How to get networker backup software
Hi, Our institution uses networker for backups. We absolutely require networker client for FreeBSD. I'm astonished that it was just dropped from ports. I have a dozen or so machines where networker client is already humming along and it works well for us. I have a recently setup BSD box I want to add to the backup routines. Unfortunately, making a tar of nsr folder and copying the networker.sh script has not worked. We have the same 4.11 BSD on all BSD boxes. When I try to run nsrexecd, it dumps core. I found an old copy of the dists tarball, but that doesn't contain everything I'm finding in an existing install of networker client on another BSD box. Has anyone figured out how to support networker client since it was dropped from ports? --Donald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get networker backup software
As far as I know, the security issues are moot. The note I remember seeing said that the default configuration was problematic. If our backup server is behind a firewall, and we always config things after installing, I can't see how the security issue is relevant enough to rip it out of ports. It is far better to have a security issue awaiting resolution than to have zero backup capability. The ports skeleton we have is on one machine and shared by NFS to the rest. It is updated nightly so the old one is gone. We do have the tarball in distfiles, but I don't see a Makefile, etc. How do I find it from CVS source? Is there a pointer on where to find that? --Donald On 6/2/06, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:49:09 -0300 Donald Teed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Our institution uses networker for backups. We absolutely require networker client for FreeBSD. I'm astonished that it was just dropped from ports. I have a dozen or so machines where networker client is already humming along and it works well for us. I have a recently setup BSD box I want to add to the backup routines. Unfortunately, making a tar of nsr folder and copying the networker.sh script has not worked. We have the same 4.11 BSD on all BSD boxes. When I try to run nsrexecd, it dumps core. I found an old copy of the dists tarball, but that doesn't contain everything I'm finding in an existing install of networker client on another BSD box. Has anyone figured out how to support networker client since it was dropped from ports? I would think the first thing to do would be to fix the unresolved security issues. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/nwclient/Attic/ http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/d177d9f9-e317-11d9-8088-00123f0f7307.html It was marked as forbidden as far back as July 2005 and apparently no one stepped up to fix those issues and was subsequently removed from the ports tree. It also seems that the security issues existed as far back as 2002. You should be able to copy the ports skeleton(s) from your existing machines (or get it from CVS) and build it that way. I'd just be a bit cautious relying on software with known security issues. Caveat: I could be wrong on this since I don't use and have never used this port. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[RESOLVED] Re: How to get networker backup software
Hi, The trick of doing a ports cvsup from back in time worked. We have a working networker client again! I'm even more concerned that the client version is going to go stale. I don't know how the package was made for BSD, and I'm not sure if it is legally possibly to port the current versions of the networker client over. Thanks for the assistance, Randy... --Donald On 6/2/06, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:01:38 -0300 Donald Teed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, the security issues are moot. The note I remember seeing said that the default configuration was problematic. If our backup server is behind a firewall, and we always config things after installing, I can't see how the security issue is relevant enough to rip it out of ports. It is far better to have a security issue awaiting resolution than to have zero backup capability. The ports skeleton we have is on one machine and shared by NFS to the rest. It is updated nightly so the old one is gone. We do have the tarball in distfiles, but I don't see a Makefile, etc. How do I find it from CVS source? Is there a pointer on where to find that? You could get a complete tree just before the port was removed by setting a date in a cvsup file. Its been awhile since I've done this but here's a modified example from an old file I still had: *default host=cvsup4.FreeBSD.org(or whatever) *default base=/usr/oldtree *default prefix=/home/oldtree *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default date=2006.03.31.00.00.00 *default compress ports-all I think that date is about 8 hours before the ports were removed from the tree but you might want to check the dates of any other ports you might need to be sure the date is correct for what you need. You can check these with cvsweb: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Note that the base and prefix are different so that you don't clobber your existing ports tree. Choose something appropriate for your situation. Instead of using ports-all, you might save some bandwidth by only selecting the ports modules you need. They are listed in: /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile You would have selected entries in your supfile like: ports-base ports-sysutils After that, just cvsup using the new supfile. That should get what is needed and then you'll be able to add them to your NFS tree. It sounds like you're quite familar with these ports. Perhaps if you can get them security patched you might consider becoming the maintainer for the ports and get them back in the tree. Perhaps this will get you closer to where you need to be. If anyone spots anything I missed, be sure to comment. Randy -- ___ 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]
