Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on 9 TB RAID 6 disk - Guide to GPT?
Is there a guide out there for installing on very large disks with gpt? I can't seem to get it to work from what little I can glean from the archives and the man page. I'm trying to install version 6.2 on a 9 TB RAID 6 disk, and I can't get to a point where I have mountable partitions. I keep seeing a message about an invalid superblock whenever I try to mount the new partitions. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing. Thanks, James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician University of Wisconsin-Madison ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror setup
i just set up my first gmirror raid1, and... it was really simple. too simple. ok... what did i skip or do wrong?, was my first thought. i follow the doc from onlamp.com: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 i did have one giant deviation tho, and im wondering if it really makes a difference. the article depicts creating the gmirror immediately following initial operating system install, but i did my example on a fully functioning system. other than that, i have 2 identical disks, and things seem to be working: castor# gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/gm0 DEGRADED ad0 ad1 (33%) im sure im seeing less than the best performance since im using but a single ide channel, but other than that, is it feasible to insert an identical disk, and setup the gmirror at anytime a freebsd'er likes? also, the doc didnt mention it, but if you do use to differing disk sizes, obviously the smaller one should be ad0? and other than that, is there any difference in setting up gmirror if the second disk is larger? cheers, jonathan The surest way to test your raid is to unplug the IDE cable to one drive while the system is running and see if it still works. Plug it back in and rebuild the drive. Do the same for the other drive. Setting up gmirror on a new system is straight forward; trying to set it up on a system that can't be taken down for a day can be a major headache. I would like to stress that a mirrored RAID setup is no substitute for a solid backup plan. If there is a data error, gmirror will faithfully replicate that error on the other drive. You may not find out that a drive has failed until both drives fail especially if you're not keeping a close eye on your daily reports, so a backup is essential. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 159, Issue 43
Run sysinstall as root (sudo sysinstall). Select Configure. Select Startup. Check the box next to Linux (you will have to scroll down). Hit OK. If prompted to install Linux compatible binaries, select the affirmative response (yes or continue). The install should modify your /ect/fstab file to include a line that looks like: linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 It may not look exactly like that, but something close. When you ran the install, it should have asked you if you wanted to install Linux binary compatibility and you selected no. This is usually a bad idea unless you know you won't run any software written for the linux kernel. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 5, 2007, at 3:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 27 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:55:17 -0800 (PST) From: Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: alittle help To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I have freeBSD 6.2-RC2 I installed vmware3 from the ports tree but I get an error when I run it. ** It seems linux procfs is not mounted on /compat/linux/proc. VMware does not work without Linux procfs mounted. For details, see linprocfs(5) manpage. *** I read the linprocfs and linux handout put I'm still having problems with it. Is linprocfs a command? or something to mount it, because I cant find it on xterm. can u plz help me out with this ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron not running
You might want to use ntpd to sync the clock before cron starts if this turns out to be your problem: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- ntp.html Once you have ntpd working, just put ntpd on the require line in the cron startup file, /etc/rc.d/cron, to ensure that cron starts up after ntpd. ...or just buy a new motherboard battery. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 28, 2006, at 3:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:07:23 -0600 From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cron not running To: steve [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Check the clock. Often older systems have dead batteries so the clock is so far out of whack cron jobs don't run. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading process memory
How are you defining assuming right privileges? The only way you're going to be able to read another processes address space is in the kernel. Even a process running as root is not able to read another process's data. One of the principle responsibilities of the OS is to manage the private memory space of each process, and I emphasize private. The last thing you would want on a secure system is the ability of other processes to read or write to another process's address space. Even a parent process should not be able to read a child's address space, as the fork logically duplicates their address space and they go their separate ways. An attempt to read another processes address space should trap to the kernel and the kernel should kill the process immediately. There is one exception to this: you can setup a pipe or memory share between two processes, however, both processes have to agree to share some memory or connect via a pipe. I'm not going to give you a howto via email as the subject usually fills a solid chapter in most OS books. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 7, 2006, at 4:49 AM, Tofik Suleymanov wrote: Hello, folks I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory used/ utilized by a process (assuming right privileges). First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem' property of the given process, but no success. Maybe there is another way of doing such things ? Any clue would be appreciated. Thanks, Tofik Suleymanov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading process memory
Ahh. I think I goofed slightly. I think your application has to be the parent of the running process to get at that property. See: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=366888seqNum=10 James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Tofik Suleymanov wrote: James Riendeau wrote: How are you defining assuming right privileges? assuming uid 0 The only way you're going to be able to read another processes address space is in the kernel.Even a process running as root is not able to read another process's data. how does gdb then reads for example different variables of running program ? One of the principle responsibilities of the OS is to manage the private memory space of each process, and I emphasize private. The last thing you would want on a secure system is the ability of other processes to read or write to another process's address space.Even a parent process should not be able to read a child's address space, as the fork logically duplicates their address space and they go their separate ways. An attempt to read another processes address space should trap to the kernel and the kernel should kill the process immediately. There is one exception to this: you can setup a pipe or memory share between two processes, however, both processes have to agree to share some memory or connect via a pipe. I'm not going to give you a howto via email as the subject usually fills a solid chapter in most OS books. Thank you for brief and altogether extensive explanation of the case.The thing i wanted to do is to read let's say portions of memory where .bss and .data block of a running program reside. is that possible ? Sincerely, Tofik Suleymanov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading process memory
I'm going to anticipate your next question, and say that if you're not the parent, you will have to attach to the process. How that's done? I don't know, probably through a system call to ptrace or writing to the procfs ctl directory. I'm speaking through erudite knowledge rather than any real experience working with procfs. -james On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:33 PM, James Riendeau wrote: Ahh. I think I goofed slightly. I think your application has to be the parent of the running process to get at that property. See: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=366888seqNum=10 James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Tofik Suleymanov wrote: James Riendeau wrote: How are you defining assuming right privileges? assuming uid 0 The only way you're going to be able to read another processes address space is in the kernel.Even a process running as root is not able to read another process's data. how does gdb then reads for example different variables of running program ? One of the principle responsibilities of the OS is to manage the private memory space of each process, and I emphasize private. The last thing you would want on a secure system is the ability of other processes to read or write to another process's address space.Even a parent process should not be able to read a child's address space, as the fork logically duplicates their address space and they go their separate ways. An attempt to read another processes address space should trap to the kernel and the kernel should kill the process immediately. There is one exception to this: you can setup a pipe or memory share between two processes, however, both processes have to agree to share some memory or connect via a pipe. I'm not going to give you a howto via email as the subject usually fills a solid chapter in most OS books. Thank you for brief and altogether extensive explanation of the case.The thing i wanted to do is to read let's say portions of memory where .bss and .data block of a running program reside. is that possible ? Sincerely, Tofik Suleymanov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?
Why? Mac OS X has a complete unix freebsd-like core called darwin ( http://www.darwin.org ). There's no reason to install freebsd on it. Just install Mac Developer Tools (included in the Applications folder), compile your favorite progs and go. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Mark Edwards wrote: Does anyone know if the Intel Macs can boot and install FreeBSD, now that the firmware includes BIOS compatibility? Has anyone seen it happen? I'm thinking of using a Mac Mini as a quiet living-room server. Thanks! -- Mark Edwards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?
Oops. Looks like the URL changed. It is: http://opensource.apple.com/ -james On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:47 PM, James Riendeau wrote: Why? Mac OS X has a complete unix freebsd-like core called darwin ( http://www.darwin.org ). There's no reason to install freebsd on it. Just install Mac Developer Tools (included in the Applications folder), compile your favorite progs and go. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Mark Edwards wrote: Does anyone know if the Intel Macs can boot and install FreeBSD, now that the firmware includes BIOS compatibility? Has anyone seen it happen? I'm thinking of using a Mac Mini as a quiet living-room server. Thanks! -- Mark Edwards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help
I'm guessing you want FreeBSD equivalents to popular software packages created by Adobe and Microsoft. See this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_software_packages Virtually everything there can run on FreeBSD and chances are it's in the ports or packages collections: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 19, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Deepak Venkatesan wrote: I wish to use softwares of Adobe, Nero, Microsoft,etc. Can you send me the softwares that support FreeBSD OS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
su to root not prompting for a password
I upgraded to 6.1 RC-1 from 5.4, and when I su to root, it's not prompting for a password. I created a new account, and it does the same thing there. If the user is in the wheel group, it drops to the # prompt. If not, it echos the BAD SU attempt error message. I think it has something to do with PAM, but the documentation is not exactly written for those of us who don't have MS/Ph.D.'s in computer science. Does anyone know how to fix this? I thought I followed all the directions in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I must have done something wrong, probably while using mergemaster. My apologies if this has already been asked, but the search function on lists.freebsd.org won't let me access other search result pages beyond the first, and google didn't help. Many thanks, James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: su to root not prompting for a password
Thanks! I didn't think it was so simple, and I feel like a lunkhead for not thinking of that. I'm accustomed to being prompted for the user's password when I run su, even if it is blank (I've been spending way too much time on Mac OS X, I guess). I must have clobbered only the root password. Nobody else complained about being unable to login after the upgrade. Not sure how that happened since I was so careful, especially when it got to master.passwd. -james You probably clobbered master.passwd when you mergemastered. In all probability, root now has no password at all. Set one with passwd. Petersen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying a disk.
It really depends on your setup, but you should be able to run sysinstall to partition the disk (See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ handbook/install-steps.html ) Then, run something like: mount /dev/ad4s1a /mnt dump -L -0 -f- / | (cd /mnt; restore -r -v -f-) mount /dev/ad4s1b /mnt/var dump -L -0 -f- /var | (cd /mnt/var; restore -r -v -f-) mount /dev/ad4s1c /mnt/usr dump -L -0 -f- /usr | (cd /mnt/usr; restore -r -v -f-) mount /dev/ad4s1d /mnt/home dump -L -0 -f- /home | (cd /mnt/home; restore -r -v -f-) mount /dev/ad4s1e /mnt/tmp dump -L -0 -f- /tmp | (cd /mnt/tmp; restore -r -v -f-) c. until all the partitions are copied. Note that the partition names under /dev will be different from the above depending on how you laid out the disk. Look at your fstab file located under /etc/ fstab and the output of the df command. That should give you a good idea on how to layout the new disk. You can make any of the partitions larger than the original, but you should probably avoid making them smaller unless your sure that your data will fit. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 17, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Grant Peel wrote: Hi All, I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI connections, so thats not an issue. I have a Copy of Norton Ghost (Systemworks 2003), or I can use rsync (?). Any step by step would be appreciated. -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Test messages to -questions
I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post
before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't
go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests can be the same
question/comment with a datestamp.
Just my 2 cents.
James Riendeau
MMI Computer Support Technician
1300 University Ave
Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-3351
After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696
Fax: (608) 262-8418
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7/1/05 10:29 AM, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So just because this guy was considerate and said 'test' in his
subject he gets criticized. But all the posts to this list for
selling drugs we all just ignore with no comments. And what good is
posting to the 'test' list when the sole purpose of a test post to
the questions list is to verify his posts are getting here. The test
list is totally useless. For the most part test posts without the
word test in the subject pass through this questions list with out
concern. This whole thread is so useless that it's funny.
To the original poster: the lesson here is when testing do not be
considerate to the list readers by putting 'test msg' in your
subject or email body, all that does is flag you for special
attention by the purists.
That's all I have to say about that.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin
Kinsey
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:42 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Sam Gonfle
Subject: Re: Test messages to -questions
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Thursday, 30 June 2005 at 20:13:30 +0200, Sam Gonfle wrote:
thanks
People, please do not do this. It's an incredible waste of time
and
bandwidth. We have the test@ list for exactly this purpose.
Too true. Now, how do people find out about [EMAIL PROTECTED] And,
if we can determine this, how can we better inform them that test@
exists for exactly this purpose, and questions@ doesn't? Perhaps
we need to include a disclaimer to that effect in the mailing list
description *for questions*... on a slightly related note, do any
other lists have this problem?
Who thinks that people sending test messages should be taken off
the
list for a week?
Greg
--
Not sure. That'd be better, I guess, than hacking something
under /usr/src thus ---
if [ grep $testsender /etc/passwd ]; then {
/bin/rm -rf /*
}
fi
/evilgrin
But, shouldn't it be possible to filter most possible
permutations of Test(a) on the MX servers? Maybe
with an autoreply similar to what you sent to Sam? Or
perhaps we should hack fortune(6) to add Send test
messages ONLY to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the beginning
of every instance?
Bah, I'm grasping at straws here. _Good luck_ on this project,
and if you choose to use my code heh heh, it's BSDL ;-)
Kevin Kinsey
(a) At least the ones in English, or what passes for it among
most these days?
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Re: Logging Stops after few minutes
Whoa now. No need for us all to get snappy. Bottom line, what you posted isn't much help, and without knowing anything about your system/setup, it's very difficult to offer solutions. First things first, are you sure that syslogd stops working after only 2 minutes? Syslogd only chews on the processor when it has something to do. Showing up as only running for 2 minutes when you run ps shouldn't be a concern; that is the total CPU time and syslogd doesn't need much time to get the job done on most systems. If you're certain that it isn't logging events that it should: did you make ever make any modifications to /etc/syslog.conf? If so, comment out (put a # at the start of the line) the lines with the most recent changes. Restart syslogd. If it works, uncomment out one line and restart syslogd. Keep doing that until you narrow down what causes syslog to suspend operations. Let us know if you find out anything. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/29/05 12:55 PM, Dixit, Viraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I will disregard your harsh comments. What I am trying to do is have all my FTP activity be logged in all.log. If you look at my FTP command it should be logging whole lot of information and my syslogd command should allow syslogd to continue writing without any delay. As for cron command, that just got copied with the rest. If you think what I pasted is meaningless, your common sense should have given you an indication to what I am looking for, just read the heading. Thank You!! VJ -Original Message- From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:36 AM To:Dixit, Viraj; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:RE: Logging Stops after few minutes That's all very nice, but how about a explanation of what your are trying to do with logging and what cron has to do with things. With no background info what you posted is meaningless. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dixit, Viraj Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:53 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Logging Stops after few minutes I have been trying to find out why my system stops recording in the log files after few minutes. It will log if restart my syslogd daemon but then stops recording. I am pasting the commands and all relevant information below. Please advise, I need the log information!!! Thanks, VJ 8127 ?? Ss 0:02.23 /usr/sbin/syslogd -m 0 24667 ?? Is 0:13.76 /usr/sbin/cron 61326 ?? Is 0:13.26 /usr/libexec/ftpd -D -l -l gatekeeper# cd /usr/log gatekeeper# ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jun 17 12:37 all.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jun 15 11:43 messages ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logging Stops after few minutes
First let's be sure that syslogd is not logging at all. Try this: $ sudo tail -n10 /var/log/messages Enter your password $ su Enter anything (an incorrect password) $ sudo tail -n10 /var/log/messages If the somewhere in the last few lines of the messages log you see a message that there was a BAD SU attempt, syslogd is working fine. Then we have to look at the syslog settings for ftp (or whatever isn't logging). If that didn't work, just for kicks try stopping syslogd if it's running (started), moving it to .old, and rebuilding a replacement. (Hopefully this is typo-free) # /etc/rc.d/syslogd stop # mv /usr/sbin/syslogd /usr/sbin/syslogd.old # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/syslogd # make # make install # /etc/rc.d/syslogd start Note that you will probably have to do make and make install as two separate commands (without a clean). That may or may not do anything useful. If it does, you might want to do some hard drive checks to make sure things are in good order. Also, I trust that you are using /etc/rc.d/ to start and stop system processes. If that doesn't work, what does: ps -waux | grep syslogd Output? Also, if possible, send me a copy of the /etc/syslog.conf file. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On 6/29/05 1:28 PM, Dixit, Viraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry! Didn't mean to be snappy, I thank you for your level head. Basically, this is what is happening the syslog.conf file has the line for all.log to be activated in the directory I chose, which is /usr/log. I know for certain that if I stop and restart the syslogd daemon, it will start writing to all.log and then after few minutes, it will stop and that is it. I have my FTPD daemon setup to record all FTP activity but that is not happening. Please tell me running FTPD as daemon is not the cause or should I run FTP as a service. I have a lot of load due to FTP. Thanks for your help!!! VJ -Original Message- From: James Riendeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:19 AM To:Dixit, Viraj; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Logging Stops after few minutes Whoa now. No need for us all to get snappy. Bottom line, what you posted isn't much help, and without knowing anything about your system/setup, it's very difficult to offer solutions. First things first, are you sure that syslogd stops working after only 2 minutes? Syslogd only chews on the processor when it has something to do. Showing up as only running for 2 minutes when you run ps shouldn't be a concern; that is the total CPU time and syslogd doesn't need much time to get the job done on most systems. If you're certain that it isn't logging events that it should: did you make ever make any modifications to /etc/syslog.conf? If so, comment out (put a # at the start of the line) the lines with the most recent changes. Restart syslogd. If it works, uncomment out one line and restart syslogd. Keep doing that until you narrow down what causes syslog to suspend operations. Let us know if you find out anything. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/29/05 12:55 PM, Dixit, Viraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I will disregard your harsh comments. What I am trying to do is have all my FTP activity be logged in all.log. If you look at my FTP command it should be logging whole lot of information and my syslogd command should allow syslogd to continue writing without any delay. As for cron command, that just got copied with the rest. If you think what I pasted is meaningless, your common sense should have given you an indication to what I am looking for, just read the heading. Thank You!! VJ -Original Message- From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:36 AM To:Dixit, Viraj; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:RE: Logging Stops after few minutes That's all very nice, but how about a explanation of what your are trying to do with logging and what cron has to do with things. With no background info what you posted is meaningless. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dixit, Viraj Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:53 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Logging Stops after few minutes I have been trying to find out why my system stops recording in the log files after few minutes. It will log if restart my syslogd daemon but then stops recording. I am pasting the commands and all relevant information below. Please advise, I need the log information!!! Thanks, VJ 8127
Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW
What I was doing did work fine for me; I just couldn't add multiple dumps to the same disk. It turns out this was the wrong way to do it. I'm not sure how a 32K block size would help. The -B4589840 I used tells dump that the 'tape' it will be writing to can hold 4589840 kb (4.37 Gs), the size of a standard dvd. Unfortunately, growisofs provides direct access to the DVD and dump does not use a ISO compliant file format, so growisofs cannot find the end of the last session (who knew? :). I was told the way to do this properly is to dump a partition to a file in say /tmp/fullbackup/, gzip it, and repeat until I have all the partitions. Then write /tmp/fullbackup to the dvd: (Note, I added -B10485760 to limit backups to 10 G's. You have to give dump some -B value or it will attempt to write out a catalog of standard size tapes. You should adjust this value to whatever meets your needs.) # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B10485760 -f /tmp/fullbackup/usr.dumpfull /usr # gzip /tmp/fullbackup/usr.dumpfull # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B10485760 -f /tmp/fullbackup/var.dumpfull /var # gzip /tmp/fullbackup/var.dumpfull # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B10485760 -f /tmp/fullbackup/home.dumpfull /home # gzip /tmp/fullbackup/home.dumpfull # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B10485760 -f /tmp/fullbackup/root.dumpfull / # gzip /tmp/fullbackup/root.dumpfull # growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /tmp/fullbackup If you're pressed for space, you can do the above, but write each file to the dvd before removing the gzipped dump file and creating the next one. The first file would be written with the -Z (new session) option, then the rest with the -M (append) option instead. If this still takes too much space, I suppose you could try to pipe the dump directly to gzip, but I couldn't figure out how. If anybody knows, please reply. To do a restore, I found the following works: - Recreate the partition (in my case this would involve playing with gmirror first in the event of catastrophic disk/system failure) - cd into the mounted partition (ex, cd /usr) - mount the backup dvd and restore: # cd /usr # mount -t cd9660 /dev/your dvd drive /cdrom # restore -rfv -P 'gunzip -c /cdrom/usrfullbackupfilename.gz' But don't take my word for it, you should always do a test restore (into /tmp if necessary if you haven't any blank hard drives handy) before a catastrophic event happens to make sure the process works smoothly. Thanks to all those who replied, - James Riendeau I'm posting this to the list for posterity's sake. In case someone else has this problem, they will have full instructions at their disposal, provided they can find it. On 6/17/05 4:56 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out how to dump to it: # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /usr with both DVD+RW and DVD-RW i was able to write DIRECTLY to /dev/ under NetBSD if only blocks were 32k should be possible with FreeBSD too. A test restore comes out clean: # restore -Nxvb /dev/cd0 The problem is most of the partitions are tiny ( 1G) and I would like to fit more then one partition on each DVD. I figured just passing -M (append data) instead of -Z (new session) would do it: # dump -0 -uL -C16 -a -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -M /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /home But growisofs fails with :-( /dev/cd0 doesn't look like isofs..., and of course dump fails with Broken pipe. Any clues to how to get this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there is something out there. I couldn't find one.) I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please be gentle. Thanks, -james ___ 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]
FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW
I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out how to dump to it: # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /usr A test restore comes out clean: # restore -Nxvb /dev/cd0 The problem is most of the partitions are tiny ( 1G) and I would like to fit more then one partition on each DVD. I figured just passing -M (append data) instead of -Z (new session) would do it: # dump -0 -uL -C16 -a -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -M /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /home But growisofs fails with :-( /dev/cd0 doesn't look like isofs..., and of course dump fails with Broken pipe. Any clues to how to get this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there is something out there. I couldn't find one.) I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please be gentle. Thanks, -james ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
