Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed
On Thursday 24 December 2009 06:10:21 Colin wrote: Hi folks, I have started trying to upgrade my 7.0 to 7.2 and it all seemed to be going well until I got to installworld. First off I did a cvsup for src-all from cvsup.ie.freebsd.org with the tag RELENG_7_2 I have then done: cd /usr/src make buildworld make kernel-toolchain make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=TED make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=TED shutdown -r now I'm going to guess from the fact that installworld tries to build stuff, that /usr/obj is a filesystem that isn't mounted after your reboot or that the MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX you had set in your environment before reboot, is unset. -- Mel ___ 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: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed
On Thursday 24 December 2009 09:47:26 Colin wrote: On 24/12/2009 16:30, Mel Flynn wrote: I'm going to guess from the fact that installworld tries to build stuff, that /usr/obj is a filesystem that isn't mounted after your reboot or that the MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX you had set in your environment before reboot, is unset. /usr/obj is a folder within the /usr partition not its own filesystem and /usr is mounted fine so unfortunately for me its nothing as simple as that. As to the prefix, I haven't manually set that anywhere. The buildworld log seems to set it during the build as there are several make lines with things like MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/usr/src/rescue/rescue and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp Take the reboot out of the equation and keep it simple: su to root mkdir /usr/testdir cd /usr/src env -i make buildworld env -i make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/testdir Kernel has nothing to do with installworld target. -- Mel ___ 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: samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 04:51:24 Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, For quite some time now I'm trying to get samba 3.x installed on my FreeBSD 7.2 System. The symptoms in short: o) 3.0 - doesn't compile o) 3.2, 3.3 - can't be installed because of installation dependencies to samba4-devel-4.0.0.a8_2, talloc-1.3.1 and tdb-1.1.5. System: FreeBSD test.at 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #8: Mon Dec 7 12:21:59 CET 2009 r...@test.at:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Ports tree is updated and all ports installed up2date. Now for the Samba-port(s): Depending on the version of Samba it either can't be built at all or fails upon installation. In detail: 1) Samba3.0: Bails out during compilation with the following error: Compiling locking/locking.c locking/locking.c: In function 'unparse_share_modes': locking/locking.c:701: error: invalid operands to binary - The following command failed: cc -I. -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.37/source -O -pipe -DLDAP_DEPRECATED -D_SAMBA_BUILD_=3 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.37/source/iniparser/src -Iinclude -I./include -I. -I. -I./lib/replace -I./lib/talloc -I./tdb/include -I./libaddns -I./librpc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -DLDAP_DEPRECATED -I/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.37/source/lib -D_SAMBA_BUILD_=3 -fPIC -DPIC -c locking/locking.c -o locking/locking.o *** Error code 1 This is most likely caused by tdb-1.1.5 and the fact that -I/usr/local/include is in order before -I./tdb/include. To confirm this: 1) cd `make -C /usr/ports/net/samba3 -V WRKSRC`/locking 2) Copy the above compilation line 3) Paste but remove the first -I/usr/local/include 4) Run the result If it compiles cleanly, you need to fix it somewhere in the configure foo, but it's still no guarantee everything will work, especially when linking (though when linking removing the corresponding first -L/usr/local/lib may actually fix things too). -- Mel ___ 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: Packages vs Ports
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.comwrote: P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G harddrive. pkg's are created at the time of release eg 7.2. They are never updated for that release. Or set PACKAGESITE to: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/ See pkg_add(1) for details. This will usually work for legacy stable branches, but you may actually need to update your system to a more recent stable version once in a while. -- Mel ___ 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: Help building/running SDL/OpenGL code
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 06:36:19 Richard Mace wrote: So, it appears that there is some conflict between the mesa libraries (which I need to #include to build the code) and the NVIDIA-supplied libraries, or am I on the wrong track? Can anyone shed some light on this? I've spent quite some time on what first appeared to be a fairly trivial task and I am eager to see how this runs under FreeBSD. If you want to run any OpenGL code with nvidia-driver you will need to reinstall the driver after every: - kernel update - update of x11-servers/xorg-server - update of graphics/libGL* There may be exceptions, but they're not worth figuring out or remembering. In your case you may actually have a problem with math code in libm.so.3 vs libm.so.5, but I doubt it's the case as no OpenGL app that I encountered has one. -- Mel ___ 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
Destroying a CD-R without a sledgehammer (Was: Re: (no subject))
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 10:05:40 Modulok wrote: List, Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? No. A CD-R is only readable once written. Rewritable CD's (CD-RW) you can reformat using your favorite burn tool, which should provide a short and long blank method. See for example the 'blank' and 'erase' command for burncd(8) for specifics. -- Mel ___ 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: What happened to /home?
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:34:39 Glen Barber wrote: Hi On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the system tells me home:Not a directory. What happened, and what can I do about it? Rem Usually /home is a symlink to /usr/home. Perhaps the symlink is busted? What it the output of `ls -ld /home' ? If you can still login as a regular user, what does `pwd -P' say just after you are logged in? I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld /home is: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home - usr/home What does 'file /home' say? It is a symlink. What you really want to see is ls -l /home/. Note the trailing slash. -- Mel ___ 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: What happened to /home?
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:46:57 Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: What does 'file /home' say? It is a symlink. What you really want to see is ls -l /home/. Note the trailing slash. It _should_ be a symlink, which is what I am getting at. No, it _is_ a symlink. ls says so: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home - usr/home ^ ^^^ The only thing file is gonna tell you that the symlink might be broken. # ls -l total 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 23 16:50 home - usr/home drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 3 Dec 23 16:50 usr # ls -ld home/. drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Dec 23 16:50 home/. # file home home: symbolic link to `usr/home' # chmod 000 usr/home # ls -ld home/. d- 2 root wheel 2 Dec 23 16:50 home/. # file home home: symbolic link to `usr/home' As you can see, file don't tell you much, while using ls -ld on the target will immediately show the problem. -- Mel ___ 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: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 02:48:58 Craig Butler wrote: On 22/12/2009 00:46, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 21 December 2009 09:56:11 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are bound to specific modems. This can probably be fixed from the ISP side. It should probably be some antispoofing rule that drops the packets you are sending via the wrong interface. You could try communicating the problem to the ISP and hope for the best... I'd rather not go that route. However, I might ask the ISP to move swap two IP's, so that I have two consecutive IPs on two modems and can use /31 notation for the pool. Source hash should then work better. So I'm wondering if using stick-address with a round-robin nat pool is really sufficient to do load balancing of outgoing traffic and not get into session problems with various protocols. Has anybody had similar experiences? I have no experience on this, but theoretically a state can expire while the upper layers are still active... so, I *think* you may have problems... Of course, you could increase the lifetime of states True, I'm mostly worried about DNS queries and other UDP protocols. TCP should theoretically be fine. Thanks for your feedback. Would ECMP (aka RADIX_MPATH) not be suitable for your requirements ?? 2 default routes, one to each of the modems IP's ... that should start bunting traffic down both pipes. Works for me here... = Equal cost multipath routing Status: Committed to 8-CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Authors: Qing Li Web: commit message ECMP routing allows for multiple routes to be handled by the kernel, including default routes. It potentially offers substantial increases in bandwidth by load-balancing traffic over multiple paths. = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-cost_multi-path_routing http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2008-April/089956.html Thanks for the pointers, I'll look into this. It's a little more complicated, there's 16 total IP's. 2 of which are gonna be used for LAN translations. The other 14 are eventually going to be used by DMZ services, so I'm not sure if it's solvable at the routing level, as the incoming traffic needs to go out the same way, not through the 2 LAN IP's. -- Mel ___ 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: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network
On Monday 21 December 2009 09:56:11 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are bound to specific modems. This can probably be fixed from the ISP side. It should probably be some antispoofing rule that drops the packets you are sending via the wrong interface. You could try communicating the problem to the ISP and hope for the best... I'd rather not go that route. However, I might ask the ISP to move swap two IP's, so that I have two consecutive IPs on two modems and can use /31 notation for the pool. Source hash should then work better. So I'm wondering if using stick-address with a round-robin nat pool is really sufficient to do load balancing of outgoing traffic and not get into session problems with various protocols. Has anybody had similar experiences? I have no experience on this, but theoretically a state can expire while the upper layers are still active... so, I *think* you may have problems... Of course, you could increase the lifetime of states True, I'm mostly worried about DNS queries and other UDP protocols. TCP should theoretically be fine. Thanks for your feedback. -- Mel ___ 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
Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network
Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are bound to specific modems. So I'm wondering if using stick-address with a round-robin nat pool is really sufficient to do load balancing of outgoing traffic and not get into session problems with various protocols. Has anybody had similar experiences? -- Mel ___ 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: RFC: Fam/Python based script for bruteforce blocking
On Thursday 17 December 2009 16:34:22 Brandon Low wrote: I'd love to hear other people's feedback on this approach of using FAM + auth.log to implement this and/or to hear of other superior approaches to achieving this result. Well, my first problem with it is obviously that I now need python, where I don't want python. In fact, my firewalls/gateways only have /bin/sh and /bin/csh as scripting languages. It's one reason I switched from custom sysutils/grok rules to using security/sshguard - it got me rid of perl. Secondly, you have matching rules coded in the script. If there would be one reason to prefer this script over sshguard, it would be that I can add attack patterns more easily, in config file with a syntax that's not too obscure. Last but not least, you assume that once an IP is at fault, I want that IP blocked permanently. In practice you end up with an extremely large table that might eventually be too big for a default PF table and recurring scans from the same IP are not that common (you see the IP in a 12-24 hour window, then not again). Hope this helps. -- Mel ___ 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: System crashes under heavy disk i/o
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:57:30 Erik Norgaard wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Turn down operating mode via atacontrol. If using dump(8) use the cache feature and/or do the backup from live disk, so no other services are running and disk isn't accessed other then by dump. Thanks, is there a way to set UDMA mode at boot? Roll your own rc(8). I know not of a loader tunable or device.hints setting, but I'm happily corrected on that. -- Mel ___ 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: how to make vimage jail permanent by configuring rc.conf?
On Friday 18 December 2009 13:40:47 Kouichiro Iwao wrote: I want to make it permanent. I want jails to start automatically when I rebooted the host environment. I add the following lines into rc.conf. jail_jail01_flags=-c vnet jail_jail01_rootdir=/usr/jail/jail01 jail_jail01_hostname=jail01.example.jp jail_jail01_ip=192.168.100.101 However, I failed /etc/rc.d/jail onestart jail01 to start up the jail. How to configure rc.conf in order to make vimage jail permanent? rc.d/jail only support traditional jails? Please show the output, with rc_debug turned on in /etc/rc.conf. -- Mel ___ 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: System crashes under heavy disk i/o
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:26:12 Erik Norgaard wrote: My two questions: - is there any utility that I can use monitor the system to see what's going on, when or why? gstat(8) Also, perhaps syslog to a different machine or nfs mount /var/log if you feel you're missing a log message due to this error. - is there any way that I can slow down the disk i/o? Turn down operating mode via atacontrol. If using dump(8) use the cache feature and/or do the backup from live disk, so no other services are running and disk isn't accessed other then by dump. -- Mel ___ 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: kern.polling.lost_polls
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:07:42 -0700, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: At 06:25 PM 11/20/2009, Mel Flynn wrote: So that means that you give the kernel .25 microseconds to poll and act on any pending network IO. That's probably not enough. I think that you mean .25 milliseconds, not .25 microseconds, above. Yes, sorry. It should be enough, but...it's related to CPU speed and number of interfaces. On FreeBSD-net they can give you better advice, most notably whether all 6 interfaces are done in one poll and so each task needs to be completed within 1/HZ/N? I cannot say this with certainty. It is further explained by the comment in sys/kern/kern_poll.c: /* * Hook from hardclock. Tries to schedule a netisr, but keeps track * of lost ticks due to the previous handler taking too long. * Normally, this should not happen, because polling handler should * run for a short time. However, in some cases (e.g. when there are * changes in link status etc.) the drivers take a very long time * (even in the order of milliseconds) to reset and reconfigure the * device, causing apparent lost polls. * * The first part of the code is just for debugging purposes, and tries * to count how often hardclock ticks are shorter than they should, * meaning either stray interrupts or delayed events. */ Well, even at HZ=2000, kern.polling.lost_polls and kern.polling.suspect are both incrementing, as is kern.polling.stalled: stargate# sysctl -a | grep polling kern.polling.burst: 150 kern.polling.burst_max: 150 kern.polling.each_burst: 5 kern.polling.idle_poll: 0 kern.polling.user_frac: 50 kern.polling.reg_frac: 20 kern.polling.short_ticks: 0 kern.polling.lost_polls: 41229 kern.polling.pending_polls: 0 kern.polling.residual_burst: 0 kern.polling.handlers: 2 That bugs me: if you have 6 devices, the number of handlers should be 6. /* * Try to register routine for polling. Returns 0 if successful * (and polling should be enabled), error code otherwise. * A device is not supposed to register itself multiple times. * * This is called from within the *_ioctl() functions. */ Unless this should really read drivers, but I think it's devices. kern.polling.enable: 0 kern.polling.phase: 0 kern.polling.suspect: 31653 kern.polling.stalled: 10 kern.polling.idlepoll_sleeping: 1 hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 But if I slow the clock down to 1000 Hz, it's unclear if the machine will be able to keep up with traffic. I was already getting more than 1,000 network interrupts per second before I tried polling, and I'm not sure how many packets the interfaces (some fxp, some em) can buffer up. I'm going to try it, but if it doesn't work I will have to go back to interrupt-driven operation. You might be able if your network architecture allows it, to bring down the task load by increasing the MTU and enable jumbo frames. From em(4): Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility con‐ figures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames. The maximum MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 16114. -- Mel ___ 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: sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:36:33 +0600, Victor Lyapunov fullblastst...@gmail.com wrote: This kind of thing is often due to a mtu blackhole - when a larger email causes a full size IP packet to be sent. I don't see why PF should make a difference though, IFAIK it's supposed to let ICMP through when it's learned state on a tcp connection. Thanks for your answer. Don't know whether it is relevant to the particular issue, but i tried both rulesets first with `scrub in all fragment reassemble` and another one without it, but neither worked for me. I'm kinda upset by the fact that pf can't handle large emails. Any other ideas how to possibly fix it, please? If on FreeBSD 7 or higher you can get rid of the keep state. It's implicit. Secondly, please test if the problem disappears by removing the rules and simply allowing outgoing traffic. Your rules would be: scrub in on $ext_if fragment reassemble block in on $ext_if pass out on $ext_if from $int_if:network to any If that works, then your problem is likely that you're creating 2 states for one connection causing confusion. -- Mel ___ 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: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:18:29 -0500, Michael W. Lucas mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using an OpenSolaris box as a file store. I get PXE, the kernel loads, but when we try to remount the filesystem I get: ... NFS ROOT: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/storage1/vm/netflow Lookup of /dev for devfs, error 13 exec /sbin/init: error 13 exec /sbin/oinit: error 13 exec /sbin/init.bak: error 13 exec /rescue/inet: error 13 exec /stand/sysinstall: error 13 init: not found in path ... At first glance, it would appear that /dev is missing. Actually, at first glance it would appear that the mount doesn't allow execution. -- Mel ___ 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: Problem compiling php5 fro ports
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:13:39 +0100, Thomas Vogt freebsdli...@bsdunix.ch wrote: Hello Maybe someone can help me. I try to compile several php5 extensions from the ports. php5 compiles fine but every extension fails with the same error. Example: php5-mcrypt In file included from /usr/local/include/php/main/../main/php_config.h:2827, from /usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend_config.h:1, from /usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend.h:53, from /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h:34, from /usr/ports/security/php5-mcrypt/work/php-5.2.11/ext/mcrypt/mcrypt.c:25: /usr/local/include/php/ext/php_config.h:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'file' There shouldn't be anything declared there. What is line 1 of that file? -- Mel ___ 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: kern.polling.lost_polls
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:35:22 -0700 (MST), Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: Everyone: I've been experimenting with using device polling on a router with six Ethernet interfaces that handles lots of traffic. I turned polling on, and set HZ=4000 to minimize latency and ensure that enough time was allocated to handle all of the incoming packets. But the sysctl variable kernel.polling.lost_polls keeps incrementing! The documentation of this variable isn't very good, so I am not sure what this means. Does it mean that I should set kern.hz lower (perhaps to 2000) and kern.polling.burst_max higher? Or that running the interfaces in interrupt-driven mode would be more effective? You likely have the HZ too high. First, see this description: http://www.pubbs.net/freebsd/200909/107087/ So that means that you give the kernel .25 microseconds to poll and act on any pending network IO. That's probably not enough. It is further explained by the comment in sys/kern/kern_poll.c: /* * Hook from hardclock. Tries to schedule a netisr, but keeps track * of lost ticks due to the previous handler taking too long. * Normally, this should not happen, because polling handler should * run for a short time. However, in some cases (e.g. when there are * changes in link status etc.) the drivers take a very long time * (even in the order of milliseconds) to reset and reconfigure the * device, causing apparent lost polls. * * The first part of the code is just for debugging purposes, and tries * to count how often hardclock ticks are shorter than they should, * meaning either stray interrupts or delayed events. */ I would start with the FreeBSD provided default of 1000HZ. If there are lost polls then, see if you can correlate it with link state changes. If not, then there may be issues with the driver and I would follow up to freebsd-net. If there are no lost polls, see if you can increase the frequency until they return. You also want to get some form of realworld measurement for these higher values: do they in effect increase network throughput. -- Mel ___ 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: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:49:16 -0500, Michael W. Lucas It turns out that there's a whole discussion thread on nfsv2 and v3 interoperability with diskless systems. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-January/022792.html for a sample message. Short answer: it seems that there are interoperability annoyances with diskless systems and assorted NFS servers. NFS mount options in /etc/fstab seem to be ignored, but you can set them in /boot/loader.conf. boot.nfsroot.options=nfsv2 made FreeBSD try a NFSv2 remout, and the system came up. It's even funkier, since you said an 8.0 system, it should be nfsv4. Rick Maklem may be interested in your findings, on either freebsd-fs or in light of the upcoming release on freebsd-current. This is also a nice dilemma: nfsv4 is still wet behind the ears, but v2 should be considered deprecated. But - it is good to know that with all the new NFS code in 8.0, the v2 compat plays nice with Solaris v2. Thanks for pointing out it seems to be a permissions error, I wouldn't have headed down this route without that. You're very welcome. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: get accounting info for running process
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:01:02 +0300, cronfy cro...@sprinthost.ru wrote: Is it possible to find out how much a process have used CPU user time/system time/IO operations for now by it's pid? Like in sa, but for running process. Dan, Mel, thanks for your answers. I examined 'ps' sources and decided to use kvm_getprocs() and rusage structure. I am trying to create a daemon that would report system accounting stats for every X seconds, let's say 10. 'sa' reports about terminated processes only, but it would be nice to have more detailed system usage stats per user for a given time interval (i.e. last 10 seconds), including tasks that are not finished at the moment of querying. I can achieve this by querying list of processes each 10 seconds and producing diffs between previous and current list, saving these to some log and combining data with /var/account/acct file. The only thing I do not want to do is to invent a wheel ;-) I googled much for such solutions, but did not find any. May be someone knows existing products that has this functionality already? I don't know of anything like that, but ... there is of course radius. Depends what you want to do with the info. If usage restriction is your ultimate goal, then radius is your friend. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: get accounting info for running process
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:18:08 +0300, cronfy cro...@sprinthost.ru wrote: Is it possible to find out how much a process have used CPU user time/system time/IO operations for now by it's pid? Like in sa, but for running process. Thanks in advance. man procfs(5), specifically, the status file. % cat /proc/2143/status Xorg ... 1255690702,469845 177507,790130 115403,436713 ... ^starttime^^^ ^usertime ^system time^ -- Mel ___ 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: weird save-entropy behaviour
On Sunday 15 November 2009 17:30:02 Ed Jobs wrote: Yesterday, i noticed a very weird behaviour on my computer (which is running 8.0-RC3 btw. The shells were not responding and the load was insane, and constantly going up. At the time i managed to lock myself out, the load was 84 and growing (i have a screenshot if anyone is interested). That happened last night. Today, the computer was ok and i managed to ssh into it. The root account was spammed with two types of cron mails. half of them said: mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2: No such file or directory and the other half said: override r operator/operator for /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2? (y/n [n]) not overwritten So i know that it's the save-entropy cron job, but i doubt that was supposed to happen, and i have never touched that directory. Anyone has an idea? Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a weird question to ask, but since this script is supposed to run every 11 minutes, there should not be a reason for this to stop, if there's a race condition. -- Mel ___ 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: weird save-entropy behaviour
On Sunday 15 November 2009 23:38:10 Ed Jobs wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 00:12, Mel Flynn wrote: Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a weird question to ask, but since this script is supposed to run every 11 minutes, there should not be a reason for this to stop, if there's a race condition. # id operator uid=2(operator) gid=5(operator) groups=5(operator) # id 2 uid=2(operator) gid=5(operator) groups=5(operator) As for the orer part, why did it stop, i really have no clue. All the messages arrived at root's mailbox at 5:57, tho the date in them said that they were sent at 5:50. It's really strange because I was locked out from the computer at 2:29, so it's not something I did. and there's nothing that cron runs at that time. Does the cron log (/var/log/cron) show that it was run as operator around the time it started? /usr/sbin/cron[47350]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Even if it wasn't, I don't see a reason for such a buildup. Unlesssince stdin isn't sending anything, it could be the scripts wait indefinitely for user confirmation, then finally get killed off by some limit. There should be some hint at that in /var/log/messages around 5:50. The script should probably do mv -f in line 76. -- Mel ___ 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: WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 00:57:41 jhell wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:27, onemda@ wrote: On 11/2/09, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If I want to start wpa_supplicant directly, and specify a particular configuration file, I can do something like this: wpa_supplicant -i iwi0 -c /path/to/wpa_alternate.conf How would I specify the use of /path/to/wpa_alternate.conf in my rc.conf ifconfig line, rather than just going with the default /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file? Look into /etc/defaults/rc.conf for hint. This is not a option in rc.conf default or otherwise ATM. It is on 8. Looks pretty safe to apply: svn diff -c 178022 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8 -- Mel ___ 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: system() call causes core dump
On Saturday 31 October 2009 21:52:37 Peter Steele wrote:
In UNIX it is not safe to perform arbitrary actions after forking a
multi-threaded process. You're basically expected to call exec soon
after the fork, although you can do certain other work if you are very
careful.
The reason for this is that after the fork, only one thread will be
running in the child, and if that thread tries to acquire a lock or other
formerly-shared resource it may deadlock or crash, because the child
process is no longer accessing the same memory location as the threads in
the parent process (it gets a separate copy of the address space at the
time of fork, which may not be in a consistent state from the point of
view of the thread library).
I am not calling fork explicitly. The thread I'm running in was created
with pthread_create(). The fork() in the stack trace in my original email
is being called by the system() function as it spawns off the process it
is supposed want to run. Is there a safe way to call system() within a
pthread?
Either I'm very lucky, or popen is better suited for this, as I have this
running on various machines, 24/7:
#define PING_CMD \
ping -n -c 50 %s 2/dev/null|egrep 'round-trip|packets received'
/* worker thread main loop */
void *monitor_host(void *data)
{
...
if( -1 == asprintf(cmd, PING_CMD, ip) )
{
warnl(Failed to construct command);
*ex = EX_OSERR;
return(ex);
}
while( !signalled )
{
if( (cmd_p = popen(cmd, r)) == NULL )
{
warnl(Failed to run command %s, cmd);
*ex = EX_OSERR;
return(ex);
}
EV_SET(ch, fileno(cmd_p), EVFILT_READ, EV_ADD|EV_ENABLE,
0, 0, NULL);
for( ;; )
{
int nev;
if( signalled ||
(nev = kevent(kq, ch, 1, ev, 1, timeout)) == -1 )
{
if( signalled == SIGHUP )
goto closeproc;
else
goto cleanup;
}
if( nev )
break;
}
/* read fp, store in db */
}
}
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Re: most bizarre libc.so.7 problem
On Saturday 24 October 2009 14:33:53 B. Cook wrote: B. Cook wrote, On 10/24/2009 7:43 AM: 49 === lib/libc (install) 50 install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libc.a /usr/lib 51 install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libc_p.a /usr/lib 52 install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444 -fschg -S libc.so.7 /lib 53 install: /lib/libc.so.7: chflags: Invalid argument 54 *** Error code 71 When on ZFS, set NO_FSCHG in /etc/src.conf. For the time being, file flags are not supported on ZFS. -- Mel ___ 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: Microsoft Dynamic DNS
On Saturday 19 September 2009 22:06:03 stan wrote: I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says no static DNS entries. They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machiens register thier names with the corprate DNS. My Windows laptop for instance, may get different IP addresses using DHCP depending on what physical location I connect it in. but it's always the same DNS name. Can anyone sugest where to look for information as to how this works, and how I cna make my FreeBSD machine participate in this? You don't need to do anything. By default, dhclient sends the hostname. Exception is when you don't have a hostname configured in /etc/rc.conf. -- Mel ___ 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: DHCP client questions
On Sunday 20 September 2009 21:19:28 stan wrote: I have several machines (such as a mailserver) which _MUST_ have fixed names. I have played around with /etc/dhcllient.conf, but not managed to get this working. I can get IP addresses, and various things such as default routers, and DNS servers, but I have not managed to get the suggested name put in their DNS. Ok, I know you're trying to make clear what your problem is, but it's still not. So, let's try step by step,, using a FreeBSD mailserver as the example: 1) Does the mailserver have a fixed HOSTNAME or can the HOSTNAME change if the DHCP server wants it to? 2) When you say but I have not managed to get the suggested name put in their DNS, does this mean you expect the FreeBSD mailserver to enter itself into the Microsoft DNS? Or can you not get the FreeBSD mailserver to name itself according to what the DHCP server tells them to? -- Mel ___ 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: Not able to compile GENERIC kernel
On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:26:58 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:10:00 +0200, Christer Solskogen
christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
# rm -fr /usr/obj/usr
# cd /usr/src
# make cleandir ; make cleandir
I've seen serveral placeses that make cleandir should be run twice. I
dont understand why. Could somebody explain?
The first run cleans file sunder $(MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX), or under
`/usr/obj' if MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is unset.
The second run cleans files in the source tree itself.
Which you'll see if you don't use the designated build{world|kernel} targets,
but cd into a directory and start typing make orquite the pitfall, run
make obj depend, rather then make obj make depend. In the first case, the
.depend file ends up in .CURDIR, not .OBJDIR.
Also, perhaps it's better to advise make cleanworld for the rm -rf, as this
target accomplishes the same, deals better with chflags(2) and leaves
/usr/obj/usr/ports in tact for those who have set WRKDIRPREFIX to /usr/obj for
ports.
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Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 21:18:03 Tom Worster wrote: On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: Tom Worster wrote: thanks, Mel, that's good to know. i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy solution for me. You could also just put: sshd_flags=-o X11Forwarding=no into your /etc/rc.conf file. What he wants is passing arguments without touching config files, which I find myself needing sometimes as well, on machines where static partitions are mounted read-only + kern.secure_level. that's right. when i read in 11.7 of the handbook: Since the rc.d system is primarily intended to start/stop services at system startup/shutdown time, ... i thought: maybe i'm making things hard by trying to use rc.d scripts when i could just execute the daemon's binary. One downside I forgot to mention: You do open yourself up now to SSHD_FLAGS=-o AllowRoot=yes, so you may need to complicate the logic a bit more, by sanitizing SSHD_FLAGS. -- Mel ___ 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: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:58:45 Peter Steele wrote: Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing option since it comes with a lot of potentially undesirable baggage of its own... Then your best option is to patch lagg(4) with an avail algorithm, that prefers $master and sticks with an interface till it's detected down. When done properly the chances are good to get this into base. Another approach would be to change the failover with a 'fader' algorithm, that gradually fades from one nic to the other, kind of like an audio mixer, though I'm not sure if that's possible and would work satisfactory. -- Mel ___ 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: mpt timed out and Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores kill -9
On Thursday 17 September 2009 15:57:43 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:40:24PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:16:16PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:34:04PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: It could be that the process is stuck in the 'D' state (uninterruptable wait). You can veryfiy that by running 'ps -u' and looking in the eight column when gnuplot is running. Does the window with the plot actually appear? Interactive use of gnuplot-4.2.6 is fine on amd64 7.2-RELEASE-p2. I reinstalled gnuplot-4.2.6 and (hopefully) all ports on which it depends. I still get the same behaviour. top -PISu shows: last pid: 108; load averages: 0.88, 0.35, 0.19up 2+02:23:38 13:27:52 109 processes: 4 running, 88 sleeping, 17 waiting CPU 0: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle CPU 1: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 100% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 105M Active, 2074M Inact, 363M Wired, 768K Cache, 827M Buf, 5322M Free Swap: 19G Total, 19G Free PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 0 2 171 ki31 0K64K RUN 0 77.9H 100.00% idle 2 1001 2 480 98240K 55608K CPU11 0:00 100.00% gnuplot so gnuplot is using 100% and all in system state. and ps -u: USERPID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND mexas 2 98.1 0.7 98240 55608 5 R+1:25pm 0:00.72 gnuplot so the state is not D. The window does appear (just using simple gnuplot plot sin(x), and the terminal is set to 'wxt', but nothing ever apears in the window. The wxt terminal is only available when gnuplot is compiled with the wxWidgets toolkit. Try using the plain x11 terminal, and see if that works better? yes, that works fine! Thank you! So the problem must be with wxgtk2-2.8.10_1 and wxgtk2-common-2.8.10_1 ? How can I kill the offending gnuplot process? On reboot I see this on the console: System shutdown time has arrived Stopping cron. Stopping sshd. Stopping ntpd. Stopping devd. Writing entropy file:mpt0: request 0xa00d2140:52792 timed out for ccb 0x e00019ece800 (req-ccb 0xe00019ece800) mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xa00d2140:52792 mpt0: Timedout requests already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning. Sep 17 14:49:59 mech-cluster241 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Sep 17 14:49:59 init: timeout expired for /bin/sh on /etc/rc.shutdown: Interrupt ed system call; going to single user mode Sep 17 14:50:19 init: some processes would not die; ps axl advised Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop... Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...3 1 2 I'm a bit worried about mpt0 messages - this is the SCSI driver. Does this indicate a problem with mpt? Since gnuplot was spinning in kernel mode, all bets are off. This timeout is most likely a side effect from that, unless you see this every reboot not just with an unkillable gnuplot. If your system has the ability to run procstat -k, you might find out what gnuplot is spinning on. You'll need at least a 7.x system, but I'm not sure if kernelthreads are supported on ia64 and kernel needs to have STACK or DDB options. -- Mel ___ 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: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'
On Thursday 17 September 2009 19:55:33 Ruben de Groot wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:14:29PM +0200, Mel Flynn typed: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 21:18:03 Tom Worster wrote: On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: Tom Worster wrote: thanks, Mel, that's good to know. i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy solution for me. You could also just put: sshd_flags=-o X11Forwarding=no into your /etc/rc.conf file. What he wants is passing arguments without touching config files, which I find myself needing sometimes as well, on machines where static partitions are mounted read-only + kern.secure_level. that's right. when i read in 11.7 of the handbook: Since the rc.d system is primarily intended to start/stop services at system startup/shutdown time, ... i thought: maybe i'm making things hard by trying to use rc.d scripts when i could just execute the daemon's binary. One downside I forgot to mention: You do open yourself up now to SSHD_FLAGS=-o AllowRoot=yes, so you may need to complicate the logic a bit more, by sanitizing SSHD_FLAGS. Please explain how this can be exploited by a non-root user? By adding this to .profile of compromised wheel account and waiting for him to run sudo -E or using an older version of sudo. Yes, it's an unlikely path. More to the point, it defeats having ro mounted /etc + secure level, since no reboot is required to modify the running sshd, so you're compromising your failsafe. -- Mel ___ 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: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 18:45:29 Tom Worster wrote:
is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a
daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command?
for example, how does one start sshd using /etc/rc.d/sshd and pass it
'-o X11Forwarding=no' without touching a config file?
You don't. Defaults are set in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, overridden in
/etc/rc.conf. Unless you add the logic yourself in /etc/rc.conf, the
environment is not looked at.
So this means a one-time edit of /etc/rc.conf:
if test -n ${SSHD_FLAGS}; then
sshd_flags=${SSHD_FLAGS}
else
sshd_flags=${sshd_flags}
fi
Then start with SSHD_FLAGS=-o X11Forwarding=no /etc/rc.d/sshd start
But this is specific for sshd, as it supports _flags. There's no generic way
to do this.
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Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:12:25 Peter Steele wrote: The problem we're having is when nfe0 comes online again, a failback occurs making nfe0 active again. This causes a momentary network outage that we want to prevent. Is there a way to configure the lagg device to stay with the currently active interface, even if the MASTER interface comes back online? Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? -- Mel ___ 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: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: Tom Worster wrote: thanks, Mel, that's good to know. i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy solution for me. You could also just put: sshd_flags=-o X11Forwarding=no into your /etc/rc.conf file. What he wants is passing arguments without touching config files, which I find myself needing sometimes as well, on machines where static partitions are mounted read-only + kern.secure_level. -- Mel ___ 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: rebinding keys to functions
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:01:00 Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:38:18AM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
Not all of them. My laptop is based on a quite modern cantiga (aka
centrino2) PM45 chipset (from 2008, according to Wikipedia). The
function keys for changing the creen brightness and sound volume work
OK with FreeBSD, even though xev doesn't see them. So that signal seems
to go directly to the hardware.
Most likely not entirely. Having acpidump(8)ed a few laptops, I have seen
references to multimedia keys in there. However I know not nearly enough
about ACPI to know if the OS can intercept/reroute the bindings. A gamble
I would take is to let FreeBSD post itself as a windows variant to acpi,
by setting hw.acpi.osname=Windows 2001 in /boot/loader.conf. Then
recheck xev.
What would you see in the acpidump that indicates those keys?
Example, HPDV9000:
If (LEqual (Local1, 0x07))
{
Store (Fn+F7 Pressed, Debug)
If (LEqual (OSYS, 0x07D6))
{
If (IGDS)
{
Notify (\_SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD04, 0x87)
}
Else
{
Notify (\_SB.PCI0.PEGP.VGA.LCD, 0x87)
}
}
Else
{
Store (0x15, SMIF)
Store (0x00, TRP0)
}
Fn+F7 = screen darker. See the ref to OSYS.
Also:
Method (_Q16, 0, NotSerialized)
{
Store (!!! DVD/Music Button pressed !!!, Debug)
If (LEqual (OSYS, 0x07D6))
{
And:
If (\_OSI (Windows 2006))
{
Store (0x07D6, OSYS)
}
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Re: libnsl.so.1
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:43:32 Joe R. Jah wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Mel Flynn wrote:
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:17:02 +0200
From: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us
Subject: Re: libnsl.so.1
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:02:50 Joe R. Jah wrote:
Hello all,
I want to install a dispather module from Day Communique software on
apache22. The binaray mod_dispatcher.so is provided by Day as a 64 bit
*NIX compatible module to place in apache22 module directory. The
mocule requires a shared library missing from system:
--8--
# apachectl -t
httpd: Syntax error on line 827 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so into server:
Shared object libnsl.so.1 not found, required by mod_dispatcher.so
--8--
Does anyone know where to download libnsl.so.1, or from what port it
can be installed?
nsl=name service library. All of it's functions are in FreeBSD implement
in libc. If this mod_dispatcher.so is indeed loadable by FreeBSD's
linker, then you can provide a dummy libnsl.so.1, like so:
$ cat 'EOF' BSDmakefile
SHLIB=nsl
SHLIB_MAJOR=1
NO_MAN=yes
SRCS=nsl.c
.include bsd.lib.mk
EOF
$ cat 'EOF' nsl.c
int nsl_dummy(void);
int nsl_dummy(void) { return 0; }
EOF
$ make; sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib install
The symbols it's looking for should be provided by libc, but if there's
any undefined ones, this trickery gets a little dangerous and you're
better off asking the developers for a native FreeBSD version.
Thank you Mel. You were right about undefined ones; Here's what I get:
--8--
apachectl -t
httpd: Syntax error on line 826 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so into server:
/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so: Undefined symbol __strdup
--8--
Any more trickeries?;-)
Sure, add #define __strdup strdup to nsl.c, however this road is not likely to
end soon. It seems to be compiled for a linux system, at least for a SYSV
system, while FreeBSD follows '4.4BSD'.
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Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:58:31 Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Przemyslaw should email security-officer with any details he thinks are relevant. Then the security team will make sure to fix the bug for all affected releases of FreeBSD, release a patch with the fix, issue an advisory through the usual channels, and post the details online at our security information web pages at http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/. I see that I received a lot of criticism after disclosing 6.4 vulnerability. Please read some facts: FWIW, I think some people here read with their eyes closed and I'm wondering myself, why security@ did not at least respond with a we're looking into it, please hold on, as we're busy with 8.0 release.. -- Mel ___ 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: Non-root user and accept() or listen()
On Monday 14 September 2009 18:47:18 Freminlins wrote: Hi, I am not sure if this exists (but don't think so), so I am asking. Is there a sysctl type thing to disallow non-root users, or indeed any specified user or group, from running a program with listen() ? What I am looking at is improving network security, such that if a user account is compromised it can then not be used to run a dodgy web server/whatever on a non-privileged port. Although I can firewall off any port I wish, it seems like an obvious thing to disallow any user from opening a listening socket in the first place. I am suggesting something like sysctl user.socket_listen with enable or disable. Am I being really daft? Or does this exist already? See mac_portacl(4). -- Mel ___ 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: krootimage crashed at KDE 3.5 startup on signal 11 (7.2 STABLE)
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 19:35:47 Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks!!! For some reason im getting krootimage (the wallpaper manager of kde) crashing everytime when i login... Any ideas of how to fix that? Any chance you have two jpeg versions lying around? Please provide ldd -a output of krootimage. -- Mel ___ 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: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:13:17 Jerry wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:18:29 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:03:50 -0400 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:13:31 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: I usually discover security problems with updates I receive from http://www.us-cert.gov/. Aren't FreeBSD security problems reported to their site? If not, why? IMHO, keeping users in the dark to known security problems is not a serviceable protocol. Because releasing security advisories before there is a fix available is not responsible use of the information, and (as is being discussed) the fix is still in the works. I disagree. If I have a medical problem, or what ever, I expect to be informed of it. The fact that there is no known cure, fix, etc. is immaterial, if in fact not grossly negligent. This is a stupid and non-relevant comparison. A better comparison would be if I realized that you'd left your car door unlocked in a less than safe neighborhood. Would you rather I told you discreetly, or just started shouting it out loud to the neighborhood? Wait, I know the answer, if I see _your_ car unlocked, I'll just start shouting. The fact is, that you do in fact notify me. Keeping important security information secret benefits no one, except for possibly those responsible for the problem to begin with who do not want the knowledge of the problem to become public. A multitude of software, such as Mozilla, publish known security holes in their software. The ramifications of allowing a user to actively use a piece of software when a known bug/exploit/etc. exists within it is grossly negligent. Please inform yourself properly before assuming you're right. Mozilla does not by default publish vulnerabilities before a fix is known. In some cases publishing has been delayed by months. The exception is when exploits are already in the wild and a work around is available, while a real fix will take more work. This is also why vulnerabilities are typically not disclosed till a fix is known, because it does not protect the typical user, but puts him in harms way, which is exactly what you don't want. In theory, if I know the details of this particular exploit, I can patch my 6.4 machines myself, but more realistically, if developers take all this time to come up with a solution that doesn't break functionality the chances that I and more casual users can do this are slim. Meanwhile, the exploit will be coded into the usual rootkits and internet scanners and casualties will be made. That doesn't help anyone. -- Mel ___ 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: krootimage crashed at KDE 3.5 startup on signal 11 (7.2 STABLE)
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:48:55 Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Yes, I remember I had an error when I ran pkgdb -F due to 2 different versions of jpeg... here is the output: $ ldd -a /usr/local/bin/krootimage ... /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: libaudio.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0x803e1) libXt.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x803f27000) libmng.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libmng.so.1 (0x804086000) libjpeg.so.9 = /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libjpeg.so.9 (0x8041e6000) libpng.so.5 = /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5 (0x802796000) libz.so.4 = /lib/libz.so.4 (0x803351000) libXi.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x804307000) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x802bef000) libXrandr.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x80441) libXcursor.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x804518000) libXinerama.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x804622000) libXft.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x804724000) libfreetype.so.9 = /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 (0x804837000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x8049b6000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x8028bc000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x802cf8000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x8029cd000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x802ad5000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x8036a1000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x8038ad000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x8039c7000) libthr.so.3 = /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x803ad4000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x803bec000) /usr/local/lib/libmng.so.1: libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x8038ad000) libz.so.4 = /lib/libz.so.4 (0x803351000) liblcms.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x804ae5000) libjpeg.so.9 = /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libjpeg.so.9 (0x8041e6000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x803bec000) /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libjpeg.so.9: Those are the two culprits. Forcibly (portupgrade/portmaster -f) reinstall x11-toolkits/qt33 and graphics/libmng and make sure it's done from source, not from local packages. -- Mel ___ 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: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 21:14:25 Jerry wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:51:40 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: The exception is when exploits are already in the wild and a work around is available, while a real fix will take more work. Assume that I have discovered a vulnerability in a widely used, or even marginal for arguments sake, program. I now start to exploit that vulnerability. Now assume that you are responsible for maintaining, that program. Use any job description that suits you for this purpose. Are you claiming that since it may take several months to fix, it is better to let users be exploited rather than inform them that there is an exploitable problem in said software? I fine that extremely disturbing. Then I suggest you cancel your internet account(s). Also, it helps to read what people are writing. But for the corner case where you are the person reporting me this vulnerability, telling me you won't exploit it, then do it anyway, there is no guard in place, other then that sooner or later, you'll compromise a machine administered by someone able to retrace what happened and it'll come back to me and I'd move up the timetable, cook up a work around and publish the details. There is some level of trust between reporter and fixer, whether it be good or bad, it's simply a fact of life and not likely to change. -- Mel ___ 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: krootimage crashed at KDE 3.5 startup on signal 11 (7.2 STABLE)
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 21:23:40 Jeronimo Calvo wrote: done and fixed!! thanks a lot!! Good, and you're very welcome. btw, that was caused then to a portupgrade -f?? there is any additional steps, to solve any future errors caused by that as well?? Though the initial instructions about the jpeg upgrade were questionable at best, the current description is accurate and will resolve any future problems. You can of course reduce the amount of work by figuring out which ports still link with libjpeg.so.9, using ldd on /usr/local/bin/* and /usr/local/sbin/*, grep and pkg_info -W. pkg_updating -d 20090719 jpeg will show the UPDATING entry. -- Mel ___ 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: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot
On Saturday 22 August 2009 02:40:53 Scott Schappell wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 17:32:13, Mel Flynn wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 07:34:11 Scott Schappell wrote: Looking at info.0 I see: Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 155131904B (147 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Fri Aug 21 08:27:45 2009 Hostname: arthur.silvertree.org Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 #1: Fri Aug 14 13:27:47 PDT 2009 r...@arthur.silvertree.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARTHUR Panic String: ffs_sync: rofs mod Dump Parity: 2778312054 Bounds: 0 Dump Status: good This is interesting: Panic String: ffs_sync: rofs mod It looks I'm guessing this is saying read only file system modified. So it looks like the problem is with mount? If there's anything you want me to pull from the vmcore.0 let me know. Again, this happens with the drive mounted RO from fstab. Unmounted then mount -o rw /backup. Something is amiss, and first blush doesn't seem to be hardware related. There should be a backtrace in info.0 already. That part contains more relevant information. Nope, that's all info.0 contains. Follow up. Temp fix available here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=193338+0+current/freebsd-current -- Mel ___ 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: libnsl.so.1
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:02:50 Joe R. Jah wrote:
Hello all,
I want to install a dispather module from Day Communique software on
apache22. The binaray mod_dispatcher.so is provided by Day as a 64 bit
*NIX compatible module to place in apache22 module directory. The mocule
requires a shared library missing from system:
--8--
# apachectl -t
httpd: Syntax error on line 827 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so into server:
Shared object libnsl.so.1 not found, required by mod_dispatcher.so
--8--
Does anyone know where to download libnsl.so.1, or from what port it can
be installed?
nsl=name service library. All of it's functions are in FreeBSD implement in
libc. If this mod_dispatcher.so is indeed loadable by FreeBSD's linker, then
you can provide a dummy libnsl.so.1, like so:
$ cat 'EOF' BSDmakefile
SHLIB=nsl
SHLIB_MAJOR=1
NO_MAN=yes
SRCS=nsl.c
.include bsd.lib.mk
EOF
$ cat 'EOF' nsl.c
int nsl_dummy(void);
int nsl_dummy(void) { return 0; }
EOF
$ make; sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib install
The symbols it's looking for should be provided by libc, but if there's any
undefined ones, this trickery gets a little dangerous and you're better off
asking the developers for a native FreeBSD version.
--
Mel
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Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Monday 14 September 2009 23:46:42 David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:13:54PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Am 2009/9/14 Dan Goodin dgoo...@sitpub.com writhed: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Has anyone submitted a PR about this? Przemyslaw Frasunek has PR's posted but none recent. IMO if a PR is not submitted then one has *not* informed the Powers That Be. Wrong. Security bugs should be reported to the security team, not PR'd. -- Mel ___ 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: rebinding keys to functions
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:40:38 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console). First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). If this is what I think it is, he probably can't. For most laptop keyboards, there was (as already explained) a specific system that handled Fn+PFx outside the OS so it worked always. Even my old Toshiba T1600 can do that. Modern laptops do it differently: Fn+PFx key combinations have to be picked up by a specific driver that listens to stange and custom keycodes outside the standard range, and then communicate the selected purpose to the OS in order to perform the action, e. g. raise the volume. Not all of them. My laptop is based on a quite modern cantiga (aka centrino2) PM45 chipset (from 2008, according to Wikipedia). The function keys for changing the creen brightness and sound volume work OK with FreeBSD, even though xev doesn't see them. So that signal seems to go directly to the hardware. Most likely not entirely. Having acpidump(8)ed a few laptops, I have seen references to multimedia keys in there. However I know not nearly enough about ACPI to know if the OS can intercept/reroute the bindings. A gamble I would take is to let FreeBSD post itself as a windows variant to acpi, by setting hw.acpi.osname=Windows 2001 in /boot/loader.conf. Then recheck xev. -- Mel ___ 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: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:07:37 Peter Steele wrote: Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is that we have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and therefore have to increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. No you don't. It's advised, but not mandatory. We have enough space in our /var partition that we could add a swap file there and not have to touch the existing partition layout. I like the simplicity of the swap file approach, but we have an application that is very sensitive to I/O performance and I'm a little wary what this could mean. QA I know would have a field day in trying to pound the system with all sorts of stress tests. I think a dedicated swap partition is probably a safer option. Any I/O bound application suffers from any kind of swap. You would do better to first establish how this application suffers once you start swapping. If your machine needs more then or even close to 8GB of swap, I doubt the applications are responsive to begin with. With 8GB of memory, it's probably better to have 2GB of swap, so that offending applications are killed off sooner and the machine is able to recover sooner. But - I'm assuming this is a server, for a multimedia machine - editing large images or videos - more swap is beneficial as inactive images/videos can be swapped out. -- Mel ___ 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: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 18:15:25 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried various incatations to try and make my regex non-greedy but I can't seem to come up with the correct combination. How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? AFAIK, there's no greediness modifier in vim regex. However, you can use character classes to solve your problem: %s/http:[^;]\+/foo/g -- Mel ___ 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: Inconsistency in root partition size
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 04:14:55 jaymax wrote: restore -tf /disk03/dump/root2.dump rootrestore-0.lst To my surprise rootrestore-0.lst contains a whole listings of ./usr/ files ex. 2926 ./usr/include/bsnmp/snmpmod.h 2927 ./usr/include/bsnmp/snmp_atm.h Now /usr is on a separate and distinct partition /dev/ad0s1f 36205990 25765232 754428077%/usr Hope someone can make some sense of this. This is exactly what I figured. Some files are hiding behind a mount point. The got there most likely, cause you did make installworld without /usr mounted, which would happen if you have the FreeBSD source tree on a different location, reboot into single user mode, only mount the source tree and do installworld. To repair, reboot into single user. Run the following commands: fsck -y / mount -u -o rw / rm -rf /usr/* exit This should delete the offending files. -- Mel ___ 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: Inconsistency in root partition size
On Monday 07 September 2009 04:24:07 jaymax wrote: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630503694 -36674 108%/ Don't know if the above can show anything It is of course entirely possible at this point, that the disk *is* full. Could you show: du -sxh / from single user mode, without anything mounted? That would ensure that the offending file is not hiding behind a mountpoint. Like: /usr/hiding_here. -- Mel ___ 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: Is there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?
On Monday 07 September 2009 05:09:53 Michael David Crawford wrote: M I'm looking for a pseudo-checksum tool for use with cataloging images. I've seen such tools advertised, but they were proprietary products and only worked on windows. One way you could approach it might be to use a blur filter to blur each of your images, and then to compare the blurred images. Small differences in individual pixels would be blurred away. Did you guys miss Charlie Kester's message? And the above does not work, because of compression anyway. Just because you think of an image as a bitmap, does not mean it's stored as such. -- Mel ___ 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: wireless: host access point w/ WAP help!
Hi, 0) Always mention OS version, bonus points for uname -a. On Monday 07 September 2009 02:27:04 Nerius Landys wrote: I am following the Handbook instructions for setting up a FreeBSD wireless host access point: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html r...@speedy# dmesg | grep ath ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xff8f-0xff8f irq 21 at device 0.0 on pci1 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:02:6f:61:e6:7d ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6 ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 6 (2437 Mhz, flags 0x490 hal flags 0x150), hal status 12 I read you got it working so far, but if you want this resolved or diagnosed, the uname -a is mandatory and an ident /boot/kernel/if_ath.ko as well. -- Mel ___ 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: Opera 10.00 (native) flash
On Monday 07 September 2009 13:14:29 Jerry wrote: Opera has a closed architecture that does not allow third party browser extensions. For one, there are widgets. For two, it still supports the nsplugin interface. For three, some people argue that allowing extensions access to local disk, network threads and pretty much everything in the browser, including the ability to fight wars with competing products[1], is less preferable. [1] http://www.browser-watch.com/2009/05/05/firefox-plug-in-war-between-adblock-plus-and-noscript/ -- Mel ___ 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: Inconsistency in root partition size
On Monday 07 September 2009 20:54:51 jaymax wrote: mach_1# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a5076304073845963687%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e505646 14212 450984 3%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 36205990 25759138 755037477%/usr /dev/ad1s1e 74696394 9836586 5888409814%/disk02 /dev/ad4s1d 376405390 252115006 9417795473%/disk03 devfs 1 10 100%/usr/var/named/dev mach_1# cd / mach_1# du -xhc 43Mtotal Do these look normal or average, compare total with df - k output of /dev/ad0s1a I don't quite know what next to do Did you do the du without anything mounted? Cause you have the df output with mounts. If you can't find the missing space, then I suggest making a backup of / with dump(8), booting from livefs and restoring the dump. The dump should not be in the 390M range, rather in the 40-50M range. -- Mel ___ 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: turn authentication on -- a simple how to please!!
On Monday 07 September 2009 21:49:42 David Southwell wrote: My mailserver uses postfix and has a number of virtual domains. I am getting the following difficulties on delivery of legitimate emails to remote addresses failing with a request to tun authentication on. Normally this shouldn't occur if you are relaying yourself. Remote mail servers should not have authentication on for outside mail. This would only be the case if the remote postmaster considers his mailserver private and does not want to receive mail from unknown people. Therefore, this should only happen if your relay via your ISP using the relay_host parameter in main.cf. I am comparatively new to managing mailservers. Could someone please tell me what I need to do. My searches on google seem to give me long explanations of what is meant to happen but I cannot find simple instructions on how to fulfill the requirements!! dns1# fgrep abc /var/log/maillog Sep 7 17:01:59 dns1 postfix/smtp[86489]: 179BE34D41D: to=competiti...@bristolphoto.org.uk, relay=mail.abc.org.uk[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25, delay=2.2, delays=2/0/0.15/0.03, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host mail.abc.org.uk[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 550 Please turn authentication on (in reply to RCPT TO command)) dns1# Let us know what's not simple about this: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl -- Mel ___ 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: Inconsistency in root partition size
On Sunday 06 September 2009 04:34:20 jaymax wrote: I apparently have open file handles in my / partitions. It was partitioned at 512 Mb size, used about 150Mb df shows Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a496M492M-36M 108%/ adjkerntz 147 root0uVBAD (revoked) adjkerntz 147 root1uVBAD Can't really identify lines I can say does not belong so I don't have any rational basis to kill any process. All seems legit! Rebooting does not correct the descrepancy For one, you could've used fstat -f / to reduce the noise. Secondly, since rebooting does not help, open files are not the cause. Rather the VBAD up there. Do an fsck -y. Chances are your file system got filled, a hardware write error occurred and the kernel could therefore not return the space to the disk. If you still have logs, I would grep for WRITE_DMA in /var/log/messages. -- Mel ___ 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: Inconsistency in root partition size
On Sunday 06 September 2009 12:17:59 jaymax wrote: ran fsck on / mounted partition, is that reasonable or possible, since it is / or do I have to use a livefs disk like Fixit or Frenzy for this No, single user mode. Root partition in single user mode can be fsck'd and repaired if mounted ro in single user. The system does fsck -p by default, which skips partitions marked clean. Since you can shutdown cleanly, nothing will happen. Have a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for setting different behaviors by overriding the defaults in /etc/rc.conf. -- Mel ___ 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: how to display pkg-message
On Sunday 06 September 2009 20:18:38 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Thanks for the info. I read man ports, quite a lot of bsd.ports.mk plus list archives If you want to see the dynamically generated pkg-message of a *port*, before building/installing it (f.e. to identify what gotchas there are), use the following: make -C /usr/ports/category/portname WRKDIR=/tmp apply-slist cat /tmp/pkg- message -- Mel ___ 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: Reverse Proxy /Proxy Pass
On Saturday 05 September 2009 09:55:54 Agus wrote: 2009/9/3 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net: On Friday 04 September 2009 01:20:46 Agus wrote: What server, application do u know/recommend me for using as a ProxyPass / Reverse Proxy... The idea is to forward all requests to port 80 to this server and then from here according to the vhost send it to the actual server... For now i only need proxying.. dont think cacheing will be possible so im just looking for a pretty fast, light and stable app to do this on a freebsd 7... Thanks and ihope to hear some cool recommendations.. hehe If lightweight, go with www/nginx. Features, go with www/squid or apache+mod_proxy. -- Mel ___ 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 Thanks Mel... Now i've been reading a little and found that cherokee maybe a very good alternative also I also found that the performance will variate according to the syscall the server uses... i read about poll,etc how to know which syscalls does the servers support and which one is better/fastest? kqueue is preferred on *BSD, since it's able to aggregate multiple filter matches into one event if they happen to occur in a close time frame. This reduces copyout from kernel to userland. It also used to be true that poll is a busywait, but I think that has been corrected. If you're interested, the original design document for kqueue is available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/papers/kqueue.pdf -- Mel ___ 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: KDE3 -- KDE4
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:50:00 Michiel Overtoom wrote: I never understood the need for transparent windows. If you're working in a window you want to concentrate on its contents, not on stuff that's happening beneath it. It breaks the flow. I think it's indicative of the ritalin-generation of teens who can't concentrate for two minutes and need to constantly tweet about nonsense. Geez, I'm getting old ;-) I felt the same way initially. However, I'm not old enough yet, to remember I can get used to things and now that I have, it doesn't bother me and at times it's convenient (f.e. when repositioning windows). Still, it's easy to turn off. I'm also using the Flip Switch to alt-tab windows, which is much more pleasant then having to read sometimes missing window titles/icons in a list. I can definitely do without Kontact's aggregation of message lists, other then that, after tweaking it, can't say that I miss KDE 3, even though I had the initial shocker you experienced. I also did a fair amount of tweaking after the first KDE3 install and I can't honestly remember if I took longer then or now. -- Mel ___ 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: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD
On Friday 04 September 2009 16:28:07 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:41:28PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:23:47 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:10:13PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:02:41 stan wrote: pnoc# cat collect-subtrees #!/bin/sh echo STARTED /tmp/stan which perl /tmp/stan /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal /tmp/stan echo Done /tmp/stan /tmp stan contains: pnoc# cat /tmp/stan STARTED /usr/bin/perl Done STARTED /usr/bin/perl Done So, cron is invoking the correct command, and perl can be found, but the original collect_subtrees perl script silently dies. I am convinced it's an environemt probkl`lem, I am just uncertain how to determine what. I'm not anymore. I'm putting 1 cent on a broken /usr/bin/perl symlink (perl upgrade gone bonkers, f.e. done with ro mounted /usr) and another cent on the perl script using system() function, with pathless commands (that is environment). Ok, one liner: su -m cricket env -i HOME=/usr/local/cricket PATH=/bin:/usr/bin \ /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal I've downloaded the 1.0.5 version, but can't quickly see where that would go wrong with this script. touch is in /usr/bin, so that should work. Any cron messages in /var/mail/cricket? I am away from work today, and won't be back till Tuesday. I can't access this from home. I will try your test then. The only messages that are getting to /var/log/cron is just the one saying that the task was executed. Yea, the error messages end up in /var/mail/$USER or MAILTO variable if set in crontab. /var/log/maillog should have some tell tales. -- Mel ___ 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: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD
On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:41:07 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:33:35AM -0400, stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0400, stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:43:15PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:48:57AM -0400, stan wrote: I have inherited a system that uses Cricket on FreeBSD to do some data collection. I have set this up myself in the distnat past, but this time I asked a contractor to set it up. I no longer have access to this contractor, and the toher day, we shut down the system this was running on, and when we rebooted the system, cricket id not resume collecting data. I don't see anyhting in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start it up, nor do I see anything in /etc/crontag. I don't seen any processes owned by cricket running. In FreeBSD, how is this process noramally invoked? Sorry to reply to my own message, but I have more data. I did find -rw--- 1 root wheel 288 Jan 12 2009 /var/cron/tabs/cricke Which is, I am failry certain, what is _intended_ to invoke the cricket process. However, acording to the cricket logs, the last time I have an entry is Aug 29th, which was when the machine was shut down. So, I decided to try running this command by hand. Now, to do so I need to be the cricket user, so I tried to su - cricket. I was told that this user was not avaialble. Looking in /etc/passwd. I found that this users shell was listed as /usr/sbin/nologin. I edited /etc/paswd to change this to /nin/sh, but I still get the smae error message when I try to su to that user. What do I need to change to be able to su to this suer, and might this be the reason tha it's crontab entry is notbeing run? Try: # su -m cricket although the best way to examine and/or modify that user's crontab is: # crontab -e -u cricket OK, I was able to execute the cricket collector caoomand bu using the su - format, and it ran corectly. Cany anyone sugest what to check to see why cron is not executing this command? I see no evidence of it's running in either the cricket logs' or cron's logs. Thanks. Repkying to my own message again :-( OK, I found in the cron man page the following: Before running a command from a per-account crontab file, cron checks the status of the account with pam(3) and skips the command if the account is unavailable, e.g., locked out or expired. So, now the question is, how do I unlock that user? This gets strnager. I found the pw cammand, which should do thatm but: pnoc# pw unlock cricket pw: user 'cricket' is not locked So, how come: pnoc# su - cricket This account is currently not available. Cause cricket doesn't have a valid home directory. However, you can simply copy the /var/cron/tabs/cricket to /tmp. Remove the time colums, then run: su -m cricket /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/nonexistent PATH=/bin:/usr/bin \ /bin/sh /tmp/cricket That's the best approximation of how cron runs the commands. If you don't see anything in the cron logs however, it may be an issue with the timestamps specified not yielding any runs. Then it would help to see the actual crontab file. -- Mel ___ 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: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD
On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:42:28 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:22:43PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:41:07 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:33:35AM -0400, stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0400, stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:43:15PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:48:57AM -0400, stan wrote: I have inherited a system that uses Cricket on FreeBSD to do some data collection. I have set this up myself in the distnat past, but this time I asked a contractor to set it up. I no longer have access to this contractor, and the toher day, we shut down the system this was running on, and when we rebooted the system, cricket id not resume collecting data. I don't see anyhting in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start it up, nor do I see anything in /etc/crontag. I don't seen any processes owned by cricket running. In FreeBSD, how is this process noramally invoked? Sorry to reply to my own message, but I have more data. I did find -rw--- 1 root wheel 288 Jan 12 2009 /var/cron/tabs/cricke Which is, I am failry certain, what is _intended_ to invoke the cricket process. However, acording to the cricket logs, the last time I have an entry is Aug 29th, which was when the machine was shut down. So, I decided to try running this command by hand. Now, to do so I need to be the cricket user, so I tried to su - cricket. I was told that this user was not avaialble. Looking in /etc/passwd. I found that this users shell was listed as /usr/sbin/nologin. I edited /etc/paswd to change this to /nin/sh, but I still get the smae error message when I try to su to that user. What do I need to change to be able to su to this suer, and might this be the reason tha it's crontab entry is notbeing run? Try: # su -m cricket although the best way to examine and/or modify that user's crontab is: # crontab -e -u cricket OK, I was able to execute the cricket collector caoomand bu using the su - format, and it ran corectly. Cany anyone sugest what to check to see why cron is not executing this command? I see no evidence of it's running in either the cricket logs' or cron's logs. Thanks. Repkying to my own message again :-( OK, I found in the cron man page the following: Before running a command from a per-account crontab file, cron checks the status of the account with pam(3) and skips the command if the account is unavailable, e.g., locked out or expired. So, now the question is, how do I unlock that user? This gets strnager. I found the pw cammand, which should do thatm but: pnoc# pw unlock cricket pw: user 'cricket' is not locked So, how come: pnoc# su - cricket This account is currently not available. Cause cricket doesn't have a valid home directory. However, you can simply copy the /var/cron/tabs/cricket to /tmp. Remove the time colums, then run: su -m cricket /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/nonexistent PATH=/bin:/usr/bin \ /bin/sh /tmp/cricket That's the best approximation of how cron runs the commands. If you don't see anything in the cron logs however, it may be an issue with the timestamps specified not yielding any runs. Then it would help to see the actual crontab file. Hmm, but I think it does : pnoc# grep cricket /etc/passwd cricket:*:141:80:Cricket Monitoring User:/usr/local/cricket:/usr/sbin/nologin /usr/sbin/nologin. I guess you edited master.passwd and didn't use the proper tools (vipw or run pwd_mkdb after using a plain editor). As far as cron logs, I am _now_ gettting an entry that looks like cron is executing the collector: Sep 3 10:40:00 pnoc /usr/sbin/cron[80979]: (cricket) CMD (/usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees normal) But, still not getting anything in cricket's logs: ls: No match. pnoc# ls -l /usr/local/cricket/*logs total 2812 -rw-r--r-- 1 cricket www 74098 Sep 3 09:17 normal.0 The 9:17 time is from a manual run of the collector. I must admit, I am not certain waht to check next. Run: su -m cricket /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/usr/local/cricket PATH=/bin:/usr/bin /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees normal Then check output. -- Mel ___ 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: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD
On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:42:57 Jerry wrote: Something appears to be broken. You might try a new installation. Please.wipe and reload is only common in broken OS implementations and certainly problems with a task scheduler rarely (if ever) call for extremities like this, nor does it provide any guarantee the problem will be solved by it. -- Mel ___ 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: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD
On Thursday 03 September 2009 17:44:53 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:31:45PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:42:28 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:22:43PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:41:07 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:33:35AM -0400, stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0400, stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:43:15PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:48:57AM -0400, stan wrote: I have inherited a system that uses Cricket on FreeBSD to do some data collection. I have set this up myself in the distnat past, but this time I asked a contractor to set it up. I no longer have access to this contractor, and the toher day, we shut down the system this was running on, and when we rebooted the system, cricket id not resume collecting data. I don't see anyhting in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start it up, nor do I see anything in /etc/crontag. I don't seen any processes owned by cricket running. In FreeBSD, how is this process noramally invoked? Sorry to reply to my own message, but I have more data. I did find -rw--- 1 root wheel 288 Jan 12 2009 /var/cron/tabs/cricke Which is, I am failry certain, what is _intended_ to invoke the cricket process. However, acording to the cricket logs, the last time I have an entry is Aug 29th, which was when the machine was shut down. So, I decided to try running this command by hand. Now, to do so I need to be the cricket user, so I tried to su - cricket. I was told that this user was not avaialble. Looking in /etc/passwd. I found that this users shell was listed as /usr/sbin/nologin. I edited /etc/paswd to change this to /nin/sh, but I still get the smae error message when I try to su to that user. What do I need to change to be able to su to this suer, and might this be the reason tha it's crontab entry is notbeing run? Try: # su -m cricket although the best way to examine and/or modify that user's crontab is: # crontab -e -u cricket OK, I was able to execute the cricket collector caoomand bu using the su - format, and it ran corectly. Cany anyone sugest what to check to see why cron is not executing this command? I see no evidence of it's running in either the cricket logs' or cron's logs. Thanks. Repkying to my own message again :-( OK, I found in the cron man page the following: Before running a command from a per-account crontab file, cron checks the status of the account with pam(3) and skips the command if the account is unavailable, e.g., locked out or expired. So, now the question is, how do I unlock that user? This gets strnager. I found the pw cammand, which should do thatm but: pnoc# pw unlock cricket pw: user 'cricket' is not locked So, how come: pnoc# su - cricket This account is currently not available. Cause cricket doesn't have a valid home directory. However, you can simply copy the /var/cron/tabs/cricket to /tmp. Remove the time colums, then run: su -m cricket /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/nonexistent PATH=/bin:/usr/bin \ /bin/sh /tmp/cricket That's the best approximation of how cron runs the commands. If you don't see anything in the cron logs however, it may be an issue with the timestamps specified not yielding any runs. Then it would help to see the actual crontab file. Hmm, but I think it does : pnoc# grep cricket /etc/passwd cricket:*:141:80:Cricket Monitoring User:/usr/local/cricket:/usr/sbin/nologin /usr/sbin/nologin. I guess you edited master.passwd and didn't use the proper tools (vipw or run pwd_mkdb after using a plain editor). As far as cron logs, I am _now_ gettting an entry that looks like cron is executing the collector: Sep 3 10:40:00 pnoc /usr/sbin/cron[80979]: (cricket) CMD (/usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees normal) But, still not getting anything in cricket's logs: ls: No match. pnoc# ls -l /usr/local/cricket/*logs total 2812 -rw-r--r-- 1 cricket www 74098 Sep 3 09:17 normal.0 The 9:17 time is from a manual run of the collector. I must admit, I am not certain waht to check next. Run: su -m cricket /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/usr/local/cricket PATH=/bin:/usr/bin /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees normal OK, this is just slightly over my head, so let me be very
Re: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD
On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:02:41 stan wrote: pnoc# cat collect-subtrees #!/bin/sh echo STARTED /tmp/stan which perl /tmp/stan /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal /tmp/stan echo Done /tmp/stan /tmp stan contains: pnoc# cat /tmp/stan STARTED /usr/bin/perl Done STARTED /usr/bin/perl Done So, cron is invoking the correct command, and perl can be found, but the original collect_subtrees perl script silently dies. I am convinced it's an environemt probkl`lem, I am just uncertain how to determine what. I'm not anymore. I'm putting 1 cent on a broken /usr/bin/perl symlink (perl upgrade gone bonkers, f.e. done with ro mounted /usr) and another cent on the perl script using system() function, with pathless commands (that is environment). file /usr/bin/perl should report if the symlink is broken. -- Mel ___ 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: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:23:47 stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:10:13PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:02:41 stan wrote: pnoc# cat collect-subtrees #!/bin/sh echo STARTED /tmp/stan which perl /tmp/stan /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal /tmp/stan echo Done /tmp/stan /tmp stan contains: pnoc# cat /tmp/stan STARTED /usr/bin/perl Done STARTED /usr/bin/perl Done So, cron is invoking the correct command, and perl can be found, but the original collect_subtrees perl script silently dies. I am convinced it's an environemt probkl`lem, I am just uncertain how to determine what. I'm not anymore. I'm putting 1 cent on a broken /usr/bin/perl symlink (perl upgrade gone bonkers, f.e. done with ro mounted /usr) and another cent on the perl script using system() function, with pathless commands (that is environment). Ok, one liner: su -m cricket env -i HOME=/usr/local/cricket PATH=/bin:/usr/bin \ /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal I've downloaded the 1.0.5 version, but can't quickly see where that would go wrong with this script. touch is in /usr/bin, so that should work. Any cron messages in /var/mail/cricket? -- Mel ___ 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: 'alias' + sudo
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 13:26:59 Jerry wrote: I have set up several 'alias' definitions in my .bashrc file. They are honored when run as either a regular user or as root. However, when I prefix a command with 'sudo', the alias is no longer honored. In other words, the actual command is run;however, any flags that I was passing to it via 'alias' are lost. How can I circumvent this annoyance. Example, I often use 'pico' from within 'xterm'. I set up an alias that causes pico to use the mouse; i.e., pico -m which works fine as long as I do not prefix the command with 'sudo' alias spico='/usr/local/bin/sudo pico -m' and be done with it. -- Mel ___ 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: Reverse Proxy /Proxy Pass
On Friday 04 September 2009 01:20:46 Agus wrote: What server, application do u know/recommend me for using as a ProxyPass / Reverse Proxy... The idea is to forward all requests to port 80 to this server and then from here according to the vhost send it to the actual server... For now i only need proxying.. dont think cacheing will be possible so im just looking for a pretty fast, light and stable app to do this on a freebsd 7... Thanks and ihope to hear some cool recommendations.. hehe If lightweight, go with www/nginx. Features, go with www/squid or apache+mod_proxy. -- Mel ___ 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: 'alias' + sudo
On Friday 04 September 2009 02:10:36 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:34:05 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: alias spico='/usr/local/bin/sudo pico -m' and be done with it. That is what I am currently doing; however,there are other commands that I want to use that are not available when used via sudo without modifying the alias. I did not realize that sudo had such a limitation. It doesn't. alias has the limitation. As far as alias is concerned, a command is the first thing on the command line, and for good reason, as you don't want it to look further along the command line and attempt to expand everything. So the shell only changes the command that is really run, when the first word matches an alias. Sudo or any app for that matter, never knew it was run through an alias. However.reading through the bash manpage: If the last character of the alias value is a blank, then the next command word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion. So.: $ alias sudo='/usr/local/bin/sudo ' $ alias pico='vim --version' $ sudo pico VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Jul 21 2009 13:22:46) Included patches: 1-6, 8-35, 37-48, 50-70, 73, 75-87, 90-92, 94-100, 102-137, 139-149, 151-171, 173-190, 192-193, 195-203, 206-209 Howeverbe aware of the consequences. If someone compromises your account, then setting: alias ls='/tmp/mkroot' and you running: sudo ls He just got root. -- Mel ___ 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: memory usage displsy
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 23:19:23 Michael David Crawford wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets near the by now 3G plus memory shown as Active. Maybe one gig is accounted for, I'm not that familiar with FreeBSD yet, but the kernel uses memory which might not be charged against any process. For example, to map some virtual memory requires memory to store the mappings in. Open files have kernel structures, as do filesystems. If top or ps were only to show userspace memory allocations, then you're right, a lot of memory would be unaccounted for. It doesn't for the Active to Free states. For individual processes, everything is shown that the process allocates. So for a file descriptor, an int would be allocated, where the kernel holds the real info. This is one cause for filled Active memory: a process polling multiple file descriptors, like a File Alteration Monitor under current desktops. The other, as Dan Nelson described, is file cache. If you want to be sure it's this, then reboot the machine and run: /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid You should see memory usage going up. If this causes a performance problem (i.e. You sometimes are subject to heavily increasing loads on a mailserver, that causes a lot of forks and file cache memory isn't unloaded fast enough), then you should either disable the security check or properly seperate data from binaries using partitions and mount data partitions with nosuid/noexec, so that these are omitted from the daily checks. -- Mel ___ 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: A question for developers
On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: Manish Jain wrote: You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours through vim's rc files. Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the console. The constructs are named differently: ctermfg, cterm etc. The default however uses bright yellow and very light blue for many things, which doesn't appear well on my white console. If you have a set bg=dark line in .vimrc, remove it. or explicitly set bg=light. -- Mel ___ 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: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot
On Friday 21 August 2009 07:34:11 Scott Schappell wrote: Looking at info.0 I see: Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 155131904B (147 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Fri Aug 21 08:27:45 2009 Hostname: arthur.silvertree.org Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 #1: Fri Aug 14 13:27:47 PDT 2009 r...@arthur.silvertree.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARTHUR Panic String: ffs_sync: rofs mod Dump Parity: 2778312054 Bounds: 0 Dump Status: good This is interesting: Panic String: ffs_sync: rofs mod It looks I'm guessing this is saying read only file system modified. So it looks like the problem is with mount? If there's anything you want me to pull from the vmcore.0 let me know. Again, this happens with the drive mounted RO from fstab. Unmounted then mount -o rw /backup. Something is amiss, and first blush doesn't seem to be hardware related. There should be a backtrace in info.0 already. That part contains more relevant information. -- Mel ___ 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: switching from one network interface to another without reboot
On Thursday 20 August 2009 03:25:17 Michal wrote: Problem description: I've got a laptop with two network interfaces (wired em0 and wireless ath0). Every now and then I have to set up a DSL wireless box which comes with default settings so that I have to start with connecting my laptop via em0. em0 gets IP address from wireless box by DHCP. I log in to web interface and set everything up including WLAN and restart wireless box. At this point I would like to switch to ath0 and start using internet connection via wireless box. I'm taking em0 interface down with ifconfig em0 down and unplug the cable. I'm changing /etc/rc.conf entries to: ifconfig_em0=NOAUTO ifconfig_ath0=WPA DHCP Then I'm doing /etc/rc.d/netif restart and ath0 gets IP address via DHCP and is connected to wireless box (/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is set up). If these are on the same network (like most wireless routers), it can pay off to use lagg(4) and then simply unplug the cable. Plug it back in and it will use the cable again. You would need: cloned_interfaces=lagg0 ifconfig_em0=UP ifconfig_ath0=ether 00:xx:xx:xx WPA # set to MAC address of em0 ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport ath0 DHCP -- Mel ___ 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: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 12:11:10 Tim Judd wrote: On 8/18/09, Scott Schappell arc...@silvertree.org wrote: I have a drive (/dev/ad2s1d) mounted to /backup that I want to be read only until the backup scripts run and then it will be read/write. If I set /etc/fstab to: /dev/ad2s1d /backup ufs ro 0 0 On my CF-based devices (firewalls.. nagios boxes, etc), I run: mount -uw / to update the mount (not mount again) the filesystem. If you're trying to mount again, I could understand why the box panics. I don't. It's perfectly valid to mount a device multiple times and on the same node even. Certainly unmounting then remounting should not panic the system. If you keep getting this panic, please try and obtain a crash dump, though I suspect this to be driver or hardware related as I can't imagine such a bug has slipped into vfs/ufs. -- Mel ___ 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: shell power in rc.conf
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 07:00:08 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 18), Artis Caune said: Is there any reason of not using shell variables in rc.conf? I want to tune rc.conf for easy editing and administration. Take for example jail_list or cloned_interfaces with 10+ entries: Remember that every startup script sources rc.conf, sometimes very early or late in the startup/shutdown sequence, so just make sure you don't echo anything to stdout/stderr or try to run commands that might be on filesystems that aren't mounted yet, and you should be fine. In this particular example, you're fine. In general, you should also take care that /etc/defaults/rc.conf is read before /etc/rc.conf and may set values for variables you have not specified. Defaults can also change between releases, so one should inspect /etc/defaults/rc.conf during mergemaster stage with a microscope. -- Mel ___ 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: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot
On Thursday 20 August 2009 15:00:48 Scott Schappell wrote: On Aug 20, 2009, at 15:42:05, Mel Flynn wrote: I don't. It's perfectly valid to mount a device multiple times and on the same node even. Certainly unmounting then remounting should not panic the system. If you keep getting this panic, please try and obtain a crash dump, though I suspect this to be driver or hardware related as I can't imagine such a bug has slipped into vfs/ufs. -- Mel Since using the mount -r syntax, it hasn't crashed once. How does one obtain a crash dump? I'll be happy to force the system to hork and send a crash log. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html -- Mel ___ 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: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot
On Thursday 20 August 2009 18:40:27 Scott Schappell wrote: On 8/20/2009 7:36 PM, Scott Schappell wrote: On 8/20/2009 4:31 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ker neldebug.html OK, /backup was mounted read only, I did the following umount /backup mount -o rw /backup [r...@arthur ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/backup/testfile bs=1024 dd: /backup/testfile: end of device 21122+0 records in 21121+0 records out 21627904 bytes transferred in 2.215991 secs (9759924 bytes/sec) [r...@arthur ~]# As of now, the dd command above has not crashed and it's past 3 GiB, using the mount -u -w syntax versus unmount, mount -o rw. This is puzzling. I agree. These errors make no sense to me, which leads me to drive cable or physical memory problems, perhaps filesystem corruption. Since you have plenty of space on /home, is it possible for you to move whatever's on /backup to /home, then newfs /backup? Of course you could try fsck -y /backup in single user, but with these weird errors, I trust the filesystem on that disk as far as I can throw it. -- Mel ___ 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: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
On Thursday 20 August 2009 18:44:12 Stew Houston wrote: Setting up a chroot jail I accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 instead of copying it. Bash would no longer take any commands, though I can't remember the error I was getting (it was aborting.) I rebooted, hoping I could do something in Single User Mode; but to no avail. Is there a way I can undo this blunder? /rescue/mv /path/to/jail/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /libexec/ -- Mel ___ 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: bwi driver
On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. -- Mel ___ 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 mode (live CD): can't find /etc/rc.conf
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 21:58:05 Nerius Landys wrote: By convention /etc should be on ad0s1a. If it's not, but /boot is there, you may need to fsck. Yeah, When I tired to mount ad0s1a, it gave me something like permission denied or bad superblock. How do I fix this with fsck from the live CD? fsck_ffs -p /dev/ad0s1a -- Mel ___ 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: df -k vs. du -s
On Thursday 13 August 2009 12:37:00 Don O'Neil wrote: My /var partition is showing a different value for a df -k on the file system vs a du -s on the file system: FAQ. Search = good(tm). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF -- Mel ___ 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: Kernel panic
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 08:01:07 Коньков Евгений wrote: Aug 12 15:59:08 host savecore: reboot after panic: integer divide fault Aug 12 15:59:08 host savecore: writing core to vmcore.4 How to obtain which process cause system to reboot? kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.4 -- Mel ___ 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: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 18:16:20 Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On August 12, 2009 8:18:55 PM -0500 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
When I run
;
portaudit -a
Affected package: firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1
Type of problem: mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities.
Reference:
http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/49e8f2ee-8147-11de-a994-0030843d3802.html
but when I check above site I found:
Affects:
firefox 3.*,1
Given the above, it should be affected. Reading the original documents it
doesn't show. And I can't find anywhere that firefox 2 is End of Life.
firefox 3.*,1 3.0.13,1
firefox 3.5.*,1 3.5.2,1
linux-firefox 3.*,1
linux-firefox 3.*,1 3.0.13,1
linux-firefox 3.5.*,1 3.5.2,1
linux-firefox-devel 3.5.2
seamonkey 0
linux-seamonkey 0
linux-seamonkey-devel 0
thunderbird 0
linux-thunderbird 0
Are problem with firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 or not, please.
That port should probably be removed. It's ancient.
If that's ancient, you should do a find /usr/ports -name Makefile -exec ident
{} +|grep ' 200[67]/'.
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Re: Fixit mode (live CD): can't find /etc/rc.conf
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 21:07:30 Nerius Landys wrote: On my recently updated (as in world+ports are up-to-date) FreeBSD 6.4 box i tried to get Xorg running, and after building Xorg from ports and enabling hald and dbus in rc.conf, I get: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode This happens when I boot. Now I'm trying to not start hald and dbus in rc.conf (I think that's what's causing the kernel problem). So I am using the installation CD and going into fixit mode. The problem is that I can't find rc.conf to edit. In /dev: ad0 ad0s1 ad0s1a By convention /etc should be on ad0s1a. If it's not, but /boot is there, you may need to fsck. -- Mel ___ 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: Error code 254
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: === Installing documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. === Installing examples in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. *** Error code 254 What is Error code 254 ? A program returning -2 to the shell. Is that useful info? No. Run make -dl install to see what goes wrong. -- Mel ___ 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: Don't let mergemaster beat you down [was Re: Failed update]
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 05:23:28 Arthur Chance wrote: Wayne Sierke wrote: I lost practically all of my 'mergemaster pain' when I adopted the habit of using it with -iUP options: -i Automatically install any files that do not exist in the des- tination directory. -P Preserve files that you replace in /var/tmp/mergemaster/preserved-files-date, or another directory you specify in your mergemaster rc file. -U Attempt to auto upgrade files that have not been user modi- fied. How does -U compare to -F? I've found that saves a lot of tedium. -U saves a lot on major version upgrades as that tends to have a lot of changes in /etc/rc.*, something most of us don't touch by hand. However, the feature depends on having a fingerprint of the files, so that mergemaster can determine if you changed the file. Before using the feature and before upgrading it's therefore recommended to do a dry run so that the file (/var/db/mergemaster.mtree) is created. -- Mel ___ 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: Error code 254
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 08:53:59 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: === Installing documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. === Installing examples in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. *** Error code 254 What is Error code 254 ? A program returning -2 to the shell. Is that useful info? No. Run make -dl install to see what goes wrong. is this useful? /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/pear/packages/pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0 install -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/ports/devel/pear-XML_Serializer/work/package.xml /usr/local/share/pear/packages/pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0 /usr/bin/env PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local /bin/sh /usr/ports/devel/pear/pear-install pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0 POST-INSTALL *** Error code 254 Yes, the post install script fails. Which means the command: /usr/local/bin/pear install -r -n -f \ /usr/local/share/pear/packages/pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0/package.xml fails. Why, I don't know, perhaps you can add -v to the above command and see if anything useful is printed. In the meantime, I'll try to reproduce it. -- Mel ___ 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: Error code 254
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 09:27:06 Mel Flynn wrote:
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 08:53:59 Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
Mel Flynn wrote:
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
=== Installing documentation in
/usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. === Installing tests in
/usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. === Installing examples
in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. *** Error code 254
...
In the meantime, I'll try to reproduce it.
Which I can't. Patch below adds -v at the correct spot.
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Index: devel/pear/pear-install
===
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/devel/pear/pear-install,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 pear-install
--- devel/pear/pear-install 9 Dec 2005 18:58:03 - 1.1
+++ devel/pear/pear-install 11 Aug 2009 17:42:03 -
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
[ x$1 = x ] exit 1
if [ x$2 = xPOST-INSTALL ]; then
- ${PEAR} install -r -n -f ${PKGREGDIR}/package.xml
+ ${PEAR} -v install -r -n -f ${PKGREGDIR}/package.xml
fi
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Re: Error code 254
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:53:21 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 09:27:06 Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 08:53:59 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: === Installing documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. === Installing examples in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. *** Error code 254 ... In the meantime, I'll try to reproduce it. Which I can't. Patch below adds -v at the correct spot. Unfortunately that did not add much, the error looks exacktly as before, no change. I welcome more suggestions of course. (7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 10 23:50:08 CEST 2009) Well, it's hard if I can't reproduce it. Can you show the output of: make -C /usr/ports/devel/pear-XML_Serializer actual-package-depends -- Mel ___ 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: Error code 254
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:20:00 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:53:21 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 09:27:06 Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 08:53:59 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: === Installing documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. === Installing examples in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. *** Error code 254 ... In the meantime, I'll try to reproduce it. Which I can't. Patch below adds -v at the correct spot. Unfortunately that did not add much, the error looks exacktly as before, no change. I welcome more suggestions of course. (7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 10 23:50:08 CEST 2009) Well, it's hard if I can't reproduce it. Can you show the output of: make -C /usr/ports/devel/pear-XML_Serializer actual-package-depends I tried to locate the docs for pear, in particular the switches, but failed. Even at pear.php.net/manual I could not find them, are they installed on my system somewhere? pear help pear help options pear help commands -- Mel ___ 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: Error code 254
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:56:40 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:20:00 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:53:21 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 09:27:06 Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 08:53:59 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: === Installing documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. === Installing examples in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. *** Error code 254 Hmmm, when I try portupgrade -fO pear the error pops up here too. Should I suspect the package database then? === Installing for pear-1.8.1 === pear-1.8.1 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found === pear-1.8.1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/pcre.so - found === pear-1.8.1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/xml.so - found === Generating temporary packing list *** Error code 254 Is it really at that point? Could you try a make -dl install again? If it's the package list generation for real, then I'm gonna suspect something on a system level, like IO errors or read-only mounts. If it is the same thing with pear install command, then perhaps you should pkg_delete -r pear-1.8.1 (careful, will uninstall anything depending on pear) and start over to see if the error persists. The pear command sure can use some more verbosity then. -- Mel ___ 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: A question for developers
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:46:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: but may be handy until I become more fluent, as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. terminal emulation fault. stty erase ctrl-vctrl-h should fix it, on the shell that is. -- Mel ___ 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: vsftpd with ssl
On Monday 10 August 2009 10:59:34 Stefan Miklosovic wrote: Hi there, I am installing vsftpd server with ssl. It seems it works good, BUT *~:*ftp-tls notebook Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. 220 Welcome to miniBSD service. 234 Proceed with negotiation. [Starting SSL/TLS negotiation...] WARNING: Server's certificate issuer's certificate isn't available locally. This is an ftp-tls error, not vsftpd. It took some searching through OpenSSL sources, cause half of the manpages aren't available, but the certificate should be in /etc/ssl on the connecting machine. The error above is the same as described in the verify(1) manpage for OpenSSL: 2 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT: unable to get issuer certifi- cate the issuer certificate could not be found: this occurs if the issuer certificate of an untrusted certificate cannot be found. The verify(1) manpage also describes how to store your trusted certificates in there, though it doesn't contain too much info. Perhaps this guide will help you: http://gagravarr.org/writing/openssl-certs/others.shtml#ca-openssl -- Mel ___ 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: Backup Size
On Monday 10 August 2009 18:24:19 Jay Hall wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Roland Smith wrote: The fact that you are using tar also plays a part. Tar has some overhead to store information about the files it contains. Is it possible to calculate the amount of overhead tar will use? Difficult. 512 bytes per entry + 1024 (EOF). See man 5 tar. But since files will be padded there is some extra overhead. Also, it is hard to calculate hard links and sparse files. Tar will handle these correctly (i.e. preserve hard links and detect sparse files and try not archive blocks of nulls) but it is hard to calculate the size because of this before the archive operation because of this. -- Mel ___ 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
