from:"Robert Fitzpatrick"

Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following
error...

/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action':
/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to
integer of different size
*** Error code 1

I removed the PAE option keeping my SMP option in the kernel
configuration for this dual proc server and it builds fine. Any idea
what I can do for this error?

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Re: Error with kernel PAE option

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:43 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
  Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following
  error...
 
  /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action':
  /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to
  integer of different size
  *** Error code 1
 
  I removed the PAE option keeping my SMP option in the kernel
  configuration for this dual proc server and it builds fine. Any idea
  what I can do for this error?
 

 Have a look at:
 
  /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PAE
 
 Is the device that is causing the problem listed with a nodevice entry?
 I guess in your case, it is the adv device, and it is listed. This 
 means it does not work with a PAE kernel.

Thanks, yes, I have nodevice in the PAE file for adv. What does this
mean and/or how can I address this problem? Should I just remove the
entry from the PAE file?
 
 
 How about going with the 64bit version of FreeBSD?

That was my first try, but the CPU appears not to support amd64 as there
are no AMD Features listed in dmesg.

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Re: Error with kernel PAE option

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:30 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
 Is it a 64bit CPU? The AMD64 version of FreeBSD supports the Intel
 64bit 
 (Core2 / Quad / Xeon / Pentium 4 / Pentium D) processors as well, 
 regardless of the AMD in its name.

It is an Intel Xeon 2.4GHz processor, but I was told yesterday here on
the list that if LM does not appear in the AMD Features line of dmesg,
then it does not support amd64. I looked at another server we have here
now running amd64 FreeBSD and I see the AMD Features line with LM, but
on this server, no AMD Features line whatsoever. I am getting 'BTX
halted' when trying to install FreeBSD-amd64 on this server. The other
server we have running it has Xeon 3.0GHz procs, I thought that was
kinda weird that the two servers were really close in spec, but one
would not run amd64 :/

This would be my preferred option if I can get it to install.

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Re: page fault while in kernel mode

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
 Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines 
 in /sys/i386/conf/PAE).  You'll need to purge those drivers from your
 config.  
 If you are using the hardware those drivers support, then you can't
 use PAE.

Thanks for the help. Excuse the ignorance, I'm more a programmer than
system guy. How do I purge a driver, or know which driver to look for,
from the config and know what the driver supports? Do you mean, in this
case, remove 'nodevice adv' from the PAE file? If so, I don't know what
that supports :/

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Re: page fault while in kernel mode

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 The drivers which don't work are listed in the /sys/i386/conf/PAE
 file.  They're prefixed by the word nodevice, which tells the
 kernel config reader DO NOT build this device, because it won't
 work.
 
 You will need to take the nodevice lines from /sys/i386/conf/PAE and
 put them into your kernel config file.  (There are alternative methods
 such as using include directives and so on, but I'm trying to keep
 this explanation simple.)
 
 Make sense now?  :-)

Perfect sense now, believe it or not I was beginning to think along
these lines as I was doing some searching and found 'device adv' in my
config file and there was a description of the hardware it was for,
which I don't have. Thanks for the clarification, now let's see if I can
get this build done...thanks to all!

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Re: page fault while in kernel mode

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
 Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your
 kernel 
 config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom.  You
 can 
 usually do 'man 4 driver name' to see what devices it supports.  In
 this 
 case, adv(4) supports mostly ancient Advansys SCSI host adapters.
 The 
 manpage has a full list of the various model numbers, etc.

Yes, that is what I thought. Right now, I am just commenting them out,
now I know what people mean when they say they are running a
trimmed/clean kernel.

I did see one potential issue...

# USB support
device  uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface
device  ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface
device  ehci# EHCI PCI-USB interface (USB 2.0)
device  usb # USB Bus (required)

I see all of these with nodevice lines in the PAE file. Although I have
USB ports, I don't use them, but I was concerned by the 'required' on
the last one, is it OK to remove? Also, would I then need to disable USB
in the BIOS to avoid errors?

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Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
  I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to
  RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after
  flashing the latest bios and firmware for the raid card, Intel SRCZCR,
  in this dual Xeon 2.4GHz supermicro superserver. I have another server,
  bit newer, but same basic hardware makeup with Xeon 3.0 procs that runs
  6.1-amd64 fine. Anyway, so I have resorted to the i386 version of 7.0 to
  see if the server is just incapable of running amd64, which after
  passing the initial boot where amd64 failed, now gives me the subject
  error after some reference to GEOM_LABEL. I did rebuild the RAID to
  RAID-10, can someone tell me what this error means?
  
  http://columbus.webtent.org/freebsd.png
 
 Can you please try 7.1-BETA2 instead (ISOs are now available)?  There
 have been fixes/improvements to BTX since 7.0-RELEASE which could fix
 your problem.
 

Thanks, but that didn't work either trying 7.1-BETA2 amd64 :(

Forgot to mention I added memory to this server as well, took it from
2GB it was using under 5.4-RELEASE up to 6GB filling all slots, that is
why I wanted to load amd64. I reduced down to 4GB and now am able to
install 7.0-RELEASE i386. Does this mean that I may have a hardware
issue or can FreeBSD produce the page fault I was getting when using
over 4GB with i386? I would love to figure out this BTX halted issue
instead...any ideas on that?

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Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
  i386 cannot address more than 4GB unless the kernel is built with
 PAE
  mode enabled.  This isn't enabled in GENERIC for many (justified)
  reasons.  If you have more than 4GB, you should be using amd64, so
 you
  made the right decision there.
 
 If you aren't using kernel modules, then PAE should work fine.  You
 can make 
 kernel modules work with PAE as well, but that takes more work.

Thanks for the help, I am missing AMD Features for this CPU in dmesg, so
it looks like the CPU does not support amd64. I tried to build my own
kernel with PAE option and getting the following error...

/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action':
/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to
integer of different size
*** Error code 1

Any idea what I can do for this error?

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page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to
RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after
flashing the latest bios and firmware for the raid card, Intel SRCZCR,
in this dual Xeon 2.4GHz supermicro superserver. I have another server,
bit newer, but same basic hardware makeup with Xeon 3.0 procs that runs
6.1-amd64 fine. Anyway, so I have resorted to the i386 version of 7.0 to
see if the server is just incapable of running amd64, which after
passing the initial boot where amd64 failed, now gives me the subject
error after some reference to GEOM_LABEL. I did rebuild the RAID to
RAID-10, can someone tell me what this error means?

http://columbus.webtent.org/freebsd.png

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page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to
RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after
flashing the latest bios and firmware for the raid card, Intel SRCZCR,
in this dual Xeon 2.4GHz supermicro superserver. I have another server,
bit newer, but same basic hardware makeup with Xeon 3.0 procs that runs
6.1-amd64 fine. Anyway, so I have resorted to the i386 version of 7.0 to
see if the server is just incapable of running amd64, which after
passing the initial boot where amd64 failed, now gives me the subject
error after some reference to GEOM_LABEL. I did rebuild the RAID to
RAID-10, can someone tell me what this error means?

http://columbus.webtent.org/freebsd.png

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Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at...

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html

I ran the install a second time and it completed before the next to the
last step including 'portupgrade -af' was completed. I went back and ran
the next to the last step, but still, all my packages complain of
missing shared libraries. Is there any way to get everything rebuilt,
saving me a complete reinstall? Fortunately, I am doing this on a test
box.

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Re: Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:09 +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
  I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at...
 
  http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html
 
  I ran the install a second time and it completed before the next to the
  last step including 'portupgrade -af' was completed. I went back and ran
  the next to the last step, but still, all my packages complain of
  missing shared libraries. Is there any way to get everything rebuilt,
  saving me a complete reinstall? Fortunately, I am doing this on a test
  box.
 

 Try installing misc/compat6x as a stopgap?
 

Sweet! Thank you very much, all services started. Now, how do I proceed
with my upgrade to 7.0? Do I just rebuild all now and it will update to
the 7.0 libraries and then how to undo COMPAT_FREEBSD6?

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PostgreSQL debugging

2008-05-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I installed from the ports system postgresql83-server WITH_DEBUG=true 
and cannot find any of the associated files after install. The pgsql 
list said the plugin_debugger.so file should be in my lib directory and 
the script to setup debugging on a db should be in the share directory. 
I have looked in /usr/local/share/postgresql and 
/usr/local/lib/postgresql, even tried updating my locate db and using 
locate to find, but neither file found anywhere. I checked 
/var/db/ports/postgresql83/options and see the WITH_DEBUG option was set 
during the build. I built again and cannot even find the 
README.debugging in the doc directory under the build.


What can I do to get debugging support?

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slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and
pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf
present, it just hangs and nothing in the messages or debug logs. I just
copied ldap.conf to nss_ldap.conf, see contents below. As soon as I rm
the nss_ldap.conf file, slapd starts without delay, but of course, our
logins, etc. do not work until I re-create the file or symlink to
ldap.conf afterward...

host 127.0.0.1
base dc=example,dc=com
binddn cn=manager,dc=example,dc=com
bindpw secret
nss_base_passwd ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?one
nss_base_shadow ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?one
nss_base_group  ou=group,dc=example,dc=com?one

I have verified all the above to work with simple binds and all is fine
after slapd is started and nss_ldap.conf is in place. I have openldap
working with postfix and cyrus-imapd a long time on this box and now
using with samba for file shares, but have this issue with nss_ldap.conf
and trying to smooth out my boot process. Can someone suggest a solution
or point me to some info for help?

I am also have a hard time getting slapd to start early on boot. I am
using the port install built WITH_RCORDER=yes, but it still starts near
the end of the boot. Is there something more that I need to do and
somewhere to check that WITH_RCORDER=yes in make.conf was applied during
build? Any suggestion from someone experienced would be appreciated.

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Re: slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:44 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
 On Friday 09 May 2008 14:36, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
  On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and
  pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf
  present, it just hangs and nothing in the messages or debug logs. I just
  copied ldap.conf to nss_ldap.conf, see contents below.
 
 So, to start slapd, the system needs the group info for user ldap - from 
 slapd. It times out and retries a few times, and eventually starts slapd 
 using the group information from /etc/passwd and /etc/group, but the timeout 
 and retry options by default take several minutes.
 

Seems my core problem is something wrong with the openldap setup on that
box. I had taken the slave ldap server up to 2.3.41 and it was not
having this slapd/nss_ldap startup problem. I don't know if it is bad
with a synrepl slave earlier version that the master, but I just didn't
want to mess with the master until it proved OK and all seems perfectly
great on the slave except my boot order issue

Thanks for the response, and yes, the openldap list owner finally
rejected my message and gave me the pointer to start slapd with the
owner and group by id instead of name. After reading the start script to
get the owner and group by id in the rc.conf file, I am now starting the
process in that way. While doing that I realize that I can handle boot
order by name of the file and gave it a prefix of 001. I will test my
changes tomorrow when I go on site to replace a UPS. If all goes well on
the slave, I'll upgrade the master and see if my pesky nss_ldap issue
goes away. And, yes, I was only waiting the length of time it normally
took when the nss_ldap.conf file was missing, few seconds max.

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compiling kernel with PAE

2008-01-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

Getting an error when trying to compile a kernel on 5.4 and 6.2 with the
PAE option. I've tried NO_MODULES in make.conf as well...

se2 -ffreestanding -Werror  /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function `adv_action':
/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:260: warning: cast from pointer to integer 
of different size
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEBTENT.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.

This is a custom kernel build with the QUOTA option, I take out the PAE
option and all makes fine. I did a src-all update with RELENG_VER tag
prior to building. I assume this is a driver issue compatible with PAE?

Also, can I run amd64 release on this Intel Xeon dual proc with 6GB RAM?
Thinking about loading 6.3 amd64 if possible. Excuse my ignorance, I am
not a hardware guy, I am a programmer.

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (3000.12-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
  Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C
MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
  Features2=0x641dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14
  AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM
  Logical CPUs per core: 2

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Re: db performance

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:53 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
 In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  I also have assumed in the past that db performance could be better if I
  get off the system RAID-5 and put it on 1+0? The system has 4 SATA
  drives.
 
 That will speed things up if IO is your bottleneck, but you've not
 demonstrated that.
 
 Which machine in this system is the bottleneck?  Are the Amavis machines
 timing out, or is the PostgreSQL server too slow?  If I understand your
 description, it sounds like a network problem to me ... i.e., machines
 not on the same gateway as the PG server are experience slow network
 response (or dropped packets?) that's causing amavis to time out while
 trying to talk to PG.  I would suggest investigating there first.
 

The SA timeouts I'm finding on all the servers. Even the db server that
runs it's own amavisd process for backup purposes and some minor domains
just to make sure it is there and working. This is why I think you're
right, the pgsql db is too slow. Would I possibly see dramatic
differences in speed with the RAID switch?

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Re: db performance

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:19 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
 
  real memory  = 3220635648 (3071 MB)
  avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB)
  
  we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed?
 
 If you're using a 32-bit (i386) kernel you need PAE. Or switch to 64-bit 
 (amd64).

Yes, this is something else I've found I need to do to these i386
servers since we upgraded the memory, I guess I'll get PAE in the kernel
and switch the RAID, should provide quite a difference, yes? Some people
have suggested the PAE drivers may not be stable with my hardware.

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db performance

We have several postfix transport gateways on different networks all
working with local amavisd-maia+SA using a remote postgresql backend at
one location. I am getting delays in the queues on a gateway server at a
remote site since we added more memory to the db server. After seeing
the issues of SA TIMED OUT in the logs, seems this was happening prior
to the upgrade, but never to the extent, I guess, to delay much mail.
Queues on a gateway of the same network as the db server working fine,
but messages with the timeouts differ from one server to another.

After reading tuning, it suggests the SWAP should be double RAM.
According to dmesg...

real memory  = 3220635648 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB)

we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed?
Anyway, the SWAP is only 2GB, even with the average usage shown here,
will increasing SWAP to 6-8GB help?

last pid: 49828;  load averages:  0.23,  0.21,  0.18up 8+18:33:08  15:42:23
184 processes: 5 running, 158 sleeping, 21 waiting
CPU states:  2.6% user,  0.0% nice,  1.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 96.4% idle
Mem: 446M Active, 1646M Inact, 236M Wired, 138M Cache, 112M Buf, 30M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 164K Used, 2048M Free

I also have assumed in the past that db performance could be better if I
get off the system RAID-5 and put it on 1+0? The system has 4 SATA
drives.

All servers running FreeBSD 6.2 and latest ports of postfix+amavisd-maia
+SA+ClamAV. Thanks for any input.

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Re: db performance

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:34 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
 In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I don't know anything about amavisd's usage of databases.  If it's doing
 a lot of small writes, then it's likely that getting off RAID 5 will make
 a marked difference.

I believe this is the case with SA learning on and auto-whitelisting.
Disabling things like that are my last resort.

 You need to investigate more, though.  Otherwise you're just randomly
 flipping switches.

I really appreciate the pointers!

 Watching top on the PG machine, how much RAM is in use?  What is the
 average CPU usage when you see timeouts?  Run top -m io in another terminal
 and see if a lot of IO is happening on the part of PostgreSQL ... is it
 reads or writes?

I see mainly postgres in the top 8-10 with mainly WRITEs of mainly less
than 100 regularly, mostly less than 30 WRITES at a time.

 
 And what tuning have you done to PostgreSQL?  PG doesn't perform well
 without tuning.  Install the pg_buffercache addon and see if you've got
 enough shared_buffers to get decent performance out of it.  Are you
 running vacuum and analyze frequently?  Turn on query timing and watch
 the logs to see what queries are taking up time.
 
 Read the following links and follow the advice therein:
 http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList
 http://www.revsys.com/writings/postgresql-performance.html
 

This is what I have setup now, thanks for the links, I'll re-check my
tuning...

mx1# cat /etc/sysctl.conf
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1
kern.ipc.shmmax=1073741824
kern.ipc.shmall=262144
kern.ipc.semmsl=512
kern.ipc.semmap=256

I'm sure some of my tuning could use some help, like the shm_use_phys,
maybe this is why my swap is not being used much? This is what I've
changed from defaults in postgresql.conf...

max_connections = 250
shared_buffers = 500MB
work_mem = 64MB # min 64kB
maintenance_work_mem = 256MB# min 1MB
max_fsm_pages = 256000 

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Re: db performance

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:17 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
  After reading tuning, it suggests the SWAP should be double RAM.
  According to dmesg...
 
 installing database on RAID-5 or asking if to add swap (when almost none 
 is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote?

That was my whole point of showing you the low usage. I take that as a
yes, RAID 1+0 would provide a dramatic difference in speed, thanks!

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Re: db performance

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:49 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
  is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote?
 
  That was my whole point of showing you the low usage. I take that as a
  yes, RAID 1+0 would provide a dramatic difference in speed, thanks!
 
 the only adventage of RAID-5 is less wasted space than RAID-1. one and 
 the only adventage. write performance is terrible on small writes - 
 exactly what happens on database usage.
 
 with today sizes of disks more wasted space doesn't make much a problem, 
 as i don't think your database have hundreds of gigabytes.
 
 did you look how much disks (no matter what RAID or just devices) are 
 actually used?!
 
 use systat

Using 'systat -iostat' it shows mostly idle with 25-70 MB/s on the aacd0
array. Most of time above 50. Thanks for the help!

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5.4-RELEASE crashing

2008-01-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I upgraded memory in a 5.4-RELEASE server from 1GB (2x512MB) to 4GB
(4x1GB). I'm wondering if that can even be causing my problem since
nothing went wrong for an entire week. One week later, the server just
stops responding in the middle of the night, I can see the login prompt,
but cannot type anything, no response to keyboard at all. Since the
initial crash one week after the memory upgrade, it continues to do this
every couple of days.

The crash has happened during the 3-4am time span every time except at
9pm once and then this morning at 9am. So, it seems it may be related to
something building up over time. After reset and disk cleanup, I have
examined the logs and cannot find anything in the message log, one entry
shows my last login activity and the next entry is the start of boot
info from the reset. The only thing I find in the logs erroneous is an
NFS connection not responding, then alive again, but I unmounted and
disabled the entry in fstab before it happened this morning.

I'm just trying to figure out how to approach tracking down my crashing
issue. Whether it somehow is related to the memory upgrade. The only
thing to note about the memory upgrade is on boot, it will say that it
is ignoring a small amount of memory over 4GB. Can someone suggest how
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Imaging to new system

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID
controller that I need to move to faster RAID. Is it possible to image
or some other way to save the current install and restore after setting
up the RAID or should I just plan to reinstall everything?

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Re: Imaging to new system

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:10 -0700, Darren Spruell wrote:
 On Dec 30, 2007 10:54 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID
  controller that I need to move to faster RAID. Is it possible to image
  or some other way to save the current install and restore after setting
  up the RAID or should I just plan to reinstall everything?
 
 Running dump(8) and restore(8) would allow you to back up and restore
 your system.
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore
 
 This is typically used with tape, although you can dump to disk as well.
 
 If your data/system is critical, you ought to already have some backup
 strategy you could restore the system from to your new RAID. If not,
 you might put one in place (RAID != backups).
 

Yes, of course, we have data backup and can restore after reinstalling
everything, but I was looking for a complete system restore option. I'll
look into these docs, thanks. There is no tape system, so I guess the
only hope is if it can be dumped and restored from an NFS drive. From
looking at the docs, it does appear this is possible, as long as the
data in on a fs mounted by fstab?

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4GB memory and more

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a couple of Supermicro servers and upgraded both with more
memory. I upgraded our ESMTP server from 1GB to 4GB and our MX server
from 2GB to 5GB. Below are the dmesg memory findings and, yes, I get the
memory over 4GB ignored when booting up. The ESMTP even says that about
130MB is ignored. I was reading about building into the kernel PAE
options for using above 4GB of memory, but in the dmesg I see PAE in the
Features. Does this mean the support is there and I just need some BIOS
tweaking?

esmtp# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #1: Tue Dec 13 16:00:53 EST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/WEBTENT
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2399.33-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf25  Stepping = 5
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 4160225280 (3967 MB)
avail memory = 4073279488 (3884 MB)
snip

mx1# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sat Jun  2 11:11:40 EDT 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEBTENT
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (3000.12-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
  
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
  Features2=0x641dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14
  AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM
  Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory  = 3220635648 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB)
snip

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Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I
need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if
possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I
need to replace or match and fill available slots. For instance, I know
one server has 1GB of mem, but do I have two 512MB or a single 1GB chip
in place now. Can someone tell me the commands to determine either of
these things?

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snapshots

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I was looking into snapshots using the doc below to try and see if delta
copies with rsync matched data better if I take a snapshot of a file
system, mount it and rsync transfer the data. Right now, dumps don't
seem to match much data due to changes in the sequences and a very
active mail cache pgsql db.

http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/snapshot/

I created the snapshot and got it mounted, took a minute or so for each
to do this on my /usr ufs file system on FreeBSD 6.2 with 2GB RAM, dual
P4 procs with SMP and RAID 5 (I know, will be changing soon) SATA150
drives. In the midst of doing this, the currently running pgsql db,
remember I said it was very active amavisd-maia supporting two mail
gateways as a mail cache if you know Maia Mailguard, I started getting
these messages and things stopped responding well...

Sep 24 16:59:02 mx1 kernel: aac0: COMMAND 0xc6530fc0 TIMEOUT AFTER 38 SECONDS

Did a reboot, it tooks several minutes to start reboot after the
command. I even got some of these kernel messages after the reboot, not
until I rm -f the snapshot file did it stop. I am wondering how I need
to handle snapshots when trying this, especially if included in a
routine backup script? I haven't made it to the solution part of the
above doc yet, wanted to check here before I try anything again.

Also, haven't tested my rsync until tonight to see if the file system
transfer will make a difference in my ability to match data better. But
I'd still like use the snapshot as a backup solution.

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Re: Loading FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:55 -0600, MJ Hewitt wrote:
 I am running into a problem loading 6.2 on a new Dell Optiplex 320 with
 an Intel Celeron 1.6GHz with 64-bit. 
 
  
 
 It is completely locking up after the initial boot sequence. The last
 line is usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support.
 

Try disabling USB options in the BIOS of the computer and see what
happens. Usually by pressing the Del, F2 or F10 key on your PC after the
post beep, see the Dell manual for instructions on how to enter the
BIOS. If install works after disabling, you can try re-enabling after
you've installed the system and/or done updates.

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Concurrency limit warning in Postfix leads to server lock

2007-09-15 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have dilemma with one of our 5.4 server mail gateways. About 2-3 times
a month now the server SMTP and related services stop responding. I find
myself not able to login, just sits there after entering user name. I
have to reset the server and the only thing I can find with an 'egrep
(fatal|error|warn)' in the messages and maillog are these concurrency
limit warnings minutes before the issue started...

Sep 15 07:19:02 esmtp postfix/smtpd[2789]: warning: Connection
concurrency limit exceeded: 51 from unknown[88.238.96.247] for service
smtp

This seems to be an attacker of some sort, I block them and the issue
goes away, of course. I posted my issue to the Postfix list, but was
told this should not be taking down my server and to find out why I'm
not able to login when this happens. I am looking for help on where to
look to determine this, can someone give some guidance? Some other log I
should examine? The only thing I can spot that looks possibly out of
place is nfsd running at 6-8% CPU. I do a backup from one other server
to this server via nfs. I checked and all that backup was finished
couple of hours prior to this latest issue, but the nfsd process seems
to be taking more CPU than normal. And when I reboot, the nfs connection
I have in /etc/fstab takes several seconds to initialize.

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Re: Problem with openldap-sasl-client port?

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 08:37 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
 Just tell pkgdb 'no' and then tell it the correct alternate
 package name.  (You can use tab completion there; very handy)
 After that, things should go smoothly.
 

Thanks. I tried this, but the pkgdb does not see my current
openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36.

Stale dependency: nagios-2.9_1 - openldap-client-2.3.35 
(net/openldap23-client):
openldap-server-2.3.36 (score:52%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
Install stale dependency? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes] no
New dependency? (? to help): openldap-client-2.3.36
Please choose one of these:
amavisd-new-2.5.0,1  apache-2.2.4_2  appres-1.0.1  arc-5.21o_1  arj-3.10.22  
atk-1.18.0_1  autoconf-2.13.000227_5  autoconf-2.59_2  automake-1.4.6_3  
automake-1.9.6_1  bash-3.1.17  bdftopcf-1.0.0  beforelight-1.0.2  
bigreqsproto-1.0.2  bitmap-1.0.3  bitstream-vera-1.10_4  cabextract-1.2  
cclient-2004g,1  clamav-0.90.3  compat4x-i386-5.3_9  ...
mx1# ls /var/db/pkg/ | grep ldap
openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36
openldap-server-2.3.36

Any other ideas on what I can try next?

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Problem with openldap-sasl-client port?

2007-06-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I posted the other day, trying to install SA 3.2, it keeps attempting to
install openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36 even though it is already there. I
tried 'pkg_delete -f' and then portinstall of the ldap client, I've
tried to register FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. Whenever I run 'pkgdb -F', the
ldap client deps want to link to the openldap-server-2.3.36. Am I going
to have to uninstall all deps fro the ldap client and re-install? Will
that work...

mx1# pkg_delete openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36
pkg_delete: package 'openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36' is required by these other 
packages
and may not be deinstalled:
amavisd-new-2.5.0,1
apache-2.2.4_2
dirmngr-0.9.7_2
gnupg-2.0.3
openldap-server-2.3.36
pear-1.5.4
pear-Auth-1.5.0
pear-Auth_SASL-1.0.2
pear-DB-1.7.11,1
pear-File_Passwd-1.1.6
pear-Log-1.9.10
pear-Mail_Mime-1.4.0,1
pear-Net_IMAP-1.0.3
pear-Net_POP3-1.3.6
pear-Net_SMTP-1.2.10
pear-Net_Socket-1.0.7
pear-Pager-2.3.4
pear-SOAP-0.10.1
php5-5.2.2
php5-gettext-5.2.2
php5-ldap-5.2.2
php5-mysql-5.2.2
php5-openssl-5.2.2
php5-pcre-5.2.2
php5-pgsql-5.2.2
php5-session-5.2.2
php5-wddx-5.2.2
php5-xml-5.2.2
postfix-2.4.3,1
postgresql-server-8.2.4_1
smarty-2.6.18
mx1# pkgdb -F
---  Checking the package registry database
[Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 505 packages found 
(-1 +1) (...). done]
Stale dependency: amavisd-new-2.5.0,1 - p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0 
(mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin):
p5-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1 (score:56%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no]
Install stale dependency? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes] no
New dependency? (? to help):
Skip this? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes]
Skipped.
Stale dependency: nagios-2.9_1 - openldap-client-2.3.35 
(net/openldap23-client):
openldap-server-2.3.36 (score:52%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] ^C

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Issue portupgrade of SA 3.2.1

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

Tried doing a portupgrade of p5-Mail-SpamAssassin on one of our test
postfix+amavisd+SA+ClamAV 6.2 servers and it failed due to some
dependency version missing I can't remember now. I portupgrade'd the
dependency and afterward discovered SA had been uninstalled before it
failed, no longer on the system. Trying to portinstall the same package,
I find it wanting to install openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36 when
openldap-sasl-client-2.3.35 was already there...fine, I did a
portupgrade myself of openldap-sasl-client to 2.3.36. Still, when trying
to portinstall SA, it wants to install openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36. I
tried running pkgdb -F to find it trying to link ldap dependencies like
nagios to openldap-server-2.3.35_1? Of course, the amavisd package is
looking for SA as well. Can't quite understand what it is looking for or
if the failure after uninstalling SA broke something.

mx1# ls /var/db/pkg/ | grep ldap
openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36
openldap-server-2.3.35_1
snip
mx1# portinstall p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
[Gathering depends for mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin 
...
 done]
---  Installing 'openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36' from a port 
(net/openldap23-client)
snip -- killed

How can I fix this? Or should I just let it do the install?

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Ports system gone

2007-06-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

How can I restore my ports system?

I have no idea what happened. I have a server I setup over the weekend
to start testing Maia Mailguard, installed many packages over the last
few days (postfix+amavisd+SA+related). I can't remember the last package
installed via the ports system, I updated it to src-all and back to
ports-all once to compile my kernel. Now, today I go to install a
package and practically everything is gone...this is all I have left...

mx1# ls /usr/ports
INDEX-6 INDEX-6.db  dns security
INDEX-6.bz2 distfiles   net
mx1# ls /usr/ports/dns
bind9-dlz
mx1# ls /usr/ports/security/
vscan
mx1# ls /usr/ports/net/
openldap23-client

At this point I want to assume I mistakenly did a rm sometime, what else
could cause something like this? Can't find any issues in the logs and
no other issues with any services running on the box. Can't find
anything else missing. If I try to run my ports update my ports, it just
hangs here...

mx1# cd /usr/ports
mx1# /usr/local/bin/cvsup /root/ports-supfile
Connected to cvsup9.us.FreeBSD.org
Updating collection ports-all/cvs

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Boot problem after GEOM setup

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick


Following the doc below, I am trying to mirror an existing disk, ad0,
which holds the root and /usr partitions (a second disk holds /var). I
have an exact same disk in as ad2 in the system and did everything in
this document top section through dumping the data and setting up
/etc/fstab and loader.conf. I created the /boot.config as shown except I
replaced the '1' with '2' just like I did for the other steps, but this
does not appear correct. I now stall when booting at the boot: prompt.
What can I type in the boot: prompt to get back in my system and make
the necessary changes? Also, what should the /boot.config look like to
boot to my new disk and continue through the steps for adding the first
disk to the mirror? I guess it looks like this now: 1:ad(2,a)/boot/loader.

http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

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Re: Boot problem after GEOM setup

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 11:39 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
 Following the doc below, I am trying to mirror an existing disk, ad0,
 which holds the root and /usr partitions (a second disk holds /var). I
 have an exact same disk in as ad2 in the system and did everything in
 this document top section through dumping the data and setting up
 /etc/fstab and loader.conf. I created the /boot.config as shown except I
 replaced the '1' with '2' just like I did for the other steps, but this
 does not appear correct. I now stall when booting at the boot: prompt.
 What can I type in the boot: prompt to get back in my system and make
 the necessary changes? Also, what should the /boot.config look like to
 boot to my new disk and continue through the steps for adding the first
 disk to the mirror? I guess it looks like this now: 1:ad(2,a)/boot/loader.
 
 http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
 

I was able to recover with a FreeSBIE and go back, seems I was close. I
have the GEOM working now as shown below. However, after successfully
synchronizing and doing a reboot, it shows up DEGRADED after every
reboot and synchronizes again, is that normal?

genoa# gmirror list
Geom name: gm0
State: DEGRADED
Components: 2
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
SyncID: 1
ID: 4224071626
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
   Mediasize: 15364338688 (14G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r4w3e2
Consumers:
1. Name: ad0
   Mediasize: 15364339200 (14G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w1e1
   State: SYNCHRONIZING
   Priority: 0
   Flags: DIRTY, SYNCHRONIZING
   SyncID: 1
   Synchronized: 28%
   ID: 4099754703
2. Name: ad2
   Mediasize: 15364339200 (14G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r4w3e3
   State: ACTIVE
   Priority: 0
   Flags: DIRTY
   SyncID: 1
   ID: 3454124143

Geom name: gm0.sync
Consumers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
   Mediasize: 15364338688 (14G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w0e0

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Connecting to usb serial device

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a Keyspan usb serial port connected to a FreeBSD 6.1 server and
wondering how I can connect to it. Using minicom from a connected Linux
box, do I connect to a COM port, and how do I know what COM port? This
is what I see in dmesg:

ugen0: Keyspan, a division of InnoSys Inc. Keyspan USA-19H, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 
2

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Kernel source

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a 6.1 server that I need to install the source for recompiling
quotas support. It is at a remote location without the CD and when I try
FTP, it declares 6.1-SECURITY is not available on any ftp server. Is
there anywhere to download from?

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BIND slave records not updating

2007-02-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I'm not a member of any bind list, so I was hoping to be able to ask my
question here. I have primary DNS with bind 9.2.4 on Linux servers where
there are web GUI's for management. I keep slave records on two FreeBSD
servers that serve as our ns1 and ns2, one is 6.1 with the bind port
bind9-9.3.3 and it works fine. The other is FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE with
bind9-base-9.3.4, not sure what the base difference is, can someone tell
me? This 5.4 server is not updating when changes are made to the
primary. I see in the logs on the primary that notifies are sent and the
9.3.3 server, which is at a different facility, updates within minutes,
the 5.4 machine on the local network does not. I can't find any bind log
information in /var/log/messages on the FreeBSD servers, where would
that be? I have to remove the '.bak' zone file and restart the bind
process, then it brings over the new zone file as it should re-creating
the '.bak' file. I checked the perms on all the files involved,
comparing to the 6.1 machine. The zone files all owned by the bind
process user.

zone example.com {
type slave;
file slave/example.com.bak;
masters { 10.0.0.48; };
allow-query { 0.0.0.0/0; };
};
esmtp# ls -lah /var/named/etc/namedb/slave/tpghotels.com.bak
-rw-r--r--  1 bind  wheel   635B Feb 13 08:19 
/var/named/etc/namedb/slave/example.com.bak

Again, this exact same setup on the other BSD server works perfectly.
The allow-transfer on the primary seems to be working fine since
deleting the zone file on the slave and restarting pulls the zone fine.
This is our workaround for now, but a pain.

Is there a problem with running the different bind9 versions? I can't
really do anything about the primary server considering we rely on yum
and recommended updates by the system repositories. So, should I keep my
slave BSD boxes on that same version 9.2.4?

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Re: BIND slave records not updating

2007-02-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:00 -0600, Derek Ragona wrote:
 I run multiple FreeBSD versions with Bind and have not had a problem with 
 records being updated.  Are you properly setting the new serial numbers in 
 the master record files?
 

Thanks. Do you mean the master zone files where the BSD server are
pulling from. I update via a GUI on the server running Bluequartz GUI.
The zone file serial number changes from 2007020501 to 2007021301 after
changing one today. The other BSD server hosting slave records is
pulling the updates fine, just this one that is not. Is there anywhere
in the logs to find what is happening. All I've been able to find in
logs is on the master server indicating notifies sent to the IP address
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Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if
the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up, but it
does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.1 servers. How
can I do this? I see the zdump command and the man page seems to suggest
the same usage, but...

esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern | grep 2007
esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern
US/Eastern  Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 
gmtoff=0
US/Eastern  Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 
gmtoff=0
US/Eastern  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 
gmtoff=0
US/Eastern  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 
gmtoff=0

The Linux version spits out all years, hence the need for grep:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# zdump -v US/Eastern |grep 2007
US/Eastern  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 
gmtoff=-18000
US/Eastern  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 
gmtoff=-14400
US/Eastern  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 
gmtoff=-14400
US/Eastern  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 
gmtoff=-18000

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Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
 In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said:
  I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out
  if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up,
  but it does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.1
  servers. How can I do this? I see the zdump command and the man page
  seems to suggest the same usage, but...
  
  esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern | grep 2007
  esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern
  US/Eastern  Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC 
  isdst=0 gmtoff=0
  US/Eastern  Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC 
  isdst=0 gmtoff=0
  US/Eastern  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC 
  isdst=0 gmtoff=0
  US/Eastern  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC 
  isdst=0 gmtoff=0
 
 That means you need to update your zoneinfo tables.  You can also use
 the date command to see if you need updating:
 
 date -r 1173679260
 

Yes, thanks, looks like I need to do that, how do I update my zoneinfo
tables?

esmtp# zdump -v EST5EDT | grep '200[67]'
EST5EDT  Sun Apr  2 06:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2 01:59:59 2006 EST isdst=0 
gmtoff=-18000
EST5EDT  Sun Apr  2 07:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2 03:00:00 2006 EDT isdst=1 
gmtoff=-14400
EST5EDT  Sun Oct 29 05:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006 EDT isdst=1 
gmtoff=-14400
EST5EDT  Sun Oct 29 06:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:00:00 2006 EST isdst=0 
gmtoff=-18000
EST5EDT  Sun Apr  1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 
gmtoff=-18000
EST5EDT  Sun Apr  1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 
gmtoff=-14400
EST5EDT  Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 
gmtoff=-14400
EST5EDT  Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 
gmtoff=-18000

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BIND tool for setting up secondary records?

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I am not a member of a BIND list, so I thought I'd ask here first if
anyone knows of a script tool that will query a primary name server and
setup secondary records on another BIND server? Or any other solution
for doing mass entries of domains to a BIND server to setup secondary
records with the same primary master?

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Setting up ucom serial device for tty communications

2007-01-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a Keyspan USB serial adapter identified by FreeBSD 6.1 as shown
below. I was wondering if it is possible, and how to, set this device up
to receive COM communications from another Linux box using minicom. Can
someone suggest or point to some helpful docs possibly to setup
in /etc/ttys?

esmtp# dmesg | grep Keyspan
ugen0: Keyspan, a division of InnoSys Inc. Keyspan USA-19H, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 
2
esmtp# grep Keyspan /var/log/messages
Jan  6 10:48:02 esmtp kernel: ugen0: Keyspan, a division of InnoSys Inc. 
Keyspan USA-19H, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2

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Connecting to a USB serial port

2007-01-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a Keyspan USB serial port on my FreeBSD 6.1 box and trying to 
connect from a Linux box to the machine. I'm using minicom and not sure 
of the settings that should be used. I see the following in dmesg...


sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on 
acpi0

sio0: type 16550A

Is this the USB serial port? There is no other serial port avaialble on 
the server, but could be something in the board, not sure. Someone else 
told me they used this same serial port on their box and I wanted to try 
it since the box does not have an available PCI slot or serial port 
available. My question is whether this works just like a regular COM 
port? I wanted to be sure I should be handling things the same as I 
would with a regular serial port. I have ttyd0 enabled and showing up...


657  ??  I  0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0

That seems to do the trick with my other BSD servers that have regular 
serial ports, but minicom doesn't want to find it using 9600 8N1 settings.


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Tar backup on geom mirror drive

2007-01-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I am backing up a big home partition that results in 46GB tar.gz file 
directly to another FreeBSD machine via NFS and it is taking from 9:30pm 
until almost 7am the next morning. The source home partition is on a 
geom mirrored slice, could this be the reason for such a slow backup? 
The destination server is using RAID, but from the BIOS, not geom. Both 
servers are using gigabit cards through a gigabit switch.


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Protocol error trying to install ports

2006-12-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I walked someone through setup of a FreeBSD 6.1 install over the phone 
and now when I try to install any ports, I get the same protocol error. 
I assume something went wrong with the install, is there something I can 
check or fix remotely? Sorry for the wrapping below, I can't seem to 
find how to avoid in my temporary mailer Thunderbird.


unix# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade/
unix# make all install clean
=== Installing for portupgrade-2.0.1_1,1
=== portupgrade-2.0.1_1,1 depends on file:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-freebsd6/bdb1.so - not found
=== Verifying install for
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-freebsd6/bdb1.so in
/usr/ports/databases/ruby-bdb1
=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
= bdb1-0.2.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby.
= Attempting to fetch from ftp://moulon.inra.fr/pub/ruby/.
fetch: ftp://moulon.inra.fr/pub/ruby/bdb1-0.2.2.tar.gz: Protocol error
= Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ruby/.
fetch:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ruby/bdb1-0.2.2.tar.gz:
Protocol error
= Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
= port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby and try again.
*** Error code 1
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POKED TIMER

2006-12-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I get this message in the logs from named on a machine running FreeBSD
5.4 and BIND 9.3.1. From what I have found out, there may be a problem
with this mix...

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2005-06/1035.html

This post suggests an option to get the ports system to overwrite the
base. How do I do this? I have never patched the system either and
unsure how to apply the security patches. My freebsd-update is having
problems connecting to updates.daemonology.net, are there other sources?

Thanks in advance, Robert

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Best way to upgrade base programs

2006-12-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

Can someone offer some guidance as to the best way to upgrade packages 
that were not installed via the ports system? For instance, openssh. 
Would 'portinstall sshd' work and the system see the new version or 
should it be uninstalled some way first? I am running 5.3 and 6.1.


Thanks, Robert
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Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a server with 6.1 and one dual-core processor and the SMP option
was built in the kernel according to the doc below, but only zeros show
up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled
kernel.

 http://www.freebsddiary.org/smp.php

I did not add APIC_IO as the doc suggested as it complains the option is
invalid, plus I did not do this for my other 5.4 server which shows all
processors in top. Both configs have a device of apic, neither has the
APIC_IO option. However, the other server is running 2 physical CPU's
and I see 0 thru 3 in the C column in top. Also, dmesg shows CPU #1
Launched along with everything else:

esmtp# dmesg|grep CPU
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (3010.67-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Logical CPUs per core: 2
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu0
cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!

Why would I not see any other CPU numbers under top like I do in my
other server?

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Re: linksys WPC54G | WPA-TKIP | FreeBSD 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:40 -0800, probsd org wrote:
 Anyone know of a good HOWTO on setting up networking in 6.1-RELEASE using a 
 Linksys WPC54G v2 PCMIA card to connect to a wireless linksys router doing 
 WPA-TKIP encryption?

   michael
 

I would also take a look at 'man ath' and the link below. Both helped me
to get my wireless card going

http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html

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Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:04 -0800, Josh Carroll wrote:
  up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled
  kernel.
 
 Run top with the -S argument. You should then see two idle
 processes, one for each CPU:
 
11 root  1 171   52 0K 8K CPU0   0  72.1H 91.70% idle: cpu0
10 root  1 171   52 0K 8K RUN1  72.2H 90.97% idle: cpu1
 
 Can you confirm whether you see that or not? I do not have APIC_IO in
 my kernel either, and it is showing both cores in top (Core 2 Duo
 CPU).
 

Thanks, yes, I see both cpu0 and cpu1 and cpu1 is 100% idle compared to
cpu0 only 45-50% idle at this time. I did some googling for
hyperthreadin after reading Bill's response and checked sysctl to find
these settings:

esmtp# sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 0
esmtp# sysctl machdep.smp_cpus
sysctl: unknown oid 'machdep.smp_cpus'
esmtp# sysctl machdep.hlt_cpus
machdep.hlt_cpus: 2

Looks like my hyperthreading is enabled and it is in the BIOS. I was
told there was a dual-core in the machine, but not confirmed. But there
should be two with HT anyway as seen, correct?

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Instant Messenger software

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

Can anyone here recommend an IM client/server software that runs on
FreeBSD? I'm looking at DBabble, but I see no port (which would be
nice). We like BSD servers and are getting a lot of requests for this
type of private service. But if BSD is not recommended, please tell.

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Re: Instant Messenger software

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 19:28 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
 Robert Fitzpatrick writes:
 
   Can anyone here recommend an IM client/server software that runs
   on FreeBSD? I'm looking at DBabble, but I see no port (which
   would be nice). We like BSD servers and are getting a lot of
   requests for this type of private service. But if BSD is not
   recommended, please tell.
 
   Would we be correct in assumong you've wandered through
 /usr/ports/net-im?

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Using FreeBSD as a router

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously 
considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what 
one would recommend here on the list...


Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router
Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php

I want to duplicate my Cisco setup. It has 4 Ethernet ports with the WAN 
subnet assigned to the WAN port and 3 different subnets assigned to each 
of the remaining 3 ports leading to their VLANs on the switch. Looking 
for advise from those who have used the above solutions and their 
experiences.


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Periodic processes

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a FreeBSD 6.0 server that the periodic processes don't seem to
complete and build up until our monitor complains about the number of
processes and I killall. How would I go about figuring out which process
is the problem or if there is a cron issue? Can't find any errors in the
messages or cron log. After a few days, this is what I see and have to
kill:

26347  ??  Is 0:00.01 /bin/sh -c periodic daily
26349  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
26355  ??  I  0:00.02 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
26356  ??  I  0:00.00 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
26401  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh /etc/periodic/daily/400.status-disks
28108  ??  Is 0:00.01 /bin/sh -c periodic weekly
28110  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic weekly
28117  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic weekly
28118  ??  I  0:00.00 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic weekly
28129  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh - /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
28136  ??  IN 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
28140  ??  IN 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/libexec/locate.mklocatedb -presort
61416  ??  Is 0:00.01 /bin/sh -c periodic daily
61417  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
61424  ??  I  0:00.02 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
61425  ??  I  0:00.00 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
61470  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh /etc/periodic/daily/400.status-disks
92450  ??  Is 0:00.01 /bin/sh -c periodic daily
92451  ??  I  0:00.02 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
92458  ??  I  0:00.02 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
92459  ??  I  0:00.00 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
92504  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh /etc/periodic/daily/400.status-disks
98286  ??  Is 0:00.01 /bin/sh -c periodic daily
98289  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
98295  ??  I  0:00.03 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
98296  ??  I  0:00.00 /bin/sh - /usr/sbin/periodic daily
98341  ??  I  0:00.01 /bin/sh /etc/periodic/daily/400.status-disks

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Advice on RAID?

2006-05-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have looked into and tried FreeBSD 6.0 Vinum and GEOM RAID in our PIII
SCSI 80-pin server with the help of several here on the list. I'm pretty
much going to use GEOM RAID-1 for the system disks using Ralf's doc. I
have room for 3 more disks. Would you recommend using Vinum RAID-5 on
three 73GB drives or using GEOM RAID-1 again on 2 147GB drives?

If there is no big reason to use either over the other, we've decided to
go for the most space and RAID-5. But the amount of space we would be
gaining is probably less than 50GB, correct?

Or do you have another solution on our $700 budget. It is a debate here
and would like to get experienced insight.

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Re: Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 02:00 +0200, Joerg Pernfuss wrote:
 On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:40:44 -0400
 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the
  following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The
  device loads as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the
  device, it detaches, but when plugged back in, it receives a new
  device as /dev/da5, which is not what is in fstab of course, yada,
  yada, yada. Is there a way I can get it to automatically
  mount/unmount the drive while working under the same device id as I
  unplug and plug back in?
  
  /dev/da4s1 /mnt/usbmsdos   rw,noauto   0   0
 
 If the msdosfs has a label, you could load geom_label.ko and use sth
 like
 
 /dev/msdosfs/usbdisk  /mnt/usbmsdos   rw,noauto   0   0
 

Sorry for the direct message Joerg, I am resending this to the list.
Thanks, but how do I label the msdosfs? I assume something similar to
tunefs for UFS, but I don't see a label option for msdosfs.

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ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

Trying to use WinSCP to connect using the ibsh shell. The logs in the
WinSCP program indicate 'Connection failed. Server sent command exit
status 0', but I cannot find anything in the FreeBSD logs. I am hoping
to find where my FreeBSD 6.0 box is trying to execute a command so I can
add it to the approved list of commands to run by the user.
The /var/log/auth.log only states...

May  8 09:21:28 files sshd[22864]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for 
webtent from 192.168.1.12 port 1130 ssh2
May  8 09:21:29 files sshd[22867]: subsystem request for sftp

While the /var/log/messages and /var/log/debug.log have nothing as a
result of the attempt to login. Is there anywhere else this may be
logging on why the session could not start?

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Re: ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:39 -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
Trying to use WinSCP to connect using the ibsh shell. The logs in the
WinSCP program indicate 'Connection failed. Server sent command exit
status 0', but I cannot find anything in the FreeBSD logs. I am hoping
to find where my FreeBSD 6.0 box is trying to execute a command so I can
add it to the approved list of commands to run by the user.
The /var/log/auth.log only states...

May 8 09:21:28 files sshd[22864]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for
webtent from 192.168.1.12 port 1130 ssh2
May 8 09:21:29 files sshd[22867]: subsystem request for sftp

While the /var/log/messages and /var/log/debug.log have nothing as a
result of the attempt to login. Is there anywhere else this may be
logging on why the session could not start?

Run sshd with -d. Be sure to read the manpage on what this does first,
as it may be an unpleasant surprise if you're trying to work on a
machine that you don't have local access to.

Thanks, I can't seem to find all the debug messages on screen in a log
file, so I'll try to not misspell or represent something here. After
starting the session, it displays the subsystem message, then a
'Received SIGCHLD' and pid assignment, then the exit message...

snip
subsystem request for sftp
debug1: sybsystem: exec() /usr/libexec/sftp-server
debug1: Received SIGCHLD.
debug1: session_by_pid: pid 23011
debug1: session_exit_message: session 0 channel 0 pid 23011
debug1: session_exit_message: release channel 0
debug1: session_close: session 0 pid 23011
snip

I have sftp and even added exec to the approved commands along with
anything else I could think of for ibsh with no luck, same messages. I
tried adding /usr/libexec to my PATH, no help.

files# echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/libexec
files# cat /usr/local/etc/ibsh/globals.cmds
cd
ls
pwd
logout
exit
touch
mkdir
rm
pico
scp
sftp
sftp-server
ssh
sshd
exec

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Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the following
entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The device loads
as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the device, it
detaches, but when plugged back in, it receives a new device
as /dev/da5, which is not what is in fstab of course, yada, yada, yada.
Is there a way I can get it to automatically mount/unmount the drive
while working under the same device id as I unplug and plug back in?

/dev/da4s1 /mnt/usbmsdos   rw,noauto   0   0

Also, if I try to reboot after unplugging the device, I get a page fault
error. Not sure where this error is in the logs so I can post here in my
message.

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ibsh

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

Anyone using ibsh shell for locking users in to their home directory? I
just found out about this googling and installed the port on my FreeBSD
6.0 box, but can't seem to get it working

files# grep ibsh /etc/shells
/usr/local/bin/ibsh
files# grep webtent /etc/passwd
webtent:*:1002:1000:WebTent Networking, Inc.:/home/webtent:/usr/local/bin/ibsh

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Password:
snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cd ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pwd
/home
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

What am I missing? I can't find any docs or manual on the system...

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Re: ibsh

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:32 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
 Anyone using ibsh shell for locking users in to their home directory? I
 just found out about this googling and installed the port on my FreeBSD
 6.0 box, but can't seem to get it working
 
Sorry for posting to quickly, I found that merely editing
the /etc/passwd file to change the shell did not get it done. I have
ibsh shell working now, but something peculiar happening. I can login
from my Linux box using ssh and all is as expected, but if I use the
WinSCP program, commonly used by our staff, it does not believe there is
an SFTP server running. Of course, logging in using WinSCP with a user
of a different shell works perfectly. Here is ibsh commands I am
allowing and the log from WinSCP...

files# cat globals.cmds
# Add any commands the user may execute. Even shell commands.
# You have to allow logout and/or exit, so the user can logout!
# cd and pwd should also be allowed. Note: other shell builtin
# commands are not yet implemented!
cd
ls
pwd
logout
exit

. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.600 
--
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.600 WinSCP Version 3.7.6 (Build 306) (OS 5.2.3790 Service 
Pack 1)
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.600 Login time: Sunday, May 07, 2006 12:48:40 PM
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.600 
--
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.600 Session name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.600 Host name: 192.168.1.7 (Port: 22)
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.600 User name: webtent (Password: Yes, Key file: No)
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 Transfer Protocol: SFTP (SCP)
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 SSH protocol version: 2; Compression: No
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 Agent forwarding: No; TIS/CryptoCard: No; KI: Yes; 
GSSAPI: No
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 Ciphers: aes,blowfish,3des,WARN,des; Ssh2DES: No
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 Ping type: -, Ping interval: 30 sec; Timeout: 15 sec
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 SSH Bugs: -,-,-,-,-,-,-,-
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 SFTP Bugs: -,-,-
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 Proxy: none
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.610 Return code variable: Autodetect; Lookup user groups: 
Yes
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.621 Shell: default, EOL: 0
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.621 Local directory: default, Remote directory: home, 
Update: No, Cache: Yes
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.621 Cache directory changes: Yes, Permanent: Yes
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.621 Clear aliases: Yes, Unset nat.vars: Yes, Resolve 
symlinks: Yes
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.621 Alias LS: No, Ign LS warn: Yes, Scp1 Comp: No
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.621 
--
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.771 Looking up host 192.168.1.7
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.781 Connecting to 192.168.1.7 port 22
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.831 Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.2p1 FreeBSD-20050903
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.851 We claim version: SSH-2.0-WinSCP_release_3.7.6
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.861 Using SSH protocol version 2
. 2006-05-07 12:48:40.881 Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
. 2006-05-07 12:48:41.001 Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.273 Host key fingerprint is:
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.293 ssh-dss 2048 
0a:59:6c:0f:b9:18:2b:68:1b:e0:5d:3b:d6:5a:e0:65
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.313 Initialised AES-256 client-server encryption
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.333 Initialised HMAC-SHA1 client-server MAC algorithm
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.353 Initialised AES-256 server-client encryption
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.373 Initialised HMAC-SHA1 server-client MAC algorithm
! 2006-05-07 12:48:42.413 Using username webtent.
! 2006-05-07 12:48:42.523 Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.543 Password: prompt from server
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.563 Responding with stored password.
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.603 Access granted
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.623 Opened channel for session
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.653 Started a shell/command
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.673 
--
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.693 Using SFTP protocol.
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.724 Doing startup conversation with host.
 2006-05-07 12:48:42.744 Type: SSH_FXP_INIT, Size: 5, Number: -1
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.774 Server sent command exit status 0
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.794 All channels closed. Disconnecting
. 2006-05-07 12:48:42.824 Server closed network connection
* 2006-05-07 12:48:42.854 (ESshFatal) Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the 
host running a SFTP server?
* 2006-05-07 12:48:42.854 Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent 
command exit status 0.

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Problem using geom to mirror system

2006-05-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

I am following the doc at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

While using Approach 2, the initial dump and reboot using the new gm0
mirror worked fine, but having a problem trying to add my da0 drive to
the mirror after the reboot. Can someone suggest what I've done wrong?

files# gmirror configure -a gm0s1
No such device: gm0s1.
files# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/mirror/gm0s1a 8.3G1.2G6.4G16%/
devfs  1.0K1.0K  0B   100%/dev
/dev/mirror/datas1a 33G4.0K 30G 0%/data
files# ls -lah /dev/mirror/
total 1
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Dec 31  1969 .
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Dec 31  1969 ..
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 116 May  4 23:43 data
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 118 May  4 23:43 datas1
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 121 May  4 19:43 datas1a
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 122 May  4 23:43 datas1c
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 109 May  4 23:43 gm0
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 117 May  4 23:43 gm0s1
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 119 May  4 19:43 gm0s1a
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 120 May  4 23:43 gm0s1c
files# dmesg|grep gm0
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=982386906).
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 detected.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 activated.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched.
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a

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removing geom config left over from previous install

2006-05-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick

Trying to mirror the system using geom on a box with 2 pairs of
identical SCSI drives (2 IBM 9GB drives and 2 Seagate 35GB drives). The
Seagate drives were mirrored with geom under a previous install and I
was trying to mirror the system, when all was not working and I decided
to start all over again. I have tried a few times now with a fresh
install of FreeBSD 6.0 and on the last round, removed and wrote changes
to the disk in the splice setup for all four disks and then restarted
the machine and installation to make sure I had all disks with one slice
of unused space to start. I did, so I proceeded to create all my
partitions on the one IBM da0 drive to mirrored with da1 after install.
The issue is that after loading the mirror, I get what seems to be my
previous devices, how can I get a fresh start? Because this eventually
leads to 'bsdlabel: Geom not found'...right after first boot, I am
following the doc at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

files# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=512 count=79
79+0 records in
79+0 records out
40448 bytes transferred in 0.015124 secs (2674452 bytes/sec)
files# fdisk -v -B -I /dev/da1
*** Working on device /dev/da1 ***
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1115 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1115 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Information from DOS bootblock is:
1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 17912412 (8746 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 90/ head 254/ sector 63
2: UNUSED
3: UNUSED
4: UNUSED
fdisk: Geom not found
files# gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0s1 /dev/da1s1
Metadata value stored on /dev/da1s1.
Done.
files# ls /dev/mirror
ls: /dev/mirror: No such file or directory
files# gmirror load
files# ls /dev/mirror
datadatas1c gm0 gm0s1
datas1  datas1ccgm0s1
files# ls -la /dev/mirror
total 1
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 May  5 13:15 .
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Dec 31  1969 ..
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 114 May  5 13:07 data
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 124 May  5 13:07 datas1
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 126 May  5 13:07 datas1c
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 128 May  5 13:07 datas1cc
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 123 May  5 13:07 gm0
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 125 May  5 13:07 gm0s1
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 125 May  5 13:07 gm0s1
files# bsdlabel -w -B /dev/mirror/gm0s1
bsdlabel: Geom not found

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Re: Software RAID guidance

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
 
 I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
 controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB
 and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the
 controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded FreeBSD 6.0
 onto the two IBM drives. Now, I wanted to mirror the other two for data
 and looking for guidance as to whether it is first of all suited for
 software RAID and if so, CCD or vinum. I am contemplating vinum because
 the handbook mentions CCD is when cost is the important factor and for
 me, is reliability. What would someone suggest? If vinum, one thing I
 don't quite understand is do I create the partitions to be used in the
 device? There doesn't seem to be a man for gvinum and the link to it in
 the handbook section 19.6.1 is broken.
   
 
 Just to give you another option.  You can support RAID1 using atacontrol 
 to just make two disk into a RAID.

Yes, I saw mention of atacontrol somewhere in the handbook, the drives
all SCSI. It seems atacontrol only addresses IDE? Excuse my ignorance on
the subject of ATA vs SCSI :/

files# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
Master: acd0 CD-ROM 50X/10 ATA/ATAPI revision 0
Slave:   no device present
ATA channel 1:
Master:  no device present
Slave:   no device present

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Re: Software RAID guidance

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote:
 I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages.

Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk
issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to
have setup properly. Now, just to have a clear understanding, what is
the purpose of /dev/mirror/datas1c as it is not used in creating the
mirror it seems?

files# geom mirror label -v -s 35000 data /dev/da2 /dev/da3
Metadata value stored on /dev/da2.
Metadata value stored on /dev/da3.
Done.
files# gmirror load
files# fdisk -vBI /dev/mirror/data
*** Working on device /dev/mirror/data ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=4462 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=4462 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Information from DOS bootblock is:
1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 71681967 (35000 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 365/ head 254/ sector 63
2: UNUSED
3: UNUSED
4: UNUSED
fdisk: Geom not found
files# ls -l /dev/mirror/
total 0
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 127 May  4 20:48 data
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 110 May  4 20:43 datas1
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 117 May  4 20:43 datas1a
crw-r-  1 root  operator0, 118 May  4 20:43 datas1c
files# bsdlabel -wB /dev/mirror/datas1
files# newfs -U /dev/mirror/datas1a
/dev/mirror/datas1a: 35001.0MB (71681948 sectors) block size 16384, fragment 
size 2048
using 191 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976, 
3387328, 3763680, 4140032,
 4516384, 4892736, 5269088, 5645440, 6021792, 6398144, 6774496, 7150848, 
7527200, 7903552, 8279904,
 8656256, 9032608, 9408960, 9785312, 10161664, 10538016, 10914368, 11290720, 
11667072, 12043424,
 12419776, 12796128, 13172480, 13548832, 13925184, 14301536, 14677888, 
15054240, 15430592, 15806944,
 16183296, 16559648, 16936000, 17312352, 17688704, 18065056, 18441408, 
18817760, 19194112, 19570464,
 19946816, 20323168, 20699520, 21075872, 21452224, 21828576, 22204928, 
22581280, 22957632, 2984,
 23710336, 24086688, 24463040, 24839392, 25215744, 25592096, 25968448, 
26344800, 26721152, 27097504,
 27473856, 27850208, 28226560, 28602912, 28979264, 29355616, 29731968, 
30108320, 30484672, 30861024,
 31237376, 31613728, 31990080, 32366432, 32742784, 33119136, 33495488, 
33871840, 34248192, 34624544,
 35000896, 35377248, 35753600, 36129952, 36506304, 36882656, 37259008, 
37635360, 38011712, 38388064,
 38764416, 39140768, 39517120, 39893472, 40269824, 40646176, 41022528, 
41398880, 41775232, 42151584,
 42527936, 42904288, 43280640, 43656992, 44033344, 44409696, 44786048, 
45162400, 45538752, 45915104,
 46291456, 46667808, 47044160, 47420512, 47796864, 48173216, 48549568, 
48925920, 49302272, 49678624,
 50054976, 50431328, 50807680, 51184032, 51560384, 51936736, 52313088, 
52689440, 53065792, 53442144,
 53818496, 54194848, 54571200, 54947552, 55323904, 55700256, 56076608, 
56452960, 56829312, 57205664,
 57582016, 57958368, 58334720, 58711072, 59087424, 59463776, 59840128, 
60216480, 60592832, 60969184,
 61345536, 61721888, 62098240, 62474592, 62850944, 63227296, 63603648, 
6398, 64356352, 64732704,
 65109056, 65485408, 65861760, 66238112, 66614464, 66990816, 67367168, 
67743520, 68119872, 68496224,
 68872576, 69248928, 69625280, 70001632, 70377984, 70754336, 71130688, 71507040
files# mount /dev/mirror/datas1a /data
files# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a3.8G 55M3.4G 2%/
devfs  1.0K1.0K  0B   100%/dev
/dev/da1s1d8.3G1.0G6.6G13%/usr
/dev/da0s1d4.0G4.2M3.7G 0%/var
/dev/mirror/datas1a 33G4.0K 30G 0%/data

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Re: Software RAID guidance

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote:
  Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk
  issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to
  have setup properly. Now, just to have a clear understanding, what is
  the purpose of /dev/mirror/datas1c as it is not used in creating the
  mirror it seems?
 
 Have you tried to mount it?
 

files# mount /dev/mirror/datas1c
mount: /dev/mirror/datas1c: unknown special file or file system

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Re: Software RAID guidance