Re: .PICT mac file
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi everyone, I have a load of .pict files which I can't seem to be able to open > with anything under FBSD. I just want to convert them into something > more useful (jpg / tiff / svg). ImageMagick doesn't understand it, so i think this is the Packbits > compressed .PICT filetype. neither Gimp or XV like them either. file doesn't identify the files either. Alternatively, any tool I can script under OSX to conver them to > something useful? (FYI, 'Preview' under Tiger doens't recognise them > either, but I can drag them just fine into an Omnigraffle Pro > diagram). I used Graphic Converter on Macs since MacOS 7.1. It used to convert just about everything under the sun. It was always scriptable before so I would imagine it is under OSX. http://www.lemkesoft.com/ DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: system admin question...
Gary Kline wrote: This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or CWTM, KDE, Whatever] workspace that will help me track each of my four or five computers? (((Is xosview broken? I have it running here on this pre xorg-7.2 system.))) xsysstats seems reasonable; are there any others? I'd like to be able to spot any overloads of file system snafus before they go critical... . thanks for any|all insights, I am a fan of KISS, I would just start snmpd on each server and then hack a quick perl/ruby/shell script to check on the boxes now and then and alert you when something is beyond a configured parameter. Maybe pop open a term window and display the snmpget results or something. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Strange perl script
Jack Raats wrote: >>> HI >>> >>> Can anyone explain this after ps -ax | grep perl >>> >>> 21893 ?? I 1:02.37 sploger (perl5.8.8) >>> 29536 ?? R184:14.94 sploger (perl5.8.8) >>> 29538 ?? R184:36.44 sploger (perl5.8.8) >>> 30668 ?? R168:56.54 sploger (perl5.8.8) >>> >>> What is sploger? > >> Looks sort of like a Perl script running. >> That, of course, doesn't say what it is doing. > > The stangest thing is that I cann't find sploger on my system. After a > reboot sploger doesn't appear anymore, which makes it more stranger. > > Jack > Do you have any services available to the outside from the machine? FTP, telnet, ssh, mysql, apache? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.
We just put our replacement DNS servers online, djbdns replacing Bind. In testing with the few domains we have moved to the new servers we began getting intermittent failures for some clients. It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a domain query from dnsstuff for any org, I sometimes get nothing but name server records. This happens when the root servers refer the query to TLSx.Ultradns.net. I see ultradns failing to return A records for slashdot.org and openoffice.org as well others. Is anyone else seeing this? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:43 AM, DAve wrote: >> It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a >> domain query from dnsstuff for any org, I sometimes get nothing but name >> server records. This happens when the root servers refer the query to >> TLSx.Ultradns.net. >> >> I see ultradns failing to return A records for slashdot.org and >> openoffice.org as well others. >> >> Is anyone else seeing this? > > No, but I use dig, not dnsstuff. Are the missing records visible by: > > dig slashdot.org @ns1.ostg.com > dig openoffice.org @ns1.collab.net Dig works here as to be expected. Not a problem. > > ...? I don't see why ultradns.net would be involved...? > Because dnsstuff is the only service where I can see the full path of the query. Dig does not show me how/where it queries, it simply provides the answer. I cannot see the output of the +trace command due to my network. I think it is an ultradns issue because they are the only TLD server that doesn't return a SOA record. I am thinking, maybe dangerous, that our client's AD install doesn't handle a query response properly for that reason. One look at my DNS logs tells me AD is rarely configured properly. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?
Mark Moellering wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 5:01 am, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and >> encoder or either). >> >> I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I >> try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question would be, is there a >> streaming server and possibly an encoder available for FreeBSD that will >> stream live video that is compatible with most mediaplayers (for Windows, >> Mac and Linux desktops)? >> >> Any help or directions are very much appreciated. >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> Best regards, >> Andreas >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > Check vlc & vls in ports/packages. It should cover all the (streaming) > standards. > We have been using Apple's Darwin Streaming server with excellent results. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Duplicate existing FreeBSD Server in VM
Terry Sposato wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have just installed a machine and have it setup running a web based CRM > solution. I want to have an exact duplicate of this machine running as a VM > for redundancy reasons. > > > > What is the best way to go about getting this exact machine transferred to > the VM? Both machines exist on the same network and will be able to talk to > each other, I have been thinking of a couple of different ways to get all my > data across which is the easy part, but I want to match everything that is > installed, base system, ports etc. > > > > Anyone have any ideas or point me into the right direction? > You can use dump over ssh easily enough, here are my notes from using it to create multiple production machines from a single test server. There are better ways I am sure, but this is quick and easy if you are familiar with FreeBSD installs. Note #1 In the first comment line I say to boot the live file system CD, that is what you would do in the VM, just as you would normally boot an installer CD, but use a Live filesystem CD instead. Note #2 I used several slices with sizes some may not agree with. It was a choice we made for various reasons, the servers have been running for three years. You may have more or less slices of varying sizes, adjust the steps below to your preferences. Note #3 You will need to check and WRITE DOWN which slice is which mount point, /, /var, /usr and so on. Your disks may be different if you choose not to create a seperate /tmp, or /var. I'll be out of the office for a week, but you can try and adjust as needed, it won't hurt anything and you can always overwrite and try again. WRITE IT DOWN. Works for us, I've used it several times, adjusting as needed for the system I am cloning. DAve # boot live filesystem cd # use disklabel to check/create slices /stand/sysinstall /dev/ad0s1b256mb swap /dev/ad0s1a256mb /mnt/ufs.1softupdates /dev/ad0s1e256mb /mnt/ufs.2softupdates /dev/ad0s1d256mb /mnt/ufs.3softupdates /dev/ad0s1fall /mnt/ufs.4softupdates /dev/ad1s1d2mb /mnt/ufs.5 # unmount the new slices umount /mnt/ufs.1 umount /mnt/ufs.2 umount /mnt/ufs.3 umount /mnt/ufs.4 umount /mnt/ufs.5 # make newfs on each slice newnfs /dev/ad0s1a newnfs /dev/ad0s1e newnfs /dev/ad0s1f newnfs /dev/ad0s1d newnfs /dev/ad1s1d # remount the slices mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/ad0s1a /mnt/ufs.1 mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/ad0s1e /mnt/ufs.2 mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/ad0s1d /mnt/ufs.3 mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/ad0s1f /mnt/ufs.4 # fetch the filesystems from the test server # you will need to enable root ssh access on the test server for this. cd /mnt/ufs.1 ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dump -0L -f - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -rf - /dev/ad0s1a cd /mnt/ufs.2 ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dump -0L -f - /dev/ad0s1e | restore -rf - /dev/ad0s1e cd /mnt/ufs.3 ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dump -0L -f - /dev/ad0s1f | restore -rf - /dev/ad0s1f cd /mnt/ufs.4 ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dump -0L -f - /dev/ad0s1d | restore -rf - /dev/ad0s1d # change the following entries in rc.conf, remember everything is mounted under /mnt! # X = the ecluster number 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, etc. hostname="new_server_X" ifconfig_em0="inet 10.0.240.13X netmask 255.255.255.0" Reboot the new server, it should come up just fine. -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
making packages from ports
Hello, I've got a box i'd like to build packages from ports on, and deploy those packages to other machines. I'll use postfix as an example. I did make package from postfix's directory and selected pcre and mysql support. I got the postfix tarball package, but when i tried to install it on another box it needed pcre and mysql-client packages. I had to run make package in each of their directories. I was wondering if there was a recursive way of package making? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: bash and strings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Everyone, > > I'm sure this is easy, and I am making it harder than it is. > > I am being supplied a list of files, and need to create the files and > directories to hold them, but I cannot figure out how to take the string > apart. > > For example, I am given > > /usr/local/scripts/firewall.sh > > I need to create the /usr/local/scripts directory and then create > firewall.sh. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=bash+scripting+tutorial Can't recommend it enough, the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. A very handy bookmark to keep around. DAve -- I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000, maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo, but none of the links I was given return anything but a normal Google logo. Sad, very sad. Maybe the Chinese Government didn't like it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?
Hello, How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any outstanding issues? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: who wrote this
Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:23:56 -0600 eBoundHost: Artur wrote: > >> All I have to say is WTF is wrong with whomever wrote this page. >> http://www.freebsd.org/internal/fortunes.html >> == >>>> Examples of entries that should not usually be declared 'offensive': >>>> * Hitler quotes. >> == >> Ok I understand that some moron wrote it, but why has nobody removed >> this garbage? > > Hm, I'm astonished. I've never seen that page before... > > English is not my native language and I may not understand all nuances > though. Does that phrase mean "Hitler quotes are not usually be > declared 'offensive'"? For me that means that there some (and very > little) his quotes that should be treated as 'offensive'. > > > WBR I read the page as instruction to be attentive to content *and* context. The who matters little in comparison to the what. Fascinating to me that things like the logo and that page can generate so much list mail. DAve -- I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000, maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo, but none of the links I was given return anything but a normal Google logo. Sad, very sad. Maybe the Chinese Government didn't like it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD and WiFi with captive portal
Hello, I'm looking to set up a WiFi gateway with two nics, and iptables. The catch is i have to use a captive portal as well to ensure all traffic goes to a single destination. I've read about several packages, but haven't seen any docs that say how to integrate everything. If anyone has this setup i'd appreciate knowing what software your using, and experiences with it, positive or negative. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD and WiFi with Captive portal, correction
Hello, In my last msg i posted on captive portal, i mentioned iptables i meant pf, i was thinking about a reinstallation of a CentOS box that came up, while i was writing and transposed iptables with pf. As i said i've seen docs on this but nothing saying how to link it all together. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
usb 2.0
Hello, I've got an Abyt kd7-e motherboard with two USB 2.0 controllers on it. I'm getting some very strange messages, see below. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave. atapci0: port 0xbc00-0xbc0f,0xb800-0xb803,0xb400-0xb407,0xb000-0xb003,0xac00-0xac07 mem 0xd811-0xd8113fff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xac00 on atapci0 ata3: at 0xb400 on atapci0 uhci0: port 0xc000-0xc01f irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub0: port error, restarting port 1 uhub0: port error, giving up port 1 uhub0: port error, restarting port 2 uhub0: port error, giving up port 2 uhci1: port 0xc400-0xc41f irq 11 at device 16.1 on pci0 usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub1: port error, restarting port 1 uhub1: port error, giving up port 1 uhub1: port error, restarting port 2 uhub1: port error, giving up port 2 uhci2: port 0xc800-0xc81f irq 3 at device 16.2 on pci0 usb2: on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub2: port error, restarting port 1 uhub2: port error, giving up port 1 uhub2: port error, restarting port 2 uhub2: port error, giving up port 2 atapci1: port 0xcc00-0xcc0f at device 17.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1 ad0: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 ad4: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master PIO4 pass0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device pass0: 16.000MB/s transfers link_elf: symbol pfil_add_hook undefined link_elf: symbol pfil_add_hook undefined ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: usb 2.0
Hello, Sorry, FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASe Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
vinum configuration
Hello, Trying to get vinum going on a 5.1 machine, with two IDE 40 gb hard drives at the moment, two more will be added later once i know my setup is working. Below are my disklabels for ad0s1 and ad1s1 as well as the vinum configuration. I need to know if all of this is right and if not what is not up? Also, how do i get the data from one drive to the other? As of now drive2 is empty. Thanks. Dave. # # bsdlabel ad0s1 |more # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 245760 10485764.2BSD 2048 16384 15368 b: 1048295 281 swap c: 781561620unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 245760 12943364.2BSD 2048 16384 15368 e: 204800 15400964.2BSD 2048 16384 12808 f: 6291456 17448964.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 g: 70119810 80363524.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 h: 78156146 16 vinum # bsdlabel ad1s1 |more # /dev/ad1s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] b: 10485760 swap c: 781561620unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 245760 10485764.2BSD 2048 16384 15368 e: 204800 12943364.2BSD 2048 16384 12808 f: 204800 14991364.2BSD 2048 16384 12808 g: 6291456 17039364.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 h: 70160770 79953924.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # more /etc/vinum.conf drive Vinum1 device /dev/ad0s1h volume root setupstate plex org concat sd len 245760s driveoffset 1048576s volume home setupstate plex org concat sd len 70119810s driveoffset 8036352s volume swap setupstate plex org concat sd len 1048295s driveoffset 281s volume tmp setupstate plex org concat sd len 204800s driveoffset 1540096s volume var setupstate plex org concat sd len 245760s driveoffset 1294336s volume usr setupstate plex org concat sd len 6291456s driveoffset 1744896s # vinum vinum -> list 1 drives: D Vinum1State: up /dev/ad0s1h A: 38162/38162 MB (100%) 6 volumes: V root State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 0 B V home State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 0 B V swap State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 0 B V tmp State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 0 B V var State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 0 B V usr State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 0 B 6 plexes: P root.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B P home.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B P swap.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B P tmp.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B P var.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B P usr.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B 0 subdisks: vinum -> # ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
postfix/amavisd, fbsd 5.1
Hello, I have upgraded a system to the latest postfix and amavisd port, a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE box. Sending mail works fine, however receiving mail, does not. Incoming messages get deferred because a connection to 127.0.0.1:10025 times out. I can telnet successfully to that port so i am at a loss on this one. The only item that shows up in my maillog is what i already know, connection times out. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
postfix restrictions error
Hello, I'm trying to implement the below restrictions on my postfix 2.0.16 system. I am getting the error: "Missing '=' after attribute 'permit_mynetworks'" on a line number I copied these verbatum from a site, i do not understand what is up. Thanks for any help, it's probably just the late hour. Thanks a lot. Dave. # uce values strict_rfc821_envelopes = yes smtpd_etrn_restrictions = permit_mynetworks smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_invalid_hostname reject_maps_rbl maps_rbl_domains = sbl.spamhaus.org, relays.ordb.org, opm.blitzed.org, dun.dnsrbl.net, spam.dnsrbl.net smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_unknown_sender_domain smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination, reject_non_fqdn_recipient ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: postfix restrictions error
Hi, Tried inserting a comma, didn't change the error, it is still complaining about the permit_mynetworks line. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: postfix restrictions error
Hello, Yah, i have: mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0/8 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
solved, Re: postfix restrictions error
Hi, Thanks, that space was the issue, forgot about that one. Thanks to all. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
openssl and key generation
Hello, I'm trying to use openssl to do encryption with some files and to create a key for postfix for use in authenticated smtp. For my first case i'm doing: openssl enc -blowfish -in /root/etc.tar.gz -out /root/etc.tgz.bf to try to encrypt a tar file. And for my second, trying to create a key for use with postfix's authenticated smtp feature: /usr/sbin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes \ -config /etc/postfix/ssl/pst.cnf -out /etc/postfix/ssl/post.pem \ -keyout /etc/postfix/ssl/post.pem /etc/postfix is a symlink to /usr/local/etc/postfix and i'm using openssl 0.9.7c in both cases i'm getting a usage error, yet i'm following a tutorial for this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
UPS
Hello, I've got a 5.1 box and a few other systems, one that comes to mind and a cable modem, possibly other stuff will be added in the future, that i'd like to put a UPS on. I'm looking for information and user experiences with UPS's under fbsd. I'd like something that i can query via fbsd or with a web interface to determine it's status and automatic powerdown when the power gets low on the UPS. Any info appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: shutting down network interfaces
At 08:02 PM 12/18/2003, you wrote: I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without rebooting. man ifconfig will tell you what to do. the short answer: ifconfig interface_card down ie : ifconfig ed0 down cheers dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
postfix and squirrelmail
Hello, I've been searching for a site that gives instructions for setting up postfix and squirrelmail. So far i've been unsuccessful in finding anything that doesn't involve a database, i want to use ssl encryption and authenticate via the system password file. Does anyone know a site for this? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
troubles with cvsd buildroot
Hello, I'm trying to use the cvsd port to to get a chrooted cvs server running under 5.1. I've installed the port and created the cvsd user and group, with the home directory of /home/cvsd. The command i used was: pw useradd cvsd -c "Cvs Server Daemon" -u 1015 -s /sbin/nologin -m -h - I then manually removed the dot files from that directory as this user won't be logging in. I then copied cvsd.conf.sample to cvsd.conf and edited it. I changed RootJail to /home/cvsd the Uid and Gid fields to cvsd, and uncommented the listen line. When i went to run cvsd-buildroot /home/cvsd I got errors about not being able to find libraries, below is the output from the command. It says that the build was successful, but i'm a little worried about it not being able to make the /dev devices and the fact that it couldn't find libraries, and manually atempting to run the binary placed in the location yielded no output. creating directory structure under /home/cvsd... done. installing binaries... cvs. locating libnsl.so... not found (probably not fatal) locating libnss_compat.so... not found (probably not fatal) locating ld-elf.so... /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 locating libnss_compat.so.2... not found (probably not fatal) locating libnss_files.so.2... not found (probably not fatal) locating /usr/libexec/ld.so... not found (probably not fatal) locating /usr/lib/ld.so.1... not found (probably not fatal) locating nss_files.so.1... not found (probably not fatal) installing libraries...ldd: /home/cvsd/bin/cvs: Permission denied /home/cvsd/bin/cvs: exit status 1 ld-elf.so.1. creating /home/cvsd/dev devices... FAILED (unable to use devices) adding users to /home/cvsd/etc/passwd... root nobody cvsd. making /home/cvsd/etc/pwd.db...done. fixing ownership... done. chrooted system created in /home/cvsd if your cvs binary changes (new version) you should rerun cvsd-buildroot Advice appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cd and rm a directory with '^M'
Wayne Sierke wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 01:28 -0400, DAve wrote: Edwin Groothuis wrote: I had rsync create a directory with a '^M' in it. Use command-line completion: [~/xx] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>touch foo^Mbar # that's ^V^M [~/xx] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 edwin edwin 0 Sep 4 13:46 foo?bar [~/xx] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>rm foo # autocompletes to foo^Mbar If you find yourself on a machine without a full featured shell you can delete by the inode number. Chuck Swiger saved my bacon with that trick several years ago. [sysadmin /usr/home/sysadmin]$ touch abc^M [sysadmin /usr/home/sysadmin]$ ls -i 2449500 abc? 2449511 env.sh [sysadmin /usr/home/sysadmin]$ find . -type f -inum 2449500 | xargs rm [sysadmin /usr/home/sysadmin]$ ls -i 2449511 env.sh However, note that using find's -x option could avoid subsequent consternation, embarrassment, or worse. -x avoids having find search over multiple filesystems which in this case avoids having find stumble upon files with the same inode num on different filesystems. Relevant to any type of find criteria, but -inum introduces a nice degree of (user-level) randomness to the mix. Good point to remember. Of course, the old adage always applies - "If in doubt - print it out!" (Not very catchy, is it?) I *always* look at what I am going to remove, *before* I remove it. A lesson learned the hard way once, learned forever the second time. DAve -- Don't tell me I'm driving the cart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: server is crashing constantly
Jonathan Horne wrote: I have a new web server for a moderately high traffic website that i have recently deployed for a friend. it has apache22, php5, and mysql50 on it (latest from ports). this server is crashing 2-3 times a day, and thus far i have no idea where to start troubleshooting this. That is what im getting in the /var/log/messages. Sep 13 20:09:25 rps savecore: reboot after panic: page fault Sep 13 20:09:25 rps savecore: writing core to vmcore.0 Here is the uname: FreeBSD rps.rangerpowersports.com 7.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Sep 5 01:58:09 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RPS i386 You have a custom compiled kernel correct? Have you tried running the GENERIC kernel to see if the issue is resolved? DAve Any ideas or recommendations about where to start looking to track this down would really be appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Don't tell me I'm driving the cart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Running cron jobs as nobody
Good morning all, We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it seems to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody. I noticed two things, 1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the script uses su to become nobody. echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody || rc=3 2) nobody, as expected, has no shell or home dir in /etc/password. I searched around for an answer but didn't see anything concerning this other than a patch to cron to check if setuid fails. Is setting the user to nobody in /etc/crontab not possible? Thanks, DAve -- Don't tell me I'm driving the cart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Running cron jobs as nobody
Bill Campbell wrote: You can use ``su -c '/path/to/command' username'' to run scripts as users other than root. Another way is to use ``crontab -u username''. man crontab for details. Bill I am being told the developer tried a user crontab without success. I've not suggested they try su yet though I dropped hints. Still seems odd that setting the user to nobody in /etc/crontab did not work. Dave -- Don't tell me I'm driving the cart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Running cron jobs as nobody
Mel wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2008 17:11:52 DAve wrote: Good morning all, We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it seems to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody. I noticed two things, 1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the script uses su to become nobody. echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody || rc=3 ^^^ -fm: Bypass .cshrc and only change user, use root env. Is setting the user to nobody in /etc/crontab not possible? pw showuser operator pw showuser nobody Spot the difference (hint: /nonexistent) That was my first thought as well. After reading some of the responses I still thought it odd that cron would not run the script as "nobody". So I setup two scripts to dump the env vars into a file, one script runs from /etc/crontab and one from nobody's crontab. Both are functioning perfectly. I have told the developer to re investigate his script and his directory perms. I looks like a case of PEBKAC to me. Thanks for the responses. DAve -- Don't tell me I'm driving the cart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: CMS
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, October 16, 2009 11:27:12 -0500 Modulok wrote: On 10/15/09, Paul Schmehl wrote: I manage a couple of FreeBSD servers for a friend. He's gotten all excited about content management and thinks that's the way to go. The system he's familiar with is Windows only. I've done a little research, but I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience with a CMS on FreeBSD - one that's in ports preferably. Pros? Cons? Any known security issues? If it's your server and you're the guy, (or your friends) needing "content management" abilities... a simple SSH connection cannot be beat. But maybe that's not what you had in mind :p YeahI'm not the content guy. I'm the server admin. I'm also not the ower. The owner likes CMS products since he's now using one, and wants to install the one he uses on his server. But the one he uses is only for Windows. Thus the question. It is my opinion that they (CMSs) are nearly to the point it will take a quadcore CPU and 4GB or memory to serve a single html page containing the words "Hello World". Code light, they are not. My experience with CMS such as Joomla, SurgarCRM, etc is that they are to crackers as a lone lightbulb in the forest is to bugs. - Keep them up to date. - Subscribe to, and be attentive to, their security mailings. - If you do not use a feature/module, remove it. - Do not under any circumstances install PhpMyAdmin. My logs show if a IP gets a hit on a CMS page, they immediately search for PhpMyAdmin next. If you must install it, install it on another machine or under a different domain. Then turn access on and off at the SQL server when needed. We have a few CMSs that I could not talk Sales out of, two have had problems. One was moved to it's on VPS because of issues. Best of luck. DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ 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"
DNS Question
Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. The issue I run into lately with some domains is that a client has a website with a industry host such as frank.relator.com and he wants to have DNS point www.frank.com to frank.relator.com with a CNAME. The client does not want an A record for frank.com. Somewhere, in a class far far away, I was taught a DNS zone had to have a A record to function properly. I can't seem to locate anything in the RFCs. Am I wrong? Thanks, DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ 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: DNS Question
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 > From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DNS Question > > Good morning. > > I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A > record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. > > The issue I run into lately with some domains is that a client has a > website with a industry host such as frank.relator.com and he wants to > have DNS point www.frank.com to frank.relator.com with a CNAME. The > client does not want an A record for frank.com. > > Somewhere, in a class far far away, I was taught a DNS zone had to have > a A record to function properly. I can't seem to locate anything in the > RFCs. > > Am I wrong? > I think you are confusing basics of DNS records. you are partially correct in that a DNS zone needs an initial A record to be able to translate a name to an IP, but there is nothing wrong about setting up a CNAME to point to a record in a different zone instead. you just cannot do a zone that has a CNAME only that does not at some point to a valid A record. CNAMEs are forwarders only whereas A records are actual lookups. for proper way to set this up The A record would be assigned for the main name that you want to associate to an IP address. The CNAME record just relates a different name to that original name. this allows you to change the IP address of the server and only have to update the original A record instead of every DNS record for that server. for small number of vhosts, this would not really be an issue, but imagine if you were hosting a couple hundred vhosts from a single IP and then had to change that IP because you switched your ISP. It would take you a LONG time to update them if they were all A records, but only a couple of seconds if you had it properly set up as CNAME's www.bobshosting.com <http://www.bobshosting.com>A 192.168.0.1 www.vhost1.com <http://www.vhost1.com> CNAME www.bobshosting.com <http://www.bobshosting.com>. www.vhost2.com <http://www.vhost2.com> CNAME www.bobshosting.com <http://www.bobshosting.com>. www.vhost3.com <http://www.vhost3.com> CNAME www.bobshosting.com <http://www.bobshosting.com>. www.vhost4.com <http://www.vhost4.com> CNAME www.bobshosting.com <http://www.bobshosting.com>. -Sean All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as this. example.com CNAME otherdomain.com www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com I was taught this was not good form, but allowed. I can deal with it. But what of having a SOA record for example.com, no A or CNAME record for the TLD example.com, only hosts such as www, ns1, ftp, etc. I tried it an it seems to work fine, but doesn't look proper to me. Then again I remember when CNAME were considered evil. DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ 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: FW: DNS Question
krad wrote: a few massive assumptions here I feel. 1. all the domains are controlled by said person 2. Are on the same server 3. Fits with the relevent provisioning system, 4. Is probably are using bind You betcha, though all good information. 1. Nope, the CNAME is not controlled by me. 2. Nope, the CNAMEd sites are on another provider. 3. Yes, it is possible by our support system. 4. Nope, no bind here. I have been reading the info everyone posted, and I configured a domain as I was asked. Since the reconfigured domain did no harm to my servers, I am inclined to let them do it. If it is the right thing to do, or the proper thing to do, seems to matter little those in the big offices. If they can find nowhere on the internet where it says "THOU SHALL NOT DO ", they believe is industry standard. So WTH, I'll do it, so long as it doesn't cause my pager to go beep in the night. I am too tired of arguing to keep it up anymore. Thanks, DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ 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: DNS Question
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's; in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are supposed to be using the canonical name rather than an alias. Errr? You mean the rule that NS and MX and SRV rdata must include an A record rather than a CNAME? That's true, but what does that have to do with web serving? Consider the case of redirects involving cnames; you end up with a lot of extra DNS traffic. The illegality mentioned further upthread is that you can't use a CNAME at a zone apex because of the 'CNAME and other data rule'[*] -- as there's always got to be SOA and NS records at the zone apex, if you want a web page at 'example.com' you'ld have to provide an A or record for it. Unless you're Verisign and have control over the nameservers for .com, this is almost certainly illegal: example.com. IN CNAME www.example.com On the other hand: www.example.com. IN CNAME example.com. is generally fine. It's generally fine, sure, but almost never ideal. You don't save traffic by using CNAMEs instead of A records PS: It's odd where google pulls up references to fairly canonical docs, sometimes. I'm not sure I even recognize "ua", and I suspect I deal with two-letter ISO 3166 country names more than most folks do. Maybe Ukraine? :-) Of course it's Ukraine. .uk was already taken, even though the two letter iso-code for this country is officially .gb. We're in an exclusive club of two nations that generally don't use their official iso-code in the DNS. No prizes for guessing which the other one is. Shucks, how can you pull in Jeopardy references and then deny giving out prizes? Well, my guess would be ie, although people who speak Finnish and call their home "Suomi" might find "fi" odd, also Cheers, Matthew [*] Little known factoid, but there are two legal exceptions to the 'CNAME and other data' rule. You can have RRSIG or NSEC records at the same label as CNAME -- see RFC 4035. Obscure DNS trivia for 100, Alex... Regards, Just so everyone knows, having a domain with a CNAME at the top will hose your mail traffic. We tried it, and some servers delivered fine, others did not. Checking with dig +trace, and dns stuff, showed the problem. Just trying to get a MX record for mainstreetfin.com would fail. The record we had was, mainstreetfin.com CNAME website.elliemae.com And the problem is shown below. --- DNS Lookup: mainstreetfin.com MX record Searching for mainstreetfin.com MX record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.) [took 39 ms] Searching for mainstreetfin.com MX record at M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.55.83.30]: Got referral to ns2auth.tls.net. (zone: mainstreetfin.com.) [took 11 ms] Searching for mainstreetfin.com MX record at ns2auth.tls.net. [65.123.104.30]: Got CNAME of website.elliemae.com. and referral to k.root-servers.net [took 36 ms] Searching for website.elliemae.com MX record at g.root-servers.net [192.112.36.4]: Got referral to I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.) [took 143 ms] Searching for website.elliemae.com MX record at I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.43.172.30]: Got referral to ns2.elliemae.net. (zone: elliemae.com.) [took 63 ms] Searching for website.elliemae.com MX record at ns2.elliemae.net. [63.241.88.21]: Timed out. Trying again. Searching for website.elliemae.com MX record at ns2.elliemae.net. [63.241.88.21]: Timed out. Trying again. Searching for website.elliemae.com MX record at ns1.elliemae.net. [216.35.165.21]: Reports that no MX records exist. [took 46 ms] Response: No MX records exist for website.elliemae.com. [Neg TTL=300 seconds] Details: ns1.elliemae.net. (an authoritative nameserver for elliemae.com.) says that there are no MX records for website.elliemae.com. The E-mail address in charge of the elliemae.com. zone is: hostmas...@elliemae.com. NOTE: One or more CNAMEs were encountered. mainstreetfin.com is really website.elliemae.com. ---- So some mail servers never asked our authoritative servers what the MX record was. Interesting. DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ 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"
Source of closed port RST responses
I am routinely seeing these entries in one of my servers logs. Limiting closed port RST response from 373 to 200 packets/sec The server sits behind a PIX firewall, so I am suspicious of what is trying to connect to a closed port. I don't see in any other logs what port is being hit, or what IP is causing these log entries. Any way to tell what the source IP of these is? Thanks, DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ 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: Source of closed port RST responses
Jon Radel wrote: > DAve wrote: >> I am routinely seeing these entries in one of my servers logs. >> >> Limiting closed port RST response from 373 to 200 packets/sec >> >> The server sits behind a PIX firewall, so I am suspicious of what is >> trying to connect to a closed port. I don't see in any other logs what >> port is being hit, or what IP is causing these log entries. >> >> Any way to tell what the source IP of these is? >> >> Thanks, >> >> DAve > > Easiest way, probably without any "observer effect," would be to mirror > the switch port your server is plugged into and use a computer running > wireshark, or equivalent, to look at the mirrored traffic. > > Unless, of course, your switch doesn't support port mirroring, you don't > have a spare computer running wireshark, etc., etc. It's obviously hard > to tell what resources you have available to you. > > You can also install wireshark from ports on your server, but depending > on disk space, how "pristine" you want your server to remain, and > internal security rules (wireshark, particularly some of the protocol > decoders, is not without its own issues), there are some downsides to this. > > Also remember that source IPs can be forged, so look at the MAC address > information as well if things appear to be really odd. > I've asked my network guys if they were doing any scans inside the network, they say they are not. I had looked extensively online for any help and came up empty handed. I might be able to run wireshark on the server, though it is a mailgateway and quite busy, I do not want to disrupt traffic if possible. I will be installing pf this week, I just need to write up my rule sets for these servers. I had been working on the webservers first. Is there a rule I can use to log connection attempts to closed ports? Thanks, -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ___ 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"
kernel error when upgrading to 7.0
Hello, I've got a 6.2 or 3 box that i'm wanting to update to 7.0. I've cvsupped my source, made world, and built a kernel, all went successfully. This is the GENERIC kernel. When i do a make installkernel i am getting the error kldxref: file isn't dynamically linked Is this a show stopping error/ if so is there a workaround? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: kernel error when upgrading to 7.0
Hello, Previously i've done make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, shutdown to single user mode, mergemaster -p, make installworld, mergemaster, boot multiuser. Has this procedure changed? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Norman Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:40 PM Subject: Re: kernel error when upgrading to 7.0 Hi, you have to exec "make installworld" before exec "make installkernel" .. bye Norman Am Montag, den 10.03.2008, 21:11 -0400 schrieb Dave: Hello, I've got a 6.2 or 3 box that i'm wanting to update to 7.0. I've cvsupped my source, made world, and built a kernel, all went successfully. This is the GENERIC kernel. When i do a make installkernel i am getting the error kldxref: file isn't dynamically linked Is this a show stopping error/ if so is there a workaround? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: kernel error when upgrading to 7.0
Hi, Thanks for your reply. What's my issue with this kernel msg? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "D Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "Norman Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:58 AM Subject: Re: kernel error when upgrading to 7.0 On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 at 00:41 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello, Previously i've done make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, shutdown to single user mode, mergemaster -p, make installworld, mergemaster, boot multiuser. Has this procedure changed? Thanks. Dave. According to: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html under the heading "23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Updating Your System" you would be correct. - _|_ |_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
safesquid on freebsd
Hello, Is anyone using safesquid from www.safesquid.com on FreeBSD? I read there was a patch for it for 5.3, but didn't see anything for 6 or 7, so was curious. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
freebsd 7.0 sshd authenticating against ldap core dumping
Hello, Is anyone using ldap authentication with 7.0? I've got a 7.0-release box that i'm trying to get ldap authentication working with. The 7.0 box is the client in this case. I'm encrypting connections with tls, which is working. On the box itself i can do an ldapsearch for a user and an id for a user plus ls -l information on users shows up correctly. I've added ldap to my /etc/nsswitch.conf file. So far nothing has blown up, i can still log in as normal. My issue comes when i add the line: auth sufficient /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so try_first_pass to /etc/pam.d/sshd and restart sshd. Now whenever i try to log in either as a local user, nonldap or as an ldap user sshd exits with a signal 11, this only occurs with that line in pam.d/sshd, remove it and restart and all is well. I've googled and seen others with this but with no solution. My logs show sshd exiting with the signal 11 then nothing. An ssh -v -v -v shows the connection is closed after the file ~/.ssh/identity is searched for. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Odd aliasing question
I've looked but found no examples to give me confidence. While I have lots of servers running alias IPs the IPs are all on the same network. I've have been informed by my network admin that we will need to change the IPs of our legacy name servers (we are just dragging them along for a time, new name servers are up and domains are being moved to them). Currently the IP of ns2 is 208.252.191.2, this needs to change to 65.123.104.25. The network admin is telling me he will have the router for that NOC cage handle both IPs no problems. However I need to continue answering the old IP until clients can get their equipment reconfigured. Can I alias 208.252.191.2 once I change the NIC's IP to 65.123.104.25 with a default route of 65.123.104.1? What netmask would use for the alias line? This seems not possible to me, but you can learn something new everyday... Thanks, DAve -- Google finally, after 7 years, provided a logo for veterans. Thank you Google. What to do with my signature now? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Odd aliasing question
Vince wrote: DAve wrote: I've looked but found no examples to give me confidence. While I have lots of servers running alias IPs the IPs are all on the same network. I've have been informed by my network admin that we will need to change the IPs of our legacy name servers (we are just dragging them along for a time, new name servers are up and domains are being moved to them). Currently the IP of ns2 is 208.252.191.2, this needs to change to 65.123.104.25. The network admin is telling me he will have the router for that NOC cage handle both IPs no problems. However I need to continue answering the old IP until clients can get their equipment reconfigured. This will work fine. Can I alias 208.252.191.2 once I change the NIC's IP to 65.123.104.25 with a default route of 65.123.104.1? yes, What netmask would use for the alias line? Whatever you currently use for those IPs. Well whaddaya know. Seems non intuitive to me but I'll give it a shot and use 0x same as any other alias. This seems not possible to me, but you can learn something new everyday... I've been supporting servers for about 10 years and I'm still learning :) Thats why its still fun. I don't know about fun, interesting for certain ;^) Thanks, DAve -- Google finally, after 7 years, provided a logo for veterans. Thank you Google. What to do with my signature now? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Reconditioned Laptop advice
Robert Huff wrote: Predrag Punosevac writes: ThinkPads are the highest quality machines. I honestly thing that there is nothing on the market which matches their quality including Apple laptops. /Caveat emptor/. I'm hearing reports from those who deal with laptops much more that I do that quality has dropped substantially since Lenovo took over. I am on my second Thinkpad/Lenovo, first a G40, now a R61i. I only replaced my G40 because it wouldn't hold enough ram to run VMWare player. I do not think the quality has suffered at all. I cannot say it runs FreeBSD well, though any FreeBSD live CD ran without error and everything functioned on the G40. I run FreeBSD in VMWare on the R61i. Fantastic keyboards, long battery life, great screens. They hold up very well as I am hard on equipment. These things are tanks. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Reference to instant-workstation port/package, freebsd-tips.
A reference to /usr/ports/misc/instant-workstation is in the /usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips file at line number 405. I do not see instant-workstation listed in /usr/ports/misc at this time. What mailing list should I send this query to? Thank's in advance, Dave -- my local time is PDT or UTC/GMT Offset -7 hours. [EMAIL PROTECTED] end. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
Good morning. I recently upgraded our two email gateways from 4.8 to 6.2. The required software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where previously we saw a high load on the servers of 5 to 8, we are now seeing 14 to 17. Since the upgrade Sendmail has begun to timeout connections. I have been digging through the system, mail lists, forums, anything to help determine the cause of the increased load. Here are some examples of what I am seeing. bash-2.05b# vmstat -w2 procs memory pagedisks faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi po fr sr da0 da1 in sy cs us sy id 12 5 0 2234516 199864 772 4 0 4 431 447 0 0 485 564 927 29 4 67 11 6 0 2229788 181352 8631 0 0 0 5597 0 0 0 294 2592 1236 45 5 50 9 5 0 2227208 168144 6456 0 0 0 4607 0 2 0 278 1333 898 46 4 50 11 5 0 2229068 175868 5164 0 0 0 5423 0 0 0 212 766 541 47 3 50 14 7 0 1948392 236296 8136 0 0 0 12382 0 14 0 368 4135 1504 42 8 50 4 3 2 1744620 321024 7550 0 0 0 13454 0 23 6 752 11417 3919 42 8 50 12 5 0 1951788 258944 12490 0 0 0 11295 0 0 5 727 18566 4844 40 10 50 16 6 0 2155668 214324 8231 0 0 0 4230 0 1 29 724 15531 4381 41 9 50 8 6 1 2044828 242084 4567 0 0 0 9119 0 0 12 774 12196 3225 43 7 50 bash-2.05b# top last pid: 85205; load averages: 12.89, 13.78, 14.66 up 47+15:51:31 15:20:01 126 processes: 12 running, 79 sleeping, 35 zombie CPU states: 43.8% user, 0.0% nice, 6.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 50.0% idle Mem: 1008M Active, 582M Inact, 211M Wired, 78M Cache, 112M Buf, 122M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 304M Used, 3792M Free, 7% Inuse I am suspicious of the kernel being the culprit because the system looks as if it is not working very hard, CPU load never shows above 50% idle. I found one thread which mentions that as an issue and offers a patch. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-February/022526.html Currently I am running the SMP-GENERIC kernel and sysctl shows the following. hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 0 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0 kern.smp.cpus: 4 I see dev.cpu.0 through dev.cpu.3 Can anyone offer a solution? Is this a known issue I can easily correct? At this point I am left with either rolling back to 4.11 or trying another OS. I am thinking I have missed something obvious and I need to make a sysctl change to get the system working properly. Any help is appreciated, I'm losing mail. Thanks, Dave -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
Wojciech Puchar wrote: software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where previously we saw a high load on the servers of 5 to 8, we are now seeing 14 to 17. Since the upgrade Sendmail has begun to timeout connections. do you feel that system goes slower? i think it's just the matter of calculation method - 6.* may calculate it different way. just change in your sendmail config the values in place of xx define(`confQUEUE_LA', `xx') define(`confREFUSE_LA', `xx') as just accepting mail isn't a problem i set confREFUSE_LA very high It is already set to higher than the load we see. I don't "see" sendmail refusing connections. What happens is I try to test sendmail from another server and the connection never completes. I'm knockin', sendmail ain't answering. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
Wojciech Puchar wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what you're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're seeing. and what most unix users do. Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi-core type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could so 4.11 is fastest? I would be inclined to try another version if I knew what the cause of this issue was exactly, and I saw in the release notes that the issue was resolved in 7.X. But I cannot just try a new version on a production server as an experiment. I've hosed this up enough thinking 6.2 was out long enough to not surprise me. I've not compared them on any server running multiple CPUs, but on a single physical CPU server I've yet to see 5.X or 6.X keep up with 4.X. I've been poo poo'd heartily for saying so, more than once. I would hope, and I do think, this is easily solved. I've already had one private email stating a binary upgrade to 6.3 solved the same problem for them. I wish I could find that email again 8^( DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi-core type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could so 4.11 is fastest? For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of tasks. However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent versions of FreeBSD generally perform better than 4.x would. Single CPU quad core. ps -aux output is up, look under the FBSD dir. I also put up both dmesg.boot files from the servers. http://pixelhammer.com/Dan/ I do appreciate the assistance. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 11:55 AM, DAve wrote: For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of tasks. However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent versions of FreeBSD generally perform better than 4.x would. Single CPU quad core. OK. ps -aux output is up, look under the FBSD dir. I also put up both dmesg.boot files from the servers. MailScanner is what is taking up all of the load; tuning that area is where you need to focus. Things which come to mind are trying to limit the max number of children of that being run to something smaller, perhaps 8 or so. Yes, they recommend running 5 * #CPUs, but they also think their instances are going to be around 20MB in size, but yours are running at 100+ MB size. You might find that running sa-update and sa-compile nightly might improve your SpamAssassin performance; I've got a crontab setup which runs the following nightly: % cat /usr/local/bin/update-spamassassin #! /bin/sh PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin sa-update --allowplugins --gpgkey D1C035168C1EBC08464946DA258CDB3ABDE9DC10 --channel saupdates.openprotect.com --channel updates.spamassassin.org sa-compile kill -HUP `cat /var/run/vscan/spamd.pid` (If you aren't running spamd because MailScanner uses builtin interface to SpamAssassin, comment out the last line. But do check the sa-compile docs, you have to make a change for it to be used) Regards, I appologize I should have given more info. We do run sa-update, and sa-compile. We also run 0 scores on most DNSBL tests as we run those at the mta level along with milter-greylist, milter-ahead, pipelining rejection, and greet pause. We have been running a very trimmed down and fine tuned system for about two years now with good results. I do think the upgrade to SA 3.2.4 is very heavy, considerably more resource usage than 3.1.8 which we were running prior to the OS upgrade. I have not changed the settings for MailScanner from our previous install with respect to number of children or to batch size. Previous testing showed that 13 MS children with a batch size of 10 messages was optimal. I can certainly give that a try. I will look at enabling Hyperthreading as well. I've also found this, which may be a clue to the suggestion that a binary upgrade to 6.3 was a solution. DAve http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-April/070986.html -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 8:54 AM, DAve wrote: The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where previously we saw a high load on the servers of 5 to 8, we are now seeing 14 to 17. Since the upgrade Sendmail has begun to timeout connections. You should look more into the status of the various processes, and how long it takes your mail scanning to process a message compared to previously. It might be the case that the config under 6.2 is allowing more instances to run at once and is just barely nudging the system into excessive paging. Once that happens, performance drops and the system load increases significantly. Do a couple of "ps aux | head -20" every 5 minutes or so, and put that data somewhere on a website, the process states will help give a better picture of what's going on. [ ... ] bash-2.05b# top last pid: 85205; load averages: 12.89, 13.78, 14.66 up 47+15:51:31 15:20:01 126 processes: 12 running, 79 sleeping, 35 zombie CPU states: 43.8% user, 0.0% nice, 6.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 50.0% idle Mem: 1008M Active, 582M Inact, 211M Wired, 78M Cache, 112M Buf, 122M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 304M Used, 3792M Free, 7% Inuse I am suspicious of the kernel being the culprit because the system looks as if it is not working very hard, CPU load never shows above 50% idle. I found one thread which mentions that as an issue and offers a patch. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-February/022526.html Currently I am running the SMP-GENERIC kernel and sysctl shows the following. hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 0 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0 kern.smp.cpus: 4 I see dev.cpu.0 through dev.cpu.3 Can anyone offer a solution? Is this a known issue I can easily correct? At this point I am left with either rolling back to 4.11 or trying another OS. It might be reasonable to try hyperthreading enabled, as your type of load might be improved by it on Funny that, enabling hyperthreading immediately dropped my load by half, I see CPU0, CPU1, CPU2, CPU3 now in top. I also see my CPU load reporting correctly as well. I see ranges from 10% idle to 80% idle, not locked at 50% and above. That seems to have cured several ills. I will know more Monday at 8:30am when the business email traffic kicks in. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: freebsd7 on older machines
Wojciech Puchar wrote: installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a make X server running - you will be able to remotely use X apps too. faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and then install via nfs. or i can setup the hd on another machine that does support the install cdrom and then transfer to the older machine. here are the specific questions: 1. do older machines work better with older versions of freebsd? should work with FreeBSD 7, but i would rather use 6.* 2. if i dd a hd (with freebsd) onto another hd will i have a problem with the mbr and be unable to boot? no. it will work You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to "clone" a server from one piece of hardware to another. Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1, /mnt/ufs.2, /mnt/ufs.3 (etc) Then rdump from the source machine Edit your conf files Reboot Easy as pie ;^) DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: freebsd7 on older machines
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no. it will work You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to "clone" a server from one piece of hardware to another. but don't forget to bsdlabel -B then Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1, /mnt/ufs.2, /mnt/ufs.3 (etc) The trick is the live CD. You setup the drives/partitions first. You mount them ready to go on the target machine before you rdump. DAve Then rdump from the source machine Edit your conf files Reboot Easy as pie ;^) DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
DAve wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: It might be reasonable to try hyperthreading enabled, as your type of load might be improved by it on Funny that, enabling hyperthreading immediately dropped my load by half, I see CPU0, CPU1, CPU2, CPU3 now in top. I also see my CPU load reporting correctly as well. I see ranges from 10% idle to 80% idle, not locked at 50% and above. That seems to have cured several ills. I will know more Monday at 8:30am when the business email traffic kicks in. DAve Just a quick note, we survived the day in good form. The servers have dropped their load numbers by 50% under a heavy load and by 80% under a normal load. More importantly, Nagios shows that SMTP is always responding and the load balancers are now showing a max of 34 active connections on each server where before they were showing 350+. Connections are opening and closing far far quicker. machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 has been added to /etc/sysctl.conf On a related note, I met Chuck back in 1999 in Seattle at a SeaFug meeting. I doubt he remembers me but he and John Polstra coached me through changing from a Mac Admin to a BSD admin. I've read Chuck's posts on multiple maillists that we both have, or do, share subscriptions to. Chuck, you are always helpful, never mean, and you encourage detective work to identify a problem rather than recite the "upgrade" mantra. Your knowledge has helped countless people over the years, including me. I appreciate that. If you have a wish list, I can't find it. I would sure like to buy you a CD or something since I can't buy you a beer. Thank you for your time, thanks to everyone on the list for their time. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Lenovo ThinkPad -- good as IBM?
Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: I had an IBM ThinkPad T41 that I was using until recently. It was rock solid, ran FreeBSD perfectly, handled all abuse I threw at it (I dropped it a couple of times), and generally did everything I needed it to do. I switched jobs so I had to return that T41, so I'm thinking about buying a ThinkPad of my own. Since the T41 however, IBM has sold its ThinkPad line to Lenovo. I've only heard anecdotal stories about Lenovo, and its largely been about driver compatibility. Can anyone comment on whether or not Lenovo has maintained the IBM quality standards for the ThinkPad line, whether or not a Lenovo would make a good FreeBSD laptop, or suggest some alternatives? thanks, Joe I am on my third Stinkpad and this one is a Lenovo R61i. I believe it is just as solid as my previous Stinkpads, I love it, wouldn't trade it. I have not installed FreeBSd on any of them, but my last ( a G40 ) and this R61i run Desktop BSD and PCBSD in vmware wonderfully. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Trouble upgrading qt33 with portupgrade after package installation
Ross Gohlke wrote: I have been running FreeBSD 6 successfully for over a year without installing any ports from packages. I have had great success using ports but sticking with make install clean/portupgrade. I recently decided to try running X11/KDE. I thought I would save some time and learn a new trick with pkg_add kde. Mixing the two confuses me because portversion does not report whether an installed port was compiled from source or copied from a package, and portupgrade hasn't worked on some packages. Here's the latest: portupgrade -vr qt Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.12485.0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=qt-3.3.8_6 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=3.3.8_6 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ---> Build of x11-toolkits/qt33 ended at: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:53:59 -0500 (consumed 00:51:34) ---> Upgrade of x11-toolkits/qt33 ended at: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:53:59 -0500 (consumed 00:51:34) ---> ** Upgrade tasks 1: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed ---> Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! x11-toolkits/qt33 (qt-3.3.8_6)(linker error) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed ---> Session ended at: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:53:59 -0500 (consumed 00:51:47) Is there a particular port I need to reinstall from source to fix this, or another solution? Thanks. Ross Gohlke I've had that happen, no explanation why. I have had luck switching from a pkg to a port by doing the following within the port you are upgrading. make deinstall make clean make reinstall Then portupgrade will work with the port fine. There is the possibility that you may need to remove the pkg using pkg delete and then do a fresh install from ports. X is big, I have not used X in years as all my systems are servers, I generally use only ports if I don't install from source. Someone with more experience than me might have a better answer. Of course, if you follow my advice blindly your system may explode, or worse ;^) DAve PS, Denise says HOWDY! -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.
Gary Kline wrote: On Thu May 29 2008 00:39:06 Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and checked with firefox; things looked fine. I've done all markup by hand since '94, very carefully, with only browsers in the ports tree-- mozilla, firefox, a couple others. About a week ago I viewed my homepage with KDE Konq and almost flipped out. One "free" commercial historical calender event feature was glued to the bottom of my blue bar () on the RHS of the page. And yep, the new text and other things were centered in the middle of the long blue rectangle. Since I have a few weeks now to work on things beside research, it's time to update my main web page. My friend was using IE; it may be that Konqueror uses a similar parser to position things on a .php or .html page. Other than beginning from Zero and trying to determine exactly what causes firefox and konq to diverge, do any of you have any other ideas? I've never learned an HTML editors because of the learning curve. But:: if/when I come up with a better design for my home page, I'm willing to try again:: any best (simple) HTML editors in ports? I'd be much obliged for any help here. I say keep using the technique you're using now. That's what I'd do. Instead of finding a HTML Editor just find a simple text editor and write all your HTML in a clean manner. I don't know where Ted got his statistics from, but most people I know use simple text editors for writing their HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Personally I stick to vi or diakonos on BSD and Notepad2 on Windows. /* * strange:: the way that mutt queues [ and orders ] its replies and theads is * different from kmail. I only use a GUI when there is a URL embedded, but * it must be down-queue. */ I would *rather* use vi and HTML-by-hand. And produce very simple, readable, uncluttered pages. I don't use many graphics, e.g., I use the strength of HTML, php, blah ** 3. I'm ready to learn this "CMS" that Ted mentioned if I knew what it was! And if its in ports. AFAIK, the only pages that look bizarre are my initial "www" (and one other based on it). I'll google around to find out what CMS is... I still prefer html by hand. I use VIM though all our designers and developers use Dreamweaver, funny few if any can fix the HTML if the tool munges it. Many have no idea how HTML works. As far as CMS tools go some create nice pages but at a cost. We have several clients who insist on CMS tools. The joke around our Office is [Joomla|Rails|other] is the only tool known to man to require 1GB server memory to load all the required libs in displaying "Hello World". Some of the CMS tools are very very heavy. Straight static HTML can be blisteringly fast in comparison unless you have low traffic or a fairly hefty server. Static HTML also doesn't show up in my CERT emails every month with security issues. My 2 cents worth... DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:51 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. you probably didn't start with the earlier markup. back then, '93-4, there was ,, , and . i wrote a 2.2K-line program to handle "hi" -> ``hi'' and a couple other things. the code has evolved, of course, but still works. Not the case. I use vi myself and I eschew background gifs and such. Web pages that I create are black text on a white back ground interspersed with images when needed. Period. No CSS no frames, no nothing. If the content I put up isn't worth reading then no amount of formatting, font specification, animated images, and so forth is going to get people to look at it, is my feeling. I nearly spit coffee on my keyboard! I agree with you 100%. When we all did HTML with BBedit and Textpad, people like Black, Tog, and Nielsen kept everyone designing websites to best serve the content. Now it is all about the sizzle, but there is rarely a steak. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Need to build a new mail server
Eric Zimmerman wrote: Foo JH wrote: I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's extensible. and requires 400 patches to do basic things =( List them, not 100, not 399, all 400 please. Keep in mind that when your download x.x.x release of a software package you are downloading a "patched" source code. Sendmail has been patched many times, Postfix is patched, Exim is patched. qmail just requires you apply your own patches. Patching is not a bad thing, shrinkwrap mail admins applying patches that they do not understand is a bad thing. heres some interesting reading about qmail... http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html That so much time and effort is spent telling everyone how bad qmail is still amazes me. It is one of the best performing and most extensible MTAs I have ever used. It is not however, suitable for those who choose not to understand how mail works. Point and clickers should stay with Postfix, also a very capable MTA. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Linux compatibility
On 13 Feb 2012 at 21:01, Da Rock wrote: > On 02/13/12 20:08, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm trying to get Linux running various applications to the. > > Brandelf was applied to the binaries. But any Linux application > > crashes at startup. > > > > freebsd-desk# kldstat > > Id Refs AddressSize Name > > 1 21 0xc040 8c6d08 kernel > > 21 0xc0cc7000 4864 sem.ko > > 31 0xc41eb000 8000 linprocfs.ko > > 41 0xc41f3000 28000linux.ko > > 51 0xc44ae000 9000 i915.ko > > 61 0xc44b7000 15000drm.ko > > > > freebsd-desk# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep linux > > linux_enable="YES" > > > > $ /usr/local/bin/linux-firefox > > /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/firefox: symbol lookup error: > > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZNSt8messagesIcE2idE, > > version GLIBCXX_3.4 > > > > $ /usr/local/bin/eagle > > /usr/local/share/eagle5/bin/eagle: symbol lookup error: > > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZNSt8messagesIcE2idE, > > version GLIBCXX_3.4 > > > > $ googleearth > > ./googleearth-bin: symbol lookup error: ./libge_net.so: undefined > > symbol: _ZNSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE4_Rep20_S_empty_rep_storageE, > > version GLIBCXX_3.4 > > > > Does anyone a idea where is the mistake? > I was going to wait and see if anyone else responded, but you are best > off trying emulation@. > > Cheers > > Don't you have to install/load a module for Linux binary compatability to work in F'BSD? I seem to remember that being mentioned during a recent 8.something install. Dave B. ___ 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: fixit disc for 7.3 #1?
On 14 Feb 2012 at 18:01, Gary Kline wrote:
> On 02/14/2012 05:40 PM, Da Rock wrote:
> > On 02/15/12 10:08, Gary Kline wrote:
> >> guys,
> >>
> >> is there still a way of fixing something i did to my existing
> >> installation? it does nothing but continually cycle e and try to
> >> reboot into the old release i had from feb 2011. i thought editing
> >> out /etc/fstab would do it. but nope, it throws me into the lowest
> >> level manual config and then hangs. i cannot even install release
> >> 9.0 which is the only other path. either some stable distro of
> >> debian, or getting past release8 and going to 9.
> >>
> >> first, tho, i need to get rid of this [[messed up]] 7.3.
> >>
> >> let me share a story from when i was visiting a favorite cousin who
> >> put up about half of NASA's huge antennas. long retired, he lives
> >> out where not even god could find him. he wanted to see proof of
> >> my beloved freebsd. so, using a new set of discs that i bought, i
> >> started the installation. { FWIW, --this was in july, 2000. } I
> >> happened to mention that freebsd had trouble configuring the
> >> printers. or that that could get hairy. he stopped what he was
> >> doing and asked me to get back to his windows toys and games. i
> >> had a floppy w ith the mystery file "MBR" that removed that single
> >> file.
> >>
> >> my hunch is that since i never mess with anything but freebsd, i
> >> left it configure itself by default and that the same thing that
> >> stalled me for ten minutes back in 2000, might be what's stopping
> >> me from installing anything over my 7.3 in 2012.
> >>
> >> any wizards how how to fix this?
> > Are you sure you can't backup your important files and start again?
> > You might have a good deal of trouble jumping by 2 major releases at
> > the best of times.
> >
> > Also, 9.0 is significantly different in many ways to 7.x in dir
> > structure _and_ filesystems, to just mention a few. I new (clean)
> > install would be _highly_ recommended ;)
> > ___
>
> i have a working copy on 7.3 #4 on my Server. the server in a 2009
> dell; the one that is busted and that i want to upgrade ---to either
> debian-6-iso or freebsd9-iso is my old 2003 dell. two different
> computers. the thing with the old dell is that nothing can boot off
> it. it keep cycling, trying to boot a 7.3 #1.
>
> i just remembered that the floppy disk was a DOS file with a secret
> command :A:\MBR that got rid of that boot track.
>
> it's looking more and more hopeless.
>
>
>
> wasn't/isn't there some kind of "fixit" CD?
>
> gary
Sounds like you need to get into the Dell's BIOS, and alter the boot
order, so as it looks first at CD and Floppy drives, before the hard
disk. Dell's can be funny things at times though, especially if it's
been setup for a headless boot (server mode)...
The old tool you're thinking of for DOS/Windows was "FixMBR".
I thihk like 'Da Rock' has suggested, you best pull the affected hard
disk, and either put it in a USB caddy, then mount it as an external
drive on a working system, if it's not badly mullered somehow, or install
it as an extra drive in such a similar system, and get stuff off it like
that, is probably the best way.
Then, flatten it and do a clean install of whatever, with it fitted back
into it's original home.
Unless someone else comes up with a better plan.
Regards.
Dave B.
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Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
On 15 Feb 2012 at 17:25, Fbsd8 wrote: > I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a > small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook > about this so I am asking here. > > How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen? > > Many Toshiba laptops have a feature in the BIOS (Stretch or Expand) so that a 640x480 text screen (for example) will fill the full disaply, whatever the physical pixel resolution is. Looks weird, but it does what it says. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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"
Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]
Can I please request, you all check your mail client "reply to" settings. Many of the "replies" to this thread, have also been sent to the 388 (was it) addresses in the original To: field, as well as the list. Might the list settings need tweaking a bit? Also, just where did he originaly harvest all those addresses from, are they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some server somewhere. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]
On 24 Feb 2012 at 17:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 24 February 2012 17:10:21 Dave wrote: > > Can I please request, you all check your mail client "reply to" > > settings. > > I think, some - like me too - reply here always to all. > > > > Many of the "replies" to this thread, have also been sent to the 388 > > (was it) addresses in the original To: field, as well as the list. > > Wasn't it 389? :-) > > > > Might the list settings need tweaking a bit? > > > > Also, just where did he originaly harvest all those addresses from, > > are they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some > > server somewhere. > > Just collect all addresses from the list ending with freebsd.org? > > Erich Indeed, so some settings might do with a tweak, to at least obfuscate posters addresses, so that at least script kiddies are flumoxed. I never intentionaly use any "Reply to All" function. In fact, this mailer doesn't even have a button for that. You have to select where the reply goes, after you hit the "reply" button, from a list of available addresses in the incoming message header, that the mailer has recognised. Just a thought as this problem is not going to go away. Dave B. PS: How about a "regional Beastie" wearing a headscarf and carring an assault rifle instead of a trident? That's me targeted then ___ 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: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]
On 24 Feb 2012 at 12:37, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Dave" writes: > > Also, just where did he originaly harvest all those addresses from, > > are they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some > > server somewhere. > > It is public information: > > http://www.freebsd. org/doc/en_ US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff > -committers.html > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no > > Those address links need changing to graphic's, so that most address harvesting bots won't get anything usable. Mk1 eyeball can still see what's what, but if you have to use the info, you have to re-type it manually. Most other similar websites have done that sort of thing with great success. I can't believe in this day and age, info like that is still presented in a way that makes it harvister-bot friendly. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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: Access to Time Warner cable network
On 1 Apr 2012 at 10:21, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 01 April 2012 08:57:00 Da Rock wrote: > > > > > > Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? > > > My neighbor had a recent cable outage of an existing cable on our > > > block that was too low and a moving van hit it. > > > > Apparently the Windows system works, so I'd assume all that side is > > ok- just FBSD box is the issue. > > so, there is some difference. The questions are there to find out what > the difference might be. > > Erich > > fbsd8 How do you connect to your TW ISP? Just a Cable modem of some sort, or is there a Router involved somewhere? It makes a whole world of difference I.e. How "Physically" do you hook together, in each instance, for the XP box, and F'BSD box. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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: Access to Time Warner cable network
On 1 Apr 2012 at 19:05, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:50:42 +1000 > Da Rock articulated: > > > Given that the other tech in question asked me to help him, and he > > is a Winblows nut like yourself, I think this premise can be > > dismissed out of hand. I won't even bother to qualify the rest, I > > wouldn't want to ruin your delusion. > > No delusion here. You have confirmed what I suspected. A classic case > of "The blind leading the blind." If one idiot can screw something up, > just think what two idiots can accomplish? > > -- > Jerry > > Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. > Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. > __ > > > In the world of the blind, the one eyed bloke is promoted to near god like status! Dave B. ___ 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: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board
On 19 May 2011 at 11:59, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On May 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Erik N=F8rgaard wrote: > >> It indicates that they put faster RAM into the box, but ran it at a > >> speed of 533MHz, which is slower than the memory is capable of > >> running. In some cases, doing this lets you run the RAM at lower > >> voltage or with tighter timing settings of CL/tRCD/tTP/etc. > > > > Thanks, currently I have, well ancient RAM on an old VIA board and > > it's not really any reliable. That with the flacky disk controller on > > the VIA board is my reason to go Intel. > > Yeah, I have one of the VIA EPIA M6000 boards, and the IDE controller > gets flaky under load if there is more than one device attached. > Disabling the secondary channel on IRQ 15 helped some > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > With VIA mobo's any older than about 3 years, check the condition of all the 1000uF/6.3V electrolytic caps scattered about the place. Any bulging, or showning brown crusty stuff (leakage) replace them. Bad power rail decpoupling can cripple a system but present itself as one particular subsystem acting up under specific conditions. They don't fix themselves, they only get worse. Regards. DaveB. ___ 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: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error
On 3 Jun 2011 at 15:09, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with <500MB RAM. > > The system has an extra PCI->SATA card installed so I can make use of > modern high capacity drives. > > Everything was running fine until round about 2 days ago when the > system started locking up on me? > > > Current drive configuration for the system is: > > 40GB IDE drive as root (ad2) - UFS2 > 500GB IDE drive for storage (ad3) - EXT3 > 1TB SATA drive for storage (ad4) - UFS2 > 750GB SATA drive for storage (ad8) - EXT3 > > I had an issue with the 750GB drive which the file system seemed to > have got corrupted so I powered down and backed the information up to > a 2TB SATA drive using ddrescue and the Gentoo Linux based System > Rescue CD. I put the 2TB drive in place of the 1TB ad4 drive > physically. > > Once backed up I powered down again and re-installed the 1TB SATA > drive into ad4 position on system and completely removed the 2TB > backup. > > When booted back into FreeBSD upon boot I received this error: > > > WARNING: Kernel Errors Present > ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51 > error=4 LBA=1 ...: 1 Time(s) > g_vfs_done():ad4e[WRITE(offset=97691456, length=16384)]error > = 5 ...: 1 Time(s) > > > The current status of the disks seemed to be ok though: > > 1 Time(s): ad2: 38166MB at ata1-master > UDMA33 1 Time(s): ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found > non-ATA66 cable 1 Time(s): ad3: 476940MB > at ata1-slave UDMA33 1 Time(s): ad3: DMA limited to UDMA33, > controller found non-ATA66 cable 1 Time(s): ad4: 953869MB HD103SJ 1AJ10001> at ata2-master SATA150 1 Time(s): ad8: > 715404MB at ata4-master SATA150 1 > Time(s): agp0: on hostb0 1 Time(s): > ata0: on atapci0 1 Time(s): ata0: [ITHREAD] 1 > Time(s): ata1: on atapci0 1 Time(s): ata1: [ITHREAD] > 1 Time(s): ata2: on atapci1 1 Time(s): ata2: > [ITHREAD] 1 Time(s): ata3: on atapci1 1 Time(s): > ata3: [ITHREAD] 1 Time(s): ata4: on atapci1 1 > Time(s): ata4: [ITHREAD] 1 Time(s): ata5: on atapci1 > > > In order to test if the error was due to disk failure I powered down > and disconnected the ad4 and ad3 disks and powered back up. > > > The system still seems to be locking on me and I can't understand why? > > > Through Google'ing a discovered a post by Jeremy Chadwick about these > kinds of errors: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting > > however since the system board is pre-SATA is doesn't even have > S.M.A.R.T. so I'm totally lost on how to fix this. I mean the best > remedy would be to get a new computer and migrate the stored > information (something like this is on the way) but currently I don't > have access to any of the disks at all and to make matters worse no > NTP or DNS server as I was running these services on the same machine > or TFTP boot server for my IP phones. - I do run multiboot UNIX on my > notebook so Bind9 is naturally installed hence me writing this but I > only activate in emergencies. > > I mean one way I thought of for fixing this would be to grab a USB -> > ATA/SATA adapter: > > http://www.startech.com/product/USB2SATAIDE-USB-20-to-IDE-or-SATA-Adap > ter-Cable > > and hook the drives up to both Linux and FreeBSD in my notebook and > copy the information across to the new system when it arrives in a few > months. > > > Aside from that is there anyway to fix the kernel error quickly? > > > Thanks, > > > Kaya > Hmmm... No backups then? First, check the drive data cables. Many do fail with age. Some SATA types are made with Aluminium not copper, and are extremley fragile when they age. If that doenst shed some light... Take a look athttp://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm Will often restore a failling drive to full use, if it's not mechanicaly damaged. It can take time though, if any sector corruption is very bad. Days, weeks, even months have been see in some cases, but if the software keeps going, it usualy does the job. It's not a Windows program, if anyting it's a DOS program, but comes with it's own FreeDOS system to boot and run from, so you don't even need an OS on the machine to test! It will work with IDE or SATA types, even over a USB adapter if needed (but then it can't access any SMART data the drive may have) but it'll run a lot slower as it won't be aware of the drive's detailed physical timing etc. I've used it on WIndows and Linux machines in anger, and the FreeBSD box when I got it (an old Gateway E-1400) to make sure the drive was healthy. It's the hard drive equivalent of Memtest86, and you know how good that is. Even if it doesn't report any problems found, often it will cause the drive to maitain things itself, improving performance as a result. Even if the recovered drive is still less than 100% happy, or some of your data is not recoverable, you can then get the rest of your data off it, onto something new, fairly sur
Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error
On 4 Jun 2011 at 10:52, Kaya Saman wrote: > Many thanks for the response! > > On 06/04/2011 02:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Kaya Saman wrote: > > > > > >> I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with<500MB RAM. > >> ... > >> Everything was running fine until round about 2 days > >> ago when the system started locking up on me? > >> > >> ... is there anyway to fix the kernel error quickly? > >> > > Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to fail? > > > > No updates! I did however, install unrar through ports. > > > If not, this is likely to be a hardware problem. I'd suggest > > checking the power supply and the fans, running memtest86, and > > taking a close look at the electrolytic filter capacitors on > > the system board -- the last because it sounds as if this system may > > be about the right age to have been built with some bad ones. (If > > any of the capacitors are bulging, either those caps, or the entire > > board, need to be replaced.) Power and heat problems can cause all > > sorts of strange symptoms. > > > > I guess, I mean I did mention that the system was old and also I've > been running in 24/7 online for the past year and half as this box got > passed down to me by a family member. It has a Gigabyte system board. > Not sure about the capacitors; I'll check. I remember on other boards > that went on me in the past with capacitor issues, a bunch of orange > stuff starts leaking out of them when they blow up. > > Also the chassis doesn't have any cooling fans either since it was > bought extremely cheaply by the family member but not sure that's the > culprit neither power problems as the system has run in high outside > ambient temps in the past with no A/C in the room and also was working > fine on the PSU installed with the 4 disks. > > I guess it's hardware related somehow as something's blown up, either > the PSU, system board or so.. > > > As I explained in the beginning if there's no clear way to fix the > problem easily then I'll wait a bit. - I have a 16 disk Promise DAS on > the way and will build a server using a Chenbro industrial rack > chassis and Supermicro AMD based 8-12 core system board. These systems > will fit better in the 2 racks I have in my living room. This should > be a bit more stable and also give me higher capacity too! > > > Regards, > > > Kaya > > > Hmmm Hard drives do not like heat! Check the PSU voltages with a meter, for accuracy and ripple. Failing SMPS's can do all sorts of odd things. Capacitor problems. Been there done that. They can be changed for very low cost, other than your time. DaveB You might guess by know, I know far more about hardware than I do about software, but for the latter to run well, the former must be good. ___ 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"
[direct] Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error
just have to have their own copy. I think I'm indirectly responsible for at least 4 extra sales, not that I get any commission, sadly... Just like the Linux based recovery and self contained AV disks, and also Memtest86, I carry a copy of Spinrite arround with me too. I just wish I could come up with something as successful, and able to continue selling over and over... As for changing mobo caps, it's not dificult, but it sure takes a lot of time and care. Cap's in PSU's too go bad (Usually the Low Voltage ones) again, not dificult to change, but take care. There's often considerable High Voltage stored in some places, that can bite you, and it hurts! Lastly, large slow running fans last the longest, and are nice and quiet too. Just regularly blow the "dust bunnies" out of the systems (two or three time a year?) and keep things like the CPU cooler and PSU clean, and your hardware will work for many years just fine. Oh.. CPU coolers. If your system has the ability to monitor the CPU temperature, get to know how that behaves depending on the software you use. If it starts to slowly rise, but the room temperature is not correspondinlgy warmer, also cleaning the dust from the cooler doenst seem to help. It may need the cooler removing, the old heat transfer compound removing and cleaning, and fresh compound using when you refit the cooler. This issues seems worse with the earlier single core P4's, that had a very small contact area to the cooler. At least Intel chips just slow down as they get hotter (cycle skipping) so as not to burn out. Some AMD's will destroy themselves if the cooler fails!...There is a YouTube video somewhere, showing a PC with an Intel CPU with no cooler getting slower and slower till it almost stops. I hope you get things sorted out, one way or another. Life is so much nicer if you don't have to keep messing with the blessed things! I have a sick Land Rover to fix too. Gearbox rear oil seal, also rear drive shaft UJ's. At least I can use big hammers on that sometimes... (Therapy!) Oh, the grass needs cutting, and I'm now also under instruction to change the bed, when the cat's finished sleeping on it!!! Best Regards. Dave B. On 4 Jun 2011 at 21:35, Kaya Saman wrote: Subject:Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error > > [...] > > > > Hmmm Hard drives do not like heat! Check the PSU voltages with a > meter, for accuracy and ripple. Failing SMPS's can do all sorts > of odd things. > > Capacitor problems. Been there done that. They can be changed > for very low cost, other than your time. > > DaveB > > You might guess by know, I know far more about hardware than I do > about software, but for the latter to run well, the former must be > good. > > ___ > 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" > > > Many thanks Dave for all the suggestions!!! > > To be honest I think the drives are fine but the system is just s > old including the IDE drives. > > I mean if I get a SATA/IDE USB adapter I should be able to backup the > drives to the new DAS system I will have in place shortly since I am > much more in favor of running Nexenta Core 3 OS with ZFS spanning the > 16x drives meaning a total of 36TB with 2 internal drives used for > logging and caching. > > Then this system will be obsolete. However, I will keep your > suggestion of using spinwrite in mind next time I encounter issues! > > BTW I respect your H/W knowledge that's quite in deep :-) thank you > for your insight. > > with Pipex which is now bust, then I moved out of the UK and now > everything is roasting hot> > > > Best regards, > > > Kaya > > > __ NOD32 6175 (20110602) Information __ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > ___ 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: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error
On 5 Jun 2011 at 16:55, Michael Powell wrote: > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > [snip] > > > > Power supplies do fail occasionally, and not always in obvious > > ways such as failing to turn on at all. The output voltages may be > > a little too high or too low, or they may be correct but with > > excessive ripple or electrical noise; or the supply may be just fine > > until a disk draws a current spike to move the arm rapidly. > > I've seen a fair number or power supplies degrade somewhere around the > 5 year mark. Simple voltage checks with a VOM and its accuracy will > usually still show the voltages as being correct. To see the ripple > you'll need an oscilloscope. Excessive ripple can make a PC appear to > have all kinds of intermittent hardware failures with little or no > rhyme or reason. A degraded power supply will show large variations in > ripple based on load. The largest load from hard drives is when they > are first spinning up. Servers are commonly configured with the > ability to spin up drives one at a time with a short delay in between. > You won't usually find this on a desktop. > > Generally, this situation will develop more often on an old machine > that had a 'barely enough' capacity power supply when new. Add 3 more > hard drives, bigger video, etc and it was still just inside the > envelope until enough time went by and the power supply got old. Since > the most amps pulled by the hard drives occurs on power up you will > see the ripple on a 'scope look really ugly while this happens. The > unseen danger here is that bits on the drive(s) can get scrambled > until things settle down. You will know this happens when stuff goes > wrong and fsck is needed to get the file system clean, and after > cleaning and working again will do the same thing again at some future > reboot. > > Easiest way to look at this without a 'scope is to simply substitute a > known good PSU of sufficient rating from a machine with no troubles. > If all the random nonsense suddenly stops, you'll know. This is > easiest for folks these days as those without an analog electronics > background are unlikely to have an oscilloscope laying around. > > > It might be worth checking the fan mounted on the CPU heatsink if > > there is one, and the fan in the power supply (which ventilates the > > case as well as the power supply itself). > > Aside from the fans themselves, dust buildup plugs heat sinks > eventually drastically reducing their ability to get rid of heat. When > you get to this stage blowing them out with canned air can work > wonders. My 2 servers at home sit on the floor and need this about > once a year. > > -Mike > Hi.. I've recently replaced all the 3.3V decoupling caps on a 7 year old Compaq mobo, that was showing all sorts of odd behaviour, more (at first glance) related to the video card. It wasn't expensive, but was time consuming even for me as a skilled electronics tech, with more years of soldering iron time than I care to admit, it took me a good couple of hours! These things aren't made to be easily repaired, but it can be done. In fact, for some common mobo's you can buy complete re-cap kits with all the right parts. Same for all sorts of other consumer electronics. (DVD players, Games consoles, DTV and other set-top boxes etc.) As a result, that box now runs sweet as a nut. Passing all diags with flying colours, even when hot. Any caps that have a bulging top, on the mobo or in the PSU, need changing. Idealy for the same value and voltage. But you can go higher (within reason) in value, but don't go too high in voltage rating, as they can deteriorate if they don't have enough volts, and start to fail early again. Re the PSU thing. Don't get fooled into the common lore that bigger is better. You can have too big a PSU that will fail to regulate the auxilary output lines correctly until you add extra load to it's main output. Many PC supplies (sadly not all) do have a note to that effect on the ratings label. For most Switch Mode supplies, they work best loaded to between half and full power on their main output. Much less than 1/4 of their capability, and the auxilary outputs will start to "wander about" a bit, especially if the incoming line is a bit high in voltage. Common symptoms are strange audiable noises from CD drives, or hard drives that struggle to start up, but are OK once working. Yes, also keeping things clean and cool is a good move too. Hope that helps someone. Cheers. Dave B. PS: I don't suppose anyone knows a real good simple blow by blow total newby dialog, as to how to realiably and correctly create and setup Jails on FreeBSD 8.0? A
Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?
Hi All. Total frustration here. Before I incinerate the luckless box and get my coat. For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how "Exactly" to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to "how to", and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good references, but lousy "how to's"... (Sorry.) I have (aledgedly) downloaded the Sys sources, and Ports. At least it sat there for ages after fumbling arround the sysinstall menu system (whoever designed that should be forced to use it! It's behaviour is apalling, flitting from one context to another with no warning, in a way such that you can't see what you've selected, without affecting the selection, or something else..) Anyway, trying to follow various instructions I found, and those pointed out to me by other helpful souls here (thanks Kaya and Peter.) But Whatever I do, I get a "Don't know how to build world. Stop" error. I am logged in as root, and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, are there trace logs kept somewhere? Now, I can create EMC test software in high level languages (Pascal/Delphi on Windows.) Assemble install commission and repair when needed, multi kW RF amplifiers, and related support systems. Diagnose faults on the same, modify control software (at the source level) to work arround some "undesirable features" etc etc. I've also been building computers (and other tech stuff) for decades from components, and programming them to do what I need etc and so forth, but all in either native asembler code, or a higher level language on Dos or Windows. I even found and followed these instructions, and got a GPS Diciplined NTP server running on the FreeBSD box. (After my ISP comprehensivly wrecked their NTP server access.) So a HF Radio propagation monitor can keep time to sub ms accuracy. That was a first time success too, even re-compiling the kernel to enable PPS support! http://blog.doylenet.net/?p=145 So, I can follow instructions.. :-) I have even got the Meinberg port of NTP to work on an aged Win2k box, albeit with some help from others. But for the life of me, I can't figure out this BSD Jail stuff, as there is something missing from my understanding of it all. (Most of it I suspect...) None of the searches so far have thrown up a definative "This is how you do it" type of procedure, with step by step "do this, if this happens, then do that, else go do this..." type of structure. And more importantly *Why* it needs to be done in such a way. Kaya's wiki is close, but I must have a different varient of V8.x Is there anyone out there with Skype (for example) who could perhaps talk me through this it in real time I wonder. By arangment of some mutually conveninent time and date (evening or weekend.) I'm, in the UK near Milton Keynes, so that limits things somewhat I suspect. I realy do want to learn how to do all this, but I'm having a real hard time, due to the lack of contiguious time available to me, and with the available documentation, that I accept is correct, but it is all written as a reference document, not an instruction/user manual, only compounded by coming in cold from another background (Hardware/Dos(Assembler & Basic)/Windows(Delphi/Pascal) What I have learnt so far, is that (for the most part) all the BSD's behave and work much the same. Unlike the hoards of different Linux's, all with their different ways of doing things. Spleen vented, anyone want a challenge? I promise not to shout at you... Cheers All.. Dave B. ___ 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: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?
On 7 Jun 2011 at 21:03, Jack Raats wrote: > > - Original Message - > > Hi All. > > > > Total frustration here. Before I incinerate the luckless box and > > get my coat. > > > > For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how "Exactly" to > > create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD > > V8.x > > First compile the complete system. (kernel and world) > Then install ezjail form the ports > > Then edit ezjail.conf in /usr/local/etc > enable ezjail in /etc/rc.conf > > Then creating the base system: > ezjail-admin update -i > ezjail-admin update -P > > after this you can create a jail using: > > ezjail-admin create hostname.domain.net ip_address_of_jail > > you can logon to your jail using: > ezjail-admin console hostname.domain.net > > It's quite easy > > Grtz > Jack The problem is Jack, that build / make etc don't run. Just saying "compile the complete system" is not much help, when as others have pointed out, part of the needed source collection is (was) missing. Re: "It's quite easy". Only when you know how! Dave B ___ 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: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?
On 7 Jun 2011 at 12:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: > > For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how "Exactly" to > > create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD > > V8.x > > Did you start with the Handbook? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html > Yes, I have been there many times. It must be me, because I do not find it much if any help. "Cant see the wood for all the trees" or something. Like I said, the handbook is a good "Reference", but not a "How To". Plus, once I've gone and clicked on a few of the refereal links, it's way too easy to loose the plot, or ones place in the overall scheme of things.. > You might also consider sysutils/ezjail; see: > > http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail > > [ ... ] > > I have (aledgedly) downloaded the Sys sources, and Ports. At least > > it sat there for ages after fumbling arround the sysinstall menu > > system (whoever designed that should be forced to use it! It's > > behaviour is apalling, flitting from one context to another with no > > warning, in a way such that you can't see what you've selected, > > without affecting the selection, or something else..) > > > > Anyway, trying to follow various instructions I found, and those > > pointed out to me by other helpful souls here (thanks Kaya and > > Peter.) But Whatever I do, I get a "Don't know how to build world. > > Stop" error. > > > > I am logged in as root, and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and > > ports sources.. How do I confirm that, are there trace logs kept > > somewhere? > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html As Andy and Kaya pointed out, I was missing the Base sources. As at some point, while fighting with the sysinstall menu system, the Base selection got un-selected. I think I have them now, but have not yet re-tried a build or make. > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > Thanks. Dave B. ___ 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: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?
On 7 Jun 2011 at 15:23, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:13 +0100 > Dave articulated: > > > There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to "how to", > > and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good > > references, but lousy "how to's"... (Sorry.) > > Many knowledgeable people consider "man" to simple be an acronym for, > "Much About Nothing". In any case, I assume you have read the > documentation @: <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html> > > Perhaps you could list a few of the steps you have taken to a achieve > your goal. > > -- > Jerry > jerry+f...@seibercom.net Hi. I was, as I found later, following this... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html But it failed at step 2, with "dont know how to make ... Stop" etc... Dave B ___ 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: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?
On 8 Jun 2011 at 0:53, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports > > sources.. How do I confirm that, > > cd /usr/src > make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj > du -s -k > 547684 . "cant cd to /usr/src/share/info *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /urs/src. You have new mail. (Contents of the mail is the usual sustem/security stuff) I figure something else is missing, so didn't bother with anything else. Dave B > > find . -type d -print | wc > 47344734 119623 > > cd /usr/ports > du -s -k > 477244 . > > find . -type d -print | wc > 31883 31883 704477 > > > > are there trace logs kept somewhere? > > Not that I'm aware of, but I dont use sysinstall beyond minimum > installs, (I get my src/ & ports/ from my cvs tree which is delivered > by ctm from mail) > cvs -Q -R export -r RELENG_8_2_0_RELEASE src # du=548 M tgz=115 M > cvs -Q -R export -r RELEASE_8_2_0 ports # du=475 M tgz= 49 M > cvs -Q -R export -r RELEASE_8_2_0 doc # du=100 M tgz= 27 M > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich > http://berklix.com > Reply below, not above; indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play > script. Send plain text format; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not > base 64. > > ___ 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: ftp installation
On 12 Jun 2011 at 4:32, Bill Tillman wrote: > > > From: Daniel Feenberg > Subject: Re: ftp installation > > > On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg > > wrote: > >> > >> I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with > >> both 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation > >> proceeds for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last message on > >> the console always being: > >> > >> DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file. > >> > ... > >> > >> Is there something off about the sysinstall ftp dialog? I don't see > >> a way to monitor what is happening. > > > > Your firewall may be interfering with the connection. You may want > > to read the handbook section on FTP installs (the grey box at the > > bottom of the page): > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-me > > dia.html > > > > Well, our router has never interfered with ftp transfers done from the > command line, but switching to the firewall-friendly mode in > sysinstall does fix the problem. > > Thank you > Daniel Feenberg > NBER > > > If I recall correctly I had to open up my firewall completely to get > the ftp installations to work. I use a FreeBSD diskless router running > IPFW+NATD and the log files are set to max out at 5 so I can't see > which port is trying to be used which gets blocked. So just for the 10 > minutes or so to do an FTP install I just open the firewall wide and > allow any to any. Once the install is complete I close the firewall > again. > > That's why "Passive" (or PASV) mode is included in FTP. It only ever makes outgoing connections from a client. 99.9% of all routers/firewalls will honour that mode with no probems, unless it's been specifically blocked by an admin type somewhere. In the F'BSD install/update settings/dialogs etc, always select the option to use FTP from behind a firewall or router, or "Firewall Friendly" mode. That will invoke Passive mode transfers. It's the one thing I can do reliably with FreeBSD, no need to mess with router/firewall permissions etc. That only needs doing if you want to run a server that is reachable from outside your LAN. That in turn, opens a whole oil drum load (i.e. a big can of worms!) of potential security issues Take care. DaveB PS: Worth looking at, for a good, if lenghty explanation. http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html ___ 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: Strange memory reading (hardware)
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:09:30 -0500 > Gary Gatten wrote: > > > It's quite simple really, it's another hidden tax - "Redistribution > > of RAM". You see, even with all the entitlement programs "poor" > > people can't afford more than 512MB of RAM. As you are certainly > > aware that's not enough to watch YouTube and Hulu on their > > government funded (tax payer funded) ultra high speed internet > > connections. So, the government has taken some of your RAM (as you > > obviously can afford to buy more if needed) and will give it to > > those who really NEED it - so while they sit around collecting > > government aid (tax payer earnings) their streaming video's will > > play smoothly. > > What! I didn't even vote for those guys. :-) > > > > Woa - I guess I digressed a bit... > > > > Ummm, sorry - I don't know why this would be. Is there some memory > > mapped video (or disk controller?) stealing RAM? > > > I guess I wasn't clear. Only 2752 MB is show during POST instead 0f > 4096. It has always shown 4096 on this MB. > > Thanks for lighting up my day with the above humor. :-) > > Robert > > What does Memtest86 show, if you try running that? I've had issues in the past where one stick has a single bad bit (in a 512M stick) that caused all sorts of strange things with the BIOS, but not the OS!.. Memtest86 (eventually) found it, testing 1 stick at a time in each of 4 slots. Took ages... DaveB ___ 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: Point me to resource or user info
> and the Freebsd installer guide > http://www.a1poweruser.com/ > Hmmm... Wish I'd known about that a while back. It's more or less exactly what I've been looking for, a realy good "how to" guide for F'BSD. The only thing missing (had a quick look!) is details on Jails (they are mentioned, but you are pointed back at the Handbook..) However.. I've learnt something else already (Using mouse copy/paste function) so thanks very much for that site. Very good for us less (in F'BSD at least) experienced types. Cheers.. DaveB ___ 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: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]
From: "Matt Emmerton" > > > > but i've been doing this for a while, and > > until i was away for five days, everything had been going > > fine for over a month. oh:: one power-out. the UPS saved > > the server, but everything else needed to be reinitialized. > > A lesson that I learned many years ago - if you can afford a "big" UPS > for your servers, you can afford a "little" one for your telco/network > equipment. > I'm using some PoE kit to power the router remotely down it's LAN cable, that in turn run's from the protected supply from the UPS. Said UPS also powers the main network switch, as well as my own LAN server (f'BSD based, to stay vaguely on toppic!) Plus two other PC's and a NAS device. It'll hold that lot up, for over 20 minutes when the lights go out (the longest unscheduled outage so far.) It's also configured to NOT come back, if it runs down and cuts out. I'll do that manually if needed. (Not so far.) I never did get the BSD port of APCUPSD to work correctly. All works well. Also, easy to do a router "Hard" restart, without going to the router itself. And if it does all die, it fails safe. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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: Installing free bsd
> Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It > was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it. > Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup. > Need support.. Is the windows format on disk causing problems? > > Daniel.. The "Windows format" has nothing to do with the problem. You need to take the .ISO image files, and burn a CD from it, not extract or copy it to a CD.. For Windows, I use this:- http://www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm It works very well, and the price is right (free.) Very easy to use. If you already have "Nero Buring Rom" installed, that will also take a .ISO file, and use it to burn a CD. Slightly more complex to use, but does a good job. (You need to select "Burn an image to disk" option, then go look for the .ISO file to use, it's not the default!) There are many similar tools for the job, but just unzipping the file to a cd will not make a bootable disk. Contrary to what some have said, Windows (certainly XP and earlier) do not recognise the .ISO format natively, so no ammount of clicking or double clicking on it will help. You do of course, also have to configure your PC's bios to boot from a CD, or know the hotkey to interupt it's normal boot sequence, and tell it to boot from an alternative drive. Hope this helps. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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: Probable Hardware Failure
On 14 Jan 2012 at 16:12, Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a pretty old desktop that has been around quite awhile. It has > started periodic crashes. No log messages. However, the core status > files all show "double fault". I am confident this is a hardware > issue, but is there any easy way to determine if its power or memory > related? Those are the primary candidates although memory is also > possible. We really need to replace the entire unit, but that might > be a bit more salable if I can present convincing evidence of the > cause of the problem. > Doug. First check the Power Supply voltages are correct, and not too noisy. You'll need a good DMM, and 'scope for that. Then, Visually examine the motherboard. Are any of the round can electrolytic cap's "Bulging" at the top, or showing some brown or green gunk leaking out from where they sit on the board. Likewise, it's often worth checking the low voltage caps in the PSU too. CAUTION! Lots of volts exist in places inside them, take care, leave it a few mins after unplugging before taking it apart. If so, it's not uncommon, you'll need to re-cap the Mobo, and or the PSU. Chances are, it's just one particular make/type that has failed, so if the others look OK, just change the failed ones. Get the same value and voltage, but if you can from a reputable manufaturer, Panasonic or some such. NOTE! It's not uncommon either, for some parts to be installed at manufature the wrong way round. It's amazing they last as long as they do before letting go. Also, at least one Mobo maker had the wrong polarity markings on the board. In those cases, you'll need to "buzz out" the associated power rail, comparing the polarity of the suspect part, with it's copanions on the same power rail. For some common Mobo's, if you google the model number, you'll find websites selling complete re-cap kits, or offering an exchange service. This is A LOT more common, than failing RAM, but can present itself in many and varied ways, from corrupted display's, to systems that wont boot. Laptops are not immune to this either. Also, Hard Drives can "go funny" with age, not failing as such, but the surface getting corrupted so that the drives own logic cant always unscramble the mess to the OS's satisfaction. Then, there is the situation (I had one recently) where a failing PSU, caused Hard Drive data corruption. Mr Gibson's product "Spinrite" is the tool to use to fix that (and it did!) Not free, but more than worth the weight of a CD, Floppy or USB stick in Gold! But you'll need to make sure the Mobo and everything else is OK. It also works on Floppy drives, if you "Just HAVE" to recover that data. If you have a fleet of machines, you should have your own copy. No affiliation, just a more than happy long term owner/user of that tool. (www.grc.com) I've resurected more than one "Sick" PC by following some or all of the above, there again, I can wield a soldering iron with the best of them, and have the test gear to hand to fault find these things, and a source of parts. But it saves a shed load of money if you can afford the time to do it... Hope something helps. Best Regards. Dave B. ___ 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"
Very strange netstat -rna output
Hello, I'm having a problem on a server of mine that is acting as a bridge, that whenever I download from the server itself it's very slow. From machines going through it's bridge there are no problems. When looking for what could be the cause, I had a look at my routing table and saw the following -- 10.10.10.1 0.12.da.44.e4.0UHLW20 bridge 1200 10.10.10.2 0.14.c2.60.85.75 UHLW1 87 bridge 1110 10.10.10.7 0.17.35.13.60.10 UHLW1 373lo0 10.10.10.30 0.25.90.1.60.83UHLW20 bridge 1110 As you can see the second column which usually shows a MCA is showing some rather strange output? What could be the cause of this? Thanks Dave ___ 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"
webmail solution
Hello, I'm looking for experiences with a webmail solution. I want to use postfix as my mta and on a freebsd6 machine. The users who will be using the server probably would do better with a webmail package so they can get to it from anywhere. The box already has apache and php so i don't think that'll be an issue. One thing i'm uncertain is whether to offer direct pop/imap or their equivalent encrypted counterparts or just do it all through webmail. Experiences and recommendations welcome. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
wired and wireless network setup interactions
Hello, I have a setup that was a 10 megabit hub holding together a freebsd6 firewall/router/webserver/other box. Updated that to a 10/100 megabitt Belkin g+ router for wireless. The problem now that i'm having is both the server and this new router do the following: firewall dhcp dns nat and they both utilize separate subnets. I'd like for the Belkin router to handle wireless traffic, while the original fbsd router handles wired as well as it's original functions of firewall, nat, dns, and dhcp. If anyone has any experience with this or recommendations i'd appreciate it. My thought was turn off the dhcp server on the belkin router and let the original fbsd server's dhcp server handle it, but i'm not sure if doing so will disable it's ability to accept wireless clients. I'd also like the wireless network to be secure. Some urgency! Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
sshd not giving plogin prompt
Hello, I have a jailed ssh server among other things on a freebsd 5.4 box. I had to change the IP on it from 192.168.9.10 to 192.168.2.10. And now sshd on the jail won't let me log in. I've changed the ListenOn directive in the jails' sshd_config file from 192.168.9.10 to 192.168.2.10, as well as the jails ip in rc.conf. Trying to connect from windows securecrt just times out. Trying to connect from a unix box gives me the error: connection closed by 192.168.2.10. Any ideas? The jail is up, has been restarted and shows up in the jls output. I am stumped. On the subject of jails what devfs settings rules file should i use in rc.conf? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Rocket FM
Has anyone tried using the Rocket FM transmitter on FreeBSD? I have an old system and the family wants a house radio station. Google didn't give any real info, and the ports tree shows no RocketFM driver. Thanks, DAve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Rocket FM
Lowell Gilbert wrote: DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Has anyone tried using the Rocket FM transmitter on FreeBSD? I have an old system and the family wants a house radio station. Google didn't give any real info, and the ports tree shows no RocketFM driver. I don't know what that particular device is. Most consumer FM transmitters just take an audio input -- in fact, often you can just plug a headphone output into them. So there wouldn't be any special drivers. Agreed, I believe it will work just fine. The issue is that the device uses a desktop app to set the transmitter freq. I might be able to install it on my wifes Mac, set the freq, then plug it into the server(FreeBSD). We will see. Thanks, DAve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Going from bind9 to djbdns
Kristian Vaaf wrote: Hello! My friend, who hosts most of my stuff, is using djbdns. Probably for security and simplicity. Anyway I thought I'd do the same. But I'm having serious difficulties finding a user-friendly howto. I've basically picked stuff from here and there and put them together. Would this be what I need to set up a djbdns equivalent to http://www.home.no/hedhnta/namedb? Without reading through what you have (sorry, my hands are really full right now) I would suggest you check into http://lifewithdjbdns.org/ and DJB's own docs. The biggest issue you will face is, it is not as complicated as it seems. Follow the directions, join the list for djbdns. When posting to the list, outline what you are trying to do, what you have already tried, what sources of information you based your configuration on. Hope that helps. DAve -- Create users: tinydns axfrdns dnslog dnscache -- Run these commands: mkdir /etc/tinydns mkdir /etc/axfrdns mkdir /etc/dnslog mkdir /etc/dnscache mkdir /etc/dnscache/root mkdir /etc/dnscache/root/ip mkdir /etc/dnscache/root/servers Should the above directories be set as home for the users above? -- Continue with: dnscache-conf dnscache dnslog /etc/dnscache 127.0.0.1 touch /etc/dnscache/root/ip/192.168.187.1 touch /etc/dnscache/root/ip/192.168.187.2 echo 127.0.0.1 > /etc/dnscache/root/servers/mydomain.lan echo 127.0.0.1 > /etc/dnscache/root/servers/187.168.192.in-addr.arpa tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /etc/tinydns 213.187.181.70 axfrdns-conf axfrdns dnslog /etc/axfrdns /etc/tinydns 213.187.181.70 ln -s /etc/dnscache /service ln -s /etc/tinydns /service svc -t /service/dnscache -- Would djbdns now have created this file for me? If so, can I skip this? If not, I take it I should: vim /etc/tinydns/data And type in: .mydomain.com::ns1.mydomain.com @mydomain.com::mail.mydomain.com =myhost.mydomain.com:213.181.112.43 +mail.mydomain.com:213.181.112.43 +www.mydomain.com:213.181.112.43 Then: cd /etc/tinydns make -- To allow my 213.181.102.23 to be ns2.mydomain.com, I must do this? vi /etc/axfrdns/tcp And then type in: 213.181.102.23:allow,AXFR="*" I have a lot of domains. I want the ns2 to handle them all. Is the wildcard "*" valid, or should I list them all? Anyway: cd /etc/axfrdns make -- As for my zone files, I take it I could cram all my domains into the data file? How would that look? -- That's it. I'm hoping that once everything is up, my configuration will be stored in files that I can back up and easily redeploy incase of an accident (similar to my current namedb setup I posted above). Thank you all, and happy new year! Kristian Vaaf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
syslog in jail on 6.0
Hello, I've got two jail issues on 6.0. My first problem is when i start the jail via /etc/rc.d/jail start i get this message from the jail startup: syslogd child pid PIDNUM exited with return code 1 and i don't get jail logging. I've got syslog running on the hostsystem and in the jail both logging to their respected logging locations. My second issue is it appears devfs in the jail isn't being mounted. In my host system's rc.conf file i have a jail devfs mount line, but i have to manually mount devfs before i start the jail. Any ideas? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
portupgrade freezing
Hello, Last portupgrade i did showed portupgrade itself was in need of updating. I ran portupgrade -arR and i got portupgrade v2.01,1, now when i run a portupgrade command the system just sits there. I don't get any output at all. I have uninstalled portupgrade and reinstalled it, no change. Any help welcome. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: portupgrade freezing
Hi, I don't have to kill the system, just portupgrade. When i run portversion -l "<" it just hangs as well. A pkg_info shows portupgrade version 2.0.1,1. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Tom Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:17 PM Subject: Re: portupgrade freezing Dave wrote: Hello, Last portupgrade i did showed portupgrade itself was in need of updating. I ran portupgrade -arR and i got portupgrade v2.01,1, now when i run a portupgrade command the system just sits there. I don't get any output at all. I have uninstalled portupgrade and reinstalled it, no change. Any help welcome. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Do you have to power off the system before it will be responsive again or just kill portupgrade? Have you looked through the logs for any messages? portupgrade v2.01,1...are you sure; that doesn't seem to correspond with my versioning scheme? What does pkg_info say about portupgrade and it's version? What does portversion -l "<" say about portupgrade? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
adding virtual webmail users, freebsd6
Hello, I'm setting up a webmail solution on freebsd6. So far i've got the underlying MTA Postfix working. I've installed Squirrelmail from ports so far all of this installed fine. Now i want to give another user an administrative function, adding virtual users, so that i won't have to manually add real users whenever a new account is needed. Is this doable? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
adjkerntz in a jail
Hello, I'm running apache in a jail on 6.0. Cron is sending me output like: adjkerntz[33405]: sysctl(put_wallclock): Operation not permitted Is this entry needed in a jail's crontab to run adjkerntz and if so what setting do i have to alter on the host system to make it work? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Blogin software recoendations
stan wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: stan wrote: I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define individual blogs for each person, which is what I need. I'd like for each persons blog to have a unique URL. Am I missing how to do this in wordpress? Or is there a more appropriate choice? Read the fine documentation :-): http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPressMU I did run across both of these, in looking at the documentation. The first choice, while seeming to be the better of the 2 looked to be a bit "heavyweight", as each user would have his own complete install of wrodpress. Seems like an admin nightmare to me. The 2nd is listed as alpha quality software. Doesn't sound like a great idea to me. Am I thinkining incorectly here? While not the final word, I found this page worthwhile in deciding. http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm DAve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
converting pdfs with xpdf
Hello, I'm running freebsd6 and xpdf 3.01_2. I've got pdfs that i want to convert to ps and text documents in four different areas in my home directory. I could convert them such as: pdfto format file1.pdf file2.ps etc. but i was wondering if there was a faster way? My second issue is some of these files are pdf 1.6 and as i've already tried xpdf won't convert these docs, does anyone have xpdf working with pdf 1.6 files? Second, after i convert all these docs there are three patterns i'd like to remove from them, all having spaces and & signs in them. Again, i could do this manually, but i was wondering one if there was a faster way and two if i could do this on the tail end of the conversion process so i would only have to issue one command and come back probably a while later, these files are big, and it's all done? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
using webmin to control a server
Hello, I'm wanting to use webmin to control aspects of a server. I've got it installed and now i'm trying to get it to allow me to change user quotas via webmin. I believe this is possible, yet i'm not seeing it. Is there something special i need to do to webmin to pull this off? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
