The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-09-03 - 2006-09-23
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. These are the articles posted during this period: 4-Sep : Monitor your 3Ware battery backup unit (BBU) Why not monitor your battery? http://freebsddiary.org/3ware-netsaint-plugin-addenda.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openbgpd TCP-MD5
Hello, Does anyone know if TCP-MD5 is working with OpenBGP on Freebsd ? I've got a Freebsd 6.1 system (6.1-RELEASE-p5) on which I've tried both openbgpd and openbgpd-devel. The system has a test session now with a Cisco 3750 equipment. On the OpenBGPD machine I have setup the Cisco neighbor with the tcp md5sig password option. On the Cisco machine I have setup the OpenBGPD neighbor with the password option. Upon starting the session the OpenBGPD machine reported pfkey setup failed. I used setkey to add the following (after adding FAST_IPSEC and TCP-MD5 in the kernel): add ip-openbgpd ip-cisco-bgp tcp 0x1000 -A tcp-md5 password I used; On the Cisco device if I issue a show logg I can see: %TCP-6-BADAUTH: No MD5 digest from ip-openbgpd(179) to ip-cisco(15581) (RST) Also the OpenBGPD FreeBSD system displays: kernel: tcp_signature_compute: SADB lookup failed for ip-cisco Help wanted:) if possible Thanks, Mihai ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pf + ipv6 + keep state - any known issues?
Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, I am using pf on a 6.1 machine. I have a tunneling interface (gif0) for my IPv6 feed. The problem I am having is connecting to myself in spite of firewalling. I am allowing traffic on port 22 to my public ipv6 address. I am also allowing all outgoing traffic on the tunneling interface, with 'keep state'. ping6:ing myself works, but connecting to port 22 does not. The intial SYN gets through and is responded to by an ACK, but that ACK is seemingly dropped. This inspite of the fact that 'pfctl -s state' shows a tracked connection for the relevant port pair. I can work around it by allowing all packets from my own IP on the tunneling interface, but as far as I know this should not be required. That is, connection tracking should be working even for local connections on a particular interface - correct? Note that connecting to port 22 works perfectly from outside IP:s (I had someone external verify this) without any special casing of the rules. That is, I only have the usual rules for allowing the incoming packets to port 22, and the rule allowing outgoing packets with 'keep state'. The fact that this allows successful establishment to port 22 by an external party suggests to me that I have not made some trivial misstake in the rule - yet connections to myself do not work. My question is whether there are any known issues that this sounds like - or of course if there is some reason why this is not supposed to work by design. Are you using antispoofing rules on your external interface? If you've got something like this in your ruleset: antispoof log quick for $ext_if Then it will expand into a series of rules containing the following when you load them: block drop in log quick on ! em0 inet from 12.34.56.72/29 to any Where 12.34.56.72/29 is the address of the network your external interface (em0) is attached to. (Although the example I show is for IPv4, exactly the same applies for IPv6) End result is that you cannot connect to a service listening on your external IP from the box itself, because that does not result in inbound packets traversing the em0 interface. And it's a 'quick' rule, so you can't override it by adding a more specific rule later in the ruleset. In general, use antispoof for the loopback as a standard part of any ruleset you write. Antispoof on other interfaces should be considered carefully and only applied where necessary. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
question: How to use SERIAL PORT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] serial and UART Tutorial, by Frank Durda Sirs, Where on the Internet can I details of: How to program a WINDOWS XP computer so that in will input/output to an external device through its SERIAL PORT? ANY information you can supply, would bew greatly appreciated ! m.shenven [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: question: How to use SERIAL PORT
On 9/24/06, m.shenven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] serial and UART Tutorial, by Frank Durda Sirs, Where on the Internet can I details of: How to program a WINDOWS XP computer so that in will input/output to an external device through its SERIAL PORT? ANY information you can supply, would bew greatly appreciated ! m.shenven [EMAIL PROTECTED] afaik, there should be plenty of. in visual basic you can use mscomm object to utilize the serial port. in general, you can query how to communicate with windows COM port. by the way, i think this is a freebsd list, not window$ :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Thin Terminals
Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own? Ceri Huh? Clearly, its not as attractive as a Sun Ray. But I dunno about dancing and rolling.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radeon R300 3d support
On 9/23/06, Steve Roome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've noticed a lot of people trying to get radeons with R300 and newer cores working with FreeBSD and 3D acceleration. At least there's been a fair few unanswered requests for it for a while now. So, does anyone know when the newer ati drivers will be put in the x.org port, or when that will be updated. xorg 7.x will hit the ports tree any time now. 6.9 already has some basic support, e.g. my 9550 works, very slowly though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual Monitor problems
I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 (by way of PC-BSD 1.2) and I'm trying to get my ATI x850 card to work with dual monitors. I have the xorg.conf set up correctly (see my blog post on the long hard battle to get that beachhead secured here: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000744.html ) but now I've run into further resistance and I can't seem to work around it. Soon after I get running using the dual monitors, the whole machine just freezes. This always happens, and usually while KDE is putting up its tip dialog box. I've tried using a different window manager (like fluxbox) but that didn't seem to help. Soon after logging in, the whole machine freezes solid. Anything else I can try? What sorts of things can I tweak? I run just fine if I don't do that dual monitor thing. You can see more or less what my xorg.conf file looks like on my blog post. I don't see any errors anywhere, including Xorg.0.log or .xsession-errors, or anything else in /var/log. The whole machine just freezes up. -- Jonathan Arnold Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS configuration
Dear All, Im triyng to get NFS installed in one of my FreeBSD server so I can share some folders on it and be able to save documents on the shared folders remotely. I did all the configuration both in the server and the client. When I try to mount the exported folders I get a message saying Permission Dined. I did check the export file under /etc, the client I was trying to mount from is listed. What I might be missing? Thank you in advance for your help. David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd 6.1 floppy installation problem - boot loader finds only 16MB, but I have 256 MB - and it hangs
--- Vo¹tenák Vladimír [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have an old HP NETSERVER PRO 2xpentium pro, 256 MB ram, and I tried to install the actual FREEBSD 6.1 there. I made 3 floppies: boot, kernel1 and kernel2. When it starts booting from the boot floppy, the loader show I only have 16 MB of RAM (instead 256MB I have there). Then it asks for kernel1 and 2 disk, and boot disk again. It gives me also the entry FREEBSD display with countdown - to choose boot type - default, no acpi, secure etc. I tried it all, but it alwaysl hangs after about 5 second after any choice. So I must just reboot. I think it is just because the lack of RAM, because, I think it requirets at least 24 MB of RAM. I have found something about this on the web, that it is necessary options MAXMEM=n to use all the RAM, because old BIOSes shows just first 16 MB or so, but I am just doing the installation. So how can I modify the kernel on the floppies to use such option during the installation from floppies? Or should I install from other media???Please can you help me with this??How can I make the installation boot floppy see all the RAM I have? Thank you very much for your reply. Greetings Vladimír Vo¹tenák make sure you don't have OS/2 compatability mode in your BIOS turned on. That will limit a system to 16 megs of RAM. I haven't played with an HP Netserver but I have several Kayaks that run things fine with about the same aged bios. -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS configuration
David Bila wrote: Dear All, Im triyng to get NFS installed in one of my FreeBSD server so I can share some folders on it and be able to save documents on the shared folders remotely. I did all the configuration both in the server and the client. When I try to mount the exported folders I get a message saying Permission Dined. I did check the export file under /etc, the client I was trying to mount from is listed. What I might be missing? Have you restarted mountd and nfsd after you added the hosts and mount points? (are you aware that you can only share whole mountpoints?) When you type mount, does it say NFS exported for the partitions you've made available? -- Armin Pirkovitsch [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: Thin Terminals
On 24/9/06 13:52, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own? Ceri Huh? Clearly, its not as attractive as a Sun Ray. But I dunno about dancing and rolling.. Does it work with Sun Ray server? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question: How to use SERIAL PORT
On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:26 AM, m.shenven wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] serial and UART Tutorial, by Frank Durda Sirs, Where on the Internet can I details of: How to program a WINDOWS XP computer so that in will input/output to an external device through its SERIAL PORT? ANY information you can supply, would bew greatly appreciated ! m.shenven [EMAIL PROTECTED] First download and install the serial port driver CDs found here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/ The above driver is much simpler to use than the serial port routines that come in Windows. Additional benefit is that code written to the FreeBSD driver works almost unchanged in MacOS X. -- 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: FreeBSD locale and sympa
On 9/22/06, RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed sympa5 from the FreeBSD ports collection. I am running FreeSBD 6.1 The problem is that the main sympa web interface does not show me the language options, so I cannot choose a language, and also the language menu is filled of spaces, empty spaces. Also I can't even set a default language, only en_US works. IS there any problem related to FreeBSD gettext ? anyone had this problem using sympa 5.2.1 on FreeBSD ? I see the same behavior, but it's not a reqired feature for me so I haven't bothered trying to fix it. But IIR, there is an error in my sympa log that looks relevant; I don't remember the error but check your logs. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB based webcam
Hi: I have a laptop with a built in webcam: ugen0: Vimicro Corp. USB2.0 Web Camera, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 Since this goes on the generic usb device, I guess there is no driver. Is this supported? Do I need to download a driver somewhere or will webcam software provide it? Secondly, what software is recommended to make this useful? Thansk, 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]
kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604787 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) messages..
I see that in /var/log/messages I am getting messages like the following... Sep 24 13:08:36 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604849 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:36 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604842 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:38 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604787 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:38 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604787 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:40 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604719 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:40 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604719 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:42 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604665 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) Sep 24 13:08:42 tx kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604665 usec for pid 16 (yarrow) It always happens to pid 16 (yarrow). I tried reinstalling the system as well and it still shows up. It doesn't always appear however; I just went two days without the message. I don't really know what is causing it? Anyone have any opinions? It is a SuperMicro PDSMi motherboard, Intel Pentium D 930 CPU. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with X mouse pointer
Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square. I can use the mouse - the pointer, although a square, responds to moves and clicks. I googled and I found some threads about redglass and whiteglass themes and I have them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons. Could you please help me in adjusting the pointer in the X environment? I also enabled the mouse in the text terminals and it works fine - the pointer is an arrow. I am attaching /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/rc.conf (with network information masked) for completeness and uname -a gives: FreeBSD . 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 Thank you very much for your help in advance. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com xorg.conf Description: Binary data rc.conf Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making simple colorful block diagrams for presentations
ajm ha scritto: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 11:57:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:20:00PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello, I want a simple tool that can be used for preparing block diagrams and arrows, that is all. I want to be able to use few colors, that is all. Please don't suggest openoffice or kde. I want something simple. graphics/xfig might be worth looking at. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] try alsographics/tgif or graphics/dia -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Restricting access to home directory
Hi all, I would like to give a user access to my box via some kind of FTP but restrict him to his home directory. I have seen scponlyc, which supposedly can do this, but can't seem to get it working. I have also read up on protftpd + ssl, and configuring it to lock users into their home directories. What would all of you recommend as a viable secure solution to this? Thanks! -Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with X mouse pointer
On 9/24/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120 with Intel 855 chipset. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square. I can use the mouse - the pointer, although a square, responds to moves and clicks. I googled and I found some threads about redglass and whiteglass themes and I have them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons. Could you please help me in adjusting the pointer in the X environment? I also enabled the mouse in the text terminals and it works fine - the pointer is an arrow. I am attaching /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/rc.conf (with network information masked) for completeness and uname -a gives: FreeBSD . 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 Thank you very much for your help in advance. Regards Ivan Hello, I found the solution by accident. I enabled the following option Option SWcursor True in Section Device in xorg.conf, then I restarted X and the mouse pointer was fine. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restricting access to home directory
Hello Matt, Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, I would like to give a user access to my box via some kind of FTP but restrict him to his home directory. I have seen scponlyc, which supposedly can do this, but can't seem to get it working. I have also read up on protftpd + ssl, and configuring it to lock users into their home directories. What would all of you recommend as a viable secure solution to this? First of all, scp (scponly) is not a FTP service. Nevertheless both options are just fine. Proftpd is able to jail users inside their dirs. Settings required in proftpd.conf: DefaultRoot ~ [group] where ~ are their specified homedirs and group is optional (members of that group will be jailed to their homedirs, others will be able to browse everywhere, if group is not used, everybody using proftpd will be jailed). Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restricting access to home directory
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:09:23 -0400 (EDT) Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to give a user access to my box via some kind of FTP but restrict him to his home directory. I have seen scponlyc, which supposedly can do this, but can't seem to get it working. and what do you mean can't seem to get it working ? with scponly you also have a chroot-option, if your user is the only scponly user, then the top-dir in the chroot-scponly setup could be his home-dir (disclaimer, i've successfully used scponly, but only read documentation about chroot-scponly, not used that yet) -- grtjs, albi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
swap
Hi list, 512 MB of Ram, 1024 MB of swap, 6.1-STABLE After some time my system begins swapping, which is normal. The weird thing is that swapping goes on even after closing the memory consuming programs. here's the output of top(1): Mem: 103M Active, 37M Inact, 107M Wired, 6656K Cache, 60M Buf, 240M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 106M Used, 918M Free, 10% Inuse Why the swapped pages don't get recalled back to main mamory (which has sufficient free space for them), freeing the swap device and thus speeding the system up? Thanx for any explanation, Regards, -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swap
In the last episode (Sep 24), Pietro Cerutti said: 512 MB of Ram, 1024 MB of swap, 6.1-STABLE After some time my system begins swapping, which is normal. The weird thing is that swapping goes on even after closing the memory consuming programs. here's the output of top(1): Mem: 103M Active, 37M Inact, 107M Wired, 6656K Cache, 60M Buf, 240M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 106M Used, 918M Free, 10% Inuse I se no swapping here (that would show up as ###K In, ###K Out on the swap line). You have swap space in use but not actively used. Why the swapped pages don't get recalled back to main mamory (which has sufficient free space for them), freeing the swap device and thus speeding the system up? Once the kernel decides to swap a page, that area of swap is reserved until the process exits, even if the kernel pulls the data back from swap. That way if memory gets low again, the kernel knows it can quickly discard the in-RAM copy of the data (since there's already a copy in swap). Processes likely to have pages swapped out are gettylogin proceses for unused ttys, lpd, sshd and other long-running daemons, etc. There's no reason to pull those pages back into RAM because you're more likely to need that RAM for something else. -- 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]
GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive
Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall disabled ... Tried ICQ/MSN/Yahoo and IRC, always the same, no sending, but receiving ... Any help appreciated, regards oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive
O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall disabled ... Tried ICQ/MSN/Yahoo and IRC, always the same, no sending, but receiving ... Any help appreciated, Are you connceted directly to the net or over a router / server with nat? If it's not directly you have to forward ports to the client pc for direct connections (like file sending) -- Armin Pirkovitsch [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: swap
On 9/24/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the kernel decides to swap a page, that area of swap is reserved until the process exits, even if the kernel pulls the data back from swap. That way if memory gets low again, the kernel knows it can quickly discard the in-RAM copy of the data (since there's already a copy in swap). Thanx for the insight... -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hitachi disk performance
Hi! I saw your posts with title Performance issue amd64. I don't know if this could help, but I'm having the same problem with ICH5 SATA controller and the same Hitachi drives on linux. I cannot activate DMA, and bandwidth is lesser than 10MB/s. I could not solve the problem, until now. BTW, with any other drives, the problem does not exist. Antonio Marques __ Continua a preferir gastar mais? Compare o preço da sua ligação à Internet http://acesso.portugalmail.pt/compare ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
some apps very slow under Gnome
Guys, This may/may not prove the superiority of BSD over the Linux kernel, dunno. Maybe you can help me figure out what I need to tune; or (*sob*) lighten my load on ethos. I've got three of the 4 default workspaces full of apps. Mostly xterms or gnome-terminals. I have 1G RAM, a huge disk, a 2800 AMD chip, yet realplay is *very* slow to respond. It's time-counter changes only ever 8 seconds and when I cover part or all, it takes several seconds to fill back in. Is this a bug in xorg or in realplay or what? Last night I closed realplay and began having similar problems with one of the terminals. I have run CTWM for years so am used to a lightweight wm. I haven't checked to see if gnome/kde-LITE are available. That may be the problem. I am reluctant to post this to the ubuntuforums because I've already asked enough idiot questions ... (Sure, I do the same here, but I know you guys:-) I could close all my xterms and see, but it took hours to get things configured just the way I want! tia, you'n's, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks
--- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jason Artz wrote: Hello, I want to install FreeBSD 6.1 on my system, but I only have a version 5.3 CD. I can tell sysinstall to get 6.1 instead of 5.3 via FTP (under Options, Release name), but I read that using an old sysinstall to install a new version is a bad idea. I cannot figure out how to obtain a new sysinstall without making boot floppies (I have no floppy drive nor a CDRW). Can I install 5.3 and then somehow upgrade via FTP to 6.1? Or download the new sysinstall to my 5.3 installation, run it, and install 6.1 instead? What's the best method? Can you just download the 6.1 iso disks and make new installer disks? Otherwise, you can install 5.3 and use cvsup to upgrade to 6.1 through a source upgrade. Just follow the instructions carefully. Is there a way to do a binary install instead of downloading all the new sources and compiling them as an upgrade? I don't have a floppy or CDRW drive so I cannot burn new installer disks. I am stuck with 5.3 installer disks. It seems that there should be a way for me to do a fresh, binary install of 6.1 from 5.3. What if someone sent me a copy of 6.1s sysinstall and I ran it from the 5.3 environment? Would that allow me to do a proper, fresh 6.1 install via FTP? I have tried installing 6.1 with my sysinstall and it will not boot. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do I need to completely disable sendmail?
Hi, I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Right now /etc/ rc.conf has: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO But I checked /var/log/maillog and saw about 5 archives of messages that looked like this: Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8I719YD078452: k8O71858063140: return to sender: Cannot send message for 5 days Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8O71858063140: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=49386, relay= [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] So what should I do? Should I just have sendmail_enable=NO in / etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is disabled? That way messages could be sent without the above errors? Or what? Thanks for any help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:12:24PM -0700, Jason Artz wrote: Is there a way to do a binary install instead of downloading all the new sources and compiling them as an upgrade? Sort of. You can do it by hand if you're careful (the install files -- base.aa, etc -- are just .tar.bz2 files cut up into chunks which you can recombine and extract with cat | tar), but you'll need to take care to avoid overwriting things like /etc that you may care about. Kris pgpC8bWVQRoiN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hitachi disk performance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I saw your posts with title Performance issue amd64. I don't know if this could help, but I'm having the same problem with ICH5 SATA controller and the same Hitachi drives on linux. I cannot activate DMA, and bandwidth is lesser than 10MB/s. I could not solve the problem, until now. BTW, with any other drives, the problem does not exist. Antonio Marques __ Continua a preferir gastar mais? Compare o preço da sua ligação à Internet http://acesso.portugalmail.pt/compare I did not dig deeper into that problem - due to the lack of suitable hardware. Bonnie shows about 55 MB/s sustained performance, sometimes higher, burst reaches 117 MB/s. With the old disks, both values were about 25 MB/s higher. I doubt this is only a partition layout related issue. The average performance droped remarkable, especially while compiling world. At the Hitachi website I did not find any hint about issues with several controllers or especially with SATA PseudoRAID like nForce4 offers, hope this can be fixed anyway and it's a simple firmware issue. Checking the disks via the Hitachi brewn drive fitness tool gives no suspicious data, mode is SATA II/300, no accoustic or energy management and so on ... I would appreciate any solvage, if you have one! Well, in your case, I would check whether your drive is in SATA 150 mode (factory setting) or SATA 300, as I know the ICH5 is only SATA 150 and drives with problems switching to SATA 150 while in SATA 300 could cause problems. Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive
Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall disabled ... Tried ICQ/MSN/Yahoo and IRC, always the same, no sending, but receiving ... Any help appreciated, Are you connceted directly to the net or over a router / server with nat? If it's not directly you have to forward ports to the client pc for direct connections (like file sending) My box at home is connected to the net via a DSL router. The box has a 192.168.xxx.xxx Ip, and therefore, I think you sketched the problem the right way. Is there a way to do this automatically via pf(1)? It would be weird to forward each connection, most of them DHCP obtained IPs, by hand. Sorry, I'm not very familiar with that stuff ... Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patches for jail support of multiple IPs?
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 12:51 -0700, Chris wrote: Are there any official patches to support multiple IPs in jails or would I be limited to taking a chance with the few 6.1 patch files I've found on the net. I searched the UPDATING on HEAD and for anything that might be related but found nothing. Everything I could google on the subject led me to sources that didn't appear to be related to the project. I'm suspicious of using patches being developed outside of the freebsd community yet I'd really hoped to move to a completely jailed OS for our servers. Is it just too soon to be looking for this capability in a production capacity? I suppose you could alias your primary network interface, then use a simple firewall with multiple divert sockets for address translation, thereby forwarding packets to a single jail IP (possible with multiple jail ports open). -Michael S. Eubanks [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: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?
I have the same four lines in rc.conf, but that is because I installed postfix. If you want to disable it completely, you'd use sendmail_enable=NONE, but you wouldn't be able receive messages sent by crontab, syslogd, etc. Michael --- Rob Gabaree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Right now /etc/ rc.conf has: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO But I checked /var/log/maillog and saw about 5 archives of messages that looked like this: Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8I719YD078452: k8O71858063140: return to sender: Cannot send message for 5 days Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8O71858063140: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=49386, relay= [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] So what should I do? Should I just have sendmail_enable=NO in / etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is disabled? That way messages could be sent without the above errors? Or what? Thanks for any help. ___ 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: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree wrote: So what should I do? Should I just have sendmail_enable=NO in / etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is disabled? That way messages could be sent without the above errors? Or what? You should allow the system to send out it's mail. And it should go somewhere meaningful (i.e., to you). And you should read it. All my systems send me mail every day, and I scan through it to make sure everything is okay. That's what those messages are for. :) So, yes. You should disabled incoming, but allow submit, etc. You can also firewall off incoming instead or in addition. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive
O. Hartmann wrote: Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not possible. The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall disabled ... Tried ICQ/MSN/Yahoo and IRC, always the same, no sending, but receiving ... Any help appreciated, Are you connceted directly to the net or over a router / server with nat? If it's not directly you have to forward ports to the client pc for direct connections (like file sending) My box at home is connected to the net via a DSL router. The box has a 192.168.xxx.xxx Ip, and therefore, I think you sketched the problem the right way. Is there a way to do this automatically via pf(1)? It would be weird to forward each connection, most of them DHCP obtained IPs, by hand. Sorry, I'm not very familiar with that stuff ... Well the portforward has to be done on the router, and the clients need to know which ports they own on the inet ip. It's part of the file sending protocol (at least icq and irc work that way) So a portforward table which defines which ports are forwarded to which ip is imho the only option. -- Armin Pirkovitsch [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: Restricting access to home directory
Hi Matt! If you are talking about givin FTP access only, then the easiest way to do it is just adding the user to the file /etc/ftpchroot and thats all!! if the file does not exist. then create it. add to /etc/ftpchroot all users that you want them to ftp but never see any upper level of shell. have fun, Marwan Sultan System Administrator. On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:09:23 -0400 (EDT) Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to give a user access to my box via some kind of FTP but restrict him to his home directory. I have seen scponlyc, which supposedly can do this, but can't seem to get it working. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patches for jail support of multiple IPs?
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 12:51 -0700, Chris wrote: Are there any official patches to support multiple IPs in jails or would I be limited to taking a chance with the few 6.1 patch files I've found on the net. I searched the UPDATING on HEAD and for anything that might be related but found nothing. Everything I could google on the subject led me to sources that didn't appear to be related to the project. I'm suspicious of using patches being developed outside of the freebsd community yet I'd really hoped to move to a completely jailed OS for our servers. Is it just too soon to be looking for this capability in a production capacity? Just a quick addition. I don't think you'd even need multiple divert sockets unless you have multiple interfaces on the external and/or internal sides. Depends on what your setup looks like and what you're trying to accomplish. -Michael S. Eubanks [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: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?
Rob Gabaree wrote: I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Yes. You probably want to allow the server to send you administrative mail that it generates itself, but not let it receive any from outside. To do that: (1) Use the default settings for sendmail by not specifying any . Delete all lines containing sendmail from /etc/rc.conf. This will allow outgoing mail only. (2) Put a line in /etc/aliases that defines who receives root's e-mail for the server. Point it to your actual e-mail address. For example, root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (3) Reboot. That's it. Now the box can send you it's status information, but it won't listen for any incoming mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patches for jail support of multiple IPs?
On Sep 24, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Michael Eubanks wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 12:51 -0700, Chris wrote: Are there any official patches to support multiple IPs in jails or would I be limited to taking a chance with the few 6.1 patch files I suppose you could alias your primary network interface, then use a simple firewall with multiple divert sockets for address translation, thereby forwarding packets to a single jail IP (possible with multiple jail ports open). Thank you, that does sound like an interesting approach. The application is maintain the multiple IP Addresses for the sites though the sites actually share much code and data. I also attempted using multiple jails all pointing to the same file system but was naturally discouraged by the jail configuration to do so as this seems to violate the concept. Seems wasteful of memory too. I will try the divert method next using a single jail. Thank you again for the reply. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?
Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable=NO` and in / etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the outside can access mail services. It seems to be working correctly, as I received mail as it was ran to my @mydomain.com email. Does this seem ok? Did I do anything wrong? Thanks, rob On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree wrote: So what should I do? Should I just have sendmail_enable=NO in / etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is disabled? That way messages could be sent without the above errors? Or what? You should allow the system to send out it's mail. And it should go somewhere meaningful (i.e., to you). And you should read it. All my systems send me mail every day, and I scan through it to make sure everything is okay. That's what those messages are for. :) So, yes. You should disabled incoming, but allow submit, etc. You can also firewall off incoming instead or in addition. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make behavior with obj directory
i was noticed this behavior using make on freebsd and netbsd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat Makefile all: pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED] make pwd /usr/home/ohmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkdir obj [EMAIL PROTECTED] make pwd /usr/home/ohmer/obj it seems a hard coded make behavior so it rather looks like a feature than a bug. why is that ? -- Matthieu Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] EPITA SRS 2007 - Adaptive Hacking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem w/ py-ldap Installation
Hi; I've installed the py-ldap from the ports doing the make install clean dance. Everything seemed to proceed smoothly. However, when I fired up my python interpreter and entered import ldap it didn't recognize the module. So something went wrong and I don't know what :( I did get this from the installation. Is it a problem? === Registering installation for py24-ldap2-2.2.0 cyrus-sasl-2.1.22: /usr/ports/1 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete openldap-sasl-client-2.3.27: /usr/ports/1 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete py24-ldap2-2.2.0: /usr/ports/1 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete If not, what is the problem? TIA, Ted2 - Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recompiling base sendmail with another DB
I've wanted to test the use of some of snertsoft's milters, but they require a Berkley DB-4.1+ I believe instead of the 1.85 used by the base system's sendmail. Somewhere I read about recompiling sendmail, which then would allow me to comile with a different DB choice. The steps are below. Where would I add the option for a different DB...??? # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm # make obj make depend make # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil # make obj make depend make # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/ # make obj make depend make make install # cd /etc/mail # make all install restart Thanks, Jack _ Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp007001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?
Rob Gabaree wrote: Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable=NO` and in /etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the outside can access mail services. It seems to be working correctly, as I received mail as it was ran to my @mydomain.com email. Does this seem ok? Did I do anything wrong? I run OpenBSD on my mailservers, but I expect that the sendmail works basically the same. In /etc/rc.conf or its FreeBSD equivalent, check the sendmail line to see if it references localhost.cf or sendmail.cf localhost.cf will permit internal mail on the machine, so that root can send messages to your everyday UID, etc., but will not permit mail to be sent to or received from, the Internet, or other machines in you LAN. sendmail.cf will permit full Internet email, but even this will not permit Internet email, unless your machine has a fully Qualified Domain Name, which is registered with your domain registrar, and has the Registrar's MX setting configured properly. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lpd hewlett packard
Hello, I`m trying to configure my hp deskjet 520 and i`m running into some trouble. The handbook says it all has to do with the interupt driven configuration, it does not work with some new hp printers. I have to switch to the polled mode. If you want polled mode, remove in your /boot/device.hints file, the following line: hint.ppc.0.irq=N. Then they say i have to rebuild my kernel. Now i ask myself what the /boot/device.hints file has to do with my kernel. What sort of file is /boot/device.hints and why do i have to rebuild my kernel. Thanks inadvance, Justin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks
--- Jason Artz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jason Artz wrote: Hello, I want to install FreeBSD 6.1 on my system, but I only have a version 5.3 CD. I can tell sysinstall to get 6.1 instead of 5.3 via FTP (under Options, Release name), but I read that using an old sysinstall to install a new version is a bad idea. I cannot figure out how to obtain a new sysinstall without making boot floppies (I have no floppy drive nor a CDRW). Can I install 5.3 and then somehow upgrade via FTP to 6.1? Or download the new sysinstall to my 5.3 installation, run it, and install 6.1 instead? What's the best method? Can you just download the 6.1 iso disks and make new installer disks? Otherwise, you can install 5.3 and use cvsup to upgrade to 6.1 through a source upgrade. Just follow the instructions carefully. Is there a way to do a binary install instead of downloading all the new sources and compiling them as an upgrade? I don't have a floppy or CDRW drive so I cannot burn new installer disks. I am stuck with 5.3 installer disks. It seems that there should be a way for me to do a fresh, binary install of 6.1 from 5.3. What if someone sent me a copy of 6.1s sysinstall and I ran it from the 5.3 environment? Would that allow me to do a proper, fresh 6.1 install via FTP? I have tried installing 6.1 with my sysinstall and it will not boot. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Jason ___ I thought if you went to the options in sysinstall and go to the part that says Release Name and it likely is going to say 5.3-RELEASE change that to 6.1-RELEASE and then do an ftp install. You should get the newer version of the system. I have used this to install 5.4-CURRENT in th past from 5.4 bootdisks. I would have to assume it should work for a newer release as the distribution is packed the same. I know this is how one would have sysinstall choose an arbirtrary custom built installation of FreeBSD from say an NFS mount. -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Recompiling base sendmail with another DB
From: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recompiling base sendmail with another DB Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:59:54 -0500 I've wanted to test the use of some of snertsoft's milters, but they require a Berkley DB-4.1+ I believe instead of the 1.85 used by the base system's sendmail. Nevermind, I found my answer... no easy way. Thanks sorry for the premature question. Jack _ SearchYour way, your world, right now! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-usFORM=WLMTAG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:49:59PM -0700, backyard wrote: I thought if you went to the options in sysinstall and go to the part that says Release Name and it likely is going to say 5.3-RELEASE change that to 6.1-RELEASE and then do an ftp install. You should get the newer version of the system. I have used this to install 5.4-CURRENT in th past from 5.4 bootdisks. I would have to assume it should work for a newer release as the distribution is packed the same. Nope, as the OP correctly states this will often not work. Your old release can't know all the special steps required to update to a newer release (files to not overwrite, etc). Kris pgpGPx9XtbrMl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree wrote: Hi, I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Right now /etc/ rc.conf has: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO What you have disables incoming Email, but sstill lets the system send out Email. That is good, because the system sends notices about various things and you might want to send something from it sometimes - such as sending a file to yourself or whatever but without receiving anything. So, unless there is a very compelling reason, leave it the way it is. jerry But I checked /var/log/maillog and saw about 5 archives of messages that looked like this: Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8I719YD078452: k8O71858063140: return to sender: Cannot send message for 5 days Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8O71858063140: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=49386, relay= [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] So what should I do? Should I just have sendmail_enable=NO in / etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is disabled? That way messages could be sent without the above errors? Or what? Thanks for any help. ___ 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]
