Re: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu heatsink / fan combo [ a ]

2008-08-27 Thread spellberg_robert

Mark Picone wrote:


it's that i don't recognize so many of the manufacturers names.
some look familiar, but they might just be
  similar to something i remember from long ago.



q:  would anyone care to wax rhapsodic
  about any manufacturer
  with whose heatsink / fan combo product[s]
  they have had good success ?



IMO: Pure copper zalman heatsink/fan combo (cant go wrong)



thank you, mark.

i saw your response first thing this morning.
this was one of the names that looked familiar.

several retailers have these.
attempting research on the product line earlier today,
  i got more info from them
  than i did from the manufacturer's web_site
  [ my pet peeve:  more presentation, less content ].

rob

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messagebus user

2008-08-27 Thread jef moskot
We just upgraded to a new server (FreeBSD 7.0) and in our passwd file is 
the user messagebus (there's also a group).


What's this for and can the UID be changed?  It's got the same number as 
one of our oldest users and we're trying to determine which UID would be 
easier to switch.


While this obviously has something to do with D-BUS (whatever that is), 
it's nothing we installed on purpose.  If it's not a part of the default 
system, it probably got bundled in as a dependency during an large port 
make.


Any suggestions?

Jeffrey Moskot
System Administrator
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Re: Tailing logs

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Chvostek

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:28:33AM -0400, DAve wrote:

 I would love to have a way to tail a log, like piping to grep, except I
 see every line and the lines I would normally grep for are highlighted.
 That would be cool. Anyone know of a bash command or tool that will do this?

I use tcsh as my shell.  The following alias works nicely for me in
xterm, but would have to be adjusted for anything else:

  alias highlight 'sed -E '\''s/\!:*/^[[1m^[[0m/g'\'''

Replace ^[ with an escape character, twice.  Put it in your .tcshrc if
you like.  YMMV.

 Side note, I am tailing sendmail after changes to my outbound queue
 runners. I want to highlight my sm-mta-out lines but still see all lines.

Right, I do very similar stuff.  You'd use this like:

  tail -F /var/log/maillog | highlight .*sm-mta-out.*

Quotes seem to confound this alias.  I haven't bothered to fix that; as
long as what you're searching for doesn't glob a file, you should be
fine without quotes.

You can also do more complex things in either sed or awk, colour-coding
individual pattern matches.  Here's one in awk that I use to highlight
the activity of milter-greylist:

  #!/usr/bin/awk -f
  BEGIN {
red=^[[31m; green=^[[32m;
yellow=^[[33m;  blue=^[[34m;
norm=^[[0m;
fmt=%s%s%s\n;
  }
  /autowhitelisted/ { printf(fmt, green, $0, norm); next; }
  /delayed for/ { printf(fmt, yellow, $0, norm); next; }
  # /skipping greylist/ { printf(fmt, blue, $0, norm); next; }
  { print; }

Same deal with the ^[.

Enjoy.

p

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Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:12 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
 I am trying to isolate only the MAC addresses that appear in
 dhcpd logs.
 For anyone who is interested, the sed construct that should do
 this looks like:
 
  sed 's/.*\([[ your regular expression ]]\).*/\1/' 
 
 The \1 tells sed to only print what matched and skip all the rest.
 
   I am doing something wrong with the regular expression
 that is supposed to recognise a MAC address. MAC addresses look
 like 5 pairs of hex digits followed by :'s and then a 6TH pair
 to end the string.
 
   I have tried:
 
 [[:xdigit:][:xdigit:][:punct:]
 
 Sorry. It won't all fit on a line, but there should be a string
 of 5 pairs and the : and then the 6TH pair followed by the
 closing ] so the expression ends with ]]
 
 One should also be able to put:
 
 [[:xdigit:][:xdigit:][:punct:]]\{5,5\}[[:xdigit:][:xdigit]]
 
 Any ideas as to what else I can try?
 
There have already been good suggestions for you to choose from. I'll
just add my bucketful to the TIMTOWTDI pool:

Since you weren't specific about the format of the log data that you're
attempting to parse (keep that in mind for future questions):

# ifconfig | grep ether
ether 02:00:20:75:43:34
ether 00:40:05:10:b9:79
# ifconfig | sed -nE 's/.*ether (([[:xdigit:]]{2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{2}).*/\1/p'
02:00:20:75:43:34
00:40:05:10:b9:79
# ifconfig | sed -nE 's/.*ether ([[:xdigit:]:]+).*/\1/p'
02:00:20:75:43:34
00:40:05:10:b9:79
# ifconfig | sed -nE 's/.*ether ([0-9a-f:]+).*/\1/p'
02:00:20:75:43:34
00:40:05:10:b9:79
# ifconfig | sed -nE '/ether/s/.*([0-9a-f:]{17}).*/\1/p'
02:00:20:75:43:34
00:40:05:10:b9:79

And then there's:

# ifconfig | grep ether | cut -d  -f 2
02:00:20:75:43:34
00:40:05:10:b9:79

But my preference would be:

# ifconfig | awk '/ether/ {print $2}'
02:00:20:75:43:34
00:40:05:10:b9:79


Wayne



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Re: Possible hardware damaging bug with halt/reboot!

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:36 -0700, Christopher Joyner wrote:
 I think this thing could break my fan if I left it running.
 The fan gets fast, really fast.  Sounds like it's running faster than it can 
 handle.
 
That would only be the case if there is some bigger fault at play, such
as having a 5V fan wired to 12V. I'm not aware of any PC-grade fan that
would be capable of running beyond its design limits in normal use.

More likely is that the fan is thermally controlled, but on halt the
control is being set to full speed which might be annoying but is not a
problem for the fan per se.

I suspect that you're just not accustomed to hearing the fan run at full
speed. Some can be very noisy, not to mention irritating - like the one
in my laptop.


Wayne


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Re: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu heatsink / fan combo [ b ]

2008-08-27 Thread spellberg_robert

Chuck Robey wrote:


q:  would anyone care to wax rhapsodic
 about any manufacturer
 with whose heatsink / fan combo product[s]
 they have had good success ?



OK, I will.  I got taught, in extremely clear fashion, about the direct linkage
between keeping the temperatures low and even, and the ultimate reliability of
your system.  I won't go into the war story, but most everyone knows this is
true, anyhow.  I won't go into the fan either, because it's my personal opinion
that there are a large selection of good fans.  The item I want to extoll is the
Ultimate 120 heatsink from Thermalright.  Huge heatsink, and the 120mm fan that
you get separately mounts on the _side_, not the top, like you might be used to.
 One look at this, at the great engineering ... well you might possibly find
something else as good, but I bet you'd not be able to find anything better.
Get that installed, and you can be really certain you didn't short on the CPU
cooling.




thank you, chuck.

wowie, zowie !
--passion-- !!!
this tells me something.

yes, getting the heat out is the point.

120 mm ?  that's an optical disk.
bet it's a blowhard.

i'm a fool for great engineering.
i'm also a fool for a myrna loy film, but, i digress.

on the side, eh ?
nothing like trying out a new position.





this was followed, very soon after, by marc coyles:



thank you, marc.

  1 - Don't use tip of finger to apply thermal goop unless finger is
  within a plastic bag. Grease off your skin will detract from the
  efficiency of the Thermal Bond, and seeing as the TIM bond accounts for
  a HUGE proportion of a processor-cooling-solution's c/w rating, it's
  better to pop finger in a bag, and then apply compound.

[ wistful sigh ]
another fond memory from my youth:  gone forever.
[ another wistful sigh ]

well, that's what we were doing at the big m in schaumburg.
it was almost thirty years ago.
what did we know ?
we were younger and stupider.
besides, most of the watts were going out the antenna
  [ that would be aerial, on your side of the pond ].

it wasn't any good for clothing, either.



  2 - Best of the best is still Thermalright, but there is a price premium
  as always. I generally go with their Ultra120 Extreme as it supports all
  sockets and all CPUs on the market, so you won't have to bin it if you
  switch to something else at a later date... And partner it with a decent
  120mm fan of your choosing according to your noise preference.
  Personally I stick with Nexus fans as they're nice n' quiet...

another vote, which is why i combined these responses.

yeah, well, something that works well is worth something,
  just to get rid of the aggravation factor.

keeping the number of line_items in my qpl few is always good.

i'll look into those.
you know, i've been ruminating on this point.
i'm starting to think that
  quiet is more important to me than i had previously thought.
i do like to put a bunch of 19th_century chamber_music discs into the changer.



  The above combo is currently sitting atop a Q6600 cpu in my recording
  studio system and keeps it at 40 deg C full-load in total silence. If
  you want better cooling, then find a more powerful fan.

the recording studio is the acid_test for quiet.

[ ever see the size of the box that a
three_color_technicolor camera was in,
back in the 1930s ?
  those things were --loud--.
  two supply reels, two take_up reels, at right_angles to a beam_splitter.
  no wonder the actors had to loop their dialogue so much.
]

that 40 degree number gets my attention.
why, that's barely warmer than i am !



  3 - Meh - Thermal Compound performance is much debated, and any testing
  done on it isn't done to a sufficient quality to give reliable results.
  Either way, the Thermalright Heatsinks all come with goop that is plenty
  good enough for most purposes.

on this point,
  i was more concerned if someone had had a bad experience
  with stuff that just doesn't work.



rob

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Re: Configure lagg0 into /etc/rc.conf file ?

2008-08-27 Thread Frank Bonnet

Steve Bertrand wrote:

Frank Bonnet wrote:


I'm trying to configure the lagg0 device using /etc/rc.conf file
but I haven't much luck with it.



What I want to do is

ifconfig lagg0 create
ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto lacp laggport bge0 laggport bge1


What does the following command output?:

# uname -a

Steve


Here it is :

FreeBSD cache.esiee.fr 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 25 13:17:26 
CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC  i386
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Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:00 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 i put -h in /boot.config
 
 FreeBSD loaders starts with serial console fine, load kernel, boots and...
 kernel uses VGA as console.
 
 what i do wrong?
 
Have you checked flag setting on sio?

# dmesg | grep sio.*flags
sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on 
acpi0

See handbook 24.6.3.4 for requirements:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html#SERIALCONSOLE-HOWTO


Wayne


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Re: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu heatsink / fan combo [ c ]

2008-08-27 Thread spellberg_robert

Chris Whitehouse wrote:

If you haven't already bought your cpu you could check out how much heat 
different cpu's produce, they vary quite a lot. Lower power = lower heat 
production = less stress on heatsink/fan (and = lower electricity 
costs). Also the overclockers websites and forums usually have opinions 
about heatsinks.


Chris




thank you, chris.

no, i haven't.
i hope to get the cpu order out by friday or mon^H^H^Htuesday.
i spent all day today on [ mostly ] intel's web_site
  pointing, clicking and downloading.

all very true.

i've been looking for such info but intel's web_site isn't too geeky.
i --have-- downloaded new copies of data_sheets, though,
  so, i have some reading to do.
[ this internet thing has potential;
i just don't request data_books from manufacturers, anymore.
]

keeping my electric bill low is high on my list.

it is my understanding that the 65_nm p4 consumes less power than the 90_nm p4.

i am of two minds about the gaming community.
on the one hand, they --do-- push the cpu hard.
it's a form of testing.
so, their opinion is worth something.

on the other hand, i tend to use multiple boxen to split_up the 
responsibilities,
  so, my boxen tend to be idle, more so than those of most others, and,
  therefore, my environment just isn't the same as that of the gamers.
apples and oranges.

i used to think that overclocking meant 5_% or 10_%.
then, today, i saw one report of a 3200_mhz cpu being clocked at over 8000_mhz !
i have, absolutely, no idea if this is, at all, possible.
i do know that --my-- cpu will clock within 1_% of rating.





almost immediately after the above, this arrived.

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 If you haven't already bought your cpu you could check out how much
 heat different cpu's produce, they vary quite a lot. Lower power =
 lower heat production = less stress on heatsink/fan (and = lower
 electricity costs). Also the overclockers websites and forums usually
 have opinions about heatsinks.


 and of course - make sure then that your motherboard doesn't overclock
 by default.

 no, i'm not joking, it's true but it sounds like a joke.



thank you, wojciech.

ok, let me revise and extend my remarks,
  i --think-- it will be within 1_% [ it's a plan, anyway ].

i have --never-- heard of this one.
maybe, it's because i check every mobo setting at installation time ?

are you certain that this isn't propaganda from the joke in redmond ?

please explain.



rob

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dump(8) ok, but restore(8) failes

2008-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz

Hello,

Some days ago I have done a dump of my /usr file system with:

# dump -0auL -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -c  dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz'  
/usr

the DUMP ended fine with no errors; today I try to reload certain
directory with:

$ restore -xv -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -dc dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz' 
./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008

and it says:

Verify tape and initialize maps
Tape block size is 16
Header with wrong dumpdate.
Dump   date: Mon Aug 25 09:56:58 2008
Dumped from: the epoch
Level 0 dump of /usr on rebelion.Sisis.de:/dev/ad4s1f
Label: none
Extract directories from tape
Initialize symbol table.
Make node ./home
Make node ./home/guru
Make node ./home/guru/myThings
Make node ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol
Make node ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008
Make node ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008/enanitos
Make node ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008/imagenes
Make node ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008/CVS
Extract requested files
You have not read any tapes yet.
If you are extracting just a few files, start with the last volume
and work towards the first; restore can quickly skip tapes that
have no further files to extract. Otherwise, begin with volume 1.
Specify next volume #: 1
partial block read: 16128 should be 16384
partial block read: 256 should be 16384
partial block read: 16128 should be 16384
unknown tape header type 6697331
abort? [yn] 

what does this mean? any hint? thanks in advance

matthias

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RE: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu heatsink / fan combo [ c ]

2008-08-27 Thread Marc Coyles
 i have --never-- heard of this one.
 maybe, it's because i check every mobo setting at installation time ?

 are you certain that this isn't propaganda from the joke in redmond ?

 please explain.


ASUS Motherboards have their AI system which attempts to automatically
overclock any cpu to improve performance as a for instance. Personally,
any motherboard that attempts to automatically overclock a CPU should
have such features disabled immediately. If any overclocking is gonna
get done, I like to be the one in control.

If you want to know which CPU would be best for your uses, head to
xtremesystems.org forums (ignore rest of the site) and post in the Intel
section with what you'll be using the box for, your requirements (in
terms of processing power and noise output) and someone over there'll
point you out the best CPU for the job.

L8rs!
Marci



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Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar


what i do wrong?


Have you checked flag setting on sio?

   # dmesg | grep sio.*flags
   sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on 
acpi0


yes. i then tried to change flags to 0x20 (force console) - still doesn't 
work


sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x20 on acpi0
sio0: type 16450
sio0: [FILTER]
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0



it is qemu machine for now, but just to test, i would like to use it on 
real hardware.





See handbook 24.6.3.4 for requirements:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html#SERIALCONSOLE-HOWTO


Wayne




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Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:43 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 
  what i do wrong?
 
  Have you checked flag setting on sio?
 
 # dmesg | grep sio.*flags
 sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 
  on acpi0
 
 yes. i then tried to change flags to 0x20 (force console) - still doesn't 
 work
 
 sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
 sio0: port may not be enabled
 sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x20 on acpi0
 sio0: type 16450
 sio0: [FILTER]
 sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
 
Careful, note the last sentence in the 0x20 flag description:

0x20

Forces this unit to be the console (unless there is
another higher priority console), regardless of the -h
option discussed below. The flag 0x20 must be used
together with the 0x10 flag.

i.e. to use 0x20 you have to set it to 0x30

 
 
 it is qemu machine for now, but just to test, i would like to use it on 
 real hardware.
 
Never tried, could be a qemu-specific issue?


Wayne


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Re: dump(8) ok, but restore(8) failes

2008-08-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Some days ago I have done a dump of my /usr file system with:

# dump -0auL -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -c  dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz'  
/usr


why not

dump -0auL -P /usr |gzip -cssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat  
dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz'

?


the DUMP ended fine with no errors; today I try to reload certain
directory with:

$ restore -xv -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -dc dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz' 
./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008


should't be

-xvf -

?

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Re: dump(8) ok, but restore(8) failes

2008-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 27, 2008 a las 11:10:53AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar 
escribió:

 Some days ago I have done a dump of my /usr file system with:
 
 # dump -0auL -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -c  dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz' 
  
 /usr
 
 why not
 
 dump -0auL -P /usr |gzip -cssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat  
 dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz'
 
 ?

without '-P' in this case, I think, and:

# dump -0auL /usr | gzip -c | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat 
dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz'

should of course give more or less the same;

 
 the DUMP ended fine with no errors; today I try to reload certain
 directory with:
 
 $ restore -xv -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -dc dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz' 
 ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008
 
 should't be

but it does; reproduceable :-(

matthias
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Re: Possible hardware damaging bug with halt/reboot!

2008-08-27 Thread Pietro Cerutti

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Christopher Joyner wrote:
| I think this thing could break my fan if I left it running.
| The fan gets fast, really fast.  Sounds like it's running faster than
it can handle.
|
| This is using the halt command, during the message that say's,
| HALTED, PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT.  (not actual message)
|
| I am still looking in the source code hunting for this.
| I decided it was best to report now.
|
| I have not seen the loop, but adding sleep(1) in the halt loop, such
as a while loop,
| I think that would make it easier on the cpu.  However I do not know
how it works, because I have not seen that source code.

It's at sys/kern/tty_cons.c , line 586 and around.

| In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior.
| For God so loved the world, that he gave his only *begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
| --John 3:16

This problem of yours is not related to FreeBSD. Google for psychosis.

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OpenLDAP and back_hdb: ObjectClass olcHdbConfig not present in server schema.

2008-08-27 Thread O. Hartmann

Hello,

I try to use back_hdb instead of back_bdb on all of the used DB backends 
with OlpenLDAP 2.4.11 on a FreeBSD 7.0 server.

When switching to 'backend hdb'
I get this error from LUMA when trying to acces the DB config under RDN 
cn=config:


olcDatabase={1}hdb -

Could not display ldap entry. Reason:
ObjectClass olcHdbConfig not present in server schema.

Using bdb as backend works fine.

Can someone explain this restriction?

Thanks in advance,

Oliver
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Re: dump(8) ok, but restore(8) failes

2008-08-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 27, 2008 a las 11:20:22AM +0200, Matthias Apitz 
escribió:

 without '-P' in this case, I think, and:
 
 # dump -0auL /usr | gzip -c | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat 
 dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz'
 
 should of course give more or less the same;
 
  
  the DUMP ended fine with no errors; today I try to reload certain
  directory with:
  
  $ restore -xv -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -dc 
  dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz' 
  ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008
  
  should't be
 
 but it does; reproduceable :-(

the DUMP itself seems to be ok because a restore like this works:

$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat dumpsRebelion-20080825/usr.dmp.gz' | gzip -dc | 
restore -xv -f - ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008

the problem seems to be -P related; will file a bug report;

matthias
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Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:20:31 -0400, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Making it easy to disable stuff in `src.conf' is sort of a
 middle-path approach.  I can live with that for now.  If someone else
 comes along and moves fortune(1) and the other src/games/ stuff in a
 port, I won't really object either :)

 I have wondered if it might be reasonable to put a bunch of (more)
 of that sort of stuff in a select list during installation so a
 user can choose right then if certain things will be retained or
 dropped on the floor.   Fortune and games and even the latest Perl
 and some other things might be good candidates for that select list.

The current installer already includes something like this.  The
various collections like src, games, manpages, info docs and
the other stuff that shows up in the custom installation menu are one
way of selecting what to install and what to leave out.

There's definitely a lot of value in making this selection a lot more
fine-grained, but then we are very close to the old everything should
be a package, including the base system bikeshed.  I am not sure I want
to go back there :)

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Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to several people who have provided great suggestions
and an apology for not being clear on the log data I am mining
for MAC addresses. It is syslog and a typical line looks like:

Aug 26 20:45:36 dh1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.198.67.116 to 00:12:f0:88:97:d6
(peaster-laptop) via 10.198.71.246 

That was one line broken to aid in emailing, but that's what
types of lines are involved. The MAC appears at different field
locations depending on the type of event being logged so awk is
perfect for certain types of lines, but it misses others and no
one awk expression gets them all.

This is an attempt to isolate every MAC address that
appears and then sort and count them to see who is having
trouble or, in some cases, is causing trouble.

The sed pattern matching system is interesting because I
can think of several similar situations in which the data are
there but there is no guarantee where on a given line it sits
and grep or sed usually will pull in the whole line containing
the desired data which means that one must further parse things
to get what is wanted.

Martin McCormick
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Couple of amd64-specific questions

2008-08-27 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
Hi there,

I've recently got a chance to run a rather modern CPU and mobo for a
few weeks, and since the beast is 8GB worth of RAM, I figured amd64
would fit nicely in it.

After updating to HEAD to trying usual make world/kernel magic, the
following issues arised I haven't seen previously in i386:

  - SYSV{SHM,MSG,SEM} need to be compiled in kernel for 32-bit
compatibility syscalls, despite the fact corresponding modules are
available.  On i386, I always stripped SYSV-style IPC stuff out of
my kernel.  Question: is it theoretically possible to build
freebsd32 compat module standalone?  I'd rather have all compat
stuff (linux, etc.) as a loadable modules anyways (not to mention
that I don't want to have SYSV* options in my kernel config).

  - What are technical reasons why ACPI has to be compiled in kernel?
Google wasn't very helpful here for me.

Thanks.

./danfe
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:19:24 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz [EMAIL 
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: 
text/plain; charset=us-ascii   Hello,  Some days ago I have done a dump of 
my /usr file system wi
 th:  # dump -0auL -P ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip -c  
dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz' /usr  the DUMP ended fine with no errors; today I 
try to reload certain directory with:  $ restore -xv -P ssh [EMAIL 
PROTECTED] 'gzip -dc dumpsRebelion/usr.dmp.gz' 
./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008  and it says:  Verify tape and 
initialize maps Tape block size is 16 Header with wrong dumpdate. Dump date: 
Mon Aug 25 09:56:58 2008 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /usr on 
rebelion.Sisis.de:/dev/ad4s1f Label: none Extract directories from tape 
Initialize symbol table. Make node ./home Make node ./home/guru Make node 
./home/guru/myThings Make node ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol Make node 
./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008 Make node 
./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008/enanitos Make node 
./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008/imagenes Make node 
./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008/CVS Extract requested files You have 
not read any tapes yet. If you are ext
 racting just a few files, start with the last volume and work towards the 
first; restore can quickly skip tapes that have no further files to extract. 
Otherwise, begin with volume 1. Specify next volume #: 1 partial block read: 
16128 should be 16384 partial block read: 256 should be 16384 partial block 
read: 16128 should be 16384 unknown tape header type 6697331 abort? [yn]   
what does this mean? any hint? thanks in advance  matthias  --  Matthias 
Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 
Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m 
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 Message: 2 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:27:41 +0100 From: Marc Coyles 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ free_bsd_questions ] selecting a cpu 
heatsink / fan combo [ c ] To: 'spellberg_robert' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
'Chris Whitehouse' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Wojciech Puchar' [EMAIL 
PROTECTED], 'fbsd_questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   i have --never-- heard of this one.  maybe, it's 
because i check every mobo setting at installation time ?   are you certain 
that this isn't propaganda from the joke in redmond ?   please explain.  
 ASUS Motherboards have their AI system which attempts to automatically 
overclock any cpu to improve performance as a for instance. Personally, any 
motherboard that attempts to automatically overclock a CPU should have such 
features disabled immediately. If any overclocking is gonna get done, I like 
to be the one in control.  If you want to know which CPU would be best for 
your us
 es, head to xtremesystems.org forums (ignore rest of the site) and post in 
the Intel section with what you'll be using the box for, your requirements 
(in terms of processing power and noise output) and someone over there'll 
point you out the best CPU for the job.  L8rs! Marci  

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 15:25:02 Martin McCormick wrote:

   The sed pattern matching system is interesting because I
 can think of several similar situations in which the data are
 there but there is no guarantee where on a given line it sits
 and grep or sed usually will pull in the whole line containing
 the desired data which means that one must further parse things
 to get what is wanted.

Hi Martin

Look at grep -o which only outputs the bit that matched the regexp. Using 
egrep, you can look for exactly two hex digits and a colon, repeated exactly 
five times, and followed by exactly two hex digits:

egrep -o '([[:xdigit:]]{2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{2}' inputfile

will parse inputfile and output all the MAC addresses it finds, one per line 
(if it finds more than one on an input line, it'll match them and print them 
on separate output lines), and nothing else.

Jonathan
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Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 08:25 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
 My thanks to several people who have provided great suggestions
 and an apology for not being clear on the log data I am mining
 for MAC addresses. It is syslog and a typical line looks like:
 
 Aug 26 20:45:36 dh1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.198.67.116 to 00:12:f0:88:97:d6
 (peaster-laptop) via 10.198.71.246 
 
 That was one line broken to aid in emailing, but that's what
 types of lines are involved. The MAC appears at different field
 locations depending on the type of event being logged so awk is
 perfect for certain types of lines, but it misses others and no
 one awk expression gets them all.

The way to deal with that is to specify a pattern to match something
that distinguishes each form of log line that you want to extract from.
With the following (contrived) log data:

Aug 26 20:45:36 dh1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:12:f0:88:97:d6 
(peaster-laptop) via eth0
Aug 26 20:45:36 dh1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.198.67.116 to 00:12:f0:88:97:d6 
(peaster-laptop) via 10.198.71.246 

use awk with a script such as:

awk '/DHCPDISCOVER/ {print $8} /DHCPACK/ {print $10}' logfile


Wayne


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Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa

Hello,

for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) 
mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even 
with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

  1) How is this possible?
  2) What can I or do I have to do against it?
I am running a quite plain sendmail setup from 7.0 -STABLE.

Thanks for your answers,

Ulrich.

--



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Help! Tape drive resets the server!

2008-08-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a Seagate DDS-4 tape drive:

sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
sa0: SEAGATE DAT9SP40-000 912L Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3 device
sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16, 16bit)

It's attached to a Tekram DC390F SCSI card:

sym0: 875 port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xe9004000-0xe90040ff,0xe9006000-0xe9006fff 
irq 20 at device 0.0 on pci7
sym0: Tekram NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: [ITHREAD]

Occasionally, whenever I open sa0 for reading (typically when Amanda starts 
flushing backups to tape), the system resets.  I don't mean that the kernel 
panics or anything; I mean that within a second or two I'm looking at a POST 
screen.  I'd been having this problem for a while, but recently upgraded 
literally every other piece of hardware on the system.  The card and drive 
were the *only* components carried over to the new system, and I even swapped 
out the card for a duplicate I had stored away.

Is it possible that the drive itself is triggering the reset?  I'd find that a 
little unlikely, but am certainly not an expert on the matter.  Alternatively, 
has anyone had that sort of problem with drives attached to that card?
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Jason C. Wells
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
 Hello,
 
 for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail
 server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own
 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
   1) How is this possible?
   2) What can I or do I have to do against it?
 I am running a quite plain sendmail setup from 7.0 -STABLE.

Look to see if you are running an open relay.  You shouldn't be by
default.  There are websites that will test this for you if you simply
provide the IP of the server.

That's a start.

My SPAM policy is something like this.  Spammers win. feh!  It's not the
best policy, but it requires the least effort on my part.

Regards,
Jason
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Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Chvostek
Hi Martin.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:25:02AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
 
 Aug 26 20:45:36 dh1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.198.67.116 to 00:12:f0:88:97:d6
 (peaster-laptop) via 10.198.71.246 
 
 That was one line broken to aid in emailing, but that's what
 types of lines are involved. The MAC appears at different field
 locations depending on the type of event being logged so awk is
 perfect for certain types of lines, but it misses others and no
 one awk expression gets them all.

While I agree with others that awk should be used with explicit
recognition of the particular lines, you can still snatch everything
with sed if you want to.  In FreeBSD, sed supported extended regex, so:

sed -nE 's/.*([0-9a-f]{2}(:[0-9a-f]{2}){5}).*/\1/p'

The -n option tells sed not to print the line unless instructed to
explicitely, and the p modifier at the end is that instruction.  As
for the regex ... well, that's straightforward enough.

   This is an attempt to isolate every MAC address that
 appears and then sort and count them to see who is having
 trouble or, in some cases, is causing trouble.

Then you still may want to use awk for some of that...

cat /var/log/dhcpd.log | \
sed -nE 's/.*([0-9a-f]{2}(:[0-9a-f]{2}){5}).*/\1/p' | \
awk '
 { a[$1]++; }
 END {
  for(i in a){
   printf(%7.0f\t%s\n, a[i], i);
  }
 }
' | sort -nr

You can join the lines into a single command line if you like, or toss
it as-is into a tiny shell script.  Awk is forgiving about whitespace.

You should theoretically be able to feed the same regex to awk, but I've
found that awk's eregex support sometimes doesn't work as I'd expect.

Hope this helps.

p

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Re: messagebus user

2008-08-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 27), jef moskot said:
 We just upgraded to a new server (FreeBSD 7.0) and in our passwd file
 is the user messagebus (there's also a group).
 
 What's this for and can the UID be changed?  It's got the same number
 as one of our oldest users and we're trying to determine which UID
 would be easier to switch.
 
 While this obviously has something to do with D-BUS (whatever that
 is), it's nothing we installed on purpose.  If it's not a part of
 the default system, it probably got bundled in as a dependency during
 an large port make.

You should be able to change its uid by deinstalling dbus, then editing
/usr/ports/devel/dbus/pkg-install, changing the uid in that script
to an unused ID, and reinstalling.

All the userids created by ports should be listed in /usr/ports/UIDs
and GIDs, so you can check to see if any other ports might conflict
with existing users.  Unfortunately, the ports themselves don't use
those files during the install, so you can't just edit that and be
done.  You have to fix each port individually.

-- 
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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Bertrand

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

Hello,

for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail 
server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).


How have you identified that they are actually being delivered by your 
server itself?


It is my experience that this is likely not the case, and it is only 
your addresses that are being forged.


The only way to tell for certain is to review the headers of the message.

If you wish, send the email headers (privately if you want), and we can 
identify whether or not it is in fact your server delivering these messages.


Steve
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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 11:40 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
  Hello,
  
  for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail 
  server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own 
  ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
 
 How have you identified that they are actually being delivered by your 
 server itself?
 
 It is my experience that this is likely not the case, and it is only 
 your addresses that are being forged.
 
Additionally, I see sendmail add the local domain to the From field of
incoming messages where the domain is missing. I've seen this on
numerous spam messages and even the occasional legitimate email. It's
been on my to-do list to look into this and modify it. Had me scratching
my head for a while the first time I saw it.


Wayne


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Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Paul Chvostek writes:
 While I agree with others that awk should be used with explicit
 recognition of the particular lines, you can still snatch everything
 with sed if you want to.  In FreeBSD, sed supported extended regex, so:
 
 sed -nE 's/.*([0-9a-f]{2}(:[0-9a-f]{2}){5}).*/\1/p'
 
 The -n option tells sed not to print the line unless instructed to
 explicitely, and the p modifier at the end is that instruction.  As
 for the regex ... well, that's straightforward enough.
 
This is an attempt to isolate every MAC address that
  appears and then sort and count them to see who is having
  trouble or, in some cases, is causing trouble.
 
 Then you still may want to use awk for some of that...

Actually, I have been using awk, but maybe not as
efficiently as I could be, judging from the responses. I was
hoping that the sed script would recognize 6 pairs of hex digits
connected by :'s no matter where they appeared in a line and
give me just that pattern match as, in this case, I don't care
why the MAC address printed, only that it did and having nothing
but MAC's makes the rest of the sorting and counting trivial.

Other helpful examples not quoted but much appreciated. . .

 Hope this helps.

It helps a lot. Awk is one of those things that one can use for
years and still not exploit all the good things it has. I am
amazed even after years of using UNIX how much genius is packed
in to the basic system.

One last sed observation. I did fail to use the -E flag
so sed didn't know it should be using extended RE's.
I will give your examples a try for both sed and awk and  see
what new capabilities I can come up with.

Again, a thousand thanks to you and everyone else for
your answers and patience. It is good to see many different ways
of solving the same problem.

Martin McCormick
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Re: messagebus user

2008-08-27 Thread Chris St Denis

Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (Aug 27), jef moskot said:
  

We just upgraded to a new server (FreeBSD 7.0) and in our passwd file
is the user messagebus (there's also a group).

What's this for and can the UID be changed?  It's got the same number
as one of our oldest users and we're trying to determine which UID
would be easier to switch.

While this obviously has something to do with D-BUS (whatever that
is), it's nothing we installed on purpose.  If it's not a part of
the default system, it probably got bundled in as a dependency during
an large port make.



You should be able to change its uid by deinstalling dbus, then editing
/usr/ports/devel/dbus/pkg-install, changing the uid in that script
to an unused ID, and reinstalling.

All the userids created by ports should be listed in /usr/ports/UIDs
and GIDs, so you can check to see if any other ports might conflict
with existing users.  Unfortunately, the ports themselves don't use
those files during the install, so you can't just edit that and be
done.  You have to fix each port individually.

  
Keep in mind you will probably have the same problem when you upgrade 
the port. Portsnap/csup will overwrite your change so every time you 
upgrade you'll have to change it again.


May be easier to just change the user's UID once. Should be doable 
pretty easily in one shot with a command like

find /usr/home -user 556 -exec chown thenewuserid {} \;

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Re: Help! Tape drive resets the server!

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Swiger

Hi--

On Aug 27, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote:
Occasionally, whenever I open sa0 for reading (typically when Amanda  
starts
flushing backups to tape), the system resets.  I don't mean that the  
kernel
panics or anything; I mean that within a second or two I'm looking  
at a POST
screen.  I'd been having this problem for a while, but recently  
upgraded
literally every other piece of hardware on the system.  The card and  
drive
were the *only* components carried over to the new system, and I  
even swapped

out the card for a duplicate I had stored away.


That type of behavior might indicate a problem with the power supply;  
if you've replaced that already, I'm not sure what else to say other  
than to be be sure you've got a decent model which is adequately  
spec'ed out for the number of drives in your system...


--
-Chuck

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Re: messagebus user

2008-08-27 Thread Warren Block

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, jef moskot wrote:

We just upgraded to a new server (FreeBSD 7.0) and in our passwd file is the 
user messagebus (there's also a group).


What's this for and can the UID be changed?  It's got the same number as one 
of our oldest users and we're trying to determine which UID would be easier 
to switch.


While this obviously has something to do with D-BUS (whatever that is), it's 
nothing we installed on purpose.  If it's not a part of the default system, 
it probably got bundled in as a dependency during an large port make.


If dbus is required, you should be able to create the messagebus user 
before installing the dbus port.  Then the port's pkg-install should see 
that you already have a messagebus user and use it instead of creating a 
new one.  (Untested, but it seems like that's worked for upgrading 
dbus.)


-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa


Steve Bertrand schrieb:

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

Hello,

for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail 
server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my 
own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).


How have you identified that they are actually being delivered by your 
server itself?


It is my experience that this is likely not the case, and it is only 
your addresses that are being forged.
Actually I haven't identified anything, probably the address is 
forged somehow.




The only way to tell for certain is to review the headers of the message.


This should be one (I hope)
There is no user called ixd (Yolanda) on my system:


From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 27 18:48:36 2008
X-Mozilla-Status: 0009
X-Mozilla-Status2: 
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from 18971066005.user.veloxzone.com.br 
(18971066005.user.veloxzone.com

.br [189.71.66.5] (may be forged))
by pukruppa.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id m7RGmXTN038419
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:48:34 
+0200 (CEST)

(envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from [189.71.66.5] (port=22480 
helo=18971066005.user.veloxzone.com.br)

by mail.pukruppa.net with esmtp
id d3c5a8-e87492-d2
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:45:59 --300
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Yolanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jenifer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: last chance for Michael
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:45:59 --300
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary==_NextPart_001_3171_01C90864.62105880
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

--=_NextPart_001_3171_01C90864.62105880
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

hi,


From: Yolanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jenifer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: last chance for Michael
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:45:59 --300
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary==_NextPart_001_3171_01C90864.62105880
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

--=_NextPart_001_3171_01C90864.62105880
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

hi,

2 days ago I got present from Michael.

He was happy!

Today I found the same and much cheaper!

htp://fangem.com

Take a look

-

BTW.: I sometimes try some relay tester, their machines never 
found anything.


Greetings,

Uli.



Steve


--



Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany
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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Swiger

On Aug 27, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small)  
mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even  
with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

 1) How is this possible?


Forging email headers is trivial.  You can do it with telnet by hand,  
although spammers tend to use malware which blasts lots of messages



 2) What can I or do I have to do against it?
I am running a quite plain sendmail setup from 7.0 -STABLE.


Configuring anti-spam measures is something that would occupy a book.   
For starters, look into greylisting, RBLs, and anti-spam tools which  
hook into the milter interface.  There's also some config-level  
changes documented here:


  http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html

Regards,
--
-Chuck

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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

Steve Bertrand schrieb:

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:


for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) 
mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with 
my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).



The only way to tell for certain is to review the headers of the message.


Received: from 18971066005.user.veloxzone.com.br 
(18971066005.user.veloxzone.com

.br [189.71.66.5] (may be forged))
by pukruppa.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id m7RGmXTN038419
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:48:34 +0200 (CEST)
(envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])


It's a simple forgery by the spammer.  They just claim to be sending from 
your domain because there are apparently people that run internet connected 
mail systems where doing that makes it easier to inject spam... Either 
that, or the spammers figure they'll get you with the bounce-o-gramme even 
if the first delivery doesn't work.


There are a number of measures you can take against such things.  One thing
that is pretty easy to implement is to set up SPF records in the DNS.  This
won't stop the spammers attacking you this way, but it does mean that 
spamassassin will award them lots of spam points and probably reject the 
mail.


If you're using sendmail as your MTA, then look at implementing the 
following features in your $(hostname).mc:


FEATURE(greet_pause, `5000')dnl ## 5 seconds
FEATURE(block_bad_helo)dnl
FEATURE(badmx)dnl
FEATURE(require_rdns)dnl

These are pretty cheap resource wise and block many of the most egregious 
spammers.  There's a lot more you can do than that in setting up sendmail 
to be spam-resistent -- much more than I can describe in an e-mail like 
this.


Cheers,

Matthew

--
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 Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
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RPC: Authentication error

2008-08-27 Thread lysergius2001
Help please.

This is making me crazy.  I have a single client and server.  Attempting to
manually mount the client produces this error.

[udp] server:mount point:RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC:
Authentication error

rpcinfo -p server results in :
rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client
credential too weak

ps-aux | grep rpcbind shows the rpc daemon running...

/etc/hosts.allow has the names of the 3 machines on my network...

Any insights would be most welcome as I am clean out of ideas... duh?





-- 
Lysergius says Stay light and trust gravity
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Re: RPC: Authentication error

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Swiger

Hi--

On Aug 27, 2008, at 10:30 AM, lysergius2001 wrote:

rpcinfo -p server results in :
rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Authentication error; why =  
Client

credential too weak

ps-aux | grep rpcbind shows the rpc daemon running...

/etc/hosts.allow has the names of the 3 machines on my network...

Any insights would be most welcome as I am clean out of ideas... duh?


If you check the logs on the server, you'll probably see something like:

  mountd[95]: mount request from 10.0.0.20 from unprivileged port

...the mount or rpcinfo requests use a high port if run as a normal  
user and that gives an error; try running these as root from a full  
root-login (ie, login as root on console or use su -l, not via sudo).


Regards,
--
-Chuck

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Re: Help! Tape drive resets the server!

2008-08-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 12:16:33 Chuck Swiger wrote:

 That type of behavior might indicate a problem with the power supply;
 if you've replaced that already, I'm not sure what else to say other
 than to be be sure you've got a decent model which is adequately
 spec'ed out for the number of drives in your system...

It's actually a fairly new Antec PSU rated at 450W (?  500W?  Somewhere in 
there) without too many components on it.  Thanks for the suggestion, though.  
I might try some of the other power leads on that PSU.  Maybe I picked one 
with an intermittent short or something.
-- 
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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Chris Pratt

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

Hello,
for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small)  
mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even  
with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).





Matthew's message beat me to the response but I had typed
one. There are some great tools for this and many are in
ports. SPF and these do work. Here is what has been sitting in
my drafts, it may have some additional value.
...
I don't worry much about what I receive that is forged because
I'm reasonably sure that I didn't send it nor were my servers
leveraged. I monitor heavily. On the other hand,
I do make certain that others aren't receiving spam thinking
it's from my domains. SPF helps with this, information is
available on www.openspf.org. This doesn't stop forgery,
but it does give a tool to the receiver to verify what email
is actually from your domain and email server. It's
implemented very easily in your DNS entries. SPF is you telling
the world that you authorize your domain to send email only
from a specific set of servers (or a specific server). After you
implement SPF, after a few weeks, they will generally
stop using your domain because it's too frequently rejected
by receivers. It becomes less in their interest to forge your
domain so they go pick on someone else.

If you DO want to stop people using your domain in sending to
YOU, there are several tools to use in conjunction with sendmail
to do this. I use MailScanner which is available within ports.
If there are no relays involved in how you receive mail, this
works because SpamAssassin (automatically installed with
MailScanner) will see if the email you are receiving matched SPF.
Yours and everyone elses. There are good docs on the net for
using FreeBSD, sendmail, and MailScanner and it's dependencies.
If you can't find them, try this:

http://bio.fsu.edu/~sysalex/freebsd-mail-server.htm

If you are going to run a mail server, it's good to
have spam and virus defenses installed.

There are more direct methods of actually rejecting forged
emails within sendmail. You will find a list of these on the
SPF site under implementations. These tools may or may not
be in ports. You will have to check on that. They make use of
the milter interface within sendmail.

The spf mail list is extremely helpful and professional if you have
questions on this. You can join this list on their site. I'm not
pushing their site or this draft standard, it's that SPF has
worked pretty well for what it does and it's open method of
dealing with the problems.


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kern.ipc.sem* and postgresql

2008-08-27 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all

Classic question but I don't find the answers by google.

If I've server with X procs, N Go ram and if the only purpose of this
server is to run a postgresql daemon how can I known/calculate what I must
give to those variable 

set kern.ipc.semmni=? 
set kern.ipc.semmns=? 
set kern.ipc.semmnu=?

and 

kern.ipc.shmall=?
kern.ipc.shmmax=?
kern.ipc.semmap=?

Once those variables is determined how can I known/calculate the variable
in postgresql.conf ? 

shared_buffers = 32MB   # min 128kB or max_connections*16kB
# (change requires restart)
#temp_buffers = 8MB # min 800kB
#max_prepared_transactions = 5  # can be 0 or more
# (change requires restart)
# Note:  Increasing max_prepared_transactions costs ~600 bytes of shared
# memory
# per transaction slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction).
#work_mem = 1MB # min 64kB
#maintenance_work_mem = 16MB# min 1MB
#max_stack_depth = 2MB  # min 100kB
# - Free Space Map -
max_fsm_pages = 204800  # min max_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each
# (change requires restart)
#max_fsm_relations = 1000   # min 100, ~70 bytes each
# (change requires restart)

# - Kernel Resource Usage -

#max_files_per_process = 1000   # min 25


? 

Regards.

JAS
-- 
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SIO batiment 15
Observatoire de Paris Meudon
5 Place Jules Janssen
92195 Meudon Cedex
Heure local/Local time:
Mer 27 aoû 2008 21:06:02 CEST
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Large Professor Album Ticket give away, Bobbito @ On The Real so much more!

2008-08-27 Thread The Doctor's Orders

   [hea=]

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Re: kern.ipc.sem* and postgresql

2008-08-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all

 Classic question but I don't find the answers by google.

 If I've server with X procs, N Go ram and if the only purpose of this
 server is to run a postgresql daemon how can I known/calculate what I must
 give to those variable

set kern.ipc.semmni=?
set kern.ipc.semmns=?
set kern.ipc.semmnu=?

 and

kern.ipc.shmall=?
kern.ipc.shmmax=?
kern.ipc.semmap=?

 Once those variables is determined how can I known/calculate the variable
 in postgresql.conf ?

 shared_buffers = 32MB   # min 128kB or max_connections*16kB
# (change requires restart)
 #temp_buffers = 8MB # min 800kB
 #max_prepared_transactions = 5  # can be 0 or more
# (change requires restart)
 # Note:  Increasing max_prepared_transactions costs ~600 bytes of shared
 # memory
 # per transaction slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction).
 #work_mem = 1MB # min 64kB
 #maintenance_work_mem = 16MB# min 1MB
 #max_stack_depth = 2MB  # min 100kB
 # - Free Space Map -
 max_fsm_pages = 204800  # min max_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes
 each
# (change requires restart)
 #max_fsm_relations = 1000   # min 100, ~70 bytes each
# (change requires restart)

 # - Kernel Resource Usage -

 #max_files_per_process = 1000   # min 25

 ?

 Regards.

 JAS
 --
 Albert SHIH
 SIO batiment 15
 Observatoire de Paris Meudon
 5 Place Jules Janssen
 92195 Meudon Cedex
 Heure local/Local time:
 Mer 27 aoû 2008 21:06:02 CEST


I used to perform financial/clinical data analysis using a PostgreSQL server
on FreeBSD, which entailed complex questions and a lot of data processing
per query.  I adjusted the PostgreSQL server using the configuration files;
but never found a need to adjust the FreeBSD kernel.

You can find information to help you at the links below.

Managing Kernel Resources section of the manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/kernel-resources.html

Hardware performance tuning section of the PostgreSQL manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/hw_performance/

Global User Configuration Guide at Varlena's website:
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html

Best of luck,

Andrew
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OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Busby
Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with linux. Has 
anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to waste time and money, even 
with the option of resale on eslay.  Thanks for your time.
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Re: Help! Tape drive resets the server!

2008-08-27 Thread Tyson Boellstorff
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 10:22:52 Kirk Strauser wrote:
 I have a Seagate DDS-4 tape drive:

 sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
 sa0: SEAGATE DAT9SP40-000 912L Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3
 device sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16, 16bit)

 It's attached to a Tekram DC390F SCSI card:

 Is it possible that the drive itself is triggering the reset?  I'd find
 that a little unlikely, but am certainly not an expert on the matter. 
 Alternatively, has anyone had that sort of problem with drives attached to
 that card?

1) try a different scsi cable.
2) Are you using adapters? Get the right cable. One new, known good cable, no 
adapters.
3) Yes, it's possible that your drive is doing this, but more likely you have 
a bent pin/short somewhere causing the scsi bus to reset, and your kernel 
isn't handling this nicely. Check your pins. They bend easy, but a mechanical 
pencil with no lead in it can help you with that.
4) Is your termination auto or physical? 
5) Is the tape drive manually jumped for a specific ID? I assume that it is 
set for 3. Try 4.
6) Try a slower transfer rate.

Can you dump the SCSI sense codes that are being seen on the SCSI bus? That 
will most likely tell you whats going on right there.
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Re: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:02:41PM -0700, Mark Busby wrote:
 Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with linux. Has
 anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to waste time and money,
 even with the option of resale on eslay.  Thanks for your time.

All KVM-switches I have encountered so far do not really interact at all
with the OS, and therefore will work equally well with any OS.
I see no reason to expect that KVM switch to be any different.



-- 
Insert your favourite quote here.
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Re: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 27), Erik Trulsson said:
 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:02:41PM -0700, Mark Busby wrote:
  Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with
  linux. Has anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to
  waste time and money, even with the option of resale on eslay. 
  Thanks for your time.
 
 All KVM-switches I have encountered so far do not really interact at
 all with the OS, and therefore will work equally well with any OS. I
 see no reason to expect that KVM switch to be any different.

Watch out for KVMs that use the scroll-lock key to switch computers,
though.  That makes using scrollback history on the console a pain.

-- 
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Re: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-27 Thread Tyson Boellstorff


 Watch out for KVMs that use the scroll-lock key to switch computers,
 though.  That makes using scrollback history on the console a pain.

That would be the 8-port Belkins that I use... Bummer. $40 in ebay, usually.
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Proxying broadcasts?

2008-08-27 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello,

I have a central FreeBSD 7.0 router running pf with SERVERS and USERS1 and 
USERS2 networks
attached to it.

I also have some Sybase SQL servers on SERVERS network, which use broadcasts to 
announce
themselves to the network. Before, when there were no separate segments, 
everything worked fine
of course.

My question: is there any way to proxy (forward) broadcast requests from 
USERS1 to the
SERVERS network? So the users in USERS* networks could find Sybase SQL servers 
via broadcasts?

I tried something like this in my test environment (tried to NAT broadcasted 
DNS requests,
just for trying if pf could do it):

nat on $ServersInterface from 192.168.3.100 to 192.168.1.255 - 192.168.1.1
rdr pass on $UsersInterface proto udp from 192.168.3.100 to 192.168.3.255 port 
53 - 192.168.1.255

(3.100 is a client from USERS1, 1.1 is the router)

But this doesn't seem to be working (no translated packets on the interfaces). 
I guess it's
impossible?

I also analyzed traffic when Sybase client searches for servers - it sends one 
broadcast packet
(UDP) to port 2638 and servers reply directly to the client with UDP reponse 
packet.

Thanks,
Nejc

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alogg problem! I was in the middle of writing a game on Windows, but now I am using FreeBSD...

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Joyner
I was writing a game in Windows using allegro.  Now that I no longer have 
windows, I need a solution to the alogg library.  It does not seem to be ported 
on FreeBSD.
allegro should be find, but my problem is replacing, or getting alogg for 
FreeBSD.
alogg is a library add-on to allegro, for playing .ogg files.

Thank you,


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Re: Proxying broadcasts?

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Swiger

On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Nejc Škoberne wrote:
[ ... ]  Or, you could set up Sybase's
I also have some Sybase SQL servers on SERVERS network, which use  
broadcasts to announce
themselves to the network. Before, when there were no separate  
segments, everything worked fine

of course.

My question: is there any way to proxy (forward) broadcast  
requests from USERS1 to the
SERVERS network? So the users in USERS* networks could find Sybase  
SQL servers via broadcasts?


The simple answer is no: if you want subnet-local broadcast traffic to  
be received, then your DB servers and your clients need to be on the  
same subnet.  Routers are designed and required to not propagate  
broadcast traffic, although you could switch to doing bridging rather  
than routing.  Or, you could set up Sybase's SQL.INI to list all of  
the databases you care about, if I recall correctly...


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defrag

2008-08-27 Thread prad
something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to
asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with
windoze.

fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right?

so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal
with it?

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Re: alogg problem! I was in the middle of writing a game on Windows, but now I am using FreeBSD...

2008-08-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
Christopher Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 alogg is a library add-on to allegro, for playing .ogg files.

cd /usr/ports

make search name=ogg

make search info=ogg

make search info=vorbis

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Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Powell
prad wrote:

 something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to
 asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with
 windoze.
 
 fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right?
 
 so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal
 with it?
 

The short answer is that defrag is built into and an integral part of the
filesystem. So you can think of it as always running as opposed to
the regularly scheduled by some other entity/application external to the
filesystem. No third party Disk Keeper like utilities required.

-Mike


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firefox crashes ......

2008-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
People,

I keeep my system ports currents except for the HUGE ports like OO.
Any ideas why firefox-linux keeps crashing very regularly?  No warning,
nothing to stdoutt nor stderr.

The only clues I have are these core dumps.  

-rw---   1 kline  kline   4173824 Aug 27 17:38 talkback.core
-rw---   1 kline  kline  86728704 Aug 27 17:38 firefox-bin.core

Suggestions,

gary



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cache nfs file to local disk

2008-08-27 Thread ProAce
Hello,

There are the cachefs on Solaris and FS-Cache on RedHat can cache file
from nfs to local disk, does any similar software can be run on
FreeBSD?

In order to reduce the throughput and ops for nas server, I just want
to cache file from nfs to local disk. And the cache system can
controller the total size of cache file automatically ( the capacity
of nas is more more more large than local disk ).
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Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Fred C


Maybe it is because FAT filesystem wasn't well designed from the  
beginning and defrag was a workaround to solve performances problems.


-fred-

On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:29 PM, prad wrote:


something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to
asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with
windoze.

fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right?

so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal
with it?

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Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On August 27, 2008 09:35:42 pm Fred C wrote:
 Maybe it is because FAT filesystem wasn't well designed from the
 beginning and defrag was a workaround to solve performances problems.

 -fred-

 On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:29 PM, prad wrote:
  something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to
  asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with
  windoze.
 
  fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right?
 
  so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal
  with it?
 
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That's true about FAT.  What I have never understood is why Microsoft didn't 
fix the problem when they designed NTFS.  UFS and EXT2 both existed at that 
time, and neither needs periodic defragmentation.

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Re: firefox crashes ......

2008-08-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:58:49 -0700
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 -rw---   1 kline  kline   4173824 Aug 27 17:38 talkback.core
 -rw---   1 kline  kline  86728704 Aug 27 17:38 firefox-bin.core
 
 Suggestions,

not much to go on really... what version of ffox ? i'm running 3.x here and it
works fine.

any message left in messages.log, or .xsession-errors ? anything in particular
that triggers it ? 

 what does gdb on the core file show? 
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curses.h, beep() returns ERR, flash() casuses segment fault.

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Joyner
I do not get the OK from beep, and flash crashes the program.
This is my code:

#include curses.h

int main(int argc,char** argv)
{
if(beep()!=OK)
printf(No OK\n); fflush(stdout);
if(flash()!=OK)
printf(No Flash\n); fflush(stdout);
return 0;
}

 

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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa

Sorry, I forgot to post to the list!



Matthew Seaman schrieb:
 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
 Steve Bertrand schrieb:
 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

 for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my
 own (small) mail server, some of them with faked
 usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

 The only way to tell for certain is to review the headers
 of the message.

 Received: from 18971066005.user.veloxzone.com.br 
(18971066005.user.veloxzone.com .br [189.71.66.5] (may be

 forged)) by pukruppa.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id
 m7RGmXTN038419 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 27 Aug 2008
 18:48:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

 It's a simple forgery by the spammer.  They just claim to be
 sending from your domain because there are apparently people
 that run internet connected mail systems where doing that
 makes it easier to inject spam... Either that, or the spammers
 figure they'll get you with the bounce-o-gramme even if the
 first delivery doesn't work.

 There are a number of measures you can take against such
 things.  One thing that is pretty easy to implement is to set
 up SPF records in the DNS.  This won't stop the spammers
 attacking you this way, but it does mean that spamassassin
 will award them lots of spam points and probably reject the mail.

 If you're using sendmail as your MTA, then look at
 implementing the following features in your $(hostname).mc:
Would that mean a file called
/etc/mail/pukruppa.net.mc
in my case? Since I get
# hostname
pukruppa.net
or do I leave away the .net ?

Thanks,

Uli.


 FEATURE(greet_pause, `5000')dnl ## 5 seconds 
FEATURE(block_bad_helo)dnl FEATURE(badmx)dnl FEATURE(require_rdns)dnl


 These are pretty cheap resource wise and block many of the
 most egregious spammers.  There's a lot more you can do than
 that in setting up sendmail to be spam-resistent -- much more
 than I can describe in an e-mail like this.

 Cheers,

 Matthew


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Re: curses.h, beep() returns ERR, flash() casuses segment fault.

2008-08-27 Thread Polytropon
Good morning!

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:40 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Joyner [EMAIL 
PROTECTED] wrote:
 I do not get the OK from beep, and flash crashes the program.
 This is my code:
 
 #include curses.h
 
 int main(int argc,char** argv)
 {
 if(beep()!=OK)
 printf(No OK\n); fflush(stdout);
 if(flash()!=OK)
 printf(No Flash\n); fflush(stdout);
 return 0;
 }

First of all, fflush seems to need a definition from stdio.h.
I'm not sure if it's included by default (such as -lc is).

I tried to link with -lcurses and -lncurses and I can reproduce
the error you mentioned:



/* beepflash.c */

#include stdio.h
#include curses.h

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf(beep: %d\n, beep());
fflush(stdout);

printf(flash: %d\n, flash());
fflush(stdout);

return 0;
}



% cc -Wall -lncurses -o beepflash beepflash.c
% ./beepflash
-1
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Allthough I did a lot of programming with NCurses, I'm not sure
where this error comes from. My old programs do work with the
ncurses installation I have (compile + run), but none of them
uses flash() or beep(). I found out that no ncurses package is
installed.

So I did

# pkg_add -r ncurses

to install devel/ncurses (ncurses-5.6_2) and repeated the compile
process - same result. So I went to check the main difference
between my working programs and your code, because I noticed that
if I put a beep() and a flash() call into my program, they worked
as expected.

Solution: Prior to any call to the ncurses library, put these
into your code:

initscr();
cbreak();
noecho();
nonl();
intrflush(stdscr, FALSE);
keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
start_color();

I'm not sure which are essential to make beep() and flash() work
as expected, but you can easily find out which ones you don't need.

Explaination: The ncurses library / seesion doesn't seem to be
initialized correctly, that's why beep() didn't work and flash()
caused a segmentation fault.



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Re: curses.h, beep() returns ERR, flash() casuses segment fault.

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 22:10:40 Christopher Joyner wrote:
 I do not get the OK from beep, and flash crashes the program.
 This is my code:

  First, take a look on the manual page...
 

 #include curses.h

 int main(int argc,char** argv)
 {
 if(beep()!=OK)
 printf(No OK\n); fflush(stdout);
 if(flash()!=OK)
 printf(No Flash\n); fflush(stdout);
 return 0;
 }

  Well, try:

#include stdlib.h
#include stdio.h
#include curses.h

int
main(int argc,char** argv)
{
/* in curses(3X) manual page... */
initscr();

if (beep() != OK)
printf(No OK\n); fflush(stdout);
if (flash() != OK)
printf(No Flash\n); fflush(stdout);
return 0;
}

  And read the curses manual page, you forgot to init
the screen.




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Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:47 -0400
Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 That's true about FAT.  What I have never understood is why Microsoft
 didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS.  UFS and EXT2 both
 existed at that time, and neither needs periodic defragmentation.

I think they probably did, NTFS took a lot from UNIX filesystems, and
at the time it was released they said that NTFS didn't need any
defragmentation at all. 

I suspect that it's mostly a matter of attitude. Windows users have an
irrational obsessive-compulsive attitude to fragmentation, so they
end-up with good reliable defragmenters, and so less reason not to use
them. We don't really care, so we end-up with no, or poor,
defragmenters, which reinforces our don't care attitude.
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How to use automount daemon (amd)

2008-08-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi,

I have the following issue with amd.

I want to write a script that will detect whenever a USB disk is
plugged in and then run a backup.

My configuration is described below.

File /etc/amd.map:

/defaultstype:=host;fs:=${autodir}/${rhost};rhost:=${key}
*   opts:=rw,grpid,resvport,nfsv2

localhost   type:=auto;fs:=${map};pref:=${key}/

localhost/da0   type:=program;fs:=/automnt/da0;\
mount:=/usr/local/sbin/fsck_mount fsck_mount /automnt/da0;\
unmount:=/usr/local/sbin/spin_down spin_down /automnt/da0

where fsck_mount is a short script that does a fsck_ffs -p, to catch
unclean file system) then a mount and spin_down a script that does
umount then camcrontrol stop.

file /etc/fstab:

/dev/da0s1d /automnt/da0ufs rw,noauto   0   0

And amd runs with the parameters:

/usr/sbin/amd -p -a /.amd_mnt -l syslog /host /etc/amd.map

When I play with mounting and dismounting the USB disk by hand, it
works fine:

- I attach the USB disk, wait for usbd to detect umass and create the
  disk da0

- I access to /host/localhost/da0

- I launch my backup by hand.

- I amq -u /host/localhost/da0 to umount the disk da0

- I remove the USB drive.

All this is OK.

But I would like my backup script to be able to check whether the USB
disk is present or not.

If I try to access /host/localhost/da0 while the USB disk is not
attached, I get no error (ls /host/localhost/da0 returns empty).

Then I attach the USB disk and wait for it to start. Then try to ls
again but it still gives me nothing. Mount will not show that
/automnt/da0 is mounted.

It seems that if I try to access /host/localhost/da0 when there is no
corresponding disk, amd remembers that error and refuse to mount the
disk later until the cache is cleared.

The command amq -m shows:
root   amanda:(pid1290)  root 1   localhost is up
/etc/amd.map /host toplvl   1   localhost is up
/etc/amd.map /host/localhost   auto 1   localhost is up
fsck_mount /automnt/da0  /automnt/da0  program  1   localhost is up

where /automnt/da0 seems to be mounted even when there is no such
disk.

I think that if my backup script tries to check /host/localhost/da0
with a period (every 10 minutes) greater than amd cache timeout
(default 5 minutes), then it should be able to detect when the disk is
mounted the next time.

I could reduce the cache time out too, but that may interfeer with the
efficiency of amd.

I wonder if there is a different way to check that the disk is
available, than trying to ls /host/localhost/da0.

A side question about rpcbind.

I'd like to start rpcbind to bind only to localhost. I tried:

/usr/sbin/rpcbind -h 127.0.0.1

which works but with the error:

rpcbind: cannot bind 127.0.0.1 on udp: Address already in use

Is there a way to start rpcbind on localhost only?

Best regards,

Olivier
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Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

Matthew Seaman schrieb:



  If you're using sendmail as your MTA, then look at
  implementing the following features in your $(hostname).mc:



Would that mean a file called
/etc/mail/pukruppa.net.mc
in my case? Since I get
# hostname
pukruppa.net
or do I leave away the .net ?


It's shorthand for 'whatever you call the .mc file you generate your
sendmail.cf from.'  By default on FreeBSD it's named according to
what the hostname(1) command outputs, which should be the fully qualified 
domain name of your machine (ie. pukruppa.net).  You can create the
initial copies of the files by:

  # cd /etc/mail
  # make

which will create files pukruppa.net.mc and pukruppa.net.subit.mc
and then process those respectively into pukruppa.net.cf and 
pukruppa.net.submit.cf


Edit pukruppa.net.mc to make any changes you want, then type 'make'
to rebuild pukkruppa.net.cf and then 'make install restart' to
copy pukruppa.net.cf to sendmail.cf (amongst other actiosn) and restart 
sendmail.  In general, whenever you do anything to sendmail related config 
files including stuff like aliases and access and virtusertable, run

just run make to publish it to the running sendmail process -- you only need
'make install restart' when you modify one of the .cf files.

Cheers

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RE: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-27 Thread David Christensen
Mark Busby wrote:
 Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with linux. Has
 anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to waste time and money,
 even with the option of resale on eslay.  Thanks for your time.

I've had good luck with my IOGear Miniview GCS 78 -- 8-port VGA, PS/2 keyboard,
PS/2 mouse.


I've used it with Win2k, WinXP, Win2003SBS, Debian GNU/Linux, Damn Small Linux,
and FreeBSD, in recent memory, and probably several more in the past.  I've also
used the GUC100KM PS/2 keyboard and mouse to USB converter successfully with
several platforms.


Sometimes I wish the KVM had sound, but what I really need to do is build a
matrix mixer/ distribution amp that sends each of eight line inputs to the other
seven outputs (e.g. no feedback loop)...


Erik Trulsson wrote:
 All KVM-switches I have encountered so far do not really interact at
 all with the OS, and therefore will work equally well with any OS.
 I see no reason to expect that KVM switch to be any different.

I ran into *severe* problems in the past using KVM's with older AT keyboard/
serial mouse machines.  Basically, I went through every unit available at Fry's
and returned them all.  Life only got better when I finally mothballed the
ancient hardware.  However, I do recall that IOGear worked correctly, but that I
returned it because the hot-key sequence started with Ctrl, Ctrl (Duke Nuk'em
3D's fire button).


Consider buying retail, so you can test the KVM with everything you have and
return it if you find compatibility problems and/or hot-key issues.


Dan Nelson wrote:
 Watch out for KVMs that use the scroll-lock key to switch computers,
 though.  That makes using scrollback history on the console a pain.

My KVM's hot-key sequence is Ctrl, Alt, Shift, num; in that order.  Thus far,
I haven't run into an conflicting application or platform.


Check the hot-key sequence of any unit before you buy.


HTH,

David

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RE: mysql-server-5.1.22 system administration docs on FreeBSD7.0-RELEASE-i386 ?

2008-08-27 Thread David Christensen
Fraser Tweedale wrote:
 put the following line in /etc/rc.conf:
 mysql_enable=YES
 and run (as root):
 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
 
# echo 'mysql_enable=YES'  /etc/rc.conf

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
Starting mysql.

# mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.1.22-rc FreeBSD port: mysql-server-5.1.22

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql

Ahhh -- much better.  :-)


The explanation is here:

 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html

Since the rc.d system is primarily intended to start/stop services
at system startup/shutdown time, the standard start, stop and
restart options will only perform their action if the appropriate
/etc/rc.conf variables are set. For instance the above sshd restart
command will only work if sshd_enable is set to YES in
/etc/rc.conf. ...


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Try adding mysql_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf after this is done try
 starting again via the rc script. In the future pass the parameter
 rcvar to the rc script.
 Eg. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server rcvar
 mysql_enable=YES this would indicate what to add to rc.conf

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server rcvar
# mysql
mysql_enable=YES

The explanation is here:

 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html

It is easy to check if a service is enabled in /etc/rc.conf by
running the appropriate rc.d script with the option rcvar. Thus, an
administrator can check that sshd is in fact enabled in
/etc/rc.conf by running:

# /etc/rc.d/sshd rcvar
# sshd
$sshd_enable=YES


Thanks!

David

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RE: mysql-server-5.1.22 system administration docs onFreeBSD7.0-RELEASE-i386 ?

2008-08-27 Thread joeb
To autostart mysql at boot add this to /etc/rc.conf
mysql_enable=YES

Add this to /etc/rc.conf to direct to use this location where there is disk
space
to hold your databases
mysql_dbdir=/usr/local/mysql

To start or stop mysql server do this
/usr/local/share/mysql/mysql.server start
/usr/local/share/mysql/mysql.server stop

You have to tell mysql to create its internal control db
by running this command one time first before trying to create databases.
mysql_install_db --user=mysql

To verify mysql is operational issue these commands
mysqladmin version
mysqladmin variables

To start command line session with mysql server to
create a DB enter
mysql -u root

The online mysql manual is at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html

The mysql databases and log files are written here
/var/db/mysql

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Christensen
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:47 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: mysql-server-5.1.22 system administration docs
onFreeBSD7.0-RELEASE-i386 ?

Fraser Tweedale wrote:
 put the following line in /etc/rc.conf:
 mysql_enable=YES
 and run (as root):
 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start

# echo 'mysql_enable=YES'  /etc/rc.conf

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
Starting mysql.

# mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.1.22-rc FreeBSD port: mysql-server-5.1.22

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql

Ahhh -- much better.  :-)


The explanation is here:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.h
tml

Since the rc.d system is primarily intended to start/stop services
at system startup/shutdown time, the standard start, stop and
restart options will only perform their action if the appropriate
/etc/rc.conf variables are set. For instance the above sshd restart
command will only work if sshd_enable is set to YES in
/etc/rc.conf. ...


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Try adding mysql_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf after this is done try
 starting again via the rc script. In the future pass the parameter
 rcvar to the rc script.
 Eg. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server rcvar
 mysql_enable=YES this would indicate what to add to rc.conf

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server rcvar
# mysql
mysql_enable=YES

The explanation is here:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.h
tml

It is easy to check if a service is enabled in /etc/rc.conf by
running the appropriate rc.d script with the option rcvar. Thus, an
administrator can check that sshd is in fact enabled in
/etc/rc.conf by running:

# /etc/rc.d/sshd rcvar
# sshd
$sshd_enable=YES


Thanks!

David

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