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Re: A few questions from a current linux user
Polytropon wrote: 4) If a binary update leads to an unstable system, how easy it is to backtrack to an earlier working version along with working config files? An update set provided via freebsd-update should not render a system unstable / unusable; at least it's possible that the system is not in a working state when the update process gets interrupted at a critical point, but I never had such a problem. In the worst case, you can restore the base system from the installation CD (or via bootonly + network) and try the update again. There's a freebsd-update rollback, but I've never had the need to use it, so I can't say how well it works. But I guess it does what you're asking. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Questions about coretemp
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you checked your device.hints? Also there is the cpuid port which may help you identify if your CPU is supported. Valerio Daelli I'm not sure what I would be looking for in device.hints. Below is the output of cpuid. Perhaps Xeons are not supported by coretemp? :: eax ineax ebx ecx edx 0005 756e6547 6c65746e 49656e69 0001 0f4a 01020800 641d bfebfbff 0002 605b5001 007d7040 0003 0004 4121 01c0003f 001f 0005 0040 0040 8000 8008 8001 0001 2010 8002 20202020 20202020 20202020 20202020 8003 6e492020 286c6574 58202952 286e6f65 8004 20294d54 20555043 30302e33 007a4847 8005 8006 08006040 8007 8008 3024 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel; CPUID level 5 Intel-specific functions: Version 0f4a: Type 0 - Original OEM Family 15 - Pentium 4 Extended family 0 Model 4 - Intel Pentium 4 processor (generic) or newer Stepping 10 Reserved 0 Extended brand string: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz CLFLUSH instruction cache line size: 8 Initial APIC ID: 1 Hyper threading siblings: 2 Feature flags: bfebfbff: FPUFloating Point Unit VMEVirtual 8086 Mode Enhancements DE Debugging Extensions PSEPage Size Extensions TSCTime Stamp Counter MSRModel Specific Registers PAEPhysical Address Extension MCEMachine Check Exception CX8COMPXCHG8B Instruction APIC On-chip Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller present and enabled SEPFast System Call MTRR Memory Type Range Registers PGEPTE Global Flag MCAMachine Check Architecture CMOV Conditional Move and Compare Instructions FGPAT Page Attribute Table PSE-36 36-bit Page Size Extension CLFSH CFLUSH instruction DS Debug store ACPI Thermal Monitor and Clock Ctrl MMXMMX instruction set FXSR Fast FP/MMX Streaming SIMD Extensions save/restore SSEStreaming SIMD Extensions instruction set SSE2 SSE2 extensions SS Self Snoop HT Hyper Threading TM Thermal monitor 31 reserved Feature flags set 2: 641d: SSE3SSE3 extensions 2 - unknown feature MONITOR MONITOR/MWAIT instructions DS-CPL CPL Qualified Debug Store CID Context ID CX16CMPXCHG16B xTPRSend Task Priority messages Extended feature flags: 2010: XD-bitExecution Disable bit EM64T Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology Extended feature flags set 2: 0001: 0 - unknown feature TLB and cache info: 50: Instruction TLB: 4KB and 2MB or 4MB pages, 64 entries 5b: Data TLB: 4KB and 4MB pages, fully assoc., 64 entries 60: 1st-level data cache: 16-KB, 8-way set associative, sectored cache, 64-byte line size 40: No 2nd-level cache, or if 2nd-level cache exists, no 3rd-level cache 70: Trace cache: 12K-micro-op, 4-way set assoc 7d: 2nd-level cache: 2-MB, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size Processor serial: -0F4A---- Only CPU with CPUID = 6 seems supported. I found this link useful http://www.intel.com/software/products/documentation/vlin/mergedprojects/analyzer_ec/mergedprojects/reference_olh/mergedprojects/instructions/instruct32_hh/vc46.htm Bye Valerio Daelli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[6.3] makewhatis - missing etags.1.gz
Hello In the freebsd.acme weekly run output e-mail, I see this: Rebuilding locate database: Rebuilding whatis database: makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/etags.1.gz: No such file or directory Could someone tell me what package I'm missing that causes this error? Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 on Xen
2008/8/8 Elwell, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry about the premature sending. Here is the complete question: Greetings, I am attempting to follow the directions located at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html and load a FreeBSD Xen DomU instance. The document says: Download the FreeBSD domU kernel for Xen 3.0 and disk image from http://www.fsmware.com/ * kernel-current http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/download/kernel-current * mdroot-7.0.bz2 http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/download/mdroot-7.0.bz2 * xmexample1.bsd http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/download/config/xmexample1.bsd ... I want to add my following questions because in the handbook are they unfortunately _not_ explained: 1) What is this kernel-current ? And how can I make myself this kernel-current using the base system and the tools in it ? 2) What is mdroot ? And how can I build a mdroot? 3) Where are the Xen sources located? Does The FreeBSD project just write patches which are then used to modify the original sources to get Xen run on FreeBSD OR is there a fork like source repository where the FreeBSD Xen is maintained? I hope that someone can answer me these questions but also I think including the answers to the Handbook would be a great help for all who want to use Xen on FreeBSD. regards Gueven ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [6.3] makewhatis - missing etags.1.gz
Gilles wrote: In the freebsd.acme weekly run output e-mail, I see this: Rebuilding locate database: Rebuilding whatis database: makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/etags.1.gz: No such file or directory Could someone tell me what package I'm missing that causes this error? happy-idiot-talk:~:% pkg_which /usr/local/man/man1/etags.1.gz emacs-22.2_1 Probably any of the emacs ports would install that man page. 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
BIND won't resolve my IPs (not upstream or something?)
I got this FreeBSD server called mother (80.252.2.2). On it, I've made two jails, camel (80.252.2.3) and box (80.252.2.4 through to 80.252.2.127). The problem is that reverse lookups for any of the IPs preceding .4 on box fails. If I connect to IRC with .5 for instance, it times out and reverts back to .4, whose lookup works just fine. BIND runs on camel. Maybe the problem is that BIND is not upstream for all those IPs? (I don't know what that means, a friend just told me) Or that I haven't configured the reverse for any of the other IPs? I would really like to keep BIND running on camel, as its dedicated to all my vital network services, whereas box is the home of all my users, and thus expendable ;) Is there any way to modify BIND on camel, or must I set up an additional one on box? My (hopefully) relevant configuration files can be found here -- http://pastie.org/250469 -- much obliged, and thanks! -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BIND won't resolve my IPs (not upstream or something?)
Maybe mother's /etc/pf.conf could also be of relevance?
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camel=80.252.2.3
box=80.252.2.4
ext_if=rl0
set block-policy return
set skip on { lo0 }
scrub in
pass out keep state
block in
pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to any port { 22 } keep state
pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $camel port { 25, 80,
110 } keep state
pass in on $ext_if inet proto udp from any to $camel port 53 keep state
pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $box port { 113,
6000: } keep state
pass in on $ext_if inet proto icmp from any to any keep state
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Thanks.
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got this FreeBSD server called mother (80.252.2.2). On it, I've made
two jails, camel (80.252.2.3) and box (80.252.2.4 through to
80.252.2.127). The problem is that reverse lookups for any of the IPs
preceding .4 on box fails. If I connect to IRC with .5 for instance,
it times out and reverts back to .4, whose lookup works just fine.
BIND runs on camel. Maybe the problem is that BIND is not upstream for
all those IPs? (I don't know what that means, a friend just told me)
Or that I haven't configured the reverse for any of the other IPs? I
would really like to keep BIND running on camel, as its dedicated to
all my vital network services, whereas box is the home of all my
users, and thus expendable ;) Is there any way to modify BIND on
camel, or must I set up an additional one on box? My (hopefully)
relevant configuration files can be found here --
http://pastie.org/250469 -- much obliged, and thanks!
--
http://www.home.no/reddvinylene
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Re: [6.3] makewhatis - missing etags.1.gz
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:26:17 +0100, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: happy-idiot-talk:~:% pkg_which /usr/local/man/man1/etags.1.gz emacs-22.2_1 Probably any of the emacs ports would install that man page. Thanks for the tip. Out of curiosity, why does makewhatis require Emacs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [6.3] makewhatis - missing etags.1.gz
Gilles wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:26:17 +0100, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: happy-idiot-talk:~:% pkg_which /usr/local/man/man1/etags.1.gz emacs-22.2_1 Probably any of the emacs ports would install that man page. Thanks for the tip. Out of curiosity, why does makewhatis require Emacs? It doesn't. makewhatis is just having a bad day trying to process an emacs-related man page that it thinks should be there, but for some reason it isn't. The reason it thinks there should be an etags.1.gz file is probably due to the presence of a ctags.1.gz file in the same directory, also installed from an emacs port. That is just a stub and looks like this: happy-idiot-talk:~:% zmore /usr/local/man/man1/ctags.1.gz .so man1/etags.1 .\ arch-tag: 54d4579b-9d66-4ba5-9fda-f01ec83612ad (Don't confuse this with the system-installed version of ctags and its man page in /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz -- completely different software package) In any case, it suggests that you have a broken installation of an emacs port on your machine, or the remnants of one. Pretty harmless really. In order to make the error message go away, do a force re-install of emacs: # portupgrade -Nf editors/emacs Then, if you don't actually want emacs installed, do a clean deletion of the package: # pkg_deinstall editors/emacs 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
Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. So, if you have any pointers to any of the above, please feel free to give me directions. Keywords, product names, and other google bait is good. I know how to read, but I don't really know where to start. I'm guessing that pt. (5) will be hardest. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: BIND won't resolve my IPs (not upstream or something?)
I'm pretty sure I do, though my apologies if I'm wrong, did you check my pastie? On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:41 AM 8/9/2008, Redd Vinylene wrote: I got this FreeBSD server called mother (80.252.2.2). On it, I've made two jails, camel (80.252.2.3) and box (80.252.2.4 through to 80.252.2.127). The problem is that reverse lookups for any of the IPs preceding .4 on box fails. If I connect to IRC with .5 for instance, it times out and reverts back to .4, whose lookup works just fine. BIND runs on camel. Maybe the problem is that BIND is not upstream for all those IPs? (I don't know what that means, a friend just told me) Or that I haven't configured the reverse for any of the other IPs? I would really like to keep BIND running on camel, as its dedicated to all my vital network services, whereas box is the home of all my users, and thus expendable ;) Is there any way to modify BIND on camel, or must I set up an additional one on box? My (hopefully) relevant configuration files can be found here -- http://pastie.org/250469 -- much obliged, and thanks! You need to check that you have zone files for both forward and reverse lookups, and those zones are defined in named.conf -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Query regarding Advertisment
Dear Sir, I am planning a website with BSD FDL.Is advertisment allowed in my website? If no, is there any other options. Regards Biju Sreenivasan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot
On 30/07/2008, David Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to get pxeboot to work, so far with no luck. I have a dhcp/tftp server set up and I am able to push pxeboot across the network, so I assume that is all ok. NFS is also setup, at least I was getting nfs errors that I don't have anymore. I copied the contents of the 7.0 cd into the my tftpboot folder and changed the contents for loader.conf and loader.rc Hi, I have been playing around all week and I finally have some sort of result. I am trying to pxeboot an ibm transnote (thinkpad), when I try to netboot with the power plugged in it starts to load the kernel then quickly reboots everytime. I don't think this is to do with the mfsroot gzip bug since I don't get that far - I think it maybe when it is loading the kernel, I am not sure I can't see any debugging messages they disappear from the screen quickly. I noticed that when I unplug the power and run from battery I am able to pxeboot everytime! Can anyone shed some light on why this happens? It isn't really a problem it is just an annoyance! Strangly enough if I copy the contents of the 7.0 cd to my exported directory and pxe boot from that (ie with mfsroot still gzipped) it boots right into the cd - no mfsroot bug here? I have tried this with 5.1 6.2 and 7.0 and they all act the same way. What I am stuck with now is when I modify loader.rc to something like the following: /usr/local/export# cat freebsd/boot/loader.rc echo Loading /boot/loader.rc load /boot/kernel/kernel set mfsroot_type=mfs_root set mfsroot_name=/boot/mfsroot set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c load -t mfs_root /boot/mfsroot autoboot 5 The booting computer hangs after it tries to install the acpi.ko module. Does anyone know how I can get around this? Thanks David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... Easist would be to use a product called Mikrotik you will have that entire system up running in 15mins tops. http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html + Runs on underspec machines perfectly as it's designed for embedded systems. I always found myself using it instead of doing all the work myself because of time constraints. It's linux based, but everything is done through a client. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:34 PM To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup) On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 3329 (20080805) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) Marcel Grandemange wrote: Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... The learning experience in doing it, is a major part of the gain. Although, the end product itself is also of some value. Easist would be to use a product called Mikrotik you will have that entire system up running in 15mins tops. http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html I will look into it. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
El día Saturday, August 09, 2008 a las 04:33:37PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas escribió: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) To the OP: Be aware that depending on the local laws you might (will) be responsible if the NATed IP is used in criminal affairs (downloads, child porno, etc.); at least the local authorities will ask you who used that IP and take your complete system with them for further investigations, scanning your logs and disks; even if it is a nice idea and you have good neighbors, I would not do that here in Germany; matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ We should all learn from the peoples of The Netherlands, France and Ireland. Aprendamos todos de los pueblos de Holanda, Francia e Irlanda. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
Matthias Apitz wrote: To the OP: Be aware that depending on the local laws you might (will) be responsible if the NATed IP is used in criminal affairs (downloads, child porno, etc.); at least the local authorities will ask you who used that IP and take your complete system with them for further investigations, scanning your logs and disks; even if it is a nice idea and you have good neighbors, I would not do that here in Germany; Yes, I'm well aware of the laws in this regard. It wont be illegal to relay any traffic, for whatever reason. It's far more likely that I will violate the contract I have with my ISP, than Norwegian criminal law. But it will of course be unpleasant for me, if someone used my network for illegal activities, for the reasons you mention. Still, I'd like to set up something like this, if for nothing else, the challenge of doing it. I might even make people aware that the traffic is being monitored, and that will probably make people behave. An alternative to the inserted text in all http traffic (and probably easier to implement) is just to divert all unknown traffic to an internal ip-adress (using the firewall), and setup a web page on that address. Then have people click some button, which will rewrite the fw rules for that specific machine (white list). Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup)
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Marcel Grandemange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds To Me Also too much work for little gain... Easist would be to use a product called Mikrotik you will have that entire system up running in 15mins tops. http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html + Runs on underspec machines perfectly as it's designed for embedded systems. I always found myself using it instead of doing all the work myself because of time constraints. It's linux based, but everything is done through a client. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:34 PM To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free wireless network (access point, router, transparent HTTP proxy setup) On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-ers! I'd like to a good neighbor and share my DSL line and set up an unencrypted free wireless access point. I often find myself wanting more free access points around the city, so I thought I'd stand up as a good example for others :-) I want people to know that they can use the network (easy, use ssid free internet), but I want them to know that they should be nice, and it's meant for casual browsing, and that misuse will cause a ban. So, what I'd like: 1) Setup a wireless network card in infrastructure mode, I think. 2) Setup a DHCP server and DNS forwarder on this interface 3) Setup routing from one interface to my other network 4) Use a firewall to close down lots of stuff, maybe also limit bandwith per mac-address, and a way to deny access to certain NICs. 5) Insert a message in all text/html over HTTP, basically saying: Hi, guest! Feel free to use our free internet, but be nice! And a close-button, which I guess needs to send a POST to a http server as well, and that I need to record this action in a database, and use the same database to dynamically insert the message above or not. This sounds like too much work for a doubtful amount of gain. It is probably a lot easier to use ipfw or pf+altq to rate limit the bandwidth others can use :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 3329 (20080805) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be a great learning experience, though! Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org) will do the bandwidth-limiting and authentication. It will also make browsing faster. The message you described sending to others sounds like a captive portal. Squid does that, too. (Mikrotik is awesome, too.) -- Regards, Brie A. Gordon A BSD Diva http://granite.sru.edu/~bag6849/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?
Hi all, I assume that it is not advisable, but what can I expect to happen if I try to use packages for 7-stable on a 7.0-release system? The reason is simple: I have a low-end laptop, so I want to avoid building as much as possible. However, the packages from release are rarely, if ever, updated and therefore very quickly becomes out of date, or they don't exist (e.g. openoffice). I often run into trouble when I need something that depends upon something that often affects many ports is updated, say gettext. Are packages for 7-stable mostly binary compatible with 7.0-release? Or should I just upgrade to 7-stable? Can 7-stable be trusted to run smoothly in most cases? I saw in one thread on the freebsd-stable list that 7-stable was more like current, only a bit cleaner. What do other 7-release users do in cases such as these? Best Regards, Torgeir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.
On Aug 8, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This might better be asked offlist, but there may be others like me who are clueless, and since you are familiar, I'll ask you. How interact-able are FBSD and (say) MacBook? E.g., is there a BSD-way of my creating an account of the Apple and using is? It's got @G of RAM, and a 160G drive [!]. Apple says in plain text that is is UNIX. (or maybe Berkeley Unix). So besides the mac firewall [whatever], the laptop will be behind my pfSense box. So... --and to be completely honest, the main reason for this $1000 laptop is *security*. When she was younger I wasn't that concerned is some kiddie cracker learned that her favorite pet was a kitty. Different now. Another question: can I install X11 without it bothering whatever kind of mac front-end windowing comes with? Be great if I could admin this BSD-based computer from my office. thankee much! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org Gary, I also strongly encourage you to install MacPorts.org, when you install x11 and xcode from the install media. There are methods of adding users via CLI however since the Apple setup is rather sophisticated I would recommend that you stick with the system preferences panel to start with. m! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?
On Aug 9, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Are packages for 7-stable mostly binary compatible with 7.0-release? Or should I just upgrade to 7-stable? Can 7-stable be trusted to run smoothly in most cases? I saw in one thread on the freebsd-stable list that 7-stable was more like current, only a bit cleaner. FreeBSD tries to avoid making incompatible changes to userland API once a major version is released, and exceptions to that are generally documented in /usr/src/UPDATING /usr/ports/UPDATING. You shouldn't have any problems running 7-stable packages on a 7.0-R system, at least for the present. Eventually, packages will end up being built with newly added functionality, and will fail to run if it isn't there, but it will be a while before you are likely to experience a problem. If you have concerns about following 7-STABLE, you might consider following the security branch (aka RELENG_7_0) instead, or even using the binary update mechanism Colin Percival wrote... Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.
I don't think it's far OT, either, since IMHO, Mac desktops and FreeBSD servers are the perfect, practical combination for many organizations, including my own. This might better be asked offlist, but there may be others like me who are clueless, and since you are familiar, I'll ask you. How interact-able are FBSD and (say) MacBook? E.g., is there a BSD-way of my creating an account of the Apple and using is? It's got @G of RAM, and a 160G drive [!]. Apple says in plain text that is is UNIX. (or maybe Berkeley Unix). So besides the mac firewall [whatever], the laptop will be behind my pfSense box. So... --and to be completely honest, the main reason for this $1000 laptop is *security*. When she was younger I wasn't that concerned is some kiddie cracker learned that her favorite pet was a kitty. Different now. Another question: can I install X11 without it bothering whatever kind of mac front-end windowing comes with? Be great if I could admin this BSD-based computer from my office. thankee much! X11 is integrated with the Apple desktop, so you can run X11 applications, like OpenOffice, from the desktop, more or less seamlessly. The only difference that I've noted is that X11 applications use Ctrl-C, etc., for copy/paste instead of the usual Apple-C, etc, that normal Apple applications use. This is a minor inconvenience, but it reminds me that there are two different types of applications on the desktop. Basically, OSX *is* BSD so you can mount server disks, etc., as usual. The main benefit to me is that administering Apples is very similar to administering a FreeBSD server, so I don't need to learn two completely different OSs (one is more than enough for me!) I basically think of OSX as BSD with a really, really good GUI. Blows the doors off the usual Unix desktops (which is why I switched.) -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BIND won't resolve my IPs (not upstream or something?)
At 06:55 AM 8/9/2008, Redd Vinylene wrote: I'm pretty sure I do, though my apologies if I'm wrong, did you check my pastie? On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:41 AM 8/9/2008, Redd Vinylene wrote: I got this FreeBSD server called mother (80.252.2.2). On it, I've made two jails, camel (80.252.2.3) and box (80.252.2.4 through to 80.252.2.127). The problem is that reverse lookups for any of the IPs preceding .4 on box fails. If I connect to IRC with .5 for instance, it times out and reverts back to .4, whose lookup works just fine. BIND runs on camel. Maybe the problem is that BIND is not upstream for all those IPs? (I don't know what that means, a friend just told me) Or that I haven't configured the reverse for any of the other IPs? I would really like to keep BIND running on camel, as its dedicated to all my vital network services, whereas box is the home of all my users, and thus expendable ;) Is there any way to modify BIND on camel, or must I set up an additional one on box? My (hopefully) relevant configuration files can be found here -- http://pastie.org/250469 -- much obliged, and thanks! You need to check that you have zone files for both forward and reverse lookups, and those zones are defined in named.conf -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Well, I never let my read of these files suffice. You should check them with the tools from bind: named-checkconf nemed-checkzone If they pass those tests, then check the resolution using just a single ip that is NOT jailed on this server using dig or nslookup. If those are working then adjust your jails. If you go step-by-step you will quickly get it working. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Interpreting top, vmstat, and company
Christopher Cowart wrote: I have a couple FreeBSD boxes that are providing a captive portal wifi authentcation system. Without delving into the implementation details, I'm running dhcpd, squid, and apache. We have in-house perl CGI scripts that handle session and IP management, dynamically creating and destroying netgraph nodes (ng_nat), connecting them to ipfw (ng_ipfw), and altering the contents of access tables. Right now, I'm seeing peaks of about 300 authenticated users; I'm expecting this to grow about 200% when everyone gets back from summer break. I'm trying to look at system load statistics to reassure myself we'll be fine in a month -- or to panic and start throwing more hardware at things. What is the difference between the SIZE and RES fields of top? Better yet, what does top(1) mean by the total size of the process (text, data, and stack) and the current amount of resident memory? How does this work with a threaded program like apache? If all the threads share the same text and most (all?) of the same data pages, what's the best way to figure out the fixed cost and the average per-thread cost? Some sample top output on this host: Mem: 131M Active, 3754M Inact, 425M Wired, 177M Cache, 214M Buf, 3422M Free Swap: 16G Total, 24K Used, 16G Free [...] PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 32361 root 1 960 106M 16604K select 2 0:02 0.00% httpd 50687 www 1 200 106M 17196K lockf 0 0:01 0.00% httpd I'm having a hard time accounting for the 3.8GB of inactive memory (which as I understand, represents physical pages that are in-use but not recently used, prime candidates for being swapped out if the free page count gets low). Maybe better understanding the RES verses SIZE data along with their relation to threads will explain what's going on here. One of my concerns is that a large chunk of memory is going to belong to the kernel in my configuration. I found vmstat -m (selected output lines follow): | libalias 5629 3251K - 19760019 128 | ifnet1325K - 13 256,2048 | dummynet22 8K - 26 256,512,1024 | netgraph_msg 0 0K - 101991 64,128,256,512,1024,4096 | netgraph_node7218K -56133 256 | netgraph_hook 28436K -30204 128 | netgraph 28316K -30203 16,64,128 | netgraph_parse 0 0K -22650 16 | netgraph_sock 0 0K -48581 128 | netgraph_path 0 0K -71508 16,32 Does this really mean that my netgraph nodes (and their libalias instances) are really eating up less than 4MB of memory on the system? The only other big spender appears to be devbuf at 35185K. I also found `netstat -m': | 1026/1599/2625 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) | 1023/1513/2536/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) | 1/678 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) | 0/121/121/12800 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) | 0/0/0/6400 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) | 0/0/0/3200 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) | 2302K/3909K/6212K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) | 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) | 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) | 0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) | 0 requests for sfbufs denied | 0 requests for sfbufs delayed | 60 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile | 0 calls to protocol drain routines Again, this looks like chump change against my top output. What category does kernel memory get lumped into in top? I'd appreciate any help you can offer in terms of profiling memory usage and actually understanding what some of these figures mean. Hi, Christopher, IANAE, don't wanna presume, just wanna keep your thread alive and see if you've read the FAQ --- Your basic questions sound real similar to questions one and two here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/misc.html Once again, I'm hoping you can get someone to discuss your concerns who has a better understanding of FBSD's memory reporting than I do. AFAIK, though, there might be some reason to be concerned; Squid tends to hog memory IME. KDK -- Surely you cant be serious. I am serious, and dont call me Shirley. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set quota ( as Mbyte ) for a directory?
On Friday 08 August 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: On freebsd7, How to set quota for a directory? For instance I want to set 100Mbyte quota for a directory. How can I do that ? Quotas are handled per filesystem, not per directory. See man quotaon man quotacheck, or the FreeBSD Handbook. If you're in a position to use/migrate to ZFS, quotas are something you get for free. You still have to apply them on a per-filesystem basis but a ZFS filesystem is just part of a pool so it's a lot more dynamic. See the quota and refquota property descriptions in the zfs(1M) manpage. However, ZFS is only available in FreeBSD 7.0 or newer and is still considered experimental. There is a patch for -HEAD (8-CURRENT) that brings in the latest version and addresses many issues, but it hasn't been backported to 7.x (and may not be). JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?
Torgeir wrote: I assume that it is not advisable, but what can I expect to happen if I try to use packages for 7-stable on a 7.0-release system? No, it is not advisable. I tried: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html As I said two weeks ago, that failure was predictable and the few offenders could be found, but I had another weird problem that could only be solved with recompile: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-July/179517.html For the opposite, using packages from an earlier point, compatibility is usually preserved, but not always, either: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-July/043950.html Not having newer binary packages for the latest RELEASE is a shortcoming on FreeBSD, but you will find many references that there are simply not enough resources. Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shutdown/reboot suggestion
More than once, through carelessness, and I'm sure I'm not alone, I have inadvertently shutdown or rebooted the wrong machine. I'm sure some of you know that all too familiar feeling when you see Connection closed instead of your desktop being rebooted. I have a suggestion with respect to these commands. What if they could be modified to require the hostname of the machine as their first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down? shutdown -h now becomes: shutdown example.com -h now and reboot becomes reboot example.com How hard would it to get the other *nix distributions to take up this up too? Michael Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion
Michael Grant wrote: More than once, through carelessness, and I'm sure I'm not alone, I have inadvertently shutdown or rebooted the wrong machine. I'm sure some of you know that all too familiar feeling when you see Connection closed instead of your desktop being rebooted. I have a suggestion with respect to these commands. What if they could be modified to require the hostname of the machine as their first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down? shutdown -h now becomes: shutdown example.com -h now and reboot becomes reboot example.com How hard would it to get the other *nix distributions to take up this up too? Michael Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, I have set all my servers in the noc to shutdown -r now. This prevents me from locking my self out of servers as they are not in my office. I also set the tcsh command line to show path to the directory and the name of the host box i'm working on so I cant get confused. Maybe this will help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion
Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More than once, through carelessness, and I'm sure I'm not alone, I have inadvertently shutdown or rebooted the wrong machine. I'm sure some of you know that all too familiar feeling when you see Connection closed instead of your desktop being rebooted. I have a suggestion with respect to these commands. What if they could be modified to require the hostname of the machine as their first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down? Write two scripts that check for those additional arguments and name them 'shutdown' and 'reboot'. Then ensure that they exist earlier in your PATH than the actual shutdown and reboot binaries. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Video streaming with freeBSD
Hi I have just installed FreeBSD 4.11 with the intention of not only creating a file server but to allow for video streaming and recording with the aid of a TV card. Lots of forums suggest many options to achieve this however to save alot of time with untested and not always proven methods. Could you please advise me if this indeed possible and secondly if you could recommend any possible tv cards compatible with your OS I look forward to any help or assistance that you may offer. Many Thanks Steve C -- *** ServerHouse Ltd Delme Place Cams Hall Estate Fareham Hampshire PO16 8UJ http://www.serverhouse.co.uk Helpdesk Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 6am - 10pm Saturday 9am - 5pm Closed: All Sunday's and public holidays Serverhouse Ltd: Company Registration 0338799 *** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linksys wpc100 kernel module
Is there a Linksys wpc100 (802.11) kernel module? The card is not detected in: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 #2 TIA T.B. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-07-20 - 2008-08-09
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bind9 sdb pgsql
Hi folks...I'm looking to rebuild bind9 to support the pgsql sdb interface, from /usr/src/contrib/bind9. However I don't see the contrib subdir in bind9/ where the sdb files reside (as they do in the src tarball). So how would I go about rebuilding bind to have this support? -- aRDy Music and Rick Dicaire present: http://www.ardynet.com http://www.ardynet.com:9000/ardymusic.ogg.m3u ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video streaming with freeBSD
Steve Cole wrote: Hi I have just installed FreeBSD 4.11 with the intention of not only creating a file server but to allow for video streaming and recording with the aid of a TV card. Lots of forums suggest many options to achieve this however to save alot of time with untested and not always proven methods. Could you please advise me if this indeed possible and secondly if you could recommend any possible tv cards compatible with your OS I look forward to any help or assistance that you may offer. Many Thanks Steve C 4.11 is officially Pretty Old (and possibly Officially Unsupported), but I'm not official in any way, shape or form. You might try man 4 bktr and man 4 meteor on your 4.11 system; I know the current version of the bktr manpage lists supported cards for that driver. Also, there is a freebsd-multimedia mailing list, I believe, which might have people on it who are more finely tuned (excuse the pun) in that direction. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Lost interest? It's so bad I've lost apathy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion
On Aug 9, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Michael Grant wrote: More than once, through carelessness, and I'm sure I'm not alone, I have inadvertently shutdown or rebooted the wrong machine. I'm sure some of you know that all too familiar feeling when you see Connection closed instead of your desktop being rebooted. I use a combination of tricks. 1. I have the hostname in my prompt. 2. I have a separate color scheme for ssh sessions for each host I commonly connect to, and a generic color scheme for ssh sessions for other hosts. These are all distinct from my term window color scheme for my local host. 3. I rarely run as root, so all of my shutdown's use sudo. My password isn't the same on all hosts. This doesn't work perfectly, but it does help avoid this kind of problem. I have a suggestion with respect to these commands. What if they could be modified to require the hostname of the machine as their first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down? shutdown -h now becomes: shutdown example.com -h now As others have pointed out, you can easily make scripts to do that. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video streaming with freeBSD
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:50:26PM +0100, Steve Cole wrote: Hi I have just installed FreeBSD 4.11 with the intention of not only creating a file server but to allow for video streaming and recording with the aid of a TV card. Lots of forums suggest many options to achieve this however to save alot of time with untested and not always proven methods. Could you please advise me if this indeed possible and secondly if you could recommend any possible tv cards compatible with your OS It can be done. But why such an ancient version. The latest full release is 7.0. jerry I look forward to any help or assistance that you may offer. Many Thanks Steve C -- *** ServerHouse Ltd Delme Place Cams Hall Estate Fareham Hampshire PO16 8UJ http://www.serverhouse.co.uk Helpdesk Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 6am - 10pm Saturday 9am - 5pm Closed: All Sunday's and public holidays Serverhouse Ltd: Company Registration 0338799 *** ___ 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]
[SOLVED} bind9 sdb pgsql
With a bit of work I was able to successfully build/replace bind9.4.2 port and add pgsql sdb support. If anyone's interested, I can post the method I used. -- aRDy Music and Rick Dicaire present: http://www.ardynet.com http://www.ardynet.com:9000/ardymusic.ogg.m3u ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless net Card
I downloaded the drivers for the chipset my belkin wireless card has, used ndisgen to create the kernel module, which all went aok .. however when trying to load the module it hard hangs the machine to the point of it restarting itself .. is there something i perhaps mybe missing or am i out in the cold in not being able to use this wireless card untill some time a freebsd driver is done ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion
I have such a script, I put it in /bin/require_hostname and symlinked shutdown, halt, reboot, fastboot, and fasthalt to this script: #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = `hostname` ]; then shift exec /sbin/`basename $0` $@ else echo For your protection, use: $0 hostname ... fi I realize a lot of people have their own tricks and habits for avoiding such stupidity, but what is the problem of fixing the problem globally by getting these commands to take a hostname argument? This could certainly be the basis for another thread (and this is perhaps not the correct list), but is there some way to request a modification across all the unix/linux distributions out there to maintain some level of consistency across them? Except for Posix, is there some overall list which deals with this conformity of all these sibling platforms? Michael Grant On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 9, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Michael Grant wrote: More than once, through carelessness, and I'm sure I'm not alone, I have inadvertently shutdown or rebooted the wrong machine. I'm sure some of you know that all too familiar feeling when you see Connection closed instead of your desktop being rebooted. I use a combination of tricks. 1. I have the hostname in my prompt. 2. I have a separate color scheme for ssh sessions for each host I commonly connect to, and a generic color scheme for ssh sessions for other hosts. These are all distinct from my term window color scheme for my local host. 3. I rarely run as root, so all of my shutdown's use sudo. My password isn't the same on all hosts. This doesn't work perfectly, but it does help avoid this kind of problem. I have a suggestion with respect to these commands. What if they could be modified to require the hostname of the machine as their first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down? shutdown -h now becomes: shutdown example.com -h now As others have pointed out, you can easily make scripts to do that. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SOLVED} bind9 sdb pgsql
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:32 AM, User Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a bit of work I was able to successfully build/replace bind9.4.2 port and add pgsql sdb support. If anyone's interested, I can post the method I used. I am interested, please if you put the posts it would be nice Sergio, I hope this helps. http://www.freebsddiary.org/phorum/read.php?f=4i=331t=331 -- aRDy Music and Rick Dicaire present: http://www.ardynet.com http://www.ardynet.com:9000/ardymusic.ogg.m3u ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
