Re: Connecting subnet over PPP
If you are seeing ARP requests for a subnet which is routed, it is more than likely that some router somewhere doesn't know it is routed. ARP requests are only sent when a system is trying to contact an IP address *it* believes to be on the same physical network as itself. Make sure routers on your side (before the FreeBSD box) know to route that subnet via the BSD box. Also, make sure the subnet mask on the D-Link router at the client side is configured correctly. If all else fails, you might want to try doing proxyarp with pppoed, this is problematic at best though, and should not be used if there is a router on the other side, only if clients are routing directly via your pppoed, and if the addresses are actually on a physical network on your side, and to be "mirrored" to them. This is the wrong way to do it, but it is supported, as many ISPs did this in the past... it was the only way to do it with Windows NT RAS servers. Will - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:08 AM Subject: Connecting subnet over PPP > Hi, >I am using the userland ppp with pppoe daemon to setup a pppoe server to > authenticate incoming clients. I want to route a /29 subnet (81.19.79.24/29) > to a client. Now I authenticate via a radius server, which frames the IP, > Protocol, and route attributes: > > Framed-Protocol = PPP > Framed-IP-Address = 81.19.79.25 > Framed-Route = 81.19.79.24/29 81.19.79.25 1 > > This appears to assign the connection without problem, and the machines on > the clients side of the network, when assigned one of the subnet's IP's have > no issue pinging out to all hosts. However, when a remote PC attempts to > access one of the public IP's - i.e. ping it - this fails. The FreeBSD > Gateway / PPPoE Server shows lots of ARP unable to resolve messages - I > presume this means it cannot find a mac address for the client. I have > checked the routing table - netstat -ran, and an entry is created for the > subnet in question (via the returned radius attributes): > > Internet Dest: Gateway: Flags:Refs: Use: Netif: Expire: > > 81.19.79.24/2981.19.79.25UGSc1147tun0 > 81.19.79.25 81.19.78.1UH0256tun0 > 81.19.79.2500:05:5b:71.. UHLS2 00ste1 > > A tcpdump of 'ste0' (the PPPoE Daemon Interface) from an IP the clients > subnet pinging out, shows that the replies are occuring: > > 17:29:28.984831 PPPoE [ses 0x1b] 81.19.79.25 > 81.19.79.34: icmp: echo > request > 17:29:28.984831 PPPoE [ses 0x1b] 81.19.79.34 > 81.19.79.25: icmp: echo reply > > However, if this role is reversed, and a remote IP - in this case > 81.19.79.34 (on a different /27 (32->63) network) attempts to ping a PC on > the client network: > > 17:37:45.214386 PPPoE [ses 0x1b] 81.19.79.34 > 81.19.79.25: icmp: echo > request > 17:37:45.221413 PPPoE [ses 0x1b] 81.19.79.34 > 81.19.79.25: icmp: echo > request > 17:37:45.223422 PPPoE [ses 0x1b] 81.19.79.34 > 81.19.79.25: icmp: echo > request > 17:37:45.321455 PPPoE [ses 0x1b] 81.19.79.34 > 81.19.79.25: icmp: echo > request > 17:37:45.623212 PPPoE [ses 0x1b] 81.19.79.34 > 81.19.79.25: icmp: echo > request > > The client uses a D-Link Router which is set to allow all traffic - It is of > course possible this is misconfigured, however I would like to know if this > configuration *should* be working, or if I have made some grevious error > somewhere, which is preventing the traffic reaching the clients network. > > Many Thanks > > Colin Watson. > > > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor... when trying to label the 2nd SCSI HDD
Sounds to me like sysinstall is trying to make the devices. This means they aren't there. You're using a RELEASE kernel, so the device numbers shouldn't be different, but you never know. You might want to try creating the nodes before hand, sothat sysinstall doesn't have to: cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV all Now try sysinstall again. You might also not have configured the appropriate devices in your kernel, I notice you have built a custom one. Try booting with /kernel.GENERIC and see if the problem persists. If that doesn't help, try using CVSup to upgrade to the latest 4-STABLE and compile a new kernel. Will On Sunday 19 January 2003 13:59, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > Hi, > > Please kepp me on the cc: as i'm not posting from my subscribed address. > Hope the mail it is ok formatted, i'm sending from a win. > > When I try to use /stand/sysinstall's disklabel to set up my 2nd SCSI HDD > disk it gives : > DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknoen major/minor for devtype- on another console, and > i'm getting : > Error adding swap: device not configurated > Error mounting /dev/da1s1f on /NOFUTURE: Invalid argument, > etc. > > I cannot figure out what is wrog; > i've searched with Google and found out 2 link but no very usefull as i > don't speak russian or hungar. > There are also some related posts on the scsi mailling list who didn't help > me. > > I've also tryied to : > dislabel -r ad0 > dsklabel.txt > editing to point to ad1 and > disklabel -r ad1 dsklabel.txt > which has leave me with some "strage" softupdate inconssistency as fsck did > nicely told me. > > The relevant dmesg and disklabel output are bellow. > > If someone could point me to the right direction i would really apreciate, > as the machine should go on > production in less that 48 hours. > > Many thaks, > IOnut > > > FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Sat Jan 18 19:27:03 EET 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/fp1 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ (1666.20-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 > Features=0x383fbff > X,FXS R,SSE> > AMD Features=0xc040 > real memory = 1073725440 (1048560K bytes) > > ahc0: port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem > 0xdb00- 0xdb000fff irq 10 at device 14.0 > on pci0 > aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > Enabled > da0: 35003MB (71687340 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C) > da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 > da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da1: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > Enabled > da1: 35003MB (71687340 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C) > > # /dev/da0c: > type: SCSI > disk: da0s1 > label: > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 255 > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > cylinders: 4461 > sectors/unit: 71681967 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0# milliseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 8 partitions: > #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 51204.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl.0 - 318*) > b: 512 512 swap # (Cyl. 318*- 637*) > c: 716819670unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 - 461*) > e: 33554432 10244.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl. 637*- 726*) > f: 10485760 437944324.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl. 2726*- 378*) > g: 17401775 542801924.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl. 3378*- 461*) > > > # /dev/da1c: > type: SCSI > disk: da1s1 > label: > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 255 > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > cylinders: 4461 > sectors/unit: 71681967 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0# milliseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 8 partitions: > #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 716819670unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 - > 4461*) e: 51204.2BSD 2048 1638489# (Cyl.0 - > 318*) > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen IT Solutions Consultant Highveld Computing Solutions 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be ahead of the pack, visit http://www.highveldcs.com/ and find out how our next generation IT solutions will propel your business into the 21st century. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Misc questions (reposted, first reply only went out to origional user requesting it)
On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:32, pura life CR wrote: > Hi, I am freebsd user, I have few misc questions: > > 1. Where can i get the source code of the "daemon" saver? I want to know > how the logo can "jump" in the screen. /usr/src/sys/modules/syscons/daemon/daemon_saver.c > > 2. What command can i use if I want to crypt a word and I see it encrypoted > just like the /etc/master.passwd file? For example, I want to know how the > password "foobar" would be encrypted in /etc/master.passwd if It would be > my real passwd. This would not be done with a command. It is done with a call to the crypt() function in libcrypt. You may see the crypt(3) manpage for more information (type man 3 crypt at your command prompt) > > 3. Where can I get more informacion about svr4 and linux emulation?, What > does this emulation consist on? Can I run linux and svr4 binaries?. > See section 20 (Linux Binary Compatibility) in the FreeBSD handbook. If you installed the doc distribution, the handbook is in /usr/share/doc/handbook/index.html on your file system. The SVR4 emulation works in the same way as the Linux emulation, so the section of the handbook applies here too. > That's all for now. > > regards, > > _ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Fwd: Re: Misc Questions. (reposted yet again)
Yet again, I post only to the sender, not the list, sorry :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Misc Questions. Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:07:30 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some friendly corrections, sorry Bill :-) On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:55, Bill Moran wrote: > You'll get better response if you send each question as a seperate email, > with an appropriate subject line for each one. May sound silly, but a > lot of people will delete messages with subjects like "Misc Questions" > without even reading them. I'm with you on the subjects, but he's perfectly fine putting it in one e-mail, multiple mails would have annoyed me more. > pura life CR wrote: > > 1. Where can i get the source code of the "daemon" saver? I want to know > > how the logo can "jump" in the screen. > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/daemon/ As I pointed out in my previous post, it is at /usr/src/sys/modules/syscons/daemon/daemon_saver.c /usr/src/usr.sbin/daemon contains source for the daemon(8) utility used to daemonize a normally non-daemon process. > > 2. What command can i use if I want to crypt a word and I see it > > encrypoted just like the /etc/master.passwd file? For example, I want to > > know how the password "foobar" would be encrypted in /etc/master.passwd > > if It would be my real passwd. > > I don't know the answer to this one, check the source. See my other post, it's in libcrypt, more information is in crypt(3) > > 3. Where can I get more informacion about svr4 and linux emulation?, > > The handbook is a good place to start: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html > > > What does this emulation consist on? Can I run linux and svr4 binaries?. > > It's not really emulation. In the case of Linux, it actually installs a > RedHat kernel and uses it when the system calls differ from the native > FreeBSD system calls. > You should be able to run most Linux and srv4 binaries. In my experience, > I've only ever come across 1 Linux binary that wouldn't run (Pervasive > database server). I can't vouch for the srv4 compatibility, as I've never > used it. Bill is spot on here. For more information, section 20 in the handbook (other post) -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: IPFW, blocking IM servers
> > I have a text file on the Squid proxy which contains a list of blocked > sites, which I include below. Only a technically astute user would be > able to bypass this setup. S1ince this would require very deliberate and > complicated steps, such as setting up a VPN tunnel through SSL, this would > be clear grounds for termination. > I wouldn't fire an employee for doing that, I'd move them to the IT security department... The problem with blocking them is that more will always pop up, and more ways to get around controles will too. Unless you have a situation where you absolutely have to block, ie, you have users that won't listen to a kind request, ie, school kids, your kids, management, I would not pick blocking as a strategy, instead, tell them that the use of IM services is not allowed on the network, and that infringement will be considered time not spent on business activities, take it off their salaries, they'll stop trying right away. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Fwd: Re: Simple question about X
DAMMIT! Yet again I send it back to the sender, and not the list, if I do this one more time, somebody have me banned. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Simple question about X Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:41:18 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No configure scripts needed, just run XFree86 -configure :) On Saturday 25 January 2003 21:31, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I've got a simple and stupid question. I'm trying to run an X > app (dcgui) via Xmanager from a windows box. So...I did a make install > on that, and it complained about xauth not being there. So, I just > installed X, did a make install in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. But when I > type "startx" or "X" I get a message that it's unable to open a config > file. And I'm having a MAJOR brain fart and cannot remember what > package provides the configure scripts. Can someone help me out? > > Thanks, > --Brian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Commands to check encrypted passwords (was Re: Misc Questions.)
Nathan,
This won't work, the md5 system command is to generated md5 message digests.
These are very different from salted passwords, which are a one-way
encryption that will almost never be the same. Message digests are always the
same, using them to encrypt passwords would be abit silly :)
Digests are used (normally) to check the integrity of a downloaded file.
To do this from the command line (without compiling a C program to use it from
libcrypt) you can use perl, as Matthew Seamon points out:
% perl -e 'print crypt(q{password}, q{$1$$}), "\n";'
$1$$UYCIxa628.9qXjpQCjM4a.
In this case, the 's would be the 8 character MD5 salt.
Will
On Saturday 25 January 2003 21:35, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:55:50PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>
> > >2. What command can i use if I want to crypt a word and I see it
> > >encrypoted just like the /etc/master.passwd file? For example, I want to
> > >know how the password "foobar" would be encrypted in /etc/master.passwd
> > >if It would be my real passwd.
> >
> > I don't know the answer to this one, check the source.
>
>
>
> If you are using md5 password hashing for master.passwd then you can use
> the command:
> # md5 -s "mypassword"
> This should show you what the string ``mypassword'' will hash to using
> md5. However, the other options are des and blf (blowfish). To see
> which you are using check the paramter passwd_format in /etc/login.conf.
> I don't know what you would use to figure the others, at least not
> through bash.
>
> Nathan
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Re: Fwd: Re: Misc Questions. (reposted yet again)
> > On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:55, Bill Moran wrote: > >>You'll get better response if you send each question as a seperate email, > >>with an appropriate subject line for each one. May sound silly, but a > >>lot of people will delete messages with subjects like "Misc Questions" > >>without even reading them. > > > > I'm with you on the subjects, but he's perfectly fine putting it in one > > e-mail, multiple mails would have annoyed me more. > > Well, I stated it the way I did because it's in line with this document: > http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > which has been the rulebook on how to use questions@ for as long as I > can remember. Can't argue with the rulebook, I guess I was abit of an ignoramis there, apologies. We should be moving this to freebsd-chat@ soon :) Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: /etc/make.conf Examples
Dan, On Saturday 25 January 2003 21:49, Danny wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to wrap my head around the make.conf file, and I am curious > to know if others have multiple /etc/make.conf files for certain > situations, or just one. Mostly you should have just one file, it should specify your type of CPU, things you wouldn't want built, etc, that kind of stuff generally should only ever change if you are doing things like cross-compiling for machines on other platforms. > > Could you please post your /etc/make.conf(s) and explain the contents > and resulting actions of your file. The best documentation on /etc/make.conf is in the make.conf(5) manpage. It has extensive explanations of all the options you can use and what they do. > > Thank you! > > Danny > > P.S. After a fresh install (4.7R), are you suppose to have an > /etc/make.conf? I found the /etc/defaults/make.conf, but I do not have an > /etc/make.conf On a fresh install, there is no make.conf. This is because in all cases, /etc/defaults/make.conf is read first, and then, if it exists, /etc/make.conf. If anything in make.conf differs or conflicts with defaults/make.conf, the setting in make.conf is taken to be the correct one. The best way to set up a make.conf is to take options in defaults/make.conf that you want to change, and put the changed option in make.conf, then add extra options you might want from the listings in the make.conf(5) manpage. Good luck Will > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Please help. I really need Samba Print Server
Windows 2000 and NT try to use SPOOLSS functions, which come with the advanced print client. The quickest fix is to downgrade them all forcibly to LANMANGER clients by adding the disable spoolss = yes options to [global] On Tuesday 04 February 2003 21:57, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I'm running -current from mid January. I have Samba3.0a20 Here's my > smb.conf > > > [global] >workgroup = WORKGROUP >nt acl support = no >server string = FreeBSD >load printers = yes >printcap name = /etc/printcap >printing = bsd >log file = /var/log/log.%m >max log size = 50 >security = share >socket options = TCP_NODELAY >dns proxy = no disable spoolss = yes > [printers] >comment = All Printers >path = /var/spool/samba >public = yes >print command = lpr -s -P mnta %s ; rm %s > # guest ok = yes >writeable = yes >printable = yes >browseable = no > # use client driver = yes > > Most of it is just the default conf. I've tried it with the currently > commented lines in and out. I can see the printer in the network > neighborhood and set it up on Windows 2000 pcs by clicking on it and > following the windows instructions. When I try to print anything, I get > no complaint, but nothing ever prints out. > > Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I have people breathing down > my neck. > > Thanks. > > Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Recovering deleted mail from a mailbox
This is a shot in the dark, but I'll try it anyway. Mail has been (mysteriously) deleted from a mailbox in /var/mail. rm -W does not help. Does anyone know of any method (third party software included) that can be used to attempt to recover the mail from the file system? -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: where can i find the security errata and patch section?
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:18, sweetleaf wrote: > I coming from openbsd, and have security question about patching. > > On openbsd we can review the up2date errata and if there is a security > issue for which a patch exists, we can download the individual patch and > use the. patch -p0 command to patch the src. and then just rebuild > the binary / install binary. > > The actual page is http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html The errata for the present production release (4.7), including security advisories, can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/errata.html You most likely won't find manual patches though, FreeBSD is patched and upgraded with the CVSup system. This insures that the entire code base is upgraded, to prevent dependancy problems and eliminate cruft. To get cvsup, as root: cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup; make install clean; Then edit the examples in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ and use them to upgrade the system. More detailed information on the use of CVSup can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook (which should be installed in /usr/share/doc/handbook/index.html) > > > I cant find this on the freebsd page and was wondering if such a errata > w/patch exists for this project as i don't have time to cvs and make > world often and would just rather patch things myself. > > Thanks in advance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: where can i find the security errata and patch section?
Addendum to my previous post. I would also strongly advise you to subscribe to FreeBSD security and security-announcements mailing lists. Information and charters for the lists may be found on freebsd.org On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:18, sweetleaf wrote: > I coming from openbsd, and have security question about patching. > > On openbsd we can review the up2date errata and if there is a security > issue for which a patch exists, we can download the individual patch and > use the. patch -p0 command to patch the src. and then just rebuild > the binary / install binary. > > The actual page is http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html > > > I cant find this on the freebsd page and was wondering if such a errata > w/patch exists for this project as i don't have time to cvs and make > world often and would just rather patch things myself. > > Thanks in advance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: need some advice on MTA
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 14:37, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:02:29PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > I run four Postfixes (one of them with Courier-IMAP), and one Qmail > > with vpopmail. > > > > Postfix is IMO easier to install and administer, but doesn't have a > > point'n'click interface. > > > > It also looks like Postfix is a much faster moving target than > > Qmail, e. g. the virtual address/mailbox support has been evolving > > quite a lot, and the configuration changed in Postfix-2. > > > > I wouldn't recommend Courier; I don't know the SMTP part of the > > pack, but the IMAP server is pretty admin-hostile in that it > > doesn't log almost anything at all, so when you run into trouble, > > you're left to guessing, and hacking the source. > > Courier-IMAP is not admin-hostile. You can enable debugging, and it > will log a lot of information. The SMTP server and client part of > courier is also nice, robust and friendly to other sites, and has many > useful features (RBL checking, rejecting spam, flexible aliasing, > SMTP authentication, SSL support) all out of the box. And if you > install the entire courier suite, you also get a POP server, webmail > server and mailing list manager, and a webadmin CGI to configure it all > easily. Courier's SMTP server takes its basic design from qmail, but has > gone far beyond qmail in features, and has made many improvements over > those parts of qmail that many people have long been criticising. Take > a look at it more closely before trashing it so trivially. Off topic: If you absolutely do not want to run Courier (or any part of it), you can get the same results with Exim as your MTA, solidpop3d as your POP3 server, UW IMAP (imap-uw in ports) as your IMAP server, and squirrelmail (requires IMAP server and PHP4 supported web server) as your web mail. This set of programs, IMHO, is the best for the job, but you will probably have more trouble configuring them than Courier. Personally I'd go for my set of programs, but they are seperate things that have to be configured to work properly together. As far as features and robustness goes, both solutions will give you exactly the same end result. As for things being admin-hostile. If you are used to something like Windows NT MDaemon or Microsoft Exchange Server, there is simply nothing on the UNIX platform that will ever make you happy, unless you are willing to make a paradigm shift, and to start reading the manuals. I do not know of any good software which can be configured by pointing and clicking. UNIX mail servers have power and versatility, the Windows servers have user interfaces that an infant can master. These two separate paradigms can not be combined. In the case of a system with an easy GUI interface, all you can do with it is what the GUI developer thought of. In the case of UNIX servers, in most cases, you can do what ever you can code in C or perl with it. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: kde3 on 300mhz / make package
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:01, André Ramos wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 05:54, Peter wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a 300mhz, 128MB Ram pc standing here, and I'm thinking of > > installing kde3 on there, does anyone know if that will be an alright > > combination or would that be very slow / not worth it? I have an > > athlon 1800+, can I just remove my /etc/make.conf file, and do a "make > > package" on here to build kde3 and later install it on the 300mhz pc? > > As I'm planning to do a make package for kde 3.1, is that all that's > > needed to make a package that could go on > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/x11 ? If so I'd like > > to start making some packages on this lazy 1800+. > > > > > > ---Peter--- > > > > -- > > It is now 10 p.m. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is? > > -- Elizabeth Carpenter > > > > ---FreeBSD The Power To Serve--- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > I personally wouldn't run KDE3 on a 300Mhz machine, well I wouldn't run > on any machine, but on that one it just might get too heavy and slow. I disagree. I run KDE 3.1 with all of the bells and wistles turned on on a Celeron 333, performance compares favourably to Windows XP running on a coworker's Duron 1300. All I would do before I set that up is to add some RAM to that system. The Celeron 333 based system I use to run KDE 3.1 has 320MB of RAM, and I am even considering an upgrade to 512MB. KDE, ever since 3.0, has been very RAM heavy, I wouldn't run it if I didn't have atleast 256MB RAM. With *EVERYTHING* nifty turned off, ie, making it look like Windows 95, I have seen 3.0.3 run on systems with Pentium 150 processors with 32MB of RAM, it's not pretty though and it takes about 5 seconds for any menu to pop up, 5 seconds too long. If you find a "half-way" between this, it should work nicely with 128MB, but than it would basically look and run like KDE 2, and it wouldn't be worth the effort, IMHO. Will > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: help!
Disable UDMA for that drive in your CMOS setup. On Saturday 08 February 2003 18:50, unikon wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > > Åñòü ïðîáëåìà ïðè çàãðóçêå, êîãäà ïûòàåòñÿ ïðèìîíòèðîâàòñÿ ðóòîâûé > äèñê ÿ ïîëó÷àþ ñîîáøåíèå "read command timeout", ïîñëå ÷åãî ïðîèñõîäèò > restting devices, è âñ¸ çàíîâî... ïîñëå ÷åòûðåõ ðàç îí òàêè ìîíòèðóåò > äèñê. > > ... > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s2a > ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata1: resetting devices .. done > ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata1: resetting devices .. done > ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata1: resetting devices .. done > ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ad2: trying fallback to PIO mode > ata1: resetting devices .. done > ... -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] '²æìr¸zǧvf¢Ú&j:+v¨· è® "¶§²æìr¸yúÞy» ªç¬¶*'²)í æèw* ¶¦zË
Re: Many questions
On Saturday 08 February 2003 17:43, Bill Moran wrote: > dark dragonz wrote: > > how many time it can take to master FreeBSD? > > Oh, 3 or 4. Depends on how fast of a learner you are. Like Bill says, depends on how fast a learner you are, but also, it's how much time you are willing to spend. > > > is it true that c/c++ isn't as stable as it is > > supposed to be? > > I've never seen C/C++ be unstable at all. So, no, it isn't true. They are programming languages, he would be referring to the compilers being unstable, which gcc is not. The only complaint I could have with gcc is that g++ is slow, but that is true for all C++ compilers. Still, they are not unstable, it's usually just the code people write using them that might be. > > > what is specialtylity of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. > > They're operating systems. Read the information on the home > page for each one to get a more detailed answer. The sarcastic answer: NetBSD: Portability OpenBSD:Security FreeBSD: Actually working The real answer: What Bill said. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: How to avoid NAT for VPN addresses
Because (I assume) you have only one IP address, anything behind your gateway has to get NATed for it to be able to connect to the internet. A VPN connection (generally) has to run two ways, so doing it behind NAT will be problematic. The best thing to do is either to apply for a routable IP address range (a /28 range will do for most networks) and route real IP via your gateway (make sure to firewall properly) If that's not possible, get them to assign extra IPs to you, of the same number as the amount of boxes you have doing VPN, then set up the addresses as aliases on your gateway and do static NAT. If your VPN solution has the ability to set the port it communicates on, you could also use portforwarding from the gateway to the machines, but that is problematic at the best of times. If you *HAVE* routable IP ranges behind your NAT and you simply want them to bypass the NAT, the easiest way is to run natd with the -u switch. This will cause natd to only operate on unregistered (eg, 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16) addresses. Will On Monday 10 February 2003 15:26, Pranas Baliuka wrote: > Can someone explain me how to avoid NAT for specific IP ranges? > I have configured IPSec (racoon and setkey) VPN works with gateway > (FreeBSD 4.6), but windows workstations are not able to use VPN > connections. I guess there are collisions with NAT and IPSec, but I need > NAT for accessing internet via my ISP. > > Thanks, > Pranas Baliuka > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: 5.0 on Compaq Evo 610c notebook - no way?
It sounds to me like the Evo has a problem with its ACPI functions, reporting a temperature that is well outside the bounds of what any system should be able to handle. The best thing I can think of would be to compile a bare kernel without ACPI support on another system and create a boot disk with it. Also make sure to make an MFSROOT disk to get sysinstall running, from there on, you will be able to install from the CD-ROM. Will On Sunday 09 February 2003 20:58, Jenisch Ewald wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having serious trouble with setting up FreeBSD 5.0-Release on a > Compaq Evo 610c-notebook. > > First of all, here's my configuration: > > Compaq Evo 610c notebook - ROM family 68P4F > System-Bios: 1/17/2003 (latest available) > RAM: 1GB > HD: 40GB > DVD/CD-RW > Display: 1400x1050 > NIC: Intel Pro/100 builtin > Modem: Lucent internal modem, > Synaptics touchpad and pointstick > Graphics: ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 AGP(LW) 32MB > Bios 6.0.0 VR006.004.006.008-001.001.001 > 350MHz DAC > > > Now for the problem: > > I run FreeBSD-setup from a CD obtained from the ISO-image (5.0-RELEASE). > Upon booting the system runs into a > loop like the following: > > First of all the "acpi.ko" ist loaded > Then after some messages I see > acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% > acpi_tz0: WARNING - current temperature (1331362.0C) exceeds system > limits followed by > ACPI-1287 *** Error: Method execution failed, AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE > with the latter one repeated dozen of times > > The system seems to run into a loop with the messages "acpi_tz0..." > and "ACPI-1287..." repeated forever. The only way to "cure" the > problem is to completely turn off power! > > I don't even come to the point where the system starts up in order to > install something... :-( > > > > So here are my questions: > > 1) Has anybody else seen this before? > > 2) What can I do against it? (I *really* want to have FreeBSD running >on that box - "going back to Windoze" is no option for me) > > 3) To me it looks like ACPI doesn't work - any ways to turn it of in >the FreeBSD-installation? (no way to turn it of in the system BIOS - >I've already checked this) > > TIA for your help, > -ewald > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Sound Card and Speakers
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 19:40, Ian Barnes wrote: > Hi, > > I have a sound blaster live value, with Cambride Soundworks 5.1 Surround > Speakers. I am running FreeBSD 5.0 Rel, in my kernel config i have device > pcm, my sound works fine. The only thing that is bothering me, is that it > the surround sound isnt working properly. I am using KDE as my window > manager, wih xmms as my mp3 player. > > Has anyone managed to get this problem sorted out ? Am i alone ? > > Thanks for the help > > Ian Barnes You're not alone :) As far as I know, the pcm(4) driver currently only supports 2 channels, which means your rear speakers will not be getting a signal. It might be a good thing to submit a PR and remind the developers that people want extra channel support, although I am sure they are working on it :) Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: scp GUI
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 21:54, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:28:37PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > > i am actually looking for a port for scp on bsd. > > any suggestions? > > Errm, don't you have it anyway ? > > # type -p scp > /usr/bin/scp >From what I can gather, they are looking for a GUI front end. If you are already using KDE, you can use Krusader (not in ports), http://krusader.sourceforge.net/, which is a Norton Commander like file manager that plugs into KDE and has built in SCP and SFTP functions. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD?
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 5:44, BSD baby wrote: > I install OpenSSH like this: > > cd /usr/ports/security/openssh-portable > make -DOPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE install > > That puts things here: > /usr/bin/ssh > /usr/sbin/sshd > /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > BUT... it seems to be IGNORING the sshd_config! > > TWO major security holes: > > #1 - It won't let me turn off passwords > (PasswordAuthentication no) > > #2 - It only requires I type the first 8 characters > of my password! (I use 16-character password.) > > > I don't have these problems on OpenBSD. > Any idea why they would be on FreeBSD? They shouldn't. Why are you using the ported version though? The version included in base is in many cases more secure than the version from ports, and it's been checked and poked with a stick by FreeBSD coders to make sure every thing is compatible, not to mention that it's properly PAMified (which the ports one doesn't seem to be) If you must have the latest version, rather get it from base and while you're at it, upgrade the rest of base too. Install the sources in /usr/src and use cvsup (in ports) to get the latest source, then follow instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING to upgrade your system. Will > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: does XFree86 installed from CD lack anything?
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 8:29, BSD baby wrote: > > > Does the default install of XFree86 4.2 binaries from the > > > FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom lack any drivers? PCI video drivers, maybe? > > > > > > When I set up a new FreeBSD 4.7 box from CD-Rom I choose the > > > option to install "all sources + XFree binaries" since I'm > > > going to be running XFree86/KDE. > > > > > > Usually it's not a problem, but on a new box with no AGP slot, > > > I've tried TWO different XFree-approved PCI video cards and > > > BOTH give me this error: > > > > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. > > > Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to > > > xf86PciInfo.h. > > > > > > > > > my "scanpci -v" has this: > > > > > > pci bus 0x cardnum 0x0b function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device > > > 0x002d NVidia Riva TNT2 M64 > > > STATUS0x02b0 COMMAND 0x0007 > > > CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x15 > > > BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x00 > > > BASE0 0xde00 addr 0xde00 MEM > > > BASE1 0xdc08 addr 0xdc00 MEM PREFETCHABLE > > > MAX_LAT 0x01 MIN_GNT 0x05 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b > > > > I believe you have to go through the "non-trivial" exercise of > > installing the Nvidia driver..I have not done this yet, due to lack of > > patience, but several people on the list have been there and done it, > > look back in the recent archives for long discussions on it... > > Or probably someone else will give you a pointer. > > Nvidia support for FreeBSD is very new. > > I wish that was it! > > But I had the same thing happen with a very standard ATI Rage 128 PCI > card. > > Exact same errors. The new NVidia card was a last resort. > > Both are listed as fully supported by XFree 4.2 Try installing XFree86 from the packages tree instead of directly from the distributions. In older versions of FreeBSD, installing from distributions would give you XFree86 3.3.6 (which was still considered to be the "stable" X server), and you would have to install 4.x from packages right at the end of the install. I don't know if this is still the case with 4.7, I havn't needed a fresh install in ages. Even better, try using CVSup to upgrade your ports tree, then [install/upgrade to] the latest XFree86 from ports. At last time I upgraded, it seemed to automatically include nVidia drivers (and everything else you need, even drivers for "abandoned" 3Dfx hardware) I would really do this any way as the XFree86 packages included with the 4.7 CD are obsolete and have been replaced by XFree86 4.2.1, which is really worth the download time to upgrade. While you're at it, also make sure to upgrade to KDE 3.1, it is a huge improvement over the 3.0.x version included on the CD, and alot of security and stability issues have been addressed. Also, the CD version only comes with the kdebase and kdelibs modules. The other modules have stacks and stacks of nifty applications and bells and wistles for you to play with, to get them, you'll have to upgrade anyway, since they will need the latest kdebase and kdelibs. You can check the handbook for instructions on CVSup, ports and portinstall/portupgrade. Will > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: how to delete a file called ????
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 22:54, Andres Aitsen wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval (kolmapäev, 12. veebruar 2003 21:45) kirjutas Kent
Stewart:
> > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:21 am, parv wrote:
> > > > I have a file called ???
> > > > I can't seem to clean it away.
> > > >
> > > > rm
> > > > rm ''
> > > > rm ""
> > > >
> > > > all do not work.
> >
> > That is a lot of work when you could have just
> >
> > rm -- ???
> >
> > The "--" tells rm that what follows is a file name.
>
> Well, simple test showed, what does the job.
>
> %touch \?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
> %ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andres wheel 0 Feb 12 22:50 ???
> %rm \?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
> %ls -l
> %
>
> Andres
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Or, if you are using csh:
%touch '?'
%ls -lh '?'
-rw-r--r-- 1 will will 0B Feb 12 22:58 ?
%rm '?'
%ls -lh '?'
ls: ?: No such file or directory
%
Note, single quotes ('), not double quotes (").
The reason for this is that shells will still inspect variables and wild
cards inside double quotes. Inside single quotes, you could even put a
double quote without having problems.
Will
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Re: my "custom" kernel still builds everything
On Thursday 13 February 2003 9:15, Tom Vier wrote: > there's a few quirks i'm curiuos about. i made a custom config file, just > like i do in netbsd, however, it still builds *everything*. not only > that, but make install copies *.o into /boot/kernel/. boot time linking. > a little strange, but ok. i can't just remove any .o can i? more to the > point, how do i force it to only build and/or install selected options? In the configuration file: makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="" Be sure you have everything you need. If you use this option, you will have no fallback if you forgot something. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: UDP-lite.
On Thursday 13 February 2003 11:59, Zhikui CHEN wrote: > Dear Sir. > > Could the latest version of FreeBSD support UDP-lite? > > Thanks in advance. I've done alot of searching on this. Quite a few documents relating to UDP-Lite claim that they have an experimental implementation of UDP-Lite for FreeBSD, but provide no information as to where it might be found, or if it has been integrated. Almost all documents relating to it at this stage are in PDF, which leads me to believe that it will most certainly not be in the 4-STABLE branch at this stage, although it might be available in 5-CURRENT. It seems the protocol is still more of a draft than an implemented protocol working on the open internet. I could infact find no working implementations of it anywhere. If you are able to find a working implementation, please point me to links sothat I can investigate further. It might also be a good idea to post your question to the developer mailing lists, you can get information on these at http://www.freebsd.org/ For some strange reason, all search results related to UDP-Lite also point to IPv6, which leads me to believe it may only be available (or usable) with IPv6. Drafts regarding UDP-Lite date back as early as 1999. Although it is now four years on, this does not mean UDP-Lite is implemented by now, the origional IPv6 draft was decided on in 1994, and it is still not even near being implemented on the open internet, and being used only for internal networks, testing, and in places in Japan where a critical shortage of IPv4 addresses exists. Will > > == > > Zhikui CHEN, Ph.D. > > National Supercomputing Center > University of Stuttgart > Germany > > Tel: ++49-711-685-5871 > Fax: ++49-711-678-7626 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Moving user accounts from one system to another
Does anybody know of a quick and (relatively) easy way of moving user accounts between two machines? We have two mail servers, one if which hosts mail for the ISP's domain, and another for several domains belonging to their customers. The machine hosting for the customers is being taken down because it is old and pretty much redundant, the other server is much more powerful and will just handle it better. I need to move (roughly 200) user accounts from the old server to the other machine. I can't just copy master.password and the data, the UIDs used on the old server may conflict and clash with UIDs on the other server. Does anybody know of a way to do this without creating all the accounts manually and "cutting-and-pasting" the encrypted passwords between the machines? Any sort of automation will help save some time, so all sugestions are welcome :) Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD and DSL CONNECTIVITY ISSUES,
It doesn't sound like a server should be causing any of this... could you supply the URL of the web site sothat we can test it? On Thursday 13 February 2003 16:17, agmesctaykira wrote: > To All, > > I did fail to mention that we are using FreeBSD Version 4.5 ! > > Thank you, > Alan > > - Original Message - > From: "Pascal Giannakakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "agmesctaykira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 7:09 AM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD and DSL CONNECTIVITY ISSUES, > > | > To All, > | > > | > We are running a server using FreeBSD and have been > | > experiencing DSL connectivity issues from our customers. > | > Our pages are basically all HTML and some Java applets. > | > Customers are reporting issues such as; > | > > | > "Recently I've noticed that your site operates very slowly. When I > | > am surfing at , the speed gradually decreases until it won't > | > navigate at > | > | all > | > | > anymore. sometimes even breaks my dsl connection somehow and I > | > have to re-start my computer. One one occasion it actually crashed > | > my machine and caused it to re-boot. These issues are not occurring > | > when visiting > | > | other > | > | > websites. Any ideas?" > | > > | > Does anyone have any further thoughts on this issue? > | > | Any information in the log files? You could enable PPP logging (see ppp > | manpage if you > | are actually using it). Did you control the serverload and/or > | networkload? Tools such > | as KDE's ksysguard(d) or gkrellm could help you. They are available > | from the ports. > | Also, please supply version-info. > | > | If you are very new to FreeBSD you might want to check the handbook at > | http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/. > | > | > | -- > | +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ > | Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! > | N '²æìr¸zǧvf¢Ú&j:+v¨· è® "¶§²æìr¸yúÞy» ªç¬¶*'²)í æèw* ¶¦zË -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
EICON Networks Diva PRI Servers
Sorry for the cross-posts. The same ISP I was posting about earlier today also have an EICON Diva PRI Server adaptor which they are using to take incoming V.90 and ISDN dial-up calls. The adaptor is currently hooked up to a machine running Windows 2000, and the customers are allowed onto their network using RAS. This is slow, unstable and security is almost non-existant. They want to switch the server over to something else. EICON only offers binary drivers for Red Hat and SuSE systems, none of which I trust. Does anybody know if any third parties have done any work to get these adaptors to work with FreeBSD? They also have a Netware port of the driver, if I can't get it working with FreeBSD, I'd rather install it on Netware than Linux, but that would mean buying yet another license, the almighty buck rules all :\ If anybody manages to find anything, even just pointing in the right direction, it would help alot. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
aRts-1.1.1, FreeBSD 4.7
Sorry, this may be off topic. I'm running KDE 3.1 compiled from ports, including latest kdelibs and kdebase and latest aRts (1.1.1). I used to have sound in KDE, but decided to turn this off as I was running applications that didn't want to go with aRts. These are now more willing to talk to aRts, but I can't get aRts to talk to my sound card anymore. The card is a Creative Labs SB16, I have it running with the newpcm and sbc drivers, and everything works fine other than aRts not cooperating. I have tried all sorts of tinkering with aRts settings, nothing helps. Any sugestions? Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: usb zip drive
Your drive should be recognized by umass, you'll be able to view the device name it is assigned in the output form dmesg. All you should need to do is create an entry for it in /etc/fstab On Wednesday 19 February 2003 18:36, Brian Henning wrote: > after i boot my machine i would like to attatch a usb zip drive. does > freebsd scan for new hardware when it is plugged in or is this a manual > process? if so what tools are out there to perform these tasks? > > cheers, > b > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Displaying Slideshow on Remote Computer
On Friday 21 February 2003 1:46, Rus Foster wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Rik Scarborough wrote: > > Someone suggested VNC, but that does not appear to control the :0.0 > > display. I'm not sure how that is different from rlogin to the BSD box > > and exporting the display. > > If you do want to control :0.0 on a remote machine > www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/ which is basically a VNC server > which can take :0.0 You can also install KDE 3.1. They have added built in desktop sharing support which will let you grab the :0.0 display with any VNC client. You would need to boot up with a keyboard and start KDE. Then move to the back office machine and grab the KDE desktop with desktop sharing, by then, you can go and remove everything except the screen from the front machine. KDE's desktop sharing is *FAST*, so people looking at your machine from the font will probably think everything is automated. Will > > Rgds > > Rus > -- > http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lifetime Linux or FreeBSD account: $100 || Lifetime Hosting: $150 > Offsite Backups - Remote System Monitoring - Email Hosting > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Netmasks for aliases (was Re: Bizarre Networking Problem)
On Friday 21 February 2003 19:17, Mark wrote: > > > > /sbin/ifconfig xl0 192.246.38.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > /sbin/ifconfig xl0 alias 208.23.240.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > Hmm, I thought aliases always needed to have netmask of 255.255.255.255. > Has something changed? > > - Mark Mark, Aliases on the same subnet should always be 255.255.255.255, this does not apply where they are on different subnets, however. Here is a good example, from the ifconfig output of a mail server I set up at an ISP in a nearby town. They used to use a private range, but have since added a public class C which has been broken up into smaller ranges for routing. The mail server, for legacy reasons, still has to serve people on the old IPs because those are still being used by machines in their office, and reconfiguring every office machine with new server IP addresses (they didn't have internal DNS then) would be wasting time. We didn't want to waste public IPs on beancounters, so we just left their machines as is. The host is also serving on the new IP, and acting as a POP server for several virtual domains, which have aliases. The 10.0.1.0/24 range (their office), and the 196.38.113.0/27 range (used for their server farm + virtual domains) are still the same physical network though. The output from ifconfig follows: %ifconfig dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 196.38.113.2 netmask 0xffe0 broadcast 196.38.113.31 inet6 fe80::a00:8ff:fe00:800%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 196.38.113.3 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.3 inet 196.38.113.5 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.5 inet 196.38.113.6 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.6 inet 196.38.113.7 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.7 inet 196.38.113.8 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.8 inet 196.38.113.9 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.9 inet 196.38.113.10 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.10 inet 196.38.113.11 netmask 0x broadcast 196.38.113.11 inet 10.0.1.4 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 inet 10.0.1.5 netmask 0x broadcast 10.0.1.5 ether 08:00:08:00:08:00 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 Note how 196.38.113.2 (the machine's real address) has a netmask of 0xffe0, or 255.255.255.224, and the other addresses in this range (all of them aliases) have 0x, 255.255.255.255. Then look at 10.0.1.4, which is an alias too. It has a netmask of 0xff00, or 255.255.255.0. Now look at 10.0.1.5, an alias used for serving intranet web content to legacy machines. Again, a netmask of 0x. The reason for this is that 10.0.1.4, even though being an alias, is the first address the machine handles on that subnet. Just as 196.38.113.2 is the first address the machine has on the public subnet. Rule of thumb: First address on a subnet, alias or not, has the proper subnet netmask. Every other address on the subnet following that, has 0x, or 255.255.255.255. Will > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: new bie (tar command)
On Friday 21 February 2003 20:29, Anil Garg wrote: > How can i see the contents of a .tar or .tgz file without extracting > it.( i couldnt find that in man tar) tar -ztvf tarball.tgz Incidentally, this is in the man page :) -t --list List the contents of an archive; if filename arguments are given, only those files are listed, otherwise the entire table of contents is listed. > > Thanx > anil (FreeBSD user) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Cvsup Handbook Example
I don't really get it either, as I pointed out in an off-list e-mail to the original sender earlier, this has nothing to do with Christian mythology or satanic anything. 666 is, by all historic and scientific accounts, a Masonic symbol. Now unless you have a problem with people who have an intriguing fixation with geometry (Free Masons), then I can't see anything wrong with using the number. We're long past the point where you can't use 13 as a number, why should this be any different, really? On Friday 21 February 2003 21:42, Justin Hopper wrote: > Sorry, this of course should have read 'after 665 and before 667'. > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:13, Justin Hopper wrote: > > Hello unamed person, > > > > For the rest of the world that doesn't follow Christian Mythology, 666 > > is just the number after 667 and before 665. I've used 666 in several > > coding examples, usually for client/server socket daemons, as most > > people don't have anything using port 666. > > > > Would you rather that the good people of FreeBSD be barred from using > > particular numbers? This could pose a problem. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Cvsup Handbook Example
On Friday 21 February 2003 22:11, Henrik W Lund wrote: > > And let's remember that FreeBSD's mascot is a (if not THE) devil. ;) > > -Henrik > FreeBSD newbie and fanatic. Well hey, then I suppose Microsoft were right after all, we are evil ;) News to me though, last I checked, daemons are neutral, and not evil like the "demons" which the American film industry has created for strategic marketing perposes :) Just because something is red, has horns and carries a glowy tridant, is it neciserally evil? :P > > _ > MSN Messenger http://www.msn.no/messenger - Den korteste veien mellom deg > og dine venner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: from GNOME to KDE
You should be able to find links to packages from http://www.kde.org/ To get it on FreeBSD, just use ports. "Check The Handbook (TM)" for more information :) Will On Friday 21 February 2003 22:25, Gary D Kline wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote: > > if you have KDE installed, try the program switchdesk on Linux. > > Well, I asked for Gnome and that's all my friend > installed. > > Where can I pull down a KDE3 *.rpm file? > (This is RH v 8.0, so KDE3 should work if > I can find it. > > thanks, > > gary -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: from GNOME to KDE
It built it fine here. Make sure your ports tree is upgraded to the latest, then run: portupgrade -rR kdebase That should do the trick :) On Friday 21 February 2003 22:38, Gary D Kline wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > > You should be able to find links to packages from http://www.kde.org/ > > > > To get it on FreeBSD, just use ports. "Check The Handbook (TM)" for > > more information :) > > Thanks for the KDE URL. Here, portupgrade is giving me major > build problem. Maybe I'll find a FreeBSD package... . > > gary -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Error accessing SquirrelMail on server
You need to add a block to allow access to that directory :) Will On Friday 21 February 2003 22:41, Lord Raiden wrote: > I'm getting an error when accessing my squirrel mail directory on the > server via a browser after accessing it. It gives the following. > > 403 Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /squirrelmail/ on this server. > > Before I added my alias in httpd.conf it was giving me a not found. So > I know I got the alias in there right. A check of the directory shows > it is owned entirely by root with no access by anyone else. How do I > fix this without totally breaking squirrel mail? Thanks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Opera 6.11 on FreeBSD 5
This is happening because the Opera 6.11 installed from ports is still a binary (Opera will *NEVER* open source) To get this running, you will need compatibility options with 4.7. In kernel, you will need options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 and you will also need to have installed the compat4x libraries. Will On Saturday 22 February 2003 12:26, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run opera on FreeBSD 5.0. I've installed from ports which > installed version 6.11 > > When I run opera, I get the following output: > > $ opera > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Doesn't matter if I run as a user or as root, the same thing happens. > Does anyone have Opera working on FreeBSD 5 ? > > TIA, -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Opera 6.11 on FreeBSD 5
On Saturday 22 February 2003 13:44, you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:25:20PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > > This is happening because the Opera 6.11 installed from ports is still > > a binary (Opera will *NEVER* open source) > > > > To get this running, you will need compatibility options with 4.7. In > > kernel, you will need options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 and you will also need to > > have installed the compat4x libraries. > > Baie Dankie! :) > > Seriously though, thanks... On the same topic, does the native FreeBSD > version have a flash plugin available, or am I better off using the > Linux compatible version ? If you wish to have an official implementation, you should use the Linux compatibility mode plugin. However, if you want an open source, cross-platform, native plugin, you can use the unofficial (not made by Macromedia) implementation, which can be installed automatically with portinstall flashplayer (make sure your ports are up to date) > > thanks again... No problem :) -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: ssh(d) problems between FreebSD and Linux Systems
On Saturday 22 February 2003 15:01, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > Behind my firewall I am trying to set up password-free ssh between the > various systems. I have come across a curious problem. From a BSD > machine I can set it up so that FreeBSD can ssh into any of the Linux > machines is fine, but the other way around, trying to get into the > FreeBSD machines from Linux, causes sshd on FreebSD to return > > Feb 22 13:46:57 willow sshd[926]: fatal: monitor_read: unsupported > request: 24 > > This happens with 2 different varieties of Linux, so it is not an > artefact of just one system. The configurations look the same at both > ends as far as I can see. > > I have "achieved this by generating an rsa key, and putting the public > one into the authorized_keys2 file as appropriate. > > Any suggestions ? Try and make sure that your Linux systems always use protocol version 2. FreeBSD uses this protocol by default, but most Linux distributions default to version 1 for compatibility reasons. Public key authentication only appeared in version 2, so machines trying to use version 1 will not be able to use it properly. The quickest way to achieve this is to force remote systems to use version 2 by adding this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the FreeBSD system (it should already be there for new versions): Protocol 2 Note that a setting of 2,1 will not work as it will still server protocol 1 if clients request it first. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: FTP installation through a NAT on a DSL connection
On Saturday 22 February 2003 16:55, Vaughan Moore wrote: > I'm installing 4.7 at home. The Intel box is behind a NAT running on a > Win98 box with ZoneAlarm running. The point of installing 4.7 is so that > I can replace the 98 box as my gateway to my Verizon DSL connection. > > My installation fails when the program tries to access one of the ftp > servers. When the time-out occurs I get an installation media error > message. > > I know that my subnet on the NAT works because when I plug a 2000 machine > into the gateway I can access the Internet. However, I had to lower the > Max MTU settings in the registry to do it. I understand that PPPoE > requires a lower MTU setting, but I'm not sure how to set MTU in the > installation program. > > Can anyone help me with the problem? > > Vaughan Moore > I'm almost sure MTU is not the problem in this case, the Windows machine should be taking care of that. Try setting FTP into passive mode in the installer's options screen, or turning off passive mode if that's the default on your version. Windows 98 NATs are not famous for handling FTP properly. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: 4.7 -> 4.8 woes. kernel now panics on bootup with "still using grody create_intr interface" message
Fixed earlier today, cvsup again :) On Saturday 22 February 2003 18:21, Steve Horan wrote: > Hi, > > I've just cvsup'd from 4.7-STABLE (built from Nov 15 2002 sources) to > today's 4.8-STABLE sources (Feb 22 2003) > > The machine now refuses to boot. > > The panic message is: > "still using grody create_intr interface" > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated > > regards > > sjh > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: FTP installation through a NAT on a DSL connection
You're one step closer. When doing network configuration, make sure you list a valid and real DNS server. Try setting it up to use the DNS at your ISP, or the winroute if it provides DNS. On Sunday 23 February 2003 0:08, Vaughan Moore wrote: > Thanks so much for the suggestion. When I use passive mode I get an > error message "Could not open ftp connection to ftp3.freebsd.org. > Service not available, closing control connection." When I hit OK > another error message comes up "unable to initialize selected media. > Would you like to adjust you media configuration and try again?" When I > do that, I go through the network configuration process again, but I get > an immediate error message "Cannot resolve host name ftp3.freebsd.org! > Are you sure that your name server, gateway and network interface are > correctly configured?" I'm using DHCP, and it is pulling the correct > IP's for these. > > Here's the log in my Winroute NAT. What do you think I'm doing wrong? > > Vaughan > > > Interface Table: > Interface Status Medium IP address > NAT Index > NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethe... Up Ethernet10.10.1.1 50331652 > NETGEAR FA311 Fast Ethern... Up Ethernet10.10.1.0 67108869 > Dial in adapter DownRAS 0.0.0.0 0 > line1 Up RAS 151.200.238.11 > on 16777218 dhcp > > TCP/IP stack's Routing Table: > Net MaskGateway Interface Metric > 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 line1 1 > 10.10.1.0 255.255.255.0 NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethe... 2 > 10.10.1.0 255.255.255.0 NETGEAR FA311 Fast Ethern... 2 > 151.200.0.0 255.255.0.0 line1 1 > > DNS: query 10.10.1.210:1024 -> 10.10.1.1:53 for ftp3.freebsd.org > dns: query from 10.10.1.210:1024 id 41361 > dns: question: A, ftp3.freebsd.org > dns: reply: ftp3.freebsd.org has 198.82.184.28 > DNS: query 10.10.1.210:1025 -> 10.10.1.1:53 for ftp3.freebsd.org > dns: query from 10.10.1.210:1025 id 41362 > dns: question: A, ftp3.freebsd.org > dns: reply: ftp3.freebsd.org has 198.82.184.28 > TCP: packet 1278, length 74, 10.10.1.210:1024 -> 198.82.184.28:21, flags: > SYN , seq:4161382813 ack:0 > TCP: packet 1282, length 74, 151.200.238.11:45050 -> 198.82.184.28:21, > flags: SYN , seq:4161382813 ack:0 > > - > Snip - Repeats 8 times and drops down to a length of 60 after try > number 3 > > DNS: query 151.200.238.11:45051 -> 199.45.32.43:53 for > 9.136.168.217.in-addr.arpa > DNS: query 151.200.238.11:45052 -> 199.45.32.38:53 for > 9.136.168.217.in-addr.arpa > TCP: packet 1323, length 74, 198.82.184.28:21 -> 151.200.238.11:45050, > flags: SYN ACK , seq:77305705 ack:4161382814 > TCP: packet 1327, length 74, 198.82.184.28:21 -> 10.10.1.210:1024, flags: > SYN ACK , seq:77305705 ack:4161382814 > TCP: packet 1328, length 60, 10.10.1.210:1024 -> 198.82.184.28:21, flags: > RST , seq:4161382814 ack:0 > > This is where the install program quit and asked if I wanted to retry. > > -Original Message- > From: Willie Viljoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Willie Viljoen > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:26 AM > To: Vaughan Moore > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FTP installation through a NAT on a DSL connection > > On Saturday 22 February 2003 16:55, Vaughan Moore wrote: > > I'm installing 4.7 at home. The Intel box is behind a NAT running on a > > Win98 box with ZoneAlarm running. The point of installing 4.7 is so > > that I can replace the 98 box as my gateway to my Verizon DSL > > connection. > > > > My installation fails when the program tries to access one of the ftp > > servers. When the time-out occurs I get an installation media error > > message. > > > > I know that my subnet on the NAT works because when I plug a 2000 > > machine into the gateway I can access the Internet. However, I had to > > lower the Max MTU settings in the registry to do it. I understand that > > PPPoE requires a lower MTU setting, but I'm not sure how to set MTU in > > the installation program. > > > > Can anyone help me with the problem? > > > > Vaughan Moore > > I'm almost sure MTU is not the problem in this case, the Windows machine > should be taking care of that. Try setting FTP into passive mode in the > installer's options screen, or turning off passive mode if that's the > default on your version. Windows 98 NATs are not famo
Re: FTP installation through a NAT on a DSL connection
On Sunday 23 February 2003 4:57, Vaughan Moore wrote: > Well, at least now I'm getting packets back and forth. > > But, I get this error message: > > Cannot parse information file for the bin distribution: I/O error. > Please verify that your media is valid and try again. > > My ip gateway is 10.10.1.1 > My name server is 199.45.32.43 > My ip is 10.10.1.210 > My netmask is 255.255.255.0 > > Again, thanks so much for the help. > > Vaughan > Chances are the mirror you are using doesn't carry the distributions. Try installing from another one :) > > -Original Message----- > From: Willie Viljoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Willie Viljoen > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 5:15 PM > To: Vaughan Moore > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FTP installation through a NAT on a DSL connection > > > You're one step closer. When doing network configuration, make sure you > list a valid and real DNS server. Try setting it up to use the DNS at > your ISP, or the winroute if it provides DNS. > > On Sunday 23 February 2003 0:08, Vaughan Moore wrote: > > Thanks so much for the suggestion. When I use passive mode I get an > > error message "Could not open ftp connection to ftp3.freebsd.org. > > Service not available, closing control connection." When I hit OK > > another error message comes up "unable to initialize selected media. > > Would you like to adjust you media configuration and try again?" When > > I do that, I go through the network configuration process again, but I > > get an immediate error message "Cannot resolve host name > > ftp3.freebsd.org! Are you sure that your name server, gateway and > > network interface are correctly configured?" I'm using DHCP, and it is > > pulling the correct IP's for these. > > > > Here's the log in my Winroute NAT. What do you think I'm doing wrong? > > > > Vaughan > > > > > > Interface Table: > > Interface Status Medium IP address > > NAT Index > > NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethe... UpEthernet10.10.1.1 50331652 > > NETGEAR FA311 Fast Ethern... UpEthernet10.10.1.0 67108869 > > Dial in adapter DownRAS 0.0.0.0 0 > > line1 Up RAS 151.200.238.11 > > on 16777218 dhcp > > > > TCP/IP stack's Routing Table: > > Net MaskGateway Interface Metric > > 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 line1 1 > > 10.10.1.0 255.255.255.0 NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethe... 2 > > 10.10.1.0 255.255.255.0 NETGEAR FA311 Fast Ethern... 2 > > 151.200.0.0 255.255.0.0line1 1 > > > > DNS: query 10.10.1.210:1024 -> 10.10.1.1:53 for ftp3.freebsd.org > > dns: query from 10.10.1.210:1024 id 41361 > > dns: question: A, ftp3.freebsd.org > > dns: reply: ftp3.freebsd.org has 198.82.184.28 > > DNS: query 10.10.1.210:1025 -> 10.10.1.1:53 for ftp3.freebsd.org > > dns: query from 10.10.1.210:1025 id 41362 > > dns: question: A, ftp3.freebsd.org > > dns: reply: ftp3.freebsd.org has 198.82.184.28 > > TCP: packet 1278, length 74, 10.10.1.210:1024 -> 198.82.184.28:21, > > flags: SYN , seq:4161382813 ack:0 > > TCP: packet 1282, length 74, 151.200.238.11:45050 -> 198.82.184.28:21, > > flags: SYN , seq:4161382813 ack:0 > > > > - > Snip - Repeats 8 times and drops down to a length of 60 after try > > number 3 > > > > DNS: query 151.200.238.11:45051 -> 199.45.32.43:53 for > > 9.136.168.217.in-addr.arpa > > DNS: query 151.200.238.11:45052 -> 199.45.32.38:53 for > > 9.136.168.217.in-addr.arpa > > TCP: packet 1323, length 74, 198.82.184.28:21 -> 151.200.238.11:45050, > > flags: SYN ACK , seq:77305705 ack:4161382814 > > TCP: packet 1327, length 74, 198.82.184.28:21 -> 10.10.1.210:1024, > > flags: SYN ACK , seq:77305705 ack:4161382814 > > TCP: packet 1328, length 60, 10.10.1.210:1024 -> 198.82.184.28:21, > > flags: RST , seq:4161382814 ack:0 > > > > This is where the install program quit and asked if I wanted to retry. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Willie Viljoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Willie Viljoen > > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:26 AM > > To: Vaughan Moore > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: FTP installation through a NAT on a DSL connection > > > > On Saturday 22
Re: libvorvisfile.la vanished?
Try portupgrade -rR kdegames :) On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:51, dick hoogendijk wrote: > After a "portupgrade -R " something's changed w/ > libvorbis. "Portupgrade -R kdegames3" won't compile cause of a missing > "/usr/local/lib/libvorbisfile.la" The old kdegames-3.0.3 stayes and the > new 3.1 doesn't compile ;-(( > > I've no idea what happened. I guess libvorbis changed somewhere but I > have no idea how to proceed now. > Does anybody know where this libvorbisfile.la come from and why it's > gone now. How do I portupgrade kdegames to the right 3.1 version at this > moment? What steps do I need to take? -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: libvorvisfile.la vanished?
It depends what you want to do really. If you are upgrading something which has very little dependancies, and on which very little depends, portupgrade will do, but for anything that is so interdependant as KDE, -rR is a must. Will On Sunday 23 February 2003 11:16, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 23 Feb Willie Viljoen wrote: > > Try portupgrade -rR kdegames :) > > I will.. > Can it be _this_ simple? > > This leads me to another question: > Is there a *right* syntax to use "portupgrade" for most cases? > > I mean: portupgrade is not enough most of the time (?) > Or do I have to use different options in all kind of different > situations? :-(( -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Kill while compiling release 4.7
On Sunday 23 February 2003 17:14, Martin Schweizer wrote: > In the same time it occurs a "out of swap" error in /var/log/messages but > df output seem like normal, enough of space on all slices. > What is going wrong? df doesn't show swap space, it only shows information for filesystems. FreeBSD does not use (by default) an on-filesystem swap file such as MS family systems do, it uses a seperate partition as swap space. To check how your swap space is being used, you may view the output from pstat -T Be advised the to do a make world reliably, you will almost always need atleast 128MB of swap on systems with average physical memory, and atleast 256MB if your system has low physical memory. Other workarounds could be to perform the build process in single user mode, sothat no other applications are using memory, but look at swap space first. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Kill while compiling release 4.7
On Sunday 23 February 2003 21:18, someone, possibly Martin Schweizer, typed: > Hello Willie > > How I do add more swap space? > Martin, there's an extended tutorial on adding and managing swap space in the FreeBSD Handbook. If you have installed the doc distribution (standard with most install options), you can read this in HTML form at: /usr/share/doc/handbook/adding-swap-space.html If you did not install doc, you can either get it quickly with /stand/sysinstall, or you can read the chapter in the online version of the Handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html If you prefer, the Handbook is also available from your local system in German (if you have installed doc) and you can read this chapter in German from: /usr/share/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html Or, if you like to use the on-line version, the German translation is at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: booting from Promise tx2000
On Monday 24 February 2003 2:52, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: > fbsd 4.7 release > > no drives on motherboard ata channels > > one ATA Master drive on each TX2000 IDE channel (no Array is defined, we > just want two independent disks for now) > > fbsd cdrom boots, finds the disks and installs fbsd. > > we choose boot manager because we typically have our system fail to boot > without boot manager (fbsd 3 and 4 has has this pb) so we always install > boot mgr and live with the additional timeout. > > booting never gets to fbsd boot mgr menu. > > we´ve disabled a bunch mobo i/o devics we don't need and can see no PCI > IRQ conflicts. > > any ideas? If your BIOS supports this, try setting the boot device in CMOS configuration to SCSI Boot Device. The problem is that the offboard ATA controller you are using has its own BIOS, thus the system BIOS will not boot a disk attatched to it. Setting SCSI boot device will mostly make your BIOS offer to hand booting over to what ever device offers to take it. Most (modern) ATA controllers respond to the call for a "SCSI boot device" and take controle, then booting the system from the hard drives they own. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Apache2 Port & FrontPage Extensions
On Monday 24 February 2003 4:38, someone, possibly Chris Phillips, typed: > Have I done wrong by installing apache2 instead of 1.3? I hope not. > I'd rather not post here as I feel like I am a pest. Any links that > people have found useful themselves, would be much appreciated, so I can > go away & RTFM. Unfortunately, the FrontPage extensions for Apache are a third party module, and the author has not yet implemented the module for Apache 2 (which at this stage is still widely considered a development or "semi-production" release, but 1.3 remains the standard production release). To get FP extensions, you should first remove Apache 2, and then install the apache13-ftp port. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Apache2 Port & FrontPage Extensions (Errata)
A quick fix to a mistake I made in my previous post: On Monday 24 February 2003 8:47, Willie Viljoen (in error) typed: > To get FP extensions, you should first remove Apache 2, and > then install the apache13-ftp port. This should infact read apache13-fp, not -ftp. Sorry -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: firewall/nat Web Hosting architecture
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 0:44, someone, possibly Guilherme J. R. Oliveira, typed: > > - if the public ip's adress's will be served with bind then it must be > installed in the same box as firewall&nat. True ? But I wish that bind > stays behind the firewall. - I have only 2 public ip's that must be > assigned (i think) to bind and secondary_bind. How can I acess to iis > and/or apache server independently from internet ? > This creates a few problems for routing, but all can be overcome. What you want to do is add your public IPs as aliases on your firewall/NAT machine. You can do this by putting these in rc.conf, right under the current interface address. This assumes your interface to the outside world is fxp0: ifconfig_fxp0="inet 20.4.37.34 netmask 255.255.255.252" defaultrouter="20.4.37.33" ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 20.4.40.137 netmask 255.255.255.252" ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet 20.4.40.138 netmask 255.255.255.255" You would have to get the proper netmask from your ISP, these would only work in very obscure routing conditions (but most ISPs that enforce NAT on their customers would also use something weird like this) Then, give your servers internal addresses and add appropriate static NAT rules to pass all traffic for those IPs directly to them. If you can get your ISP to give you a routable range instead, that is still the best though. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: scroll mouse
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 21:11, someone, possibly joshua lokken, typed: > >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > >... > >Section "InputDevice" > >Identifier "Mouse0" > >Driver "mouse" > >Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" > >Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > >Option "Buttons" "5" > >Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > >EndSection > You can try using the "Auto" protocol, that's always worked for me. I > don't spot any [obvious] problems... > > Joshua Joshua is spot on. With any PS/2 mouse that is properly supported by moused, you should use the auto protocol in your XF86Config. The reason for this specific problem is that the MouseSystems protocol (which is the obsolete protocol that used to be used for 3 button mice) does not have a Z axis. The auto protocol will work just fine though. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: freebsd 5.0 + monitor settings
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 21:08, someone, possibly Richard morris, typed: > I was wondering is it possible or if i can change the refresh rate on > XF86Config file. I've seen a line in the file that says vertrefresh 50 - > 120 i was wondering if i can just have one value there and if that would > change my refresh rate on my monitor because my screen is out of range at > certain resolutions. that is why i need to change my refresh rate. I can > assure you that the resolutions i use are supported by the monitor and > video adaptor. The information you need is in the XF86Config(5) manpage, but the briefe version follows: There are infact two settings you can use in the monitor section to do this. The HorizSync options sets horizontal syncronization frequency, and VertRefresh sets the (vertical) refresh rate. The easiest way to do this, if you know the exact refresh rates your monitor wants for these resolutions, is to set them like this: (For a monitor that wants 68.5KHz horizontal and 85.0 vertical) HorizSync 68.5 VertRefresh 85.0 Be warned, this will force XFree86 to operate ONLY at those refresh rates. This will disable all modes that do not function properly at those rates. You may want to include values for each mode your monitor supports and which you want to use, this can be done like: HorizSync 31.5,68.5 VertRefresh 60.,85.0 The standard setting is to specify a range of possible values, and let the video card BIOS take its pick. Most people have non-standard monitors though. These do not follow VESA specifications and will behave strangely with range settings. Even so, setting a range is still optimal, and if you monitor supports digital controle, I would sugest rather setting the monitor to the proper CRT limits than limiting refresh rates available to your system. > I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF I CAN GET SOME HELP ON THIS > SUBJECT. Totally off topic, but I must have my 2 cents worth. An all capitals line of text is widely considered to be shouting according to internet conventions. Those who answer questions on this list do so without receiving compensation, and in some cases, without even receiving thanks. This is a service that we provide as volunteers, and we attempt to do our best at it. Being shouted at is not nice though, and we would appreciate if you ask politely in the future. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD 4.4 Questions
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 9:34, someone, possibly Aas, Eskild, typed: > Dear Sirs > > > We are three students attending Hærens Ingeniørhøgskole (the norwegian > millitary engineering school). We are currently working on an assignment > about operating systems. We are writing about FreeBSD 4.4. We would like > to know if you can help us find , or tell us where we can find > information about these following subjects: > > * OS structure > * Process-handling > * CPU-handling > * Memory-handling > * Filesystem (implementation) > * I/O structure > * Security A good place to start would be the FreeBSD developer's handbook, this is available at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html It is not written specifically about 4.4, which has been deprecated for quite some time now, but focuses on FreeBSD in general, it should get you well on your way there though. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD 4.4 Questions
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:59, someone, possibly Neeraj Arora, typed: > another good place to search for information would be the book > > the design and implementation of 4.4 bsd Neeraj, I might be completely off, but I think this book goes to 4.4BSD as it was published by UCB. This is very different from FreeBSD 4.4. 4.4BSD is what FreeBSD 1.0 (and everything following that) was based on :) This would still be a good read to get some historical insights into the architecture of BSD though. Will > >>> Willie Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/26/03 06:52PM >>> > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 9:34, someone, possibly Aas, Eskild, typed: > > Dear Sirs > > > > > > We are three students attending Hærens Ingeniørhøgskole (the norwegian > > millitary engineering school). We are currently working on an > > assignment about operating systems. We are writing about FreeBSD 4.4. > > We would like to know if you can help us find , or tell us where we can > > find information about these following subjects: > > > > * OS structure > > * Process-handling > > * CPU-handling > > * Memory-handling > > * Filesystem (implementation) > > * I/O structure > > * Security > > A good place to start would be the FreeBSD developer's handbook, this is > available at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/inde >x.html > > It is not written specifically about 4.4, which has been deprecated for > quite some time now, but focuses on FreeBSD in general, it should get you > well on your way there though. > > Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Unable to set virtual screen smaller than physical screen
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:20, someone, possibly LEE TIAM KEAN, typed: > Hi, > i'm a beginner in Freebsd. I've set up x windows successfully but i found > that the screen is larger than my monitor. i've tried the xf86config > again by answering no when prompted with "Want virtual screen larger than > physical screen?". it still unsuccessful. Any other thing that i've > missed out? I'm using version 4.7 of the FreeBSD. Thanks Try configuring it with XFree86 -configure Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Need install help please
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:11, someone, possibly Ron Andreasen, typed: > Primary Master - IBM 40 gb hard drive > Primary Slave - Liteon CD-Rom > Secondary Master - Maxtor 20 gb hard drive > Secondary Slave - HP CD-Writer Plus 9100i The problem here is with the UDMA (Ultra-ATA) standards. Drives that do UDMA above UDMA3 want to use an 80-conductor cable, as opposed to the 40-conductor cable used by standard ATA. Another problem is that UDMA devices (especially UDMA3+) should not be connected together with non-UDMA devices. While this should work according to the standards, many systems and driver/hardware combinations do not support it. According to the standards, these devices should also be willing to work on a 40-conductor cable, albeit at slower speeds. This is also not always the case. I have seen drive/controller combinations where systems refuse to boot if an 80-conductor cable is not used. The best way to solve this would be to make some changes to your configuration, here is a sugestion: On an 80-conductor cable: Pri. Master:IBM 40GB drive, at highest UDMA mode Pri. Slave: Maxtor 20GB drive, at highest UDMA mode On a 40-conductor cable: Sec. Master:HP CD-Writer+ 9100i, PIO4 mode Sec. Slave: Liteon CD-ROM, PIO4 mode Note that while most CD-ROM/R/RW devices claim to support UDMA these days, very few of them actually do, and even with devices that do, PIO4 is still faster in the case of CD-ROMs, because of the way they work. The problem that this set-up creates is that your drives are all still sharing cables. While there is nothing wrong with this, it will degrade performance, as IDE busses do not interleave. For a better solution, I would sugest you add a second ATA controller to your system I have a controller based on the CMD649 chipset. Past CMD chipsets are famous for giving all sorts of trouble, but this one seems to behave, albeit that I need to disable write caching. The CMD649 comes on extremely cheap controllers, most in the sub $25 catagory, but they work just fine for what is needed. If you can get your hands on such a controller, you should use a set-up like this: Motherboard ATA controller: Pri. Master:Liteon CD-ROM (PIO4, 40-c cable) Sec. Master:HP CD-Writer+ 9100i (PIO4, 40-c cable) Here we make the HP secondary, because most boards will want to boot from the first CD-ROM, and you should be saving the writer for writing. The same could apply for my example earlier. Then... Offboard ATA controller: Pri. Master:IBM 40GB(highest UDMA, 80-c cable) Sec. Master:Maxtor 40GB (highest UDMA, 80-c cable) Note that your BIOS will not directly list these drives as bootable. The offboard ATA controller will have its own BIOS. To get your motherboard BIOS to hand booting over, set it to boot from "SCSI Boot Device" or "SCSI". The ATA controller will then grab controle and do the boot. You can also invert the order of devices, and have the CD-ROMs on the offboard controller, but because it is newer, the offboard will most likely support higher UDMA speeds than the onboard one, and only the onboard controller will be able to perform a CD-ROM boot. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Need install help please
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:17, someone, possibly Ron Andreasen, typed: > I will definately look into this ATA controller you > suggested and see if I can grab one. Will this still > allow me to copy cds on-the-fly? Absolutely. In the second set-up I sugested (a second ATA controller), each of your devices will be on its own ATA cable. This will allow you to copy CD-to-CD, get faster hard drive-to-hard drive data transfers, and should also help reduce the ever annoying buffer underrun from hard drive to CD. For a complete list of ATA controllers that will work with 5.0-RELEASE, you can check the hardware notes here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-i386.html#AEN33 The reason why your drives would previously have had trouble on the same cable is the same reason I always like to have a second ATA controller in any system with more than two ATA devices. IDE busses (as I pointed out in my previous post) do not interleave like SCSI busses do, so connecting two things to one cable, even though it works fine, should not be done unless you absolutely have to :) With each device on its own cable, all your devices can transfer data at the same time and at maximum bus bandwidth, and conflicts that (still) crop up from time to time between two ATA devices will be eliminated. Any ATA controller that is listed as working in the hardware notes will do nicely for this, so you don't specifically need the CMD649, I sugested it because it "works for me (TM)" You should be able to pick any of these up easily from the local shop or any online PC parts store, many of them for under $25 and even the faster ATA133 ones for under $40. I think you'll enjoy FreeBSD once you get to know it, so go get that controller ASAP. As a side note, once you do have FreeBSD, make sure you recompile your kernel with these: device ata device atapicd device atapicam device scbus device pass device cd These will allow you to access your CD-ROM and CD-R/RW as SCSI devices, which has all kinds of stability and performance benifits that you'll quite like. Remember to still compile atadisk, or you might get a nasty surprise form hard disks :) Have fun Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 16:50, someone, possibly Daniel Bye, typed: > Yes, but how is that so different from installing a new world for an old > kernel? The problem with a new world on an old kernel is that libraries in your world may have changed with the upgrade. If a library that interfaces directly with some feature in the kernel is changed, and is expecting the change to be present in the kernel, you will almost certainly have trouble with it. > When you have built a new kernel, you must reboot to start using it. > After running make installworld with the new kernel, you have the new > world installed as well. Your new kernel will only be running for a few > minutes with the old world, until the new one is fully installed. That is exactly how it should be. The tried and trusted method, that works for me, and is the official method listed in the UPDATING file: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf && vi YOURCONFIG cd /usr/src/ && make buildworld kernel KERNCONF=YOURCONFIG The kernel target is a combination of buildkernel and installkernel. These targets are built in order and rely on the previous target making it. Thus, buildworld must succeed for buildkernel to begin, and after buildkernel has worked, installkernel will run. Once this is completed, continue with: shutdown now You will now have dropped to single user mode, then, pick /bin/sh for your shell (this is easier to use in single user than csh), and run: cd /usr/src mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster reboot You will now have a properly functioning and fully upgraded system. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: cat
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 18:56, someone, possibly Tijl Coosemans, typed: > I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this: > > cat filename | tr -d '\r' > filename > > However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of > interest, somebody who knows why that is? Not a clue, but a tool to do this safely called dosunix is available in ports :) -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: IDE LiteON CD-RW supported by burncd?
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 19:42, someone, possibly Michael Sharp, typed: > I understand ALL IDE CD-RWs are supported under FreeBSD, but has anyone > actually used a CD-RW by LiteON ( http://liteonit.com ) and had sucess > with it under burncd? In addition to working with burncd, you can also get this drive to work with cdrtools if you want by making it appear to be a SCSI device. You will need a 4.7-RELEASE or newer system (check the Handbook for upgrading instructions) and you will need to recompile your kernel with atleast: device ata device atapicd device atapicam device scbus device pass device cd Some IDE CD-R/RW devices will only work this way... those that do not implement the standards that SS adheres strictly to in the burncd code. However, this drive, according to numerous posts, will work fine, and does implement those standards (which is rather impressive) The advantage to using it with ATAPICAM rather than burncd is that you will also be able to use the other tools from the cdrtools package, cdrecord, cdda2wav, etc, and the numerous front ends that have been designed for them. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: can't get to ATA133
On Thursday 27 February 2003 1:01, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: > FreeBSD 4.7R > > Promise TX2000 with two ATA133 drives as ata masters using the ATA133 IDE > cables that came with the TX2000. > > dmesg shows: > > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ar0: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks: > 0 READY ad4: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at ata2-master > UDMA33 ar1: 39083MB [4982/255/63] status: READY > subdisks: 0 READY ad6: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at > ata3-master UDMA33 > > Anybody know why TX sees only 33? The ata driver is quite strict on standards implementation. It could be that the promise cables may not comply as strictly with the standard as it would prefer. Try getting 80-conductor cables from a third party. Generally speaking, buying your own cables is better than using the ones that came with the controller anyway, as those are usually el-cheapos, even with the most expensive controllers. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: i got a problem
On Thursday 27 February 2003 8:22, someone, possibly ChRis, typed: > Hi, I'm a big fan of FreeBSD and have been using it > for a while, well my 4.0 software CD got messed up so > I had a friend get me 4.7, the installation went well > it's all installed, my problem is with the X > interface. When I start X my mouse icon dissappears > when I touch my mouse. And then it ends up in the top > right corner of the screen. I have tried various ways > to fix the problem but none have worked. I was > wondering if you knew what the problem was, or if > anyone else has reported this with the 4.7 realease. > Please write me back and let me in on what you think > is going on. Thanks alot. Chris, This is usually an error with the protocol of the mouse. Try reconfiguring XFree86 with XFree86 -configure. Then make sure that the mouse is set up properly. If it was working correctly when you checked it in sysinstall (if you enabled mouse support there), you can make X use that pipe by connecting it to moused. To do this, set: Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" In your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: ATA/IDE Controller question
On Thursday 27 February 2003 9:02, someone, possibly Ron Andreasen, typed: > I just looked at the FreeBSD hardware list and saw all > those contollers there. Are any of those ISA devices > or are they all PCI? > > I only have 3 PCI slots and they're all being used by > stuff I can't give up (video card, sound card, and > modem). So if they are all PCI devices will ISA > contollers still get the job done? I'd be using it in > FreeBSD 5.0. I think most of these devices will be PCI, and some of them, chipsets of integrated devices on the motherboard. The problem with an offboard ISA controller, even though you could theoretically add one, is that it would clash with the I/O ranges of the on-board controller, and you will still only be able to use two channels. ISA offboard controllers were phased out years ago, even finding one would be an achievement in its own. Seriously though, I would take out the PCI modem, if it's an analogue anyway, those are known to cause trouble and chew up CPU time, an external modem would be a much better option, and you'd have a free slot. The same goes for ISDN modems actually. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: fm801 & FreeBSD5.0-RELEASE
On Thursday 27 February 2003 9:12, someone, possibly Alexey V. Litvinov, typed: > Hi All! > > I have installed 5.0-RELEASE and have a trouble to configure my Genius > Sound Maker Live soundcard based on ForteMedia 801 chip > I'm added next line to KERNELCONFIG file: > device pcm I have the same card, it hasn't worked since some time during 4.6. I've been hoping somebody else would send a PR, but it doesn't seem to have happened, I've been happily using my old SB16 in the mean time. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: fm801 & FreeBSD5.0-RELEASE
On Thursday 27 February 2003 9:22, someone, possibly Willie Viljoen, typed: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 9:12, someone, possibly Alexey V. Litvinov, > > typed: > > Hi All! > > > > I have installed 5.0-RELEASE and have a trouble to configure my Genius > > Sound Maker Live soundcard based on ForteMedia 801 chip > > I'm added next line to KERNELCONFIG file: > > device pcm > > I have the same card, it hasn't worked since some time during 4.6. I've > been hoping somebody else would send a PR, but it doesn't seem to have > happened, I've been happily using my old SB16 in the mean time. PR has been sent. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: SCSI emulation of ATAPI CDROM {was [Re: IDE LiteON CD-RW supported by burncd?]}
On Thursday 27 February 2003 7:59, someone, possibly Shantanu Mahajan, typed: > I tried to compile the kernel with above options. But for > deviceatapicam > it says > Warning: device "atapicam" is unknown > also tried ATAPICAM > > > uname -rs > > FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE The ATAPICAM code was not merged by the time 4.7-RELEASE was frozen. It was only introduced shortly afterward during early post-release development of 4.7-STABLE on 1 November 2002. In order to get it on your system, you will need to follow upgrade instructions in Chapter 21, The Cutting Edge, of the Handbook, available online at http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html or on your local system (if you have installed the doc distribution) in /usr/share/doc/handbook/cutting-edge.html. The Handbook has also been translated into many languages, if you prefer, a version in your native language should also be available on-line and on your local system. You may also with to patch your present system with the historical ATAPICAM patches available from http://www.cuivre.fr.eu.org/~thomas/atapicam/. This will still require a rebuild though, and upgraing is highly recommended. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: can't get to ATA133
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:31, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: > >The ata driver is quite strict on standards implementation. It could be > > that the promise cables may not comply as strictly with the standard as > > it would prefer. Try getting 80-conductor cables from a third party. > > Generally speaking, buying your own cables is better than using the > > ones that came with the controller anyway, as those are usually > > el-cheapos, even with the most expensive controllers. > > One unreported point we later verified was in the TX2000 on-board setup > util, "Show Drive Status" shows both drives as mode "U6" (is ATA133). Won't matter to ata(4), if it doesn't like your cables, it will force your drives down to UDMA2 at boot time. It could be that the cables still have abit more noise than the driver is willing to tolerate. A new set of cables won't cost you more than $5 each, try replacing the cables first. The 80-conductor cables that came with my sister's motherboard and with my offboard ATA controller (CMD 649 variant) were both 80-conductor cables by the manufacturors' claims, but ata(4) was not interested. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:43, someone, possibly Willie Viljoen, typed: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:31, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: > > >The ata driver is quite strict on standards implementation. It could > > > be that the promise cables may not comply as strictly with the > > > standard as it would prefer. Try getting 80-conductor cables from a > > > third party. Generally speaking, buying your own cables is better > > > than using the ones that came with the controller anyway, as those > > > are usually el-cheapos, even with the most expensive controllers. > > > > One unreported point we later verified was in the TX2000 on-board setup > > util, "Show Drive Status" shows both drives as mode "U6" (is ATA133). > > Won't matter to ata(4), if it doesn't like your cables, it will force > your drives down to UDMA2 at boot time. It could be that the cables still > have abit more noise than the driver is willing to tolerate. A new set of > cables won't cost you more than $5 each, try replacing the cables first. > The 80-conductor cables that came with my sister's motherboard and with > my offboard ATA controller (CMD 649 variant) were both 80-conductor > cables by the manufacturors' claims, but ata(4) was not interested. There are two things you might want to look at. First it trying to set the modes manually after boot. This is not recommended, and I would not do it unless on a read only file system, if setting the higher mode fails, or fails partially, you might be in for a world of trouble. To do this, you can try: atacontrol mode ata4 udma6 --- atacontrol mode ata6 udma6 --- Also, you might want to look at the length of the cables. According to the Ultra-ATA (UDMA) standards, an 80-conductor cable must be no longer than 30cm, or about 12". Cables of longer length begin to build up too much noise, even for the double-conductor design to combat. While Promise's BIOS and their own drivers (as seen on Windows) might tolerate these noise levels, I'm very sure ata(4) will not. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:08, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed: > > I've already thought of that and the guy on site says the Promise > > cables are 18 inches. > > Which is just about right... > > -Søren Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our local techie, but Søren did write the driver, so he's probably more correct than my techie. My mistake :) Søren, what else could be causing this? On bootup, Len's system complains: > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device Yet the controller's BIOS is satisfied with the cables, and they are within the length boundaries as you have correctly pointed out. Any ideas? Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:30, someone, possibly Soeren Schmidt, typed: > > Strange, I was told 30cm emphatically by our local techie, but Søren > > did write the driver, so he's probably more correct than my techie. My > > mistake > > > > :) > > Well, point him at the ATA specs :) It seems he was reading some manufacturor's "own version" of the specs, we just checked the official specs and you are right :) > > Søren, what else could be causing this? On bootup, Len's system complains: > > > ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > > > ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > > This is because the cblid bit in the disks indicate that the disk doesn't > see the right cable (or rather the right signals it tests for). > Since I dont have a dmesg from the system I dont know if there are other > devices on the cable than the disks, as the most usual culprit here is > an ATAPI device that doesn't like UDMA. Len, post dmesg? :) -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Bring up KDE (3.1.0) "start" menu with a Windows key
On Thursday 27 February 2003 14:45, someone, possibly Alistair Phillips, typed: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if it was possible to bring up the KDE "start" > menu when I press my Windows key on my keyboard? I know > the key code of that key (i think its 215 offhand) and I have > used xmodmap to reprogram that key to display a comma for > example. Would be great to be able to bring up the KDE menu > now! Open the KDE control centre, then expand "Regional and Accessibility", then open "Keyboard Shortcuts". Expand the "Panel" tree and look at the "Pop-up launch menu" short cut option. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: SCSI emulation of ATAPI CDROM
On Friday 28 February 2003 8:18, someone, possibly Shantanu Mahajan, typed: > on http://www.cuivre.fr.eu.org/~thomas/atapicam/, > found out the .diff files. But don't have > sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c file. First two lines of atapicam-20020820.diff: --- /dev/null Mon Aug 19 21:34:21 2002 +++ sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c Mon Aug 12 22:08:00 2002 This means that applying the patch should create atapi-cam.c. Try applying from /usr/src with: patch < /wherever/atapicam-yourversion.diff Keep in mind that you need the atapicam-date.diff and atapicam-STABLE-config.diff patches applied from within /usr/src for this to work properly.. Again, I think upgrading would be better, cvsup shouldn't take more than 30 minutes, even on a slow connection, and you will have all of the latest code, including a new base system, with security fixes and all that too. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: setting up proxy question 2, aim behind firewall
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 15:36, someone, possibly Alvaro Gil, typed: > I read through the squid manuals and it requires a ton of disk space > and ram and a moderately fast computer. My server is a wimpy little > Pentium 166 with 48 megs of ram and a 6 gig hard drive. Is there a > simpler way to set up a method of using AIM behind a firewall? I don't > need an industrial strength Proxy, just something so I can use AIM > behind a firewall.. Why not just set up a stateful firewall on your server? -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: No subject was specified.
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 17:42, someone, possibly Wolfpaw - Dale Corse, typed: > Hats off to you Bill :) > > Satanic Imagery.. LOL.. I always thought he was cute :) > > D. Well, that's the problem with the internet today... now that people are making money from letting every Tom, Dick and Harry, so to speak, get on, we will just be getting more and more crackpots... oh well... -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: No subject was specified.
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 19:56, someone, possibly Bill Moran, typed: > Personally, I think it's foolish to just _assume_ that this guy is a > crackpot. I understand that his comments seem Trollish in nature, but > by his responses, I think it's also quite possible that he simply isn't > familiar with FreeBSD and didn't know what to make of the daemon logo. > I'm more interested in "why is his ISP displaying the daemon logo when > there's a problem with his page?" All I can think is that they use BSD servers and probably wrote their own error handler (that's the newest big thing amongst ISPs that like to show off.) On these custom error handler pages, displaying logos of the web server software and operating system is common. Not that I'm complaining, it's free advertising for us :) -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: No subject was specified.
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:36, someone, possibly Wolfpaw - Dale Corse, typed: > " now that people are making money from letting every Tom, Dick and > Harry, so to speak, get on " > > That sounds dangerously close to the theories of a dictator, or a > repressive government.. Russia and China come to mind. Why shouldn't they > get on? It is a public internet after all. I don't know what country your > in, but here we have something called the "Charter of Rights and > Freedoms" which is supposed to entail freedom and equality for all. Oh don't get me wrong, I don't mind anybody getting on, but it would be nice if ISPs would atleast take the responsibility to educate their users before they let them on. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Question
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 9:25, someone, possibly Darryl C Price, typed:
> I see a lot of message traffic on the net from people, like me, who are
> having problems with PAM authentication via LDAP. Why don't you guys
> focus on delivering a pam_ldap module that works without a lot of
> jumping through hoops?
>
> =Darryl
Darryl, I think -dev or one of the more sepcific lists would be a better
place to ask your question, -questions is mostly support.
The standard answer though is that people can't focus on one thing all the
time, I'm very certain somebody is already working on a better pam_ldap
module, but since FreeBSD is developed by volunteers in what little free
time they have, these things will take time, unfortunately.
I think Bill Paul answered this question rather well in -current and -net
earlier, Bill writes:
> Not unless it's something I can fix using easily available resources.
> I can't easily drop everything and slap together a test setup with
> exactly the right software and hardware I need to debug everyone's
> particular problem. ("This bug only occurs in -CURRENT as of 30
> seconds ago and on an UltraSPARC 10 with 16 if_dc interfaces and
> I need you to fix it _NOW_ pleasepleasepleaseI'llevengiveyouahandjob.")
While that is a slightly different context, the same principle applies,
things take time. :-)
Perhaps you should submit this as a PR sothat it can be asigned to a group
of developers.
Will
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Re: Okano Mouse
On Monday 24 March 2003 16:56, someone, possibly Pierrick Brossin, typed: > Hey! Hello :) > I received that mouse from someone who got it in Germany and it seems > it's impossible to find > Okano's website! > So I assume it's some kind of working/cheap/unknown mouse :) Doesn't really matter, most "weird-brand" PS/2 mice these days either use some odd Logitech or MS IntelliMouse Explorer PS/2 compatible protocol. I have a Sahara mouse (completely unknown outside South Africa) which works perfectly. > I tried the ZAxisMapping trick, I tried to set the mouse up in rc.conf > and use sysmouse in X config file. > And a lot of other stuff! You might want to update the tricks you are trying, some things have changed since the HOWTOs and documentation was written, sadly, most people get it working and leave it at that, neglecting to update the docs. > Do you have any advise or thing I could test to make the wheel work ? Here are some snip-outs from my configuration files. The Sahara mouse has three buttons, of which the wheel is one, and two thumb buttons on the side. I have managed to get all of it working with these: #/etc/rc.conf: moused_enable="YES" moused_port="/dev/psm0" moused_type="auto" moused_flags="-z 4" Pay special attention to the -z flag, you'll see why just a few paragraphs down... #/etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "SampleRate" "1500" Option "Resolution" "1024" EndSection If you do not have the thumb buttons, simply changing the 7 to a 5 in the buttons option should set it up for your mouse. The sample rate and resolution tweaks are there because my mouse is optical, and they help a great deal. If your mouse is optical, check its manual for optimal settings, if it's rubber ball mechanics, you should be able to take those out completely. Note the absence of ZAxisMapping. This is because it's nolonger needed if you pass the -z switch to moused(8), which is the proper way of doing this on BSD these days. A setting of -z 4 means to map buttons 4 and 5, you can have finer controle over this too, check the moused(8) man page for details. Hope this helps Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: help with firewall log message
On Monday 24 March 2003 17:34, someone, possibly Darryl Hoar, typed: > Mar 24 08:06:43 darryl ipmon[98]: 08:06:42.283459 xl0 @0:3 b > 10.0.0.1,router -> > 10.0.0.255,router PR udp len 20 72 IN > > what does it mean ? I'd say it looks like what ever 10.0.0.1 is, is either running routed/gated, or is a hardware router. Either way, it's trying to do UDP RIP advertisements to the local broadcast address, to try and discover other routers on the network. If 10.0.0.1 is your firewall, and you don't need routed/gated (if you only have a default route out of there, you don't), you can disable it with /stand/sysinstall, in the networking options. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Okano Mouse
On Monday 24 March 2003 17:55, someone, possibly Pierrick Brossin, typed: > Hi! Hey there, > First of all, thanx for your answer! No problem :) > Should the mouse's wheel work on console ? > Because I can move the cursor (as I could before) but the wheel is not > working... Nope, moused just doesn't know what to do with it, but you have to tell moused about it with -z, otherwise it "forgets" to forward the wheel data to X :) > Wheel still not working under X. Weird... > I received no manual with it. It's real some kind of noname hardware! Eek, you're on your own there I'm afraid :) Does the output from dmesg mention the mouse at all? Maybe we can identify it from there... Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Forcing memory detection with MAXMEM?
Hey, After much struggle with the Asus P3V133 running an Intel processor with weird multiplier lock (mentioned on -hardware a few weeks back), I've fitted a second hand Abit BE6 I managed to pick up cheap... This thing has an ugly intel BX chipset which only recognizes half of my RAM (two 256MB modules read as 128MB each). This is a known issue with the BX. If I set MAXMEM in my kernel configuration to force FreeBSD to detect 512MB, would it work, despite the BX being crap? Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!
This is a wild guess, but it might be due to kernel panics related to write caching (which is on by default since 4.6) Such a panic will happen when ever heavy disc load occurs. Try setting hw.ata.wc="0" in /boot/loader.conf and see if the problem goes away. Will On Monday 24 March 2003 21:20, someone, possibly Steve Warwick, typed: > Hi All, > > Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? > > My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they > did not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going of for > a few months now -- intermittent restarts that no one claims > responsibility for. > > This is a new machine with the latest OS (4.7) so I can't blame a faulty > power supply or something like -- I have more fans than Britney in the > server, for HD and CPU so I don't think it's a temp problem. > > > Thoughts, suggestions? > > TIA > > > Steve > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Problem with soundcard fm801 under 4.8RC1
On Thursday 20 March 2003 19:33, someone, possibly Whyking, typed: > Hi, > my problem is still not fixed. I'm pretty sure by the time that the > driver maybe just broken. When noone of you has an idea what the problem > could be I gonna fill out a bug report. So any hints would be > appreciated. > > Cheers, > Whyking I've been having a similar problem with an FM801 since 4.7-STABLE some time. I filed a report on GNATS but it seems to have never been delivered. I'll mail the maintaner of the driver and see if we can get him to take a quick look. Will > Please copy mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], i'm not subscribed. > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:28:22 +0100 > > Whyking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, i forgot. I ran mergemaster and just reran MAKEDEV all. Still > > doesn't work. > > > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:56:51 -0500 > > > > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [please wrap your lines to a reasonable length] > > > > > > Whyking wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a huge problem trying to get my soundcard working. It worked > > > > perfectly > > > > > > > > before I upgraded my system to 4.8RC1. Since I compiled the new > > > > kernel I always get "/dev/dsp: Device not configured". It's a > > > > terratec 512i with an fm 801 chip (pci). I tried compiling the > > > > kernel with and without pcm support build in. The module loads > > > > without complaints and I see the soundcard in pciconf -l. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Did you run "cd /dev; MAKEDEV all" after the upgrade? It will do > > > this for you automatically when you run mergemaster. > > > > > > -- > > > Bill Moran > > > Potential Technologies > > > http://www.potentialtech.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Strange dial-up related DNS problems
This gets a 10.0 on my weird-o-meter. I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE machine sitting at a client which dials in and collects their mail via POP3, and sends outgoing mail via a smarthost which points to an SMTP server at their ISP. This machine has worked fine since late last year, but started giving a strange problem this week. When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live internet IP and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to any DNS server. Any traffic to port 53 UDP simply seems to dissapear. The same with firewalling enabled as normal, or even with ipfw add 1 allow ip from any to any When connected to any other ISP we have tried dialing, all works perfectly. When dialed from another FreeBSD box with the same username/password, the SAIX connection works perfectly. Yet, this single machine absolutely flat out refuses to talk to any name server while connected to SAIX, firewalling, no firewalling, no difference. I have tried running tcpdump -i ppp0 udp port 53 in an attempt at capturing these packets, nothing, I also looked at rl0 just for interest's sake, nothing. I have run out of ideas, what am I missing? PS: Please CC me in the reply, I get so much list mail I might miss a reply there. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Strange dial-up related DNS problems
On Thursday 31 July 2003 0:16, someone, possibly Barney Wolff, typed: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > > When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live > > internet IP and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to > > any DNS server. Any traffic to port 53 UDP simply seems to dissapear. > > Sheer guess, but perhaps the PPP negotiation is giving them something > weird (eg, 127.0.0.1) as the nameserver address. Have a look at > /etc/resolv.conf while they're connected and at the ppp log. > > Have you tried dig @server.ip some.host? > Any internal firewall in place? What do its logs/stats show? Yes, from the other ISPs, dig @their.servers and dig @my.own.servers works fine. On SAIX, dig @anybody.server only gives me a timeout. The box uses ipfw in a stateful setup, but even with that comletely out of the way, there's no difference. /etc/resolv.conf is static, but the address in there is correct. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
(Solved) Strange dial-up related DNS problems
I got it fixed (or atleast, as good as it can be fixed) For future reference, here's what went wrong. During the weekend, SAIX upgraded and repaired all Cisco equipment on their network. During this repair, they somehow managed to break something major. The /etc/ppp/options file on the offending BSD box contained the asyncmap 0 option. This tells pppd not to escape characters leaving as part of packets that could be misunderstood as being controle characters by the other side. This has been woking fine for a long time. however, during SAIX's tinkering, they managed to get their PPP gateways to not ignore controle characters coming in as part of IP packets, as they should be doing. What was going wrong was that some part of the DNS query must have been seen as some arb. controle character. The machine then handled the packet incorrectly, and it never reached the NS it was meant for. To fix this, just remove asyncmap 0 from your config file. This gives a slight performance hit, but with the wonderful resourcefullness of some ISPs, what can you do... Origional message follows: This gets a 10.0 on my weird-o-meter. I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE machine sitting at a client which dials in and collects their mail via POP3, and sends outgoing mail via a smarthost which points to an SMTP server at their ISP. This machine has worked fine since late last year, but started giving a strange problem this week. When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live internet IP and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to any DNS server. Any traffic to port 53 UDP simply seems to dissapear. The same with firewalling enabled as normal, or even with ipfw add 1 allow ip from any to any When connected to any other ISP we have tried dialing, all works perfectly. When dialed from another FreeBSD box with the same username/password, the SAIX connection works perfectly. Yet, this single machine absolutely flat out refuses to talk to any name server while connected to SAIX, firewalling, no firewalling, no difference. I have tried running tcpdump -i ppp0 udp port 53 in an attempt at capturing these packets, nothing, I also looked at rl0 just for interest's sake, nothing. I have run out of ideas, what am I missing? PS: Please CC me in the reply, I get so much list mail I might miss a reply there. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
