 May 7 11:55 libm.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 55160 May 7 11:55 libmd.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 256684 May 7 11:55 libncurses.so.6 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 179196 May 7 11:56 libreadline.so.6 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel5556 May 7 11:55 libsbuf.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel8928 May 7 11:56 libufs.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 43576 May 7 11:56 libutil.so.5 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 60672 May 7 11:56 libz.so.3 freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager -a /home/trunasuci/ /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.5 not found, required by licensemanager freebsdmail# ln -s libc.so.6 libc.so.5 freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager -a /home/trunasuci/.key Kaspersky license manager for FreeBSD 5.x. Version 5.5.10/RELEASE #11 Copyright (C) Kaspersky Lab, 1997-2005. Portions Copyright (C) Lan Crypto Key file /home/trunasuci/.key has been successfully registered yesss.. it's done.. now i'll proceed with some setup/tweaking.. TQ again :) Arafat System Engineer -- ___ Now you can search for products and services http://search.mail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
In the last episode (Sep 12), Ahmad Arafat Abdullah said: From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:01, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by licensemanager cvsuping to -p6 wil not fix the problem. i had the exact same issue (except it was a list of 6 different .so files) getting the NetBackup 5.1 agent for UNIX to run on freebsd. my solution was as simple as: ln -s /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.2 (NetBackup agent was looking for so.2) so in your case, just symlink the existing .4 to a .3, and you should be good to go. backwards compatibility should not be an issue. TQ so much Jonathan.. I've do link the libm.so and libc.so. You don't want to do this. Install the misc/compat5x port instead (and install the misc/compat4x port if you need libm.so.2). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:23:46PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: cvsuping to -p6 wil not fix the problem. i had the exact same issue (except it was a list of 6 different .so files) getting the NetBackup 5.1 agent for UNIX to run on freebsd. my solution was as simple as: ln -s /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.2 (NetBackup agent was looking for so.2) so in your case, just symlink the existing .4 to a .3, and you should be good to go. backwards compatibility should not be an issue. That's a bogus hack; the libraries are not compatible or they'd have the same version! Just install the relevant compat package (compat4x/compat5x). Kris pgp1ELXWqSUsz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: pci modem question
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 7:05 pm, musashi miyamoto wrote: FreeBSD mori.ranmaru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 5 02:09:57 PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHOGUN i386 is there a dialup pci modem that is compatible with FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might try Multitech. I know that their external modems work and while I have not tried their internal pci ones, most of their line works with linux and consequently should work with FreeBSD, Ralph Ellis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw - bandwidth throttling (sanity check!)
* On 12/09/06 22:13 +0100, RW wrote: | On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | Hello Security guy ;) | | I have tried very hard to understand ipfw just for the purpose of | bandwidth throttling for smtp service. | | Basically, I want to throttle the bandwidth used by my SMTP | server outbound to _anyone_ else except my ip blocks. | | My Server is 1.2.3.4 and my ip blocks are a.b.c.d/19 and | e.f.g.h/20 | | | Are the following rules sane enough? | | ipfw pipe 1 config bw 256Kbit/s | ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from 1.2.3.4 to not a.b.c.d/19 25 | ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from 1.2.3.4 to not e.f.g.h/20 25 | | This queues all outgoing smtp to the pipe. | | You also need to set net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1 to avoid the packets | re-entering the rules on the next line. Setting that means that the packets | cannot pass through dynamic rules. It is possible to use dynamic rules with | dummynet, but it's a pain. Thank you so much for clarifying that. What I wanted to be clarified is if it is true that smtp traffic to a.b.c.d/19 and e.f.g.h/20 is NOT being put through this pipe.. net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1 seems to be the default on my system. Not sure why, but I will RTFM about it. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing Mathematica on FreeBSD 6.1
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:09:27PM +0400, Alexey Mikhailov wrote: Hello! Sometime ago I posted this message to freebsd-questions@, but had no answer. So I'll try my luck here. - Hello! I installed Mathematica 5.1 on my FreeBSD 6.1 system. And I can't run it.. That's very strange behaviour: ~/Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux % ./Mathematica ./Mathematica: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __stderrp But: ~/Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux % ldd Mathematica Mathematica: libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x284e5000) ... Since it is a linux binary it should be linked to the linux libraries. Do you have a linux_base package installed? Kris P.S. Redirecting followups to freebsd-questions@ as this is a basic technical support question. pgpXLAppEbfpx.pgp Description: PGP signature
