date:20081112

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:26:58PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
 I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user,
 and running fsck -y.  background fsck does not catch all errors.

 Okay then, are there any ways of performing it remotely, without my going 
 to the data center and standing near the server for an hour while it  
 checks? I mean are there any civil ways, or only running reboot -qn and  
 praying? :)

Booting into single-user via serial console, KVM, KVM-over-IP, or
iLO/LOM (if HP/Compaq) is sufficient.  If you have servers which are
remote and you lack any of these features, I'm both surprised and not
sure what to tell you.  You'll encounter this problem with any OS, not
just FreeBSD.

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Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread VeeJay

Hello Jeremy,

Thanks for the feedback... here is the configuration of server:

*2 x PE2950 III Quad Core Xeon E5450 3.0GHz,2x6MB,1333FSB
*Riser with PCI Express Support (2x PCIe x8 slots; 1x PCIe x4 slot)
PE2950 English rack power cord
PE2950 Bezel Assembly
*16GB (8x2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz FBD
6 x 450GB SAS 15k 3.5 HD Hot Plug
*PE2950 III - Chassis 3.5HDD x6 Backplane
*PERC 6/i, Integrated Controller Card x6 backplane
*CD/DVD Drive Cable
8X DVD-ROM Drive IDE
PE2950 III Redundant Power Supply No Power Cord
Rack Power Distribution Unit Power Cord
TCP/IP Offload Engine 2P
Broadcom TCP/IP Offload Engine functionality (TOE) Not Enabled
Drac 5 Card
*PE2950 III C5 MSS R10 Add-in PERC 5/i / 6/i*

Attached is also screen dump from the server:

I would apprecaite any help

VJ
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I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with
FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on
one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a troubleshooting tool
called DSET. (
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/dell_system_tool?c=usl=ens=gen)
But that is for Linux distributions.

So, I am just in middle of no where :(

Could you guys guide me that how to install and run this tool on my server
in order to diagnose problem?

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Thanks!

BR / vj

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This question should have gone to -hardware or -stable.

It depends on what RAID controller is installed in the box, and what
problem you're actually having (There seemed to be a problem with the
RAID controller tells us nothing).

I believe others have some experience with PERC controllers, but as I
said, we don't know what hardware you have.

Hello Guys

So, I am just in middle of no where :(

Could you guys guide me that how to install and run this tool on my server
in order to diagnose problem?

--
Thanks!

BR / vj
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Any Help about Dell PERC 6/i, FreeBSD and DSET troubleshooting tool???

2008-11-12 Thread VeeJay

Hello Jeremy,

Thanks for the feedback... here is the configuration of server:

I would apprecaite any help

Hello Guys

So, I am just in middle of no where :(

Could you guys guide me that how to install and run this tool on my server
in order to diagnose problem?
--
Thanks!
BR / vj
--

This question should have gone to -hardware or -stable.
It depends on what RAID controller is installed in the box, and what
problem you're actually having (There seemed to be a problem with the
RAID controller tells us nothing).
I believe others have some experience with PERC controllers, but as I
said, we don't know what hardware you have.
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Hello Guys

So, I am just in middle of no where :(

Could you guys guide me that how to install and run this tool on my server
in order to diagnose problem?

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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread cpghost

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
  I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer 
  any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
  
  What on earth is going on with release scheduling?
  
 Two words: volunteer project
 
 I would propose to do away with the release schedule altogether, or make
 it very succinct; 
 
   next release: when it's done.

Actually, it's not so bad that the PRERELEASE phase is so long:
in this time, more bugs are being fixed that would have normally
been lingering in the pr database. Quality is much more important
than deadlines, IMHO; and those lenghty code freeze phases are a
blessing since they help stabilize the code base.

-cpghost.

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Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:01 +0100, VeeJay wrote:
 There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on
 one server. 

Screw Dell's diagnostics tools.

Those are there to help psychology majors who got their MCSE and RHCE
after they realized that all you can do with a psychology degree is
teach psychology or serve coffee.

Send us your screenshot.  Nothing was attached.

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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Roland Smith

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:13:47PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
 On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote:
  On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
   I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can
   offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
  
   What on earth is going on with release scheduling?
 
  Two words: volunteer project
 
 Oh, I fully understand that, which is why I also asked whether there's 
 anything I can do to help, with my meagre abilities and resources. 

Acquire the skills necessary and contribute in an area that interests
you, where you can scratch an itch so to speak.

 This 
 wasn't intended to demean the efforts of the release team at all; it was more 
 a plea for better communication when delays start to accumulate.
 
  I would propose to do away with the release schedule altogether, or make
  it very succinct;
 
next release: when it's done.
 
 Yes - but is it not possible to estimate (and as a long-suffering sysadmin, I 
 know I'm on shaky ground here after some of the estimated schedules I've 
 given my management and my users!) roughly how far off we are? Even the old 
 todo list on the website offered some guide.

Watch the mailing-lists. freebsd-announce, freebsd-current,
freebsd-stable and maybe freebsd-hackers.

Or contact the release engineering team. See
http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html

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Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Maness

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

 I atually bought a small portable compressor (designed for running
 a nailgun, basically) for this purpose.  $80 at Harbor Freight for
 a new one, you can get them cheaper used.  The canned air is really
 expensive, you end up using a half a can on a PC.

 If you do the compressor, make sure you put a regulator on your
 blow gun: 80-120 psi of air coming out of a blowgun is capabable of
 blowing components off the circuit boards along with the dust.

 The compressor is also very useful for blowing out the air
 conditioner coils every year, as well as the refrigerator coils
 on the refrigerator.  Doing just this will pay for the compressor
 in a few years in energy savings.

 The compressor suggestion is a great idea Ted.

 I would like to point out that there is usually a considerable amount of
 moisture that condenses as the air is being compressed into the tank.

 For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged for
 10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual moisture
 dry, or purchase an inline water filter.

 The compressor also makes it quite a bit more convenient for topping up
 your vehicles tire air pressure (you know you don't do this regularly
 enough ;)

 Steve


It was just cleaned a couple of months ago, and I think I will evoke
the old proverb do me wrong once shame on you -- do me wrong twice
shame on me.  When I put the server on a couple of months ago, I ran
into a couple of post stating that the Abit VP6 had issues with
components that fail.  This seems to have happened.  The old 1U box I
switched the hardrive to yesterday is working flawlessly.  However,
this machine is a little on the underpowered side.

Chris Maness
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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Huff


cpghost writes:

 next release: when it's done.
  
  Actually, it's not so bad that the PRERELEASE phase is so long:
  in this time, more bugs are being fixed that would have normally
  been lingering in the pr database.

The problem is not technical; no one has a problem with the
idea right is better than sooner.
The problem is administrative: failure to create reasonable
expectations among the general user community, and particularly
failure let people know when those expectations - for necessary and
sufficient reasons - need to change.
Case at hand: given that 7.1-Beta2 has been pending for (as far
as I can tell) nearly two months (or maybe more) and - based on a
casual reading of current@ - is in no danger of happening soon, the
information at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html about a
November release for 7.1 is clearly a no-op.  Yes, the page says
approximate and subject to slippage.  But those should be
measured against the context of an otherwise realisitic schedule;
early November slips to late November, not April.
(If this sees a bit of a hot button ... some of us are flashing
on the many months of almost got it that preceded 5.0.)


Robert Huff

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Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread VeeJay

Hello Guys

I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with
FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on
one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a troubleshooting tool
called DSET. (
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/dell_system_tool?c=usl=ens=gen
)
But that is for Linux distributions.

So, I am just in middle of no where :(

Could you guys guide me that how to install and run this tool on my server
in order to diagnose problem?

-- 
Thanks!

BR / vj
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RE: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Chadwick
 Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:07 AM
 To: Ted Mittelstaedt
 Cc: Chris Maness; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: Server Freezing Solid

 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:06:12AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
   -Original Message-
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Maness
   Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:43 AM
   To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
   Subject: Server Freezing Solid

   I am having a new problem.  I have been running FreeBSD for years with
   no crashing.  All of a sudden my server starts crashing with no panic
   messages.  I am suspecting hardware because there are no messages, but
   the CPU temp is fine.

  Take the machine down, take it outside, take the cover off.  Liberally
  blow all dust out with canned air.  Unseat and reseat ALL connectors,
  including power, including CPU out of it's socket, including ram.
  Turn it back on and make sure the power supply fan is operating at full
  speed.

 This is excellent advice.  I do this exact procedure once a year,
 usually before summer, to all desktop systems I have.

I atually bought a small portable compressor (designed for running
a nailgun, basically) for this purpose.  $80 at Harbor Freight for
a new one, you can get them cheaper used.  The canned air is really
expensive, you end up using a half a can on a PC.

If you do the compressor, make sure you put a regulator on your
blow gun: 80-120 psi of air coming out of a blowgun is capabable of
blowing components off the circuit boards along with the dust.

The compressor is also very useful for blowing out the air
conditioner coils every year, as well as the refrigerator coils
on the refrigerator.  Doing just this will pay for the compressor
in a few years in energy savings.

Ted

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FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time 
complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in 
question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then 
all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours 
later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and 
sendmail, nothing special.


Thanks and regards



Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)
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Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi

Hello

I have used the PERC on dells 2900  2950

they are trick pieces of hardware
and can easyly wipe out the contents of your
disk drive on the CTRL-R screen (setup screen).

the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid)
on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use
the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel
is, in this manner, can detect problems with the drivers
and so, can act on it
so
1) attach a new drive on your controller (this drive will be erased...)
2) put the drive in another VD (on the control-r screen)
3) attach the drive... 
4) format it in the running freebsd
5) put your data on the drive (using tar)
6) shutdown the computer, save the drive
7) mount the other drivers using raid-0  
8) re-install freebsd using g-mirror (see freebsd documentation...)
9) remount the saved drive on the controller now using the Foreing
option
10) boot freebsd, mount the drive restore the sistem and be happy

Hope that it can help


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Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Powell

Chris Maness wrote:
[snip]
 For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged for
 10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual moisture
 dry, or purchase an inline water filter.

Should always put a drier on a compressor. You'll learn the hard way if you
invest in pneumatic tools; you will kill them if you don't.

[snip]
 I ran
 into a couple of post stating that the Abit VP6 had issues with
 components that fail.  This seems to have happened.  The old 1U box I
 switched the hardrive to yesterday is working flawlessly.  However,
 this machine is a little on the underpowered side.
 

Without actually checking, if memory serves there were a number of products
from that time frame that used inferior electrolytic filter caps. You can
easily spot these by examining the top where there is metal showing through
in the center surrounded by the plastic wrapper. In the caps that fail the
plastic wrapper part will be swelled up and puffy looking, possibly even so
far as to have cracks with goo oozing out of them.

I have an Abit KD7A powering a small home development server that I've been
really lucky with, it just sits there and keeps on doing it's thing. But I
have a feeling you may have hit the bad cap problem with the VP6.

-Mike



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Using mpd5 to connect two (or more sites) - Perhaps OT

2008-11-12 Thread Odhiambo Washington

Hiya,

I have used mpd{4|5} as a VPN server for clients and both have worked very
well.
Now I have the need to configure a VPN between two sites.
Each site has a dual-homed FreeBSD running mpd5.
From the configuration, I see I need to load pptp_vpn but I cannot figure
out how the two configs are suuposed to relate.
Is one supposed to be a client of the other or how does it work?
I have put in all the parameters required, but cannot successfully
authenticate from the originating end.
What I need to understand is how the one originating (load pptp_vpn) is
supposed to relate to the server it is connecting to...


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Re: Server Freezing Solid

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:06:12AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Maness
  Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:43 AM
  To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
  Subject: Server Freezing Solid

  I am having a new problem.  I have been running FreeBSD for years with
  no crashing.  All of a sudden my server starts crashing with no panic
  messages.  I am suspecting hardware because there are no messages, but
  the CPU temp is fine.

 Take the machine down, take it outside, take the cover off.  Liberally
 blow all dust out with canned air.  Unseat and reseat ALL connectors,
 including power, including CPU out of it's socket, including ram.
 Turn it back on and make sure the power supply fan is operating at full
 speed.

This is excellent advice.  I do this exact procedure once a year,
usually before summer, to all desktop systems I have.

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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
 I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time  
 complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in 
 question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. 
 Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several 
 hours later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly 
 apache and sendmail, nothing special.

I'm not sure you'll get much support here (or anywhere) for FreeBSD 5.x.

I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user,
and running fsck -y.  background fsck does not catch all errors.

Also, how soon do you check the box to see how much space/free inodes it
has after receiving a filesystem full error?  Are we talking I
checked it 4-5 hours later, or I checked it 30 seconds after?

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Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Steve Bertrand

Michael Powell wrote:
 Chris Maness wrote:
 [snip]
 For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged for
 10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual moisture
 dry, or purchase an inline water filter.
 
 Should always put a drier on a compressor. You'll learn the hard way if you
 invest in pneumatic tools; you will kill them if you don't.

...but...how can I convince my wife that I need new tools when my
existing ones last forever?

Steve

(just joking of course)
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Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Erik Trulsson

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:26:15AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote:
 Chris Maness wrote:
 [snip]
  For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged for
  10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual moisture
  dry, or purchase an inline water filter.
 
 Should always put a drier on a compressor. You'll learn the hard way if you
 invest in pneumatic tools; you will kill them if you don't.
 
 [snip]
  I ran
  into a couple of post stating that the Abit VP6 had issues with
  components that fail.  This seems to have happened.  The old 1U box I
  switched the hardrive to yesterday is working flawlessly.  However,
  this machine is a little on the underpowered side.
  
 
 Without actually checking, if memory serves there were a number of products
 from that time frame that used inferior electrolytic filter caps. You can
 easily spot these by examining the top where there is metal showing through
 in the center surrounded by the plastic wrapper. In the caps that fail the
 plastic wrapper part will be swelled up and puffy looking, possibly even so
 far as to have cracks with goo oozing out of them.
 
 I have an Abit KD7A powering a small home development server that I've been
 really lucky with, it just sits there and keeps on doing it's thing. But I
 have a feeling you may have hit the bad cap problem with the VP6.

See http://www.badcaps.net for much more information about problems with bad
capacitors, and yes the Abit VP6 is one of the boards that commonly exhibits 
that particular problem.





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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Mel

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 11:59:24 Jonathan McKeown wrote:

 What exactly is going on, and is there anything a busy sysadmin,
 poor in time, bandwidth and C skills, can do to help with either the
 release itself or the apparent scheduling/communication issues?

The best thing to do, is to free up a test machine with daily RELENG_7 builds, 
query the bin and kern PR database for open reports and see which one you'd 
be able to replicate. Then add 'me too' to the report with additional info, 
and use your experience to add additional information that might be relevant. 
In other words: help solving bugs.

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Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Mel

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 11:35:33 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05:44AM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
  Hello Guys
 
  I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with
  FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller
  on one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a
  troubleshooting tool called DSET. (
  http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/dell_system
 _tool?c=usl=ens=gen )
  But that is for Linux distributions.
 
  So, I am just in middle of no where :(
 
  Could you guys guide me that how to install and run this tool on my
  server in order to diagnose problem?

 This question should have gone to -hardware or -stable.

Actually, the better one would be -emulation, since they might be able to 
answer if Dell's linux troubleshooting tool would yield any useful 
information on freebsd and how to install/run it in the first place.

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Re: trouble getting x11 xdm to work

2008-11-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert

Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 My /etc/ttys looks like this

  ttyv6   /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25  on  secure
  ttyv7   /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25  on  secure
  #ttyv8  /usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon  xterm   off secure
  #ttyv8   /usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon  xterm   on  secure

 The init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8 msg has stopped.

Right.  Because you're no longer trying to run a getty on that port.

 When I start xdm from root command line nothing happens. NO error log
 msgs, nothing. 

Does it return to the command prompt?  Respond with xdm: not found?
Just hang there?  What *does* it do?

F1 thru F12 just issue the freebsd console logon
 prompt.

Really?  The standard /etc/ttys file doesn't include  entries for
ttyv9-ttyv12.  That means F9-F12 shouldn't let you change to them.  Are
you sure that you can really change to them, or is it possible that
you're still looking at ttyv7 without knowing it?

 My understanding is when /etc/ttys contains this statement

 ttyv8   /usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon  xterm   on  secure

 followed by a kill -HUP 1 command to reread tyys file the following
 should happen.

 F1 thru F8 virtual consoles work as normal (ie: freebsd console logon
 prompt). F9 thru F12 virtual consoles will show the xdm logon screen.

No.  F1 through F7 virtual consoles will be regular consoles, and F8
will be the xdm login screen.

 To make xdm the system default logon method have to add
 xdm_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf and reboot. Then only the xdm logon
 screen will be seen on all virtual consoles F1 thru F12. A
 ctrl+alt+backspace key sequence is the only way to force a return to
 the freebsd console logon prompt for the Fx virtual console being
 used.

No.  Not unless you've written your own script to handle the xdm_enable
variable, which doesn't seem to exist anywhere else in the system.
Unless you've written the script for it as well, I wouldn't expect it to
work.
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Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

2008-11-12 Thread Elliot Isaacson

 On Tuesday 11 November 2008 21:27:38 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I've set up X11Forwarding on several linux servers before, but
  I've just wasted a day trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out
  why I can't get it working on freebsd (7.0-RELEASE GENERIC).
 
  I have not changed the defaults in the sshd_config file.
 
  One the client computer:
 
  $ xhost +
 
  $ ssh -Y 192.ip.of.server
  Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
  forwarding.
 
  /usr/local/bin/xauth:  creating new authority
  file /home/xxx/.Xauthority
  /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name unix:10.0
  in remove command
  /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2:  bad display name unix:10.0
  in add command
 
  [xxx@ ~] kcalc
  X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
  kcalc: Fatal IO error: client killed
 
  [xxx@ ~] ls -a .Xauth*
  no results
 
  Now, when I go to the server and login directly, and do a
  startx, the x server starts fine, but there's still no
  .Xauthority file in the home directory. I find that odd.
 
  This also looks strange to me:
 
  [xxx@ ~] ps -aux | grep X
  root1470  0.0  2.7 65456 13668  v0  S 4:01PM   0:01.24
  X :0 -auth /home/xxx/.serverauth.1451 (Xorg)
 
  [xxx@ ~] ls -a /home/xxx/.serverauth*
  no results
 
  How could it authenticate with a non-existent file?
 
  Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly
  appreciated.

 I had the same problem when trying to SSH to the FreeBSD machines
 from Linux. If I remember correctly, I had to make a change to
 ssh_config on the Linux side to get things to work:

 Host *
   XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth

 It might also help if you would post sshd_config on the FreeBSD
 side.


Thanks for your suggestion. On my Linux system, the default path for 
ssh to find xauth is already /usr/bin/xauth (according to the man 
page). To be sure, I tried setting it explicitly but it still 
didn't work. I know that I can tunnel to other X servers, just not 
the FreeBSD one. My FreeBSD sshd_config is rather uninteresting 
because everything is commented out and using the defaults. For 
convenience's sake, here are some of the interesting lines:

#UsePAM yes
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
#X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#Compression delayed
#ClientAliveInterval 0
#ClientAliveCountMax 3
#UseDNS yes
#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
#MaxStartups 10
#PermitTunnel no

I also tried doing it the old fashioned way and viewing the X 
clients over telnet, which worked fine. It's too insecure to do 
that from outside the local network, though.

Thanks,
Elliot Isaacson



  
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Re: FreeBSD and USBmemorystick

2008-11-12 Thread Roland Smith

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:44:14PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
 On Tuesday 11 November 2008 9:17:36 pm Roland Smith wrote:
  On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:04:13PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
   On Tuesday 11 November 2008 5:39:02 pm Pieter Donche wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:25:51PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
 If I insert a USB memory stick in my laptop with FreeBSD 7.0 nothing
 happens. On the same laptop in the SuSE 10.1 partition, the same USB
 stick appears in Konqueror under Storage Media  and is ready to use)
 In FreeBSD, Konqueror shows nothing under Storage Media.
 Is this normal?

 What shows up in your kernel message log (outside of X, usually on
 the first virtual console) when you insert the stick?  It should show
 a umass device being added, then a daX device being added.
   
There are indeed messages:
umass0: M-SysT5 Dell Memory Key, class ...  on uhub4
da0: at umass-sim0 ...
..
da0: 60 Mb   (OK, it is a 64 Mb key)
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/USB MEMORY
 
  It's better to use this device, since it won't change when you plug in
  an extra USB stick/drive.
 
also when unplugging, some messages
   
$ ls -la /dev/da0s1
shows only the character device line
  
   OK then .. let's get it to work.
  
   1) Open /etc/devfs.rules and add the following lines:
   [system=10]
   add path 'da*' mode 0666
 
  add path 'msdosfs/*' mode 0666
 
  I prefer 'mode 0660 group usb' in principle, but that is personal.
 
 Sure thing. But it adds an extra layer of complexity (I mean, he would have 
 to 
 be a member of the usb group or even create it if it doesn't exist) and I 
 just wanted to be raw simple and to the core.
 
 Now thanks to you reply, Pieter has more info on how to get around this :)
 
   (Edit that line to suit your needs)
  
   2) Open /etc/rc.conf and add the following line
   devfs_system_ruleset=system
  
   (Edit that line to suit your needs)
  
   3) Create a mountpoint for your pendrive
   mkdir -p ~/mnt/pen
  
   (Edit that line to suit your needs)
  
   4) Open /etc/fstab and add a line like this one
  
   /dev/da0s1  /home/your_user_name/mnt/pen msdosfs rw,noauto   0   0
 
  /dev/msdosfs/USB\ MEMORY  /home/your_user_name/mnt/pen msdosfs rw,noauto 0
  0
 
   (Edit that line to suit your needs)
  
   Reboot
  
   Done ...
 
  I prefer to have a script do the mounting, so I can add some sane flags
  to mount_msdosfs that you cannot put in options/fstab AFAICT, like
  '-m 644 -M 755 -l -o noatime -o sync -o noexec -o nosuid'.
 
  Roland
 
 There you go Pieter ... a simple example (mine) and a more in-depth one 
 (Roland's) on how to get your pendrive to work :)
 
 Thanks for improving on my simple example Roland =D

In a separate reply from Giorgos Keramidas I learned that you can put
_all_ types of options in fstab, not just the -o options! So the
improved example would be (where USER is your username):

/dev/msdosfs/USB\ MEMORY  /home/USER/mnt/pen msdosfs 
rw,noauto,noatime,sync,noexec,nosuid,-m=644,-M=755,-l,-u=USER,-g=USER  0  0

A more elegant solution would be to write a script that is called from
devd whenever a /dev/msdosfs device appears. It should then create a
directory named after the label in /home/USER/mnt, and mount the fs
there with appropriate permissions. The hard thing is to do this
correctly on a machine with multiple (concurrent) local users. 

Roland
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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jack Raats

- Original Message - 
From: Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:59 AM
Subject: Release schedules

I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can 
offer

any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...

What on earth is going on with release scheduling?

On november 3, Ken Smith wrote:
The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 6.4 is now available.  FreeBSD
6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4
release cycle.  Unless a big show-stopper is found from this round of
testing we should begin the 6.4-RELEASE builds in about a week and a
half.  We encourage you to test out 6.4-RC2 and report any problems by
submitting PRs or via email to the freebsd-stable list.

Accoording to this Releaese engineering is making the 6.4-RELEASE at this 
very moment.

After finishing this release I think they will turn to the 7.1-RELEASE.

Jack

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Re: Disabling boot messages

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Bye

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:40:29PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
 Running a release 7.0 Xorg / Gdm / Xfce Desktop world. Would like to go 
 from powering on the PC directly to the Gdm login screen. Don't want the 
 users seeing all those boot message roll by.
 
 Can this be done?

It can - see the FAQ:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#INSTALL-SPLASH

Dan

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Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote:


 #UsePAM yes
 #AllowTcpForwarding yes
 #GatewayPorts no
 #X11Forwarding yes
 #X11DisplayOffset 10
 #X11UseLocalhost yes
 #PrintMotd yes
 #PrintLastLog yes
 #TCPKeepAlive yes
 #UseLogin no
 #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
 #PermitUserEnvironment no
 #Compression delayed
 #ClientAliveInterval 0
 #ClientAliveCountMax 3
 #UseDNS yes
 #PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
 #MaxStartups 10
 #PermitTunnel no

Shouldn't PermitTunnel be set to yes  ?


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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:

 I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer 
 any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
 
 What on earth is going on with release scheduling?
 
 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, according to the scheduling page at www.freebsd.org, 
 should have had a Release Candidate published two months ago, on 13 
 September. Instead we're still on a Beta - BETA-2, which isn't mentioned in 
 the original schedule. The todo list which has appeared on the website in 
 previous releases isn't available this time, so I can't even get a feel for 
 the likely cause of the holdup.
 
 As I said, I hate to stand on the sidelines and heckle when I'm not doing 
 anything to contribute to the release, but the timetable has slipped badly 
 and I don't feel I can find information about the reasons or the revised 
 timings. What exactly is going on, and is there anything a busy sysadmin, 
 poor in time, bandwidth and C skills, can do to help with either the release 
 itself or the apparent scheduling/communication issues?
 
 (I've sent this to -questions rather than -stable because it seems to be an 
 ongoing problem with the timetabling of releases.)

Those dates are guesses at best and should be taken as such.
People crabbing about missing those dates has resulted in not
posting any dates at times in the past.   I would rather have
a fair guess than no information at all.It would be OK if
Release Engineering would occasionally update their guesses as
they get more information.But, they tend to be quite busy
just getting all the things needed to do the release taken care 
of so I imagine they don't even think about it.

Probably at this time of final builds and running test suites,
people are busy cleaning up last things that didn't play well
together - modifications that may have banged heads or that
required another thing to be updated.

Ports have to be built against the release candidate too and that
can reveal some things that need to be fixed at the last minute.

Undoubtably, some conflicts have been discovered as final builds
are being made that have to be addresses before a release is
considered clean and finally ready to be released.

If you have the resources to install and run the betas and give them
a good beating and then carefully report any anomalies and conflicts
you find, that might help.   Generally, more detail in the reports
is better than less detail.

I would like to see the release schedules updated more and I would
guess that others would too.   But, there is only so much you can
expect out of volunteers already robbing time from their paying jobs.

jerry


 
 Jonathan
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Desktop image of Beastie

2008-11-12 Thread Fbsd1

I picked up this attached jpg of beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using 
it for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light.


Does any one know where i can get a darker version of the image?

Or if you have a beastie background image you would care to share.

I sure appreciate you help. Thanks
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RE: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Bob McConnell

On Behalf Of Jonathan McKeown

 What on earth is going on with release scheduling?

Please keep in mind that the work is being done almost entirely by
volunteers donating their spare time. I don't know about you, but for
me, spare time is what is left over after all of my other commitments
are taken care of. i.e. family, income, home, etc. The amount of spare
time I have fluctuates significantly, sometimes entirely disappearing
for days, and is completely unpredictable.

Now, some day we may be more fortunate, like Linux where Linus and
several others are each being paid by some company or consortium just to
maintain various portions of the system. But until that day comes, we
have to allow the maintainers some slack in this and other issues.

Patience is a virtue,

Bob McConnell
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full


On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:


I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user,
and running fsck -y.  background fsck does not catch all errors.


Background fsck has been turned off from the beginning, and a couple of 
weeks ago when there was a power break, full fsck -y was done all the 
same. But you're right, running fsck -y once again will not harm.




Also, how soon do you check the box to see how much space/free inodes it
has after receiving a filesystem full error?  Are we talking I
checked it 4-5 hours later, or I checked it 30 seconds after?



I checked it several minutes after.


Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)


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RE: Disabling boot messages

2008-11-12 Thread Johan Hendriks


On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:40:29PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
 Running a release 7.0 Xorg / Gdm / Xfce Desktop world. Would like to go 
 from powering on the PC directly to the Gdm login screen. Don't want the 
 users seeing all those boot message roll by.
 
 Can this be done?

It can - see the FAQ:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#INSTALL-SPLASH

Dan

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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:

 I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time 
 complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in 
 question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then 
 all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours 
 later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and 
 sendmail, nothing special.

There is a FAQ, numerous questions threads and several
articles in online publications on this issue.   I am sure
you can easily find them with some basic searching.

Most of the problems/confusions come from two places.
The first is that an amount - normally 8% - is held out for root.
The second is processes that open/create a file to write and then
delink it but do not release it and continue to write to it.
It doesn't show up, but is still taking space.  The processes do this
so if they get killed, the space is automatically released.

jerry
 
 Thanks and regards
 
 
 
 Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
 Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)
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FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time 
complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition 
in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. 
Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours 
later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and 
sendmail, nothing special.


Thanks and regards


Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)
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tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi

So ...

newfs_msdos /dev/insert_typo_in_here

.. new filesystem succesfully created ... lost partition on the wrong 
drive ...

Is there a tool to recover the files on said partition in FreeBSD (7 release)?

Thanks for you help :)

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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot

Hello,

 I would like to see the release schedules updated more and I would
 guess that others would too.   But, there is only so much you can
 expect out of volunteers already robbing time from their paying jobs.

I'd be happy to contribute by updating the website provided I am kept
informed about the releases by the engineers. If FBSD team is
interested, I here to help. Contact me offline, please. I feel I need
to give at least something back to the community for this excellent
project.

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RE: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Bob McConnell

On Behalf Of Steve Bertrand
 Michael Powell wrote:
 Chris Maness wrote:
 [snip]
 For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged
for
 10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual
moisture
 dry, or purchase an inline water filter.
 
 Should always put a drier on a compressor. You'll learn the hard way
if you
 invest in pneumatic tools; you will kill them if you don't.
 
 ...but...how can I convince my wife that I need new tools when my
 existing ones last forever?

Well, if you actually used them once in a while, and even did something
she found useful, they wouldn't last so long and she wouldn't complain
so loudly (B^).

Bob McConnell
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Re: Desktop image of Beastie

2008-11-12 Thread Rada alive

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I picked up this attached jpg of beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using it
 for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light.

 Does any one know where i can get a darker version of the image?

 Or if you have a beastie background image you would care to share.

 I sure appreciate you help. Thanks

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Your attachment didn't make it through the list, but these resources might
help:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/examples/BSD_daemon/
http://www.freebsd.org/art.html#BSD-DAEMON
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Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

2008-11-12 Thread Elliot Isaacson


 On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
  #UsePAM yes
  #AllowTcpForwarding yes
  #GatewayPorts no
  #X11Forwarding yes
  #X11DisplayOffset 10
  #X11UseLocalhost yes
  #PrintMotd yes
  #PrintLastLog yes
  #TCPKeepAlive yes
  #UseLogin no
  #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
  #PermitUserEnvironment no
  #Compression delayed
  #ClientAliveInterval 0
  #ClientAliveCountMax 3
  #UseDNS yes
  #PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
  #MaxStartups 10
  #PermitTunnel no

 Shouldn't PermitTunnel be set to yes  ?


Thanks for the suggestion. PermitTunnel has something to do with 
using a specific software network loopback device, tun(4). I don't 
think it has anything to do with forwarding traffic, X11 or 
otherwise, through an ssh tunnel. Just to be sure I tried switching 
that on, but it didn't seem to help.

This is a reiteration of the problem so no one has to sift though 
the archives to find it:

$ xhost +

$ ssh -Y 192.ip.of.freebsdserver
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 
forwarding.

/usr/local/bin/xauth: 


  
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Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey


Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:

So ...

newfs_msdos /dev/insert_typo_in_here

.. new filesystem succesfully created ... lost partition on the wrong 
drive ...


Is there a tool to recover the files on said partition in FreeBSD (7 release)?

Thanks for you help :)

Regards


Ouch, feel your pain.  I've used sysutils/ddrescue for recovery
from a FAT partition, but I'm not at all sure if it will help in
your situation.

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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Thierry Herbelot

Le Wednesday 12 November 2008, Varshavchick Alexander a écrit :
 I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time
 complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition
 in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes.
 Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours
 later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and
 sendmail, nothing special.

Hello,

I saw a full disk because of a runaway background fsck : bg_fsck built some 
image of the disk in the top-level .snap directory, which grew and grew and 
grew 

the workaround was to reboot in single-user, then fsck in foreground, and 
finally switch to Zfs (but obviously, only for a Releng7 machine)

TfH

 Thanks and regards

 
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 Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)
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virtualbox networking setup

2008-11-12 Thread Paul Cartwright

I'm new to the group, and I'm new to setting up VirtualBox guest hosts.
right now I have a Debian linux box, and I setup Virtual box. I installed 
FreeBSD on it, but I can't seem to get the networking to work. I tried to 
rerun sysinstall, but I'm not sure what options to change or why it isn't 
working. I have the command line terminal window up, but in the virtualbox 
window, I cannot copy  past to here, so I can't paste the ifconfig info..
it does say inet 0.0.0.0, but it does say UP, BROADCASTING...

I looked at the usermanual, but I didn't see anything about actually setting 
up the network, using DHCP...
I hae a home network, with a router, gateway 192.168.10.1, and my desktop is 
in that subnet 192.168.10.x
not sure what to do now...

thanks,
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Adrian Penisoara

Hi,

  What kind of applications are you running on the machine ? Are they
mmap'ing files on the filesystem in quesiton (which one ?) ?
  AFAIR even if you delete a big file the disk space may not be
reclaimed if a process still has the file open.

  If you reboot the machine or restart some of the applications, does
the issue disappear ?

Regards,
Adrian.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Varshavchick Alexander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time
 complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in
 question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then
 all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours later.
 What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and
 sendmail, nothing special.

 Thanks and regards

 
 Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
 Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)
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Re: virtualbox networking setup

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Powell

Paul Cartwright wrote:

 I'm new to the group, and I'm new to setting up VirtualBox guest hosts.
 right now I have a Debian linux box, and I setup Virtual box. I installed
 FreeBSD on it, but I can't seem to get the networking to work. I tried to
 rerun sysinstall, but I'm not sure what options to change or why it isn't
 working. I have the command line terminal window up, but in the virtualbox
 window, I cannot copy  past to here, so I can't paste the ifconfig info..
 it does say inet 0.0.0.0, but it does say UP, BROADCASTING...
 
 I looked at the usermanual, but I didn't see anything about actually
 setting up the network, using DHCP...
 I hae a home network, with a router, gateway 192.168.10.1, and my desktop
 is in that subnet 192.168.10.x
 not sure what to do now...
 
 thanks,
 I grew up with ATT UNIX SYS V, but it's been a few years:)

Don't know about Debian, and I haven't actually tried FreeBSD as a guest in
VirtualBox, but have used it for other things.

The default install of vbox sets up a logical NAT/DHCP server internally, so
all you would do is use vi to put something like ifconfig_rl0=DHCP in
your /etc/rc.conf. Substitute the according vbox interface. When you
configure your new VM in the OSE the default NIC type will be PCnet-FAST
III (Am79C973) in vbox 2.0.4. This is supported by the pcn driver so your
line would be ifconfig_pcn0=DHCP. 

IF you get the interface to come up examine it with ifconfig -a. I believe
vbox settles for a 10.0.2.0/24 network, but YMMV. You may need to play
around with defaultrouter=something and name services in resolv.conf or
fiddle with dhclient.conf. The best is to ensure that dhclient.conf is
pulling the info from DHCP rather than trying to manually stuff numbers in
places.

Also, if the pcn driver doesn't seem to want to play and if you are using
VirtualBox 2.0.4 there are 2 Intel Nics you can try (not sure if they
are Windows exclusive, or not - will find out in the next few days as I
plan on trying Nexenta this way) instead which are supported by the em
driver (ifconfig_em0=DHCP). This just has to match whatever you set up in
the VM.

-Mike
 

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Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 19:39 +0100, VeeJay wrote:
 Hi Brian
  
 Thanks. I sent the attachment but FreeBSD List would not allow me to

First order of business is to _not_ send it as a BMP.  Use PNG instead,
and post the URL and not the actual file:

http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/20081023_server3_screen_dump.png

---

Second order of business:

Unexpected sense code on a PD (Physical Disk) suggests that one of
your disks is bad / becoming bad.  Check the enclosure -- likely it is
flashing.

Install MegaCli from ports, if you can. You can always reboot and use
the BIOS menu to check the event log.

If its not a bad disk, then something bizarre is happening.   We'll want
to know what firmware revision you're running on the controller, and on
the disks (Dell disk firmware updates run from DOS)

~~BAS

  send email of more than 200K in size. So, here it is...
  
 I hope you can figure out how to solve this issue...
  
 With best wishes
  
 VJ
 
 
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 On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:01 +0100, VeeJay wrote:
  There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on
  one server.
 
 Screw Dell's diagnostics tools.
 
 Those are there to help psychology majors who got their MCSE
 and RHCE
 after they realized that all you can do with a psychology
 degree is
 teach psychology or serve coffee.
 
 Send us your screenshot.  Nothing was attached.
 
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Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:20:00 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
  On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
   #UsePAM yes
   #AllowTcpForwarding yes
   #GatewayPorts no
   #X11Forwarding yes
   #X11DisplayOffset 10
   #X11UseLocalhost yes
   #PrintMotd yes
   #PrintLastLog yes
   #TCPKeepAlive yes
   #UseLogin no
   #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
   #PermitUserEnvironment no
   #Compression delayed
   #ClientAliveInterval 0
   #ClientAliveCountMax 3
   #UseDNS yes
   #PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
   #MaxStartups 10
   #PermitTunnel no
 
  Shouldn't PermitTunnel be set to yes  ?

 Thanks for the suggestion. PermitTunnel has something to do with
 using a specific software network loopback device, tun(4). I don't
 think it has anything to do with forwarding traffic, X11 or
 otherwise, through an ssh tunnel. Just to be sure I tried switching
 that on, but it didn't seem to help.

 This is a reiteration of the problem so no one has to sift though
 the archives to find it:

 $ xhost +

 $ ssh -Y 192.ip.of.freebsdserver
 Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
 forwarding.

 /usr/local/bin/xauth:

and try 'ssh -X' instead of 'ssh -Y'
I use 'ssh -X'

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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
  I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can
  offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
 
  What on earth is going on with release scheduling?

 Two words: volunteer project

Oh, I fully understand that, which is why I also asked whether there's 
anything I can do to help, with my meagre abilities and resources. This 
wasn't intended to demean the efforts of the release team at all; it was more 
a plea for better communication when delays start to accumulate.

 I would propose to do away with the release schedule altogether, or make
 it very succinct;

   next release: when it's done.

Yes - but is it not possible to estimate (and as a long-suffering sysadmin, I 
know I'm on shaky ground here after some of the estimated schedules I've 
given my management and my users!) roughly how far off we are? Even the old 
todo list on the website offered some guide.
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Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Roland Smith

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
 I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer 
 any help or useful suggestions, but here goes...
 
 What on earth is going on with release scheduling?
 
Two words: volunteer project

I would propose to do away with the release schedule altogether, or make
it very succinct; 

  next release: when it's done.

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Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Polytropon

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:32:14 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 So ...
 
 newfs_msdos /dev/insert_typo_in_here
 
 .. new filesystem succesfully created ... lost partition on the wrong 
 drive ...
 
 Is there a tool to recover the files on said partition in FreeBSD (7 release)?
 
 Thanks for you help :)

It seems my problems can at least be helpful to someone else. :-)

There are many good tools for recovering data from MSDOS partitions,
but you'll have to check which one serves your particular needs best,
depending on the amount of damage done to the file system.

From the ports, there's magicrescue in the first place for file
recovery. To scan and repair disk partitions, you can use testdisk.
If everything else fails, go use the basics: The Sleuth Kit with
its dls, dls or ils tools. There's helpful documentation installed
that gives informations not mentioned in the manpages.

I would recommend you do first do a dd copy of the drive, just in
order to do no harm to the partition where your important files
are located. Then, do all operations on the dd image, it's mich
more safe. If dd is not possible, use dd_rescue or ddrescue. For
most operations, it's good to use mdconfig to put the dd file
onto a md device which is then used by the particular program.

I can imagine how you feel about data loss, so good luck!



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Re: Disk top usage PIDs

2008-11-12 Thread Brent Jones

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Adam McDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Eduardo Meyer wrote:

 Hello,

 I have some serious issue. Sometimes something happens and my disk
 usage performance find its limit quickly. I follow with gstat and
 iostat -xw1, and everything usually happens just fine, with %b around
 20 and 0 to 1 pending i/o request. Suddely I get 30, 40 pending
 requests and %b is always on 100% (or more than this).

 fstat and lsof gives me no hint, because the type of programs as well
 as the amount of 'em is just the same.

 How can I find the PID which is hammering my disk? Is there an iotop
 or disktop tool or something alike?

 Its a mail server. I have pop3, imap, I also have maildrop and
 sometimes, httpd, working around the busiest mount point.

 I have also started AUDIT, however all I can get are the top PIDs
 which issue read/write requests. Not the requests which take longer to
 perform (the busiest ones), or should I look for some special audit
 class or event other than open, read and write?

 Thank you in advance.



 top -mio
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Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:06:16 +0100
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Especially in Linux, it's common to prefix scripts with #!/bin/bash
which won't work in FreeBSD, because it's #/usr/local/bin/bash there.
Linux has no problem running #!/bin/sh scripts because there's a
symlink /bin/sh - /bin/bash.

My advice for maximum interoperability and compatibility between Linux
and UNIX: If you're not using any bash specific techniques in your
scripts, start them with #!/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/bash.

The sh shell is the UNIX standard scripting shell, while Linux's
one is bash.

I usually just use:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

It seems to work on both Linux and FBSD.

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Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Steve Bertrand

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

 I atually bought a small portable compressor (designed for running
 a nailgun, basically) for this purpose.  $80 at Harbor Freight for
 a new one, you can get them cheaper used.  The canned air is really
 expensive, you end up using a half a can on a PC.
 
 If you do the compressor, make sure you put a regulator on your
 blow gun: 80-120 psi of air coming out of a blowgun is capabable of
 blowing components off the circuit boards along with the dust.
 
 The compressor is also very useful for blowing out the air
 conditioner coils every year, as well as the refrigerator coils
 on the refrigerator.  Doing just this will pay for the compressor
 in a few years in energy savings.

The compressor suggestion is a great idea Ted.

I would like to point out that there is usually a considerable amount of
moisture that condenses as the air is being compressed into the tank.

For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged for
10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual moisture
dry, or purchase an inline water filter.

The compressor also makes it quite a bit more convenient for topping up
your vehicles tire air pressure (you know you don't do this regularly
enough ;)

Steve
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Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:20:00 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
  On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
   #UsePAM yes
   #AllowTcpForwarding yes
   #GatewayPorts no
   #X11Forwarding yes
   #X11DisplayOffset 10
   #X11UseLocalhost yes
   #PrintMotd yes
   #PrintLastLog yes
   #TCPKeepAlive yes
   #UseLogin no
   #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
   #PermitUserEnvironment no
   #Compression delayed
   #ClientAliveInterval 0
   #ClientAliveCountMax 3
   #UseDNS yes
   #PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
   #MaxStartups 10
   #PermitTunnel no
 
  Shouldn't PermitTunnel be set to yes  ?

 Thanks for the suggestion. PermitTunnel has something to do with
 using a specific software network loopback device, tun(4). I don't
 think it has anything to do with forwarding traffic, X11 or
 otherwise, through an ssh tunnel. Just to be sure I tried switching
 that on, but it didn't seem to help.

 This is a reiteration of the problem so no one has to sift though
 the archives to find it:

 $ xhost +

 $ ssh -Y 192.ip.of.freebsdserver
 Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
 forwarding.

 /usr/local/bin/xauth:



In case you have not done so, you should also check /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the 
client machines.  I had to add something like this on my client machine which 
is Linux:

Host localhost
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  ForwardAgent yes
  ForwardX11 yes
  ForwardX11Trusted yes
  PubkeyAuthentication yes
  PasswordAuthentication yes
  Protocol 2

Host *
   ForwardAgent no
   ForwardX11 no
   ForwardX11Trusted yes
   XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth


If you are using gdm on the server, you might try shutting that down for 
testing.  I seem to recall having to modify some setting in gdm that had to do 
with xauth.  I did not make a note of what I did though.



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Video Drivers for Parallels

2008-11-12 Thread Payne


Guys,

I am trying to get X running on Parallel 3.0 on MacOSX, when I set up 
VESA 24bit 1024x768, it doesn't load. I can do 16bit but it is wash out. 
Does anyone know what I need to do to get X running.


Thanks,

Payne
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Is chflags' nodump + sunlnk = uchg

2008-11-12 Thread Charles Darwin


Hi all,

Title is the question actually:  Is chflags' nodump + sunlnk = uchg

Thanks,
Charles
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Sergey Babkin

Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
 
 I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time
 complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition
 in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes.
 Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours
 later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and
 sendmail, nothing special.

I vaguely remember that there was an issue with softupdates
that didn't report blocks as free until the filesystem was
synced, and with intense disk activity the filesystem was
not syncing by itself often enough.

-SB
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full


I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user,
and running fsck -y.  background fsck does not catch all errors.


Okay then, are there any ways of performing it remotely, without my going 
to the data center and standing near the server for an hour while it 
checks? I mean are there any civil ways, or only running reboot -qn and 
praying? :)



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Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05:44AM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
 Hello Guys
 
 I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with
 FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on
 one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a troubleshooting tool
 called DSET. (
 http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/dell_system_tool?c=usl=ens=gen
 )
 But that is for Linux distributions.
 
 So, I am just in middle of no where :(
 
 Could you guys guide me that how to install and run this tool on my server
 in order to diagnose problem?

This question should have gone to -hardware or -stable.

It depends on what RAID controller is installed in the box, and what
problem you're actually having (There seemed to be a problem with the
RAID controller tells us nothing).

I believe others have some experience with PERC controllers, but as I
said, we don't know what hardware you have.

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Re: xauth failure when tunneling over ssh

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:58:18 Pollywog wrote:
 On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:20:00 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
   On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:51:42 Elliot Isaacson wrote:
#UsePAM yes
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
#X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#Compression delayed
#ClientAliveInterval 0
#ClientAliveCountMax 3
#UseDNS yes
#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
#MaxStartups 10
#PermitTunnel no
  
   Shouldn't PermitTunnel be set to yes  ?
 
  Thanks for the suggestion. PermitTunnel has something to do with
  using a specific software network loopback device, tun(4). I don't
  think it has anything to do with forwarding traffic, X11 or
  otherwise, through an ssh tunnel. Just to be sure I tried switching
  that on, but it didn't seem to help.
 
  This is a reiteration of the problem so no one has to sift though
  the archives to find it:
 
  $ xhost +
 
  $ ssh -Y 192.ip.of.freebsdserver
  Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
  forwarding.
 
  /usr/local/bin/xauth:

 In case you have not done so, you should also check /etc/ssh/ssh_config on
 the client machines.  I had to add something like this on my client machine
 which is Linux:

 Host localhost
   HostName 127.0.0.1
   ForwardAgent yes
   ForwardX11 yes
   ForwardX11Trusted yes
   PubkeyAuthentication yes
   PasswordAuthentication yes
   Protocol 2

 Host *
ForwardAgent no
ForwardX11 no
ForwardX11Trusted yes
XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth


 If you are using gdm on the server, you might try shutting that down for
 testing.  I seem to recall having to modify some setting in gdm that had to
 do with xauth.  I did not make a note of what I did though.
If you run gdm on the server:

I checked one of my boxes which runs Linux and I have this in 
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf

UserAuthFBDir=/tmp
UserAuthFile=.Xauthority

I don't believe this was set by default, I believe it was commented out on my 
FreeBSD box and it was causing problems until I uncommented the two lines.

You might try running 'ssh -vv hostname'  when connecting from the command 
line if you have not tried that.


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Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar

no idea. there are tools if your data was only jpeg images - 
ports/graphics/recoverjpeg


but there are such tools for DOS and windoze. you may use qemu to run them


On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:


So ...

newfs_msdos /dev/insert_typo_in_here

.. new filesystem succesfully created ... lost partition on the wrong
drive ...

Is there a tool to recover the files on said partition in FreeBSD (7 release)?

Thanks for you help :)

Regards
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RE: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar


Now, some day we may be more fortunate, like Linux where Linus and
several others are each being paid by some company or consortium just to


EVERY good free software magically turns into crap when it gets heavy 
financing. for OSes i don't know any exceptions...


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dlsym can't use handle returned by dlopen?

2008-11-12 Thread Markus Hoenicka

Hi,

FreeBSD yeti.mininet 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #1: Mon Aug 28 22:24:48 
CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/YETI  i386

I'm trying to do the following: libdbi (http://libdbi.sourceforge.net)
is a database abstraction layer which is linked as a shared object
into applications. The libdbi library uses dlopen() to load database
drivers which in turn are linked against database client
libraries. Now I want to access functions defined in the database
client library from within the libdbi library. In brief, I thought
this is going to work like this:

dlhandle = dlopen(path, RTLD_NOW);
...
function_pointer = dlsym(dlhandle, function_name);

dlhandle is not NULL and does not crash the app when passed to
dlclose(), so I assume the handle is valid. Accessing the functions
does work on most systems (Linux, OSX, Cygwin, to name a few), but I
get Undefined symbol errors on FreeBSD. Interestingly, the following
does work:

function_pointer = dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, function_name);

Why is that? Or rather: what am I doing wrong?

Any help is appreciated.

regards,
Markus

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Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Boosten

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 no idea. there are tools if your data was only jpeg images -
 ports/graphics/recoverjpeg
 
 but there are such tools for DOS and windoze. you may use qemu to run them
 

Maybe you can reconstruct the partition with forensics software like
sleuthkit (in ports) or helix3 (http://www.e-fense.com/helix/)

Peter

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Re: dlsym can't use handle returned by dlopen?

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:59:27AM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
 FreeBSD yeti.mininet 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #1: Mon Aug 28 22:24:48 
 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/YETI  i386
 
 I'm trying to do the following: libdbi (http://libdbi.sourceforge.net)
 is a database abstraction layer which is linked as a shared object
 into applications. The libdbi library uses dlopen() to load database
 drivers which in turn are linked against database client
 libraries. Now I want to access functions defined in the database
 client library from within the libdbi library. In brief, I thought
 this is going to work like this:
 
 dlhandle = dlopen(path, RTLD_NOW);
 ...
 function_pointer = dlsym(dlhandle, function_name);
 
 dlhandle is not NULL and does not crash the app when passed to
 dlclose(), so I assume the handle is valid. Accessing the functions
 does work on most systems (Linux, OSX, Cygwin, to name a few), but I
 get Undefined symbol errors on FreeBSD. Interestingly, the following
 does work:

I've personally used dlopen() and dlsym(), and they do work as
documented (my original goal with bsdhwmon was to keep each chip in a
separate .so.  It worked, but added complexities of the program nature
itself kept me from using it at the time).  I tested this on both i386
and amd64.

I know that the .so's you're loading with dlopen() need to be built a
specific way/with certain arguments, otherwise they won't work (I
believe what I saw was dlsym() returning NULL).  My symbol names were
getting stomped on, and there was a compiler flag that addressed that.

I can go back and write code that does all of this if you'd like, but my
point is that they do work.

 function_pointer = dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, function_name);
 
 Why is that? Or rather: what am I doing wrong?

This code right here is *completely* wrong.  RTLD_DEFAULT is a mode bit
for dlopen().  I'm willing to bet a strict set of warnings would
catch this.  Try building your application with:

-g3 -ggdb -Werror -Wall -Wunused -Waggregate-return -Wbad-function-cast
-Wcast-align -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization
-Wfloat-equal -Winline -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wpacked -Wpointer-arith
-Wredundant-decls -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunreachable-code
-Wwrite-strings

And see what appears.


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Permission Denied for find command; No idea why

2008-11-12 Thread APseudoUtopia

Hey. I've been writing a set of sh backup scripts over the past few
days. I'm having some trouble with the final thing with them.

This is the command that is being run by the www user via cron:
/usr/bin/find /usr/local/backups/ -ctime +7d -type f -not -name
*daily_backup* -ls

(Eventually, I'm going to change the -ls to -delete)

This is the ls -al of /usr/local/backups:
drwxrwx---   2 www   wheel512 Nov 13 04:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel512 Nov 12 20:24 ..
-rw---   1 www   wheel   22250785 Nov 13 04:18 2008-11-13.mysql-main.sql
-rw---   1 www   wheel 124781 Nov 13 04:18
2008-11-13.mysql-staffwiki.sql
-rw---   1 www   wheel 674306 Nov 13 04:18 2008-11-13.mysql-wiki.sql
-rw---   1 www   wheel  111845376 Nov 13 04:18 2008-11-13.www.tar
-r-xrw   1 www   wheel   8109 Nov 13 04:16 daily_backup.sh

For some reason, the find command above is getting a permission denied.
And, again, the find command is being run by the www user, who
owns the files and dir.
The exact message is: find: .: Permission denied

The find permissions:
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  36800 Oct 23 01:17 /usr/bin/find

Also, all dirs above /usr/local/backups (/usr and /usr/local) are +x
for the other user, so the www should be able to enter them:
drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 20:38 usr
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 20:24 local

Does anyone have any idea what's causing this permission denied error?
Obviously it's some sort of permissions problem, but I have no idea
where or what exactly it is. It's driving me crazy.

Thanks a lot in advance.
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Re: Permission Denied for find command; No idea why

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:16:24AM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote:
 Hey. I've been writing a set of sh backup scripts over the past few
 days. I'm having some trouble with the final thing with them.
 
 This is the command that is being run by the www user via cron:
 /usr/bin/find /usr/local/backups/ -ctime +7d -type f -not -name
 *daily_backup* -ls
 
 (Eventually, I'm going to change the -ls to -delete)
 
 This is the ls -al of /usr/local/backups:
 drwxrwx---   2 www   wheel512 Nov 13 04:29 .
 drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel512 Nov 12 20:24 ..
 -rw---   1 www   wheel   22250785 Nov 13 04:18 2008-11-13.mysql-main.sql
 -rw---   1 www   wheel 124781 Nov 13 04:18 
 2008-11-13.mysql-staffwiki.sql
 -rw---   1 www   wheel 674306 Nov 13 04:18 2008-11-13.mysql-wiki.sql
 -rw---   1 www   wheel  111845376 Nov 13 04:18 2008-11-13.www.tar
 -r-xrw   1 www   wheel   8109 Nov 13 04:16 daily_backup.sh
 
 For some reason, the find command above is getting a permission denied.
 And, again, the find command is being run by the www user, who
 owns the files and dir.
 The exact message is: find: .: Permission denied
 
 The find permissions:
 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  36800 Oct 23 01:17 /usr/bin/find
 
 Also, all dirs above /usr/local/backups (/usr and /usr/local) are +x
 for the other user, so the www should be able to enter them:
 drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 20:38 usr
 drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 20:24 local
 
 Does anyone have any idea what's causing this permission denied error?
 Obviously it's some sort of permissions problem, but I have no idea
 where or what exactly it is. It's driving me crazy.

find: .: Permission denied would only be returned, AFAIK, if you were
doing find . someflags, which your find example above does not
show.

Example:

$ id
uid=1000(jdc) gid=1000(users) 
groups=1000(users),0(wheel),20(staff),1002(wwwsite),1501(storage)

$ ls -ld /var/heimdal
drwx--2 root  wheel 512 14 Oct 13:21 /var/heimdal/

$ find /var/heimdal -print
/var/heimdal
find: /var/heimdal: Permission denied
$

$ find /var/db -type d -print 1 /dev/null
find: /var/db/entropy: Permission denied
find: /var/db/ipf: Permission denied
find: /var/db/postfix: Permission denied

$ ls -ld /var/db/entropy /var/db/ipf /var/db/postfix
drwx--2 operator  operator  512 12 Nov 21:22 /var/db/entropy/
drwx--2 root  wheel 512 14 Oct 13:21 /var/db/ipf/
drwx--2 postfix   wheel 512  6 Nov 04:16 /var/db/postfix/

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Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread TJ Varghese

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi
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 Hello

 snip

 the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid)
 on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use
 the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel
 is, in this manner, can detect problems with the drivers
 and so, can act on it
 snip


Do not use RAID-0! What you want is JBOD and freebsd's software raid.
RAID-0 does striping over both drives...if one drive is dead you're screwed.
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Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET