FreeBSD loader

2004-12-18 Thread Thierry Lacoste
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Re: FreeBSD loader

2004-12-18 Thread Thierry Lacoste
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. with ACPI is the default, is it not? No. When I let the loader timeout, it does not load the acpi.ko module. This is the second choice. This is the way /boot/beastie.4th

Re: FreeBSD loader

2004-12-19 Thread Thierry Lacoste
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. with ACPI is the default, is it not? No. When I let the loader timeout, it does not load the acpi.ko module. This is the second choice. This is the way

Re: pam_start error

2009-03-12 Thread Thierry Lacoste
in openpam_load_module(): no /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so found pam_start:system error FWIW I've just fought a couple hours with the same problem just to realize that I was using openldap-client-2.4.13 together with pam_ldap-1.8.4_1 built against openldap-client-2.4.15_1. Everything is in

Re: Issues with OpenLDAP 2.4.15 and FreeBSD 8.0-CUrrent as well as with FreeBSD 7.2-PRE using DB 4.7

2009-03-31 Thread Thierry Lacoste
First I see on all FreeBSD flavours (7.2 and 8.0) a coredump of LDAP clients when doing ldapsearch, ldappasswd. The client performs well, but at the end it terminates with some SIG 11. http://www.mail-archive.com/openldap-softw...@openldap.org/msg15161.html Regards, Thierry

problems with a LaCie USB disk

2006-10-04 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850. When I plug a brand new LaCie 500 GB USB disk I have this: Sep 28 18:24:57 polaris kernel: umass0: LaCie Group.SA BigDisk Extreme, rev 2.00/1.18, addr 2 Sep 28 18:24:59 polaris kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Sep 28

following RELENG_6_1

2006-10-07 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I have a bunch of servers running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. They perform crucial tasks like Samba domain control, LDAP directory, mail, etc... Though I'm reluctant to touch them I feel that the recent Security Advisories (especially about ssh ans ssl) are a very good reason to follow RELENG_6_1.

re: problems with a LaCie USB disk

2006-10-10 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I have further informations about a problem I described some days ago. With FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 on a Dell PowerEdge 850, when I plug a brand new LaCie 500 GB USB disk I have this: Sep 28 18:24:57 polaris kernel: umass0: LaCie Group.SA BigDisk Extreme, rev 2.00/1.18, addr 2 Sep 28 18:24:59

Re: pam_ldap issues

2007-07-03 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I have a very similar setting on 6.1 Maybe you have an ACL problem (see below). What does the following command give? ldapsearch -x -D cn=testuser,ou=people,dc=interne,dc=example,dc=org -W /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf base dc=interne,dc=example,dc=org uri ldap://127.0.0.1:389/ logdir

Re: pam_ldap issues

2007-07-04 Thread Thierry Lacoste
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 09:35, Eric Masson wrote: Thierry Lacoste [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a very similar setting on 6.1 Maybe you have an ACL problem (see below). What does the following command give? ldapsearch -x -D cn=testuser,ou=people,dc=interne,dc=example,dc=org

strange sendmail problems

2007-08-30 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Hello, I experienced a strange problem with sendmail on FreeBSD 6.1 which happened during a routing problem on a network which isolated my network from the outside. On five out of seven boxes my logs started to show (capital names used to hide real ones) : Aug 30 15:53:13 MYHOST sm-mta[6247]:

deleting old mails

2007-05-31 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because it runs as the user owning the mailbox on which it operates. I also tried mail/archmbox

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-01 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I keep track of my servers config files with CVS. Let's say I want to track a machine named 'box'. On this machine I have a working copy of the cvs module box in /root/box. I have a couple of scripts cvs-add and cvs-ci. 'cvs-add /etc/rc.conf' copies /etc/rc.conf to /root/box/etc/rc.conf and then

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Do you have an idea of how to manage symlinks with jailed software? Thierry. On Saturday 02 June 2007 01:35, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 6/1/07, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/07, Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently setting up a new server, and

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I did just think of another thing I could do. What if I create a new directory on the server, and move all configuration files from their original location to this directory. I then make then make it into an svn working directory, and in place of the original files put symlinks that point to

Re: deleting old mails

2007-06-03 Thread Thierry Lacoste
On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:01, Christopher Hilton wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail but it cannot create it's lock file in /var/mail because

monitoring raid arrays

2006-06-17 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on a Compaq Proliant and a Dell PowerEdge 1800. They have hardware raid 1 arrays controlled respectively by a Compaq Smart Array 532 controller and PERC 4/SC. Here is the relevant dmesg output on the Proliant: ciss0: Compaq Smart Array 532 port 0x4000-0x40ff mem

Segmentation fault with smbpasswd

2006-07-10 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and installed samba-3.0.22,1 from a relatively recent snapshot or /usr/ports. Here is the global section of my /usr/local/etc/smb.conf: [global] workgroup = OFFICE server string = Samba Server passdb backend = tdbsam logon script =

Re: Segmentation fault with smbpasswd

2006-07-11 Thread Thierry Lacoste
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 18:24, Micah wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and installed samba-3.0.22,1 from a relatively recent snapshot or /usr/ports. Here is the global section of my /usr/local/etc/smb.conf: [global] workgroup = OFFICE

/etc/crontab and mail

2006-07-21 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I have two boxes running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. AFAICS their configuration is identical. On both machines, I put at the end of /etc/crontab: 14 8 * * * root echo test On one machine root receives a mail with test as the boby of the message while on the other machine I have no mail. Here are the

/etc/crontab and mail

2006-07-22 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Answering myself it may be related to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2006-April/086659.html I'm using openldap-server-2.3.24 and nss_ldap-1.250. My /var/log/debug.log was full of: Jul 22 20:34:04 castor sm-mta[58735]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, passwd, endpwent,

clock running too fast

2006-10-29 Thread Thierry Lacoste
On one of my servers running 6.1-RELEASE-p10 I cannot keep the clok synchronized using ntpd. AFAICS this is certainly because the clock is running way too fast (about one second per minute). After I run ntpdate then ntpd the clock is drifting and /var/db/ntp.drift contains 0.00. Is there a way

Re: clock running too fast

2006-10-30 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Thank you. I tried TSC, ACPI-fast and i8254 but I still have the same problem. Best regards, Thierry. On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:46, Chuck Swiger wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: On one of my servers running 6.1-RELEASE-p10 I cannot keep the clok synchronized using ntpd. AFAICS

nfs issue after client crash

2006-11-08 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I have a bunch of Ubuntu clients which mount /home at boot time from a FreeBSD 6.1 NFS server. When a client crashes it won't mount /home at boot. In that case, trying to mount manually gives can not read super bloc. The client still appears in the showmountoutput of the server. Sometimes

problems with check_dhcp in nagios

2006-11-22 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Hello, I'm using nagios-2.4 with nagios-plugins-1.4.3,1 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10. I have a problem to make check_dhcp work. dhclient works as expected: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dhclient em0 DHCPREQUEST on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on

check_disk_smb: another nagios problem

2006-11-22 Thread Thierry Lacoste
There is something weird about check_disk_smb from nagios-plugins-1.4.3,1 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10. From the command line (pwd is /usr/local/libexec/nagios) the switches work as expected: # ./check_disk_smb -H 194.214.13.140 -s public -u guest -p Domain=[MIAGE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]

Re: check_disk_smb: another nagios problem

2006-11-23 Thread Thierry Lacoste
added -w 85% -c 95% to the command_line and it works great now. Thierry Lacoste wrote: There is something weird about check_disk_smb from nagios-plugins-1.4.3,1 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10. From the command line (pwd is /usr/local/libexec/nagios) the switches work as expected

SOLVED : nfs issue after client crash

2006-12-05 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Somebody gave me the answer to my question http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-November/135179.html I'm posting it in case somebody hits a similar problem. I have a bunch of Ubuntu clients which mount /home at boot time from a FreeBSD 6.1 NFS server. When a client crashes