Re: Minimum system requirements
I'm sure he meant is there a video that shows the steps taken to complete the install. This will also list hardware requirements, but in short it does depend on what you want, I run BSD on a pentium m, 1ghz with 1gb ram and it runs sweet. You could run it on lesser hardware without a problem... Other than the hand book and reading the section on installation I'd have a look in YouTube and see if there are any instructional videos. Cheers On 20/03/2011, at 22:30, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:52:59 -0500, aaron van caster > wrote: >> Just would like to know what are the minimum system/hardware requirements to >> run 8.2 OS and do to have a simple video showing installation? > > This primarily depends on the codecs used for the video. > If there is much compression involved, requirements are > higher than to play uncompressed video (where mainly > the access speed to storage matters). For example, I've > had excellent results on a 300 MHz P2. The P4 with 2 GHz > I'm using at home plays everything at a good speed. > Maybe the ability of direct rendering is important, too, > so you chose your GPU according to good driver support > (ATI Radeon "old-fashioned" in my case). > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: badly munged system
Eltan, The actual problem is the fact you installed the kernel, booted the new kernel and are using the "old" world. You can boot the old kernel and do a make installworld and it will work. The world and the kernel will have problems, especially if there are major version differences between the new and old builds! Keep the kernel the same version of the world by installing world and kernel at the same time. Regards Daniel On 7/18/09, Eitan Adler wrote: > I tried to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, > reboot, make installworld from an old version of 7.2-STABLE to revision > 195666. I was in single user mode the entire time. > The first three steps worked perfectly. The final step resulted in an > error which I forgot to log. I then proceeded to do a make clean and try > to rebuild the world. > This results in the following error: > cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -I/usr/obj/home/src/stable7/tmp/legacy/usr/in > > clude -c /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c > /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c:146: warning: 'struct > dirent' > > declared inside parameter list > > /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c:929: error: > dereferencing poin > > ter to incomplete type > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /home/src/stable7/usr.bin/makewhatis. > *** Error code 1 > ... > > Along with this error I am now missing quite a number of system files: > among them include /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: sort: Shared object has no run-time symbol table > and man. > > How could I get out of this state without losing data? > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Sent from my mobile device http://buymeahouse.stiw.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:01:37 +0800, Bruce Cran wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:35:11 +0530 manish jain wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is to force an fsck on all filesystems at system startup. On Linux, this was simply a matter of editing /etc/rc.sysinit. Things seem a bit more complicated in the BSD world. Can somebody please point me in the right direction ? I found this from a post last year: echo '/sbin/fsck -y -f' >> /etc/rc.early You could also replace rc.early with rc.local if you want it to run later in the boot process. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Server crashing, no explanations
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Wojciech Puchar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I >> generally got some indicative errors in the logs. >> > > hardware failures are different. rarely causes reboot, or reboots ramdomly > independent of what you do. > > with bad memory it usually produces sig11 or similar errors much more often > than rebooting. > heavy load, heats the cpu, cpu reaches upper temp limit set in bios, computer reboots without warning to OS, nothing in logs, nothing recorded in bios, no crashdump cos the os didn't crash. I've seen it happen. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: making packages from ports
On Nov 13, 2007 11:48 AM, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>I've got a box i'd like to build packages from ports on, and deploy
> those packages to other machines. I'll use postfix as an example. I did make
> package from postfix's directory and selected pcre and mysql support. I got
> the postfix tarball package, but when i tried to install it on another box
> it needed pcre and mysql-client packages. I had to run make package in each
> of their directories. I was wondering if there was a recursive way of
> package making?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
Have a look at pkg_create(1)
I will generally use the following command to create a bunch of
packages of installed ports.
pkg_info | awk '{ print "pkg_create -yb", $1 }' | sh
or
pkg_info | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs -n pkg_create -yb
(I'm certain someone will point out a better way of doing this)
I will place these packages in a NFS/SMB shared directory or NULL
mount it for jails to install packages on other systems/jails.
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Re: can't upgrade - catch-22
On 10/27/07, Keith Seyffarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default
> > > X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
> > > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
> > > On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please
> > > set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
> > >
> > > However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either
> > > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this
> > > error.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby installed? I
> > > think once I have that installed, I should be able to get port-upgrade
> > > fixed and then maybe be able to get some patches downloaded... I would
> > > really appreciate any tips or suggestions.
> > >
> > > output of uname -a:
> > > FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov
> > > 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> >
> > There was major change about Xorg; For more details, plase see here:
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-May/001131.html
> >
> > I think the upgrade was/is mandatory, not optional ;;
>
> Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it isn't really very helpful. I
> guess I didn't clarify the catch-22 in my previous post.
>
> In order to get X upgraded, I need to get portupgrade working. This
> requires that X already be upgraded. This, in return requires
> portupgrade...
>
> I was starting with trying to get Ruby because that addressed the
> vulnerabilities I was trying it initially address. However, that's
> pretty irrelevant at the moment.
>
> Where I'm stuck is getting either portupgrade working or getting X
> upgraded, both of which seem to be dependent on the other having
> already happened...
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with
portinstall?
ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\*
That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg.
Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then upgrade the
packages that depended on xorg.
It's probably not as simple as portupgrade, but you'll probably have more
luck.
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Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk
On 10/23/07, Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from > >>> a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. > >> > >> You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt > >> separate slices. There is no need to encrypt stuff like / or /usr; > >> what is there that needs to be kept secret? > > > > Maybe not encryption, but integrity protection is very important for > > laptops. GELI supports integrity protection for a while now. If you > > don't protect integrity of your entire laptop disk, it is trivial to > > trojan userland utilities and/or kernel and steal your password. If > > someone needs your data, he can dump encrypted partition, trojan your > > system and once you connect to the internet and attach your > > encrypted partition, the trojan will send the password to the > > attacker. Many people often leave their laptops in hotels rooms, for > > example. > > I don't quite grasp in what level you are using the term 'integrity' > here. > > My knowledge of encryption at the storage level is limited at best... > I'm just finding out all the finer points (temp directories, swap > etc). > > However, I'll throw out what I wanted, what I have and then a question: > > Want: > > - a FreeBSD system that runs from a fully encrypted disk with > passphrase and an encryption key on a removable thumb disk that can be > removed so that upon reboot, can not be started > > Have: > > - a FreeBSD system that runs from a fully encrypted disk with NO > passphrase (due to known, seemingly unsolved keyboard interaction > problems) that boots from a thumb drive that has an encryption key so > that when rebooted, does not boot (thumb drive can be removed once > boot procedure complete)) > > Question: > > - if the disk (PC) is stolen, having the entire disk encrypted so no > one can even tell what OS is on it, does it make it secure to the > point that no one will know what to look for anyway (eg: what is in > /usr)? If someone does not know the OS, then it makes it more > difficult to know what string or text attacks to perform, right? (I'm > not trying to start a security via obscurity/bikeshed war, I seriously > wouldn't mind opinion). > > I think it's fantastic. I'm not a disk forensic specialist, but it's > good enough for what I want. Again...thanks to everyone who worked on > the GEOM infrastructure. > > Performance is adequate in my benches so far for what I need, so long > as one has adequate memory as to not have to run a disk-based swap > space. > > Steve > Even if all data on a drive is encrypted, the partition table is not. Software based disk encryption works on partitions. How far into the boot sequence do you get before your system crashes without the key present? I would assume as far as reading the / partition to get the kernel etc... It would have read the partition table and the boot loader, known which partition was the "active" partition and tried booting it. Now, to identify what OS this disk has on it you can check the partition table and see what "type" has been set for each slice/partition. You will be able to see that there is a BSD style slice on the disk just by running `fdisk /dev/mystolendiskdevice` You now know it's a BSD OS, you could then make a guess as to what version of BSD by the type of machine it was taken from, based on what hardware is supported by each BSD. I believe their slices and layout are identical but the file systems differ. The person with your disk could then start trying to determine what kind of disk encryption is in place. So, a disk drive (I believe Seagate ship them now) that has an encryption chip built in to do hardware encryption regardless of software in use would be an excellent measure. On top of that add your GELI. Juts my 3 cents. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk
On 10/10/07, Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI > encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. > > All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be > entered correctly upon boot. I have tried everything I have found on the > web (including disabling 'kbdmux' in the kernel) to no avail. > > Is there any chance that anyone here has found a resolution to this > problem, in the 6.x branch, and if not, has it been looked/resolved > within -current? > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a workaround? You could always use a key without a passphrase... unsafe as it is, put the key on a usb device that you remove once the machine has booted? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: minimal install is too big
On 10/5/07, Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Recently, for pure entertainment and a little bit of a experience > thing, I have been looking and/or finding many devices that have linux > embedded. While in of itself the fact that it works, I'm not > discounting. But I'd like to expand it or get it running on a system > that I am familiar with. So I was playing with the idea of using > FreeBSD on such devices, and I would deal with the individual hardware > specs if I could get the general system small enough. > > The minimal install of FreeBSD as from the developers is about 130MB. > I want to get something working on a 8MB flash. (For those curious, > it's a ethernet NAS device) > > picobsd is discontinued, nanobsd claims it can fit in 64MB. I'd even > go with some NetBSD flavor, as long as it's not "linux." I've done > some research and would like to see this happen, but may just end up > using the GPL code from Linksys to get it working as I need it to. > > Thanks for any update/idea/clue. > > If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. > "I can" is a way of life. > More and Bigger is not always Better. > The road to success is always uphill. http://www.minibsd.org/ -> but claims it'll fit in 16mb flash, not 8mb. There was an openbsd fork(?) that was along the lines of a pure packet filter and only a packet filter... stripped to the bare minimum needed to fit on a flash device. It was shipped with a 486dx2 66, 64mb ram, 3/4 nics... you could download the OS itself and install it on any old machine you wanted... but if only I could remember the name... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Transparent email proxy
On 7/16/07, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > With the firewall, it is easy to make the use of the outgoing mail > hub compulsory. Is there some reason beyond that that you want to do > things transparently? Yes, I should have been a bit more specific. As university department, we receive a number of visitors, when they have been in the plane for 24 hours, they usually want to check their email: each time we have to inform them that they can only send through our mail gateway, and they have to temporarily change their setting for the duration fo their visit, and remember to change back when they left: that is annoying (and I am not always around to tell them why they cannot send their email). That is why I am thinking about transparent redirection. Best regards, We've setup transparent outgoing mail proxying using ASSP, PF and Postfix. Basically any traffic that has a destination port of 25 on the Internet is sent through our mail proxy, and onwards to the destination mail servers. Main reason for this is simplicity. I've never come across anyone using TLS+SMTP, in most cases I've found that SMTP is accepted as insecure (esp. over the Internet). If we were talking intra-company SMTP over the Internet, different story altogether due to the company needing privacy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: without SSL
On 7/12/07, pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:22 AM, pj wrote: >> I can access apache from my windows machine: "It works" >> But I cannot access http://biggie:1 - message says: try https://... >> that does bring up the Webmin page. I know apache listens on port 80, >> but why https to get the Webmin page? > > Umm, so you don't send your Webmin password through the Internet in > plain text, rather than via SSL encryption. I only use the server locally on my local network so I don't need the SSL. > > Webmin uses it's own internal webserver, which is unrelated to Apache. OK, thanks for that, I didn't know. > >> I cannot access http or https://biggie:931 (Swat) "Unable to connect" > > There's no real need to use swat when you've got the ability to edit the > samba config directly or via Webmin, but if you really wanted to, you > could presumably set it up to run in inetd.conf. See "man swat". Agreed. I don't like to use Webmin except to see if I may have missed something. It does not have the correct settings on startup. > >> Is my configuration wrong for samba? What's with the ssl? > > You haven't provided any specific information about your Samba config, > and most people aren't good at reading minds, so you'll need to either > do something like run Samba's "testparms" and/or look over the Samba > logfiles I finally found that Samba was looking for a guest account - I had not set it up. Now it's working ok. > >> I tried to reinstall (unsuccessfully -D NOSSL) apache22 without SSL. >> How can I disable the SSL I don't need SSL as I am using FBSD6.2 only >> on my local network. > > Unless you've configured an SSL cert, the default ought to be to run > Apache without SSL...? I have not configured the SSL cert but no matter what I do, apache still runs with SSL. According to the manuals, apache is compiled with SSL by default for version 2.2.4. I have tried to # the ssl_module in httpd.conf with no results at all. That was the first thing I actually tried when I saw it was running SSL. > > ---Chuck Show us your httpd.conf? It's probably something as simple as uncommenting everything to do with SSL in httpd.conf, if compiled with SSL, Apache likes to automagically setup a virtual host using SSL. There should also be a command line argument to apachectl or httpd that can be set with apache_flags="--disable-ssl" (or something similar) so the RC scripts know how to load Apache. Read through /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache-script, you'll get some information through that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Filesystem Full
On 6/13/07, Dixit, Viraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Folks, My FreeBSD 5.3 system message logs are showing me this info, Jun 12 14:53:48 gatekeeper kernel: pid 58059 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber 141313 on /u sr: filesystem full Jun 12 15:34:17 gatekeeper kernel: pid 60158 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber 141313 on /u sr: filesystem full I am not finding any data files being uploaded in that volume. This is what the df commands shows. After going through the /usr volume, there is no indication that anything has changed. /dev/da0s1a537936 36250 458652 7%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/da0s1e 10755828 844602 9050760 9%/local /dev/da0s1f 7529054 7381944 -455214 107%/usr /dev/da0s1d 14526318 9898206 346600874%/var Any ideas! Thanks, VJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Did you actually read the output of df ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: rsync install md5 error
On 6/9/07, Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install /usr/ports/net/rsync and i am getting MD5 checksum mismatch for rsync-2.6.6.tar.gz then it says if u are sure u want to override this check, type make NO_CHECKSUM=yes What does it mean that the MD5 and sha256 checksums are wrong? How can i solve it?? thankss ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" It basically means the file that it downloaded is bad, try deleting the rsync-2.6.6.tar.gz from /usr/ports/distfiles/ and if that doesn't work try downloading that same file manually. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Locked Myself Out - Cannot "su"
On 5/29/07, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/27/07, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/27/07, Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:20 -0400 > > Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is one of those things where after you realize what you've done, > > > you just want to smack yourself. > > > > > > I've been working on hardening my FreeBSD 6.2-Stable box. I disabled > > > root login from everywhere, including the console (The box isn't > > > physically secure, so I didn't want anyone screwing around). Now, me > > > being stupid, didn't reboot after making all these changes to harden > > > it. So I finally rebooted (With the secure level set to 2) and I found > > > that I can't run "su." I get the following error: > > > > > > $ su - > > > su: not running setuid > > > > > > I can't shutdown since I can't become root, so I pulled the plug and > > > rebooted into single-user mode. I edited /etc/rc.conf and set > > > kern_securelevel_enable="NO" > > > > > > I rebooted again, but for some reason I still get the same error for > > > "su." > > > > > > So basically, I locked myself out of my box completely. I fail :-( > > > > > > su has the following permissions: > > > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel schg 12240 May 13 13:15 su > > > > > > And sudo isn't installed, unfortunately. Any ideas of how to get root > > > back? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > First, you need to make sure that ttyv0 is *not* set to "insecure" > > in /etc/ttys, so no login/password will be needed in single-user mode: > > > > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1on secure > > > > This *should* allow you to use single-user mode once again as root. > > > > Then, make sure that any user you want to have su capability is listed > > in /etc/group under the "wheel" entry: > > > > wheel:*:0:root,foouser > > > > After that, any other problems you may encounter will have to be dealt > > with as they arise. Post a followup if you still have trouble. > > > > HTH > > > > -- > > Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Well I do know the root password, so I can get into single user mode > even though the console is marked insecure. So that's not a problem. > > I just checked /etc/group and my username is NOT in the wheel group. > I'm not in front the system right now to reboot it into single user > mode and change /etc/group, but hopefully when I do, it will solve the > problem. It's weird though, because I've been using this box fine for > the past two months. I was able to su to root during that time. It's > very strange that my username's group was changed automatically out of > the wheel group. > > Thank you for your help! > Hm, this is odd. /etc/group contains: wheel:*:0:root,steve (My username is "steve") I rebooted (SecureLevel is still disabled) and logged in as "steve." Then I tried to run "su - root" and I got the same error: $ su - root su: not running setuid But it's weird, because in the permissions for "su" it does have the suid flag: $ ls -l /usr/bin/ |grep su -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12240 May 13 13:15 su Also, when I dropped to single-user mode, I edited my /etc/login.access and enabled root login on the console. But now I when I try to login as root, I get the error: login: pam_acct_mgmt(): authentication error I definitely remember what root's password is. I even changed root's password in single-user mode, and it still doesn't let me login. I don't think the box is compromised; this isn't a production server at all, only a home HTTP/FTP server for personal use. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Have you mounted any file systems with the nosuid flag? Type: mount to check. Also have a look in your /etc/fstab If you have mounted a filesystem with nosuid then regardless of the flags on the file it wont run as suid. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: freebsd network fax server?
On 5/27/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem with the printserver routine is you have no way to specify the recipient fax number. Emailing the fax to the hylafax server is the way to go. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Anish Mistry > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: freebsd network fax server? > > > Hi, > I do have windows clients, and i do not have any fax client > software for > them. I thought i could just go through a cups printserver that > i've got but > haven't seen anything to get that going. I am open to suggestions. > Thanks. > Dave. > > - Original Message - > From: "Thanos Rizoulis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Anish Mistry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:39 AM > Subject: Re: freebsd network fax server? > > > > O/H Anish Mistry Ýãñáøå: > >> On Thursday 24 May 2007, Dave wrote: > >>> Hello, > >> I've got a setup using HylaFAX. > > > > The critical parts of the question about Hylafax are: > > a) are you using hylafax server with windows clients? and if yes > > b) what cliesnt software are you using to send faxes? (there > are dosens of > > them) > > > > I am interested too in such a solution and I am stuck at what client to > > select for windows based machines. > > > > -- > > RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens > > _ > > Thanos Rizoulis > > Electronic Computing Systems Engineer > > Larissa, Greece > > FreeBSD/PCBSD user > > ___ I currently use Hylafax on a FreeBSD server to send and receive faxes, when receiving it sends it to a different person specified on the fax number they received it on. To send faxes I've tried several different solutions, one was a printer shared via samba/cups (smbfax) this would look in the produced postscript for a line "Fax-nr: 993848210" and send the fax to that number, this is great if you use fax coversheets in word, another as an e-mail receiver, but the most successful I've tried is installing a driver on each machine separately that prompts you for a fax number and allows you to save an address book when sending faxes (winprint hylafax). Regardless of my experience with these, the best place to find software that you could make use of as a client is listed at: http://www.hylafax.org/content/Desktop_Client_Software I have found the hylafax handbook on par with the FreeBSD handbook with clarity, readability and a bloody excellent source of information on how to implement servers and clients. Thanks Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: DHCP/NIC IP address contention issues
On 4/26/07, L Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Will someone please lead me in the right direction towards resolving the following network issue? 1) "Apr 25 13:33:19 SERVER kernel: arp 00:40:f4:47:fb:8e is using my IP address xxx.xxx.x.xx!" 2) "dhcppc0# Apr 25 14:07:05 dhcpp0 kernel: arp: 00:40:f4:47:fb:8e is using my IP address xxx.xxx.x.xx!" I ran "ipconfig /all" on both Windows boxes and found that the FreeBSD box is assigned the same IP address as the Windows XP box (which had that IP address FIRST). Why is the FreeBSD box being assigned a non-unique IP address? Have you checked the network properties (tcp-ip settings) for the XP machine to make sure it's being assigned a dynamic IP address? Have you tried running ipconfig /renew on the XP machine? Have you checked the lease information in the DSL modem? A DHCP server will not hand out the same IP address twice. The only time I've seen something like this happen is when the DHCP lease times out for an IP and windows doesn't renew the lease on the IP, the IP is put into the free-ip's pool and handed out when the DHCP feels up to it... So if the XP machine is setup for DHCP, it got the IP via dhcp, it probably didn't renew the lease on the IP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
On 4/24/07, L Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. This leaves backing up user data on some schedule. I've read "Backup Basics", but have some questions: Which is best backup media for a FreeBSD file server, based on known issues (or lack of) with each format? I need to decide between the following formats: a) CD-R (or CD-RW?) b) DVD-R (or CD-RW?) c) Streaming tape (which format/standard?) Which is the best method for backing up data files on a Samba sharer FreeBSD? Handbook says dump is the only way to go. Is it possible to have a Windows client perform the backup files on the Samba share to a local Re-Writable CD or DVD drive? If the answer is YES, what are the pros and cons of a UNIX-based (data-file only) backup vs. a Windows-based one? Please add to my list of pros and cons: Windows Backup: PRO: Backup can be restored to a Windows drive while server is being fixed? CON: Users might forget to replace backup disk after using optical drive. FreeBSD Backup: PRO: Out of sight from users (server is in a storeroom). CON: Cannot restore backup to a Windows disk while server is being fixed? These are some of my other considerations: 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a multi-drive solution. Best if client does not handle backups (change discs/tapes), so a solution that permits storing several backups to same disc/tape preferred. 2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at a modest rate. 3) I do NOT have a writable CD or DVD drive (but can buy one if not too spendy). 4) I have an external SCSI connection, but very little "shelf" space. 5) The server does not have room for another internal device (except if swapping out the existing ATAPI CD-ROM drive). 6) I have an Ecrix Corporation Model VXI-1A SCSI internal tape drive that I assume is obsolete (comments appreciated). Anyway, I don't have room for it. 7) Have not yet settled on a backup schedule. May be weekly or monthly or ad-hoc, but daily is probably out of the question. The RAID 1 array is expected to provide some degree of protection in leieu of daily backups. Plan to back up all documents each time, rather than implement a two-tiered backup process. Thanks! Hey, We had a similar issue trying to figure out what type of media to backup to... Tapes are great when they work. You need to store them properly, make sure the tapes aren't old and worn either. I'd only do once off, for archiving purposes, backups to DVD. We tried to try a 16 tape LTO2 autoloader, but after three dead on arrivals we scrapped that idea. We use Bacula (it's open source and in the ports) to backup to hard drive mirrors, I think it's bloody wonderful in comparison to some of the windows based tape software thats out there. I'd use bacula to either do a backup to hard drive and use "virtual media" that gets rotated, or buy a new set of tapes and maybe a new tape drive and have bacula manage that... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: PPP and resolv.conf
On 4/17/07, Ansar Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. You could make resolv.conf to what you want it to be and then do: chflags schg /etc/resolv.conf That will stop anything from modifying it, if you're in securelevel 1 or more you can't take schg off, you need to reboot into securelevel 0. Other than that, check the ppp man page for an option... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: tsclient removed from SuSE?
On 3/28/07, Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recall that there had been tsclient come with SuSE 9.x. Now I am using SuSE 10.2. I cannot find tsclient in the SuSE standard repository nor in packman. (Can I know why this is removed?) Zhang, this is a FreeBSD list, not SuSE, please, mail the right list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nss_ldap and openldap on the same server.
On 3/12/07, Gerhard Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a small problem. On my central server we run an openldap server that contains the userdata for some systems. An the server uses this ldap server for authentication and nss. The problem is that when the server is booting slapd takes a very long time to start up. I think it's trying to get an answer from ldap for the user ldap. But user ldap is in /etc/passwd and in /etc/groups My nsswitch.conf looks like this. group: files ldap hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files ldap shells: files The system comes up but takes very long to do so (i think it's somekind of timeout) Mar 12 14:58:23 phobos slapd[584]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable As I see it, nss asks all sources even if the frist one allready knows the answer. Is there a way to change this. I've run into this very same problem... but the way I got around it was putting OpenLDAP in a jail all by its lonesome and making sure that jail would start before anything on the host system would start that may need LDAP... (effectively meaning the LDAP server is a different "machine") ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: syncing user passwd information between servers
On 3/9/07, Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out the Best admininstrative way to do the following: We have two FreeBSD 6.2 servers and want to keep the passwd files in sync so all the same users can log into each machine, their UID's match, and when the update the password on one machine the other machine gets the password. When we add the user to one machine then the other machine has an additional user too. What is the best scheme that we can devise to get this working technically well? Cheers, A couple of things can be done... The first, and longest existing method would be to use NIS between the two machines where one machine acts as a server, the other as a client to that server, if the server goes down, no-one can login. (I havn't investigated in backup NIS servers as I don't like NIS) The other option would be using LDAP (OpenLDAP), you'll install OpenLDAP on both servers, one will act as a master, the other as a slave, each machine will login against the ldap database running locally. The master ldap will replicate to the slave to keep any user changes in tact and up to date. You'll need to install the pam_ldap and nss_ldap ports and may want to use LDAP Account Manager (runs via PHP on Apache) to manage the user accounts. Another option may be to use a versioning system, one machine has a versioning repository, you import /etc/ into the versioning system (CVS or Subversion), when you make a change on a server to passwd's etc... you commit the change and check it out on the other machine, maybe even making use of merging changes so if two people, one on each machine, change their passwords and they both commit you don't lose one of the password changes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Changing command-line resolution
On 3/8/07, frzburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the command-line resolution... Back then with Linux, I could adjust the resolution in grub or lilo by passing some parameters to the kernel. Is there any way to do the same thing in FreeBSD? I wouldn't want to waste that big wide screen =P I got a Dell Inspiron 6400 (e1505) with an NVidia video card running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64. man vidcontrol Vidcontrol is your friend. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VMware equivalent?
On 2/6/07, Chris Maness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages
On 2/2/07, Gobbledegeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in $PATH). Running ldconfig, logging out and logging back in did not help either. *Rebooting* helps however. What gives?Are the package install scripts missing some install command ? System is 6.2 production release. Are you using tcsh or csh? Have you tried typing rehash after installing new software? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Command watching opened files by processes in FreeBSD
On 1/30/07, O. Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello out there, does FreeBSD has a nativ root-restricted facility watching opened files of a process or process group (like lsof or filemon)? Thanks in advance, Oliver You can always install lsof from the ports... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ra0
On 1/19/07, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have two drives connected to a PCI ATA100 card. When I went to install FreeBSD I see three drives. ad10, ad8 and ar0. I am guessing this is some kind of Raid so used FreeBSD's auto config option for that drive and installed it on that one drive. Did I just install a Raid 1 config? I guess my question is what exactly did I just do? Does your motherboard have onboard raid, or are you plugged into a raid card at all? If so, does your raid controller automatically create a raid device based on the hard drives connected? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Encrypted filesystem cgd
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:26:44 +0800, vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been reading with interest in Dru Lavigne's "BSD Hacks" of an encrypted filesystem named cgd which at the time of her writing was included in NetBSD only. has cgd been ported in FreeBSD (doesn't seem to me)? It's possible, and if it hasn't been done it mightn't be far off. OR Is there anything similar in FreeBSD? There certainly is. In the past I have used GEOM Based Disk Encryption (GBDE), because my computer had already been partitioned I used GBDE in combination with mdconfig (created a 2g file with dd, used mdconfig to configure it as a device, then ran disklabel and newfs on the md and set it up with GBDE). This was using 5.1 at the time and it ran extremely well, the only problem I ever encountered was when copying several hundred megabytes of data to the encrypted disk, it would then cause the whole computer to lock up, this could have been because of the use of mdconfig or my laptop being dodgy. Ciao Vittorio Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Recommend a file manager
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:53:17 +0800, Campbells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey everyone, I run Fluxbox and I'm looking for an efficient, complete and good looking file manager. Any suggestions? Thanks Gareth Use the following, ls, cd, rm, mkdir, rmdir, chmod, chown, chflags, getfacl and setfacl in a console. Or midnight commander. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Creating standalone passwords in /etc/passwd format
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:07:06 +0800, Gareth Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I have had a look at crypt (enigma), but it doesn't appear to use the
same algorithm? I need the same as that used in passwd!
Thanks
Try making a PERL script with the following lines...
$UserDetails{EncryptedPassword} = crypt($UserDetails{TextPassword}, join
'', ('.', '/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]); # this
creates an encrypted password the same format as the MD5 in /etc/passwd
my $PassMD5 = crypt($Login->{Password}, $EncryptedPassword); # this
creates the same MD5 string, used for verification of entering passwords
encrypted with the above method.
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Re: WinXP and FreeBSD configuration problems
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:44:30 +0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, OK it is now day three and I have given up. This will be a long one just to warn you now. I have a 320 GiB HD and a 5 GiB HD. The 320 is faster than the 5 (yes, it is that old). I want to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD. The main issue is that I don't want to put the FreeBSD buried behind 100G FAT partition as I would like to have the swap closer to the edge of the HD. I use the 5 G to transfer files and such, especially when changing the OS on a partition. I prefer not to use it a a boot as it is only 5400 and I would have to put the CDROM on either it as prime boot and slow it more or on the 320 and slow it down. This seems like a simple problem but it has not turned out that way. First, I tried to install windows on the first 2G partition then tried to install freebsd as follows ad0s0 NTFS2G #Windows Boot ad0s1 FreeBSD 2G #FreeBSD Boot/Swap ad0s3 FAT 20G #Windows ad0s4 FreeBSD 298G#FreeBSD I think one of the problems here would be the fact that you have created multiple FreeBSD slices on the same disk. The layout should be: ad0s0 - Windows - 2g ad0s1 - FreeBSD - 290g ad0s2 - Windows - Leftovers Once you've partitioned the disk in the FreeBSD install you will then need to label it (this is where you set /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and your swap partitions)... Definately don't use dangerously dedicated mode. Install the FreeBSD boot loader on the ad0s1 slice and install Partition Magic on the MBR, or put the FreeBSD boot loader on the MBR (it should work and has done for me in the past, make sure Windows doesn't overwrite it). Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: perl
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:38:15 +0800, Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 8/3/05, Wouter van Rooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
\
Hello,
At the first place, sorry for my bad English.
My question is:
How can you, when you're writing a perl program, make a input
() hidden, so that when someone is typing an input in the
following program is hidden:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Your name:";
$name =
I would like to get the input like this:
The PERL Cookbook seems to have the answer.
Problem
You want to read input from the keyboard without the keystrokes being
echoed on the screen. For instance, you want to read passwords as passwd
does, i.e. without displaying the user's password.
Solution
Use the CPAN module Term::ReadKey, set the input mode to noecho, and then
use ReadLine:
use Term::ReadKey;
ReadMode('noecho');
$password = ReadLine(0);
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Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:13:18 +0800, Graham North <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and Samba following great directions found here: http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=16 The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client to an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd, however it will not print files from itself using lpr. A bit of hunting found some "gotchas" at: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html ... and so I tried adding symbolic links for the lp and lpr commands as per the author's recommendations - see bottom of email. The problem still exists however, now instead of getting error messages, if I issue a "lpr filename" command, my printer gives a quick blink, no errror messages are generated, but neither is printer output - nada! Repeat - Samba and Cups work together fine on this elderly hp4l - print all sorts from Windows. Just cannot access from the server itself. I am sure that this is a simple configuration issue somewhere - my printcap definition, ie: hp4l|lp|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: ps. This was auto-generated from CUPs and oirignally was "hp4l|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l:" (I later inserted the lp myself as CUPS does not, either way it doesn't work.) Can anyone please point me straight on this? Thanks, Graham/ Are you using the lpr that was installed with FreeBSD as part of the base or the lpr supplier by the cups-lpr package? FreeBSD base lpr is in /usr/bin|/usr/sbin and the cups-lpr is in /usr/local/bin|/usr/local/sbin... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Lotus Notes 6.5.1
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:49:07 +0800, Ivailo Tanusheff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Didn't changed subject last time) Hi, I want to find a way to run Lotus Notes 6.5.1 on my FreeBSD Workstation. Is there anyone who has made this? I have installed wine, but when I try to install or run the client nothing happens. Later I've copied notes installation from a windows box but still I can't run the application. Have you tried the Linux emulation with the Linux version of Lotus Notes?? Please report if this works as I am personally interested... Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD Active Directory Server
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:03:56 +0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has anyone any experience trying to make FreeBSD an Active Directory
Server? From my research and experiementation, I am under the impression
that it is possible, but I have yet to come up with any articles where it
has actual been done fully.
At the minute I have samba and ldap setup, the active directory dns
entries in (_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.{domain}). I am getting an error message
when trying to join my XP client to the domain - I think it is to do with
the ldap server. Any clues or points in the right direction would be
helpful - I am getting the impression that this may be a big project, if
it is even achieveable.
Cheers,
Martin
Samba has experimental components which support ADS, but not fully. See
http://www.samba.org/ and the Official Samba Howto.
In my experience it isn't currently capable to have FreeBSD run as a fully
functioning ADS server.
If you absolutely need ADS you may simply need to have a Windows server.
If you need Windows Domain logons and ACLs etc... Samba+LDAP works
beautifully, I have this implemented at my work, the only reference I
needed was the Official Samba Howto. Using LDAP Account Manager also helps
:) There are no problems with machines connecting to the domains, or
domain logons, user profiles, or ACL's.
Daniel
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Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:13:49 +0800, MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/28/2005 at 11:57 AM Bob Johnson wrote: |Microsoft used to claim that NTFS doesn't need defragmentation. |Compared to MSDOSFS, that's a reasonably accurate statement, but |if you push it hard enough, it will still become fragmented. = The process of installing Windows on a clean disk leaves the disk in need of defragmenting. As he said, "if you push it hard enough, it will still become fragmented" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: DNS service with a SQL backend
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:20:11 +0800, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bruno Gallant wrote: Hello, We are redesigning our DNS infrastructure, which has been running on BIND with the regular flat files for years, and there would be a need for the data to be in a database. (postgresql or mysql, of course) On a similar thread, does anyone know of any dns server software that would serve different IPs depending on where the query/request comes from? i.e., - resolve www.mydomain.com to the IP of my server in AU for all clients querying from AU,JP and HK. Everyone else should get the IP for my server in US. Akamai provide this service (amongst other cool services of course :) ) I think ultradns may do this too. Both use, AFAIK, proprietary solutions. TIA, Beto It may be possible to use BIND9 feature of allowing certain IP ranges to only query certain zone files. The only issue I foresee is having to have slightly different zone names that you wish to serve for each IP range. Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:11:18 +0800, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will still boot up properly). I am planning on using GEOM, but open to suggestions. I've been searching and cant find any pointers on how to set this up properly. I've been reading http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ , but this is works for RAID 1. Could anyone offer any insights / ideas / pointers (or step by step if you so feel inclined to :-) ) on how to set this up? Thanks in advance, Beto See gmirror and geom. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmirror&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Virtual Interfaces and Subnet Masks
Why don't you just setup an IP alias for the fxp0 interface? ie: ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 192.168.1.7" On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:51:16 +0800, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We needed to bring up a second interface on a FreeBSD system in order to cause it to substitute for another FreeBSD box that bravely stayed up for 471 days and then appears to have had a hardware failure of some kind. The substitute system already had fxp0 on the network in question and when I brought up fxp1 on that same network, the nightmare started. You can't seem to have two interfaces with the same subnet mask on the same VLAN. After much frustration, I simply changed the primary interface to be that of the dead host and we are doing without the original address for now. The network mask is 255.255.252.0. Is there any way to have more than one interface on the same subnet with that same subnet mask? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
