Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?
At 07:05 PM 5/5/2007, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found in /usr/local/bin or something. What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch. my question, was there an easier way? thanks, Ray Ray, Good quality backups are a must. Even a filesystem snapshot would have helped in the above scenario. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html The link above has great info about creating and using filesystem snapshots. If you had one, you could have just mounted the snapshot, and copied over the files/folders you accidentally removed. Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?
At 03:26 PM 5/4/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how did you get around this issue? Thanks, -- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org Jonathan, you may want to search the archives. I posed this same question a while back, and then found a working solution. It involved getting rid of the freebsd boot manager, and migrating to grub 0.94 Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings
It was installed from a snapshot ISO last summer. OK, so you're running an 8 month stale snapshot and you wonder why you don't have the recent timezone updates? What is wrong with this picture? :-) Kris Not to be a smartass, but the energy conservation act was passed in 2005, so one would think an 8 month old snapshot would include a fix that has been known about for 2 years ;) Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about a specific ISP: Amen/Amenworld
At 02:31 PM 3/2/2007, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm interested in a dedicated server plan from a somewhat big company called Amenworld (www.amenworld.com) but the sales technician is telling me that amen technicians can't install freebsd on the machines. After some googling I found that they are hosting some freebsd machines (if this counts for anything). Is there anyone here that by any change is a client on this company and runs freebsd? Thanks in advance Regards -- Alexandre Vieira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexandre, I know nothing about this company.. but just because a few boxes have FreeBSD doesn't mean they necessarily support it. It's possible to change from linux to FreeBSD on remote machine using utilities like: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ Hope that helps, Jeff P.S. Be warned, that utility re-images the disk, and can leave the machine in non-bootable state. Possibly forcing you to incur support fees from the ISP/Datacenter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up
At 02:26 PM 2/28/2007, Dwight Smith wrote: Good morning, My name is Dwight Smith, and I only had a question or two in terms of the future useability of FreeBSD. I have used it on and off and found it to be a great UNIX operating system for servers, but my only major concern was the amount of time it takes to prepare a server such as an Apache Server with PHP and MySQL support as opposed to a Linux system which is what I am currently using now as well as my company. I guess my question is that will the ease of building or installing software for FreeBSD ever streamline to where you do not have to do as many steps and text config file entries? What had me curious to asking this is this article I read about a review on FreeBSD 6.2 (http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/67/) The reviewer had a lot of criticisms that seemed harsh, but at the same time raised some valid points. I only ask this question as I would like to see FreeBSD get the same recognition as Linux as FreeBSD is a powerful OS that should not be overshadowed and I hope it doesn't cause it saved my IT job many a times when a server crashes and I have to piece together an old PII with 32 MB RAM and install FreeBSD with Samba. So thanks in advance for your attention in this and I wish all of you the best. Sincerely, Dwight Smith Computer Coordinator Christ Second Baptist Church Dwight, That review was from a person who obviously is very inexperienced with FreeBSD in general. Please read my thread discussion with him found here: http://www.tjrforum.com/showthread.php?t=3067 As mentioned in the thread, I'm done replying to it. The guy is very inexperienced, and writes technical reviews that are completely inaccurate. when questioned about it (on technical merit) he has no good responses. As for your actual question, installing the software is simple if you use the ports (cd /usr/ports/foo/bar; make install clean) So to be honest, I'm not sure what streamlining you'd need, want, or expect.. 16,000 3rd party applications able to be installed with a make install command seems pretty streamlined to me ;) - Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with jail
At 08:22 PM 2/22/2007, you wrote: I'd like to get Apache running in jail, but I can't seem to get network working in jail. ..snip.. Anyway, when I go to jail, running csh (as root) in jail, I try/get: %ping 192.168.1.1 ping: socket: Operation not permitted You can't ping from a jail unless you set the security.jail.allow_raw_sockets sysctl on the host OS. - Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with jail
At 02:07 PM 2/23/2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: Jail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:04:11 (0) ~ sudo jail /jail/ legolas 192.168.1.85 /bin/csh %telnet 192.168.1.4 25 ..snip.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:02:11 (0) ~ ifconfig -a nve0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:13:d4:2e:2f:62 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:04:08 (0) ~ jls JID IP Address Hostname Path 1 192.168.1.85legolas /jail Is that what you needed Thanks, -Jim Stapleton I don't see where you have 192.168.1.85 as an alias on the host OS. ifconfig nve0 alias 192.168.1.85 netmask 255.255.255.255 then launch the jail - Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with jail
At 02:38 PM 2/23/2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: new host rc.conf: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net #ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0 ipv4_addrs_nve0=192.168.1.84-85/24 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 #ifconfig_nve0=DHCP usbd_enable=YES linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NO inetd_flags=-wW -a 192.168.1.84 rpcbind_enable=NO Jim: try the following: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_nve0_alias0=192.168.1.85 netmask 255.255.255.255 defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 #ifconfig_nve0=DHCP usbd_enable=YES linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES - Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: server issues
At 12:00 PM 2/21/2007, drewshen wrote: I am having a problem with my apache in freebsd. i set up two virtual hosts, ..snip.. when i try to start apache it says httpd not running, trying to start . . . and on the broswer i get an internal server error. does anyone know how i could fix this? thanks alot! What do the apache error logs say? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64-bits platform question
At 02:35 PM 2/21/2007, you wrote: Hi list, as far as I know Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, or Intel EM64T) enables 64-bit computing on desktop when combined with supporting software. If I am right, 64-bit computing (on Intel architecture) requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, operating system, device drivers and applications enabled for Intel EM64T architecture. So I bought an ASUS P4P800-VM with a 3.0GHz processor that supports Intel EM64T and 1Gb of Infineon PC3200 RAM memory. The system is ok...so why I can't install BSD 64 bits with my system ??? Any clues, thanks in advance. You've given us no indication as to what errors you are getting. It appears by the motherboard specs (that I looked up) you probably need to be trying FreeBSD/amd64. Feel free to try that (I've noticed a lot of people misunderstand the i386/amd64/ia64 names, and try to install ia64 on the wrong hardware) If that doesn't resolve the issue, please give us something to work with. P.S. for the record, I hate the architecture names amd64/ia64 ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64-bits platform question
On a side note -- a LOT of people have been making this mistake recently. Can anyone think of a way to make it more obvious that people are downloading the wrong isos? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. Short of renaming the architectures from amd64/ia64, it's doubtful. a lot of people go directly tot he ftp server or torrent sites to get the ISO, so they would never see the big warning on the freebsd.org homepage (and even fewer would read it in a ftp motd) Of course, my two cents. Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Onpening and Closing ports
..snip.. If you use good passwords, the SSH dictionary attacks are not a great concern. ..snip -Chuck ..snip.. Or better yet, disable username/password authentication, and just use ssh keys. it's more secure, and they can bruteforce it all day long. Even if you had a password of a they'd be denied. -Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA
At 09:45 AM 11/13/2006, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 installation? Anyone? Please? When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, not the FreeBSD port) over to *BSD, I was using a Smart-UPS 1000 on the test machine. The 750 should work well. Jeff Palmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
At 01:45 PM 10/16/2006, Simon Gao wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, you can always keep your system up to date if you like. Of cause, you can also choose staying at a certain version. Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. Whoever gave you the 'wipe and reinstall' advice for the 5.x to 6.x migration was insane. 4.x to 6.x is a pain, due to major changes in /dev (5.x and later use devfs, 4.x doesn't) but can still be done. but the 5.6 to 6.x migration is fairly straight forward with a buildworld and a couple minor caveats as noticed in UPDATING. Jeff P.S. while 4.x to 5.x is possible, I'd still personally do a wipe/reinstall.5.x to 6.x, I'd build world. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing ports
snipped out the original email You may want to try using portsnap. pkg_add -r portsnap then portsnap fetch extract BTW: This sounds like one of the etnic (sp?) bandwidth manager boxes. Would that happen to be the case? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Squid +pf +if_bridge
Hello all, I'm using freebsd 6.1 as a bridge (if_bridge) The interfaces are vr0 (plugged into the DSL modem) and rl0 (plugged into the switch, to the rest of the network On the bridge, I'm attempting to use pf to rdr all http requests from my lan, to squid (actually dansguardian) I have squid configured correctly.. and it was working fine. I *had* pf working correctly, and redirecting the requests. Last night, I re-IP'd my network. it used to be 192.168.1.* now it's 10.23.230.* (this was done for different reasons) I made the appropriate changes in pf.conf, and rc.conf to set the new IP on the bridge. Problem: all attempts to browse the web, simply time out. tcpdump shows: 000874 rule 6/0(match): pass in on vr0: 10.23.230.254 10.23.230.5: ICMP net 10.23.230.26 unreachable, length 36 05 rule 6/0(match): pass in on bridge0: 10.23.230.254 10.23.230.5: ICMP net 10.23.230.26 unreachable, length 36 22 rule 7/0(match): pass out on rl0: 64.233.179.99 10.23.230.5: ICMP net 64.233.179.99 unreachable, length 36 However, this only occurs with the redirect. if I insert the proxy IP/port in my web browser, it works fine. Diagnostics: 10.23.230.254 is DSL modem 10.23.230.26 is the bridge/squid box 10.23.230.5 is the workstation trying to browse the net. from th bridge, I can ping all internal IP's, and external (internet) IP's with no problem. From the DSL modem, I can ping all machines on the internet, and also all machines behind the bridge. from the workstation, I can ping the bridge, the DSL modem, and all internet hosts.. I see no apparent reason that the tcpdump output shows ICMP unreachable between *.254 and *.5 Has anyone run into this before? if so, any idea how to resolve it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Geli questions.. ponderings..
Hello, Let me preface the email by saying I'm not overly familiar with geli, and it may already have the ability to do what I'm about to describe. The scenario: A FreeBSD based appliance at a customer premise. The customer really can't be trusted not to disasemble the box, and gain knowledge about the box configuration, software, and design. The idea: I'd like to use geli to encrypt *everything* on the disk. So if someone (a competitor maybe) removes the disk from the machine, he can't gain any data off of it easily. I know nothing is 100%, but why make the process easy for him? The problem: I don't want the end user to have to do anything to the box, to have it come back up after a reboot/power failure. The goal is an appliance that the client just plugs in, and forgets about it. The plan: the appliance would be persistantly connected to an SSL based VPN server at my central office. (Think OpenVPN server) I'd like a way for geli to encrypt the entire disk, but fetch the key from a server located on the VPN. this would require the appliance to boot up, access the internet (static IP), access the VPN (ssl key'd) and fetch the key that geli needs. Is this currently possible using geli (or even other software that I may not have heard of) or if not, would it be overly difficult to implement? Any feedback or brainstorming would be GREATLY appreciated. DrkShdw @ freenode (##FreeBSD) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a good www/picture management port?
www/gallery http://www.gallery.org - Original Message - From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:42 PM Subject: a good www/picture management port? anyone know of good picture management application that can be found within ports, to manage and organize pics that i upload? right now, my management system is to: 1) open my folder on my local KDE workstation. create image gallery using the built in tool. 2) upload the entire folder under a master folder on my web host. im not looking for sometnig that i can try to complete with imageshack or anything, but if there is something out there that can help me out with the thumbnailing and organization of the tons of pics im accumulating these days, i would appreciate anyones input. thanks a bunch, jonathan ___ 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]
IPFW fwd doesn't seem to work
Hello, I run a small ISP in florida, and have decided to implement a squid proxy. I've got everything configured except the ipfw forward rule on the bridge/firewall. The basic layout isrouter --- bridge/firewall -- switch to other servers I've added a rule to allow traffic from the proxy machine, out to the internet. ipfw add pass tcp from 123.123.123.123 to any 80 I then have a rule that is supposed to forward the other port 80 requests to another ip/port. ipfw add fwd 123.123.123.124,3128 log tcp from 123.123.123.0/24 to any 80 Now, /var/log/security shows the rule as matching but the proxy machine never see's the traffic. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Jeff Palmer http://www.pci2.net http://boards.pci2.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
