in without messing up an instance of userland PPP
that might check it at just the wrong moment?
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set up in a hurry. (Also, it's a
production system and don't want to cause unnecessary downtime while I
experiment.) Advice, and sample lines from configuration files, would be
much appreciated.
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the Nth line, leaving the rest
of the text the same?
3) Delete the first line containing a particular string?
4) Insert a specified line after the first line containing a particular
string, leaving the rest of the file the same?
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At 02:44 PM 1/17/2004, Eric Anderson wrote:
You should do your own Comp Sci homework. This looks like (especially considering the
time of th year) the begining of a Unix Basics course.
Nope; I'm quite experienced with UNIX. However, I posted the
question because I wanted to see what the most
need is one machine on a
different subnet that will relay your outbound mail.
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decided to contribute my bit to the FreeBSD community. I'm proud to
preset bgcc, 'The Brett Glass compiler collection', released under the
BSD license, of course. As a lot of you know, I'm a professional
programmer who does
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Stacy Roberts wrote:
You might want to check a couple of things:
1] Make sure that P'nP OS option in the BIOS is not enabled.
2] Move the offending nic to another slot
3] Use the 3Com utility to disable P'nP mode on the nics and set unique, fixed IRQ
IO port for both cards
No, you fucking
get around it?
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I still haven't found a fix for the latter problem. Ideas?
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I realize that dual booting is not common, but I need to do it on this
laptop. Has anyone else on the lists encountered this problem?
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Postmaster, saying that the notice to the sender could not be delivered.
What's the easiest way to suppress this resource-consuming, mailbox
clogging chain reaction?
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At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the
filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state.
Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power
comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no
UPS,
All:
I'm having a terrible time with servers in which I'm using FreeBSD's
userland PPP to provide PPPoE or PPTP service. It appears that every so
often -- usually after a client's connection is severed for some reason
(for example, if the client simply shuts of his or her machine without
As most folks here know, I'm not a great fan of KDE, because
it is GPLed and also highly specific to Linux (many of its
features simply don't work under FreeBSD). However, I've been
asked to get KDE working on a few FreeBSD systems belonging to
a client, and am trying to muddle through for their
At 11:50 PM 7/6/2003, Brian Astill wrote:
That shouldn't be an issue. Utilities-KJettool is designed for HP
Laserjets. Have you tried that?
Can't. It won't run on anything but Linux. (Yet another reason why
the BSDs should have their own, non-GPLed desktop.)
--Brett Glass
The owners of the machine installed FreeBSD 4.8, with KDE as supplied as a
FreeBSD package on the install disk. This package installs the KDE utlities
package as a dependency. However, the utilities package does not include the
KJettool utility, nor is that utility available as a separate port.
-heal (that is, bypass the
rule) or reinvoke a daemon that's attached to a divert socket. Otherwise,
the process that's attached to the socket becomes an Achilles' heel for
the whole system. Crash it for any reason, and the system's offline.
Ideas?
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I am working with a BIND 9 server which, for some reason, isn't
setting the authoritative bit on zones for which it is the
master (as clearly stated in named.conf). Has anyone seen this
behavior?
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At 09:06 PM 8/6/2004, Matt Emmerton wrote:
While Intel (or AMD) may make changes to the underlying silicon to make
things better than their competitors (ie, larger caches, different pipeline
architecture, etc), they are committed to maintain compatibility between
AMD64 and EM64T.
This is good to
At 09:18 PM 8/6/2004, Matt Emmerton wrote:
If you would like to ship me one, I'd gladly test it out for you.
If I had one to ship, *I* would test it. But I need to know PRIOR
to purchase.
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What internal DMT ADSL modems are supported by FreeBSD? I am
looking for internal modems rather than external ones, because the
link requires redundancy and I'd like FreeBSD to do multilink PPP
over two of them.
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On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:30 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
What internal DMT ADSL modems are supported by FreeBSD? I am
looking for internal modems rather than external ones, because the
link requires redundancy and I'd like FreeBSD to do multilink PPP
over
WinModems they
are software type.
Regards,
Chris
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What internal DMT ADSL modems are supported by FreeBSD? I am
looking for internal modems rather
I'm working on a machine with six Ethernet interfaces -- all Intel fxp's.
Two of them are on the motherboard, and there are two PCI cards each
containing two more. Oddly, the kernel recognizes five of the six
interfaces at boot time, but not the sixth. Here's the dmesg output:
ad0: Maxtor
My first message seems not to have included the intended dmesg output, so
I've included it again here. There should be an fxp5 -- it's on the same
card as the interface that becomes fxp4! -- but there isn't.
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this variable is being set, so that I can adjust the time or
disable automatic logouts?
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Does one of FreeBSD's drivers support the Intel
Intel Pro 1000MT Dual Port Gigabit Server Adapter
(Intel part # PWLA8492MT)? I can't tell from the
the hardware notes, but I'm wondering whether
the em driver supports this board.
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burn DVD-R's;
(b) whether it wil work with this drive; and (c) what commands are required to
do the burning? All info much appreciated.
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At 01:42 PM 12/29/2003, Charles Swiger wrote:
Yes, FreeBSD can burn DVD-R's. Please see /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools.
I've taken a look at this port. Unfortunately, it's REALLY hard to
figure out the documentation (which consists of a few Web pages written
in very contorted -- almost
to look at and tweak the software we
use, and we can't look at GPLed code for legal reasons. Also, no BSD-based
operating system should be dependent upon GPLed code. I'm glad to see that
Jeroen and others are working on alternative toolchain components.
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with minimal
impact on performance would be ideal.
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At 12:39 PM 6/26/2005, Mike Maltese wrote:
Brett Glass wrote:
I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of
mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this
purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID
functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap
At 02:53 PM 6/26/2005, Björn König wrote:
You don't need an additional controller necessarily, because you can set up a
RAID 1 with two single ATA hard disks. You'll find a small how-to at [1]. Even
most cheap ATA chipsets have hot-swap capabilities.
[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Highpoint RocketRAID:
1640: 4xSATA,PCI 32bit, 33MHz
1810A: 4xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz
1820A: 8xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz
2220: 8xSATA-II, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz
With the exception of the 2220 all of the other cards
At 06:48 PM 6/27/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software
This server will be mirroring, so we wouldn't need XOR. It'd
be a big plus for RAID 5, though.
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A client had a network problem, and I wanted to make sure that his FreeBSD 4.11
router wasn't the cause of it, so I rebooted it. I then did a last command
and saw the following:
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Subject: Has this box been hacked?
A client had a network problem, and I wanted to make sure that
his FreeBSD 4.11
router wasn't the cause of it, so I rebooted it. I then did a
last
At 05:32 PM 7/7/2005, J65nko BSD wrote:
If you would have installed something like tripwire or aide, you would have
been in a better position to find out whether the box has been owned.
I didn't build the machine.
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concern? Is there a way in which it could have happened
innocently (e.g. due to a power failure that left the disk
inconsistent)?
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When I am in that same position as a rule I tell the customer
that I would assume the system was rooted
diagnosing this would be MUCH appreciated!
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Client ppp.conf:
pptp:
set authname username
set authkey password
set timeout 0
set login
set dial
set ifaddr 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
enable lqr
set lqrperiod 12
deny chap pap deflate pred1
disable chap pap passwdauth deflate pred1
you're accessing via the VPN.
Because this is a security concern, I'm posting this message to
security@ as well as the two lists where I posted originally. But
I'm BCC'ing all three to prevent responses from being cross-posted.
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Just tried installing FreeBSD 4.10-R on a 60 GB hard drive. When I used the
partition editor to enlarge the /var and /tmp partitions beyond the 256 MB that
the install program recommended (I happened to pick 512 MB), the install
consistently failed when the system began to write into the file
I'd put those badges on all the servers I configured if they weren't
2 bucks a pop! I'd be willing to pay a quarter, or at most 50 cents,
but $2 seems excessive.
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At 09:03 AM 12/7/2004, Rod Person wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:20 pm, Haulmark, Chris wrote:
We show our
What a mess! I can't believe that he could do this just by typing make,
and that there would be no easier way to back things out.
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At 05:14 PM 12/11/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Brett Glass wrote:
I'm unfamiliar with pkgdb. What does it do?
When you change a huge number of dependencies
Chuck:
I'm unfamiliar with pkgdb. What does it do?
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At 04:51 PM 12/11/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Brett Glass wrote:
[ ... ]
What's the best way to un-GNOME his system automatically? Or would it
be simpler to tell him to save his configuration files and reinstall the OS
from scratch
At 06:42 PM 12/11/2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
That isn't supposed to happen. If another port has X11 listed as a
dependency, make deinstall would have said so and refused to remove
it..
Which, by the way, is what the owner of the machine is seeing. He's
listed the ports that were installed by
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Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no
provision
for deleting a port AND the ports on which it depends cleanly. I tend
to use a minimal number
files and reinstall
the OS from scratch -- as if his hard drive had crashed?
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I'm getting ready to build some (hopefully) high reliability servers with
ECC memory. I'd like to put FreeBSD on them. What facilities (if any) does
FreeBSD have for:
1) Reporting the status of ECC memory (errors corrected, errors uncorrected,
etc.)?
2) Responding to uncorrectable errors?
3)
At 03:25 PM 12/20/2004, Charles Swiger wrote:
However, your RAM isn't a hard drive, so the ad-sector remapping used
by hard drives is not fully applicable. Your machine is expected not
to have any part of memory fail reproducably, but if you do, it's time
to use the warranty and replace
?
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to re-enable it. But has this feature of the scheduler
been maintained well enough for this to be a good idea? If not,
would it worth looking into updating it so that FreeBSD runs well on the Atom?
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. But the build failed -- and the error messages suggest
that the problem had to do with linking libalias into the kernel.
libalias seems to be there, so I'm not sure what's wrong. Ideas?
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At 05:43 PM 2/1/2009, Dan Nelson wrote:
Do you have options LIBALIAS in your kernel config?
Nope. There was nothing that said that such an option was needed
(or even that it existed). I did find it, via a recursive grep, in
a file labeled NOTES a couple of levels up in the directory
the information.
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I just received a handful of USB Ethernet NICs whose primary chip
says SUPEREAL on it. I've installed one on a Windows machine, and
the computer identifies it as having the Supereal SR9600 chip on
it. Is there support for this chip in FreeBSD?
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absolutely no reason for them
to do so anymore. (Linux, in fact, has jumped the gun and has
compression code available.) Shall we start coding?
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In short, this shouldn't be something that's handled by
quirks. Instead, the system simply should recognize that
a USB memory stick is not a SCSI drive.
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utilization of the
resources on each chip (including executing one thread while the
CPU waits for data for another) is worth it. What has your experience been?
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doing nothing at all, because top(1) can't tell that there aren't
really 4 CPUs.)
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, or at least I can't find one.) Am I
missing something, or does at(8) always expect to be able to send
mail? If so, would it be worth implementing an atrun.conf
configuration file that makes it optional and possibly sets other
defaults for at(8)?
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If you redirect the output from the command to /dev/null or other
file, you shouldn't recieve an email unless you've also specified -m.
True. But that's awkward, and if you have a job that runs more than
once, it'd be convenient to be able to keep
of some weirdness in the kernel. I
need to know, though, before I deploy the system... so I'd
appreciate any advice or ideas from any kernel experts who might be
reading messages here.
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At 02:35 PM 9/3/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Is 'atrun' actually sending the mails or is 'cron' doing it? 'atrun' is
invoked by 'cron', from a specification in the system crontab file.
/usr/src/libexec/atrun/atrun.c shows an invocation of sendmail(8) directly
from atrun(8).
Cron emails
that.
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At 08:26 PM 9/3/2011, Adam Vande More wrote:
Call a shell script which preforms the actions you want.
Needlessly complex, and doesn't handle the case of stderr.
Since the utility has the ability to force mail to be sent, it
should also have an option not to send it, IMHO.
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to a local user.
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At 02:35 PM 9/4/2011, Johan Hendriks wrote:
Maybe ssmtp is something you can use.
It is in ports, it does get mail out of the system.
I use it on all of my servers so i can receive the cron mails and so on.
Personaly i think sendmail should be replaced by such small
reports
that you have 1GB of 4GB+ memory (a possible indication that the
last gigabyte is mapped into some special space). Maybe there's
something like PAE going on. Anyone know what might be up? (Copying
this message back to the list thread)
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sched buckets to 64 (was 0)
Bump sched buckets to 64 (was 0)
xl0: promiscuous mode enabled
xl0: promiscuous mode disabled
dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold
dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold
Any hints here as to what's wrong?
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if perhaps some recent change to the kernel
assumed that one would always have a faster CPU than the old
Celeron this machine is running, and that there is a race
condition or an error in the kernel code.
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# ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1
disable SpeedStep, powerd and similar which might change the processor
frequency, TSC might work OK also.
I've already turned off all power saving mechanisms listed in the BIOs setup,
including clock speed modulation. So, the TSC ought to be pretty stable. At
least it's worth a shot.
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) with the EOL
that's the farthest out.
We'll retire the hardware before we will run non-release code on a
production box.
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if it rolls over in less than a second,
since this clearly leads to imprecision and missed rollovers.
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it's a runtime tunable so /etc/sysctl.conf
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Here's a networking question: Does FreeBSD generate and accept ICMP
redirects? Is it controllable via tuneables? How long do routing
tables generated by ICMP redirects last?
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Everyone:
The Hifn, Inc. patent on the compression used in Microsoft's MPPC
protocol expired earlier this year. Shouldn't the code at
http://mavhome.dp.ua/MPPC/
at last be added to the source tree to support it?
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Just looked at the project Web site, and the timeline for
9.0-RELEASE is way, way out of date. If all goes well, when is 9.0
expected to be released? What remains to be done?
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Just wondering if a date has been set for posting of FreeBSD
9.0-RC1. I have some servers to build that will need fixes made after BETA3
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freebsd-update can't do binary updates between release candidates
I'd like a version that has the latest fixes.
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kernel: MCA: Bank 3, Status 0x9001010a
Nov 4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0005,
Status 0x
Nov 4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Vendor GenuineIntel, ID 0x652, APIC ID 0
Nov 4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR GCACHE L2 ERR error
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is placed after installation? I am
not intimately familiar with the cascade of makefiles that does the
build I could probably figure out what to tweak, but if someone
who is expert in this can help it would be appreciated. It would
save me countless hours.
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of
drivers that are not going to be linked statically into the kernel.
Build on an older Pentium II server took about 10-12% of the time!
Worth knowing about.
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to build it from a port.
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At 10:16 PM 4/18/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
The ports support policy is right there on www.freebsd.org/ports for
all to read.
It's not reasonable, IMHO. If a release hasn't been EOLed, ports should
work on it.
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come naturally to you?
My e-mail client has been honoring your Reply-to field correctly.
You'll note that the To: fields on my replies all point to the
list.
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itself when updated according to the
recommended procedure. (This is the least one could expect of software
of even mediocre quality.)
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Not in my experience. More oft than not, it's FreeBSD I fix and
that other OS I flatten.
But then, maybe we work in different environments, although
I'm betting my experience is more common than yours
I consult with, and provide service to, quite a few
the limit on the number of tun devices that can exist
in the system, and how can the limit be adjusted? Is there a
similar limit on, say, ng devices?
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/boot/GENERIC, and putting the GENERIC
kernel in it, would cause freebsd-update to update that directory
rather than one's custom kernel. I now must rebuild the kernel to
keep the machine working.
What went wrong, and how do stop it from recurring?
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the customer kernel
in /boot/kernel, and did so with no warning. If there had been a
power outage or other problem before I could rebuild, the system
would have been disabled.
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-update on a FreeBSD 9.0 machine with a
module-less custom kernel at /boot/kernel/kernel, it fetched a
GENERIC kernel and overwrote the custom kernel with it.
Interestingly, it didn't bring in any modules; it just overwrote the one file.
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