Re: Old releases support
On Mar 2, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@qxnitro.org wrote: On 2 Mar 2013 09:47, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Just a quick question on EOL dates. According to http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup, 7.4R support should have ended two days ago. Did it? Is Feb 28 2013 date confirmed? Next, 9.0 should reach EOL at the end of this month. Is this confirmed too? Correct on both accounts. As the updates are manual nobody just got to removing 7.4 yet. Hello, I just removed 7.4/7-STABLE from the list and moved it to the 'unsupported' section. Thanks for mentioning this! Cheers Remko I should have sent a mail out with warning a month ago but forgot. -- Simon ___ Please think twice when forwarding, cc:ing, or bcc:ing security-team messages. Ask if you are unsure. -- /\ With kind regards,| re...@elvandar.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@freebsd.org XFreeBSD| http://www.evilcoder.org / \ The Power to Serve| Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to generate pi in c
No, but a simple search reveals some information; http://einstein.drexel.edu/courses/Comp_Phys/General/C_basics/ On Nov 5, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Arthur Bela wrote: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Thanks.. :D :\ -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| Quis custodiet ipsos custodes / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to prevent system to launch interactive fsck after improper shutdown and reboot?
Almost every time after improper shutdown (poweroff) and reboot I get into interactive fsck. I am being asked whole bunch of questions to which I just have to answer Y (what are my other options?) Why drop user into interactive fsck if there is not much choice anyways? Is there a way to set it up the way it doesn't drop into interactive mode? Like answer 'Y' to all questions? Yuri I think this might do your trick: fsck_y_enable=NO # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails. fsck_y_flags= # Additional flags for fsck -y The reason for this to get interactively is because this might messup with your filesystem, and you are the one responsible for your filesystem, not us or the autmated system. So in case you want to play with that, that's entirely up to you. In addition, I can imagine that companies (been there done it) do not want to fsck -y by default, this because of the mentioned potential corruption and dataloss. Thanks remko p.s. This was found within 5 seconds in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. -- /\ Best regards, | re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 is available
On Jul 24, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Aiza wrote: Since the release team never makes a announcement on this list when a new RELEASE is published. I will let you all know that RELEASE 8.1 has been published and is available for download. Then there must be a reason that the announce@ mailinglist exists., now I wonder what is periodically send there, to not overload the many other mailinglists? :-) Ofcourse thanks for bringing it to the attention, but do realise that announce is the way to go for these kind of things.. Cheers Remko -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I have all the pertinent kernel modules loaded, and I have tried all different combination of network settings in virtualbox. This is a FreeBSD host running on a FreeBSD client. Any suggestions appreciated. Suggestion 1: What are the issues? -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I am not able to ping anything. I cannot ping the gateway or the host. I tried bridge, NAT, and host only. Chris OK, and what does tcpdump tell you about the interface? is it passing traffic at all? -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I tried the second Intel adapter in the list and it worked under bridge mode. This is really unsatisfying, can you generate an ifconfig -a and report it back so that we can see what you did? did you assign multiple interfaces to the machine? are they all bridged or? I want to make sure that others can learn from this, and that is only possible when you shed a little light on the things that you did and what caused problems. would you be able to help us with that? -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues
On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Chris Maness wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Remko Lodder re...@elvandar.org wrote: On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I tried the second Intel adapter in the list and it worked under bridge mode. This is really unsatisfying, can you generate an ifconfig -a and report it back so that we can see what you did? did you assign multiple interfaces to the machine? are they all bridged or? I want to make sure that others can learn from this, and that is only possible when you shed a little light on the things that you did and what caused problems. would you be able to help us with that? -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News Yes, I will give a more detailed blow by blow a little latter on. I am on baby duty right now ;o) Chris OK that is a fair excuse :) goodluck with that and please tell us what you did and how you did resolve it. It's one of the strenghts of email archives, if people hit the search string they might be able to see how you resolved it, and thank you for it later :) Cheerio R -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: /var/log/messages logs appear in the output of sysctl -a
You are looking at the kernel message buffer with 'sysctl -a'. (kern.msgbuf). Nothing wrong with that. //Remko -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: some doubts..
On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on that page, i've noticed that you are supposed to add following in rc.conf, however i remember that it was supposed to be in make.conf.. SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 could be wrong am no expert, .. Not only are you right, but the English version does say make.conf. I suggest you check with the Dutch translation team... How do I contact them? A quick look at the documentation project's documentation about itself showed me: http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/docproj/translations.html#dutch but a docs problem report is probably the best way to go. IIRC Remko knows how to fix this. I've copied him in this message... I'll have a look at this and fix this immediatly.. thanks for the notice!! -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: some doubts..
On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:14:18 +0100, Remko Lodder re...@elvandar.org wrote: On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html and rc.conf - make.conf for SENDMAIL_XXX build options: IIRC Remko knows how to fix this. I've copied him in this message... I'll have a look at this and fix this immediatly.. thanks for the notice!! You are welcome, Remko. I'm sure you would do the same for el_GR :-) Yes ofcourse, we are a team after all! -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: some doubts..
On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Remko Lodder wrote: On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on that page, i've noticed that you are supposed to add following in rc.conf, however i remember that it was supposed to be in make.conf.. SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 could be wrong am no expert, .. Not only are you right, but the English version does say make.conf. I suggest you check with the Dutch translation team... How do I contact them? A quick look at the documentation project's documentation about itself showed me: http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/docproj/translations.html#dutch but a docs problem report is probably the best way to go. IIRC Remko knows how to fix this. I've copied him in this message... I'll have a look at this and fix this immediatly.. thanks for the notice!! -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News It had been done. Thanks Wouter! -- /\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@efnet Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/| / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign| Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ports missing their packages.
On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:09 am, FBSD1 wrote: It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. Creating the package after this is just one command and a ftp upload to the package server. Why are maintainers being given approval to apply their changes without creating the required package? This is just lax management on the part of the people who do the authorizing of the changes. Missing packages increases user frustration level and makes FreeBSD look like its being mis-managed. An alternate solution to this problem is to allow users to upload missing packages to the package server direct or to a staging ftp server so port/pkg management staff can review first and them populate the production package server. There is a certain guideline in place which committers follow. If you have constructive feedback surely someone will listen to it. Spitting your frustration is not likely to help. Do note that we have a lot of maintainers which try to satify each and everyone of us, sending messages like this is not going to help *you*. I would have a strong opinion -against- people uploading towarsd the FTP server directly. That will not be done. period. To give you a better understanding; We have a ports-cluster which builds packages and uploads them to the appropriate place on the FTP servers, sometimes that takes a little to become available, donate more facilities so that we can do that better. Also note that QAT (a ports tinderbox) runs periodically to make sure every thing is just fine! Thanks, Remko -- /\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Remko Lodder | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ports missing their packages.
On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:53 am, joeb wrote: On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:09 am, FBSD1 wrote: It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. Creating the package after this is just one command and a ftp upload to the package server. Why are maintainers being given approval to apply their changes without creating the required package? This is just lax management on the part of the people who do the authorizing of the changes. Missing packages increases user frustration level and makes FreeBSD look like its being mis-managed. An alternate solution to this problem is to allow users to upload missing packages to the package server direct or to a staging ftp server so port/pkg management staff can review first and them populate the production package server. There is a certain guideline in place which committers follow. If you have constructive feedback surely someone will listen to it. Spitting your frustration is not likely to help. Do note that we have a lot of maintainers which try to satify each and everyone of us, sending messages like this is not going to help *you*. I would have a strong opinion -against- people uploading towarsd the FTP server directly. That will not be done. period. To give you a better understanding; We have a ports-cluster which builds packages and uploads them to the appropriate place on the FTP servers, sometimes that takes a little to become available, donate more facilities so that we can do that better. Also note that QAT (a ports tinderbox) runs periodically to make sure every thing is just fine! Thanks, Remko -- /\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Remko Lodder | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News -Original Message- From: Remko Lodder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ports missing their packages. Well if you have this cluster build process why have some ports never been built all the way back to release 5.0 like kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8. That is almost 3 years of waiting to get in the cluster build process. There might be reasons for packages not being built, sometimes it's an license issue, sometimes the package does not build etc. It's not something that you can demand that you need a package that it gets there. There is more to it then just build the freaking thing ;-) I am grateful to the maintainers for the great job they do, but completing the job by building the package is such a small additional task in light of they already have everything in place to build the package. It's not, we have guidelines that we have to follow in order to keep things managable. Posting a email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or posting a bug report about package missing does not get the missing package built. Its just considered as background noise. I have brought this problem to light in past years and new releases keep coming out with the same packages missing. Then apparantly there is no need for your idea and it will not get implemented. Stating that a package is missing, soit, we build packages all the time and as said there are reasons for some ports not being build into packages etc. First investigate that before complaining this loud. We have been in this proces before with you (Bob was your name back then if I remember correctly). Thnx, Remko -- /\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Remko Lodder | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...
On Fri, December 14, 2007 5:37 pm, W. D. wrote: At 09:50 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: Well, it's been 2 days now. When will the code be updated in the FreeBSD ports? The version on the Samba website is 3.0.28. (http://www.Samba.org/) Why is the FreeBSD ports version stuck at 3.0.26a_2,1? I figure you have some spare time to help maintain these issues? As you might be aware we are in the process of having a release cycle and we are investigating which ports need to be upgraded to do this properly without breaking an entire release. THAT takes a little including rebuilding ports. If there are fixes available already on the Samba websites, why can't they be integrated into the ports? They can, we are working on it Just have a little patience I neet to get a fileserver going right away. I would like to use Samba. Perhaps I should just load Windows on it? Ah yes make my day and make it happen, just dont come back whining in case it does not do what you would have expected or something. If you need the thing urgently install it manually and be done with it. It seems to me that leaving a port broken like this is very unprofessional. I would expect more from the folks maintaing FreeBSD. Exactly; please go to the Windows team and install windows on your machine to get more professional support, including paying for everything You tend to forget that we are volunteers and cannot handle it all; if you know better, please step up and work on it else stfu. When is it going to be fixed? Does soon mean this century? This year? When? For you i'll make an exception for 2010... For every other person, we will have this incorporated ASAP. Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ -- /\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Remko Lodder | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: who do I report this to?
Can you please STOP cross posting to various mailinglists all at once? It is causing all kinds of unneeded messages to various addresses (yeah I am now guilty of that as well); stop it. If you have issues with if_re, please ask it's maintainer for support, and rule that out first and then proceed to the next item if the problem still continues, generating loads of emails with my insert your new problem here content which includes but this and this and this and this might also be the combination etc is NOT going to help resolve this because the options are too legio (could be the software, could be your hardware, could be a user flaw, could be the remote switch etc). Please do it step by step with the maintainers as much as possible, and where possible please try to avoid overloading the mailinglists with things you run into on a day by day basis, personally I find it not very interesting to read them anymore because its just another thing, that might not be the thing we are persuing here, but with all of your emails, I do get this feeling. //Remko On Tue, November 20, 2007 8:11 am, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Who do I report the following issue to (it falls into at least 3 camps)? If I am downloading a torrent in deluge 0.5.6.2_1 *AND* am logged into gmail (*WITH* a chat open) my network connection looses about 90% of it's capacity (for all applications), re(4) with the following: rgephy0: RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface PHY 1 on miibus0 rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto -- /\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Remko Lodder | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xhttp://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).
David Robillard wrote: Hi everyone, Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem? FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for FreeBSD 6.1/i386: Affected package: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 Type of problem: jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html Many thanks, David Hello david, I corrected the entry, it should be fixed within little notice :) Thanks for the report! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD** [EMAIL PROTECTED] /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security warning with sshd
Pat Maddox wrote: In my recent security email, I got the following errors: cantona.dnswatchdog.com login failures: Aug 20 02:37:19 cantona sshd[9444]: fatal: Write failed: Operation not permitted Aug 20 04:30:42 cantona sshd[16142]: fatal: Write failed: Operation not permitted Aug 20 21:21:51 cantona sshd[45716]: fatal: Write failed: Operation not permitted So three questions: What is it? Should I be worried? How can I fix it? Thanks, Pat A couple of messages that i read when searching through google appear to indicate that it might rely on your firewall, bad packets that are not in state anymore and such and then gets blocked by your firewall. Could you provide some more details of events happening around the same time of the messages you posted here? Perhaps something else precedes the message which gives more information on what might have happened... Url with some information: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2005-August/001337.html (and related messages) Cheers, Remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD** [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINET** [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: Security warning with sshd
Pat Maddox wrote: On 8/21/05, Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Maddox wrote: I don't know what exactly was happening, but after looking at that link my guess is that it occurred when I enabled the firewall. If I'm logged in and enable it, my ssh connection is dropped...except I don't get disconnected, the ssh connection is simply unresponsive. Which makes sense since the firewall just went up. But maybe that's part of the problem? Well that can easily be, people are speaking about statefull packets here. Do you use statefull filtering on your firewall? Are you able to see the dropped packets (dropped by your firewall)? If so you might want to enable statefull filtering for your ssh sessions.. Hope this helps, cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD** [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINET** [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: Passing options to configure / compiler
Vittorio wrote: I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure script. For instance, I'm compiling postgresql under FreeBSD 5.3 stable. After 'cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7' and ' make' a list of configure options is shown; among them I'm interested in WITH_TESTS but I do not know how to pass this option to the compiler (or to configure). if you want to use WITH_TESTS for example you need to add make WITH_TESTS=yes install clean (or something similiar) when portupgrade'ing that you should do portupgrade -M 'WITH_TESTS=yes' postgresql (or again; something similiar) Hope that helps! Could you please help me? Vittorio -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder FreeBSD (Dutch) Documentation Team ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Passing options to configure / compiler
Martin Hudec wrote: It would be nice for him to set options pkgtools.conf, which can be usually found in /usr/local/etc. For example: I want links to be compiled without X11 support, so I set in section named MAKE_ARGS following: 'www/links' = 'WITHOUT_X11=yes', so this compilation option will be reflected next time he uses portupgrade utility. Otherwise portupgrade will ignore previous compilation options. Or at least I don't know how to tell portupgrade which options did I use to compile the port :). Ah yes, i was not aware of that yet (saved my make options in a seperated file... ;)). Thanks! Cheers! Cheers, Martin -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder FreeBSD (Dutch) Documentation Team ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why i cant start named
Budi Hermansjah wrote: Hi I have FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, i386. And i installed BIND 8.3.7 my /etc/rc.conf as follows: Also, are you sure you have bind8? since bind 8 uses ``ndc'' instead of ``rndc'', also you should have appropriate keys in your config if you do have bind9 (which uses rndc) so that they match up. Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder FreeBSD Documentation Team ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why i cant start named
Budi Hermansjah wrote: Hi Budi, connect rndc: connect failed: timed out indoglobalhost# i need help how to fix the problem, thanks What does your logging tell you? for example can you try to start it and readout the logfile (/var/log/messages for example) Perhaps that tells you something... -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder FreeBSD Documentation Team ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 BIND 9 newbie question..
robg wrote: I'm trying to setup BIND and the Release Notes say: When the named_chroot_autoupdate variable is set to YES (the default), the chroot directory is automatically configured at the boot time. A symbolic link which points to /var/named/etc/namedb is created as /etc/namedb, and a symbolic link which points to /var/named/var/run/named/pid is created as /var/run/named/pid. The latter can be disabled by using the named_symlink_enable variable in rc.conf. Does this mean I need to put: named_chroot_autoupdate=YES in `/etc/rc.conf`? I'm confused on this part... No as stated by the text, the default already is YES, so you do not have to explictly set it, however to make things clear you could define it so thats even more clear (personal taste). Hope this helps :) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder FreeBSD Documentation Team ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cp -Rp Nightmare unable to access /usr
Brian wrote: Hi, I'm running a FreeBSD 5.2.1 test box at home for Apache,PHP,MySQL. I wanted to move the default mysql dabatse location from /var/db/mysql to /usr/mysql What I did was cp -Rp /var/db/mysql /usr I know now it was wrong for the most part I know how stupid this idea was. I now can't ssh to the box I get the error below Could not chdir to home directory /home/reports: Permission denied /usr/local/bin/bash: Permission denied /home lives in /usr/home so it is able that you overwrote permissions for that, strangely enough you aren't even allowed to access bash, so it seems to me that more happened then just a recursive copy of /var/db/mysql to /usr... you should chown them back to the original user (if you can still login as root preferable at the console, ls -lart and check the permissions on the directories...) and next time consider something like: cp -pr /var/db/mysql /usr (so that the entire directory gets copied instead of recursive access all dirs and copy them with file information preservation (permissions,timestamp etc) into /usr If you are not able to do that, then it seems that it really got messed up, what you can do then is use a freesbie cd (live cd) to boot the system, access the data on it and backup the data. Then a reinstall would cause everything to return to normal. This is how i would do it, any better suggestions are of course welcome! :-) Cheers! What I'm looking to know is, what exactly have I done to /usr and if I'm at the console can I easiliy reverse what I did ? Thanks in advance. Brian -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
Gerard Samuel wrote: Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:07:44AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: : On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : I would expect they are running 4.x, but does anyone know if they have : migrated any production boxes to 5.x? Are they contributing any code to : either branch? : : Yes, a number of committers work for Yahoo. Any idea if they are running 5.x in production yet? Here is a thought. Why would they be running a pre-production release as a production server I have no idea what yahoo does, but I think it would be irrespondsible for them to attempt using 5.x on a production machine... Apart from that: Why do you actually want to know? It's better not to know the exact version since others might abuse that information and hack into the company. That does not feel right, well not with me :-). Cheers. -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail
When I issue an ehlo localhost on port 25 of the smtp server I get this: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-STARTTLS 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP Now I'm really lost... Hi Andreas, Not sure whether this helps but here we go: Within Postfix i had to specify that i needed broken_sasl support for clients like outlook. This gave me the following ehlo output: 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN (stripped the rest). Perhaps you are able to get something like that as well and then retry testing. Hth, Cheers! Any help? Thanks! Andreas -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP Proxies and Ports
Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote: Hi Andi, Hello, I've thus far been unsuccessful with $FTP_PROXY and $HTTP_PROXY in getting fetch to honor my company's FTP proxy. The easiest way to use the proxy is a URL format: ftp://username:password@server. Is there a way that I can specify that this format be used anytime I want to download and install or update a port? I'm using fetch instead of CVSup. I'd needed to set ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxy:prt and http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy:prt while using squid. Yes there are 2 http's. Test it ;) Cheers! Thanks for any help you can provide! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting apache at boot with SSL.
I chose to protect my SSL cert with a passphrase. This makes automatic startup at boot impossible. I use FBSD 4.10, and apache would normally start via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.conf. I just made sure there was ehm this is not totally true, you can startup automatically by havnig a little script that does the following #!/bin/sh echo 'passphrase' Then there is thingy with the phrase 'builtin' into it. You can change that so that the previous bin sh script gets invoked and the server will startup at that point. For the correct syntax i would need to look into my own configuration which i cannot access at this moment. no .sh script for apache, and start it myself using apachectl startssl. The problem with this setup is that if the server reboots in the middle of the night the web server does not come on, but this almost never happens anyway. You have to balance security with convenience to fit your situation, and I chose security. Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting apache at boot with SSL.
Not secure. My passphrase is not stored in cleartext anywhere except on a piece of paper in a locked vault. That may be overkill for some situations, but not mine. You are correct about it not being secure, although you can restrict permissions to the file. But it _is_ possible to automate the task. I think you are quite right when you choose for your method :-) Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ask for information
Elwaleed Khafagy wrote: dear sir; i can not tell you how happy we am to use free BSD but i need some information . I am from egypt and our language is arabic , so our company really need to know how to make free BSD support for arabic . we have informix database on our server and sometimes we need to use arabic . would you please tell me if there is a way to make free BSD support arabic thank you Hi Elwaleed, You can have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html for more information, this goes about localizing FreeBSD etc, so i figure that that would be the best place. Hope this helps and good luck ;) Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting apache at boot with SSL.
Eric Crist wrote: Remko, My bad. I'm using apache 1: Ah, that's a bit of a different story, Do you use the next generation startup script? If so then it would have had the following options available to you: apache_enable=YES (which you have) apache_flags=-DSSL (which you do not yet have). This should work according to /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl/files/rcng.sh Cheers! grog# /usr/local/sbin/httpd -v Server version: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) Server built: Jul 13 2004 17:51:03 I have apache_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. I would assume I use apachessl_enable=YES? Thanks. -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting apache at boot with SSL.
Eric Crist wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I must be missing something. I have apache starting correctly during boot, but without SSL. I have to log in and type apachectl startssl to get it to work correctly. What did I miss? Hi Eric, Since you are not very verbose on your information, i guess that you use apache2, did you specify apache2ssl_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf ? That should enable SSL based webservices during startup. Cheers! - - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emulatof for win32 apps on FreeBSD (Was: )
Nicx wrote: Hello Guy's! Is there any emulator that i can run win32 apllications on freeBSD? ... Nicx Try wine... and like others said, try to use the subject line please! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you duplicate a drive?
Matt Staroscik wrote: I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive. I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out. But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to duplicate the RAID? Ideally I would like to create a disk that could boot the system (and rebuild the RAID) in case disaster strikes. Can dd do this? I am new to Unix disk operations... Many thanks in advance for the help. I think that dd if=/dev/raiddisk of=/dev/newdisk would work in duplicating the entire raid disk. I don't know if there are better ways, so if someone knows them, we would like to know ;) Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Tienervaders |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Courier IMAP, MySQL, Postfix and Maildrop
Thomas, Has anybody setup the combination of Courier IMAP, MySQL, Postfix and Courier Maildrop and managed to get it to work? I am so close I could just scream, but I can not get any of the Courier components to work! perhaps you should check this site: http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/postfix which tells you a little about the maildrop thingy. Good luck! Cheers Remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't send to mailing list from server
Gene Bomgardner wrote: 209.x.y.z is a static address with a DNS entry courtesy of my ISP. Any idea what the list's mta is looking for and how I can provide it? Yes i have, i have the same issue, i have a static ip on my colocated machine, but there is no reverse dns lookup configured yet. When FreeBSD mailingservers cannot find a reversed lookup, it rejects your email until it can (the mail gets killed after your timeout trigger has been reached). So please check whether your 209.?.?.? adres has a reversed lookup since that might be the problem :) Cheers p.s i read that you have DNS entry courtesy of your ISP, still i think it's reverse issues. Thanks -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Filter on FreeBSD 5.2.1
Hi Wayne, Wayne Pascoe wrote: After a while, that dies with the error at the bottom of this message. Can anyone advise me what is going wrong and how I can fix this ? Thanks in advance, ERROR MESSAGE - LINES LONGER THAN 72 CHARS FOLLOW cc -c -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/freebsd -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ngatm -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -fno-common -finline-limit=15000 -fno-strict-aliasing -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -ffreestanding -Werror /usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.c /usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.c: In function `fr_check_wrapper': I think you missed this option: options PFIL_HOOKS # pfil(9) framework in your kernel config file.. Try it and see it's magic ;) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Better way to get interface assigned to default route?
Hi Markie,
Markie wrote:
Hi all,
I just now replaced my 350MHz PII home server back to the old 133MHz PI to
see if my crashing problems went away. I have noticed that dhclient-script
does a `netstat -rn | grep ^default | awk {'print $6'}` to get the
interface that the default route is on, in my case my dsl modem is on fxp1.
Since this is a slow machine however, this takes a very long time for it to
do that command as I seem to have quite alot of...routing entries I guess
they are?
Okay it seems to me that you want to use DHCP in order to get your ass
(machine) in the internet. That seems rather logically, only i use the
dhclient interface command (dhclient rl0 for example). To me it sounds
rather silly to do a netstat -rn command, checkup the default route
interface and then add dhcp stuff into it.. since dhcp sets these
default route for me..
Perhaps you can try and see if that works quicker :)
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Re: Better way to get interface assigned to default route?
Hi,
Markie forgot, and forwared this to the list, i forgot and didn't notice
it until now that it also had been sent to the list by Markie. So, i
will 'reply' this message to the Questions list as well just to keep you
guys and the archive updated.
Cheers!
Remko Lodder wrote:
Markie wrote:
Suggesting I do `dhclient fxp1`? That's exactly my problem though :-)
That
uses /sbin/dhclient-script to do all of it's work, right? dhclient-script
tries to figure out the interface... or something to do with a default
route by doing that netstat -rn command.
dhclient-script snippet...
if [ x$alias_subnet_mask != x ]; then
alias_subnet_arg=netmask $alias_subnet_mask
fi
# Get the interface to which our default route is bound to.
if [ -x /usr/bin/netstat ]; then
if_defaultroute=`/usr/bin/netstat -rn \
| /usr/bin/grep ^default \
| /usr/bin/awk '{print $6}'`
else
if_defaultroute=x
fi
if [ x$reason = xMEDIUM ]; then
eval ifconfig $interface $medium
eval ifconfig $interface inet -alias 0.0.0.0 $medium /dev/null 21
sleep 1
exit_with_hooks 0
fi
---
See it? Basically I am after some sort of command that might be able
to get
the interface with the default route assigned but quicker than netstat
-rn
since I have alot of routing table entries. Like I said, if there's no
other way I will just have to fix it so it's if_defaultroute = fxp1.
I've already had to make some changes to the script to get it to work
with
my modem anyway so it won't hurt me :-) I was just wondering if there was
any other nice way of doing it so that say if I changed the internet
interface to a vx card I wouldn't have to try and remember to change that
to vx0 (I _will_ forget I made the change :-)
Well, how come there is a default route if you use dhcp afterwards? my
default route is delivered through dhcp.. so i cannot reside on a
default entry because i dont have any... That's why i think that the
default grep is a little bit weird actually, since most hosts dont have
any routes at all at that point in time and then start dhclient iface
And to be more exact:
in /etc/rc.conf i have
ifconfig_em0=DHCP which starts ``dhclient em0'' for me... i never used
dhclient-script, and didn't read it carefully yet to understand it.
Perhaps this explains a bit...
or i just dont get the question yet { have a long weekend, tired etc ;) }
Cheers dude!
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Re: Is promiscuous mode bad?
Aaron Dalton wrote: I was running security/rkhunter and it warns me about my network card being in promiscuous mode. I have a few questions: 1) What exactly is promiscuous mode? (I've done some googling but haven't found anything really clear) 2) Why might it be considered a bad thing? 3) How do I disable it if it really is bad? 4) What are the effects of disabling it? Thank you *so much* for your time! Hi Aaron, 1) Promiscuous mode means that your network is dumping it packets somewhere, normally they get transported. Now the added feature is that a application like tcpdump can display the packets and with the correct options (tcpdump -X for example) you can even see what's inside the packets. If you do plain auth authorization it is possible with a 'sniffer' (which puts your network into promisc. mode) to see what the username and password of the user is, so using those credentials to do something evil. 2) see above 3) ifconfig -a (check which has PROMISC in it) ifconfig interfacename -promisc turns the promisc mode off 4) the application that enabled promisc probably not functioning correctly anymore, which is perhaps good thing. Are you running any IDS'es or something that you know? since they also put the network into promisc mode. Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is promiscuous mode bad?
Aaron Dalton wrote: Thank you so much for your replies! This makes much more sense now. I am currently running Snort. I will examine its documentation to see if promiscuous mode is really necessary. In the meantime, am I correct in assuming the only threat is from local users? If so, currently all users are trusted so I shant panic just yet. Thank you again for your help! Snort uses promisc to capture the packets off the line and examine them. So this needs to be turned on in able to do some productive things :) turning it off will disable snort actually. Reminder for bill: sniffing via bpf requires the same privileges whether promisc. is set or not, so you always need to be root for sniffing data of the line, that is when the permissions is not tampered with :). Thanks #bsddocs (simon ;)) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can I reinstall make?
Roger Merritt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf253# cd ../../lang/perl5.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8# make deinstall Missing }. This doesn't look good. At the moment the machine is still fulfilling its main function as a gateway to the Internet for the Windows machines in our student computer lab, but I fear for the future. How can I be sure the problem is really with 'make' and how can I fix the problem if it is? It seems that it can't interpret the Makefile enough, or that there is a dependency which has a missing }. Did you try updating the ports sources via cvsup? If not, perhaps you can try that so you will have latest ports sources, which might have this issue corrected. If not, you can also go to the ftp servers of freebsd, and download the /distfile you need (automake and autoconf for example) and install them with pkg_install filename That way you have a precompiled binary, which you can use, so that perhaps the issue goes away. Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to the Net
DK wrote: Hi Bill et al, Hello DK, 1) Using /stand/sysinstall trying to download packages from the freeBSD site, I get the ERROR prompt: --- Cannot resolve hostname 'ftp.freebsd.org'! Are you sure that your name server, gateway and network interface are correctly configured ? --- I have a Cable Broadband Connection. Does this error mean that my DHCP is not configured correctly or is it something else ??? It might be possible that your cable broadband company does not send you any DNS servers to use. If you have the adresses you might be able to set them manually in the file /etc/resolv.conf nameserver $ip1 nameserver $ip2 2) When trying to connect to my ISP's update-server(which you don't need to be authenticated to access) I get this ERROR even though my Cable connection is ON, Connected Working: - 200# ftp update-server ftp: update-server: No address associated with hostname Still looks like a Resolving problem to me. Try the above ;) - I have in my rc.conf file - ifconfig_rl0=DHCP hostname=127.0.0.1 - As hostname i would choose a name that you like, it represents the name of the machine, not the ip adres of your machine ;) should the hostname be the dynamically allocated address that my ISP assigns when I turn on my Cable Modem or should I leave it as 127.0.0.1 ??? No, it's just the name of the computer, mine is called redqueen.elvandar.org ... If there is anything else that you think that I may be missing in trying to connect to the net, please let me know ;) If i think that you should do something extra in the meantime i will send and extra email ;) Kind Regards, DK -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???
DK wrote: Hi Giorgos, I don't feel safe yet connecting my unsecured box to the net with the 5-10 hits a minute my W2000 box recieves on my broadband link. I have read the security section of the manual would like to get basics working before I rebuild the kernel to install the firewall(which doesn't seem that easy but I will give it try) Hey DK, FreeBSD is much more secure then a clean windows system, though i would do the same (since i am very security minded). You can however let your windows2k box route the FreeBSD machine to the internet so that it can obtain the latest revisions of the ports and sourcetree, as described in the handbook. This is probably not why xfce doesn't work though. The sysutils/xfce4-utils package installs a command called startxfce4. AFAIK, this is the program that fires up xfce. When you install that package (as part of the dependency list of xfce4) you should be able to use xfce4 as your desktop by editing your ~/.xinitrc file and making sure that the last command it runs is: exec startxfce4 my .xinitrc file contains only the one line: -- exec startxfce4 -- it still won't start. As I can't get it to start, I just delete this line using VI(I am getting better :) replace it with exec wmaker which starts OK. Did you try to execute startxfe4 manually? Is it actually there? isn't it a glitch in a old version (Which you seem to refuse to update since it's not secure) ? check it out ! 3)I am trying to install Apachetoolbox-1.5.70(it may well be a BigApache for BSD :)) - but I get the errors Command not found trying to run it: This is not the proper way to install ports or packages in FreeBSD. Please, refer to the Handbook section on ports and packages for details. [snip irrelevant attempts to force bash to do something mysterious] Apachetoolbox is not an official freeBSD port/package(www.apachetoolbox.com). Its a script/ports pack that you run which creates all the scripts needed to install a large array of Apache other www stuff(eg. MySQL etc). It's no ports pack, it's a set of scripts, which is not supported by FreeBSD, so when there is an leak, you should find out yourself and update it (instead of enable-ing one tiny little feature of the weekly scripts (400.status-pkg) which gives you an overview of outdated packages) besides that you should install portaudit which daily checks whether your applications are vulnerable to known issues. But that would be your own free choice. The install file that comes with it says to install it by running install.sh. It says(further down) that BSD users, the script interpreter of install.sh is BASH (/bin/bash). - Thats why I started BASH - Do you know what the bad interpreter error means ??? Yes that probably means I cannot find the /bin/bash shell, so i cannot handle your request, why? bash is not installed in /bin/bash but in /usr/local/bin/bash, it was displayed when you installed it, you can see it in your password entry, and it is listed in /etc/shells... --- bash-2.05# ./install bash: ./install: No such file or directory bash-2.05# ./install.sh bash: ./install.sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory bash-2.05# ./install bash: ./install: No such file or directory -- -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???
to find files. And then there is find, which can do a lot more then you probably think now. I can tell you that 95% of people who use computers want EASE of USE - This INCLUDES easy installation of the Operating System Following the handbook makes FreeBSD installable by nearly anyone. - This should INCLUDE a default setup that HAS: a Default FAST GUI/File Manager/Find Files/Editor .. this is all that is needed to get a user up going to installing configuring the OS to thier tastes ... did I forget to mention as default AUTOMOUNT !! You should not shout that much, that's bad for your heart. FreeBSD has features that enable you to pick what you want as X-client (window manager), follow the handbook.. I cannot tell you the shock disappointment I had in finding out that Windows 2000 runs FASTER than FreeBSD with any GUI/Windows Manager/Desktop Environment ... :((( Opinions, again i dont agree, and if you do find this i suggest you have some benchmarks with what applications run faster, etc. Since then you made a good point with some proof. ...damn I have gone way off track here... sorry for the ranting people... but after 6 days straight of messing around trying to install Apache/MySQL/Mod_Perl/Mod_SSL/PHP.. I am a little tired... 3 days of that was trying to get a basic GUI/File Manager/Find Files/Editor working You perhaps should have asked, search, or rtfm before giving yourself a heart beat of 160... If you still think that it can be done better, you are free to alter things so that it can do what you wish, since you tell us that you are an experienced coder that should not be that hard.. Besides that: just ask us if something is weird for you, perhaps that's the same for others and we should improve our documentation, instead of ranting you can actually help us and others, in despite to windows in which that is very hard to do so. Kind Regards, DK Cheers Remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question...
lucky wrote: do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? thank you PS: i know, my english is not very good :-( ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgotten this list.. oeps snip Depends on what utilities you mean. If you mean stuff in the base system, yes they are on the webpage, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweg.cgi lets you surf through the files.. (if you ment that). You can download everything via CVS/CVSup( this is faster then cvs! imo)/FTP and http transfers. Read the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/) for more information on updating your source tree to get the sources (so that you can locally read then) Cheers! /snip -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question...
lucky wrote: do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? thank you PS: i know, my english is not very good :-( And please, fixup your mailserver, it loops back to yourself :-) (private mailing wont work i am afraid) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dismount error on 5.2.1
J.D. Bronson wrote: I reboot my machine at about 50% of the time..I see this in the logs: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted Is this a known issue? I dont know why its complaining...any pointers would be appreciated! Hey J.D This tells you that your drive's did not properly shutdown when requested. So that could imply a reset, or a crash. When you reboot normally your disk would sync itself and then properly shutdown. The message tells you that that was not the case, so it needs checks (which i think follows after the message you describe) Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dismount error on 5.2.1
J.D. Bronson wrote: Thanks - this of course is what I had expected, but trying to find out WHY its not dismounting properly Yes, fsck does run after this message as expected too... thanks- Ah , well i have it with my SATA controller. It does not handle the reboot cyclus very well, perhaps you can watch the reboot to see whether it sync's and such.. Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix, smtp-auth, Cyrus SASL for relay restriction troubles.
Tim Schutt wrote: logfile snip Jul 18 10:04:16 www postfix/smtpd[20073]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Could not open db Jul 18 10:04:16 www postfix/smtpd[20073]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Could not open db Jul 18 10:04:16 www postfix/smtpd[20073]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed logfile end === if i do a saslpasswd2 -c -u evilcoder.org remko and type in my password, i get a file in /usr/local/etc/ named sasldb2 with permissions for cyrus (rw) and for the group mail (r). My postfix user is in the group mail. The problem you are describing seems to me that the postfix user does not have enough permissions to get access to the db. Check them out.. :-) Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix, smtp-auth, Cyrus SASL for relay restriction troubles.
Heya Tim Tim Schutt wrote: Hey Remko, Good catch! You were right that postfix didn't have access to the database. But this is still bizarre now when I do the login, it doesn't report that it can't access the database, but states that there are no users in the database. :-) good Jul 18 12:40:55 www postfix/smtpd[21129]: warning: SASL authentication failure: no user in db Jul 18 12:40:55 www postfix/smtpd[21129]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed I am able to do a sasldblistusers2 and see all the entries in the file, so I know that they are there, and I believe that postfix is hitting the correct file because the error changed as soon as I changed the database's group to the same as postfix and gave it read access. When you added your user did you specify what domain he has ? (-u dom) . If not, please consider trying to add an user with a domain attached. If you have only one domain you could also set the postfix option: smtpd_sasl_local_domain = yourdomainhere in main.cf If you have multiple domains you should specify: smtpd_sasl_local_domain = empty in main.cf But then you need to authenticate as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in my case) Perhaps this helps a bit ? :-) *sigh*,,, I feel like I am so close, but just can't find the correct switch to throw. Thanks so much for your help with this!! Well i had lots of troubles with Sasl when i started, (on OpenBSD) and now i have it running ;) Tim, the hopelessly new. :-) You are not hopeless, you will get there :) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Postfix virtual setup with procmail delivery for one specific virtual domain
Hello,
I know that this question is OffTopic. Still i want to ask it to you
guys since the host system is FreeBSD.
I have implemented Postfix/SASL2/MySQL/Courier-Imap/Amavisd-new on my
FreeBSD mailserver.
Now i am migrating my mailserver to another host {still my own host} and
i take the maildomain of a friend along. So that means my current setup
will be expanded by his domain.
Currently i am using virtual delivery (transport elvandar.org virtual:)
so it gets dropped in the mailpath i designated in the MySQL backend.
Besides that i have mailman running on my machine, providing
mailarchives {no subscriptions etc} for $internet (local delivery).
So far so good..
Now the new maildomain used procmail as delivery agent and he wants to
use that again (filters and so on). With the current virtual setup that
is not possible i think, so i think i need to create a master.cf line
using procmail delivery..
Since i make use of the maildir format , procmail should be doing that,
and get his information from the MySQL db which tells it where to put
the email for that domain { i dont want that email to get in local
homedirs etc. }, and it should run as the postfix user since that is the
only one permitted to read from the maildir's specified in the named
MySQL db.
Does anyone know if that is possible?
Oh Procmail is used since it has some filters for the guy so his mail
gets sorted into some folders...
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Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x
Brent Bailey wrote: Hello, My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Im very familier with the make buildworld procedure however there have been significant changes between 4.2 5.x so is this something that can be done without many problems ? Aside from reading throught the /usr/src/UPDATING file are there things i should look out for being that the 2 versions are so differrent. personally i would recommend going to the lastest stable release 4.10-p2 I welcome this lists thoughts opions on this matter thank in advance for any help :-) Hey Brent, FreeBSD 5.x has not yet been described as production release ready. So your customer is best advised to use the 4.x branch, and indeed at the moment that is 4.10 (and the patches afterwards ofcourse). However i am running FreeBSD 5.x as production server in 2 colocated boxes without any problems. So it does not mean that it's crashing all the time, but there might be bugs that can cause downtime for your customer, and he should be willing to risk that problem if you want to upgrade to 5.x. If he prefers stablitity, and little downtime you do best to upgrade to the latest 4 release with patches. Since it's a very long while back that i runned 4.x (4.3 ...) i can't remember anymore what the huge differences are, perhaps someone else can describe that to you. Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: Well here's a bit of a stupid question.]
and for the list as well (: Original Message Subject: Re: Well here's a bit of a stupid question. Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:44:38 +0200 From: Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glenn Sieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glenn Sieb wrote: I have recently upgraded to 4.10-RELEASE, Apache2 and mod_php4 (for apache2)... I seem to have lost my php binary somewhere along here... (you know, /usr/local/bin/php).. and when I go to /usr/ports/lang/php4-cli, I get: /usr/ports/lang/php4-cli 545 $ make install === Installing for php4-cli-4.3.7_3 === php4-cli-4.3.7_3 conflicts with installed package(s): mod_php4-4.3.7_3,1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Err?? Since I most certainly do not have a php cli right now... and kind of need it for some scripts I have running no, installing www/mod_php4 didn't install php cli... *sigh*... any help is greatly appreciated... Thank you in advance, Best, Glenn Hi Glenn, It's registered in the portsdatabase as being installed. Even if you move all corresponding files it's still marked as installed: pkg_delete mod_php4-4.3.7_3,1 and then going to /usr/ports/lang/php4-cli to do the make install, should work fine then.. Perhaps you can try that... -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie
Chintan,Jon, Jon Drews wrote: Hello Chintan: In addition to Chris' advice I heartily recommend the tutorials at FreeBSD basics: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 I also find Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD to be a very good reference book. On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:03:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to Jon ;-) (the ball keeps rolling) I recommend you also take a peek at the FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ That also states intersting information, it's even buyable through bsdmall ;-) Cheers I am a cisco engineer however want to learn the unix/linux too. any advice you can give me or what will help in learning BSD. Regards Chintan -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BOINC SETI Version for FreeBSD?
Hey Cordula's web Cordula's Web wrote: Hi, any chance to see a port of the BOINC version of setiathome in the future? Source code to both boinc and seti boinc is available, but no port yet... Could a ports guru please have a look? I very recently (yesterday?) saw somone who almost ported it over. Checkout the freebsd-ports archive for more information.. Cheers Thanks. -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amavisd-new postfix issue
Logan Ashby wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:39:40 -0400, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jun 28 21:35:01 zeus amavis[68580]: (68580-01) WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups Jun 28 21:35:01 zeus postfix/smtpd[68669]: fatal: open dictionary: need type:name form instead of: # Jun 28 21:35:02 zeus postfix/master[68635]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 68669 exit status 1 Jun 28 21:35:02 zeus postfix/master[68635]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling My guess would be a misplaced comment in main.cf or master.cf. Can you post the relevant lines with a couple of lines of surrounding context? I would agree with Logan here, There is an typo perhaps below the amavis statement in your smtp_recipients option (or however it was called ;-)) Could you show us those lines? (They dont contain any privileged information imho so it can be safely done) Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amavisd-new postfix issue
dave wrote: Hello, Alright, i am still having this issue, and now another has cropped up. I am getting an error: server dropped connection before sending the initial smtp greeting. The only thing i can think of is i changed some setting trying to get this working. However like before that is the only message i'm getting in my maillog. If anyone has any suggestions i've posted my configs for postfix and amavisd at: http://www.davemehler.com/postfix Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. As far as i can see they look okay (but since it involves a lot of lines i might overlooked something) Again the question: What does the postfix mention when you add smtpd -v in the master.cf (The upper smtpd option that is) Since that gives verbose information it might tell you _what_ is wrong. Please try that ;-) Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amavisd-new postfix issue
dave wrote: Hello, Thanks for your reply. The strange thing is amavisd isn't logging, i've got logging set to a file and i'm not getting any feedback. Here's something strange, i stopped postfix, started up amavisd, then restarted postfix forgetting inadvertently to uncomment the content_filter line, it didn't matter because i got the same behavior from smtpd on postfix. Keep the ideas coming. Thanks. Dave. My amavis logs to syslog: # true (e.g. 1) = syslog; false (e.g. 0) = logging to file $DO_SYSLOG = 1; # (defaults to false) #$SYSLOG_LEVEL = 'user.info'; # (defaults to 'mail.info') there is something in your logfile there? (/var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages or something :-)) Perhaps you sould look at that. Also changing in your master.cf file # == # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100) # == smtp inet n - n - - smtpd to smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -v should give you verbose logging, that might help solving the problem... Let us know what happends ... -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help required installing 5.2.1
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:39:43PM +0100, Andrew Walrond wrote: I tried again, this time booting without ACPI, with the same results. Any suggestions? Andrew Walrond Perhaps ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/5.2.1/ will work better for you. I had the same with -amd64 my i386 workstation didn't bootup anymore so i needed to use the AMD64 version, that works :-) Josh Paetzel -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ep driver
Ted Parks wrote: I am using a Farallon pcmcia ethernet card in a Toshiba laptop. Pccard sees the card but does not load the required ep driver. How do I load the driver? Thanks, Ted Parks Hey ted, To manually load a driver you should issue kldload if_ep.ko Hope this works. cheesr -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which book should I start?
Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I am new to Bsd. I did a lot of research on the net which book should I start with. I got two of them. I can not deside which one should I start. Here are my books:: - The Complet FreeBSD. 4th Edition From O'Reilly, Greg Lehey. - Absolute BSD The ultimate guide to FreeBSD. From Michael Lucas. Since i did not read both of those book (sorry greg and michael) i read the handbook, which gives also good information (but not a hardcover, though you can order that at bsdmall.com) the handbook is located here: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook Thank you for all the advise. Laszlo One more questione the complete freebsd covers Bsd 5. I have the FreeBsd 4.8. Do I need to buy the version 5 ?? You can , but you can also download it for free :-) If you are intersted checkout the website on how to obtain it :-) Cheers Thank you again --lantal -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW acting weird OR invalid ruleset?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone. Below is my natd.conf file and my rc.firewall.rule file. I cannot figure it out, but if one of my machines that is behind my Masqurading Firewall tries to d/l a file that is on a FTP site, it fails to connect. Does the ipfw offer logging (i dont know ipfw) perhaps you can see why it gets blocked there (ehm i presume it gets blocked) But perhaps a ipfw guru should help ;-) Cheers FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine with 2 nics. xl0 outside Nic fxp0 inside Nic rc.conf: # enable firewall firewall_enable=YES # set path to custom firewall config firewall_type=/etc/fw/rc.firewall.rules # be non-verbose? set to YES after testing firewall_quiet=NO # enable natd, the NAT daemon natd_enable=YES # which is the interface to the internet that we hide behind? natd_interface=xl0 # flags for natd natd_flags=-f /etc/fw/natd.conf natd.conf: unregistered_only interface xl0 use_sockets dynamic # dyamically open fw for ftp, irc punch_fw 2000:50 rc.firewall.rules: # be quiet and flush all rules on start -q flush # allow local traffic, deny RFC 1918 addresses on the outside add 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 add 00110 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 add 00120 deny ip from any to any not verrevpath in add 00301 deny ip from 10.0.0.0/8 to any in via xl0 add 00302 deny ip from 172.16.0.0/12 to any in via xl0 add 00303 deny ip from 192.168.0.0/16 to any in via xl0 # check if incoming packets belong to a natted session, allow through if yes add 01000 divert natd ip from any to me in via xl0 add 01001 check-state # allow some traffic from the local net to the router #SMTP add 02000 allow tcp from any to any 25 setup keep-state # SSH add 04000 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 22 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04001 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 22 in via xl0 setup keep-state #IMAP-SSL add 04010 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 143 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04011 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 143 in via xl0 setup keep-state # NTP add 04020 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 123 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04021 allow udp from any to me dst-port 123 in via fxp0 keep-state add 04020 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 123 in via xl0 setup keep-state add 04021 allow udp from any to me dst-port 123 in via xl0 keep-state #webmin add 04030 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 1 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04031 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 1 in via xl0 setup keep-state #http add 04040 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 80 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04041 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 80 in via xl0 setup keep-state # DNS add 04050 allow udp from any to me dst-port 53 in via fxp0 add 04051 allow udp from any to me dst-port 53 in via xl0 add 04052 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 53 in via fxp0 add 04053 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 53 in via xl0 #POP add 04060 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 110 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04061 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 110 in via xl0 setup keep-state #HTTPS add 04070 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 443 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04071 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 443 in via xl0 setup keep-state #IMAPS add 04080 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 993 in via fxp0 setup keep-state add 04081 allow tcp from any to me dst-port 993 in via xl0 setup keep-state # drop everything else add 04090 deny ip from any to me # pass outgoing packets (to be natted) on to a special NAT rule add 04109 skipto 61000 ip from 192.168.1.0/24 to any in via fxp0 keep-state # allow all outgoing traffic from the router add 05010 allow ip from me to any out keep-state # drop everything that has come so far. This means it doesn't belong to an # established connection, don't log the most noisy scans. add 59998 deny icmp from any to me add 5 deny ip from any to me dst-port 135,137-139,445,4665 add 6 deny log tcp from any to any established add 60001 deny log ip from any to any # this is the NAT rule. Only outgoing packets from the local net will come here. # First, nat them, then pass them on (again, you may choose to be more restrictive) add 61000 divert natd ip from 192.168.1.0/24 to any out via xl0 add 61001 allow ip from any to any -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tripwire on 5.2.1
Hi Dave, dave wrote: Hello, A while back i tried installing the tripwire port, but it reported as broken. I was wondering is anyone using this on 5.2.1? Thanks. Dave. Well, i am not going to answer your question since i dont run tripwire... What i do run is AIDE, which does the same (keeps checksums of files in a db and checks them).. I don't know if you want to run it, but here it is /usr/ports/security/aide Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why link broken?!
Eugene Ivanov wrote: Hello, freebsd-questions. i downloading a file http://ftp9.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/5.2.1/5.2.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and 200 Mb is now to me, but don't download :( why?! Eugene. Network problems might be the reason, did you try another host ? If not, please try another one, perhaps that does work. Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Utility to guess a remote hosts operating system?
Jan Grant wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Edd wrote: My question is: Does such a utility exist? I know nmap can guess os, but it takes a few seconds and a port scan is needed first. Is there just a simply util that can tell me without the port scan? How would that operate? Some kind of network fingerprinting is required. If you can narrow down the parameters of your question (eg: I have a network of windows machines and I'd like to figure out exact versions on each one) then you might have more luck. Hi Jan,Edd Perhaps you mean something like: p0f-2.0.3|/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p0f|/usr/local|Passive OS fingerprinting tool|/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p0f/pkg-descr|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|net-mgmt|||http://www.stearns.org/p0f/ Which was written by William Stearns (if you read this bill, HI!), and now maintained by Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf). Try it ;-) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after
Bill Moran wrote: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem, to be able to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has occurred? snip the potential problems with dump/md5 Could you use something like tripwire (which does an md5 of each file on the filesystem and stores them in a database for later verification)? I think tripwire only checks executable files, but the approach should work with all files. Hey Bill, Jerry, You can also use AIDE for that... :-) and indeed tripwire -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk
Hi Mark, 852 MB should be enough. Go with a Custom installation, and you'll need to be utterly ruthless about not installing unneeded distribution sets. Custom installation scares me a little, as I don't really know what I'm doing yet. I will try and read docs and probably start over lots of times (which is fine with me). When I really get stuck can always ask again :-) regards Mark I installed a custom NetBSD version on a 420megabyte harddisk, and installed numberous FreeBSD installations (from 4.3 if i recall correctly) on a 1.2gb harddisk. With those two numbers i can figure you can install a minimum install of FreeBSD on your disk, and add some nice little features (the 420mb disk was running a firewall,dnsserver and a passthrough mailserver (With some low end checks that i didn't want to have on the actual mailserver behind it). This box also was a Sniffer in my network for extented period of time, logging everything to a SQL box behind it (on the management network ofcourse) , it had a lot of traffic passing through but it managed to work. So, the install size will be ok i think, your only issue might indeed be running into steps that might confuse you, reading the docs and asking us are good options. Goodluck :) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LiveCD
Ray Seals wrote: Anyone had any experience with LiveCD? I'm trying to run it and I get an error about an expected then at line 298. When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated that but... No really, where does that error occur? when starting up? after what messages does it occur? What version are you running, when did you take it of the site etc? Cheers! p.s the girl was really nice , and actually did exist, only on another line ;) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamassassin
Chris Sechiatano wrote: Hi, I just converted my RedHat box to BSD 5.2.1 and installed Spamassassin with Sendmail and Procmail. This is the same configuration I had on the RedHat machine, but Spamassassin seems to not catch as much spam as it did before. I get so much more junk in my inbox and they only get one or two hits with Spamassassin. Anybody have any ideas on what may be happening? Hi, Spammers get more smart... My SA is well trained and still i recieve a couple of spam messages a day (50/50 almost) But you can train SA by using sa-learn.. and use the bayesian filtering... Did you use that on RedHat as well? -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LiveCD
Ray Seals wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:14, Remko Lodder wrote: When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated that but... Those pretty errors are always the most forgivable ones No really, where does that error occur? when starting up? after what messages does it occur? What version are you running, when did you take it of the site etc? cd /usr/local/livecd/ Enter ./livecd.sh Enter ./livecd.sh: 298: Syntax Error: then unexpected I've tried the livecd out of ports and off the project site with the same results. Hey Ray, Welkom Ebrandi (Maintainer of LiveCD) Indeed, nice girls are fine ;) I installed the scripts, and it seems that you need to change elsif then to else, since elsif want to follow a if like statement which is not included, nor an else below that phrase is used When i changed the 2 lines that have those 2 lines, it seems to work.. I included the maintainer that with a fresh install i get the line 305 and 581 marked as bogus, having elsif then statements, with no if option, changing them to else make it do it ' s magic. Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD weakness.
Lloyd Hayes wrote: I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting errors again So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of the reviews posted there about the books, people were complaining about weak documentation, too much information about things that they were not interested in, and errors in the in the books which seems to be the most common complaint. In my very short recent history with FreeBSD, I've formed the opinion that documenting FreeBSD is it's greatest weakness. FreeBSD needs someone who can actually type to write a good book for beginners who have never seen UNIX code. A book is needed with examples that actually WORK! Examples that are explained in plain English. There seems to be very few books on FreeBSD around. I have decided that it is a very good operating system which I need to learn more about. And yes, I have all of the links that everyone sent me. Thanks for all of the info. Hi Lloyd, Welcome to the FreeBSD Questions Mailinglist! We try to help persons who have issues with their installations, etc. And you are one of those persons we want to try and help. However, we can help you if you give more information, what errors do you get? Do you perhaps know what you did which caused those errors? From what moment did those errors arise? What links did you get? Did people refer to the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html or the faq? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html or where? And what books did you order? Perhaps they are outdated, or not very up to date anymore. What version are you running? Oh, and you can contribute, read the handbook and faq, and create some articles, which you think need to be linked with freebsd so that anyone can use them. You can find more information for that here: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/index.html I hope this helped a little, Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW log results analysis
Jow, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-06-18 10:43, Uwe Kolsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool for FBSD like logwatch on Linux, which can provide a detailed but still somehow summarized output based on the logging results of IPFW. I mean more detailed than this from the daily security run: 02010557 48486 deny log ip from any to any out 1 1026 49716 deny ip from any to any in setup 10003 3859828227 deny ip from any to any in ... and more like this. You can always write your own shell scripts to parse ipfw logs ;-) I haven't heard of any summarizing tools, but if you feel that scripting your own is too much it shouldn't be too hard to roll a few custom scripts if you tell me what you're looking for in such a report. You can send your daily logs to dshield.org and they will give a daily overview over what you send. They will use your information to do ' distributed IDS '. That means if you get port probed and the person doing that hits your network and other networks regularly, there will be a warning send out to the ISP that this person is being very abusive. I use it myself, giving a match on my external interface and it will send just that. Perhaps you can view their script, (perl), and adopt it to create the summary yourself. - Giorgos Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW log results analysis
Uwe Kolsch wrote: And how do I use a keyboard? connect it to a computer and start typing the letters you wish :) Or perhaps another person on this list wrote a summary tool already... Someone -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD community - best ever !
Hey Graham,
Graham Bentley wrote:
Have to say this :-
I have used alot of online resources and have had help
in many forms from far and wide.
Same goes for me ;)
Sometimes I have received ridicule and criticism and
condescending remarks for my inquisitiveness and
sometimes stupid questions.
So did i, also when i had a patch available etc, for a simple minor
thing i got shouted at {well not litarly but.. ;) }
But as a new FreeBSD user I am amazed at the first
off response and help I have had.
Well, as Jorn already said, i think this community is more mature,
really want to help eachother, so everyone profits from it. So it's a
honor to answer some questions from time to time (and ask questions as
well) for me ;-)
Unbiased, polite, patient and informative.
How else would one get a clear explaination of what to do etc?
Hats off to FreeBSD supporters everywhere !
I'd agree
Its a great community !!!
Indeed, and you can make it better, by keep saying this ;) and trying to
help us out (documentation project for example). Just a thought ;)
Cheers dude!
Thanks for the good news and your opinion
--
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Re: where take drivers for realtek 8029/8139 or intel 82559
wrote: i can't install driver for its cards, how install Hi (something, cant read it) You can enable that the drivers will be loaded in the kernel. go to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and edit the GENERIC kernel, lookup the nic and unhash them, note that i thought that by default a RTL 8139 gets detected. In addittion you can try : kldload if_rl.ko that should also load the realtek module and kldload if_fxp.ko should load the intel driver But could you give some more information next time? Like which version, the output of dmesg etc. Thanks in advance! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't install driver of Ethernet card rl8029/8139 or intel 82559
wrote: Please exlane me, how to install its drivers or where i might find docs of instalation of Ethernet cards (or drivers). My release 3.4 See my other email answering that question. Also version 3.4? that is ancient man ;-) Perhaps you should download and install a newer version ;) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: Small postfix question
Hey Jorn, Hi all, I was wondering if Postfix could follow symbolic links, since I only have an 512M /var partition. I would rather link it to the /usr partition, which is about 55G. My common sense tells me that I should just link /var/mail to /usr/mail or something like that, and to copy the original /var/mail content to /usr/mail. Please correct me if I am wrong. Cheers, Jorn I am not sure whether symbolic links are supported by postfix. But i do know that postfix can change it's mailqueue dir..It's a setting grep '/var' main.cf :-) and change that to your new directory. At least that is what i did and it worked. Since i am at work i cannot provide a example, but if you wish, i can send you that later today. Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Whither binaries?
Hey Phil, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I'm a relative *NIX newby running FreeBSD on an somewhat older (750 MHz) machine. I've been installing programs, and they seem to install in my home directory by default, but I have my partition table set up so I don't have much room there. My questions are: 1) is there a better place to install programs (like /usr/bin for example?) and 2) is there an established procedure for installing programs in that location by default? Sorry if the wording of my questions in unclear; let me know if you have any questions. If you install programs manually you have mostly a option in the ./configure script that enables you to select a prefix. Mostly that prefix will be /usr/local/, there all non default applications will be installed. (./configure --prefix=/usr/local) Also, perhaps it's better to use the ports on a FreeBSD system, you can upgrade them easy with portupgrade and they all get installed in the /usr/local directories. HTH, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release
Hey Roman, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The upgrade instructions in INSTALL.txt suggest putting in the CD, and using sysinstall for a binary upgrade. That is no option for me. What I am looking for is an upgrade method which - can be used over an SSH connection - is not too difficult (like manually placing each piece in the right place) - does not leave old stuff on the HD (like the sysinstall method does, AFAIK) ... to make it short, something like the ports system (especially portupgrade) does with non-system apps would be cool. I use CVSup to update my system and then rebuild as described in the /usr/src/Makefile file, (yeah yeah there is a UPDATING file on should follow), the only thing that i am not doing, since i dont have physical access as well, is boot into single user mode and run mergemaster, mostly i am keen of knowing what changes , so far on my 5.x servers there weren't any issue's requiring mergemaster to run. Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in single user mode, with an ssh connection. Hope this helps a bit.. ow yeah /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui is where the cvsup lives :) Cheers Is there a way to achieve that? This would be the one bit, which would make me switch to FreeBSD. /Roman -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup vs portupgrade
Stephen, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I am still not very clear on the function between # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile and # portupgrade -aRr I have following questions; 1) What will be their diffenece in function 2) If having run # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile Whether I still need to run # portupgrade -aRr Yes you can do this, since cvsup retrieve's the latest sources for the ports and basesystem, while portupgrade actually uses those sources and installs them on your system.. Thus: You should first update your sources through cvsup, and then install them , or upgrade them via the ports system, or using portupgrade (For the upgrade). Hope this helps, Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audigy 2 Surround Sound
Hi Mag, Mag wrote: Just got your code for freebSD 5.x and compiled it and everything went well.Got the code from, http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/ Is it possible to get surround sound support on this driver? Thanks As for i know , only the OSS drivers support that, but they are commercial. I don't actually know if someone tries to develop that in the FreeBSD version. Hope this helps. p.s the website: http://www.opensound.com/ -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD
Hey Fox Fox wrote: ! FreeBSD 5.2, . FreeBSD 5.2. ! The language used on this list is English, Could you please ask the question in English? Thanks in advance (and for your advance 2 ;)) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem after running portupgrade
Hey again Stephen, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I encountered problems after running # portupgrade -aRrvO At completion following warning popup; . .. Backing up the old version /var: write failed, filesystem is full bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) ** Backup failed. --- Uninstallation of linux_base-7.1_5 ended at: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:20:19 +0800 (consumed 00:00:09) --- Upgrade of emulators/linux_base ended at: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:20:19 +0800 (consumed 00:18:22) [Updating the pkgdb format:dbm_hash in /var/db/pkg ... - 260 packages found (-0 +2) .. /var: write failed, filesystem is full --- Session ended at: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:20:22 +0800 (consumed 20:46:59) /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:241:in `origin': dbm_store failed: Cannot update the pkgdb!] (PkgDB:BError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkginfo.rb:178:in `origin' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:709:in `do_upgrade' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:686:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:685:in `each' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:685:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `new' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1846 # Reboot PC. Gnome could not be started with a warning something like server configure error. I have no chance to write down the complete warning because it jumped to another empty window after a while. Nor I have an editor to copy the warning down. KDE started properly. Following problems were found. 1) # /usr/src/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate updatedb Rebuilding locate database: /var: write failed, filesystem is full cat: stdout: No space left on device 2) # df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a253678 45872 18751220%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1e2536784672 228712 2%/tmp /dev/ad4s1f 36354884 4619692 2882680214%/usr /dev/ad4s1d253678 249478 -16094 107%/var 3) # portsclean -C portsclean: Command not found # cd /usr/ports # make search name=portsclean No printout 4) On KDE desktop Konsole window - Font characters being huge Settings - Font - Custom started 'request font' window. It was possible to select font. But Settings - Save Settings seemed having no function. On starting a new Konsole window fonts were still huge. That were the mistakes having been discovered. Others unknown yet. Kindly advise. 1) How to free space. The HD is of 40 G in size solely for FreeBSD 5.2 2) Where can I find 'portsclean' package 3) How to discover the cause of failure in starting Gnome 4) How to set fonts on Konsole window TIA B.R. Stephen Liu Ofcourse you searched the internet, the archives etc? (guess not) It says to you that the var drive is full, the var drive keeps logs etc so pretty crucial that it has some space. Go to /var/log and check which files are a bit big and rotate them. You can do that by entering single user mode, mount the /var, go to /var/log, type `ls -lh' it gives you the filesizes Some file has to be what bigger then the rest, so we need to clean it a bit. Mount the /usr drive and create the directory /usr/tmp (since that drive has a lot of space left), now mv /var/log/$bigfilename /usr/tmp/ and touch /var/log/$bigfilename (So that it does exist). If you reboot now the system will come up and i guess that the things are starting to work again. The Failure of gnome is too less space on /var i think, The portsclean package? What's that? Search the internet ;) Try changing your settings in Konsole now, perhaps there is enough space now. -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting error on CDROM was ( )
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please be so kind to fill in the subject form, makes it easier, at least for me ;) PROBLEM: Error Mounting CDROM AT BOOT SYSTEM DISPLAYS: acd0: CDROMSamsung SCR-3232] at ata1-master PI04 THE COMMAND THAT I USED TO ACCESS IT WAS: mount /dev/acd0 WHICH RETURNED: CD9660:/dev/acd0: Input/output error Try mount /cdrom the entry is created automagically when it's detected o n installation. I checked /dev to insure that the device was there I checked the kernel, tried to add option SCSI_REPORT_GEOMETRY , obviously the CDROM is ATA which I now know after checking the boot log. Please wrap your lines at ~ 80 chars, Well try the mount /cdrom option... What are FLAGS? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install IPFILTER question
well... Stephen Liu wrote: options IPFILTER#ipfilter support options IPFILTER_LOG#ipfilter logging options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK #block all packets by default options PFIL_HOOKS #required by IPFILTER That seems like you have to enable this in the kernel config, recompile it, and it should load. The rest of the rules etc you need to write yourself. Kindly advise how to install IPFILTER and/or edit kernel option to enable it. As we do always with your countless questions, see above. Note, that i personally would love to see you grow a bit more into FreeBSD. What do i mean with that? Try yourself, and search on the internet, the mailinglist archives etc to achieve your goal. You ask plenty of questions which most of them are findable on the internet or perhaps even in the handbook and or faq. The reason i say this is the amount of questions you provide, and the growth level i personally see (nearly flat ...) If you are able to search/find/tryout etc. You will understand FreeBSD sooner, giving us more space since you are then able to reply to questions yourself ;) Cheers! TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Login question
Hey Chris, Christopher Svensrud wrote: I keep having the same problem with login. The system keeps indicating that the password is incorrect. I have been able to reset the password and still it gives me the same message. jup, unless you provide some more details we cannot actually try and solve your problem. Why? Well there could be many reasons ssh root login (that should be denied by default) for example. I just started running FreBSD and I was setting up Samba when this occurred. Do you mean the samba password is incorrect? Please be somewhat more clear! Please help! Thanks Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: **heads-up** : likely spam using [name]@freebsd.org
Dude, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/ is a valid URL, because yar is indeed a committer. this said, something (read: mailer-daemon error) tells me that yar's e-mail below (bottom) is not quite right. haven't bothered to open the attachement and don't really see the point, given the virus comment in the bounce reply. perhaps this is already old hat. perhaps it is just my mistake. nevertheless, i thought that you might appreciate a heads-up that some spammer(s) may now be highjacking freebsd.org addresses in an attempt to get us to open their attachments. cheers, epi This happends all the time, with @freebsd.org addresses, @symantec.com adresses, with @cisco.com adresses , even with @elvandar.org adresses, more strict, my personal adres is used often... Virusses are getting other's userinformation now, and use that to try and infect people like us. Since some of us (me oa) know that this is a virus, we don't open it. But some people might get misled by it. The goal of the writer had been achieved then. Try to delete them and update your virusscanner regularly and you would be fine ;-) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: racoon and openssl
Hello, Moreover I have an other problem: I can't install racoon. When I want to make the installation there is an error 1. You will have to be more specific here and provide us with a little more information. Did you install ' IPSEC IPSEC_ESP ' in your kernel config? and rebuilded your kernel? (didn't read the previous post, it's lost somewhere in my mailbox ;-), so forgive me if this is already mentioned) Cheers Cheers, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tcp to IP?
Bryan Maxwell wrote: I would like to change all packets on my cuaa0 line to IP packets only. RIght now im sending TCP headers. What should I do to change that line to IP headers only? Thanks in advance. Im almost starting to like FreeBSD/Linux. I guess the windows worm is wearing off. hehe Bryan TCP/IP is a protocol, over IP there are TCP packets. IF you are sending TCP packets, you already have IP packets flowing... and please wrap your lines... -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BUG REPORT ... FreeBSD 5.2.1 NO SHUTDOWN ...
Heya Langun wrote: Hello, Where would I submit this Bug Report to? ... FreeBSD 5.2.1 ... NO SHUTDWON on DELL DIMENSION 4600 PC ... Hello, FreeBSD 5.2.1 does not have the ability to shut down my computer even if I do a shutdown -p now ... I just get an ACPI timed-out message and power level drops to 'halted', only. The only way to turn off power is to pull out the AC plug. XP Pro, Red Hat EWS 3.0 and Mandrake 9.2 can all turn off the computer. If that really is a problem you shoud use send-pr(1) to insert the bug! (or check the freebsd website). Btw; you can also push the powerbutton for 4 seconds and the machine goes off as well (atx). perhaps your hardware is not supported yet. What hardware do you have, what version of 5.2.1? etc! Please go here for details :) http://support.daemonnews.org/viewforum.php?f=3sid=a4dd7b757da2883029763c639379ecd0 read above :) Thanks. Cheers! __ blackjack ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter allowing cvs
dave wrote: Hello, I've got a problem allowing cvs traffic through my firewall. Whenever the firewall is up i get timeout errors, drop the firewall and everything works fine. I've got a rule that i would have supposed would have worked, it passes all traffic from my internal interface to the cvs server, all traffic external is allowed in, it's the internal interface that governs what can get to me. If anyone is running a cvs server behind a firewall, note, i'm using nat, please let me know your setup. Thanks. Dave. Heya Dave, Let's play this in a reversed order, what is your rule that enables the usage of cvs in your network? (you are allowed to obscure the data ;)) I think there would be something like: pass in quick on if from any to my_int port 2401 keep state or something similiar. Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Question
Hello All, How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days trying to find this info. pkg_info |grep -i snmp Check which snmpd you have installed. then do pkg_delete $return_information_from_pkg_info_command HTH!, Thank you. Jeff -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org Www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch Community about helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost expat dependency
antenneX wrote: It seems that when I updated to expat-1.95.7, it replaced some 1.95.5 dependencies needed for some other programs. For instance some daemons will not load (or update) because of this error: #Shared object libintl.so.4 not found# or then some .so module cannot be loaded Did you use portupgrade to update it recursivly? then everythint that had .5 as dep was reinstalled using .7 instead.. Perhaps you can (dirty solution) ln -s libintl.so.5 libintl.so.4 in the directory wehere libintl.so.5 lives. HTH I updated the expat according the the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Any suggestions on how to fix this??? Thanks! Jack -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What happened after gnome upgrade??
Thanks Mark - but I did run the gnome-upgrade.sh script provided off their site. It left a temp log file, which got erased when I rebooted. I'm wondering if I should try and run it again, and keep all the debug info this time? Maybe that would help me debug this problem... Has anyone else had this sort of...weird...glitch? Ralph I had also troubles upgrading gnome using the script. With me the /var/tmp files where saved (Why? dunno). It showed me what ports whacked the installation (wait 8 hours to see them, then wait another 8 to recompile everything again). I updated the offending ports manually with portupgrade, and deinstalled kopete which gave headache (2 times). After that, the install went smooth, took about 24 hours to run all the updates, manual portupgrade's remove the offending one, and startup gnome again. HTH, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports Error
Ben Craig wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded a system to 4.9R and now receive the following error when using the make install clean comment on any port in /usr/ports (and also using package installation in sysinstall): Hey ben, you said that you upgraded the system to 4.9, did you also upgrade the ports? (What exactly did you do to upgrade?) Hope this helps a bit Regards, Ben Craig Cheeers :-) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do you switch between wireless networks?
BSD baby wrote: I just got my wireless connection working with a new PCMCIA card. But I'm still naming the wireless network in my rc.conf file. (DHCP connection) But as I go to join other wireless DHCP networks around the world, what's the best way to switch to that network without rebooting to do it from rc.conf? Hey BSDbaby, ifconfig interface ssid ssidofwirelessnetwork ip netmask netmask should do that trick without rebooting. If there's a tutorial about this kind of thing (besides /handbook/network-wireless.html) - please point me there. Dunno, i read ifconfig man page when i needed to know. Thanks! Yw -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl script help
JJB wrote: I need $timezone to hold the time zone in this format -00:00 The command date +%z will give it as - I know nothing about writing perl scripts. Can somebody show me how to add the : in the output of the date command in the simple following script? The cat statement is just so I can see results are correct. #!/usr/bin/perl $timezone=date +%z; cat $timezone Not that i am very good in perl, In KSH scripting it's like this: %H:%M for a 00:00 output instead of Perhaps that will help you:-) (Oh the command date +%H:%M) Cheers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
