freebsd.org/ports site seems to have lost its style sheet

[Jeff Dickens]

Do a search and see what I mean.

Any idea who to tell?

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Re: 5000' ethernet?

[Jeff Dickens]

Check www.gnswireless.com (this from a satisfied customer)

That said, I also use the method of placing mini ethernet switches or 
hubs (electrically a multiport repeater and damned hard to find now) 
every so often to reach distant parts of our warehouses.  These are 
powered, of course.  POE might work if you only needed one or two repeaters.



mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote:

<20090715202734.gh29...@tamay-dogan.net> 
<20090715210752.ge16...@grumpy.dyndns.org>
From: Mikel 
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:38:21 -0400
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

David,

 
You can run upto 1.5 miles on a lx fiber based solution but will likely 
require a skilled installer to setup that much cable for you.


Depending on your locale I am may be able to put connect you to a supplier.

Have you considered a wireless direct beam solution?  Especially 
considering the 'temporary' nature of this install.


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.. Original Message ...
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:07:52 -0500 "David Kelly"  wrote:
  

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:


Hello David,

Am 2009-07-15 14:47:18, schrieb David Kelly:
  
Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that 


two
  

machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no
special hardware?


I do not know hoe much a feet is in meters but AFAIK arround 0,3 which
mean, you are talking about 1.5km or 1 mile ?
  

Yes, roughly a mile which is 5280 feet. Maybe less, but no more than a
mile. Won't really know until I get there and start running cable.



There are inexpensive FiberOptic Transponder (I am using a bunch  of
it from Transmode for my CWDM 1GE and DWDM 10GE network)

The 100 Mbit Transponder cost  arround  600 Euro  (each)  and  for
your 5000 feets you need only  an  inexpensive  FiberOptic  cable.
EVEN  the cheapes one would transfer 1 Gbit at this distance.
  

What I'm not (yet) seeing is a fiber optic transceiver listed with
matching fiber optic cable. The transceivers seem inexpensive vs the cost
of the cable.



Are there any particular range extenders you have used and would
recommend for making this task a sure thing on the first try?
Perhaps I should put an inexpensive ethernet switch at each junction
to serve as a regenerative repeater?


You have to use at least 3 Repeaters which NEED electricity. Do you
know this?
  

Yes, of course.



5000 feet CAT5, 3 Repeater plus electric installation  cost  more,
then the FiberOptic Cable with two Transponder.  And of course,  no
one  can sniff traffic on FiberOptic and you have no worry about
magnetic  fields disturbing your 5000 feet...
  

No one is going to sniff *this* one.

Am not finding sources of fiber optic cable as easily as I can find
fiber optic transceivers.

100baseT ethernet switches are about $25 each if one will serve as a
regenerative repeater.

Did I mention this is a temporary installation?

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Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

[Jeff Dickens]

Another option:

Qmail and Dovecot.  Actually I have multiple servers running those at 
multiple sites.  For webmail, I have use squirrelmail and perdition, 
which is an imap proxy/multiplexer.  It makes the multiple dovecot 
systems look like one to the webmail system.  You could replace 
squirrelmail with any other imap-based webmail.


For anti-spam and anti-virus I use Postini.  A dollar a month per user.  
I send no mail except via Postini, and I accept no mail except from 
Postini, enforced by both qmail's tcprules and our cisco firewalls.  The 
combination is fast, safe and low-maintenance (but perhaps not your 
definition of cheap).


I've built this thing but only have a small contingent of users on it so 
far.. the rest are still on a external host.  Last week I set up mstone, 
(see sourceforge project) and have been loading it up to see where it 
creaks.  So far so good.


John Dakos [ Enovation Technologies ] wrote:
 


Hello all ,  I want to install a  Mail Server with  Webmail,

Anybody to know a good Stable Mail Server and Web Mail

I will appreciate

Thanks all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


John Dakos
Network Administrator
Enovation Technologies
Filellinon 35, Chalandrion
15232 Athens, GREECE
Tel: +30-210 811 9673
Mob: +30-6979348082

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Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

[Jeff Dickens]

Modulok wrote:

List,

I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of
no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally,
all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted.
(Nice, but not entirely required.) 3Mb/s would be great! Something
like:

LAN<->BSDrouter<->modem<->Antenna<~~air~~>Antenna<->modem<->DSL

I'm looking for general pointers of both hardware and software to
achieve this. 


One option: gnswireless.com

We have a couple of short-haul wireless setups from them.  They work out 
of the box, and they seem to provide good support as well.







I'd like to employ FreeBSD as much as is feasible. This
is my first WAN network project, so even newbie pointers and general
references would be much appreciated. (Hardware suggestions, books to
read, etc.) Reliability is of mild concern, simply because I don't
want to drive 10km at 3:00am when something breaks.

Tips? References? Advice?
-Modulok-
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df shows negative free percentage

[Jeff Dickens]

I just noticed one of my FreeBSD 6.2 systems showing "-0%" free in 
/tmp.  If I copy a file to it, it shows a sensible percentage free, but 
then reverts to "-0%" when I delete that file.  Any idea what's going on 
here?


   FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007

   Loon

   loon# df
   Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
   /dev/da0s1a507630   38436  428584 8%/
   devfs   1   1   0   100%/dev
   /dev/da0s1e507630 -20  467040-0%/tmp
   /dev/da0s1f   5366090 1573304 336350032%/usr
   /dev/da0s1d   1255886  356994  79842231%/var
   loon#
   loon# cp /usr/local/kits/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz /tmp
   loon# df
   Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
   /dev/da0s1a507630   38446  428574 8%/
   devfs   1   1   0   100%/dev
   /dev/da0s1e507630   10444  456576 2%/tmp
   /dev/da0s1f   5366090 1573304 336350032%/usr
   /dev/da0s1d   1255886  356994  79842231%/var
   loon# rm /tmp/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
   loon# df
   Filesystem  1K-blocksUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
   /dev/da0s1a507630   38446  428574 8%/
   devfs   1   1   0   100%/dev
   /dev/da0s1e507630 -20  467040-0%/tmp
   /dev/da0s1f   5366090 1573304 336350032%/usr
   /dev/da0s1d   1255886  356994  79842231%/var
   loon#


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Re: vmware timekeeping

[Jeff Dickens]

Uwe Laverenz wrote:

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:23:41PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote:

  
option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have "hint.apic.0.disabled=1" 
in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf.



This shouldn't be necessary in FreeBSD >= 6.2.

  

hmm.
I used to have "kern.hz=100" in loader.conf, but that caused the guest 
to gain time even faster.



"100" is ok, I'm using this value on all virtual machines.

  

Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config?



Is it possible to upgrade your ESX from 3.0.2 to 3.5x? If not, there is
another setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD
or Linux guests): change "Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod"
from 400 to 100 (this is default on ESX 3.5x).

  
Unfortunately IBM has not certified my hardware (xSeries 226) with ESX 
3.5, and the installation just hangs, so I'm stuck on 3.0.2 for now.


Thanks, I will try that suggestion.


Uwe

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Re: vmware timekeeping

[Jeff Dickens]

Sean Cavanaugh wrote:


  

Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:48:46 -0500
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping

At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote:

I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2.  My 
problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time.  I have the 
"timesync" option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have 
"hint.apic.0.disabled=1" in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf.


I used to have "kern.hz=100" in loader.conf, but that caused the 
guest to gain time even faster.


Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config?

Thanks.
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Hello all.

Here is something similar. Running 6.2 stable... but the clock lose 
around 6 hours each day


JB





The only good way of keeping time pretty set is to set up an NTP sync on the 
image to go off at decently constant rate (once every 3 hours or so). the 
vmware-tools will not synchronize the system clock.
  

The tools do attempt to improve timekeeping if you put

   tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

in the guest's .vmx file.  However, the tools will only move the time 
forward.  It is attempting to compensate for "lost ticks".  Without 
using syncTime the guest's clock can run slow, depending on the host's 
overall load.   With syncTime on, my Linux guest machines stay 
synchronized perfectly.  Well, they're within one second anyway, which 
is fine for my application.  The recipe for this success was to turn on 
syncTime, and use the following linux boot options:


   clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic


However, I have not been able to achieve the same success with 
FreeBSD.   The clock doesn't lose time, but it gains time, very slowly.  
It's probably load dependent, but it's around 10 seconds a day.  What's 
the FreeBSD equivalent of "clock=pit" ?  Meaning to use the PIT and not 
the APIC.


In general, but also in this application in particular, one does not one 
time to move backwards.  The Dovcot IMAP server immediately exits if it 
detects that time went backwards.


In order to use NTP, you'd probably have to turn off syncTime, which 
probably does a better job anyway except for the gaining time problem.  
I haven't tried actually running ntpd instead of a periodic sync, as 
this is not recommended by VMware's timekeeping white paper: 
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf.  My last-ditch 
strategy will be to start monkeying with the knobs for syncTime, like these:


   timeTracker.catchupPercentage
   timeTracker.catchupIfBehindByUsec
   timeTracker.giveupIfBehindByUsec

But I'd rather fix it the same way I have with Linux.



I heard of someone trying to change the clock in BSD to only use the hardware clock as VMWare can reset that but never heard anything beyond that. 


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vmware timekeeping

[Jeff Dickens]

I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2.  My 
problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time.  I have the "timesync" 
option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have "hint.apic.0.disabled=1" 
in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf.


I used to have "kern.hz=100" in loader.conf, but that caused the guest 
to gain time even faster.


Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config?

Thanks.
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Re: dump and remote file fetching

[Jeff Dickens]

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

Hello,

Need a word of advice. I use dump to backup my data. All fine. Dump 
saves compressed *.bz2 files. Nice. All I need now is a way to copy 
them from the server to a remote backup machine. The problem I am 
facing is that bz2 files are owned by root:wheel. So if I use scp 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/*.bz2, it does not have sufficient 
permissions to fetch the files. I can use sudo, but then I need to 
interactively type the password, which I would like to avoid.


Add user "user" to a group "xyz".  Arrange for dump files to get group 
"xyz" and permissions g+w.  You can probably do this by changing the 
group of the directory the dumps are written into and setting the sticky 
bit.
Can you suggest simple ways of getting around this? I don't mind using 
special tools for the job, especially if they are not too 
complicated... :)


Before firing this email off I took a look at rsync and it seems easy 
enough to do just what I need but still many thanks for suggestions!




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trickle and bacula-fd

[Jeff Dickens]

Pardon the cross-posting; don't know where would be the better place to ask.

I've got bacula-fd running under trickle, and it seems to be doing 
exactly what I want it to.  I manually started bacula-fd on my freebsd 
system like this:


   /usr/local/bin/trickle -s -u 24 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g
   wheel -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-fd.conf


The normal rc file for bacula-fd looks like this.. how should I modify 
it to make it run under trickle as above?


   #!/bin/sh
   #
   # $FreeBSD: ports/sysutils/bacula-server/files/bacula-fd.in,v 1.4
   2007/03/01 12:19:01 miwi Exp $
   #
   # PROVIDE: utility
   # REQUIRE: DAEMON
   # KEYWORD: shutdown
   #
   # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf.local or /etc/rc.conf
   # to enable this service:
   #
   # bacula_fd_enable  (bool):  Set to NO by default.
   #   Set it to YES to enable bacula_fd.
   # bacula_fd_flags (params):  Set params used to start bacula_fd.
   #

   . /etc/rc.subr

   name="bacula_fd"
   rcvar=${name}_enable
   command=/usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd

   load_rc_config $name

   pidfile="${bacula_fd_pidfile}"

   : ${bacula_fd_enable="NO"}
   : ${bacula_fd_flags=" -u root -g wheel -v -c
   /usr/local/etc/bacula-fd.conf"}
   : ${bacula_fd_pidfile="/var/run/bacula-fd.9102.pid"}

   run_rc_command "$1"

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Re: Username & groups

[Jeff Dickens]

Ruel Luchavez wrote:

Hello,

Can you help me on this...
I have a directory in the server this is what is looks like
 drwxrwx--- 12 root plusmate 512 April 13 14:46 plusmate shared
...this directory is shared in my network, and i dont recieve any complain
in any user which can acces to that folder/directory

*My Problem:*
I have a new user, i already add the user in the server using command
"adduser" and "pw" to modify it, by the way the name of user is ac06...
when i had a command "id -p ac06" this is the reply of the server..
   uid  ac06
   group   plusmate
and which im sure its correct..

BUT, when that user acces(ac06)  the folder (plusmate shared) throug the
windows (windows XP) its always asking for username & password, however it
didn't ask for username & password while the other users getting to that
folder/directory.

Where should be the problem?is there something i forgot configuring in the
server side?

YOUR REPLY IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED
  
  

Perhaps you need to do :

   smbpasswd -a 

?

Depends on the setup.  I gather someone else installed this system.




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Re: qmail w/ SMTP auth using freebsd port

[Jeff Dickens]

I used the patches and documents from qmail.jms1.net and built my own 
qmail, and it works well.  I think a port that tracks qmail + jms1's 
current combined patch set would be well received.


BTW, I copied the maintainer of the qmail port on my earlier message, 
and it eventually bounced:


 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
   host mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]: 450 4.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
   Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable:
   retry timeout exceeded


Michael P. Soulier wrote:

On 10/04/08 Jeff Dickens said:

  
Is there a document on how to set up SMTP auth using the FreeBSD qmail 
port?



I didn't think qmail supported anything as modern as smtp auth. Most likely
the expectation would be to proxy qmail through a tool that performs it for
you. 


Mike
  

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qmail w/ SMTP auth using freebsd port

[Jeff Dickens]

Is there a document on how to set up SMTP auth using the FreeBSD qmail 
port?

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[Fwd: Re: smtp auth - checkpw or auth_cdb or ?]

[Jeff Dickens]

I posted the message quoted below to the qmail list, and got a reply 
(below) from jms1 asking just which patches I have with the qmail port.  
Does the SMTP_AUTH_PATCH config option in the freebsd port use jms1's 
patches? 

I sort of doubt this is a repeat of the "qmailrocks" debacle, but I'd 
like to know whether there would be any advantage to building qmail from 
source without using the port.



On 2008-04-08, at 1739, Jeff Dickens wrote:


I'm trying to set up an authenticated SMTP server.  I have the  
freebsd qmail 1.03_6 port, built with the SMTP_AUTH_PATCH config  
option.


which means what, exactly? what patches are included in that port?

i ask because some of the variables listed in your "run" script (i.e.  
AUTH_CDB, REQUIRE_AUTH, ALLOW_INSECURE_AUTH, FORCE_TLS, DENY_DLS,  
etc.) are specific to features which only exist (as far as i know) in  
my combined patch.


i've been told that there was an attempt to build a freebsd "port"  
with my patch in it, but (1) i didn't write the port; (2) if this  
"run" script is part of it, it looks like the people who put the port  
together wrote their own scripts instead of using the ones from my web  
site; (3) the people who wrote the port didn't tell me that they were  
releasing it, or offer me a chance to preview what they were releasing  
(does the word "qmailrocks" sound familiar here?) and (4) i don't use  
freebsd, so if there is a port out there, i have no way to test it or  
provide support for it.


the only things i could suggest would be to contact whoever wrote the  
port for assistance, or do the same thing people recommend for debian  
linux- build qmail from source, by hand instead of using a package  
manager like "ports" or "rpm", so that you KNOW exactly what is and is  
not included.


start with http://lifewithqmail.org/ and then, if you need any extra  
features which aren't part of netqmail, spend some time reading my  
qmail site, as well as the web sites for several of the other "mega- 
patches" out there, and figure out which one is going to best meet  
your needs. follow the directions for that patch, and if you run into  
problems, ask on the mailing lists for those patches (i have a list, i  
know bill shupp's "qmail toaster" has a list, and i'm pretty sure the  
others do as well.)


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Here's my original message, fyi:



I'm trying to set up an authenticated SMTP server.  I have the freebsd 
qmail 1.03_6 port, built with the SMTP_AUTH_PATCH config option.


My "run" script looks like this:

   #!/bin/sh
   # qmail-submit/run
   exec 2>&1
   CONLIMIT=9
   #AUTH_CDB="/var/qmail/auth/auth.cdb"
   CHECKPW="/usr/local/bin/checkpassword-pam"
   PAM_SERVICE="submit"
   LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me`
   TRUE=`which true`
   AUTH=1
   REQUIRE_AUTH=1
   ALLOW_INSECURE_AUTH=0
   PORT=465
   #SSL=1
   FORCE_TLS=0
   DENY_DNS=0
   #
   echo "*** Starting qmail-submit..."
   exec \
 envuidgid qmaild \
 softlimit -m 300 -f 1000 \
 tcpserver -v -HR \
 -U \
 -c ${CONLIMIT} \
 0 ${PORT} \
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd ${LOCAL} ${CHECKPW} ${TRUE}

I tried to test it - fear not this test account is not accessible from 
the net - SSL is turned off just until I get it working this far:


   # perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print
   encode_base64("\000test\000test")'  AHRlc3QAdGVzdA==

   # telnet 0 465

   Trying 0.0.0.0...
   Connected to 0.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   220 asdf.asdf.com ESMTP
   EHLO test
   250-asdf.asdf.com
   250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
   250-AUTH=LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
   250-PIPELINING
   250 8BITMIME
   AUTH PLAIN AHRlc3QAdGVzdA==
   535 authorization failed (#5.7.0)

I should mention this takes a few seconds to fail.

But, the checkpassword-pam does seem to work, and very quickly indeed.

   # echo -e "test\0test\0\timestamp\0" | checkpassword-pam -s submit
   --debug --stdout -- /usr/bin/id 3<&0
   Reading username and password
   Username 'test'
   Password read successfully
   Initializing PAM library using service name 'submit'
   PAM library initialization succeeded
   conversation(): msg[0], style PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_OFF, msg = "Password:"

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

[Jeff Dickens]

I just made a copy of /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/freebsd.iso from VMware 
Server v1.0.4 under a different name, and moved it to the ESX server.


Then I mounted that ISO as a virtual cdrom on the freebsd guest, 
untarred the tools and ran the install script.  It seems to work fine.


A couple of provisos: I don't use X windows on any of my FreeBSD 
systems, and the vmxnet accelerated virtual network adapter does not 
work properly.  I use the e1000 adapter instead.  It wouldn't be a bad 
idea to comment out the 'vmxnet_load="YES"' line from /boot/loader.conf, 
but it doesn't seem to cause problems just being loaded.


Furthermore, I don't use any of the virtualcenter features like vmotion, 
etc.  I use freebsd guests for small-footprint servers, for example a 
dhcp and dnscache server with 512MB disk and 32MB ram.




Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
  

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Dickens
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:17 AM
To: Terry Sposato; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD


 I use the vmware tools for freebsd from the free vmware server 
product for my esx-hoster freebsd servers. 



Did you have to do anything special to build and install them?

Ted
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RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

[Jeff Dickens]

 I use the vmware tools for freebsd from the free vmware server product for my 
esx-hoster freebsd servers.  The good people at vmware are apparently not 
interested in adding "official" freebsd support to esx.

-Original Message-
From: Terry Sposato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:23 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

Hi,

 

Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port
vmware-tools to FreeBSD.

As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are
being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers
follow as well.

 

It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to
FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not
being a developer myself was just wondering if this has been tackled and if
it is being incorporated somewhere in the future?

 

Regards,

 

Terry

 

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Re: resync ports/packages after upgrade?

[Jeff Dickens]

Jonathan Chen wrote:

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:36:42AM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote:
  
I did a binary upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 and made what I think was the 
mistake of having it install the ports tree over my existing ports 
tree.  I'd been using portupgrade to maintain my ports.  What's the 
easiest way to get back to "normal" ?



Remove /usr/ports and resync with cvsup/csup (which could take a while)
or portsnap.
  


Thanks.. That's what I did, with Portsnap, although I didn't remove it 
first I think it did that for me.  I seem to be in good shape now.

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resync ports/packages after upgrade?

[Jeff Dickens]

I did a binary upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 and made what I think was the 
mistake of having it install the ports tree over my existing ports 
tree.  I'd been using portupgrade to maintain my ports.  What's the 
easiest way to get back to "normal" ?


Thanks.
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manual root filesystems specification under VMware

[Jeff Dickens]

I'm trying to move a FreeBSD 6.1 virtual machine from VMware server to 
VMware ESX Server.  The original VM used a virtual IDE controller for 
the disks, and apparently VMware ESX server doesn't support this.


The "VMware converter" applications translates the virtual disk files to 
use the Virtual SCSI controller under VMware ESX Server.  However, I 
then get dumped at the "Manual Root filesystem specification" prompt, 
where I should be able to just type "ufs:da0s1a" and off I go.


But what happens is that the system is hung right at that point and 
doesn't accept keyboard input. 


If I boot FreeBSD into safe mode I can make an entry at the prompt.

But "da0" is not available.  If I type "?" I see that all there is is 
acd0 and fd0.  But the scsi device must be there because the system is 
booted from it.


Anyone see how I can straighten this out?  Once I get the root 
filesystem mounted I should be able to edit fstab and go.


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samba configure failure looking for libldap

[Jeff Dickens]

Here's a different samba build failure...

.
.
.

checking for LDAP support... yes
checking ldap.h usability... yes
checking ldap.h presence... yes
checking for ldap.h... yes
checking lber.h usability... yes
checking lber.h presence... yes
checking for lber.h... yes
checking for ber_scanf in -llber... yes
checking for ldap_init in -lldap... no
checking for ldap_set_rebind_proc... no
checking whether ldap_set_rebind_proc takes 3 arguments... 3
checking for ldap_dn2ad_canonical... no
configure: error: libldap is needed for LDAP support
===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [maintainer] and attach the
"/usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.23d/source/config.log" including the
output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to
provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
/var/db/pkg`).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba3.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa 
/tmp/portinstall.85198.0 make

** Fix the problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
   ! net/samba3(configure error)
--->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
plover#

plover# pkg_info | grep ldap
openldap-sasl-client-2.3.27 Open source LDAP client implementation with 
SASL2 support

openldap-server-2.3.30_1 Open source LDAP server implementation
p5-perl-ldap-0.33   A Client interface to LDAP servers
smbldap-tools-0.9.2a Useful package for managing users and groups in a 
LDAP dire

plover#

plover# find / -name 'libldap*' -print
/usr/local/lib/libldap-2.3.so
/usr/local/lib/libldap-2.3.so.2
/usr/local/lib/libldap.a
/usr/local/lib/libldap.la
/usr/local/lib/libldap.so
/usr/local/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so
/usr/local/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so.2
/usr/local/lib/libldap_r.a
/usr/local/lib/libldap_r.la
/usr/local/lib/libldap_r.so




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ruby Vulnerability / portupgrade

[Jeff Dickens]

Regarding the following vulnerabilities as detected by portaudit:

   Affected package: ruby-1.8.4_4,1
   Type of problem: ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service.
   Reference:
   


   Affected package: ruby-1.8.4_4,1
   Type of problem: ruby - multiple vulnerabilities.
   Reference:
   


I see that ruby is only required by portupgrade.  Anyone know if there going to 
be a fix for this vulnerability any time soon? Anyone asked the ruby guys?

   # pkg_info -R ruby-1.8.4_4,1
   Information for ruby-1.8.4_4,1:

   Required by:
   portupgrade-2.0.1_1,1
   ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2

   # pkg_info -R ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2
   Information for ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2:

   Required by:
   portupgrade-2.0.1_1,1

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Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

[Jeff Dickens]

Jeff Dickens wrote:

Jeff Dickens wrote:

John Nielsen wrote:

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote:
 
I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests.  I'd 
like
to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the 
VMware

host system.  After reading and partially digesting the white paper on
timekeeping in VMware virtual machines
(http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I
might want to make some changes.

Has anyone addressed this issue?



I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've 
had good results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 
3. Some thoughts:


As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include 
just the drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and 
le for the network (although I suspect forcing the VM to present 
e1000 hardware and then using the em driver would work as well if 
not better).


The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job 
of getting itself to run, but it can be made to work without too 
much difficulty. Don't use the port, run the included install script 
to install the files, ignore the custom network driver and compile 
the memory management module from source (included). If using X.org, 
use the built-in vmware display driver, and copy the vmmouse driver 
.o file from the VMware tools dist to the appropriate dir under 
/usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 6.8, it works 
fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse driver.) Run 
the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you can 
ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), 
so it won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not 
accomplished above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware 
tools.


I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far.

JN
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What is the advantage of using the "e1000 hardware", and is this 
documented somewhere?  I got the vxn network driver working without 
issues; I just had to edit the .vxn file manually:  I'm using the 
free VMware server V1 rather than the ESX server.


  ethernet0.virtualDev="vmxnet"

I've got timekeeping running stably on these.  I turn on time sync 
via vmware tools in the .vmx file:


 tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

and in the guest file's rc.conf start ntpd with flags "-Aqgx &" so it 
just syncs once at boot and exits.


I'm not using X on these.  They're supposed to be clean & lean 
systems to run such things as djbdns and qmail.  And they do work 
well. My main goal is to reduce the background load on the VMware 
host system so that it isn't spending more time than it has to 
simulating interrupt controllers for the guests.  I'm wondering about 
the "disable ACPI" boot option.  I suppose I first should figure out 
how to even roughly measure the effect of any changes I might make.


Well, I've done some pseudo-scientific measurement on this.  I 
currently have five freebsd virtual systems running, and one Centos 4 
(linux 2.6),   This command give some info on the background cpu usage:


(The host is a Centos 3 system, linux 2.4)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | head -1
USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY  STAT START   TIME COMMAND
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | grep vmx
root 18031 12.7  1.5 175440 39916 ?  S<   Oct09 345:50 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Goose/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18058 12.9  1.4 174772 36916 ?  S<   Oct09 351:01 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Duck/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18072 16.2  5.5 246372 141776 ? S<   Oct09 440:16 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/BlueJay/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18086 12.9  1.4 174688 38464 ?  S<   Oct09 351:47 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Heron/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18100  9.4  4.1 385712 107348 ? S<   Oct09 256:25 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Newt/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18139 12.2  2.5 299388 65132 ?  S<   Oct09 330:35 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Centos4/Centos4.vmx -@ ""

root 28930  0.0  0.0  3680  672 pts/3S14:08   0:00 grep vmx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#


As one can see the one called "Newt" is consistently lower in the 
"%CPU" column.  Curiously enough, this *is* the one I built a custom 
kernel for.
The config file I used is posted below:  Besides commenting out 
devices I wasn't using & NFS, etc, I commented out the apic and 
pctimer devices.

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

[Jeff Dickens]

Jeff Dickens wrote:

John Nielsen wrote:

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote:
 
I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests.  I'd 
like

to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware
host system.  After reading and partially digesting the white paper on
timekeeping in VMware virtual machines
(http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I
might want to make some changes.

Has anyone addressed this issue?



I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've 
had good results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 3. 
Some thoughts:


As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include 
just the drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and le 
for the network (although I suspect forcing the VM to present e1000 
hardware and then using the em driver would work as well if not better).


The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job 
of getting itself to run, but it can be made to work without too much 
difficulty. Don't use the port, run the included install script to 
install the files, ignore the custom network driver and compile the 
memory management module from source (included). If using X.org, use 
the built-in vmware display driver, and copy the vmmouse driver .o 
file from the VMware tools dist to the appropriate dir under 
/usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 6.8, it works 
fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse driver.) Run 
the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you can 
ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), so 
it won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not 
accomplished above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware tools.


I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far.

JN
___
  
What is the advantage of using the "e1000 hardware", and is this 
documented somewhere?  I got the vxn network driver working without 
issues; I just had to edit the .vxn file manually:  I'm using the free 
VMware server V1 rather than the ESX server.


  ethernet0.virtualDev="vmxnet"

I've got timekeeping running stably on these.  I turn on time sync via 
vmware tools in the .vmx file:


 tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

and in the guest file's rc.conf start ntpd with flags "-Aqgx &" so it 
just syncs once at boot and exits.


I'm not using X on these.  They're supposed to be clean & lean systems 
to run such things as djbdns and qmail.  And they do work well. 
My main goal is to reduce the background load on the VMware host 
system so that it isn't spending more time than it has to simulating 
interrupt controllers for the guests.  I'm wondering about the 
"disable ACPI" boot option.  I suppose I first should figure out how 
to even roughly measure the effect of any changes I might make.


Well, I've done some pseudo-scientific measurement on this.  I currently 
have five freebsd virtual systems running, and one Centos 4 (linux 
2.6),   This command give some info on the background cpu usage:


(The host is a Centos 3 system, linux 2.4)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | head -1
USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY  STAT START   TIME COMMAND
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps auxww | grep vmx
root 18031 12.7  1.5 175440 39916 ?  S<   Oct09 345:50 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Goose/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18058 12.9  1.4 174772 36916 ?  S<   Oct09 351:01 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Duck/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18072 16.2  5.5 246372 141776 ? S<   Oct09 440:16 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/BlueJay/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18086 12.9  1.4 174688 38464 ?  S<   Oct09 351:47 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Heron/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18100  9.4  4.1 385712 107348 ? S<   Oct09 256:25 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Newt/freebsd-6.1-i386.vmx -@ ""
root 18139 12.2  2.5 299388 65132 ?  S<   Oct09 330:35 
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /var/lib/vmware/Virtual 
Machines/Centos4/Centos4.vmx -@ ""

root 28930  0.0  0.0  3680  672 pts/3S14:08   0:00 grep vmx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#


As one can see the one called "Newt" is consistently lower in the "%CPU" 
column.  Curiously enough, this *is* the one I built a custom kernel for. 

The config file I used is posted below:  Besides commenting out devices 
I wasn't using & NFS, etc, I commented out the apic and pctimer 
devices.  Do you think I'

can't built /usr/ports/mail/mutt-ng

[Jeff Dickens]

This happens:

y# make
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===>  Found saved configuration for mutt-ng-20051110_1
=> muttng-20051110.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://nion.modprobe.de/mutt-ng/snapshots/.
fetch: http://nion.modprobe.de/mutt-ng/snapshots/muttng-20051110.tar.gz: 
Network is unreachable
=> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
muttng-20051110.tar.gz100% of 2668 kB  215 kBps 
00m00s

===>  Extracting for mutt-ng-20051110_1
=> MD5 Checksum OK for muttng-20051110.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for muttng-20051110.tar.gz.
===>  Patching for mutt-ng-20051110_1
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for mutt-ng-20051110_1
===>   mutt-ng-20051110_1 depends on executable: lynx - found
===>   mutt-ng-20051110_1 depends on executable: sgmlfmt - found
===>   mutt-ng-20051110_1 depends on shared library: db41.1 - not found
===>Verifying install for db41.1 in /usr/ports/databases/db41
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=> db-4.1.25.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/bdb.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://downloads.sleepycat.com/.
fetch: http://downloads.sleepycat.com/db-4.1.25.tar.gz: Network is 
unreachable
=> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/bdb/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/bdb/db-4.1.25.tar.gz: 
size mismatch: expected 3080234, actual 2901161

=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/bdb and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/db41.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mutt-ng.


I'd go pack and de-select the db4 caching business but I can't figure 
out how to get to the config menu again

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Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

[Jeff Dickens]

John Nielsen wrote:

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote:
  

I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests.  I'd like
to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware
host system.  After reading and partially digesting the white paper on
timekeeping in VMware virtual machines
(http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I
might want to make some changes.

Has anyone addressed this issue?



I haven't read the white paper (yet; thanks for the link), but I've had good 
results with recent -STABLE VM's running under ESX server 3. Some thoughts:


As I do on most of my installs, I trimmed down GENERIC to include just the 
drivers I use. In this case that was mpt for the disk and le for the network 
(although I suspect forcing the VM to present e1000 hardware and then using 
the em driver would work as well if not better).


The VMware tools package that comes with ESX server does a poor job of getting 
itself to run, but it can be made to work without too much difficulty. Don't 
use the port, run the included install script to install the files, ignore 
the custom network driver and compile the memory management module from 
source (included). If using X.org, use the built-in vmware display driver, 
and copy the vmmouse driver .o file from the VMware tools dist to the 
appropriate dir under /usr/X11. Even though the included file is for X.org 
6.8, it works fine with 6.9/7.0 (X.org 7.1 should include the vmmouse 
driver.) Run the VMware tools config script from a non-X terminal (and you 
can ignore the warning about running it remotely if you're using SSH), so it 
won't mess with your X display (it doesn't do anything not accomplished 
above). Then run the rc.d script to start the VMware tools.


I haven't noticed any timekeeping issues so far.

JN
___
  
What is the advantage of using the "e1000 hardware", and is this 
documented somewhere?  I got the vxn network driver working without 
issues; I just had to edit the .vxn file manually:  I'm using the free 
VMware server V1 rather than the ESX server.


  ethernet0.virtualDev="vmxnet"

I've got timekeeping running stably on these.  I turn on time sync via 
vmware tools in the .vmx file:


 tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

and in the guest file's rc.conf start ntpd with flags "-Aqgx &" so it 
just syncs once at boot and exits.


I'm not using X on these.  They're supposed to be clean & lean systems 
to run such things as djbdns and qmail.  And they do work well.  

My main goal is to reduce the background load on the VMware host system 
so that it isn't spending more time than it has to simulating interrupt 
controllers for the guests.  I'm wondering about the "disable ACPI" boot 
option.  I suppose I first should figure out how to even roughly measure 
the effect of any changes I might make.









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optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

[Jeff Dickens]

I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests.  I'd like 
to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware 
host system.  After reading and partially digesting the white paper on 
timekeeping in VMware virtual machines 
(http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf) it appears that I 
might want to make some changes.


Has anyone addressed this issue?


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