Re: problem with script execution
Try adding #!/bin/sh as the first new line of your script. Roughly speaking: This makes the system use /bin/sh as the shell that executes the script. Specifying a PATH inside the script might help, too. Scripts have a very small environment set by default, so your PATH might be just something like /bin:/usr/bin. If sudo is in /usr/local/bin it won't work. Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this context. This list is piped to sudo. But what does sudo do with these? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bit late, catching up on half a dozen questions-digests, but fwiw:
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 157, Issue 26
Message: 33
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:55:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey all, the ipfw man page says rules can be deleted individually or in
groups, but I don't see (other than the sets) an easy way to craft
deletion of rules in a range (for example, 500-550).
As the system I'm using crafts client rules by client numbers, this is a
kinda useful feature, is it available somewhere?
Here's one of a number of scripts I wrote to manage client-group based
rules for ipfw1 (before sets), to do just that; 'scuse debugging noise.
#!/bin/sh
# ipfwdelrange.sh 28/1/4 smithi optionally noisy for starters ..
version=1.0 28Jan04
rulelist='/tmp/ipfwdelrange.rn'
set=''; q=''; v=''
[ $1 = -q ] q=y shift # quiet
[ $1 = -v ] v=y shift # verbose
[ ! $q ] echo -n ipfwdelrange.sh:
[ $# -ne 2 ] echo usage: $0 [-q|-v] firstrule lastrule exit 1
/sbin/ipfw list | awk '{print $1}' $rulelist # existing rulenumbers
[ $? -ne 0 ] echo 'ipfw list' failed! exit 1
while read rule; do # find any existing ipfw rules within range
[ $rule -lt $1 ] continue
[ $rule -gt $2 -o $rule -eq 65535 ] break
set=$set $rule# includes duplicates; each must be deleted
done $rulelist
if [ $set ]; then
[ ! $q ] echo deleting all rules in range ${1}-$2
[ $v ] echo $set
/sbin/ipfw -q delete $set # delete all existing in range
[ $? -ne 0 ] echo 'ipfw delete' failed! exit 1
else
[ ! $q ] echo no ipfw rules to delete in range ${1}-$2
fi
[ -f $rulelist ] rm $rulelist
exit 0
I seem to recall ipfw2 deletes multiple rules with the same number with
one delete statement. If that's the case, and you use any, make it:
[ ! `echo $set | grep $rule` ] set=$set $rule
or you'll get error messages on repeated deletes of the same rule.
Cheers, Ian
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IPFW: delete range of rules?
Sorry folks, forgot to paste the subject for my preceding message. Ah, the joys of replying to a -digest .. Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with https in konqueror - SOLVED
To recap, I did a portupgrade -aRrf and one of the consequences was ssl stopped working. I struggled through this one to get it working again. It was hard but I learned a very important lesson: [ to READ UPDATING thoroughly !!! ] -- this can't be stressed enough Lane sugested this: rebuild and reinstall /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3 and it should work. It didn't. It has to be done but its not enough. In UPDATING I came across: -- Just like KDE 3.4, KDE 3.5 does not play nice with openssl-0.9.8. In particular it breaks kwallet, some of the SSL handling in konqueror and SSL/TLS support in kmail/kontact. If you're using the openssl ports rather than the base-system openssl, make sure to use security/openssl-stable. You can put WITH_OPENSSL_STABLE=yes into /etc/make.conf to automatically make ports depend on that rather than on security/openssl. -- and so I did, in the following order: 1) make make (re)install security/openssl-stable 2) added WITH_OPENSSL_STABLE=yes into /etc/make.conf 3) make make (re)install x11/kdelibs (so it can be re-linked with openssl-stable) 4) make make (re)install x11/kdebase (so it can be re-linked with openssl-stable) If only kdelibs is rebuild, the ciphers WILL NOT show on the security configuration. Everything is back to normal now. Thanks to all that replied -- //| //| // |// | // // | // // -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ipad.com.br (FreeBSD since 2.2.8 - 100% Rwindows-free) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes
On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote: To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting daylight saving for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform, just to make life harder. The dates are as follows: First on: 2:00am Dec 3 2007-2008:2:00am Oct lastSun (ON) 2007-2009:2:00am Mar lastSun (OFF) If I've got the zoneinfo rules right, they go something like (sorry if field formatting doesn't come out properly): # Western Australia Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s 8:00 1:00WST 1975 Mar Sun=1 2:00s 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s 8:00 1:00WST 1984 Mar Sun=1 2:00s 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s 8:00 1:00WST 1992 Mar Sun=1 2:00s 8:00 - WST 2006 Dec 2 8:00 AW WST 2009 Mar lastSun 2:00s 8:00 - WST # Rule NAMEFROMTO TYPEIN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S RuleAW 2006only- Dec 3 2:00s 1:00- RuleAW 20072008- Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00- RuleAW 20072009- Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - Has anything at this stage been committed to the -STABLE branches for these changes, or will most need to do them manually? The gazetted changes/references are at: http://wa.gov.au/daylightsaving/ I Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have used this shell script to facilitate updating this system. * #!/usr/local/bin/bash mkdir tz cd tz wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz' gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf - * Be sure to read the documentation obviously. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded here. Don't waste your time! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Should I stop trusting my disk drive?
Hi List, HP compaq nx7000 laptop, FreeBSD gahr-laptop 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #2: Wed Nov 29 13:45:17 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAHR i386 since a few days I have problems with my disk drive, a FUJITSU MHT2060AH/006C: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=75192848 g_vfs_done():ad0s2f[WRITE(offset=12332400640, length=16384)]error = 5 This four line are repeated in my /var/log/messages several times in a short time slice, with only the LBA value changing. I sometimes have spontaneous reboot, no kernel dumps, and I had to disable soft-updates to prevent filesystem corruptions.. So, should I consider buying myself a new harddisk, or it's possible that the problem resides in the filesystem layer? Thanx in advance, 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]
Portmanager Install - Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
When i install any port with portmanager, i get the following error-message:
error message
** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
...
/error message
This example was outputted after: portmanager -u, but i see it with
every install. In pkgtools.conf i indeed see x11base:
pkgtools.conf
...
AFTERINSTALL = {
# Re-enable the X wrapper
'x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server' = sprintf(
'cd %s/bin if [ -x Xwrapper-4 ]; then ln -sf Xwrapper-4 X; fi',
x11base()),
}
...
/pkgtoosl.conf
When i installed some port (antiword) manually by going to
/usr/ports/textproc and do a make, make install. I dont see any error
message at all. When i do a
$ portmanager textproc/antiword
The same error gets by again. My system:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE with xorg installed and working correctly. dmesg output:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~whendrik/dmesg
Greetings Willem Hendriks
(This is my first mailist question, i hope my mail client settings are
correct, and my mail is proper composed)
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portmanager error: Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
When i install any port with portmanager, i get the following error-message:
error message
** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
...
/error message
This example was outputted after: portmanager -u, but i see it with
every install. In pkgtools.conf i indeed see x11base:
pkgtools.conf
...
AFTERINSTALL = {
# Re-enable the X wrapper
'x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server' = sprintf(
'cd %s/bin if [ -x Xwrapper-4 ]; then ln -sf Xwrapper-4 X; fi',
x11base()),
}
...
/pkgtoosl.conf
When i installed some port (antiword) manually by going to
/usr/ports/textproc and do a make, make install. I dont see any error
message at all. When i do a
$ portmanager textproc/antiword
The same error gets by again. My system:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE with xorg installed and working correctly. dmesg output:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~whendrik/dmesg
Greetings Willem Hendriks
(This is my first mailist question, i hope my mail client settings are
correct, and my mail is proper composed)
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MailScanner and hardware security appliance
Dear all, Who got ideas about Security Hardware and Anti-spam gateway? -- *Rithy Ray, RCSA* Chief Executive Officer Web: www.rithy4u.net http://www.rithy4u.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (855) 12 403 001 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portmanager error: Error occurred reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf - SOLVED
Gerard wrote:
On Friday December 01, 2006 at 07:18:16 (AM) Willem Hendriks wrote:
When i install any port with portmanager, i get the following error-message:
error message
** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass
...
/error message
This example was outputted after: portmanager -u, but i see it with
every install. In pkgtools.conf i indeed see x11base:
pkgtools.conf
...
AFTERINSTALL = {
# Re-enable the X wrapper
'x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server' = sprintf(
'cd %s/bin if [ -x Xwrapper-4 ]; then ln -sf Xwrapper-4 X; fi',
x11base()),
}
...
/pkgtoosl.conf
When i installed some port (antiword) manually by going to
/usr/ports/textproc and do a make, make install. I dont see any error
message at all. When i do a
$ portmanager textproc/antiword
The same error gets by again. My system:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE with xorg installed and working correctly. dmesg output:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~whendrik/dmesg
I use 'portmanager' all the time; however, I do not avail myself of the
pkgtool.conf file, preferring to use the pm-020.conf file instead.
Are you sure about the syntax of the pkgtools.conf file? Obviously the
problem lies there. You could just try commenting out that section, or
just renaming the file entirely -- portmanager will then ignore it --
and try rebuilding the port again.
The files is a standard file which i didn't touched. I did not knew the
small importantce of those lines, i commented them out and no more error
message..
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Re: Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1
On 11/30/06, Jon Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Saifi Khan Subject: Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 : Hi all: : : Is there a recommended version of Ethereal for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 ? : : I tried searching in the ports and there don't seems to be any. : : Searching on ethereal for FreeBSD throws up a few Security Advisories. : : Thanks in advance. : : -- : thanks : Saifi. Try http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=wiresharkstype=all Ethereal is now Wireshark. Thanks Jon. Wireshark is a real cool name ! Wow ! -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portmanager error: Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
On Friday 01 December 2006 12:18, Willem Hendriks wrote: When i install any port with portmanager, i get the following error-message: error message ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: pkgtools.conf is the configuration file for portupgrade. Unfortunately the developer of portmanager accepted some code from a user that enabled portmanager to read some configuration from pkgtools.conf. Most of the things that go in this file are better defined directly in make.conf, or using sysutils/portconf, because they aren't specific to any build tool. I would suggest you replace the file with the sample and try again. If that fails try replacing it with an empty file ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I stop trusting my disk drive?
Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi List, HP compaq nx7000 laptop, FreeBSD gahr-laptop 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #2: Wed Nov 29 13:45:17 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAHR i386 since a few days I have problems with my disk drive, a FUJITSU MHT2060AH/006C: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=75192848 g_vfs_done():ad0s2f[WRITE(offset=12332400640, length=16384)]error = 5 This four line are repeated in my /var/log/messages several times in a short time slice, with only the LBA value changing. I sometimes have spontaneous reboot, no kernel dumps, and I had to disable soft-updates to prevent filesystem corruptions.. So, should I consider buying myself a new harddisk, or it's possible that the problem resides in the filesystem layer? Thanx in advance, regards get smartmontools from the ports and see how it looks from a SMART perspective. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSDstats v5.0 Released (totally backwards compatible)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just extended the bsdstats script to allow for *optional* reporting of installed ports ... the only change for this is that its using 'nc' for reporting of ports, since it would break GETs length limits ... It reports in category, port and version of the port ... Antony coded up 'proxy related' settings as well, so that nc *should* work through a proxy ... he's planning on testing the code more on his servers in the morning, but this is tested in a non-proxy setup ... The code doesn't change any of the other tests, so nothing gets 'broken' is you stick with the older v4.x clients ... its only if you wish to add to the ports report is the upgrade required ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFcDAl4QvfyHIvDvMRAhjcAKC1yXuoFJabLaIlDI2KfZtrghzd0ACdGDhy R00bx1HcaQKhgcN9Uer2E4c= =DOue -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon
Graham Bentley wrote: Example: you install Z, which depends on Y, which depends in X, ..., which depends on Q. What if Q is xorg-server-6.9.0_1? I installed 'feh' thinking wrongly it was a console app and ended up getting x, xlibs etc etc when all I wanted was a console app to view jpgs in elinks. So, the above is exactly what I wanted. Ok, so you may want x-org-server deleted, by what about some other dependency that your unwanted app shares with some port you really do want to keep around? I find pkg_cutleaves handy. It will loop through all the leaves of your dependency tree (all ports that do not have any other ports dependant on them), and asks if you want to keep or delete it. After the ports tree is cleaned up, it will ask you to repeat the process for any ports that may have become leaves as a result of the previous iteration. When I look through the pkg_info list, I usually don't know what all the installed ports do, I why I need it. But i usually do know if I need a leaf or not. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: MailScanner and hardware security appliance
Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET wrote: Dear all, Who got ideas about Security Hardware and Anti-spam gateway? If you are asking about a packaged solution I would check out Fort Systems. http://www.fsl.com/ We tried several applications and settled on MailScanner which has proven to be an excellent choice. Fort Systems is the commercial supported version. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acpi and boot problem
leo fante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I've installed freebsd 6.1 on an old pc on which I've configured several services. Everything worked fine since last week when the motherboard died. I've replaced the mobo and found that now the acpi could work (with the old motherboard the installation disabled the acpi at boot since the mainboard was blacklisted). Since the old mobo was blacklisted the options on the menu were 1 default 2 boot with acpi Now I would like to have the acpi enabled by default at boot time on the beastie menu. 1 default 2 boot without acpi reading the man of loader.conf I've added hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 and now the pc boots with with acpi enabled but without having the correct options in the boot menu. How I could fix the menu? From a quick look at /boot/beastie.4th, I think that setting acpi_load in your loader.conf will do the job. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automount
Robert Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just installed an external SCSI hard drive in the form of a sun StorEdge. All is working well. The StorEdge has two drives called da0 and da1 respectivly. I've put entries into /etc/fstab so that they are mounted on boot as /s and /t. My question is... If I dont have the StorEdge running 24/7 and I reboot the server, the boot process fails when mounting the file systems as /s /t can not be reached. Is there anyway of writing an automount line in fstab that is smart enough to know that if the /s and /t are not reachable then continue with the boot process without stopping. My fstab enty is... /dev/da0s1d /sufsrw00 I see that the cdrom has the entry /dev/cd0/cdromcd9660 ro,noauto 00 Is it simply a case of changing the mount option to rw,noauto ?? To start with, yes. If you don't use noauto, then the disk *has* to be there at boot. You might want to put in some devfs rules to mount the disks when they show up. Or an automounter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: Re: problem with script execution
sorry, I hit reply, not reply all - Original Message - From: Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ray Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:03 AM Subject: Re: problem with script execution Try adding #!/bin/sh as the first new line of your script. Roughly speaking: This makes the system use /bin/sh as the shell that executes the script. Specifying a PATH inside the script might help, too. Scripts have a very small environment set by default, so your PATH might be just something like /bin:/usr/bin. If sudo is in /usr/local/bin it won't work. thank you for your suggestions. I will try them and get bck to you. Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this context. This list is piped to sudo. But what does sudo do with these? sorry, I didn't want to show my passwords, so I replaced it with an astrix. the password of course is being read from the pipe by sudo because of the -S option. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.2/559 - Release Date: 11/30/2006 5:07 AM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh client affecting fonts?
hello, for some reason, when i do a 'make config' on a port, the border that used to be solid lines is no longer that way (at least when using SecureCRT). However, when i use putty, it looks as expected (and it used to in SecureCRT) a screen shot is here: http://mikestammer.com/private/portconfig.png does anyone know what the heck is causing this only in SecureCRT? Thanks Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Re: problem with script execution
Ray Still wrote: Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this context. This list is piped to sudo. But what does sudo do with these? sorry, I didn't want to show my passwords, so I replaced it with an astrix. the password of course is being read from the pipe by sudo because of the -S option. Probably nothing to do with your original problem, but you do know that you can allow sudo to execute certain commands without a password? Passwords in shell scripts isn't exactly ideal... E.g. my sudoers has: Cmnd_Alias HEALTHD = /usr/local/sbin/healthd [...] %wheel ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: SMART_STATUS, HEALTHD, MBMON So anyone in group wheel (me :-)) can excecute any of the named commands without any password. You can also force the flags that will be passed - the sudoers man page has more details. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell PERC5/e RAID controller in 2950
Hello I see that this topic was discussed back in October but my specific question was not answered in that exchange. My question is: I am considering a Dell 2950 with the PERC5/e SAS RAID controller attached to their MD1000 SAS JBOD product and I would like to run 6.2- RELEASE on it (when it comes out). Has anyone had any experience with this hardware scenario with FreeBSD? Is the PERC5/e controller supported? How well does it work with FreeBSD? My research on this topic has not lead to a conclusion one way or another, as the man page for the mfi(4) driver indicates that the PARC5/i (the internal controller in the 2950 that I will have the OS live on) is supported and that the LSI 8480E is supported (which I've heard that the PERC5/e is based on) but not the PERC5/e explicitly. Any insight would be much appreciated! Adam -- Adam Todorski Sr System Administrator Scientific Computation Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NYUSA Office: (518) 276-8376 Fax: (518) 276-4886 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Re: problem with script execution
- Original Message - From: Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ray Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Re: problem with script execution Ray Still wrote: Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this context. This list is piped to sudo. But what does sudo do with these? sorry, I didn't want to show my passwords, so I replaced it with an astrix. the password of course is being read from the pipe by sudo because of the -S option. Probably nothing to do with your original problem, but you do know that you can allow sudo to execute certain commands without a password? Passwords in shell scripts isn't exactly ideal... I am aware of the security issues, but in this case I think it's the best option because: 1) any one who can login to the machine also knows root passwords. 2) this script lives in a directory that is password protected by apache. 3) I don't like the thought of turning off passwords. so if you can see the script, you won't learn anything you don't already know. am I totally out to lunch? E.g. my sudoers has: Cmnd_Alias HEALTHD = /usr/local/sbin/healthd [...] %wheel ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: SMART_STATUS, HEALTHD, MBMON So anyone in group wheel (me :-)) can excecute any of the named commands without any password. You can also force the flags that will be passed - the sudoers man page has more details. --Alex -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.2/559 - Release Date: 11/30/2006 5:07 AM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Touchpad and mousebuttons
I have three questions about the touchpad on my laptop: 1) Simulate three buttons: When using my laptop at my desk, I use a USB-mouse with three buttons. When I leave my desk, I unplug the extra mouse, and take my laptop with me, often without turning it off. Then, later, the click-both-buttons-at-once to simulate a middle button click does do work anymore. The touchpad has only two buttons. Any thoughts? 2) Swap mouse buttons: When I use the touchpad, I use my right hand. And my hand is a little tilted, so when i use my index finger on the touchpad itself, my right thumb rests on the right mouse button. It feels very natural to press this button, but in order to press the left one, I need to rotate my hand in a very uncomfortable way to get my thumb on the left button. Could I switch the buttons on the touchpad, and leave the USB-mouse untouched? 3) Simulate scroll wheel: Could I configure the touchpad to simulate the scroll wheel in some way? On some Windows-computers, I've seen that you could slide your finger along the rightmost edge of the touchpad to simulate scrolling. And on Macs, it seems you could use two fingers in the middle of the touchpad to accomplish the same effect. How do I do this on FreeBSD/Xorg? Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Fw: Re: problem with script execution
Ray Still wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Ray Still wrote: Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this context. This list is piped to sudo. But what does sudo do with these? sorry, I didn't want to show my passwords, so I replaced it with an astrix. the password of course is being read from the pipe by sudo because of the -S option. Probably nothing to do with your original problem, but you do know that you can allow sudo to execute certain commands without a password? Passwords in shell scripts isn't exactly ideal... I am aware of the security issues, but in this case I think it's the best option because: 1) any one who can login to the machine also knows root passwords. 2) this script lives in a directory that is password protected by apache. 3) I don't like the thought of turning off passwords. so if you can see the script, you won't learn anything you don't already know. am I totally out to lunch? IMHO, putting passwords in a script is a bad idea and putting a root password in a script is just asking for trouble. Sure, when all is well, all your users know it anyway. Then one day you forget and add a user who doesn't know it, or you distribute the script somewhere external by accident, or someone hacks in to your machine and you have given them the password on a plate. From what I understand, this script is being run only from apache, and you have password protected it from the apache server. So the only user you need to allow to run the script without a password is apache. As you have it, any user on the system who can read the file can already run it without a password unless you have directory/script permissions set up to lock them out - apache password protection only protects you when the script is accessed through apache. If you use sudo to allow apache to run the script passwordless, then to run the script as apache you either need to be the apache server or root, so random logged in users can't run it without knowing the root password unless you let them. What I think sudo (correctly set up to only allow apache to run the script) buys you is this: 1) Your password is not visible anywhere so can't be given away by accident. 2) The script is exactly as well protected for web use as when you just include the password in the script. Any web user who can click on the right link and supply the apache authentication can run the script. If you feel apache authentication is enough protection, then passwordless sudo changes nothing, as far as I can see. 3) Random users gaining access to your machine cannot run the script without knowing the root password. Right now any user on your system who has execute permission in the script can run it without knowing the root password. My tuppence, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh client affecting fonts?
Authentication required! This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the URL /private/portconfig.png. You either supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required. In case you are allowed to request the document, please check your user-id and password and try again. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 401 mikestammer.com Fri Dec 1 11:14:00 2006 Apache/2.0.59 (FreeBSD) On 1 December 2006, at 09:24, Eric wrote: hello, for some reason, when i do a 'make config' on a port, the border that used to be solid lines is no longer that way (at least when using SecureCRT). However, when i use putty, it looks as expected (and it used to in SecureCRT) a screen shot is here: http://mikestammer.com/private/portconfig.png does anyone know what the heck is causing this only in SecureCRT? Thanks Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) badaboom who can help me ? i'm french and i don't know irc Paladine can't help you with the being french part, you are screwed their mate Phone Voice: +1 251 589 6348 Fax: Call the voice number and ask. Email General chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large attachments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPS-related stuff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM AIM: hackmiester1337 Skype: hackmiester31337 YIM: hackm1ester Gtalk: hackmiester MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xfire: hackmiester ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh client affecting fonts?
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Authentication required! This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the URL /private/portconfig.png. You either supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required. In case you are allowed to request the document, please check your user-id and password and try again. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 401 mikestammer.com Fri Dec 1 11:14:00 2006 Apache/2.0.59 (FreeBSD) oops im an idiot. try this URL http://mikestammer.com/upload/portconfig.png Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SYMLINK
Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SYMLINK
On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? Most people use ls -l to see where the link is pointing; software generally uses lstat(2). And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Very good. Welcome... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some php files in same directory of working files with same permissions won't process
Hello Christian, Good thought, but I grabbed it straight from a mirror with wget and did config file tweaks in vi. -John On 11/16/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, has this file been edited on another platform, Windows in particular? I've seen many occasions where people created a script using a windows text editor, saving it as a windows text file. While most scripting languages don't care about this, editing a windows text file on a unix box will eventually break the format of the file (being neither DOS nor Unix anymore), resulting in strange behaviour sometimes. (This is just a guess, it happened several times with perl here, so php might not be affected by this kind of error at all.) HTH Christian On 16/11/06, John Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, Some new findings. . . A buddy (wes) on another list loaded the troublemaker index.php file using telnet and got: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Downloads$ telnet welcome.coe.jmu.edu 80 Trying 134.126.97.69.. . Connected to etv.jmu.edu. Escape character is '^]'. GET /dbadmin/index.php Connection closed by foreign host. And suggested that the PHP processor was crashing. When I use the php CLI from the command line and run the index file in my phpmyadmin folder I get: # php index.php Segmentation fault (core dumped) When I run a test file (that works) with phpinfo in it, it also throws an error: [Thu Nov 16 07:26:34 2006] Script: 'test.php' /usr/ports/databases/pecl-PDO/work/PDO-1.0.3/pdo.c(364) : Freeing 0x0838A0E8 (1 bytes), script=test.php === Total 1 memory leaks detected === There are no other useful errors (at least to me) that I can find in my error logs. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what might be causing this? All other php files (not in the phpmyadmin folder) seem to execute fine without error. I can try reinstalling php, but would really like to know where things went wrong and why only the folder with the phpmyadmin files seems to be affected. Regards, -John ___ 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: SYMLINK
Additionally, find filenamecan tell you if a symbolic link is broken: % ln -s ./linksource ./linkdest % file linkdest linkdest: broken symbolic link to `./linksource' (In this case linksource simply doesn't exist...) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh client affecting fonts?
Eric wrote: hello, for some reason, when i do a 'make config' on a port, the border that used to be solid lines is no longer that way (at least when using SecureCRT). However, when i use putty, it looks as expected (and it used to in SecureCRT) a screen shot is here: http://mikestammer.com/private/portconfig.png does anyone know what the heck is causing this only in SecureCRT? So what terminal type is set when you use SecureCRT? putty will use something like xterm or vt100 both of which will display make config correctly, but a setting for a dumb terminal or no setting will look more like your screenshot. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTPD not keeping time
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Kris Anderson wrote: Your clock is off by a little over an hour; while ntpd can correct very large offsets, doing so takes a long time. Kill ntpd, re-run ntpdate -b, double-check that your clock is sane, and then re-start ntpd. Off by an hour? Let's see the date is November 30th, and 12:41pm, that's what Windows says. Meanwhile freebsd says - Thu Nov 30 00:22:07 PST 2006. Wouldn't that be...nearly 12 hours? I was judging the time-offset by the output of ntpq -p. Ah, okay. Thanks. :) However, if you are dual-booting between FreeBSD and Windows, you will also need to consider whether to keep the CMOS/BIOS clock running in UTC or in your local timezone; see man adjkerntz for details. Nope, not dual booting, see below. :| It's entirely possible that doing a touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock will solve your issue. The file already exists, I have the timezone set to PST. :) [ ... ] If you are not providing time sync to a large subnet, please consider using stratum-2 servers or the NTP pool, ie, pool.ntp.org, or more specific regional parts, such as 0.us.pool.ntp.org, 1.us.pool.ntp.org-- this is assuming from your IP that you are located in the US, otherwise choose the appropriate country code for where-ever you are. I'll give it a shot and see what happens, I did just that yesterday. Okay, changed my pool since it's to keep this computer's time correct. Thanks for your help. :) You are most welcome. -- -Chuck Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a virtual machine. The system it is runing on is Windows 2003, the time and all that system are correct. I turned on ntpd because for some strange reason the date and time were still not in keeping with the system time, or so I thought. I'ld have to re-investigate that to be sure. Over the weekend I'll stop the ntpd and see what happens to the time when Monday rolls around. Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh client affecting fonts?
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Eric wrote: hello, for some reason, when i do a 'make config' on a port, the border that used to be solid lines is no longer that way (at least when using SecureCRT). However, when i use putty, it looks as expected (and it used to in SecureCRT) a screen shot is here: http://mikestammer.com/private/portconfig.png does anyone know what the heck is causing this only in SecureCRT? So what terminal type is set when you use SecureCRT? putty will use something like xterm or vt100 both of which will display make config correctly, but a setting for a dumb terminal or no setting will look more like your screenshot. --Alex i have tried xterm, linux, ansi, etc all with the same result. i also tried different fonts in secureCRT to no avail. Putty is using xterm and courier new. weird Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTPD not keeping time
On 2006/12/01 8:56, Kris Anderson seems to have typed: --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if you are dual-booting between FreeBSD and Windows, you will also need to consider whether to keep the CMOS/BIOS clock running in UTC or in your local timezone; see man adjkerntz for details. Nope, not dual booting, see below. :| It could be that the virtual machine is giving FreeBSD the time in UTC, not your local timezone. Try changing the timezone options (you can use sysinstall - Configue - Time Zone and choosing yes) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTPD not keeping time
On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote: Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a virtual machine. Sigh-- you're right, you should have mentioned this before. One should not attempt to change the clock from within a virtual machine at all, only in the parent or host OS. VMs depend on the host OS to provide the timekeeping, and it is known that systems running inside a VM may experience timing glitches as a result of running inside the machine emulation. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh client affecting fonts?
Eric wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: So what terminal type is set when you use SecureCRT? putty will use something like xterm or vt100 both of which will display make config correctly, but a setting for a dumb terminal or no setting will look more like your screenshot. --Alex i have tried xterm, linux, ansi, etc all with the same result. i also tried different fonts in secureCRT to no avail. Putty is using xterm and courier new. weird i was playing with it more and it seems to work ok, from a serial console anyways, while using windows 2003. I am using Vista on this machine. could that be the culprit? putty has no such issue tho ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTPD not keeping time
--On Friday, December 01, 2006 10:23:17 -0800 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote: Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a virtual machine. Sigh-- you're right, you should have mentioned this before. One should not attempt to change the clock from within a virtual machine at all, only in the parent or host OS. VMs depend on the host OS to provide the timekeeping, and it is known that systems running inside a VM may experience timing glitches as a result of running inside the machine emulation. http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.1. pgpMohInQAgxV.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: SYMLINK
Additionally, find filenamecan tell you if a symbolic link is broken: % ln -s ./linksource ./linkdest % file linkdest linkdest: broken symbolic link to `./linksource' (In this case linksource simply doesn't exist...) Uh-oh too much data - not processing- Maybe if I explain what I was doing- My /var is only 248 mb , /usr is 4 gigs I wanted to have the /var/spool/exim/ subdirecotries (scan , input db, msglog) run in the /usr slice (as it has ample space) So I MOVED exim to /usr/var2 and ran ln -s /var/spool/exim /usr/var2/exim but I don't think that's right as my var/spool/exim dorectory started filling up today ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bandwidth Throttling under FreeBSD 6.x ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finding alot of ancient stuff on Google, but they all seem to revolve around ipfw, which I believe isn't so heavily recommended anymore? Can someone point me to a doc that talks about bandwidth throttling using, I'm guessing, pf, is the current? Under FreeBSD 6.x? Basically, what I want to do is leave everything open, but throttle one specific IP ... Thanks ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFcHRG4QvfyHIvDvMRAhJmAKDG+mHuGaXPMSdSUs0+njT9PTKEPwCeLX25 ecqHmb6ct6uPTNfORYoD6zg= =e9hH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SYMLINK
On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I wanted to have the /var/spool/exim/ subdirecotries (scan , input db, msglog) run in the /usr slice (as it has ample space) So I MOVED exim to /usr/var2 and ran ln -s /var/spool/exim /usr/var2/exim but I don't think that's right Yep. You need to reverse the order of the arguments to ln -s; the first argument should be the actual, existing file or directory. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SYMLINK
Make sure that your exim data really resides in /usr/var2/exim. Afterwards, remove /var/spool/exim. The ln command won't remove any existing files and directories, but it doesn't complain in this case. And then you have to take care where you specify source and destination: The source is an existing file or directory, while the destination is the directory that should contain the link. Source is first, destination follows. In your case, the command should be: ln -s /usr/var2/exim /var/spool/exim HTH Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 port vlc-devel core dump]
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:51:33PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: It is I that should say thanks ;^) I have tried using libmap.conf to remap libpthread to lib_r but that had no effect. Vlc reproduces the core dump exactly. I am not sure that creating libmap.conf in /etc and just entering as below has any effect at all. /etc/libmap.conf [/usr/local/bin/vlc] # 'vlc' uses libc_r. libpthread.so.1 libc_r.so.5 libpthread.so libc_r.so [vlc] libpthread.so.1 libc_r.so.5 libpthread.so libc_r.so Yet again, I am most grateful for your patience and input. If those are the right library revisions then it should work...but I don't see an effect from changing thread libraries either. Kris file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/RAGGEN/LOKALA%7E1/TEMP/nsmail.tmp Description: PGP signature ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SYMLINK
On 01/12/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ln command won't remove any existing files and directories, but it doesn't complain in this case. Forget it, of course it does complain... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving /var/mail
Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell PERC5/e RAID controller in 2950
--On Friday, December 01, 2006 10:43:31 -0500 Adam Todorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I see that this topic was discussed back in October but my specific question was not answered in that exchange. My question is: I am considering a Dell 2950 with the PERC5/e SAS RAID controller attached to their MD1000 SAS JBOD product and I would like to run 6.2- RELEASE on it (when it comes out). Has anyone had any experience with this hardware scenario with FreeBSD? Is the PERC5/e controller supported? How well does it work with FreeBSD? My research on this topic has not lead to a conclusion one way or another, as the man page for the mfi(4) driver indicates that the PARC5/i (the internal controller in the 2950 that I will have the OS live on) is supported and that the LSI 8480E is supported (which I've heard that the PERC5/e is based on) but not the PERC5/e explicitly. I'm using the mfi driver for Dell's PERC5/i SAS RAID controller on a 1950, and it works fine. I do not know if it will support the PERC5/e controller, but you could email the driver author and ask him specifically. (His email address is in the man page.) There has been *some* discussions on this list about those controllers, but I don't know of anyone who has definitively stated that the mfi driver works for PERC5/e. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
RE: SYMLINK
Make sure that your exim data really resides in /usr/var2/exim. Afterwards, remove /var/spool/exim. The ln command won't remove any existing files and directories, but it doesn't complain in this case. And then you have to take care where you specify source and destination: The source is an existing file or directory, while the destination is the directory that should contain the link. Source is first, destination follows. In your case, the command should be: ln -s /usr/var2/exim /var/spool/exim HTH Christian Thanks everyone, that did it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.4 kernel crashdump not consistently working
hi, i have run into this strange problem of kernel crashdump not working consistently under FreeBSd 5.4. we have bunch of development machines with identical physical configurations, and every one of them is setup to save the vmcore after a panic. The difference as far as i could tell is the FreeBSD 5.4 version, which different people installed using different methods, CD, network, CVS... I followed the instructions found on the official FreeBSD site as far as i could tell. including in the kernel config file the following options options DDB options KDB options GDB options KDB_UNATTENDED include in the /etc/rc.conf file dumpdev=/dev/ad0s1b # 2GB swap partition with 1GB of physical memory dumpdir=/usr/crash # and making sure the dir exists crashdump works on some of these machines, but not on others, and on those that don't work, i just see Dumping 1014MB and the system just sits there. I added a printf line into the dumpsys function, and it seems that it just loops without ever writing anything to disk. for those that are curious about the details, the variables i, mb are always just zero, count goes up everytime i press a key, and va stays at the same memory address, and left never decreases. Comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Cheng -- FAST powered network performance @626 395 8820 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Bandwidth Throttling under FreeBSD 6.x ...
Hello Mark: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:28 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bandwidth Throttling under FreeBSD 6.x ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finding alot of ancient stuff on Google, but they all seem to revolve around ipfw, which I believe isn't so heavily recommended anymore? Can someone point me to a doc that talks about bandwidth throttling using, I'm guessing, pf, is the current? Under FreeBSD 6.x? Basically, what I want to do is leave everything open, but throttle one specific IP ... Thanks ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- I think this is what you're looking for. Specifically, using ALTQ in conjunction with PF. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.h tml Regards, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SYMLINK
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:30:51PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? Just use it and see what happens. If it is a symlink to a directory, then do a cd to it. If it is to a text file, do a vi or something like that to it. If you get where it is supposed to go, then it is working. If no, something is wrong. Examples: You create this link (presuming all dirs exist). 'ln -s /some/other/dir/goodstuff /stuff' Then do 'cd /stuff' a pwd and should see yourself in /some/other/dir/stuff You create this link (presuming ...textfile is some file containing text) 'ln -s /my/junk/dir/textfile /txfl Then you should be able to do 'vi /txfl' and it will bring up an editing session with what is in ...textfile You can use any text editor you like if vi is not to your taste (though you should at least learn how to use vi since it is so omnipresent in the UNIX world) And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Welcome to FreeBSD. It will take some learning, but be worth it, even in the short run. jerry Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SYMLINK
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:35:23AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? Most people use ls -l to see where the link is pointing; software generally uses lstat(2). That is the way to check, but may not convince a nervous newbie of what is happening - thus my longer proof in another post. jerry And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Very good. Welcome... -- -Chuck ___ 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: Moving /var/mail
I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I'm a little confused... if you want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail why are you messing around with /home at all? This is what I would do... ... stop your smtp program ... stop your pop/imap program tar zcvpf /tmp/varmail.tpgz /var/mail mkdir -p /usr/var mv /var/mail /usr/var/mail ln -s /usr/var/mail /var/mail ... restart your smtp/pop/imap programs... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ 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: SYMLINK
You create this link (presuming all dirs exist). 'ln -s /some/other/dir/goodstuff /stuff' Then do 'cd /stuff' ...textfile You can use any text editor you like if vi is not to your taste (though you should at least learn how to use vi since it is so omnipresent in the UNIX world) And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Welcome to FreeBSD. It will take some learning, but be worth it, even in the short run. jerry I'm pretty comfortable with ee , it *seems* easier to me- But I will dabble with vi, I do however, remember when I took a free elective back in '99 (unix system V) we played with vi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stop a freebsd server from responding to pinging?
On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Wasp King wrote: 1. How do I stop others from port scanning a server? Marcus Ranum suggests using wirecutters on the ethernet cable. If the server is internet-reachable, then it can be port-scanned. Less drastic measures than removing it from the network entirely would including configuring a firewall to block all ports except those absolutely required for the necessary functions which the machine needs to perform, and hardening the OS to reduce the potential exposure. 2. is stopping the response to pinging enough? No. 3. how to do I stop the server from responding to pinging? Use a firewall like ipfw or ipf to block ICMP traffic types 0 8: ipfw add 1 deny icmp from any to any icmptype 0,8 I find it a tad ironic that someone running FBSD 4.2 is worried about getting port scanned.or maybe that's why he is worried, since the laundry list of exploits and holes against a box running something that old and unsupported is fearsome. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.4 kernel crashdump not consistently working
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:48:06AM -0800, Cheng Jin wrote: hi, i have run into this strange problem of kernel crashdump not working consistently under FreeBSd 5.4. we have bunch of development machines with identical physical configurations, and every one of them is setup to save the vmcore after a panic. The difference as far as i could tell is the FreeBSD 5.4 version, which different people installed using different methods, CD, network, CVS... I followed the instructions found on the official FreeBSD site as far as i could tell. including in the kernel config file the following options options DDB options KDB options GDB options KDB_UNATTENDED include in the /etc/rc.conf file dumpdev=/dev/ad0s1b # 2GB swap partition with 1GB of physical memory dumpdir=/usr/crash # and making sure the dir exists crashdump works on some of these machines, but not on others, and on those that don't work, i just see Dumping 1014MB and the system just sits there. I added a printf line into the dumpsys function, and it seems that it just loops without ever writing anything to disk. for those that are curious about the details, the variables i, mb are always just zero, count goes up everytime i press a key, and va stays at the same memory address, and left never decreases. Comments would be greatly appreciated. Some disk drivers seem to have problems dumping (each driver has its own dump routine so there is scope for bugs especially on less commonly used devices). Try a later version of FreeBSD, e.g. 6.1 or 6.2. Kris pgpQ4tosYDBxz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Moving /var/mail
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:20:42PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. You don't want to use the '*' on the receiving directory. If there are no other subdirectories in /home/kellyw then just do this:cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/. If it has subdirectories and you want it to recurse, then do this: cp -R -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw Unfortunately, if there are hard links in that directory, it will also make new copies of those files rather than just making new hard links. You might want to consider using tar instead of cp if your file structure to be moved are at all complex. cd /home/kellyw tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kelly.tar * cd /usr/kellyw tar xvpf kelly.tar rm kelly.tar cd /home/kellyw pwd(just to be extra careful since rm -rf * is irrevocable) rm -rf * jerry Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ 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: Moving /var/mail
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:22:01PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I'm a little confused... if you want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail why are you messing around with /home at all? That is just her test case, not the real one she wants to do after she is comfortable with the process. jerry This is what I would do... ... stop your smtp program ... stop your pop/imap program tar zcvpf /tmp/varmail.tpgz /var/mail mkdir -p /usr/var mv /var/mail /usr/var/mail ln -s /usr/var/mail /var/mail ... restart your smtp/pop/imap programs... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel linker error
What am I going wrong? Please help! System: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #4: Thu Nov 30 13:33:49 CET 2006 The ports tree was updated yesterday, then I ran portupgrade -a It was completed today. Then I ran portinstall gnome2 and got this error: grep: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomeui-2.la: No such file or directory sed: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomeui-2.la: No such file or directory gnome-libtool: link: `/usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomeui-2.la' is not a valid libtool archive gmake[2]: *** [libeel-2.la] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel/work/eel-2.16.3/eel' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel/work/eel-2.16.3' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel. NOTE: The correct file is in /usr/local/lib/libgnomeui-2.la, but the port cannot find it. Thanks, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring DNS (BIND) in isolation
Hello, I have a need to make my own DNS system on an isolated network. Years ago, I administered DNS for a couple of different companies, but that was quite a while ago and since I've turned to programming I haven't done much in the way of network administration. I recall from using BIND 4, when I was reading up on it, that it is most certainly possible to configure an entire DNS system on a totally isolated network. Would I need zone files for the root, ., zone and any other zones I configure; e.g. isolation.? This would seem to be the way to go about it, but I'm having some difficulty visualizing it in my head. I just did some searches online for the O'Reilly book DNS BIND. I recall using this book in the past and it was quite helpful (and unfortunately for me, belonged to my former employers). Would this book be a good reference for this task as well, or are there better books that I might want to look into getting for this? Or, are there good on-line resources that could help me muddle through? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving /var/mail
Hi Phillip, I'm a little confused... if you want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail why are you messing around with /home at all? As I said - that was a dry run to see if this would work the way I thought it would (it didn't). I'ld rather practice with a users home directory that isn't important than risk screwing up people's mail boxes. This is what I would do... ... stop your smtp program ... stop your pop/imap program tar zcvpf /tmp/varmail.tpgz /var/mail mkdir -p /usr/var mv /var/mail /usr/var/mail ln -s /usr/var/mail /var/mail ... restart your smtp/pop/imap programs... Thanks. I'll try this tomorrow. On a users home directory first... Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Best laptop for Freebsd
I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a couple of years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm. I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in Google. -Original Message- On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
I have an acer travelmate 2420 that requires ndis for the broadcom 4318 wireless card but other than that it works in linux and freebsd nearly out-of-the-box. I got it from newegg for 500 usd too. I'm very happy with it. Abe CyberSword wrote: I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a couple of years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm. I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in Google. -Original Message- On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. ___ 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]
Jails not being assigned IP address?
Hello, I have three jails on one machine that won't resolve DNS because it looks as though the jails themselves aren't being assigned IP addresses. When I run ifconfig, none of the adapters have IPs assigned. The host is working fine. Can anyone explain why the jails aren't being assigned IPs? Would they fail to be assigned if an adapter on the host already has their IPs as aliases? Any advice is much appreciated, Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving /var/mail
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. You could do something like this[1]: # tar -cvf - -C /home/kellyw . | tar -xpBf - -C /usr/kellyw Regards, Mikhail. [1] - Taken from 'man tar', EXAMPLES section. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Abram B OLson wrote: I have an acer travelmate 2420 that requires ndis for the broadcom 4318 wireless card but other than that it works in linux and freebsd nearly out-of-the-box. I got it from newegg for 500 usd too. I'm very happy with it. Abe CyberSword wrote: I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a couple of years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm. I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in Google. -Original Message- On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. ___ 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] Greetings, I recently got myself a Dell Inspiron 1501 with AMD dual core processor. Split HDD in half, XPPRO on one side, FreeBSD 6.1 on the other side. Only been tweaking with it for a couple of days now. Several issues seem to be on the plate. One is accessing the USB floppy drive. ??? 5 USB ports showing in dmesg, but none actually mount the drive when I attempt mount_msdosfs /dev/ /mnt ?? Very happy otherwise. DSL modem should be coming UPS in the next couple of days. At THAT time, I'm sure I'll have some more questions and comments. Thanks for listening, and any suggestions on the USB floppy drive access. Ciao, Z. Wade Hampton Twin Bridges, Montana ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring DNS (BIND) in isolation
On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: I have a need to make my own DNS system on an isolated network. Years ago, I administered DNS for a couple of different companies, but that was quite a while ago and since I've turned to programming I haven't done much in the way of network administration. I recall from using BIND 4, when I was reading up on it, that it is most certainly possible to configure an entire DNS system on a totally isolated network. Of course; it's possible to do so with BIND-8, too. :-) Would I need zone files for the root, ., zone and any other zones I configure; e.g. isolation.? Yep. This would seem to be the way to go about it, but I'm having some difficulty visualizing it in my head. I just did some searches online for the O'Reilly book DNS BIND. I recall using this book in the past and it was quite helpful (and unfortunately for me, belonged to my former employers). Would this book be a good reference for this task as well, or are there better books that I might want to look into getting for this? Or, are there good on-line resources that could help me muddle through? The O'Reilly DNS BIND book is an excellent reference, and you should certainly pick it up if you're going to be running your own root NS, although it should also be true that you can use the online references such as the BOG (BIND Operations Guide) to accomplish your goal. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring DNS (BIND) in isolation
Andrew Falanga wrote: I have a need to make my own DNS system on an isolated network. Years ago, I administered DNS for a couple of different companies, but that was quite a while ago and since I've turned to programming I haven't done much in the way of network administration. I recall from using BIND 4, when I was reading up on it, that it is most certainly possible to configure an entire DNS system on a totally isolated network. Would I need zone files for the root, ., zone and any other zones I configure; e.g. isolation.? This would seem to be the way to go about it, but I'm having some difficulty visualizing it in my head. I just did some searches online for the O'Reilly book DNS BIND. I recall using this book in the past and it was quite helpful (and unfortunately for me, belonged to my former employers). Would this book be a good reference for this task as well, or are there better books that I might want to look into getting for this? Or, are there good on-line resources that could help me muddle through? You're on the right track. Yes, you'ld need a zone file for the root of your DNS -- if it's all served from one machine then that would replace the 'hint' zone and named.root stuff in the example named.conf The zone file for '.' would contain an SOA record and then delegation for whatever forward and reverse domains you want to use. Eg. supposing you want to use the TLD 'in.isolation' with IP numbers from 192.168.0.0/24 then you'ld need something like: ; ; Root of the private domain name system ; $TTL 604800; 1 week @ IN SOA ns0.in.isolation. hostmaster.in.isolation. ( 2006120100 ; Serial 1800 ; Refresh (30min) 900; Retry (15min) 604800 ; Expire (1week) 86400 ); Minimum (1day) in.isolation.IN NS ns0.in.isolation. 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns0.in.isolation. ns0.in.isolation.IN A 192.168.0.1 ; Glue ; ; That's All Folks! ; Then you'ld need the zone files for 'in.isolation.' and '0.168.192.in-addr.arpa' The O'Reilly book 'DNS Bind' by Ablitz and Liu is well worth obtaining. 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
Re: Moving /var/mail
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:22:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:20:42PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw--- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. You don't want to use the '*' on the receiving directory. If there are no other subdirectories in /home/kellyw then just do this:cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/. This will miss hidden files which a home directory will surely have. Just drop the * to copy everything. If it has subdirectories and you want it to recurse, then do this: cp -R -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw Unfortunately, if there are hard links in that directory, it will also make new copies of those files rather than just making new hard links. The whole point of this is because the original partition was getting too full so unless all links to the file are copied, it will have to make new copies of the files. If there are multiple hard links to the same file that need to be removed, then tar, pax, or cpio should be used. /var/mail probably won't have any nor /home/kellyw unless kellyw specifically set them up with ln. You might want to consider using tar instead of cp if your file structure to be moved are at all complex. cd /home/kellyw tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kelly.tar * * should be . to copy everything cd /usr/kellyw tar xvpf kelly.tar rm kelly.tar cd /home/kellyw pwd(just to be extra careful since rm -rf * is irrevocable) rm -rf * To remove everything you would have to be up one and remove the folder instead. jerry Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ 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] -- Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alzatex.com/ Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 pgpKoiZsGT0Xr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Automount
I've read various documents on amd, but am having issues... My fstab for the drives (there is two drives contained within a Sun StorEdge S1) reads: /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da0s1d /s none rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/da1s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da1s2d /t none rw,noauto 0 0 I've mkdir -p both /s and /t as mount points I've then put the following lines into /etc/amd.map localhost/s type:=program:fs:=/s;\ mount:=/sbin/mount mount /s;\ unmount:=/sbin/umount umount /s localhost/t type:=program:fs:=/t;\ mount:=/sbin/mount mount /t;\ unmount:=/sbin/umount umount /t And finaly I've added the following to ,y /etc/rc.conf portmap_enable=YES amd_enable=YES amd_flags=-a /.amd_mnt -l syslog /host/etc/amd.map when i reboot the server the external drives are not mounted, but I do get a .snap file now in my / if this means anything ? Am I missing a step here, or the point totally ?? Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Davison writes: I've just installed an external SCSI hard drive in the form of a sun StorEdge. All is working well. The StorEdge has two drives called da0 and da1 respectivly. I've put entries into /etc/fstab so that they are mounted on boot as /s and /t. My question is... If I dont have the StorEdge running 24/7 and I reboot the server, the boot process fails when mounting the file systems as /s /t can not be reached. Is there anyway of writing an automount line in fstab that is smart enough to know that if the /s and /t are not reachable then continue with the boot process without stopping. My fstab enty is... /dev/da0s1d /s ufs rw 0 0 I see that the cdrom has the entry /dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Is it simply a case of changing the mount option to rw,noauto ?? To start with, yes. If you don't use noauto, then the disk *has* to be there at boot. You might want to put in some devfs rules to mount the disks when they show up. Or an automounter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automount
After some kind advice from this mail list, im trying to set up an amd automount so that my external hard drive doesnt have to be on all the time for the main server to boot. My fstab for the drives (there is two drives contained within a Sun StorEdge S1) reads: /dev/da0s1bnoneswapsw00 /dev/da0s1d/snonerw,noauto00 /dev/da1s1bnoneswapsw00 /dev/da1s2d/tnonerw,noauto00 I've mkdir -p both /s and /t as mount points I've then put the following lines into /etc/amd.map localhost/stype:=program:fs:=/s;\ mount:=/sbin/mount mount /s;\ unmount:=/sbin/umount umount /s localhost/ttype:=program:fs:=/t;\ mount:=/sbin/mount mount /t;\ unmount:=/sbin/umount umount /t And finaly I've added the following to ,y /etc/rc.conf portmap_enable=YES amd_enable=YES amd_flags=-a /.amd_mnt -l syslog /host/etc/amd.map when i reboot the server the external drives are not mounted. Am I missing a step here, or the point totally ?? - All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Soft Updates Help
I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. This will allow fsck to run in the background to restore the consistency of the file system which is compared against a snapshot of the system. It also increases performance of heavily written file systems by waiting to write the metadata of files and directories until a more opportune time. I have questions about this. When is the snapshot taken, how often, do I have to do it or does a program or kernel do it? If this is a safe way to restore consistency why is it not used on /? If a file system is not heavily written to is it better not to use soft updates? How do I know when the background fsck is finished and if it was successful? Do I have to add anything to enable the backgound fsck? When file systems are mounted dirty and our being used while the backgound fsck is running on the file systems how does it prevent files from being lost? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg: How to change background?
On 11/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can Xorg show another background than grey grid, for example black screen? /usr/ports/graphics/qiv -x image -- Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soft Updates Help
On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. This will allow fsck to run in the background to restore the consistency of the file system which is compared against a snapshot of the system. It also increases performance of heavily written file systems by waiting to write the metadata of files and directories until a more opportune time. I have questions about this. When is the snapshot taken, how often, do I have to do it or does a program or kernel do it? Snapshots are taken via mksnap_ffs; some other tools like fsck or dump also know how to create a snapshot. If this is a safe way to restore consistency why is it not used on /? You could enable softupdates on /, but normally one does not as / does not contain files which are expected to change. If a file system is not heavily written to is it better not to use soft updates? Maybe. I think that softupdates is a win in almost all circumstances from the standpoint of data consistency, short of fully syncronous data metadata updates. How do I know when the background fsck is finished and if it was successful? Check the logfiles. Do I have to add anything to enable the backgound fsck? At one point, there was an option in /etc/rc.conf, but it now defaults to being on: % grep fsck /etc/defaults/rc.conf fsck_y_enable=NO # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails. background_fsck=YES # Attempt to run fsck in the background where possible. background_fsck_delay=60 # Time to wait (seconds) before starting the fsck. When file systems are mounted dirty and our being used while the backgound fsck is running on the file systems how does it prevent files from being lost? The background fsck is only capable of handling innocuous filesystem inconsistencies, and will fail with an error code if it encounters a more significant issue, in which case the system is obligated to perform the traditional fsck in the foreground. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help-me, how to install freebsd in
I am have problem when try install FreeBsd in Notebook Acer Aspire 5003. I'm think that problem is in hard-disk, because it say that geometry is wrong. I am thankful ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soft Updates Help
Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's not the purpose. The purpose is to improve performance by taking advantage of delayed writes much the way an asynchronous filesystem does, while preventing horrendous data corruption by ordering those writes, much the way a journalling filesystem does. The fact that you can generate filesystem snapshots is a side-benefit. The fact that you can use filesystem snapshots to validate the filesystem after it's been mounted is a further side-benefit. If this is a safe way to restore consistency why is it not used on /? Because writes are delayed, it's possible for data to be lost in the event of a crash -- it acts like a database, either the entire transaction is committed or it's rolled back, either way, the data is guaranteed not to be corrupt. Also, on heavily used filesystems, softupdates can lead to the filesystem temporarily having less space available than it really does. I.e. you update /kernel, softupdates completely replaces the file with a new one, but the blocks for the old file haven't been reclaimed yet. For a short period, you might have 1 kernel file, but there's 2x that being allocated for it. For these two reasons, / is traditionally _not_ mounted with softupdates enabled, since it's critical to system startup. If a file system is not heavily written to is it better not to use soft updates? Weigh the good vs. the bad: *) synchronous mounted filesystem is almost guaranteed to keep your data safe at all times, but is abysmally slow. *) softupdates _may_ lose some data if your system crashes before all writes are flushed, but will never _corrupt_ it. Additionally, you get a LOT better speed. *) Asynchronous is a little faster than softupdates, but it's damn near guaranteed to be corrupt in the event of a crash. When file systems are mounted dirty and our being used while the backgound fsck is running on the file systems how does it prevent files from being lost? It doesn't. It guarantees that your filesystem will always be mountable and never corrupt, but it doesn't guarantee against data loss. Here's a simplified example: Let's say you're saving a big file and the power goes out. When the power comes back on, there are basically 3 states that file can be in: A) It was fully written to disk -- you got lucky. B) Nothing had been written to disk yet -- data loss C) It was partially written to disk -- your filesystem is corrupt, you either need to allow a filesystem repair program to fix it (fsck -- or chkdsk on Windows, for example) or you'll have weird problems with it until you do so. Softupdates guarantees against C. It does this by (essentially) writing the file backwards: 1) it writes all the data to data blocks, and once that's done 2) _then_ it creates a directory entry for the file. If the system crashes between #1 and #2, it looks like B happened, but you never get in scenario C where the filesystem is corrupt and gets more corrupt as you continue to use it. Instead, when fsck runs (in the background) it realizes that there are data blocks in use that don't belong to any file, and it can free them up for the filesystem to use. That's somewhat simplified, but it gives you the basic idea. HTH Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soft Updates Help
Chuck Swiger wrote the following on 12/1/2006 4:25 PM: On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. This will allow fsck to run in the background to restore the consistency of the file system which is compared against a snapshot of the system. It also increases performance of heavily written file systems by waiting to write the metadata of files and directories until a more opportune time. I have questions about this. When is the snapshot taken, how often, do I have to do it or does a program or kernel do it? Snapshots are taken via mksnap_ffs; some other tools like fsck or dump also know how to create a snapshot. If this is a safe way to restore consistency why is it not used on /? You could enable softupdates on /, but normally one does not as / does not contain files which are expected to change. If a file system is not heavily written to is it better not to use soft updates? Maybe. I think that softupdates is a win in almost all circumstances from the standpoint of data consistency, short of fully syncronous data metadata updates. How do I know when the background fsck is finished and if it was successful? Check the logfiles. Do I have to add anything to enable the backgound fsck? At one point, there was an option in /etc/rc.conf, but it now defaults to being on: % grep fsck /etc/defaults/rc.conf fsck_y_enable=NO # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails. background_fsck=YES # Attempt to run fsck in the background where possible. background_fsck_delay=60 # Time to wait (seconds) before starting the fsck. When file systems are mounted dirty and our being used while the backgound fsck is running on the file systems how does it prevent files from being lost? The background fsck is only capable of handling innocuous filesystem inconsistencies, and will fail with an error code if it encounters a more significant issue, in which case the system is obligated to perform the traditional fsck in the foreground. ---Chuck Thank you for your knowledge on this issue. I have a few questions that I need your help to clarify. Snapshots are taken via mksnap_ffs; some other tools like fsck or dump also know how to create a snapshot. OK, so if I understand this correctly I do not have to initially take a snapshot and update this snapshot manually. The files system with soft updates does it correct? Maybe. I think that softupdates is a win in almost all circumstances from the standpoint of data consistency, short of fully syncronous data metadata updates. On this issue, if I do not have soft updates on does that make it a fully synchronous file system? If the background fsck can't handle the inconsistencies it will report this in the /var/log/messages correct? Then is the file system unmounted because of the inconsistency to prevent data loss, so I can run a manual fsck or does it stay mounted? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soft Updates Help
On Dec 1, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Thank you for your knowledge on this issue. I have a few questions that I need your help to clarify. You are welcome, although knowledge can be a tricky thing. :-) Snapshots are taken via mksnap_ffs; some other tools like fsck or dump also know how to create a snapshot. OK, so if I understand this correctly I do not have to initially take a snapshot and update this snapshot manually. The files system with soft updates does it correct? If the system is rebooted with a filesystem which is marked unclean, and if soft updates is enabled, then yes, the background fsck process will create a snapshot automatically, and not need manual intervention. Maybe. I think that softupdates is a win in almost all circumstances from the standpoint of data consistency, short of fully syncronous data metadata updates. On this issue, if I do not have soft updates on does that make it a fully synchronous file system? No. Take a look at the manpage for mount, in particular the section on -o which discusses async, sync, and noasync. The latter is the default: noasync Metadata I/O should be done synchronously, while data I/O should be done asynchronously. This is the default. If the background fsck can't handle the inconsistencies it will report this in the /var/log/messages correct? Then is the file system unmounted because of the inconsistency to prevent data loss, so I can run a manual fsck or does it stay mounted? It should fall back to running a foreground fsck instead, which might indeed require manual intervention, I believe. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stop a freebsd server from responding to pinging?
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Wasp King wrote: 1. How do I stop others from port scanning a server? Marcus Ranum suggests using wirecutters on the ethernet cable. If the server is internet-reachable, then it can be port-scanned. Less drastic measures than removing it from the network entirely would including configuring a firewall to block all ports except those absolutely required for the necessary functions which the machine needs to perform, and hardening the OS to reduce the potential exposure. 2. is stopping the response to pinging enough? No. 3. how to do I stop the server from responding to pinging? Use a firewall like ipfw or ipf to block ICMP traffic types 0 8: ipfw add 1 deny icmp from any to any icmptype 0,8 I find it a tad ironic that someone running FBSD 4.2 is worried about getting port scanned.or maybe that's why he is worried, since the laundry list of exploits and holes against a box running something that old and unsupported is fearsome. It does make his machine a bit more obscure and harder to find, but that's nothing a little nmap / snort / tcpdump doesn't cure by making your traffic or ports in use visible. Plus, if someone knows you exist, preventing ICMP ping to your host won't prevent much of anything.. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soft Updates Help
Bill Moran wrote: Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's not the purpose. The purpose is to improve performance by taking advantage of delayed writes much the way an asynchronous filesystem does, while preventing horrendous data corruption by ordering those writes, much the way a journalling filesystem does. The fact that you can generate filesystem snapshots is a side-benefit. The fact that you can use filesystem snapshots to validate the filesystem after it's been mounted is a further side-benefit. If this is a safe way to restore consistency why is it not used on /? Because writes are delayed, it's possible for data to be lost in the event of a crash -- it acts like a database, either the entire transaction is committed or it's rolled back, either way, the data is guaranteed not to be corrupt. Also, on heavily used filesystems, softupdates can lead to the filesystem temporarily having less space available than it really does. I.e. you update /kernel, softupdates completely replaces the file with a new one, but the blocks for the old file haven't been reclaimed yet. For a short period, you might have 1 kernel file, but there's 2x that being allocated for it. For these two reasons, / is traditionally _not_ mounted with softupdates enabled, since it's critical to system startup. If a file system is not heavily written to is it better not to use soft updates? Weigh the good vs. the bad: *) synchronous mounted filesystem is almost guaranteed to keep your data safe at all times, but is abysmally slow. *) softupdates _may_ lose some data if your system crashes before all writes are flushed, but will never _corrupt_ it. Additionally, you get a LOT better speed. *) Asynchronous is a little faster than softupdates, but it's damn near guaranteed to be corrupt in the event of a crash. When file systems are mounted dirty and our being used while the backgound fsck is running on the file systems how does it prevent files from being lost? It doesn't. It guarantees that your filesystem will always be mountable and never corrupt, but it doesn't guarantee against data loss. Here's a simplified example: Let's say you're saving a big file and the power goes out. When the power comes back on, there are basically 3 states that file can be in: A) It was fully written to disk -- you got lucky. B) Nothing had been written to disk yet -- data loss C) It was partially written to disk -- your filesystem is corrupt, you either need to allow a filesystem repair program to fix it (fsck -- or chkdsk on Windows, for example) or you'll have weird problems with it until you do so. Softupdates guarantees against C. It does this by (essentially) writing the file backwards: 1) it writes all the data to data blocks, and once that's done 2) _then_ it creates a directory entry for the file. If the system crashes between #1 and #2, it looks like B happened, but you never get in scenario C where the filesystem is corrupt and gets more corrupt as you continue to use it. Instead, when fsck runs (in the background) it realizes that there are data blocks in use that don't belong to any file, and it can free them up for the filesystem to use. That's somewhat simplified, but it gives you the basic idea. HTH Bill Just for future reference, a more brief-although not complete-explanation of softupdates can be found on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softupdates. The article does link some other documents which discuss softupdates in more detail though. From what I skimmed it appears that the documents describe softupdates as a system, but perhaps not all of the features that you are looking for (asynchronous softupdating, for instance). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SYMLINK
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source world. Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do an ls -l you should see something like lrwxr--r-- 1 uid gid mar 3 2006 link - /home/user/destination ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freebsd Fail to boot
Hi, I have freebsd 6.1 and 6.2 RC1 and i trying to install to my desktop computer using old motherboard ASUS P4S533 but everytime install is finish and trying to boot from HD its make my coumputer reboot and reboot again seems something wrong with boot loader, is there something i can do to make it work ? regards Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Data Recovery
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:29:39AM -0800, Rachel Florentine wrote: Is there a data recovery utility anywhere available? Not one that loads into Windoze, but straight into FBSD. maybe ports/sysutils/sleuthkit is what you need? -- Best regards, Kirill Spitsin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Problem
77- Original Message From: Tom McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just install from the FreeBSD ports tree. cd /usr/ports/net/py-ldap2 make install clean Thanks, Rachel Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with script execution SOLVED!
On Friday 01 December 2006 1:03 am, Christian Walther wrote: Try adding #!/bin/sh as the first new line of your script. Roughly speaking: This makes the system use /bin/sh as the shell that executes the script. Specifying a PATH inside the script might help, too. Scripts have a very small environment set by default, so your PATH might be just something like /bin:/usr/bin. If sudo is in /usr/local/bin it won't work. Thank you! That was it. Ray ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help-me, how to install freebsd in
On Saturday 02 December 2006 06:10, João Batista da Silva Filho wrote: I am have problem when try install FreeBsd in Notebook Acer Aspire 5003. I'm think that problem is in hard-disk, because it say that geometry is wrong. I am thankful I guess that this error can usually be ignored. :) -- Regards, Amit. http://copperskullcprogramming.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
