Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Dan Nelson wrote: Probably harmless, unless someone has forged a certificate chain using a fake AddTrust External CA Root cert at the top. Installing the security/ca_root_nss port (make sure you enable the ETCSYMLINK option) will probably silence it. I installed ca_root_nss again (was already installed but without the ETCSYMLINK option), but these messages still appear in the logs. But when it's harmless I'll just leave it this way. Thanks, Marco -- Basic Definitions of Science: If it's green or wiggles, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pxe LiveCD setup
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp. A 236M ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second. A full CD takes a long, long time. Is that typical, or maybe just the poor Ethernet on this Aspire One D250? The stock tftpd on FreeBSD doesn't support variant block sizes (or much of anything else past RFC 1350). You'll see better performance if you go with something newer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Running a script after a device's been plugged
Samuel Martín Moro faus...@gmail.com writes: 3) Last but not least, how to link a device once it's plugged in, and unlink it once it's unplugged? We're still providing 5.4 and 6.2 releases based versions. And I do not like hal. So I thought I could use /etc/devd.conf, with attach/detach directives, and their actions calling a script that would create/delete the links. Is there a cleaner way to do it? Would it be still usable in 8.x? (9.x?) That's exactly what devd is for. Go ahead and use it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Getting kernel trap 12 During Boot Of 8.1-PRERELEASE
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: I've seen this twice now - once last Sunday, and once again today when I tried to do a build/installworld/kernel with daily sources from the master tree: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=qmhizdtnhyothumb=4 That asked me to jump through too many hoops over multiple domains, so I didn't actually see it. I'll assume it's just more information on the error in your subject line. The system boots fine single-user, so I don't suspect the base kernel functionality. Maybe. What you should do is install the kernel *before* the userland. If you already did that, then make sure youtry with a GENERIC kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Getting kernel trap 12 During Boot Of 8.1-PRERELEASE
On 7/4/2010 10:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: I've seen this twice now - once last Sunday, and once again today when I tried to do a build/installworld/kernel with daily sources from the master tree: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=qmhizdtnhyothumb=4 That asked me to jump through too many hoops over multiple domains, so I didn't actually see it. I'll assume it's just more information on the error in your subject line. I'm not sure what you mean. It should take you to a screenshot of the problem. What does too many hoops mean in this context? The system boots fine single-user, so I don't suspect the base kernel functionality. Maybe. What you should do is install the kernel *before* the userland. If you already did that, then make sure youtry with a GENERIC kernel. I did exactly that, though I did not try the GENERIC kernel. My conf looks like this: include GENERIC ident MACHINENAME options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT options VESA # System console options options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT # disable reboot key sequence options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=200 # number of history buffer lines options SC_PIXEL_MODE # add support for the raster text mode # The following options will change the default colors of syscons. options SC_NORM_ATTR=(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK) options SC_NORM_REV_ATTR=(FG_YELLOW|BG_GREEN) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_RED|BG_BLACK) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=(FG_BLACK|BG_RED) Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: text to html
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:10:54 +0200, Jozsi Avadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: my own solution: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kqQXCpD5 Allow me a short comment: Your first line #!/bin/bash will make it non-portable, and usually non-runnable on FreeBSD. I know that bash is the default shell for scripting in Linux, and it is located in /bin. But FreeBSD is not Linux. Here, bash is an additional port, and /usr/local/bin would be the path where the bash executable is placed (unless you use specific port options). Of course, if you want to run this script on Linux only - no problem. I'm not seeing any bash-specific (outside sh capabilites) stuff here, so why not use the default #!/bin/sh shebang here? There would be nothing wrong with conforming to the standard... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pxe LiveCD setup
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The stock tftpd on FreeBSD doesn't support variant block sizes (or much of anything else past RFC 1350). You'll see better performance if you go with something newer. Spent some time experimenting. tftp-hpa is faster, but setting the maximum block size was required to prevent errors. Unexpectedly, 1024 was fastest in my setup. The problems can be on the other end, too: System Rescue's tftp client is not great--three minutes for 211M. Clonezilla is much better, at 15 seconds for 101M. Linux systems with netboot can boot off http (using wget) and it's much better. Twice as fast for the Clonezilla load, but System Rescue went from three minutes to only 18 seconds. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
linux-nvu freezes upon startup
FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE / amd64 Using KDE (latest port version) I have removed and reinstalled linux-nvu twice; however, it will not run. It hangs with its start up screen after clicking on any available option. Using 'gdb' I got this info: warning: no shared library support for this OS / ABI /usr/local/lib/linux-nvu/nvu-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I did locate the library: $ locate libmozjs.so /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libmozjs.so /usr/local/lib/firefox3/sdk/lib/libmozjs.so /usr/local/lib/linux-nvu/libmozjs.so Has anyone else experienced a similar problem or have a solution? -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ Last yeer I kudn't spel Engineer. Now I are won. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Get access to csh (default freebsd shell) for root to solve login problem.
The root shell is now bash,but I was unaware that bash was not self-contained(it depends at least of libintl.so.8), and doing some upgrades with ports I erased libintl.so.8,now I cannot access the root account because bash is not operational and I need root access to install again libintl.so.8,or any other way to solve the problem. So,how can I get access to csh for root without having access to a root shell(the previously defined bash does not work,and I need root access to change the shell for the root acount). Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Get access to csh (default freebsd shell) for root to solve login problem.
Luca Renaud renaud.l...@gmail.com writes: The root shell is now bash,but I was unaware that bash was not self-contained(it depends at least of libintl.so.8), and doing some upgrades with ports I erased libintl.so.8,now I cannot access the root account because bash is not operational and I need root access to install again libintl.so.8,or any other way to solve the problem. So,how can I get access to csh for root without having access to a root shell(the previously defined bash does not work,and I need root access to change the shell for the root acount). This will work: just change the root shell instead of password. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Get access to csh (default freebsd shell) for root to solve login problem.
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:02:59PM +0100, Luca Renaud wrote: Hi, The root shell is now bash,but I was unaware that bash was not self-contained(it depends at least of libintl.so.8), and doing some upgrades with ports I erased libintl.so.8,now I cannot access the root account because bash is not operational and I need root access to install again libintl.so.8,or any other way to solve the problem. So,how can I get access to csh for root without having access to a root shell(the previously defined bash does not work,and I need root access to change the shell for the root acount). if you haven't activated the 'toor' account (another UID 0 account besides root), you'll have to boot from fixit media (or another live cd / system) and go from there. Regards Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Getting kernel trap 12 During Boot Of 8.1-PRERELEASE
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 7/4/2010 10:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: I've seen this twice now - once last Sunday, and once again today when I tried to do a build/installworld/kernel with daily sources from the master tree: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=qmhizdtnhyothumb=4 That asked me to jump through too many hoops over multiple domains, so I didn't actually see it. I'll assume it's just more information on the error in your subject line. I'm not sure what you mean. It should take you to a screenshot of the problem. What does too many hoops mean in this context? I had clicked through a couple of click here to download picture screens (each trying to push a pop-up) before I decided it looked too much like malware. The system boots fine single-user, so I don't suspect the base kernel functionality. Maybe. What you should do is install the kernel *before* the userland. If you already did that, then make sure youtry with a GENERIC kernel. I did exactly that, though I did not try the GENERIC kernel. My conf looks like this: include GENERIC ident MACHINENAME options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT options VESA # System console options options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT # disable reboot key sequence options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=200 # number of history buffer lines options SC_PIXEL_MODE # add support for the raster text mode # The following options will change the default colors of syscons. options SC_NORM_ATTR=(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK) options SC_NORM_REV_ATTR=(FG_YELLOW|BG_GREEN) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_RED|BG_BLACK) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=(FG_BLACK|BG_RED) None of those look interesting (by which I mean dangerous), but it's still worth trying a GENERIC kernel. Also, minimize the software started at bootup in order to reduce the number of variables. If it's still crashing at that point, go to the Handbook (or maybe it's the Developers' Handbook?) for instructions on diagnosing crashes. If not, then re-enable the userland stuff gradually to find the culprit. It also may be useful to look at the -STABLE mailing list, as at least one crash problem has been solved recently. Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pxe LiveCD setup
Linux systems with netboot can boot off http (using wget) and it's much better. Twice as fast for the Clonezilla load, but System Rescue went from three minutes to only 18 seconds. Etherboot/gPXE is interesting also. It will boot from http. One of my grub4dos menu entries is a gPXE floppy image with the generic UNDI driver though I haven't really used it much. http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/start ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Global backup solution for FBSD Ubuntu
Hello, I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers (7) based on two operating systems : - FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8) - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS These servers are hosting some strategic components mainly related to DNS infrastructure and databases. For the moment I am backing up these server using network based backup solution: - A duplicity based solution which backs up key directories in my infrastructure on a remote FTP server provided by my hosting company. - A dump of some key components which I am doing on regular basis for FreeBSD servers. - Duplicity is also used for the Ubuntu servers. - Databases are replicated live on a remote server using slony for the most strategic ones (Postgres DB) and using mysql dump export for MySQL. • I am not a 100% sure these solutions will allow me to restart rapidly from a crash, specially for Ubuntu servers. • I would like to know which solution(s) you have deployed at what cost for what results ? I am actually considering couple of different solutions - SAIT solution and backula. - Disk based solution (maybe also with backula). … I have couple of servers that will reach their end of life that could be recycled as backup solution at a very convenient price… Thanks for you help. Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Global backup solution for FBSD Ubuntu
On 07/04/10 16:43, bsd wrote: Hello, I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers (7) based on two operating systems : - FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8) - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS These servers are hosting some strategic components mainly related to DNS infrastructure and databases. For the moment I am backing up these server using network based backup solution: - A duplicity based solution which backs up key directories in my infrastructure on a remote FTP server provided by my hosting company. - A dump of some key components which I am doing on regular basis for FreeBSD servers. - Duplicity is also used for the Ubuntu servers. - Databases are replicated live on a remote server using slony for the most strategic ones (Postgres DB) and using mysql dump export for MySQL. • I am not a 100% sure these solutions will allow me to restart rapidly from a crash, specially for Ubuntu servers. • I would like to know which solution(s) you have deployed at what cost for what results ? I am actually considering couple of different solutions - SAIT solution and backula. - Disk based solution (maybe also with backula). … I have couple of servers that will reach their end of life that could be recycled as backup solution at a very convenient price… I wrote a simple shell-based solution for this problem some time ago. It (and FreeBSD instructions) can be found: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tbku/ I am able to recover a production server (DNS, dhcp, http, sendmail, etc...) in under 30 minutes using this technique. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: /var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:41:31 +0800, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Based on the dates of the messages logs looks like not much is being logged for a whole year at a time. So what you are seeing is normal. Thanks for the tip. I'll see how it goes in the next few days. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Get access to csh (default freebsd shell) for root to solve login problem.
On 04-Jul-2010, at 9:48 PM, Thomas Keusch wrote: On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:02:59PM +0100, Luca Renaud wrote: Hi, The root shell is now bash,but I was unaware that bash was not self-contained(it depends at least of libintl.so.8), and doing some upgrades with ports I erased libintl.so.8,now I cannot access the root account because bash is not operational and I need root access to install again libintl.so.8,or any other way to solve the problem. So,how can I get access to csh for root without having access to a root shell(the previously defined bash does not work,and I need root access to change the shell for the root acount). if you haven't activated the 'toor' account (another UID 0 account besides root), you'll have to boot from fixit media (or another live cd / system) and go from there. I think that would be an overkill. From the su(1) manpage, -m Leave the environment unmodified. The invoked shell is your login shell, and no directory changes are made. As a security precaution, if the target user's shell is a non-standard shell (as defined by getusershell(3)) and the caller's real uid is non- zero, su will fail. So, you could use su -m to switch to root and remain in the same shell as your user calling su. Once there, AFAIK, you could use vipw(8) or chsh(1) to change the root shell back to csh. Thanks Subhro -- Subhro Kar Blog: http://80386.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/subhrokar FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/subhrokar
Re: pxe LiveCD setup
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Carl Chave wrote: Etherboot/gPXE is interesting also. It will boot from http. One of my grub4dos menu entries is a gPXE floppy image with the generic UNDI driver though I haven't really used it much. http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/start I tried it last night, although it and apparently most other things hate the alc0 interface. Eventually it seemed like an NFS server would be useful, and pxeboot will start a FreeBSD livefs. But only directly, entering FreeBSD's pxeboot as the filename in DHCP. With grub4dos title FreeBSD pxe keep chainloader --raw (pd)/images/freebsd/boot/pxeboot it loads pxeboot, but then: netboot: couldn't probe pxenet0 pxe_open: netif_open() failed ... can't load 'kernel' OK So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 device. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pxe LiveCD setup
With grub4dos title FreeBSD pxe keep chainloader --raw (pd)/images/freebsd/boot/pxeboot it loads pxeboot, but then: netboot: couldn't probe pxenet0 pxe_open: netif_open() failed ... can't load 'kernel' OK So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 device. Your goal in the pxeboot/nfs/livefs was to avoid having to transfer the large livefs iso? I won't be much help solving your problem above, just curious where you're going with your setup. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pxe LiveCD setup
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Carl Chave wrote: So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 device. Your goal in the pxeboot/nfs/livefs was to avoid having to transfer the large livefs iso? I won't be much help solving your problem above, just curious where you're going with your setup. Well, yes, the transfer and also I have more than a few systems with limited memory. gpxelinux.0 works fine with FreeBSD's pxeboot, I discovered. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
