Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups
i'm doing this with my notebook. Great. What kind of drive? And have you actually had to do a restore? some used 80GB 3.5 drive (Seagate) + noname USB-IDE jack (true noname, nothing written on it). the latter costed 6$ new, including disk power supply. works very well. i don't make any partitions on it, just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=1 to clear things up newfs -m 0 -O1 -i 16384 -b 4096 -f 512 -U /dev/da0 options for max of space, not performance, as i backup 120GB notebook drive. then to make a copy i do: mount -o noatime /dev/da0 /root/copy cd /root/copy rsync -avrlHpogDtS --delete --force --exclude-from=/root/copy.exclude / . umount /root/copy my copy.exclude file looks like that (change to your needs: /OLD /root/copy/* /dev/* /usr/ports /proc/* swap /tmp/* /var/tmp/* /usr/compat/linux/proc/* /usr/obj the /OLD file are on copy drive, not master, just to be able to have many generations done by cp -lpR after copying first time you have to bsdlabel -B da0 WARNING: when booting from copy, get to single user and fix fstab to have /dev/da0 as root. other remarks: keep the copy plugged only when copying, then store in safe place :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var or /usr for data?
It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. my favourite proper allocation is to make ONE partition (/) and nothing more. and forget all problems about how to partition your drive right... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memcached Daemon Startup Issues
Peter Pluta wrote: I installed memcached and since it doesn't have a config file I entered the flags into rc.conf, but when I start it with the rc.d scripts, it always runs as nobody, instead of the user I specified with -u user. The man page says only when run as root. This confuses me somewhat because i'm executing the rc.d script as root, yet it still starts as nobody. I can manually start memcached with memcached -u memcached -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -m 32 -P /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid. /etc/rc.conf bit: memcached_enable=YES memcached_flags='-u memcached -d -l 127.0.0.1 -m 32 -P /var/run/memcached.pid -p 1121' Any ideas? Nvm, I had to take a look at the rc script to see that there was another directive (memcached_user=) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Memcached-Daemon-Startup-Issues-tf4321717.html#a12307237 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: load script at bootup
Hello, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:59:37 -0500, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:48 PM 8/23/2007, Narek Gharibyan wrote: #!/bin/sh Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 /root/stat date /root/stat echo === /root/stat I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a group the stat file). 1. how can I run this at startup Add your script to root's crontab. do a man on crontab for the exact syntax, but you can have it run @reboot then an interval. I also have a script that I want to start at boot time and I simply symlinked it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ It starts fine but now I wonder if maybe this is not the proper way to start up scripts? -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.lcwords.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ip address location database
David Banning skrev: I am looking towards setting up something which will let me know what part of the world a specific ip address is from. Maybe this helps http://blackholes.us/zones/countries/ It's a textfile for each country. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memcached Daemon Startup Issues
Peter Pluta wrote: Peter Pluta wrote: I installed memcached and since it doesn't have a config file I entered the flags into rc.conf, but when I start it with the rc.d scripts, it always runs as nobody, instead of the user I specified with -u user. The man page says only when run as root. This confuses me somewhat because i'm executing the rc.d script as root, yet it still starts as nobody. I can manually start memcached with memcached -u memcached -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -m 32 -P /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid. /etc/rc.conf bit: memcached_enable=YES memcached_flags='-u memcached -d -l 127.0.0.1 -m 32 -P /var/run/memcached.pid -p 1121' Nvm, I had to take a look at the rc script to see that there was another directive (memcached_user=) This is because memcached_user is checked by it's rc.d script and defaults to nobody. Thus, when memcached is started from the script, without memcached_user set, it will be run as nobody, not as root, and it won't be able to switch to another user by itself. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS?
Dear mailing list, The other day I encountered a strange phenomena. Having run FreeBSD since 3.x I have never had a server crash on me until now. I completely blame the FreeBSD developers for spoiling me like that. Now, when I get spoiled, it's hard to go back so when my webserver tried to handle a 7Mb JPG using ImageMagick and managed to crash the server I naturally got curious. Turns out ImageMagick was called through php to resize the .JPG and most likely, the server runs out of memory/disk space. /var/tmp fills up and console spews as follows: Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28 Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 32768 at 62620 Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: pid 29 (syncer), uid 0 inumber 49382 on /var: filesystem full Server drops net and does not respond to keyboard input, not even on console. Now, I realize that changing settings for ImageMagick and having a bigger /var disk and using a smaller .JPG of course would avoid the crash. But, I still am somewhat kerfuffled about the fact that it brings my favourite operating system to its knees I'd want FreeBSD to intercept and log the error, the application should in my world be contained by the operating system and never ever be allowed to crash it. As the old saying was once - an operating system should emulate crashes, not crash while emulating. I know, I know, you can't stop applications from doing whatever crazy stuff they do and some might even crash the OS as it appears. Luckily there's 3 versions of the OS inbetween the crashes though ;^) Just thought I'd share this with the list. Greetings from Sweden /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ip address location database
David Banning skrev: I am looking towards setting up something which will let me know what part of the world a specific ip address is from. Why are you spamming people with that C/R crap of your's? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS?
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:29:59 +0200
Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Turns out ImageMagick was called through php to resize the .JPG and most
likely, the server runs out of memory/disk space. /var/tmp fills up and
console spews as follows:
Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28
Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 32768
at 62620
Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: pid 29 (syncer), uid 0 inumber 49382 on
/var: filesystem full
:) having been bitten by that in several unix-like OS (pick any Linux distro,
and freebsd too), i just remove /var/tmp and make a smylink to /tmp , which is
big enough for my foreseeable needs. I like to keep my /var clean of tmp
rubbish.
and yes, configuring PHP and it's libraries helps too :)
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Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
[EMAIL PROTECTED], the prominent pundit, on Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 23:19 while half mumbling, half-witicized: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:43:46 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and explicitly the case that one does not need to be subscribed to post here. This is because it is the main support forum for FreeBSD, and much documentation exists directing people to ask their questions here. This does, in fact, open up a distinct possibility for list subscribers who want to stop their address being harvested. Subscribe to the list with one email address such that one receives the list emails but post to the list with a different address. Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that the list maintainers do double the work so that you don't have to bother with spam filtering. Seems rather self-centered to me. This is the internet. Spam is endemic. Short of encasing your computer in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even if you never post to a mailing list**. Either learn to deal with it or stop subscribing to lists. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ I've had four email addresses. [EMAIL PROTECTED] from about 1984 to late 1980s. We then set up a group of Unix users - with 3 major nodes [including mine] feeding Orlando, and then it was [EMAIL PROTECTED] For awhile it was [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I finally snagged a 3 letter domain, so I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see about 5-10 [maxium] emails that are spam in my normal mailbox. I use spamassassin, and I drop a lot into a a mailbox called 'almost-certainly-spam'. I just checked and as of this moment Fri Aug 24 06:23:47 EDT 2007, I have 381 messages there dated August 23 and August 24. I don't know when the last time an important message got into that file. If you don't like spam, put in a decent spam filter, as someone somewhere is going to get your address, whether it is from this list or somewhere else. And this thread on spam is quite useless IMO on this list - unless you need hints/help on how to filter spam. [Do a search on Google and you'll see posts from me to Usenet dating back to the mid-1980s.] Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Test on FreeBSD site
In response to NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aloha, How long does it take for a test to be accepted or rejected on the FreeBSD test mail box? Is three minutes normal for a test to pop up? I had some FreeBSD 7 config issues and this nearly caused me to think I hadn't cleared the problem because it took quite a while to pop up. It depends on how busy the server is at the time you send it, among other factors. I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. In this day and age, with the spam scourge and all the alleged solutions that everyone's mail servers use, anything less than 10 minutes for a delivery should be considered successful. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade and make options
Thanks a lot. By the way, will it attempt to use -j4 for make install? --- Fatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael S wrote: Good day all, I was wondering how to pass options from portupgrade to make. Say I wanted use -j4 for max. number of jobs. Where should I specify that? When building world it's possible to be done from the command line: make -j4 buildworld. Also is athlon the correct CPUTYPE for AMD Sempron 3400? Thanks in advance, Michael Hi Michael, The portupgrade system will honour any variables in /etc/make.conf. So if you want -j4 every make, just enter the line: MAKEOPTS=-j4 in /etc/make.conf. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ 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: portupgrade and make options
Fatman writes: The portupgrade system will honour any variables in /etc/make.conf. So will every other port (as well as any attempts to rebuild the OS) whether this is desirable behavior or not. Putting settings in make.conf is a club; seek instead for a scalpel. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome issues
Good day all, I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home) wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the window manager got corrupted by that improper shutdown. Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to rectify this? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade and make options
Michael S wrote: Good day all, I was wondering how to pass options from portupgrade to make. Say I wanted use -j4 for max. number of jobs. Where should I specify that? When building world it's possible to be done from the command line: make -j4 buildworld. Also is athlon the correct CPUTYPE for AMD Sempron 3400? Thanks in advance, Michael Hi Michael, The portupgrade system will honour any variables in /etc/make.conf. So if you want -j4 every make, just enter the line: MAKEOPTS=-j4 in /etc/make.conf. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl configuration question
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:40:32 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install WebGUI on a FreeBSD system for my church. WebGUI uses PERL for its operation. The program has a test environment perl script that it tries to run to make sure the environment can run WebGUI. On a couple of the perl modules it tries to install, it bails saying that make is no good. I'm guessing this is because perl is expecting GNU make not BSD make, and since it's looks for /usr/bin/make, I'm sure it's getting the wrong version. I'm pretty much a perl neophyte, having written only one perl script in my life and that was so pitifully little that it really wasn't worthy of being called a script; I do not know how to fix this. How does one fix the configuration of perl (if this is even the problem, I'm going to try and see if this is something WebGUI is trying to use). Hello Andrew, This application needs good Porting. Unfortunatelly, many applications advertise themselves like Runs on Linux/BSD/Solaris/AIX/. while taking zero or close to zero care of anything but Linux. This is visible in the fact that WebGUI sctipts do no inspection regarding available make versions and for example in their assuming that bash surely lives in /bin. Here are several notes on what you can do: (1) you have to manually replace all occurences of 'make' with 'gmake', at least in build.sh. If the script itself fails, run it manually with /usr/local/bin/bash or change bash path(s); (2) please note that build.sh with no arguments will actually build not just Perl, but Apache, ImageMagick, AwStats, several Perl modules, MySQL and many other things as well, which doesn't make much sense. It seems that you have to run it with # /usr/local/bin/bash build.sh --wre with all prerequisites (you must gather them by hand from the installation scripts) previously installed from ports. But it's very likely that the script will not find all it needs itself and that you must help it manually. A short inspection shows that you need databases/memcached graphics/ImageMagick databases/mysql... www/apache... www/awstats www/mod_perl ftp/lftp and many more, including a huge number of Perl modules. Some of these apps maybe have to be built with special options. Any you still have to take care about paths the scripts use after the installation in order to get WebGUI fully working. (3) Maybe you should consider using another CMS software, there is a lot of choice, including Perl-based if you prefer that. The most important thing is that they are truly ported, so you have just to type 'make install' to get running (and optimised) FreeBSD version. Nikola Lečić ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[multiple NIC issue] two NICs in the same subnet problem.
Hi, I found an issue for a long time. For test requirement without any switch/hub: One host has two NICs and with the same subnet setting. (local)NIC1: 10.0.0.1/8 (local)NIC2: 10.0.0.2/8 (direct connect peer) 10.0.0.10/8 (direct connect peer) 10.0.0.20/8 ping command: #ping 10.0.0.10 -c 5 -S 10.0.0.1 In Linux, while I assign source interface and IP address, ex. ping 10.0.0.10 -I eth0 ..packet will be sent by NIC1 ping 10.0.0.20 -I eth1 ..packet will be sent by NIC2 In BSD, while I assign source interface/IP address, packet always be sent by NIC1. The NIC2 looks like dead. Until I set #ifconfig eth0 down and NIC2 would be got up. So the ping command parameter -S would be broke down in this case. The packets format maybe is correct but NIC2 couldn't work. If this is NOT a BUG, please tell me BSD is followed which standard? Or what the purpose of BSD to define this behavior? Thanks Regards Myron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl configuration question
On 8/23/07, Foo JH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried simply installed Perl from the packages in the FreeBSD install CD? Yes, I installed perl from ports. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade and make options
Michael S wrote: Thanks a lot. By the way, will it attempt to use -j4 for make install? Should do, yes. Robert Huff is correct when he says this will affect everything using make. I can't think why that would be inappropriate, but no doubt Robert has some scenarios in mind. I'm too unsophisticated for the 'scalpel' approach. I still wield 'Club of Noobiness +3'. :P HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl configuration question
On 8/24/07, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:40:32 -0600 (3) Maybe you should consider using another CMS software, there is a lot of choice, including Perl-based if you prefer that. The most important thing is that they are truly ported, so you have just to type 'make install' to get running (and optimised) FreeBSD version. Thank you for the great notes! I'm not necessarily hung up on WebGUI. That was a flashy system that appealed to others in the church and was just their first choice. I do not believe they would be of the mind set WebGUI or nothing! so what other choices are there? Your point above makes me think there are ported CMS packages within the ports collection? Is this true? If so, are they comparable to WebGUI in capability? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade and make options
Roland Smith wrote:
Fortunately, there is a way to turn the axe into a scalpel. :-)
You can put stuff in make.conf so that it will only affect the ports
you want. Like this;
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/mplayer}
WITH_DVD_DEVICE=/dev/cd1
WITH_CDROM_DEVICE=/dev/cd1
.endif
If the directory where make is invoked from ends in /multimedia/mplayer,
the variables inside the if-block will be set.
This works well because every update utility in the end invokes make to
build the port.
Roland
Ahh, so that's what that is. I've seen that kind of thing in my
make.conf after installing ccache. Or is it distcc? I think it's ccache.
Adam J Richardson
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Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
--On August 24, 2007 8:32:01 AM -0500 Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. TIA for any help! What is it that you want to do? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
Hey, Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. TIA for any help! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade and make options
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:04:16PM +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote:
Michael S wrote:
Thanks a lot.
By the way, will it attempt to use -j4 for make
install?
Should do, yes. Robert Huff is correct when he says this will affect
everything using make. I can't think why that would be inappropriate, but
no doubt Robert has some scenarios in mind.
I'm too unsophisticated for the 'scalpel' approach. I still wield 'Club of
Noobiness +3'. :P
Fortunately, there is a way to turn the axe into a scalpel. :-)
You can put stuff in make.conf so that it will only affect the ports
you want. Like this;
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/mplayer}
WITH_DVD_DEVICE=/dev/cd1
WITH_CDROM_DEVICE=/dev/cd1
.endif
If the directory where make is invoked from ends in /multimedia/mplayer,
the variables inside the if-block will be set.
This works well because every update utility in the end invokes make to
build the port.
Roland
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Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
Eric why not stick with an MTA you know? -- martin On 8/24/07, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. TIA for any help! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ 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: perl configuration question
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:10:15 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/24/07, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:40:32 -0600 (3) Maybe you should consider using another CMS software, there is a lot of choice, including Perl-based if you prefer that. The most important thing is that they are truly ported, so you have just to type 'make install' to get running (and optimised) FreeBSD version. Thank you for the great notes! I'm not necessarily hung up on WebGUI. I thought that you maybe already had a WebGUI content and that you now want to switch to FreeBSD server. Again, you can try to make WebGUI working; but build WebGUI only (with --wre), not other things, including Perl. Build them from their FreeBSD ports and link WebGUI scripts with them. That was a flashy system that appealed to others in the church and was just their first choice. I do not believe they would be of the mind set WebGUI or nothing! so what other choices are there? Your point above makes me think there are ported CMS packages within the ports collection? Is this true? If so, are they comparable to WebGUI in capability? Of course, there are many of them, they are inside www (www/plone, www/joomla, www/tikiwiki...). I recommend you to start a new thread about CMS ideas, this will pass unnoticed under current subject. Write exactly what features/capabilities you need (Perl-based? wiki-like? ...), and people with experience with them will answer (I have never used any, except little TikiWiki, long ago). Nikola Lečić ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
On August 24, 2007 at 09:32AM Eric Crist wrote: Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. Define funky! Before you start asking questions regarding configuring Postfix, it might behoove you to check out the Postfix documentation site http://www.postfix.com/documentation.html. It is loaded with lots of useful information. You might also consider joining the Postfix mailing list. -- Gerard A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? TOPIC: Posting Etiquette ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Unless the two machines have identical CPUs with identical capabilities, this will likely end in failure. Operating systems aren't happy having their CPUs switch capabilities or instruction sets between one cycle and the next. I hadn't considered that. I assumed VMware virtualised the CPU, so that hot-swapping would be possible without a panic. You mean it allows direct access to the CPU? builder# dmesg | head | grep CPU: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (2008.36-MHz 686-c So it does. Didn't notice that. Oh well, I can just start the VM on the slower machine. :) Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:05 AMAug 24, 2007, Gerard wrote: On August 24, 2007 at 09:32AM Eric Crist wrote: Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. Define funky! Before you start asking questions regarding configuring Postfix, it might behoove you to check out the Postfix documentation site http://www.postfix.com/documentation.html. It is loaded with lots of useful information. You might also consider joining the Postfix mailing list. This is also a reply to Paul Schmehl. I've got Postfix with Dovecot and virtual users setup. What I'm looking for is some filtering based on the flags SpamAssassin sets, so that I can route any messages tagged as Spam to a Spam directory with a users maildir. I've done a ton of searches, etc, and I can't seem to figure this one out. Also, I'm having a hard time (partially due to lack of effort, I'm guessing), getting DKIM/DomainKeys setup for my domains within Postfix. TIA - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome issues
At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home) wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the window manager got corrupted by that improper shutdown. Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to rectify this? Thanks in advance, Michael Sounds like your drive may be having issues. I would reboot in single user mode and fsck the drive. You may also want to try the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:46 AMAug 24, 2007, Martin Hepworth wrote: Eric why not stick with an MTA you know? Martin, I've switched to postfix due to some of the features it supports. Thanks for your concern, though. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
Eric Crist wrote: This is also a reply to Paul Schmehl. I've got Postfix with Dovecot and virtual users setup. What I'm looking for is some filtering based on the flags SpamAssassin sets, so that I can route any messages tagged as Spam to a Spam directory with a users maildir. I've done a ton of searches, etc, and I can't seem to figure this one out. Also, I'm having a hard time (partially due to lack of effort, I'm guessing), getting DKIM/DomainKeys setup for my domains within Postfix. Same setup here basically: Dovecot, Postfix, SA, clamav, postgrey and amavisd i use procmail to filter things. it works well and was easy to integrate. I never played with DKIM though. I must say that most of the spam that does come in I never see in a spam folder. its too high on the scores to even get delivered if you havent played with postgrey yet, give it a whirl. it works wonders. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: harassed by mplayer on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
On Friday 24 August 2007 15:33:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everybody...I've downloaded mplayer but there is not a graphical interface... and how do I configure it? I have used it in Linux and I know that in Linux, to have a graphical interface, one has to specify that during configure, before compiling. The command for the graphical interface is gmplayer. Try that and see if you already have the gui installed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
harassed by mplayer on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
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Re: load script at bootup
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I also have a script that I want to start at boot time and I simply symlinked it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ It starts fine but now I wonder if maybe this is not the proper way to start up scripts? I don't think there's anything wrong with that solution, and I myself prefer it. (I symlink from a CVSed area). rc.d is very flexible and everything that happens at boot time is all in one (or two :-)) places. And you can run something every time the machine is shut down as well as when it's rebooted. Can't do that with cron :-) £0.02 --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: harassed by mplayer on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:33:19PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, everybody...I've downloaded mplayer but there is not a graphical
interface... and how do I configure it?
It is configured in the default build. It is called 'gmplayer'. But you
might want to try building mplayer locally, so you can make a better
choice wrt the codecs you want. E.g, in the default build, the H.264
codec is not enabled. Neither are the esound or arts sound
systems.
Add your choice of dvd devices to /etc/make.conf;
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/mplayer}
WITH_DVD_DEVICE=/dev/cd1
WITH_CDROM_DEVICE=/dev/cd1
.endif
Deinstall the package, then go to /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer,
and issue 'make config' and then 'make install clean' as root.
Roland
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Re[2]: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
On August 24, 2007 at 10:34AM Eric Crist wrote:
{snip]
I've got Postfix with Dovecot and virtual users setup. What I'm
looking for is some filtering based on the flags SpamAssassin sets,
so that I can route any messages tagged as Spam to a Spam directory
with a users maildir. I've done a ton of searches, etc, and I can't
seem to figure this one out. Also, I'm having a hard time (partially
due to lack of effort, I'm guessing), getting DKIM/DomainKeys setup
for my domains within Postfix.
Have you tried posting on the 'Spamassassin' list also? That is
probably where this message belongs. The DKIM problem should be
directed to the Postfix forum for best results.
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Gerard
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Re: Test on FreeBSD site
Bill Moran wrote: I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. They do. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
--On Friday, August 24, 2007 09:46:32 -0500 Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Crist wrote: This is also a reply to Paul Schmehl. I've got Postfix with Dovecot and virtual users setup. What I'm looking for is some filtering based on the flags SpamAssassin sets, so that I can route any messages tagged as Spam to a Spam directory with a users maildir. I've done a ton of searches, etc, and I can't seem to figure this one out. Also, I'm having a hard time (partially due to lack of effort, I'm guessing), getting DKIM/DomainKeys setup for my domains within Postfix. Same setup here basically: Dovecot, Postfix, SA, clamav, postgrey and amavisd i use procmail to filter things. it works well and was easy to integrate. I never played with DKIM though. I must say that most of the spam that does come in I never see in a spam folder. its too high on the scores to even get delivered if you havent played with postgrey yet, give it a whirl. it works wonders. You may also want to consider using policyd-weight (/usr/ports/mail/postfix-policyd-weight). A mail server I maintain is rejecting about 80% of the mail through policyd-weight before it ever reaches postfix (no false positives.) You should be able to use dkfilter to handle domain keys: /usr/ports]# make search name=dkfilter Port: dkfilter-0.11 Path: /usr/ports/mail/dkfilter Info: Domainkeys filter for Postfix -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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]
Laptop compat : dell vostro 1700
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Re: Gnome issues
Thanks Derek, I'll scan the drive using both methods, as soon as I get back home. --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home) wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the window manager got corrupted by that improper shutdown. Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to rectify this? Thanks in advance, Michael Sounds like your drive may be having issues. I would reboot in single user mode and fsck the drive. You may also want to try the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation Disc Won't Boot
Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Larry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome issues
Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home) wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the window manager got corrupted by that improper shutdown. Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to rectify this? Thanks in advance, Michael Sounds like your drive may be having issues. I would reboot in single user mode and fsck the drive. You may also want to try the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility. -Derek I always shutdown computer using Gnome menu. Never had that issue. I am clueless why is that happening to you. I think Derek gave you a good idea. Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: harassed by mplayer on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everybody...I've downloaded mplayer but there is not a graphical interface... and how do I configure it? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you mean there is no graphical interface? When you type gmplayer what do you get? I get graphical interface. For the list of the commands from the command line just type mplayer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? Larry, Is there any error message, such as Read Error: 0x..., Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor? Nikola Lečić ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome issues
It definitely is not a new drive, but after shutting down with shutdown -p it never happened. I'll see what happens later today. --- Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home) wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the window manager got corrupted by that improper shutdown. Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to rectify this? Thanks in advance, Michael Sounds like your drive may be having issues. I would reboot in single user mode and fsck the drive. You may also want to try the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility. -Derek I always shutdown computer using Gnome menu. Never had that issue. I am clueless why is that happening to you. I think Derek gave you a good idea. Predrag ___ 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: Installation Disc Won't Boot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? Hi Larry. Could it be the quality of the media you're burning to? I don't know if it's still a problem, but it used to be. These days I always make sure to burn to Verbatim discs, as I've heard many good reports of their manufacturing process as compared to others. It could be that you've just got a bad batch of discs. Here's another thought, why not try making a copy of your FreeBSD 5.4 install disc? That should indicate whether the fault appears at download time or burn time. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
On Friday 24 August 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: On Thursday, August 23, 2007 22:37:53 +0100 dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that the list maintainers do double the work so that you don't have to bother with spam filtering. How does this equate to double the work for the list maintainers? I've never operated a mailing list so I don't understand what work is involved in operating one or how that workload might be increased if some people post with one name while having the automated system mail out to a different, subscribed address Most modern mailing list software tests addresses periodically, automatically to make sure they are accepting mail. Some have suggested solving the spam problem by using throwaway addresses to send email to the list **even if the address doesn't work**. Now the maintainers have to maintain a separate list of exemptions and configure separate options so that those throwaway addresses aren't dropped from the list automatically after the requisite number of bounces. And endure the endless bounce notifications from hundreds of thoughtless people. You're looking at it the from the wrong perspective. From what you say above, so long as the posting address is valid and accepts mail either correctly or dumps it to /dev/nul then if I choose use two separate email addresses the only people affected are those who try to reply directly to said posting address, ie, on the whole, spammers. Seems rather self-centered to me. In what way? You have a problem. You want someone else to help you solve it by creating more work for them so that you'll have less work to do. No, actually I don't have a problem. I was making a suggestion which might be useful to the original poster. Even it it was my problem, I don't see how doing as I've outlined above would create more work for anyone. This is the internet. Spam is endemic. So rather than look for multiple methods to reduce the amount of incoming to *my* address I should just accept it all and filter it locally? Absolutely. It isn't the responsibility of the rest of the world to solve your problem. splendid isolation. I wonder where FreeBSD would be today if all the developers and users took that attitude. That seems rather irresponsible to me, ANy method which can help stop it source appeaers on the face of it to be a better solution. Of course it does, because it requires no work on your part. It's always better if you can get someone else to expend energy on your behalf while you sit back and reap the benefits. That's why unthinking people love socialism. Or maybe it how unthinking people think socialism works. What you just described is exactly how capitalism works. Short of encasing your computer in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even if you never post to a mailing list**. Either learn to deal with it or stop subscribing to lists. I'm sure that attitude will appear welcoming to new users. Gee, I'm sorry I hurt someone's feelings by suggesting they take responsibility for their own problems. Let me get down on my knees and beg forgiveness. Not at all. Your perspective is interesting. As is that of others who have posted to this thread. I subscribe to more than 50 lists. You have no idea what a pleasure it is to read, over and over again, about other people's problems with spam. It's useless chatter that solves nothing and makes the list less valuable. (And yes, you do enough of it, and I'll /dev/null your address and never hear from you again.) If people took a few minutes to figure out how to rid themselves of the spam, they'd accomplish more than all the endless discussions about how to solve an unsolveable problem. I think we'll just have to agree to differ on this. it's way OT for here now so I won't be making any more posts on this subject. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var or /usr for data?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:19:43AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. my favourite proper allocation is to make ONE partition (/) and nothing more. and forget all problems about how to partition your drive right... That works for some situations. But, there are protections, conveniences and backup efficiencies that thoughtful partitioning provide that all-in-one doesn't. jerry ___ 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: Installation Disc Won't Boot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? Could be that you are burning the file as a real file on a disk instead of burning it as an image? You need to select the option from your program that is similar to create cd from iso image 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) No. Instead you should check the file you already downloaded 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? Not really, no 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? Yes. From the site you downloaded the iso files, download the CHECKSUM files as well. There are two of them, CHEKSUM.md5 and CHECKSUM.SHA256 One would be enough to validate your download. For example look at the CHECKSUM.md5 file: For disk1, the checksum is: MD5 (6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 3d27214700687c0b5390e8b6dd3706e3 you can validate this with the md5 command from FreeBSD, or if you don't wish to reboot from win98, here is and md5 command for windows: http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/md5.zip use something like: md5 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and compare the output to the one on the file. BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. I've bought stuff from them: copies of the handbook, tshirts, sticker, beastie dolls :) Good service. Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Larry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best of luck, Manolis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot
On 8/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Larry Do you have a Promise controller? I have to disable my onboard Promise so that I can boot from a FreeBSD CD My Promise: atapci0: Promise PDC20319 SATA150 controller port 0xb000-0xb03f,0xb400-0xb40f,0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xfc024000-0xfc024fff,0xfc00-0xfc01 irq 23 at device 4.0 on pci4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x010400 card=0x80f51043 chip=0x3319105a rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' device = 'PDC20319(??) FastTrak SATA150 TX4 Controller' class = mass storage subclass = RAID -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)
Hello, I have a Dell 2950 where my 7-CURRENT amd64 FreeBSD does not see all visible memory. It has 4 GB of physical RAM. dmesg on boot includes: usable memory = 4280811520 (4082 MB) avail memory = 4117716992 (3926 MB) Yet summing memories visible in top yields ~ 2100 MB. Of note is that I have 6.2/amd64 on several other 2950:s with 4GB of RAM which say on boot: real memory = 5100273664 (4864 MB) avail memory = 4122443776 (3931 MB) But has all 4 GB visible in top. Unfortunately I failed to notice this until after the machine has begun being used, so I have limited possibilities for rebooting/mucking with BIOS settings. I was hoping someone could suggest something right off the bat. In addition on the problem machine the following sysctl values are present: hw.physmem: 4280811520 hw.usermem: 3628220416 hw.realmem: 5100273664 hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648 With hw.usermem being slightly higher (but not 2 GB higher) on the 6.2 system without a problem: hw.physmem: 4283285504 hw.usermem: 3998797824 hw.realmem: 5100273664 hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648 I was under the impression that memory visibility issues were a thing of the past on amd64. Any insight? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration
Then my configuration is not minimal I'd say :-) Thanks. so make use of it's huge power. first make gateway, then add squid at least. possibly mail etc. A question out of subject: Do I need to install in such conditions: a network composed of one gateway and two other nodes at maximum and a slow connection? I mean does it improve anything? Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA to PCI cards
Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? Bahman I chose Promise because all of their products I've ever bought have worked for me in disk management. It was a roll of the dice as to it would work or not. Plus, it was the only card the vendor had that I have used for years. Thus, no guarantee for all, but they have worked on sever different motherboards so far and all are running fbsd-6.x (mostly 6.2). I understand. Thanks for your patience. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA to PCI cards
I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. I've had a huge sata issue with my promise card since I added two need sata3.0 disks to my two old sata1.5 disks. Turning off smartd seemed to make it go away, however. Never had issues with a promise board before. In the interim I bought a HiPoint, which appears to be the cadillac of sub-$300 cards, but I've yet to tweak the drivers into a functiona state. I also tried one of the $19 cards and was told by this list that they have drivers and appear to work fine, but will corrupt your data bigtime, crash unexpectedly, etc. Mine was a rosewill card, but lots of vendors are using the $19 variants. As I explored the archives I came up with some posts reporting problems with Promise cards, mostly on CURRENT though. Looks like I should search a bit more. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot
At 12:49 PM 8/24/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Larry Is the CD you burn readable under windows or FreeBSD? If it is readable, check your BIOS settings and turnoff any video ram shadow, if it is turned on. I have one older system which I thought had trouble booting the 6.2 disc. I tried my disc out on another system, and saw when this boots it puts up the FreeBSD boot menu, and waits for response. After seeing this, and turning off the video shadow, I tried to boot it on my older server again. This time I was seeing the bootmenu 10 second countdown, while none of the other boot menu was visible. After hitting enter a couple times the countdown started ticking down, and the system booted and launched sysinstall. I was able then to do a upgrade on this server from 5.5 to 6.2. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)
At 02:48 PM 8/24/2007, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, I have a Dell 2950 where my 7-CURRENT amd64 FreeBSD does not see all visible memory. It has 4 GB of physical RAM. dmesg on boot includes: usable memory = 4280811520 (4082 MB) avail memory = 4117716992 (3926 MB) Yet summing memories visible in top yields ~ 2100 MB. Of note is that I have 6.2/amd64 on several other 2950:s with 4GB of RAM which say on boot: real memory = 5100273664 (4864 MB) avail memory = 4122443776 (3931 MB) But has all 4 GB visible in top. Unfortunately I failed to notice this until after the machine has begun being used, so I have limited possibilities for rebooting/mucking with BIOS settings. I was hoping someone could suggest something right off the bat. In addition on the problem machine the following sysctl values are present: hw.physmem: 4280811520 hw.usermem: 3628220416 hw.realmem: 5100273664 hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648 With hw.usermem being slightly higher (but not 2 GB higher) on the 6.2 system without a problem: hw.physmem: 4283285504 hw.usermem: 3998797824 hw.realmem: 5100273664 hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648 I was under the impression that memory visibility issues were a thing of the past on amd64. Any insight? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller You need to look closely at the hardware configuration for these servers and their motherboards. Often some memory is reserved for things like onboard video, etc. You can free up that video memory by adding a separate video card, but necessarily other memory that may be used by the motherboard. Unfortunately with dell systems same model's don't necessarily mean same motherboard. Also, how memory is used via the BIOS is dependent on the BIOS version. You should try to be sure all systems you want to compare have the same motherboard and chipset and that these also have the same BIOS version. -Derek PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)
In response to Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 02:48 PM 8/24/2007, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, I have a Dell 2950 where my 7-CURRENT amd64 FreeBSD does not see all visible memory. It has 4 GB of physical RAM. dmesg on boot includes: usable memory = 4280811520 (4082 MB) avail memory = 4117716992 (3926 MB) Yet summing memories visible in top yields ~ 2100 MB. Of note is that I have 6.2/amd64 on several other 2950:s with 4GB of RAM which say on boot: real memory = 5100273664 (4864 MB) avail memory = 4122443776 (3931 MB) But has all 4 GB visible in top. Unfortunately I failed to notice this until after the machine has begun being used, so I have limited possibilities for rebooting/mucking with BIOS settings. I was hoping someone could suggest something right off the bat. In addition on the problem machine the following sysctl values are present: hw.physmem: 4280811520 hw.usermem: 3628220416 hw.realmem: 5100273664 hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648 With hw.usermem being slightly higher (but not 2 GB higher) on the 6.2 system without a problem: hw.physmem: 4283285504 hw.usermem: 3998797824 hw.realmem: 5100273664 hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648 I was under the impression that memory visibility issues were a thing of the past on amd64. Any insight? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller You need to look closely at the hardware configuration for these servers and their motherboards. Often some memory is reserved for things like onboard video, etc. You can free up that video memory by adding a separate video card, but necessarily other memory that may be used by the motherboard. Unfortunately with dell systems same model's don't necessarily mean same motherboard. Also, how memory is used via the BIOS is dependent on the BIOS version. You should try to be sure all systems you want to compare have the same motherboard and chipset and that these also have the same BIOS version. Derek triggered a thought ... I believe the 2950s have the ability to do RAM RAID1, to increase RAM reliability. If that belief is correct, it could be that you've got 4G physically in the machine, but only 2G logically available to the OS. At least, I think I remember seeing an option like that in a BIOS ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:28:54PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 12:49 PM 8/24/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Larry One thing that comes to mind, besides things other people have said. When you burned the CD, did you tell the software to create a bootable ISO? You shouldn't do that. It is already a bootable ISO and needs to be burned as a 'raw' file, directly to the CD. Having it try to make an ISO of an already created ISO might still leave the rest of the files readable, so it might look OK to a quick check, but I don't know. I haven't tried that. I don't know if the term 'raw' is the correct one, but definitely, you need to not use any option that tries to make a bootable ISO as that will mangle the boot stuff already on it. So, if that is the problem, you will have to burn another CD. It shouldn't matter if you burn it under MS-Win as long as it doesn't try to create a bootable ISO from it first. jerry Is the CD you burn readable under windows or FreeBSD? If it is readable, check your BIOS settings and turnoff any video ram shadow, if it is turned on. I have one older system which I thought had trouble booting the 6.2 disc. I tried my disc out on another system, and saw when this boots it puts up the FreeBSD boot menu, and waits for response. After seeing this, and turning off the video shadow, I tried to boot it on my older server again. This time I was seeing the bootmenu 10 second countdown, while none of the other boot menu was visible. After hitting enter a couple times the countdown started ticking down, and the system booted and launched sysinstall. I was able then to do a upgrade on this server from 5.5 to 6.2. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linksys Wireless-N WMP300-N Card
Has anyone used the Linksys Wireless-N WMP300-N card with FBSD-6.2? I am considering installing it into one of my FBSD machines. I have an identical card in a WinXP machine, and it works flawlessly. Obviously, I have a router that supports the 'N' protocol involved. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that the list maintainers do double the work so that you don't have to bother with spam filtering. Actually, the list maintainer has already done something to prevent spam harvesting -- something I didn't see mentioned in this 'thread' (and if it was mentioned, I appologize.) When you subscribe to (some) mailing lists, there is an option Conceal yourself from subscriber list? Not as powerful as filters, I agree, but it is a small thing that helps to combat spam. Also, earlier in this thread, someone mentioned about using a gmail account for mailing lists. I think it's a great idea, because that is the approach I've taken. The only problem I face with GMail, is some messages sent to mailing lists get marked as spam -- rarely. Within the past 3 months, I've received 1 actual spam message. And that is without any extra filters, other than sorting mail by label. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
Eric Crist wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:05 AMAug 24, 2007, Gerard wrote: On August 24, 2007 at 09:32AM Eric Crist wrote: I've got Postfix with Dovecot and virtual users setup. What I'm looking for is some filtering based on the flags SpamAssassin sets, so that I can route any messages tagged as Spam to a Spam directory with a users maildir. Assuming you got SA running: In my main.cf: header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks This is in my header_checks: /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/ REDIRECT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:17:48PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:19:06 -0700
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gary et al,
rather than filtering on one by one basis, why not just setup your mail server
to do the whole job for you, using spamassassin (or your other anti-spam
software), with dynamic filters ( like razor and DCC (i think it's called) ).
I
have (cheking...) about 7 *active* email address in my mail client, subscribed
to many mailing lists (12 of those @freebsd.org). Some of those email
addresses
are used in contact details of many domain registrations.
I'm going to try spamd (if pf and ipf don't conflict). It may
take awhile to get thru alll thewriteups and howto's, but it'l be
interesting to see the results.
All of them behind similarly configured servers. I have all the spam tagged
and moved to Trash on sight. Out of all the email I receive (which usually is
several hundred / day), I may have to manually delete 10 spam , uncaught
emails
(all up). I haven't so far found out about a false positive in several years
of using this setup.
I may be lucky enough that I have a couple of
Mbps of bandwidth @ home to handle my email load, but none of the tools I use
are commercial, and they are VERY well documented.
When I'm finished with my thesis (! on computers:-), maybe you
can share your docs on my bsd web site. It has zero ads and is
still a work-in-progress. But maybe we can all cut/paste from
existing (and free, if copyright) articles on slowing down this
slimy ooze of spam.
BTW, that ratio is far smaller than the amount of tree-based spam I get on my
home mailbox each day.
I also have a catch-all email address to see what comes my way - i see higher
number of uncaught spam there (which then goes to feed my Bayes filters), so i
doubt that blaming @freebsd.org servers has anything to do with receiving more
spam.
In summary, the trick as always is to properly use the tools at hand.
exactly, and there are just enough of us commmitted (hard-core)
to the Open Source model to have the tools. or create them.
cheers,
gary
regards,
B
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Warned.
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best way to keep track of new developments
im due for a new laptop at work, which will likely be an HP NC6400 (our standard). an otherwise really nice laptop, but with 2 showstoppers: intel 3945 wireless ati x1300 graphics i know there has been some development here and there to try to get these guys to work in freebsd. whats the best way to keep track of who owns these projects, and to follow with intrest how the work is going? ive been testing freebsd with these NC6400s (before they are deployed out to the users who they were ordered for), and so far, these are the first 2 pieces of hardware that have not worked out of the box for me. thanks, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: best way to keep track of new developments
Jonathan Horne wrote: intel 3945 wireless Hi Jonathan. Ben Close is working on the wpi driver for the Intel 3945abg. Check out his progress at http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi . It's been really close to working for a few months now, and there's a new tarball out. I haven't tested it yet though. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Test on FreeBSD site
On 2007-08-24 06:36, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How long does it take for a test to be accepted or rejected on the FreeBSD test mail box? Is three minutes normal for a test to pop up? I had some FreeBSD 7 config issues and this nearly caused me to think I hadn't cleared the problem because it took quite a while to pop up. It depends on how busy the server is at the time you send it, among other factors. I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. They are. It may take a few minutes before a message gets through, but that depends on how often the *sending* server retries. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list
...I will feed... The solution to this problem is...if you don't like what you are into, get yourself out of the situation. Anyone who finds the information on this list non-informative enough to complain about a few spam per week that make it through a spam filter, then it isn't worth your time and you are on the wrong list. I belong to ~40 mailing lists. They all see spam. The info I gain from the lists is far more important. Well more than half of the lists display the full address in the header. It's by design, and it has always worked. I would not have it changed. Most MLM's have an option to obscure/hide your address, as someone has already stated. Seriously, the standard 'user' coming from Windows to FreeBSD should never be expected to immediately be pushed into doing something for themselves. However, someone who decides to operate on a Road Runner cable connection and relay their mail through a: mail-03.name-services.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ...server, should immediately contact the person responsible for email management and complain... Moreover, those who use an address like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...as a technical and admin contact in the global WHOIS database for their domain should reconsider complaining about anything. Wow, I'd trust the fact that my abuse email would make it to a responsible person. We are all feeding the troll. The troll has not stated his name in any of his emails. Is that you: # whois a1poweruser.com | grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whoever this is, has not replied in a while, at least under the original email address. Can we leave well enough alone and get on with technical stuff? *sigh* Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. See (4) I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? Sounds like you might be just copying the .iso file to the CD, rather than burning an image file from the .iso ? but it's not clear how you 'looked at it' from 5.4 .. what does it look like from W98? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) See (4) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? Shouldn't be; I've used both Adaptec CD whatsitcalled and Nero on '98 boxes to burn .iso files - but you do have to select the 'image' write, and to be sure of a good burn maybe drop the write speed to say 4x If you've still got 5.4 installed you could use burncd(8) instead, eg 'burncd -s 4 -f /dev/acd0 data fbsd6.2whatever.iso fixate' 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? Yes; also download the (tiny) accompanying .md5 file, then you can run md5(1) from FreeBSD 5.4 on the .iso file to check that its MD5 matches. When you look at the contents of the CD, either from W98 or from having mounted it on FreeBSD 5.4, do you see files and directories on the CD, or just the single .iso file? BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. Your burned image CD for 6.2 should look pretty much like your 5.4 CD in structure. If that's so and it still won't boot then you can try a copy of everything on it to /dev/null (to test the CD is 100% readable). If that's all good and it still won't boot, show us the error message/s? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
time issue
Hello, I recently noticed that my clock was running a few minutes slow, even though I have ntpd running on the box. Now I'm seeing this on occasion. Aug 24 20:17:10 kanga dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 105 seconds. This might c ause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMov edBackwards Does this suggest a hardware clock issue? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpTrtovpE1Uc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Test on FreeBSD site
I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. They do. That's quite the response. Care to elaborate for purposes of archive accuracy? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: time issue
Hello, I recently noticed that my clock was running a few minutes slow, even thoug= h I have ntpd running on the box. Now I'm seeing this on occasion.=20 Aug 24 20:17:10 kanga dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 105 seconds. Th= is might c ause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMov edBackwards Does this suggest a hardware clock issue? Hi, Do you do an ntpdate at boot, or just run ntpd? If just ntpd, you should consider ntpdate, that way the major adjustment is done before most anything else is started up and your dovecot probably will stop committing hara-kiri. Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: time issue
Hello, I recently noticed that my clock was running a few minutes slow, even though I have ntpd running on the box. Now I'm seeing this on occasion. Aug 24 20:17:10 kanga dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 105 seconds. This might c ause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMov edBackwards Does this suggest a hardware clock issue? Is this a system that is left running 24/7 connected to the Internet, or a system which is frequently turned off? If the latter, you might want to do as has been suggested by re-syncing the clock at boot time, and check the CMOS battery on the mainboard. The current recommended method of clock sync at boot time is is via ntpd(8) instead of ntpdate(8), (as of FreeBSD 6.1 and possibly earlier). To quote the ntpdate(8) manual page: Note: The functionality of this program is now available in the ntpd(8) program. See the -q command line option in the ntpd(8) page. After a suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate utility is to be retired from this distribution. To accomplish this simply add the following like to /etc/rc.conf ntpd_sync_on_start=YES # Synchronize clock at startup. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?
On 8/24/07, Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:05 AMAug 24, 2007, Gerard wrote: On August 24, 2007 at 09:32AM Eric Crist wrote: I've got Postfix with Dovecot and virtual users setup. What I'm looking for is some filtering based on the flags SpamAssassin sets, so that I can route any messages tagged as Spam to a Spam directory with a users maildir. Assuming you got SA running: In my main.cf: header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks This is in my header_checks: /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/ REDIRECT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Note that REDIRECT acts on all recipients of a message, and cannot be customized per-user. In the above example, *all* tagged spam would be delivered to a single mailbox. OK if that's what you want. an easier way is to run spamassassin under the control of amavisd-new and let amavisd-new add address extensions such as user+spam and to let dovecot file the mail in a spam folder. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with PCI RAID card showing up
For some reason, I am unable to find the drives (RAIDED with JBOD) connected to this card. The chipset for the card is VIA 6421 for SATA and 8235 for IDE (It supports both), which, according to 'man ata' is supported. Prior to the FreeBSD boot Menu, I see text scroll across the screen that lists the drives connected to the machine, and includes this RAID group as a listed drive. Not to mention that knoppix and acronis both see the drive as listed. Where are these drives located, and how do I get FreeBSD to see them so I can mount them? Here is a clipping from dmesg, where the card is referenced as being present: atapci0: VIA 6421 SATA150 controller port 0x9000-0x900f,0x9400-0x940f,0x9800-0x980f,0x9c00-0x9c0f,0xa000-0xa01f,0xa400-0xa4ff irq 16 at device 8.0 on pci0 atapci1: VIA 8235 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xb800-0xb80f at device 17.1 on pci0 Here is output from pciconf -lv # pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x31891106 chip=0x31891106 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8377 Apollo KT400/A/600 CPU to PCI Bridge' class= bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x0080 chip=0xb1681106 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'ProSavageDDR P4X333 CPU to AGP 2.0/3.0 Bridge' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x010400 card=0x32491106 chip=0x32491106 rev=0x50 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT6421 IDE RAID Controller' class= mass storage subclass = RAID [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x048000 card=0x1131 chip=0x71301131 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Philips Semiconductors' device = 'SAA7130HL Multi Media Capture Device' class= multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0: class=0x02 card=0x01051106 chip=0x31061106 rev=0x86 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT6105M/LOM Rhine III PCI Fast Ethernet Controller' class= network subclass = ethernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:16:0:class=0x0c0300 card=0x30381106 chip=0x30381106 rev=0x80 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (All VIA Chipsets)' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:16:1:class=0x0c0300 card=0x30381106 chip=0x30381106 rev=0x80 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (All VIA Chipsets)' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:16:2:class=0x0c0300 card=0x30381106 chip=0x30381106 rev=0x80 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (All VIA Chipsets)' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:16:3:class=0x0c0320 card=0x31041106 chip=0x31041106 rev=0x82 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT6202 USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:17:0:class=0x060100 card=0x31771106 chip=0x31771106 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8235 PCI to ISA Bridge' class= bridge subclass = PCI-ISA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:17:1: class=0x01018a card=0x05711106 chip=0x05711106 rev=0x06 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT82 EIDE Controller (All VIA Chipsets)' class= mass storage subclass = ATA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:17:5:class=0x040100 card=0xf6141565 chip=0x30591106 rev=0x50 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8233/33A/8235/8237 AC97 Enhanced Audio Controller' class= multimedia subclass = audio [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x81ea1043 chip=0x004110de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' device = 'GeForce 6800 [NV40.1]' class= display subclass = VGA Finally, here is a listing of devices in /dev: # ls /dev acd0ad1 consolectl fd lpt0 nfslock ttyd0 ttyv3 ttyvd zero acpiad1s1 cttyfidolpt0.ctl nullttyd0.init ttyv4 ttyve ad0 ad3 cuad0 geom.ctlmdctl pci ttyd0.lock ttyv5 ttyvf ad0s1 ad3s1 cuad0.init io mem ppi0ttyd1 ttyv6 urandom ad0s1a agpgart cuad0.lock kbd0net ptyp0 ttyd1.init ttyv7 usb ad0s1b apm cuad1 kbd1net1 random ttyd1.lock ttyv8 usb0 ad0s1c ata cuad1.init kbdmux0 net2 stderr ttyp0 ttyv9 usb1 ad0s1d atkbd0 cuad1.lock klog
Re: FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:26:50PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:29:59 +0200 Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turns out ImageMagick was called through php to resize the .JPG and most likely, the server runs out of memory/disk space. /var/tmp fills up and console spews as follows: Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28 Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 32768 at 62620 Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: pid 29 (syncer), uid 0 inumber 49382 on /var: filesystem full :) having been bitten by that in several unix-like OS (pick any Linux distro, and freebsd too), i just remove /var/tmp and make a smylink to /tmp , which is big enough for my foreseeable needs. I like to keep my /var clean of tmp rubbish. and yes, configuring PHP and it's libraries helps too :) That's not an answer obviously. Error 28 is #define ENOSPC 28 /* No space left on device */ This seems like a bug to me: when a filesystem fills you shouldn't be getting this behaviour. Can you please follow the directions in the developers handbook chapter on kernel debugging, and when you trigger a hang, break to DDB from the console and force a dump, then file a PR and make the core file available to the developers. Unfortunately unless a developer can replicate the behaviour, providing access to a core is the only real debugging option. Thanks, Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
