My video card and the config
Hi my name is schaballie jeroen and i like to know what that i have to choose. i have as video card an Hercules 3d propher 4000xt, but this model is not avaible in the database. what should i do to configure this correctly, because i've read and tried so much these days and i doesn't find it. thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Updating local copy of documentation
When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential handbook. Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparently not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks. Regards, Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How I took my machine down and fixed it.
I had a bit of a unique experience with my FreeBSD 5.2.1 server, and I thought I'd share it because I found a lot of my questions difficult to answer. I have a Via C3 800 processor on this particular server, and I thought I'd recompile with the cpu flag set in make.conf. dmesg reports this: CPU: VIA C3 Ezra (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) So I set the flag to i686 (I would later learn that this processor only supports the i586/mmx flag) and did a make buildworld. No problem here, but when I did make installworld, things went very wrong. Errors and core dumps (illegal instruction) started raining down, and then I lost power and when I powered up, the server was a goner. So I tried to log in from the serial console, but NOTHING worked. In single user mode, I couldn't even run ls. This is a big problem. To begin fixing the system, I downloaded 5.2.1's disc2 iso and tried to log into the live filesystem shell, but sysinstall couldn't mount the CD. I searched around and realized that I was using a CD drive that supports DMA, so I had to turn that on before booting up: OK set hw.ata.ata_dma=1 OK set hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 OK boot Now I could get into the live filesystem, and I felt pretty good about my plan. I wanted to overwrite /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (as well as libexet, etc) from the live disc. So first I had to mount the drives. I tried to mount my root slice first and was greeted with some problems: mount -w /dev/ad0s1a /mnt/root Resulted in: Operation Not Permitted But I could mount my usr slice. Again, with a bit of research, I realized that since these slices were dirty, they needed to be fsck'd before I could mount them. I tried fsck, but that complained about a lack of fstab. So I had to do a: fsck_ffs -y /dev/ad0s1a On each slice before I could mount. Mounting worked fine once I had done this, so I tried to start copying files, and was greeted with more errors. This time, again: Operation Not Permitted For each copy. This seemed really confusing to me, and after a lot of internet research, I found that I needed to unset the system immutable flag. chflags -R noschg /mnt/root ..etc Now I could copy files from the fixit disc, and I was able to reboot and do a proper make build/installworld with i586/mmx. So my system is back after many hours of frustration. Hope this can help someone else out there. Yours, Ben Polidore ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help Debugging KShell Script???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, I need some help with this shell script. I originally wrote it in ksh and I not really familiar with bash. However, that is what I'm using at home now and I don't have ksh on any of my machines... Could you folks help me convert this script to bash...I don't think the arithmatic operator bc is a bash option. It appears that is where the first bug is at. Please see the attached (encrypted/compressed) script for any additional details. You must import my public key to open the attached file. ** gpg --decrypt swap_mon.ksh.sig ** Thanks in advance HZS -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBEwwglT9WV6TztkoRAnGcAJ4tVU6pQLp6ZQIBGWcjkTrVsEI6mACfWG9Y AIjZC7q4Doa6440/Gk1YgPI= =Yvuq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) owG9V89v21Qc71ohFAsQEweu3zap1qI1SVEYYLUaTvKyGJI4sp0WRlBx7JfYa/Ic 2c9bC9sdMSFxAYkTB7hw4MqZw06TuHDjH0AcEBfEbpP4PjtO01ZNQWr3pGm1/f31 +Xy/7/NevnxxaWHx6lc3d3a///und6/8+NKvvRfCe9Z4b+Sz/H7oKq9IS9kLXVJ2 GQpRGBR6HitghkyyIF7SxebCZAAVnSgmqe6VP5Chbu17I7idB8NjA/eOdxn5jIqu tk0ZYMrjJynKywNZRYiY8q1CqVAsXTqlO0Q3VK0lQzG/mbn0bO2GYtY0vSlDw2PR AWhseHj5STt6WzMEp6brhRC6dDiE0A68MQd8jkLqAPdhHPhOZFOwIKBjP+Dg94G7 FMLDkNPRtTAeAhABj1Y4ttAj5Bb3Qu7ZIXjMHkYOTqQMps+tIYytAT5NDD0GzfJ1 /Cdi9wNKT4SbNU7N4vLiDzT9sCreHwscG1nMORHvtKFIehkc62QHGqphypJ4CimH jQOALHSY7Y9GlHHBsEN70QA5PdGEqQc75WG71N4H8UKACw8Ztw7gnsddP+KI9xDo AbUj7vlMmozRxYObt6BKamqLwI6iq0q5QQyoE53AvHiSWVeNumaY27k11w85s0Z0 HTJZqOMDiKdk8JCkkWW72HapXdlrqE3V3L7xxmx30aczHtMAht7Ii8fVEBOaNBrf 20iiNaDQo30/wFFDdrLAfO71PdsSnIH0jNlSW6qpKg31NgGzTnBo2ppuzmeL2q4P K10WQzNiaHqyPREU5FIyu2xFcixOnzWiitI2O9hxpVWFtq5ViGHEAn4mKEmK9/3G CO7DAIUGNrxEWO7DPdcbUhQfy4E7EdsHY3fP1EylIf7oGKQq/q/phEiS42M3sfsh jRWqZwPugaHHD4XCWOBSbLfj29F0G1lDOxoiPbH5zGjgzEjpOGUTRRIbLZaTcDpM kpRpE71CWmZcBw5uz97aIlpNyoQYmm6XpMxaLq2yALm08nV4DTaLRSkT265LmaNA AshsoNhfvJzrjwEQd3ui1AJMQMOpUh9TukTEZXRIRygRZGXkR+xot8QjJXd57tM0 6YNmeWXqlfi8Vz5uL5h3UicB+r/41JDd1EcAPebTZe2kK2clmm3Ag9XzHafZZgkX jjGDtwKrF1PmMU4HKCGCK6EIKZOTmOnZyAXLuOEkOLGysbl/d6pC3MWOuP7QEYlU zHticuKqc7MvcfJRwmHDycNGf3PSZK8Pa2uQCh9sbcPJWLAuTDE7myjbjPglpbhW iOeDTakjQLhHpV3H44Y5p7AcYZoVSYEjw8dYYTgKffyI+70FWksceXh3Qu1Xq0Rb TpewTjvTZbuK3lJbt2RoJ6OZ9EYURo4KS6QZOzVB+2B1ousNAWNZSFtaQjBbQq12 Rg1pIX0PlQLPj6mIrly8OpZJQ9sFgySKTnRd06GJKqjcIlDt4FsNjDppNKCitSZ3 TSGUeFY2DXFX+NAV9/h3AuoMhD4lN4LwoxzkC7M/XtDyrDNg4pq3uJu3D7oMTWuB BwpeNeAGFItysSRvloBUTXi9WCzh5+OhZRwXvFttyqij8vSugSOA0SMck/9vf47U lN4uNctoNl9bivNsJrs7jXSOeqzOMZlESkye8eFJ8NDUalBTG3OvTDPxPru59NyC +CGb/sy9uvj8o4VvD159+N0Pj//84umbnd8f/vP4/Zf7n9OFb664T+9+/Ndvf3S3 vn5UX/z5ycrSL9f+BQ== =3pCO -END PGP MESSAGE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW - Allowed but Denied is shown in my logs
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-08-04 20:31, Srot BULL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-08-04 17:13, Srot BULL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are the above firewall logs telling me that it has denied my TCP packets and yet I am not experiencing some problems in my emails and access to the internet through port 80. [...] Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Show us the full ruleset. Otherwise we're just guessing... $CMD 00240 allow tcp from me to any out via $IFN setup keep-state uid root Hmm. I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but it's unrelated to the denied packets you're seeing :-/ I will RTFM about this...Thank you. $CMD 00300 deny all from 192.168.0.0/16 to any in via $IFN $CMD 00301 deny all from 172.16.0.0/12 to any in via $IFN $CMD 00302 deny all from 10.0.0.0/8 to any in via $IFN You might want to also deny incoming packets from these addresses, or fall back to the default firewall rule -- whatever that rule is (deny log all in your case). I think I can do this...I guess... $CMD 00305 deny all from 169.254.0.0/16 to any in via $IFN Hmmm, what is this address block supposed to be here for? I am sorry, I only copied this ruleset from the article...I really need to get back in RTFM and read again the article...maybe I missed something. #reserved for doc's# $CMD 00307 deny all from 204.152.64.0/23 to any in via $IFN And this one? This one too... A better approach that will avoid forcing everyone to wait until their connections times out is to reply with an RST packet, which is the standard way TCP would reply if no auth/ident service was running at all. I need some reading to understand what you just advised...Thank you. Fragments are not late-arriving packets ;-) #* Reject Log all incoming connections from the outside *# $CMD 00499 deny log all from any to any in via $IFN This one is redundant, since it will only do the same as the one below: OK... # Everything else is denied by default # DENY and LOG all packets that fell through to see what they are $CMD 00999 deny log all from any to any My basis for my rulesets are taken from: http://freebsd.a1poweruser.com:6088/FBSD_firewall/ AFAIK, the author of the page is a reader of the list too. I can't find anything wrong with the syntax of your rules. The only weird thing I noticed were the two hard-wired address blocks I mentioned above. Perhaps the author of the initial ruleset can help you more ;) It was kind enough for the author to drop me an email... and, thank you for your advices too...I will base my rulesets from yours and other peoples' advices, and re-read that article for a better understanding...and maybe I can tune my rulesets more to better fit my system. Have a nice day... SrotBULL ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVS Questions
I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing that would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports? Or would it simply be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers? An optional thing I would be interested in putting in this is the ability to disfavor any server which was close to its access limit. Is there any support in the protocol for knowing which user out of how many you are? -Dan Mahoney -- Hate fedora with a white hot burning passion right now though ... damn thing is Linux-XP(tm) -Bill Nolan 2/24/04 Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW - Allowed but Denied is shown in my logs
Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 11 From: Srot BULL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giorgos Keramidas wrote:Show us the full ruleset. Otherwise we're just guessing... My apologies, below is my complete ruleset: [..] #* Deny ident *# $CMD 00315 deny tcp from any to any in via $IFN I think perhaps you meant: $CMD 00315 deny tcp from any to any 113 in via $IFN as yours denied all remaining TCP, making some rules below irrelevant, including allows for www, ssh etc if you ever wanted to enable these. You'd also likely do better using reset rather than deny - assuming this rule really was meant to block ident - to avoid timeout delays on mail. #* Deny all Netbios service. 137=name, 138=datagram, 139=session *# #* Netbios is MS/Windows sharing services. *# #* Block MS/Windows hosts2 name server requests 81 *# $CMD 00320 deny tcp from any to any 137 in via $IFN $CMD 00321 deny tcp from any to any 138 in via $IFN $CMD 00322 deny tcp from any to any 139 in via $IFN $CMD 00323 deny tcp from any to any 81 in via $IFN None of these or any other tcp .. in via $IFN rules below are ever seen. [..] #* Deny ACK packets that did not match the dynamic rule table *# $CMD 00332 deny tcp from any to any established in via $IFN That rule is also not seen .. [..] #* Reject Log all incoming connections from the outside *# $CMD 00499 deny log all from any to any in via $IFN .. nor that one, for TCP packets .. My basis for my rulesets are taken from: http://freebsd.a1poweruser.com:6088/FBSD_firewall/ Cheers, Ian Thank you for your advices... I will get myself a fairly dedicated time infront of my pc to better understand things. You have a nice day... SrotBULL ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help Debugging Kshell Script???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, I need some help with this shell script. I originally wrote it in ksh and I not really familiar with bash. However, that is what I'm using at home now and I don't have ksh on any of my machines... Could you folks help me convert this script to bash...I don't think the arithmatic operator bc is a bash option. It appears that is where the first bug is at. Please see the attached (encrypted/compressed) script for any additional details. You must import my public key to open the attached file. ** gpg --decrypt swap_mon.ksh.sig ** Thanks in advance HZS -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBExinlT9WV6TztkoRAqHMAKCMFthVnjHWNh6aoNZdSBfoOeveLACeLURE n7WTKf5/nFy4e5vdrMN5Pc8= =732m -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) owG9V89v21Qc71ohFAsQEweu3zap1qI1SVEYYLUaTvKyGJI4sp0WRlBx7JfYa/Ic 2c9bC9sdMSFxAYkTB7hw4MqZw06TuHDjH0AcEBfEbpP4PjtO01ZNQWr3pGm1/f31 +Xy/7/NevnxxaWHx6lc3d3a///und6/8+NKvvRfCe9Z4b+Sz/H7oKq9IS9kLXVJ2 GQpRGBR6HitghkyyIF7SxebCZAAVnSgmqe6VP5Chbu17I7idB8NjA/eOdxn5jIqu tk0ZYMrjJynKywNZRYiY8q1CqVAsXTqlO0Q3VK0lQzG/mbn0bO2GYtY0vSlDw2PR AWhseHj5STt6WzMEp6brhRC6dDiE0A68MQd8jkLqAPdhHPhOZFOwIKBjP+Dg94G7 FMLDkNPRtTAeAhABj1Y4ttAj5Bb3Qu7ZIXjMHkYOTqQMps+tIYytAT5NDD0GzfJ1 /Cdi9wNKT4SbNU7N4vLiDzT9sCreHwscG1nMORHvtKFIehkc62QHGqphypJ4CimH jQOALHSY7Y9GlHHBsEN70QA5PdGEqQc75WG71N4H8UKACw8Ztw7gnsddP+KI9xDo AbUj7vlMmozRxYObt6BKamqLwI6iq0q5QQyoE53AvHiSWVeNumaY27k11w85s0Z0 HTJZqOMDiKdk8JCkkWW72HapXdlrqE3V3L7xxmx30aczHtMAht7Ii8fVEBOaNBrf 20iiNaDQo30/wFFDdrLAfO71PdsSnIH0jNlSW6qpKg31NgGzTnBo2ppuzmeL2q4P K10WQzNiaHqyPREU5FIyu2xFcixOnzWiitI2O9hxpVWFtq5ViGHEAn4mKEmK9/3G CO7DAIUGNrxEWO7DPdcbUhQfy4E7EdsHY3fP1EylIf7oGKQq/q/phEiS42M3sfsh jRWqZwPugaHHD4XCWOBSbLfj29F0G1lDOxoiPbH5zGjgzEjpOGUTRRIbLZaTcDpM kpRpE71CWmZcBw5uz97aIlpNyoQYmm6XpMxaLq2yALm08nV4DTaLRSkT265LmaNA AshsoNhfvJzrjwEQd3ui1AJMQMOpUh9TukTEZXRIRygRZGXkR+xot8QjJXd57tM0 6YNmeWXqlfi8Vz5uL5h3UicB+r/41JDd1EcAPebTZe2kK2clmm3Ag9XzHafZZgkX jjGDtwKrF1PmMU4HKCGCK6EIKZOTmOnZyAXLuOEkOLGysbl/d6pC3MWOuP7QEYlU zHticuKqc7MvcfJRwmHDycNGf3PSZK8Pa2uQCh9sbcPJWLAuTDE7myjbjPglpbhW iOeDTakjQLhHpV3H44Y5p7AcYZoVSYEjw8dYYTgKffyI+70FWksceXh3Qu1Xq0Rb TpewTjvTZbuK3lJbt2RoJ6OZ9EYURo4KS6QZOzVB+2B1ousNAWNZSFtaQjBbQq12 Rg1pIX0PlQLPj6mIrly8OpZJQ9sFgySKTnRd06GJKqjcIlDt4FsNjDppNKCitSZ3 TSGUeFY2DXFX+NAV9/h3AuoMhD4lN4LwoxzkC7M/XtDyrDNg4pq3uJu3D7oMTWuB BwpeNeAGFItysSRvloBUTXi9WCzh5+OhZRwXvFttyqij8vSugSOA0SMck/9vf47U lN4uNctoNl9bivNsJrs7jXSOeqzOMZlESkye8eFJ8NDUalBTG3OvTDPxPru59NyC +CGb/sy9uvj8o4VvD159+N0Pj//84umbnd8f/vP4/Zf7n9OFb664T+9+/Ndvf3S3 vn5UX/z5ycrSL9f+BQ== =3pCO -END PGP MESSAGE- smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
identifying and fixing server I/O slowdowns
Oh great and wise FreeBSD gurus, I've been running FreeBSD boxes for about five years with great results (up to 6 at the moment), but recently one of my machines has started to seriously act up. Every time a heavy disk operation (say, tar'ing a 1 gig directory) occurs the system slows to a crawl, and requests to apache/php/mysql sites hosted on it just hang. The system is a dual p3 1.13ghz box with a gig of ram and mirrored 80 gig WD800BB drives on a Promise TX2 controller. The raid isn't degraded. There's a dedicated 1.5 gig swap partition and a swap file on the /usr partition. We had some apache processes go nuts one time, which is why I added the swap file. We run about 15 jails on the machine, with MySQL in the server proper and apache/php running inside the jails. I initially thought it was a rogue process taking down the machine, but it seems to be that any heavy disk activity for more than a few minutes brings about the slowdown. It doesn't happen instantly, but after a minute or two things will slow to a crawl. I've recompiled the kernel a few times, upgraded to the latest 4-STABLE rev, and even turned on device polling, but nothing seems to be helping. It doesn't seem to happen on another machine we have with identical hardware. My sysctl.conf: kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096 net.inet.tcp.sendspace=32768 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=32768 net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=1 net.inet.ip.redirect=0 net.inet6.ip6.redirect=0 net.link.ether.inet.max_age=1200 net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=0 net.inet.icmp.maskrepl=0 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1 kern.polling.enable=1 And a netstat -m: 301/928/131072 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 301 mbufs allocated to data 287/874/32768 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 1980 Kbytes allocated to network (2% of mb_map in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines And here's a typical systat -v snapshot while the machine's 'ok': 3 usersLoad 0.32 0.38 0.31 Aug 6 00:03 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share TotShareFree in out in out Act 221588 38656 747652 117796 39404 count4 3 All 1024156 41620 1546136 144132 pages 18 5 Interrupts Proc:r p d s wCsw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt 21 cow1156 total 2 2 70 343 63322119 1156 57 397 186992 wirefxp0 irq2 623848 act 13 ohci0 irq9 4.4%Sys 1.0%Intr 2.5%User 0.0%Nice 92.1%Idl 176096 inact11 mux irq10 |||||||||| 37220 cache fdc0 irq6 ==+ 2184 free 1004 clk irq0 daefr 128 rtc irq8 Namei Name-cacheDir-cache 15 prcfr Calls hits% hits% 5 react 126 125 99 pdwake 340 zfodpdpgs Disks ad4 ad6 fd0 md0 119 ofod 1 intrn KB/t 0.00 16.72 0.00 0.00 34 %slo-z 114304 buf tps 011 0 0 401 tfree 173 dirtybuf MB/s 0.00 0.17 0.00 0.00 70310 desiredvnodes % busy0 9 0 0 64089 numvnodes 54829 freevnodes And here's a systat -v snapshop while the machine's choking: 4 usersLoad 0.39 0.35 0.31 Aug 6 00:08 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share TotShareFree in out in out Act 191344 34248 728736 117268 51916 count16 All 1024676 37500 2075520 144188 pages2 67 Interrupts Proc:r p d s wCsw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt 29 cow1698 total 5 2 70 573 74423171 1699 225 367 180904 wirefxp0 irq2 640404 act 335 ohci0 irq9 5.7%Sys 1.9%Intr 7.5%User 0.0%Nice 84.9%Idl 153116 inact 236 mux irq10 |||||||||| 50252 cache fdc0 irq6 ===+ 1664 free999 clk irq0 daefr 128 rtc irq8 Namei Name-cacheDir-cache 93 prcfr Calls hits% hits% 1 react 8693 8196 94 120 pdwake 308 zfod 2693 pdpgs Disks ad4 ad6 fd0 md0
MPS version control
Dear list I just bought a Supermicro P4SCT. The BIOS has an option called MPS version of the operating system. Could someone tell me what the MPS version of FreeBSD 4.10 is, and maybe what MPS actually means?! TIA zheyu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 04:58, Brett Glass wrote: http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 Probably not. Intel isn't going to keep exactly the same architecture as AMD has now. They'll make a few minor ajustments to fine-tune their CPU. Cheers, Jorn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBEz+vs2lBCry7iusRAgenAKCARiNDvqkxBf4VGLnySrQGUlKTmACcCd34 ZhNk5aexG41RD85kMLZ1sKs= =N58h -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CPUID maximum value
Dear list Should CPUID maximum value be limited to 3 for FreeBSD 4.x? How is it with FreeBSD 5x? TIA zheyu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
On 050804, 20:58, Brett Glass wrote: http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 You should look at the IA64 port, not the AMD64. Cheers -- Massimiliano Stucchi WillyStudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.willystudios.com/max/ pgpIcVzNs8K1y.pgp Description: PGP signature
where is KDE 3.2.3 theme manager?
Where can I find the KDE theme manager (3.2.3)? Googling reveals that there will be a new one for 3.3, but what about 3.2.3? I can't find it in Control Center, and I can't find anything in ports. Although it's long ago (probably KDE 2) I'm pretty sure that I once had a KDE theme manager. Karel. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: irc resuming through natd
I'm not completely sure what you mean, but if your client does not reconnect after a disconnect maybe you could try another client? I found irssi to be a good replacement for ircII in that regard.. Kind regards, Alex. cedrick.gaillard wrote: hi, it's impossible for me to do irc resuming through may freebsd gateway. i was on freebsd 4.7 and i am now on freebsd 5.2.1 current and the problem persists on both versions. someone have a good way to do irc resuming? here is my natd.conf : log yes log_denied yes use_sockets yes same_ports yes interface xl0 punch_fw 1:20 log_ipfw_denied yes i use ipfw if my other computer is connected directly on internet, it have no problem. Thanks cédrick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: irc resuming through natd
Thank you but the problem is not my irc client, the problem is in libalias(3). I patched the source alias_irc.c with the patch found here : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/50310 The patch must not be applied at line 140 but at line 155 on -CURRENT All works fine now. thanks cédrick gaillard -Message d'origine- De : Nagilum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 6 août 2004 12:44 À : cedrick.gaillard Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: irc resuming through natd I'm not completely sure what you mean, but if your client does not reconnect after a disconnect maybe you could try another client? I found irssi to be a good replacement for ircII in that regard.. Kind regards, Alex. cedrick.gaillard wrote: hi, it's impossible for me to do irc resuming through may freebsd gateway. i was on freebsd 4.7 and i am now on freebsd 5.2.1 current and the problem persists on both versions. someone have a good way to do irc resuming? here is my natd.conf : log yes log_denied yes use_sockets yes same_ports yes interface xl0 punch_fw 1:20 log_ipfw_denied yes i use ipfw if my other computer is connected directly on internet, it have no problem. Thanks cédrick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unreal Tournament 2004 on 5.2.1?
Hi, I'm thinking of building an Unreal Tournament 2004 server, and am curious to know if anyone has it working on FreeBSD 5.2.1? Any suggestions, pointers, etc are welcome. Thanks, -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + ralph[!at]boundariez[dot!]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie Security Question
I recently got my firewall up and configured (many thanks to JJB and everyone else for their help) and have been reading the daily security message from root with a great deal of interest. My question is, when I see entries like this: Aug 5 17:55:54 sara sshd[2099]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 40515 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:55 sara sshd[2101]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 60426 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:55 sara sshd[2103]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 54447 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:59 sara sshd[2105]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 44460 ssh2 is it safe to assume someone has been trying to hack my system? I did a whois search on the IP and it went to a provider in Colorado. I'm asking because I'm curious - thanks again for everyone's help. Jim C. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openoffice on freebsd broke?
Hello all, I do a cvsup on ports-all daily, and the other day I noticed that openoffice-1.1.2 is being report as out of date and that the port has 1.1.3: openoffice-1.1.2 needs updating (port has 1.1.3) So I did a '# portupgrade openoffice' It seemed to compile and install just fine (no errors or problems), but now it crashes every time I run it. As soon as I click on an openoffice window: A pop-up window message reports OpenOffice 1.1.2: An unrecoverable error has occurred. All modified files have been saved and and can probably be recovered at program restart. If I start openoffice-1.1 from an xterm, I see the following output after the crash: crash_report: not found Fatal exception: signal 11 Stack: Abort trap (core dumped) I have replicated this on three different computers, all running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9. Anybody else having this problem? I've reported this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], but have not seen or heard anything else. Thanks for any feedback, Duane Winner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and he will sort things out for you. Don't send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? === Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In addition, the FreeBSD-newbies list caters
RE: freebsd router
-Original Message- From: ann kok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: freebsd router Hello I am running zebra in freebsd 5.2 as router Can you teach me how to optimize the box to designate router only? I don't need to run any application and Which command to monitor and box performance and the network also the top command will give you performance information. For real time network monitoring try iftop and trafshow in ports Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This electronic transmission, including all attachments, is directed in confidence solely to the person(s) to whom it is addressed, or an authorized recipient, and may not otherwise be distributed, copied or disclosed. The contents of the transmission may also be subject to intellectual property rights and all such rights are expressly claimed and are not waived. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic transmission and then immediately delete this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVS Questions
I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing that would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports? Or would it simply be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers? The problem is that the response you would get would be only valid for where you are running the script. Every host in the world would get different results, because they would have different conditions and connections. Having one person running something like that wouldn't put much load on anything, but, if everyone in FreeBSD land fired something like that up everytime they were to download stuff, it was add unnecessary load. An optional thing I would be interested in putting in this is the ability to disfavor any server which was close to its access limit. Is there any support in the protocol for knowing which user out of how many you are? -Dan Mahoney -- Hate fedora with a white hot burning passion right now though ... damn thing is Linux-XP(tm) -Bill Nolan 2/24/04 Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Headless Install
On 2004-08-03, Maksym Marchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what you can do with headless PC? Can you control this PC only in command prompt? Or (may be) you can use anything like X - twm? Sure. You would use the headless machine to run X clients. I have a headless PC that serves X sessions for a dozen thin terminals. The server actually has video if I need to access the console (I do not have a serial console set up) but I almost never have a monitor or keyboard attached to the system. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using rrestore with ssh?
On 2004-08-03, Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a tip on using rrestore with ssh instead of the rexecd and rcmd facility? My attempts at using rrestore result in dhcp-78-74:kargl[207] rrestore -x -b 64 -f troutmask:/dev/nsa0 Connection to troutmask.apl.washington.edu established. IP_TOS:IPTOS_THROUGHPUT setsockopt: Operation not supported TCP_NODELAY setsockopt: Operation not supported rshd: Login incorrect. Lost connection to remote host. dhcp-78-74:kargl[208] On troutmask, I have uncommented the appropriate inetd.conf lines that should allow rmt, rdump, and rrestore to work. Have you read the handbook section on backups? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html My take is that it may be easier to just use restore instead of rrestore. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where'd the list go?
I haven't seen any activity since 9 or so last night, and its after noon! whats up? (please CC me as I'm not getting my list feed for some reason) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ADSL (1 dyn IP) = FreeBSD = WinGate = NAT Network???
Hi! I've been using Wingate for months now to distribute an internet connection among 10 users (NAT). Stunned by regular failures of Windows 2000, Wingate and other evil software, I decided to switch to FreeBSD. I read the handbook and about 3000 more pages of manuals / how-to's / guides. I set up FreeBSD with all applications I currently need for server tasks. I now need to test some applications, while keeping a part of the load on the Wingate machine. What I want to do is connect to internet via ADSL, using the bsd box, and let Wingate use the connection through the box. What is the best way to retain most of the NAT functionality? If you are happy to not know what Wingate is, try to assume that it is just another nat-box. Can bsd somehow forward connection, so that the nat-box almost feels like it has a real IP? Best regards, Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating local copy of documentation
Tom Munro Glass wrote: When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential handbook. Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparently not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks. Regards, Tom Munro Glass You'd do it in similar fashion; in fact you could rather easily script it, I suppose. $cvsup doc-all[*] $cd /usr/doc make install clean *see /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile for details. HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVS Questions
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:28:04AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing that would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports? Or would it simply be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers? What? Like /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup/ ? You'ld be reinventing the wheel. An optional thing I would be interested in putting in this is the ability to disfavor any server which was close to its access limit. Is there any support in the protocol for knowing which user out of how many you are? Not so far as I know. However, a machine with too many active cvsup clients will tend to slow down quite significantly, so the 'find fastest server' type script above generally steers you towards the more lightly loaded servers. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgpfLg3A65jTX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Updating local copy of documentation
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:41:19PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential handbook. Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparently not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks. Yes, you can update the doc sources using cvsup(1), and build them locally. You need to install one of the textproc/docproj ports (install one with jadetex if you want to be able to create PDF output), and use a supfile like so: *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress doc-all A handy way of doing that is simply to make the following settings in /etc/make.conf: SUP_UPDATE= yes # SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 SUPHOST=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile Then you can just type 'make update' in either /usr/src or in /usr/doc to pull down the latest sources. Note that will bring down the sources for all of the different language versions of the docs. If you just want the English versions, you can use a refuse file like: doc/bn_* doc/da_* doc/de_* doc/el_* doc/es_* doc/fr_* doc/it_* doc/ja_* doc/nl_* doc/no_* doc/pl_* doc/pt_* doc/ru_* doc/sr_* doc/tr_* doc/zh_* As ever, start by reading the documentation, in this the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html Note that locally built copies of the documentation end up somewhere below /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1, unlike the copy of the handbook installed with the system in /usr/share/doc Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgpxkNBN0Ya6X.pgp Description: PGP signature
IBM x-series 335 keyboard problem
Hi, I am trying to install v5.2.1 onto an IBM x-series 335 server. It has a single cable with which to attach the monitor/keyboard/mouse that enables daisy chaining of servers. When I install I get to a point where I have to enter information and the keyboard doesn't work. I've tried several times with no luck. Do you have any known problems with these systems? Regards Iain Sutcliffe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message marking of same
Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block goes bad and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any substituting at that point. You'll just continue to get the read error if you try to access (read) that block. It's only when you allow another *write* to that block (e.g. by deleting the original file and writing new files) that the drive will automatically substitute a spare block for the one that went bad. By the time you've got blocks going bad that the OS sees, the drive is in really sad shape. You should replace it with a new drive ASAP. If, after you have (for certain!) overwritten the bad block(s) and you still get errors, then yes the drive is on its way out. But simply getting a read error (without any overwrite attempt) from a block or two doesn't necessarily mean that the drive is turning to mush, now does it? Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating local copy of documentation
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:41:19PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential handbook. Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparently not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks. You can get the latest version of hte docs using CVSup. This is the CVSUP file I use for that very purpose: ## BEGIN *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress doc-all ## END Naturally, you will want to change the host= to one near to you. To have the docs updated when you do a `make update', you need to ensure that you have `DOCSUPFILE=/path/to/doc-supfile' set in /etc/make.conf. To save time and disk space, you can also tell the build system to only build docs in one language, using `DOC_LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1' in /etc/make.conf Once you have gotten the latest sources, # cd /usr/doc # make all install clean and all should be well. Note that you will need to install the textproc/docproj port to be able to build the docs from the source. You can get more info at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgphYNnMWmak3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message marking of same
In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block goes bad and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any substituting at that point. You'll just continue to get the read error if you try to access (read) that block. It's only when you allow another *write* to that block (e.g. by deleting the original file and writing new files) that the drive will automatically substitute a spare block for the one that went bad. SCSI drives, at least, may do automatic reallocation on both reads and writes ( camcontrol mode da0 -m 1, the ARRE and AWRE flags ). If the drive had to reread the block or had to use ECC to recover data, AND the entire block was recovered, it will relocate the data if ARRE is set. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Driver
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:55:15PM -0600, Sandbox Video Productions wrote: Starting KDE I always get this message. Then it just stalls Sound server informational message: Error while ititializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device not configured) The sound server will continue using the null output device I used to get that error when I started KDE without having loaded the driver for my sound card. However the impact was just that I couldn't hear any sound; KDE still started and ran well (but quietly). Depending on what sound card you have, it is likely that you will want to add the following to /boot/loader.conf: snd_pcm_enable=YES That's assuming that you don't have it compiled into the kernel (it isn't by default). However, while that should fix the error message when KDE loads, it probably won't resolve whatever is causing KDE to stall. Still, you have to take things one at a time. -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating local copy of documentation
Tom Munro Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential handbook. Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparently not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks. You can build it from source (see the Documentation Project Handbook), but it would be a lot less work to just download the prebuilt ones. It should be a pretty simple matter to do that in a script that you can add to your normal maintenance tasks. Note that building the documentation requires you to install quite a bit of software. There's a port for it, of course, but if you're not going to use jadetex (as one obvious example) for anything else, it's overkill. Especially if you're not going to try modifying the docs, but just build them occasionally. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freebsd 5.x on Toshiba Portege 3500
Good Afternoon All, 4.x boots/installs and works fine on my notebook (Toshiba Portege 3500), but no version of 5.x has successfully booted (with/without ASPI, safe mode, etc), but the strange thing is that if I load VMWare or VirtualPC 2004 and try to install FreeBSD 5.x into the VM it also does not survive the boot up? I was hoping that maybe someone has been able to get the Portege to boot, and could help with advise. Many thanks! J. Kenney ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Security Question
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:26:01AM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: I recently got my firewall up and configured (many thanks to JJB and everyone else for their help) and have been reading the daily security message from root with a great deal of interest. My question is, when I see entries like this: Aug 5 17:55:54 sara sshd[2099]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 40515 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:55 sara sshd[2101]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 60426 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:55 sara sshd[2103]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 54447 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:59 sara sshd[2105]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 44460 ssh2 is it safe to assume someone has been trying to hack my system? Jim C. Hi Jim, Yeah, I get these all the time. I've always chalked it up to random script kiddies. Sometimes i get people trying to log in as generic usernames like admin, guest, etc. Make sure that PermitRootLogin is either set to no or commented out in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and of course make sure you are using a good root password. Now, if you really want to work yourself up, start browsing your httpd-access logs :) -dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message marking of same
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block goes bad and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any substituting at that point. You'll just continue to get the read error if you try to access (read) that block. It's only when you allow another *write* to that block (e.g. by deleting the original file and writing new files) that the drive will automatically substitute a spare block for the one that went bad. SCSI drives, at least, may do automatic reallocation on both reads and writes ( camcontrol mode da0 -m 1, the ARRE and AWRE flags ). If the drive had to reread the block or had to use ECC to recover data, AND the entire block was recovered, it will relocate the data if ARRE is set. Good to know, although I stopped buying SCSI disks (for home use) years ago. I presumed the more common case these days, that we were talking about IDE disks. In fact doesn't this (from the original question): ad0s1a: hard error necessarily refer to an ATA (IDE) disk? I don't believe any (current) ATA disks will do automatic reallocation on reads, will they? Though of course serial ATA drives seem to be the future and are taking on more and more SCSI-like features as time goes by. Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:42 AM, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote: On 050804, 20:58, Brett Glass wrote: http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 You should look at the IA64 port, not the AMD64. Why? This Intel chip referenced is NOT an IA64 architecture. It is Intels EM64T 64/32 bit architecture based on Xeon/P4 and compatible with the AMD64 stuff Chad ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Security Question
Hello James: Thats just letting you know that someone from that IP Address tried to access your system using the root account and the password they provided failed to authenticate. Could've been an ssh scanner or something of that nature. Most likely script kiddies. Make sure you do not allow root to login via ssh by setting your sshd_config PermitRootLogin no. Use sudo or su - instead. or you can always use key-based authentication. Lester A. Mesa aka: mazpe - On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 08:26, James A. Coulter wrote: I recently got my firewall up and configured (many thanks to JJB and everyone else for their help) and have been reading the daily security message from root with a great deal of interest. My question is, when I see entries like this: Aug 5 17:55:54 sara sshd[2099]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 40515 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:55 sara sshd[2101]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 60426 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:55 sara sshd[2103]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 54447 ssh2 Aug 5 17:55:59 sara sshd[2105]: Failed password for root from 209.120.224.13 +port 44460 ssh2 is it safe to assume someone has been trying to hack my system? I did a whois search on the IP and it went to a provider in Colorado. I'm asking because I'm curious - thanks again for everyone's help. Jim C. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup fails because of xlib connection error
chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just set up a new box using FreeBSD-5.2 and install cvsup. Now when I run cvsup I get this - chip3# cvsup ports-supfile Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Lost the connection to the X server I have this in my /etc/hosts file (probably more than necessary, but I was just trying to cover all my bases) - # ::1 localhost localhost.wiegand.org 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.wiegand.org 192.168.0.7 chip3.wiegand.org 127.0.0.1 chip3 chip3.wiegand.org 10.0.0.1chip3 chip3.wiegand.org # What have I screwed up and how do I fix it? Do you *want* the GUI? If so, what do you have in your DISPLAY variable? If not, why not just specify the '-g' option? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: CVS Questions
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you use ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup? Thanks, all, for pointing that out to me. Clearly, I wasn't the first to have this idea. -Dan -- I can feel it, comin' back again...Like a rolling thunder chasin' the wind... -Dan Mahoney, JS, JB SL, May 10th, 1997, Approx 1AM Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Debugging Kshell Script???
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: You must import my public key to open the attached file. Why? Why not just attach the plain file? -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd 5.x on Toshiba Portege 3500
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, J. Kenney wrote: Good Afternoon All, 4.x boots/installs and works fine on my notebook (Toshiba Portege 3500), but no version of 5.x has successfully booted (with/without ASPI, safe mode, etc), but the strange thing is that if I load VMWare or VirtualPC 2004 and try to install FreeBSD 5.x into the VM it also does not survive the boot up? I was hoping that maybe someone has been able to get the Portege to boot, and could help with advise. Sorry to add a me too, but sadly I can only add that the portege A100 has the same problems. however it runs 4.x very well with or without acpi. (would like project evil for the wireless though.) Vince Many thanks! J. Kenney ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating local copy of documentation
On Saturday 07 August 2004 07:44, Lowell Gilbert wrote: You can build it from source (see the Documentation Project Handbook), but it would be a lot less work to just download the prebuilt ones. It should be a pretty simple matter to do that in a script that you can add to your normal maintenance tasks. Note that building the documentation requires you to install quite a bit of software. There's a port for it, of course, but if you're not going to use jadetex (as one obvious example) for anything else, it's overkill. Especially if you're not going to try modifying the docs, but just build them occasionally. Thanks to all who replied - this list is SO helpful. Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message marking of same
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block goes bad and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any substituting at that point. You'll just continue to get the read error if you try to access (read) that block. It's only when you allow another *write* to that block (e.g. by deleting the original file and writing new files) that the drive will automatically substitute a spare block for the one that went bad. SCSI drives, at least, may do automatic reallocation on both reads and writes ( camcontrol mode da0 -m 1, the ARRE and AWRE flags ). If the drive had to reread the block or had to use ECC to recover data, AND the entire block was recovered, it will relocate the data if ARRE is set. Good to know, although I stopped buying SCSI disks (for home use) years ago. I presumed the more common case these days, that we were talking about IDE disks. In fact doesn't this (from the original question): ad0s1a: hard error necessarily refer to an ATA (IDE) disk? I don't believe any (current) ATA disks will do automatic reallocation on reads, will they? Though of course serial ATA drives seem to be the future and are taking on more and more SCSI-like features as time goes by. Both ATA and SCSI drives may relocate blocks that were difficult to read (e.g. correctable errors, took multiple attempts, etc). But if the block can't be recovered at all, the drive will still report an error to the OS (in addition to relocation). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after reboot with mountroot
Just tried installing FreeBSD 4.10 on a Dell PowerEdge 650. No problems with the install, tried creating a partition with dangerously dedicated and also, just using the entire disk with standard bootmanager. Each time, after the initial reboot I get an error: Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a Root mount failed: 6 Mounting root from ufs:ad0a Root mount failed: 6 Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot I tried: mountroot ufs:/dev/ad4s1a but that fails too. The disk is a Seagate 120GB and it's actually ad4, not ad0. If I interrupt the boot process at: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: and enter: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: 0:ad(4,a)/kernel the machine will boot properly. I've tried two things I found while checking on this: 1. Adding to loader.conf: rootdev=disk4s1a root_disk_unit=0 2. Rebuilding the kernel and adding: optionsROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:ad4s1a\ Neither of which worked.Is there something I'm missing while doing the installation? If I look in /dev the devices are there ad4, ad4s1, ad4s1a, ad4s1b, etc. About at wit's end ... any help would be great. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
file system setup for new system - recommendations?
I'm confused, and I ask for your collective help. I successfully built a FreeBSD system using defaults. It works fine, so far. I will start over and rebuild the system now, carefully documenting each step. I will make some changes the second time. What I have right now is not mission critical, I'm just using it to learn. I've learned that I need another partition to which I can write tar backups and then ftp them to one of my windows machines on my LAN. So, I've tried to identify the optimum configuration for the rebuild of my machine to accommodate that need. I have a 120GB IDE HD, so I don't have space problems. I presently have 128MB of RAM, but it looks like I should plan to accommodate an increase to 1024GB in the future. I plan to host a few web pages, and hope to be able to ultimately run a MTA and mail lists using majordomo or mailman in the future. I have static IPs and permission to run a server on my internet access. I've tried to absorb input from the FreeBSD on-line handbook, from Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD, and from Michael Lucases' Absolute BSD. What I read either conflicts or I just can't comprehend. Maybe I shouldn't have tried to compare these sources? A Reference says keep the root section small, another says include /usr and /var in root, there's a discussion of the relative speed of the outside of a spinning HD to the middle of the HD, there's not an agreement on the size of the swap space, and, as I said, I'm confused. Here's where I am, and I would appreciate your collective comments. I'm persuaded to use 1026MB for swap, 8GB for root (/), 30GB for /backup tars, and the remainder for /home. The /tmp, /usr, and /var directories would be included in the 8MB root. Web pages and mailing lists would be in home. I would be able to backup directories (or subdirectories) to tar files in the backup directory of sizes that wouldn't choke my windows machines when ftp'd to them for storage. When I rebuild my system, I don't want to do it again for a while. Should I make root bigger? Should I have /tmp, /usr, and /var as separate partitions as the default install did for me when I built the system I'm learning on at present? If you had it to do all over again, given my parameters, what would you do? Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
it was said: On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:42 AM, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote: On 050804, 20:58, Brett Glass wrote: http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 You should look at the IA64 port, not the AMD64. Why? This Intel chip referenced is NOT an IA64 architecture. It is Intels EM64T 64/32 bit architecture based on Xeon/P4 and compatible with the AMD64 stuff Chad Hello, Actually, what it says is, Intel's extensions, which it first used in the Xeon and are called EM64T, are compatible with AMD's extensions. I wouldn't infer that to mean more than it says: Intel's _extensions_ are compatible AMD's _extensions_. A quick experiment would tell. Because these same extensions exist in the Xeon, by your reasoning, the AMD64 codebase should run on a Xeon platform, nee? Regards, Stheg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message marking of same
it was said: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block goes bad and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any substituting at that point. You'll just continue to get the read error if you try to access (read) that block. It's only when you allow another *write* to that block (e.g. by deleting the original file and writing new files) that the drive will automatically substitute a spare block for the one that went bad. SCSI drives, at least, may do automatic reallocation on both reads and writes ( camcontrol mode da0 -m 1, the ARRE and AWRE flags ). If the drive had to reread the block or had to use ECC to recover data, AND the entire block was recovered, it will relocate the data if ARRE is set. Good to know, although I stopped buying SCSI disks (for home use) years ago. I presumed the more common case these days, that we were talking about IDE disks. In fact doesn't this (from the original question): ad0s1a: hard error necessarily refer to an ATA (IDE) disk? I don't believe any (current) ATA disks will do automatic reallocation on reads, will they? Though of course serial ATA drives seem to be the future and are taking on more and more SCSI-like features as time goes by. Both ATA and SCSI drives may relocate blocks that were difficult to read (e.g. correctable errors, took multiple attempts, etc). But if the block can't be recovered at all, the drive will still report an error to the OS (in addition to relocation). Hello, A tool that all may find useful is SpinRite 6.0 available from Gibson Research at http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm. It's not open source or freeware but anybody with an Intel, AMD, or TiVO system that uses a harddrive ought to have it. Note: I am in no way affiliated with Gibson Research, other than having used SpinRite since the days of manually interleaving MFM drives. HTH, Stheg __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
EM64T = AMD64 because they have a patent-sharing agreement... so yes amd64 codebase should run even on the newest lga775 pentium 4 or the newest xeons which support em64t greetings, alex -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von stheg olloydson Gesendet: Samstag, 7. August 2004 02:46 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this? it was said: On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:42 AM, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote: On 050804, 20:58, Brett Glass wrote: http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 You should look at the IA64 port, not the AMD64. Why? This Intel chip referenced is NOT an IA64 architecture. It is Intels EM64T 64/32 bit architecture based on Xeon/P4 and compatible with the AMD64 stuff Chad Hello, Actually, what it says is, Intel's extensions, which it first used in the Xeon and are called EM64T, are compatible with AMD's extensions. I wouldn't infer that to mean more than it says: Intel's _extensions_ are compatible AMD's _extensions_. A quick experiment would tell. Because these same extensions exist in the Xeon, by your reasoning, the AMD64 codebase should run on a Xeon platform, nee? Regards, Stheg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup fails because of xlib connection error
On Friday 06 August 2004 02:01 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Do you *want* the GUI? If so, what do you have in your DISPLAY variable? If not, why not just specify the '-g' option? I don't necessarily need the gui, that's just what I'm used to using from previous installs. The -g option works fine. I don't know what you mean by the DISPLAY variable. -- Chip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
win32codecs.tar.bz2
The MPlayer package requires win32codecs to be installed, but when I make it, it can not find the package and tells me to copy it to /usr/ports/distfiles/, however, when I do that, it tells me of an incorrect checksum. I find this odd because I cated the file with the checksums and they look the same (or very similiar, I took a quick snapshot way of looking at it). I do not know what the problem is, could someone help me? I am running FreeBSD-5.1-Release, upgraded base and ports collection (it also did the same with the original). Thank you, if you could help me I would be appriciative of it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where do I ask about Palm issues?
Where can I ask about FreeBSD specific Palm issues? I'm following a 4.8-Release guideline on getting a Palm Tungsten to interface with my computer, but I'm having problems. What is the best mailing list to ask? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?
it was said: by: Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm confused, and I ask for your collective help. I successfully built a FreeBSD system using defaults. It works fine, so far. I will start over and rebuild the system now, carefully documenting each step. I will make some changes the second time. What I have right now is not mission critical, I'm just using it to learn. I've learned that I need another partition to which I can write tar backups and then ftp them to one of my windows machines on my LAN. So, I've tried to identify the optimum configuration for the rebuild of my machine to accommodate that need. I have a 120GB IDE HD, so I don't have space problems. I presently have 128MB of RAM, but it looks like I should plan to accommodate an increase to 1024GB in the future. I plan to host a few web pages, and hope to be able to ultimately run a MTA and mail lists using majordomo or mailman in the future. I have static IPs and permission to run a server on my internet access. I've tried to absorb input from the FreeBSD on-line handbook, from Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD, and from Michael Lucases' Absolute BSD. What I read either conflicts or I just can't comprehend. Maybe I shouldn't have tried to compare these sources? A Reference says keep the root section small, another says include /usr and /var in root, there's a discussion of the relative speed of the outside of a spinning HD to the middle of the HD, there's not an agreement on the size of the swap space, and, as I said, I'm confused. Here's where I am, and I would appreciate your collective comments. I'm persuaded to use 1026MB for swap, 8GB for root (/), 30GB for /backup tars, and the remainder for /home. The /tmp, /usr, and /var directories would be included in the 8MB root. Web pages and mailing lists would be in home. I would be able to backup directories (or subdirectories) to tar files in the backup directory of sizes that wouldn't choke my windows machines when ftp'd to them for storage. When I rebuild my system, I don't want to do it again for a while. Should I make root bigger? Should I have /tmp, /usr, and /var as separate partitions as the default install did for me when I built the system I'm learning on at present? If you had it to do all over again, given my parameters, what would you do? Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA USA Hello, First, I'll assume you intend to have a single IDE drive and that won't change for the life of this setup. Second, I'll accept your standard of what would _I_ do and not discuss the merits or philosophical differences of Messers. Lucas's and Lehey's recommendations. Finally, I'll assume you meant that you'll eventually have 1024MB (i.e. 1GB) of RAM, not 1024GB (i.e. 1TB). To begin, a 120GB drive is HUGE for a FBSD system relative to a Windows system, so you don't need to dole out space in a miserly fashion. However, you do need to be able to back up your data, so don't go nuts either. I tend to make my root partition 1GB. I have never needed this much space and could get by half that, but it's a nice round number, so why not? Because you will eventually have 1GB of RAM, I would allocate a /swap partition equal to twice the maximum RAM the motherboard can hold. Don't underestimate how long you will own the machine or the effort you will put into squeezing the last ounce of performance in the years to come. (Home machines tend to linger long after corporate machines have been surplussed.) And soon or later you'll be needing to post a core dump, so you may as well be ready for it. You say that you intend to host a few web pages, and ...ultimately run a MTA and mail lists. This means you need a goodly amount of space in /var for the mail _and_ the logs associated with the mail/web/firewall programs, say 20-25GB (~20 percent of total drive space). The few web pages will become several domains as time goes by, say 15-20GB (~15 percent of total drive space) for /home or /www, whatever you call it. The space needed for /usr isn't really substanial, say 10-12GB. The hard part is figuring how much space you need for, I would be able to backup directories (or subdirectories) to tar files in the backup directory of sizes that wouldn't choke my windows machines when ftp'd to them for storage. I have no idea what this entails, so say another 20-25GB for that. Thus, I have allocated between ~70-86GB. Leave the rest unallocated. Over time, one or more of these estimates will be too low. When that happens, you will be able to add space to the appropriate partition(s) and use growfs(8) to remedy the situation. This setup should last you a year or so. By then you'll want to optimize your setup, maybe have separate mail and web servers, whatever. It all depends on how much of your life FBSD takes over. HTH, Stheg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection
Re: installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after reboot with mountroot
I don't own a dell power edge but I seem to remember another thread with this same problem and I think the problem seemed to be how the dell found the cdrom and harddrives, I think if you look at how the ide/ata cables are run, this may be the problem, but my memory is flakky hope this points you to the right fix. On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:21:15PM -0500, Spumonti wrote: Just tried installing FreeBSD 4.10 on a Dell PowerEdge 650. No problems with the install, tried creating a partition with dangerously dedicated and also, just using the entire disk with standard bootmanager. Each time, after the initial reboot I get an error: Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a Root mount failed: 6 Mounting root from ufs:ad0a Root mount failed: 6 Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot I tried: mountroot ufs:/dev/ad4s1a but that fails too. The disk is a Seagate 120GB and it's actually ad4, not ad0. If I interrupt the boot process at: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: and enter: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: 0:ad(4,a)/kernel the machine will boot properly. I've tried two things I found while checking on this: 1. Adding to loader.conf: rootdev=disk4s1a root_disk_unit=0 2. Rebuilding the kernel and adding: optionsROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:ad4s1a\ Neither of which worked.Is there something I'm missing while doing the installation? If I look in /dev the devices are there ad4, ad4s1, ad4s1a, ad4s1b, etc. About at wit's end ... any help would be great. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- ** The information contained in this communication is confidential, private, proprietary, or otherwise privileged and is intended only for the use of the addressee. Unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately. ** == ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 04:58, Brett Glass wrote: http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 Probably not. Intel isn't going to keep exactly the same architecture as AMD has now. They'll make a few minor ajustments to fine-tune their CPU. According to the Intel people that I've talked to where I work (a big blue company that isn't Dell), AMD64 and EM64T are the same on the opcode level. Thus, code built for AMD64 will work unmodified on EM64T and vice versa. (It would be silly for Intel to do otherwise, as they don't want to risk losing any support from the community and market share that AMD has worked hard to establish.) While Intel (or AMD) may make changes to the underlying silicon to make things better than their competitors (ie, larger caches, different pipeline architecture, etc), they are committed to maintain compatibility between AMD64 and EM64T. -- Matt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
At 09:06 PM 8/6/2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: While Intel (or AMD) may make changes to the underlying silicon to make things better than their competitors (ie, larger caches, different pipeline architecture, etc), they are committed to maintain compatibility between AMD64 and EM64T. This is good to know. Has anyone tested the AMD64 version of FreeBSD on one of the Intel Xeons with the new instruction set? --Brett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
At 09:06 PM 8/6/2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: While Intel (or AMD) may make changes to the underlying silicon to make things better than their competitors (ie, larger caches, different pipeline architecture, etc), they are committed to maintain compatibility between AMD64 and EM64T. This is good to know. Has anyone tested the AMD64 version of FreeBSD on one of the Intel Xeons with the new instruction set? If you would like to ship me one, I'd gladly test it out for you. See my web site for my address. -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
That, however, is where the similarities end. The Nocona chip is only 64bit on the outside, the internals are essentially built on a 32 bit legacy system. The end result is that AMD is pure 64 bit and intel's chip just won't keep up when full 64 bit code hits the market. The new code will sing on AMD, but won't run a bit faster on intel's chip. Even Intel has acknowledged their flaws. The current issue of infoworld (http://www.infoworld.com) has the full story on it. Matt Emmerton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 04:58, Brett Glass wrote: http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 Probably not. Intel isn't going to keep exactly the same architecture as AMD has now. They'll make a few minor ajustments to fine-tune their CPU. According to the Intel people that I've talked to where I work (a big blue company that isn't Dell), AMD64 and EM64T are the same on the opcode level. Thus, code built for AMD64 will work unmodified on EM64T and vice versa. (It would be silly for Intel to do otherwise, as they don't want to risk losing any support from the community and market share that AMD has worked hard to establish.) While Intel (or AMD) may make changes to the underlying silicon to make things better than their competitors (ie, larger caches, different pipeline architecture, etc), they are committed to maintain compatibility between AMD64 and EM64T. -- Matt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
At 09:18 PM 8/6/2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: If you would like to ship me one, I'd gladly test it out for you. If I had one to ship, *I* would test it. But I need to know PRIOR to purchase. --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation of FreeBSD 4.10 on Dell PowerEdge 650 fails after reboot with mountroot
Spumonti wrote: snip The disk is a Seagate 120GB and it's actually ad4, not ad0. If I interrupt the boot process at: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: and enter: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: 0:ad(4,a)/kernel the machine will boot properly. I've tried two things I found while checking on this: 1. Adding to loader.conf: rootdev=disk4s1a root_disk_unit=0 2. Rebuilding the kernel and adding: optionsROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:ad4s1a\ Neither of which worked.Is there something I'm missing while doing the installation? If I look in /dev the devices are there ad4, ad4s1, ad4s1a, ad4s1b, etc. About at wit's end ... any help would be great. Is this the only disk in the box? Why is it ad4 instead of ad0? That's at issue, but maybe it's not as bad as pulling out your hair... It might be possible to fix it without changing disk numbers by adding the following to /boot/loader.conf: set root_disk_unit=4 boot /kernel See loader(8) for details. That said, I'm no expert on loader(8) et al. But that's what the docs say, anyway. HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: identifying and fixing server I/O slowdowns
Jeff Kramer wrote: Oh great and wise FreeBSD gurus, I've been running FreeBSD boxes for about five years with great results (up to 6 at the moment), but recently one of my machines has started to seriously act up. Every time a heavy disk operation (say, tar'ing a 1 gig directory) occurs the system slows to a crawl, and requests to apache/php/mysql sites hosted on it just hang. The system is a dual p3 1.13ghz box with a gig of ram and mirrored 80 gig WD800BB drives on a Promise TX2 controller. The raid isn't degraded. There's a dedicated 1.5 gig swap partition and a swap file on the /usr partition. We had some apache processes go nuts one time, which is why I added the swap file. [...] This problem could be due to a disk drive that is about to fail. If there are (still recoverable) disk errors, retrying the affected I/O operations can keep a disk controller occupied for serveral seconds. Of course, all processes trying to do disk I/O during this time span will block. Since the errors are (eventually) recoverable the raid array is likely to _not_ drop into degraded mode by itself. After you've found out which of the disks it is you would have to force that disk into failed mode and would then replace it. The exact details depend on your raid controller. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I've experienced disk failures like these several times in the past, with the effect you've described. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: BSDForums registration ..
Has anyone tried to join/register at: http://www.freebsdforums.org/ I've joined and registered and I'm able to login, but after 24hrs I'm still unable to create new threads or reply to existing ones. I've emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] without any response. I thought maybe I was over looking something but I don't think that I am. When I try and click on the Registration link in my email I get: Your account has been activated but you are currently in the moderation queue to be added to the forum. Is there a more preferable FreeBSD forum other than the one above? Thanks, Joshua Banks __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: win32codecs.tar.bz2
Cvsup your ports system and try again http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Finniff Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: win32codecs.tar.bz2 The MPlayer package requires win32codecs to be installed, but when I make it, it can not find the package and tells me to copy it to /usr/ports/distfiles/, however, when I do that, it tells me of an incorrect checksum. I find this odd because I cated the file with the checksums and they look the same (or very similiar, I took a quick snapshot way of looking at it). I do not know what the problem is, could someone help me? I am running FreeBSD-5.1-Release, upgraded base and ports collection (it also did the same with the original). Thank you, if you could help me I would be appriciative of it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
