Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Danny Carroll
On 7/10/2010 8:23 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: I would assume you already did that before walking into my office to ask me about the set of licenses up for a review ... otherwise, there´s no way to me to look close enough where I wasn´t asked to look ... If you go tell your Dr. you have a

Windows XP Backup resetting unix perms.

2010-09-06 Thread Danny Carroll
Today I decided to make a backup of some of my unix data to an XP machine in preparation for a migration. I set windows XP backup running and when it started backing up files in my home directory I noticed that it set u-x permissions on all of the files. Directories are unaffected. If I use

Re: Windows XP Backup resetting unix perms.

2010-09-06 Thread Danny Carroll
On 7/09/2010 12:00 PM, Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:39:19AM +1000, Danny Carroll wrote: Today I decided to make a backup of some of my unix data to an XP machine in preparation for a migration. I set windows XP backup running and when it started backing up files in my home

Re: Could not chdir to home directory

2010-08-27 Thread Danny Carroll
Hiya Nita,... I'm sure you'll get lots of help on this list. Just a question for you. Any chance you could convice the Juniper bigwigs to release the source code for the DX platform given that it's now end of life? I know it was based on FreeBSD and, as a former Redline/DX user I know it's got

Re: Upgrading ports while processes are running.

2010-08-17 Thread Danny Carroll
On 17/08/2010 12:13 PM, Mark Shroyer wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:23:27 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: At least, the step that wants to write will fail, and this will mostly be (finally) signaled by a make error. snip! That isn't to say you won't see any negative consequences from

Upgrading ports while processes are running.

2010-08-16 Thread Danny Carroll
Hiya All, I just finished upgrading perl on one of my machines and something crossed my mind while it was busy compiling and reinstalling all of the ports that depended on perl. Will a port install fail if it cannot write to a file because it's in-use? Also, is it necessary to restart the server

Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Danny Carroll
I have a situation that I've come across from time to time that I have never found a good fix for. Sometimes I'll install a freebsd box at a site with private addresses (RFC 1918). Most of the time these sites also have local DNS setups. I'll take my home network as an example. My FreeBSD box

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Danny Carroll
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I found the answer to your problem here: http://www.grok.org.uk/docs/smroot.html The file that is being included which has the EXPOSED_USER(`root') line lives at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/generic.m4 Just make a copy of that file, call it

Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Danny Carroll
Since I recently started using freebsd as a adsl gateway I have noticed some strange things at startup. /etc/rc.d/natd does not get executed. If I run it manually it works fine but not at boot time. I just rebooted now and (again) had to re-start natd. Looking at the startup scipts I see some

Re: Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Danny Carroll
Bill Moran wrote: Probably good to attach your rc.conf file, as that's the most likely thing that's wrong, given the information you provided. That would surprise me. The thing that looked strange to me was that there was a heap of files in /etc/rc.d/ that look like they had not been

Re: Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Danny Carroll
Danny Carroll wrote: That would surprise me. The thing that looked strange to me was that there was a heap of files in /etc/rc.d/ that look like they had not been accessed since the last shutdown of the machine. I think I figured out this behaviour. I believe that the access times

Problems with fetch but not ftp in a jail?

2004-09-21 Thread Danny Carroll
I am having a strange problem with my home network. Here is what it looks like. Internet - FreeBSD Firewall/Natd box (guard) -- Local Net (192.168.100.0/24) | testsrv (192.168.100.12) |- testjail (192.168.10.1) Testjail is a jail (192.168.10.1) running under testsrv

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-24 Thread Danny Carroll
No, that's not correct. It does happen if you choose too small a stripe size, but that's the best reason for choosing larger stripes. That's described in much detail in the man page. How can it not be correct? When you write some data, it writes to all 4 disks, when you read it reads from 3

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Danny Carroll
Greg, Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunatly I ran out of time and resorted to a restore of week old data. No big loss for me, but I really wanted to debug this to better understand what happened. I think it went something like this: ide drive crashes. kernel panics (for this or some

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Danny Carroll
We already discussed this. The likelihood of such far-reaching damage is low. Hmmm ok.. I can't prove any of this since I urgently needed about 150gb of space. So I re-formatted. Like I said it is a shame since I wanted to understand what happened now, but, then again, I was

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-19 Thread Danny Carroll
Tony et al,.. Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. I guess my main concern is that when one of my disks crashed, the ufs filesystem got corrupted and I really did not expect

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Danny Carroll
Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I answered an almost identical question yesterday: it depends on the volume structure, which you haven't stated. Look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and supply in particular the output of 'vinum list', unless the following

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Danny Carroll
Quoting Tony Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok, this is wrong - you really just want to define one vinum drive per physical device. Ie for a particular disk, give it a single 'vinum' partition using disklabel. Then use different subdisks to split your space up. I was afraid of that Noted 5

Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-17 Thread Danny Carroll
Hello, About 6 weeks ago one of the disks in my Vinum array crashed. However, the major problem is now that the file system is corrupt. It appears I have lost all of my 300Gb virtual disk... This is what I found in the message log. Jan 2 04:13:07 guard /kernel: ad4s1a: hard error reading fsbn

Sendmail, jail and stuff.

2003-05-27 Thread Danny Carroll
So, here is the 2 minute spiel.. Host 1.2.3.4 (a real IP address) is a firewall It has 2 jails. Jail 1 is an apache server on 192.168.1.1 It hosts site. www.mysite.com Jail 2 is an mail server on 192.168.1.2 So, how do you convince sendmail running on 192.168.1.1 that www.mysite.com is not

Re: Raid - how do I???

2003-05-27 Thread Danny Carroll
This most certianly means that the drive is dead. If you loce another, you will lose your data. Power down the system, replace the drive and power on again. The bios will inform you that the disk has been replaced and it will ask you to hit f1 to rebuild. It will take a while but all should be