Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've increased the size of the IDTOKEN to 32 from 16, since I've been noticing alot of duplicates when two hosts submit at close to the same time ... Ummm... that's actually really bad. That means that the RNG used by OpenSSL (hence SSH and others) is not actually producing anything like a proper random sequence for a lot of people. Hence all sorts of crypto handled by those machines is potentially vulnerable to attack. If this is the case, going from 16 to 32 bytes of random token won't actually help at all. On the other hand, the duplicates could be the result of people deliberately trying to frig the statistics or just innocently running the 300.statistics script manually several times. In either case, entries with duplicate tokens should be discarded -- I guess you'ld always want to keep just the last entry for any token. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: IP address impersonation
Robin Becker wrote: 1) is this a recognized form of attack? I can see that it could be used for password harvesting and traffic interception, but are there other implications. ip spoofing is a well known attack. 2) Are there ways to mitigate this kind of problem? We have other hosted servers on machines with similar (root) access. They presumably could also be impersonated. We found this out by inspection of our own log files; could the provider be doing something more to prevent this? All hosts and routers hold a local dynamic table of arp addresses and their corresponding ip addresses. Since the ip may change, these are held only for one minute and each node only keeps the addresses they actually communicate with. When some node need to communicate with another node it does not know the arp address of it sends out an arp request WHO-HAS to all nodes on the network. If two nodes uses the same ip, they will both respond and it is somewhat random who wins. But one can use an attack called arp cache poisoning to make a particular arp address appear. There is a solution to this problem: Static arp-tables. This requires that your provider in the router adds machines arp addresses and their ip addresses in a static table. Static by nature these are not flushed so the spoofing will fail. Only the nodes that maintain a static arp table will ignore the spoofing, so if you need to communicate with other hosts on the network these need also to have the static table. It is likely that your provider don't want to do the trouble of maintaining a static table. To prove the problem to them you can use arpwatch to monitor changes and document the problem. You may also use arping to ping arp addresses, this may help you claim your ip - like the arp cache poisoning attack. This means that the other host will loose connection and maybe make the admin aware that there are problems. But the real solution is to get to the administrator of the offending host and make him change the ip. Your provider should keep track of who has been assigned which ip. If someone else in error uses your ip, some other ip must be free and the provider should be able to identify who it is. Unfortunately, AFIAK there is no way of identifying which machine is offending from analysing the network traffic, but the arp address is normally printed on the network interfaces so physical inspection will do it. Things get complicated, because it is possible to change the arp address. This means that you can set your arp address to the same as the offending host. If you're connected by a hub or a wireless network, both will get traffic to both hosts and it really becomes a mess if both try to respond. If you're on a switched network no one knows who gets the packets. This arp spoofing is the ultimate way of hiding yourself behind someone else (or the other way round). I once had ip's static assigned on a network, but users couldn't figure out what these numbers were and every once in a while someone would use the routers ip as their own ip taking down the entire network. That was when I learned about dhcp! (and all the arp spoofing stuff). Note, ARP is the protocol, the network interface address is often called MAC. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ENABLE_SUID_K5SU and ksu behavior
I don't get it... The behavior of 'ksu' is entirely different from 'su'. It doesn't check whether user is listed in wheel group - it just lets user in if he knows password. And when there's no root password (sometimes it's much easier to add to wheel group all who is responsible while all other are left out) it just lets anyone in unconditionally. It seems that ordinary su works through pam, while ksu doesn't... What am I missing? -- [WBR], Arcade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Issues with configuring IPFW for NAT setup
I'm trying to configure a lightweight router/gateway just to block bad SMTP requests; many virii/spyware apps on Windoze boxes on my network have forced our ISP to almost shut us down more than once now because people don't know how to manage their machines =\. The problem with my config is that all that's going through the NAT machine are ICMP packets (?!). Weird.. Anyhow, here's the ipfw configuration so far: #!/bin/sh # comment the line below and uncomment the line following that if you just want to test the rule output cmd_flags=-f #cmd_flags=-n cmd=ipfw $cmd_flags cmd_a=$cmd add cmd_d=$cmd del ks=keep-state # just macros to simplify typing/reading fata=from any to any aafat=allow all from any to daf=deny all from dafat=$daf any to prif=fxp0 puif=xl0 # trusted subnet tsu=192.168.1.0/24 # untrusted subnet usu=192.168.0.0/24 bad_ports=81, 113, 137-139, 445, 901, 1026, 1433-1434, 1900, 2283, 2869, 3389, 5000, 8080 # IRC IDENT, HTTP, Sun RPC ports, uPnP ports, RDP ports, etc virus_ports=1080, 2283, 2535, 2745, 3127-3198, 3410, 5554, 8866, 9898 # See /root/ports.html for a short list with explanations $cmd -f flush $cmd_a 001 $aafat any via lo* $cmd_a 050 divert natd ip from any to me in via $puif # Properly direct all incoming NAT redirects $cmd_a 081 $daf 172.16.0.0/12 to any # reserved IPs $cmd_a 082 $daf 10.0.0.0/8 to any # reserved IPs $cmd_a 083 $daf 127.0.0.0/8 to any # loopback $cmd_a 084 $daf 0.0.0.0/8 to any # broadcast $cmd_a 085 $daf 169.254.0.0/16 to any # auto-DHCP $cmd_a 086 deny tcp from 224.0.0.0/3 to any # deny multicast TCP support # private subnet firewall rules -- allow incoming SSH, HTTP, and HTTP-SSL $cmd_a 160 allow all from any to me 22, 68-69, 80, 443 via $prif # public SSH rules $cmd_a 170 allow all from any to me 22 via $puif $cmd_a 171 deny all from any to me 22, 68-69, 80, 443 via $puif # SMTP rules -- basically allow SMTP traffic on port 25 to UW, Comcast, and Earthlink clients; block the rest to prevent mass spamming $cmd_a 200 $aafat smtp.washington.edu 25 out via $puif $cmd_a 201 $aafat smtp.comcast.net 25 out via $puif $cmd_a 202 $aafat smtp.earthlink.net 25 out via $puif $cmd_a 203 $dafat any 25 out via $puif $cmd_a 400 $dafat any $bad_ports, $virus_ports via $puif # deny any TCP traffic trying to be forwarded on ports 1-65535. Don't block UDP since MSN and other services like to randomly allocate ports in this range for UDP use. $cmd_a 401 deny tcp $fata 1-65535 $cmd_a 600 divert natd all from $tsu to any out via $puif # For outbound NAT translation $cmd_a 605 deny all from $usu to not me via $prif $cmd_a 611 allow all $fata Some additional helpful information: FreeBSD router: su-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD hummer.localdomain 6.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p5 #10: Wed Sep 27 00:17:54 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HUMMER i386 su-2.05b# sysctl -n net.inet.ip.forwarding 1 Another interesting thing is that it appears that I've totally screwed up my TCP configuration or something (or firewalled a bunch of ports), so my machine cannot access the outside world (even from localhost). The only thing that appears to be working is DNS resolving.. =\. My routing tables: su-2.05b# netstat -r -f inet Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default192.168.0.1UGS 0 2389xl0 localhost localhost UH 02lo0 192.168.0 link#2 UC 00xl0 192.168.0.100:09:5b:56:c4:b4 UHLW20xl0 1175 hoover 00:0a:e6:47:73:c7 UHLW12xl0957 sprsd 00:e0:7d:f7:6e:2e UHLW116281xl0 1117 192.168.1 link#1 UC 00 fxp0 192.168.1.100:a0:c9:5e:ba:2d UHLW10lo0 192.168.1.224 00:11:24:2f:15:bc UHLW1 51 fxp0306 My static routes in /etc/rc.conf: #..snip.. #Route defs static_routes=router tsu usu #static_routes=usu route_router=-net 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 route_usu=-net 192.168.0.0/24 192.168.0.1 route_tsu=-net 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.1 #..end snip.. Ping example of DNS resolving working: su-2.05b# ping -c 3 google.com PING google.com (64.233.187.99): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=84.567 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=107.181 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=84.443 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 84.443/92.064/107.181/10.690 ms su-2.05b# IPFIREWALL sections of kernel config: su-2.05b# grep IPFIREWALL /root/HUMMER options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=5 options
Re: NT loader still boot first FreeBSD slice, it could not boot second or another slice
On Friday 29 September 2006 04:26, Daniel Dvořák wrote: I wanted to make my system dual or multiboot. I decided to loadding os NT loader from Windows XP. I did this using BOOTPART. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm It lets me start FreeBSD from the Windows boot menu. -- The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing. - Vinod Vallopillil http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
On 9/29/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As painful as it was to do, I backed up the old data tonight and wiped out the stats ... for one major reason: the stats lost their accuracy. As I said, you just need to download the new version and run it, you don't have to wait for the port to go through, assuming you have already installed from the port and /etc/periodic.conf is setup ... Make sure you run it right after downloading though ... If anyone out there can see a flaw in the script ... or something that I may have overlooked as far as a 'loophole' that could be used to screw around with the data, please let me know ... I know its not possible, minus registration, to get rid of all holes, but, hopefully I've now gotten rid of the ones that a truck could (and did) drive though ... I just updated the script and it ran fine :) I'm the only guy yet from Portugal and the only sparc cpu :D On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DHCP IP range + auto hostname
Hello,
I have a DHCP server with this config file:
option domain-name cassiopeia.ronet;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
authoritative;
log-facility local7;
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
range 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.139;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
use-host-decl-names on;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
filename pxeboot;
option root-path 192.168.0.1:/mnt/d1/rootfs;
}
I would like the diskless machines to set their hostname automatically.
I have a working named for this. For example:
cassiopeia# host diskless131.ronet
diskless131.ronet has address 192.168.0.131
cassiopeia# host 192.168.0.131
131.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer diskless131.ronet.
cassiopeia#
Of course I can create individual hosts in the dhcp config file and set
their hostnames. But I do not want to create 40 host declarations and
look for the hardware addresses by hand... The clients should be able
to determine their hostnames using a reverse dns lookup, and the set
their hostnames automatically. In the above example: after the machine
got its IP address (192.168.0.131) from the DHCP server, it should set
its hostname to 'diskless131.ronet'.
Sounds easy, but I do not know how to do that. Is it a standard
procedure, or do I need to write a custom script? (Where should I place it?)
Thanks,
Laszlo
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Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
On 29/09/2006 1:11 AM, Joao Barros wrote: On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? Yep, each individual *BSD is getting its own detailed stats summary section... they're not finished yet, so at the moment I've left the links to the old (nonsensical) pages, but it's a long weekend here this weekend so I'm hoping to try and finalise them :-) See here for the FreeBSD page: http://www.bsdstats.org/freebsd/ Thus far I have Releases and Countries done, so it's just a matter of some further formatting and then the Platforms + Devices pages... Cheers Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP IP range + auto hostname
Nagy László wrote:
Hello,
I have a DHCP server with this config file:
option domain-name cassiopeia.ronet;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
authoritative;
log-facility local7;
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
range 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.139;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
use-host-decl-names on;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
filename pxeboot;
option root-path 192.168.0.1:/mnt/d1/rootfs;
}
I would like the diskless machines to set their hostname automatically.
I have a working named for this. For example:
cassiopeia# host diskless131.ronet
diskless131.ronet has address 192.168.0.131
cassiopeia# host 192.168.0.131
131.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer diskless131.ronet.
cassiopeia#
Of course I can create individual hosts in the dhcp config file and set
their hostnames. But I do not want to create 40 host declarations and
look for the hardware addresses by hand... The clients should be able
to determine their hostnames using a reverse dns lookup, and the set
their hostnames automatically. In the above example: after the machine
got its IP address (192.168.0.131) from the DHCP server, it should set
its hostname to 'diskless131.ronet'.
Sounds easy, but I do not know how to do that. Is it a standard
procedure, or do I need to write a custom script? (Where should I place
it?)
IIRC you need to build the kernel for the diskless clients with the
BOOTP options (I don't remember which of them right now), this should
allow the kernel to rerequest parameters later in the boot stage.
Cheers, Erik
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Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
On 9/29/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/09/2006 1:11 AM, Joao Barros wrote: On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? Yep, each individual *BSD is getting its own detailed stats summary section... they're not finished yet, so at the moment I've left the links to the old (nonsensical) pages, but it's a long weekend here this weekend so I'm hoping to try and finalise them :-) See here for the FreeBSD page: http://www.bsdstats.org/freebsd/ Thus far I have Releases and Countries done, so it's just a matter of some further formatting and then the Platforms + Devices pages... Cheers Antony It looks very nice indeed, good work! :-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
Matthew Seaman wrote: On the other hand, the duplicates could be the result of people deliberately trying to frig the statistics or just innocently running the 300.statistics script manually several times. In either case, entries with duplicate tokens should be discarded -- I guess you'ld always want to keep just the last entry for any token. How is the country determined? by whois lookup? I am just surprised that after the wipe and required update of the stats-script, Panama has 75% of the hosts, 10 times the US. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minimum requirements
what are the recommended minimum hw requirements for version 6.1? e.g. diskspace, memory, etc thank you. -art - Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question!
Hello! I have one question. I had installed Free BSD 6.1 and i use GNOME.My monitor is Philips 107p5 and i want to have 100 Hz at 1024x768. I wrote the characteristics of my monitor to xorg.conf,but it doesn't switch to 100 Hz, only 85 Hz. What should i do? I know that that monitor can support 100 Hz at that resolution! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions
On Thursday 28 September 2006 19:43, Damian Wiest wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:35:10PM +, m3 BSD wrote: Hi, i would like to do a raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions and not with a entire disk. For example: I've a two SCSI drivers with 68Gb. I want to make a two partitions or slices in two disks, first with 10G and other with 58Gb, this in two disks, and make a raid strip virtual disk with 58+58GB = 116 GB, and user other two partitions normaly. I believe you want to use the GEOM(4) subsystem in general and the gstripe(8) command in particular. I've only used gmirror(8) with entire disks, but I believe you can simply specify a device name corresponding to the slices you want to stripe. That's correct. Use bsdlabel to divide the disks how you want them, put your normal filesystems on (e.g.) ad0s1a and ad2s1a, and use ad0s1d and ad2s1d as the elements of your gstripe. (e.g. gstripe label bigvol ad0s1d ad2s1d). Or you can divide the disk using fdisk and just use slices as the elements of your gstripe (ad0s2 and ad2s2, for instance). It doesn't matter what the device actually represents; geom can use it. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question!
Google for custom modeline. Here is a generator. http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Best regards, 2006/9/29, Дмитрий Ефремов [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! I have one question. I had installed Free BSD 6.1 and i use GNOME.My monitor is Philips 107p5 and i want to have 100 Hz at 1024x768. I wrote the characteristics of my monitor to xorg.conf,but it doesn't switch to 100 Hz, only 85 Hz. What should i do? I know that that monitor can support 100 Hz at that resolution! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question!
On Friday 29 September 2006 05:13, Дмитрий Ефремов wrote: Hello! I have one question. I had installed Free BSD 6.1 and i use GNOME.My monitor is Philips 107p5 and i want to have 100 Hz at 1024x768. I wrote the characteristics of my monitor to xorg.conf,but it doesn't switch to 100 Hz, only 85 Hz. What should i do? I know that that monitor can support 100 Hz at that resolution! You could try lying about your monitor's abilities. Try something like VertRefresh 99.0 - 101.0 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software before trying it
If the Mac uses BSD would that not mean that any one can use Mac software on a PC-BSD... My mind is telling me that this is not possible so it be intresting to know the reason behind it... to learn Thanks Toby - Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software before trying it
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the Mac uses BSD would that not mean that any one can use Mac software on a PC-BSD... My mind is telling me that this is not possible so it be intresting to know the reason behind it... to learn Please wrap lines around 72 chars. The primary reason is that the Mac uses a completely different GUI than any BSD does. A secondary reason is that the Mac does not use FreeBSD exactly, it uses bits and pieces, so it's not a 1:1 copy. However, there are lots of programs that were written for Linux/BSD that have easily been ported to the Mac, because the systems are so similar. It's a lot easier than porting software to Windows. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounblaster Audigy SE: no driver support/No OSS
Hello. running FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64 and bougth a Soundblaster Audigy SE, based on the CS0106-DAT DSP. I search Google and the mailing list and found some notes about this sound card and it seems not to be supported yet. Are there plans of supporting this sound card in the near future? The commercial OSS drivers seems to support this Soundblaster, but with FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64, I only get weird noises out of my speakers and my box behaves a bit 'jumping' (driver problem?). I would appreciate a FreeBSD native driver. Thank you in advance for any comments and hints, regards oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sounblaster Audigy SE: no driver support/No OSS
O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. running FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64 and bougth a Soundblaster Audigy SE, based on the CS0106-DAT DSP. I search Google and the mailing list and found some notes about this sound card and it seems not to be supported yet. Are there plans of supporting this sound card in the near future? The commercial OSS drivers seems to support this Soundblaster, but with FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64, I only get weird noises out of my speakers and my box behaves a bit 'jumping' (driver problem?). I would appreciate a FreeBSD native driver. You might want to try audio/emu10kx (however afaik there is some work on importing that driver into the base system on CURRENT) -- Armin Pirkovitsch [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: growfs HELP
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:36:28PM -0500, Kristopher Yates wrote: It takes some knowledge to grow peanuts. If you want help, don't throw ignorance stones. Hey dude, You threw the first stone. I'm not Jesus. I'll throw one right back 'atcha, old man. What stone? By the way, those are pretty small drives. I don't see any on the market nowdays less that 18 GB and more likely larger. Maybe you need some new hardware. ///jerry After reading your initial response, I decided to create a new partition and move the majority of /usr to it. I dont have all day. Problem solved. I see in your last response that we are agreeable technologically, at least as far as symlinking goes. Waste not, want not. ON a final note, democrats are just as corrupt as republicans. Don't go whining about milking the cow dry being a problem with right wing fascists. Left wing libs do the same thing all the time. Look at both sides of the fence. God Bless the FBI. We should throw all the rich senators and congressmen in jail. Talk about ignorant stones. I didn't know you collected rocks! Yah, but in this case there was a specific group and they liked to be right wingers. The don't qualify as honest conservatives. jerry efilnikufecin and a long cold winter, Kris From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kristopher Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs HELP Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:17:17 -0400 On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:54:26PM -0500, Kristopher Yates wrote: Anyone else have any suggestions? I was thinking I could rewrite my partition table to what it was originally, then growfs using the empty partionable space.. but I dont exactly know how. I just had some docs I found online (URL is below). Before I did fdisk -s, the 2.888GB was an empty partition of the drive where I could have created a new partition.. but instead I did fdisk to merge it all into the same partition. The docs I read said to do that, then growfs.. I just didnt understand the vague explanation of doing the math to determine the correct number of sectors to pass to growfs. The docs I was using: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200111/growfs.html I know it is possible without doing all that you suggested. It should be a matter of just executing growfs properly and I'm done. Otherwise, it would be easier to just do a fresh install than to do all that you suggested. Makes sense to me. I'd rather not have to reinstall. No, it is less trouble to do it the way I wrote. Doing the dd stuff is harder and anyway, may not result in what you want. Growfs is really not all that useful. Remember that you have to have empty space in the slice right contiguous to to the one you want to grow. You cannot just grab space from somewhere else on the disk and add it in. You could, if you have free space already within an existing file system, move some diectories, such as /usr/local out of /usr and put them[it] in the available space and create a sym link to the new location. But, if it is unused space that has not been part of a partition, you will remake the partition table with disklabel. If the space is right at the end of existing partitioned space, you might get away with it without redoing everything, but it is kind of an unadvisable thing to try, because what gets written back in the partition table for the existing partitions just might not line up exactly with their previous positions - you're expecting a new pointer to point to the same place as the old one. It could, but maybe a critical sector gets mapped out in the middle things. It would mess things up. So, My idea was to post here and get a better understanding, growfs and be done with it. I didnt expect comments from the peanut gallery; ie. It takes some knowledge to grow peanuts. If you want help, don't throw ignorance stones. By the way, those are pretty small drives. I don't see any on the market nowdays less that 18 GB and more likely larger. Maybe you need some new hardware. ///jerry Not everyone has a kush job at the SCNC working with universities. What do you know about SCNC? Obviously nothing. A) Why does a box that is just running NATD and portsentry need an 18GB hard drive and a faster processor? Whatever you want. B) Maybe you need to give me some money so that I may afford to build the fancy firewall/gateway that you suggest. I almost appreciate your reply but found your final remark to be rather condescending. My hardware is fine. It works and its all I have. This firewall box has been online 24/7 since 1998 running FBSD just fine. Blow the dust out once a year and keep on trucking. Fine. I have a couple of those right here. Michigan has the 2nd worst economy in the US. I would think you would be more understanding of my
Permissions on /var/mail directory
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p8 postfix-current-2.4.20060903,3 dovecot-1.0.r7 I just did a buildworld along with a new kernel this morning. While doing the installworld, I noticed an error message displayed regarding the /var/mail directory. I have the directory set to: 1777 so that dovecot can assess it. The installworld process reset the permissions to 0775 which were not sufficient for Dovecot. The dovecot.log file had over a hundred entries similar to this: deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1123.cd38cd4d82e1368f) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied Obviously the /var/log/maillog had similar fail warnings. By changing the permission to 1777 on the /var/mail directory and running postsuper -r ALL, I was able to get the mail delivered. This is the second time this has happened. The last time I rebuild world I experienced the same phenomena. Why does build world insist on changing the directory permissions and is there a way I can prevent it from doing so? What I am trying to determine is if I really should have those settings on the directory, or if I have something configured wrong in either postfix or dovecot. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antique fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood. Modern fairy tale: Oswald, acting alone, shot Kennedy. pgplvg4O5STiy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sounblaster Audigy SE: no driver support/No OSS
Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. running FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64 and bougth a Soundblaster Audigy SE, based on the CS0106-DAT DSP. I search Google and the mailing list and found some notes about this sound card and it seems not to be supported yet. Are there plans of supporting this sound card in the near future? The commercial OSS drivers seems to support this Soundblaster, but with FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64, I only get weird noises out of my speakers and my box behaves a bit 'jumping' (driver problem?). I would appreciate a FreeBSD native driver. You might want to try audio/emu10kx (however afaik there is some work on importing that driver into the base system on CURRENT) This above mentioned driver doesn't support the sound card in question, sorry. Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Periodic Emails are not coming
Hello, Recently, the daily/weekly/monthly periodic emails have stopped coming from one of my servers. There were no changes made of the system, except that part of the filesystem was exported as an NFS share. These shares are setup on another FreeBSD machine for automount. I have checked my /etc and /var/logs and cannot find any reason for the mails to have stopped. Any help and guidance will be greatly appreciated. Here are some of the relevant files: /etc/crontab = # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $ # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log # #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command # */5 * * * * root/usr/libexec/atrun # # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot. */11* * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy # # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * rootnewsyslog # # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly # # Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to # UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details. 1,310-5 * * * rootadjkerntz -a /etc/periodic.conf = daily_clean_hoststat_enable=NO daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO daily_status_include_submit_mailq=NO daily_submit_queuerun=NO /var/log/cron [for 3am when daily is supposed to run] == Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25669]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25671]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/newsales.php) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25672]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/newlisting.php) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25673]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/mkthumb.php) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25670]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25674]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25675]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/parselogs.php) Sep 29 03:01:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25695]: (root) CMD (periodic daily) Sep 29 03:01:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25696]: (root) CMD (adjkerntz -a) Sep 29 03:02:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25808]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/mkthumb.php) Sep 29 03:02:27 server cron[25694]: (root) MAIL (mailed 123 bytes of output but got status 0x004b ) Sep 29 03:04:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25955]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/mkthumb.php) Sep 29 03:05:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25960]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/newsales.php) Sep 29 03:05:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25959]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) /var/log/maillog [running courier-mta] == Sep 29 03:00:11 server courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=Fri Sep 29 03:05:11 2006, wakeup time=Fri Sep 29 03:05:11 2006, queuedelivering=0, inprogress=0 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: SHUTDOWN: respawnlo limit reached, system inactive. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Loading STATIC transport module libraries. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing [0/0] Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing local Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installed: module.local - Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing esmtp Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installed: module.esmtp - Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing dsn Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installed: module.dsn - Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Initializing local Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Initializing esmtp Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Initializing dsn Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Started exec ./courierlocal, pid=25964, maxdels=10, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Started exec ./courieresmtp, pid=25965, maxdels=40, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=100 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Started exec ./courierdsn, pid=25966, maxdels=4, maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: queuelo=200, queuehi=400 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgq Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgs Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=Fri Sep 29 04:05:11 2006, wakeup time=Fri Sep 29 04:05:11 2006, queuedelivering=0, inprogress=0 The only
Re: Periodic Emails are not coming
Abid Saigol wrote: Hello, Recently, the daily/weekly/monthly periodic emails have stopped coming from one of my servers. There were no changes made of the system, except that part of the filesystem was exported as an NFS share. These shares are setup on another FreeBSD machine for automount. I have checked my /etc and /var/logs and cannot find any reason for the mails to have stopped. Any help and guidance will be greatly appreciated. Here are some of the relevant files: Have you inadvertently aliased the root user to another user? Or perhaps you deleted an alias and should be looking in the root mailbox? I have virtual mail setup on my systems and I lost periodic emails as well until I configured postfix correctly to consider my local machine's hostname as an acceptable recipient. I now alias root to the virtual user I want to receive these emails. Tom Veldhouse ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software before trying it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Mac uses BSD would that not mean that any one can use Mac software on a PC-BSD... My mind is telling me that this is not possible so it be intresting to know the reason behind it... to learn Thanks Toby Short answer: not possible. This is due in part to a proprietary setup with Apple's libraries and stuff, and also due to the fact that many items have been modified in Darwin and differ from a traditional BSD setup. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Periodic Emails are not coming
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Abid Saigol wrote: Hello, Recently, the daily/weekly/monthly periodic emails have stopped coming from one of my servers. There were no changes made of the system, except that part of the filesystem was exported as an NFS share. These shares are setup on another FreeBSD machine for automount. I have checked my /etc and /var/logs and cannot find any reason for the mails to have stopped. Any help and guidance will be greatly appreciated. Here are some of the relevant files: Have you inadvertently aliased the root user to another user? Or perhaps you deleted an alias and should be looking in the root mailbox? I have virtual mail setup on my systems and I lost periodic emails as well until I configured postfix correctly to consider my local machine's hostname as an acceptable recipient. I now alias root to the virtual user I want to receive these emails. I had this same thing happen recently on one of my machines, but it was one I use for my desktop. They stopped for me when I installed KDE, upgrading from enlightenment. I don't know if there's something going on with a particular update or not, but honestly, the mails don't even appear to be getting generated, which is to say, I don't know if the job is even being run. Can you determine if the job is being run for you or not? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimum requirements
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:13:16PM -0700, Art Mattox wrote: what are the recommended minimum hw requirements for version 6.1? e.g. diskspace, memory, etc I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values would be. So recommended minimums would be somewhat subjective and depend on the intended use of the machine and the number of ports and user accounts you might put on it. For a personal work station with only a few ports, but not a stripped DNS server or something, I would recommend at least 512 MB memory and 18 GB disk and 1.5 GHz CPU with at least 400 MHz frontside bus. More and faster is nice. A stripped router or DNS server might get by with 1/4 the memory and 1 GB disk and a much slower CPU. A loaded desktop that included web server and web based utilities such as database services, Email and list services, etc might do better to start with 1 GB memory and 72 GB disk and 2 Ghz CPU and storage would go up from there depending on the size of things you are serving. jerry thank you. -art - Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Swap Size Importance?
As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, In 7 or 8 years, I've never seen swap used for anything but a few k of inactive processes and I would imagine if real active process swapping occurred, it would be an immediate indicator that the system that isn't responsive enough for use anymore and requires upgrade or tuning. Can't run a website process off disk and keep anyone coming to the site ;-). (BTW, I'm talking only about high end servers, not test boxes where I've seen lots of swapping). I'm at the point of attempting my first gvinum software raid-5 and realized, I need the entire disk storage of all three non-system drives to avoid pulling an 8gb chunk out of the drive sizes. The configuration is one scsi 72g system disk and 3 that will be used for the raid volume. I should mention I turn off dumps, haven't found the use for that in a production server since it should not be rebooting or it's back in the shop and another box is taking it's place. Is there any shortfall in performance or reliability to running production with swap equal in size to the 8gb of system memory? I can't think of any but don't want to make a hard to correct mistake once this thing goes in. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Periodic Emails are not coming
Tom, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. My aliases file was setup properly, but I have discovered that it wasn't compiled (I hadn't run makealiases for courier-mta). When I tried to send mail to root (#mail root), it failed. However, after running makealiases I was able to send mail to root. I will know tomorrow am whether this means that periodic will run successfully. Since the maillog showed successful transmission of other messages, I automatically assumed that the problem was not with mail configuration... Thanks for the help. Abid Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Abid Saigol wrote: Hello, Recently, the daily/weekly/monthly periodic emails have stopped coming from one of my servers. There were no changes made of the system, except that part of the filesystem was exported as an NFS share. These shares are setup on another FreeBSD machine for automount. I have checked my /etc and /var/logs and cannot find any reason for the mails to have stopped. Any help and guidance will be greatly appreciated. Here are some of the relevant files: Have you inadvertently aliased the root user to another user? Or perhaps you deleted an alias and should be looking in the root mailbox? I have virtual mail setup on my systems and I lost periodic emails as well until I configured postfix correctly to consider my local machine's hostname as an acceptable recipient. I now alias root to the virtual user I want to receive these emails. Tom Veldhouse ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimum requirements
look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html or: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem: 2484K Active, 1396K Iact, 6004K Wired, 680K Cache, 1984K Buf, 348K Free Swap: 7184K Total, 2732K Used, 4452K Free, 38% Inuse ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap Size Importance?
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:52, Chris wrote: As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, In 7 or 8 years, I've never seen swap used for anything but a few k of inactive processes and I would imagine if real active process swapping occurred, it would be an immediate indicator that the system that isn't responsive enough for use anymore and requires upgrade or tuning. Can't run a website process off disk and keep anyone coming to the site ;-). (BTW, I'm talking only about high end servers, not test boxes where I've seen lots of swapping). I'm at the point of attempting my first gvinum software raid-5 and realized, I need the entire disk storage of all three non-system drives to avoid pulling an 8gb chunk out of the drive sizes. The configuration is one scsi 72g system disk and 3 that will be used for the raid volume. I should mention I turn off dumps, haven't found the use for that in a production server since it should not be rebooting or it's back in the shop and another box is taking it's place. Is there any shortfall in performance or reliability to running production with swap equal in size to the 8gb of system memory? I can't think of any but don't want to make a hard to correct mistake once this thing goes in. Nope. I routinely run boxes with 512MB or 1GB of swap, even if the RAM size is much higher than that. You won't have anywhere to save a crashdump in that case, but you seem to already be aware of that. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimum requirements
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:48:26AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values would be. So recommended minimums would be somewhat subjective and depend on the intended use of the machine and the number of ports and user accounts you might put on it. For a personal work station with only a few ports, but not a stripped DNS server or something, I would recommend at least 512 MB memory and 18 GB disk and 1.5 GHz CPU with at least 400 MHz frontside bus. More and faster is nice. A stripped router or DNS server might get by with 1/4 the memory and 1 GB disk and a much slower CPU. A loaded desktop that included web server and web based utilities such as database services, Email and list services, etc might do better to start with 1 GB memory and 72 GB disk and 2 Ghz CPU and storage would go up from there depending on the size of things you are serving. jerry I am happily running FreeBSD 6.0 on 233 Mhz 128 MB RAM machine. It has given very good performance with very little cause for complaint. It is my workstation/desktop. I am not aware of any theoretical limit on hardware config for FreeBSD. Please remember to config a big enuf swap partition if ur RAM is low. regards, Girish ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimum requirements
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:13:16PM -0700, Art Mattox wrote: what are the recommended minimum hw requirements for version 6.1? e.g. diskspace, memory, etc I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values would be. I believe minimum ram is 24Mb but if you can get more... . I'm sure I used to run 4.X off 4Gb of disk and would suspect 6.X would fit too, with care. Of course, you have to be very careful what you actually do with a machine this low spec'ed. Certainly no room to compile firefox or openoffice :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade: ruby state=swread
On 28/09/2006 23:44, Pascal Bleyler wrote: Hello, i'm actually updating my installed ports with portupgrade -a over a remote ssh session. Before i have done a cvsup and a portsdb -Fu There are only 3 ports needing an update, one of this port is ruby. pkg_info means i have ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 installed and under /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby is ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz (i think it's the update version) All ran fine but since 1hour top shows me the following: last pid: 12998; load averages: 0.47, 0.18, 0.06up 0+03:12:40 23:28:35 41 processes: 1 running, 40 sleeping CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.4% interrupt, 98.0% idle Mem: 82M Active, 4340K Inact, 24M Wired, 5268K Cache, 22M Buf, 480K Free Swap: 231M Total, 126M Used, 105M Free, 54% Inuse, 956K In PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 12613 root1 -200 123M 87500K swread 6:29 0.05% ruby18 The output of portupgrade -a is also since 1hour: snip stringio.c: c. strscan.c: cc Generating RI... I use FreeBSD_6.1.RELEASE without the today published patch for FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl What can i do now? I don't want to kill the update process. Dunno what happens then :/ Many thanks in advance for any hints Pascal Bleyler Just some thoughts as others already identified the problem: here's similar thread with some workarounds: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-September/131328.html In the meantime I've found NOPORTDOCS variable - if you don't need ruby docs just disable them (docs are generated during install part) # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18 # make -DNOPORTDOCS install The install part without docs takes about 30 seconds on 400Mhz/96MB machine (it would take hours otherwise). HTH, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Swap Size Importance?
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:52:58AM -0700, Chris wrote: As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, In 7 or 8 years, I've never seen swap used for anything but a few k of inactive processes and I would imagine if real active process swapping occurred, it would be an immediate indicator that the system that isn't responsive enough for use anymore and requires upgrade or tuning. Can't run a website process off disk and keep anyone coming to the site ;-). (BTW, I'm talking only about high end servers, not test boxes where I've seen lots of swapping). I'm at the point of attempting my first gvinum software raid-5 and realized, I need the entire disk storage of all three non-system drives to avoid pulling an 8gb chunk out of the drive sizes. The configuration is one scsi 72g system disk and 3 that will be used for the raid volume. I should mention I turn off dumps, haven't found the use for that in a production server since it should not be rebooting or it's back in the shop and another box is taking it's place. Is there any shortfall in performance or reliability to running production with swap equal in size to the 8gb of system memory? I can't think of any but don't want to make a hard to correct mistake once this thing goes in. It really depends on the number and size of processes you will be running. It you have a large memory and generally run a mix of processes that will totally fit in memory, then it probably doesn't doesn't matter much. But, if you run enough to actually cause paging - which goes to swap space - then it becomes an issue. Also, I think some things that get pulled to execute often can get left in swap space and accessed more quickly that all the way from main disk each time. eg the system keeps track of what it has in swap and it is more efficient to read from swap - less overhead. But someone else should know more about that than I. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20?
Hello, Am I the only person having trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20? I've been using 4.2 for quite a while. Then I upgraded, a few days back. But a Perl process that actually uses it (BerkeleyDB-0.30) has become unstable. I've been ktracing it, and setting log-points myself, but it keeps core dumping at places where it accesses BerkeleyDB. Sporadically, but often enough. Naturally I compiled BerkeleyDB-0.30 against the correct libraries (in config.in). And it seems more or less ok, but not always. Finally, this morning, I just did a full restore from an earlier date; db44 is not working out for me, obviously. I'm not sure whether it's Berkeley DB version 4.4.20 or BerkeleyDB-0.30, or a combination of the two; but I wonder if someone else has had trouble with it, too? Sometimes I got a weird lock error notice; but otherwise it remains a mystery. - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimum requirements
Alex Zbyslaw writes: I believe minimum ram is 24Mb but if you can get more... . I'm sure I used to run 4.X off 4Gb of disk Sometime around then it was possible* to do a completely bare-bones installation in around 850 mb. This meant one partition, no swap, no X, no sources, no whole-pretty-much-anything not needed to get a) a login prompt and b) connected. Robert Huff * - by report ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap Size Importance?
On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:52:58AM -0700, Chris wrote: Is there any shortfall in performance or reliability to running production with swap equal in size to the 8gb of system memory? I doesn't matter much. But, if you run enough to actually cause paging - which goes to swap space - then it becomes an issue. Also, I am assuming that real paging of active processes is death to that server anyway and means something else has to be throttled back with tuning of network bufs, apache or mysql. Same for crash dumps, can't run a server that is taking dumps or you lose your traffic. I think some things that get pulled to execute often can get left in swap space and accessed more quickly that all the way from main disk each time. eg the system keeps track of what it has in swap and it is more efficient to read from swap - less overhead. But someone This is the part that concerned me. If one views a top on well running system and sees no swapping, I wanted to make certain there is no magic going on behind the scenes where processes have been mapped to swap in such a way that I could be currently benefitting from swap being higher than actual and not know it. If top is an accurate read on whether the system has placed high use processes in swap then it would suggest the first post is correct, and a memory rich system, where you configure to never exceed real memory, wastes that storage taken in swap. For expensive drives, given the sizes we use in RAM now, it's hard to justify. In the case of attempting this raid-5 configuration, it equates to the loss of 24G in scsi storage. I will run with 8g on the system drive. Thank you very much for the responses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ 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 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@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. 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
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. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD
hey folks we're planing to expand, which of course requires us to buy another server. so here is the question are there any known problems with dell PowerEdge 2900/2950 and FreeBSD ? thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20?
Hello, Am I the only person having trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20? I've been using 4.2 for quite a while. Then I upgraded, a few days back. But a Perl process that actually uses it (BerkeleyDB-0.30) has become unstable. I've been ktracing it, and setting log-points myself, but it keeps core dumping at places where it accesses BerkeleyDB. Sporadically, but often enough. Naturally I compiled BerkeleyDB-0.30 against the correct libraries (in config.in). And it seems more or less ok, but not always. Finally, this morning, I just did a full restore from an earlier date; db44 is not working out for me, obviously. I'm not sure whether it's Berkeley DB version 4.4.20 or BerkeleyDB-0.30, or a combination of the two; but I wonder if someone else has had trouble with it, too? Sometimes I got a weird lock error notice; but otherwise it remains a mystery. - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD
In response to Stas Khromoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hey folks we're planing to expand, which of course requires us to buy another server. so here is the question are there any known problems with dell PowerEdge 2900/2950 and FreeBSD ? Yes. Search the various lists and you'll see lots. To summarize our personal experience: 1) Dell's DRAC5 client now works _only_ with Windows/IE -- which means I can't use it from my FreeBSD workstation. 2) The USB drivers in FreeBSD 6.1 don't work right with the DRAC5, which means that you can DRAC in from a Windows workstation, but you have neither keyboard nor mouse. I worked with some developers and the fix is in 6-STABLE, so it will be in 6.2. 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these units. I have some testing to do Monday to narrow the problem down, but for now, don't trust the onboard NICs to work reliably. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
printer recommendation
Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd like to go cheap with it. I will be printing black and white planning sheets, and portions of books. Is there a list of printers that are useable under FreeBSD somewhere? Thank you for your time! cmh -- Christopher M. Hobbs IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs [EMAIL PROTECTED], (479).524.5136 pgpleJqWcgjnt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: printer recommendation
On Fri, September 29, 2006 14:03, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd like to go cheap with it. I've got an HP-4050 LaserJet (addin JetDirect) at home that works great. At one office, I just installed an HP-1320 (duplexing/built-in JetDirect) and it works great too. I ran both of using postscript with lp but have recently switched to CUPS without issue. I've always purchased printers that speak postscript then configuration and usage is a snap. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.1-RELEASE compiler/preprocessor problem?
Not claiming to know much about anything, but can't seem to get this to compile. The only things that stand out are the preprocessor error (which I don't know enough about to even begin to troubleshoot) and the tiffio.h no such file error. I can vouch for the existence of the tiffio.h in /usr/local/include, but not sure if that's actually where it's trying to find it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/iaxmodem]# uname -a FreeBSD julian 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #2: Sat Aug 19 15:24:32 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JULIAN amd64 [root at julian /usr/ports/net/iaxmodem]# make === Patching for iaxmodem-0.1.14 === Applying FreeBSD patches for iaxmodem-0.1.14 === iaxmodem-0.1.14 depends on shared library: tiff.4 - found === Configuring for iaxmodem-0.1.14 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root - g wheel ... checking tiffio.h usability... yes checking tiffio.h presence... no configure: WARNING: tiffio.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor! configure: WARNING: tiffio.h: proceeding with the compiler's result checking for tiffio.h... yes ... cc -DMODEMVER=\iaxmodem-0.1.14\ -DDSPVER=\spandsp-0.0.3- snapshot-20060707+\ -DIAXVER=\libiax2-0.2.3-CVS-20060222+\ -Wall - g -DSTATICLIBS -D_GNU_SOURCE -std=c99 -Ilib/libiax2/src -Ilib/ spandsp/src -O2 -pipe -march=nocona -c iaxmodem.c iaxmodem.c:53:20: tiffio.h: No such file or directory In file included from lib/spandsp/src/spandsp.h:84, from iaxmodem.c:55: lib/spandsp/src/spandsp/t4.h:97: error: syntax error before TIFF iaxmodem.c: In function `printlog': iaxmodem.c:156: warning: implicit declaration of function `va_start' iaxmodem.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function `va_end' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/iaxmodem/work/iaxmodem-0.1.14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/iaxmodem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/iaxmodem]# ls -al /usr/local/include/ tiffio.h* -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 19711 Sep 17 18:17 /usr/local/include/ tiffio.h -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1610 Sep 17 18:17 /usr/local/include/ tiffio.hxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/iaxmodem]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/iaxmodem/work/iaxmodem-0.1.14]# grep tiffio * iaxmodem.c:#include tiffio.h Anyone have any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.1-RELEASE compiler/preprocessor problem?
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:15:50PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
Not claiming to know much about anything, but can't seem to get this
to compile. The only things that stand out are the preprocessor
error (which I don't know enough about to even begin to troubleshoot)
and the tiffio.h no such file error. I can vouch for the existence
of the tiffio.h in /usr/local/include, but not sure if that's
actually where it's trying to find it.
It's not, as the lack of -I/usr/local/include says. This is supposed
to be provided by the port Makefile:
CFLAGS+=-I${LOCALBASE}/include
so make sure all files in the port are up-to-date and you have made no
other changes yourself.
If you still have problems, your first point of call for port problems
should be the port maintainer, since they're the ones who have
volunteered to help users with problems about that port.
Kris
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Re: 6.1-RELEASE compiler/preprocessor problem?
On 29-Sep-06, at 3:21 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:15:50PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
Not claiming to know much about anything, but can't seem to get this
to compile. The only things that stand out are the preprocessor
error (which I don't know enough about to even begin to troubleshoot)
and the tiffio.h no such file error. I can vouch for the existence
of the tiffio.h in /usr/local/include, but not sure if that's
actually where it's trying to find it.
It's not, as the lack of -I/usr/local/include says. This is supposed
to be provided by the port Makefile:
CFLAGS+=-I${LOCALBASE}/include
This is in the makefile.
so make sure all files in the port are up-to-date and you have made no
other changes yourself.
No changes. Just to be sure, I will re-cvsup that port.
If you still have problems, your first point of call for port problems
should be the port maintainer, since they're the ones who have
volunteered to help users with problems about that port.
Good point. Thank you!
Kris
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aterm + Xfce + Composite / Transparency
I have a question regarding to aterm and 'true-transparency'. I'm running Xfce 4.4 BETA2 and I have enabled the composite manager. Everything runs fine alltough I have one wish left: I would like to start new aterms by default at 70% transparency: I allready enabled the 'fake'-transparency in aterm itself ( -tr -sh value ) but when you move a aterm over an other one it doesn't display the border of the first aterm and it looks just wrong. So I want to start all aterms at 70% transparency ( or a value like that ). I installed transset but I'm not sure how to configure it to set the transparency of a program automatically. Anyone an idea ? Thanks in advance, -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printer recommendation
--- Christopher M. Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd like to go cheap with it. I will be printing black and white planning sheets, and portions of books. Is there a list of printers that are useable under FreeBSD somewhere? Thank you for your time! cmh -- Christopher M. Hobbs IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs [EMAIL PROTECTED], (479).524.5136 If the printer works with Linux over the network or via parallel port, then it probably works fine with FreeBSD. If a USB printer works with Linux but not with FreeBSD, you can often get around the USB incompatibility by attaching the printer to a print server. Here's a searchable database of printers that are compatible with Linux. http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi I have a Oki B4350 printer (mono color laser) and an HP Photosmart 7150 that are attached to a Hawking Technology HPS12U print server. I use CUPS for printing in FreeBSD. This setup works great! Both HP and Okidata have been good about releasing PPD files (printer configuration files used by CUPS) for their printers. It's good that you're only looking for a laser printer. I've heard that compatibility issues with all-in-one printers can be a real pain. I hope this helps. Andrew L. Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printer recommendation
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:03:05PM -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd like to go cheap with it. I will be printing black and white planning sheets, and portions of books. Is there a list of printers that are useable under FreeBSD somewhere? Thank you for your time! cmh -- Christopher M. Hobbs IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs [EMAIL PROTECTED], (479).524.5136 I'm a fan of the (older) Hewlett Packard printers. I've got an HP LaserJet 4550 at home that I picked up on eBay, but that's probably overkill for you. I'd recommend sticking to Postscript printers with network interfaces. Be sure to check what maintaining the thing is going to cost you. -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portupgrade of varios KDE fails in Subversion
Im running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE, got a few KDE packages to update, but fail due to Subversion .. below is the error .. any help//assistance is greatly appreciated. any useful scripts will be installed into /usr/local/share/subversion === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for subversion-1.4.0_1 = MD5 Checksum OK for subversion/subversion-1.4.0.tar.bz2. = SHA256 Checksum OK for subversion/subversion-1.4.0.tar.bz2. === Patching for subversion-1.4.0_1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for subversion-1.4.0_1 === subversion-1.4.0_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/libtool - found === subversion-1.4.0_1 depends on shared library: expat.6 - found === subversion-1.4.0_1 depends on shared library: neon.25 - found === subversion-1.4.0_1 depends on shared library: apr-1.2 - found === subversion-1.4.0_1 depends on shared library: intl - found === Configuring for subversion-1.4.0_1 You should build `devel/apr-svn' with db4 support to use subversion with it. Please rebuild `devel/apr-svn' with option `APR_UTIL_WITH_BERKELEY_DB=yes' and try again. Or you can disable db4 support. Only 'fs' repository backend will be available. To disable db4 support, define WITHOUT_BDB. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/subversion. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/kdesdk3. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.74901.111 env PORT_UPGRADE=yes make BATCH=yes DEPENDS_TARGET=package ** Fix the problem and try again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backup existing sata drive
Good evening peeps, I have this 80gb sata seagate harddisk in my freebsd amd64 system. This harddisk is partioned so I can dual boot with Ubuntu. So I have data on my freebsd partition as well as on my ubuntu partition. As I'm getting paranoia, I would like to know how to get by this situation, now that I've ordered a new sata seagate 80gb harddrive. I waant to use this extra drive as a backup solution. What options do I have? a) Can I just plug the new hard drive in and write a script that dumps the entire /usr/ directory onto the new hard drive? But what about my ubuntu partition then? b) Should I use raid-1, disk mirroring for this situation, knowing I will loose a whole 80gb disk? Will it work for the entire disk? What about the fact that I'm NOT starting with two empty disks? Hope anyone can help me out. I've never been there, so these will be my first steps. Thanks in advanced __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD
--On September 29, 2006 2:31:03 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these units. I have some testing to do Monday to narrow the problem down, but for now, don't trust the onboard NICs to work reliably. Bill, if those are the Broadcomm Extreme NICs (bce), you need to grab the new version of the if_bce.c file. It fixed the problems that I had with the NICs. There's a char inside the file that defines the version - you need 0.9.6. You've got 0.9.5, I'll bet. I posted about it on the 16th. See this web page: http://www.ifdnrg.com/freebsd_broadcom_dell_1950.htm Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Anyone used this mobo with 6.1 ??
Murray Taylor wrote: ASUS P5LD2-VM-DH/C No but I recently bought another Asus board A8N-VM CSM/NBP and the BIOS is broken. Another board A8N-VM CSM had an almost identical broken BIOS which Asus fixed at some point. However Asus have now informed me that FreeBSD is not supported for my board. (It does actually work with a clever fix someone posted but Asus don't want to know). Asus seem to have a bit of a name for crap BIOS's. Moral: make sure you tell the retailer you want to use it with another operating system than Windows and make them agree to take it back if it doesn't work. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup existing sata drive
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:08:53PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Good evening peeps, I have this 80gb sata seagate harddisk in my freebsd amd64 system. This harddisk is partioned so I can dual boot with Ubuntu. So I have data on my freebsd partition as well as on my ubuntu partition. As I'm getting paranoia, I would like to know how to get by this situation, now that I've ordered a new sata seagate 80gb harddrive. I waant to use this extra drive as a backup solution. What options do I have? Do you want to do real backups, or just do point in time recovery? a) Can I just plug the new hard drive in and write a script that dumps the entire /usr/ directory onto the new hard drive? But what about my ubuntu partition then? If you go this route, you'll probably want to use dump(8) for your filesystems. Just name the output file according to the filesystem and date when the dump was performed. b) Should I use raid-1, disk mirroring for this situation, knowing I will loose a whole 80gb disk? Will it work for the entire disk? What about the fact that I'm NOT starting with two empty disks? Hope anyone can help me out. I've never been there, so these will be my first steps. Thanks in advanced I've only used it for a few months, but I'm a big fan of the GEOM(4) framework. With gmirror(8), you can specify specific disk slices to mirror so you don't have to do the entire drive. It should take you less than five minutes to setup once you've read the docs. -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
On 29/09/2006 2:01 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On the other hand, the duplicates could be the result of people deliberately trying to frig the statistics or just innocently running the 300.statistics script manually several times. In either case, entries with duplicate tokens should be discarded -- I guess you'ld always want to keep just the last entry for any token. How is the country determined? by whois lookup? I am just surprised that after the wipe and required update of the stats-script, Panama has 75% of the hosts, 10 times the US. Via the GeoIP module. Marc's servers are mostly/all located in Panama (hub.org), hence why they're in there quickly after the stats wipe :-) --Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with new poweredge 2950
I just got a PE 2950 and I'm having some problems. I installed 6.2PRE and it went well. The first thing I noticed is that immediate as BSD start to load, a bold/highlighted message says 768xxx bytes above 4G ignore or something like that (don't recall what xxx was. Next thing I noticed whilest trying a buildworld against the latest stable sources. My system detects 8 cpus. It actually only has 4 - 2 dual core xeons. I'm guessing that the others are from hyperthreading, but I'm not certain. Hyperthreading is disabled by default, I believe. So, in the process of make buildworld -j 32, I noticed that only even numbered CPUs are being used (0,2,4,6). Is that because BSD is ignoring the HT CPUs, which would be 1,3,5,7? top and iostat both show that I was never able to exceed 50% overall CPU usage. Is that because even though I have the HT representations disabled, the OS is using their availabilty in calculating % idle time? Is there any way to get an accurate number? The PE doesn't let me disable HT, I don't believe. Finally, after the upgrade, I'm having a problem with the system hanging on startup right after the firewall message, and sometimes right after the CD ROM detection message. I believe that the SAS controller is supposed to be detected next, and I'm assuming that's the problem. When I first tried to install, I used 6.1, and it completely didn't recognize my SAS controller. I found a message in the archives that suggested trying the latest stable source, so I tried 6.2 and it worked. Any ideas what could be causing the problem? When I was using the 6.2PRE ISO, I had to restart a few times before it got past that stage also. Thanks much! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
Antony is working on operating system sub-pages that will be linked from the operating system summary page ... check out what he has so far by going to: http://www.bsdstats.org/freebsd --On Friday, September 29, 2006 12:11:51 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As painful as it was to do, I backed up the old data tonight and wiped out the stats ... for one major reason: the stats lost their accuracy. As I said, you just need to download the new version and run it, you don't have to wait for the port to go through, assuming you have already installed from the port and /etc/periodic.conf is setup ... Make sure you run it right after downloading though ... If anyone out there can see a flaw in the script ... or something that I may have overlooked as far as a 'loophole' that could be used to screw around with the data, please let me know ... I know its not possible, minus registration, to get rid of all holes, but, hopefully I've now gotten rid of the ones that a truck could (and did) drive though ... I just updated the script and it ran fine :) I'm the only guy yet from Portugal and the only sparc cpu :D On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? -- Joao Barros Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup existing sata drive
On 2006/09/29 14:08, Dino Vliet seems to have typed: I waant to use this extra drive as a backup solution. What options do I have? Dump is an excellent solution if you can mount all partitions (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html for details on using dump) DD would be another option that would copy the entire hard drive sector by sector, regardless of the partitions. If you are interested in basically a mirror sort of situation without running RAID, dd is what you are looking for. dd doesn't care what the partitions are, indeed you could even backup Microsoft partitions with it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ddapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASEformat=html basically: dd if=/dev/sourcedisk of=/dev/backupdisk bs=1m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Empty dmesg output
Is there any situation in which dmesg should give no output whatsoever? Currently, my FreeBSD machine (RELEASE-6.0) isn't reporting anything at all when I call up dmesg. It has been on for quite some time, and to the best of my knowledge there isn't much of interest it should have reported recently. It DID say something back at its initial bootup and for some time thereafter, but nothing now. Is this normal, or should I be a bit concerned? -- Nicholas Killewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Empty dmesg output
In the last episode (Sep 29), Nicholas Killewald said: Is there any situation in which dmesg should give no output whatsoever? Currently, my FreeBSD machine (RELEASE-6.0) isn't reporting anything at all when I call up dmesg. It has been on for quite some time, and to the best of my knowledge there isn't much of interest it should have reported recently. It DID say something back at its initial bootup and for some time thereafter, but nothing now. Is this normal, or should I be a bit concerned? Things printed to the console (via syslog or writing to /dev/console) get logged to the dmesg buffer but aren't printed by the dmesg command. If you've had lots of console output all your kernel messages may have been pushed out. Try running dmesg -a to see the raw buffer. You can see the kernel bootup log at /var/run/dmesg.boot . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't ping localhost?
Anyone got any ideas on this? [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ^C --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ ifconfig lo0 lo0: flags=8008LOOPBACK,MULTICAST mtu 16384 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Empty dmesg output
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 29), Nicholas Killewald said: Is there any situation in which dmesg should give no output whatsoever? Currently, my FreeBSD machine (RELEASE-6.0) isn't reporting anything at all when I call up dmesg. It has been on for quite some time, and to the best of my knowledge there isn't much of interest it should have reported recently. It DID say something back at its initial bootup and for some time thereafter, but nothing now. Is this normal, or should I be a bit concerned? Things printed to the console (via syslog or writing to /dev/console) get logged to the dmesg buffer but aren't printed by the dmesg command. If you've had lots of console output all your kernel messages may have been pushed out. Try running dmesg -a to see the raw buffer. You can see the kernel bootup log at /var/run/dmesg.boot . Aha... that makes sense. Yep, that was it, the console messages must've flooded out any kernel messages. Thanks! -- Nicholas Killewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with setting up Netgear WG311v3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 6.1 and am trying to get my wireless adapter working. It's a Netgear WG311v3, so unfortunately ath(4) will not work (It uses a Marvell chipset). I've tried various options (honest!). 1. The Yukon driver from Marvell. They have one for 6, and I've tried loading it with kldload, and it loads alright, but the adapter won't come up. The driver says it's for Yukon and I have a Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] (output from Linux). Maybe it's for a different chipset? Their Readme says I should remove module sk from the kernel, so I rebuilt it; still no luck. 2. ndis-gen with the Netgear drivers. The adapter comes up now, but I cannot associate with any AP. ifconfig ndis0 up scan ifconfig ndis0 ssid ssid_of_ap ifconfig ndis0 ssid ssid_of_ap bssid 00:00:... all exit with a ndis0: bssid_list failed Thanks - -- Sunjae Park. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFHej9F5GVw6qpYDcRApA6AJ9vnYrh8ZR/V8SjcZVh4qCie9M0zgCcCTz8 l/x02ayNp2EN4eikse1P5Q0= =/4C+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Floppy drive problem
I rarely use them, but I have a floppy I needed to format and copy to. The problem is anything I try with the drive results in this error: Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Device not configured It shows up fine in dmesg, and I've used it before. fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 These are brand new disks. Does anyone have a suggestion? BTW, I'm running the latest -CURRENT Thanks, Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --- pgpvAC5Yv5cEa.pgp Description: PGP signature
