size suffix w x
I have a script I am hacking. The code has a check for a size suffix. I know what m|mb|g|gb|k|kb| and the upper case version of the same letters mean. But the code also has an w|x size options. Is this a valid size type and what does it mean? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
pkg_add
I checked the pkg_add manpage for where does pkg_add look for the named pkg distribution file? It says the env PKG_PATH holds it but env command does not show that variable. Is it /usr/packages or /usr/ports/packages? How can I see the value of PKG_PATH? What is the path of where the pkg distribution file are suppose to reside. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkg_add
Glen Barber wrote: On 6/24/10 9:01 PM, zaxis wrote: uname -a FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #9: Sat Mar 27 15:06:39 CST 2010 r...@mybsd.zsoft.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 echo $PKG_PATH PKG_PATH: Undefined variable. cat .cshrc |grep -i package setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.cn.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/All/ So you should use PACKAGESITE instead of PKG_PATH you mentioned . Not entirely true. Using the above FTP URL, PKG_PATH will look for ftp://ftp.cn.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/Latest/ Regards, No I am not looking for the remote path to fetch the package distribution file from. When doing pkg_add -Kr pkgname will save the downloaded distribution pkg file. My question is where is this file saved at on my host by default. /usr/packages maybe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: * wildcard in.sh script
Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: On 15.06.2010 10:25, Aiza wrote: I have a directory with files in it. The first 3 letters of the file names is the group prefix. I'm trying to write a script to accept the 3 letter of the group followed by a * to mean its a prefix lookup. But when I run it I get a message NO match that is not issued by the script. Its like * is not allowed as input. Looking for sample .sh code for handling this standard type of lookup or some online tutorial that has sample code for bourne shell programming. . Just for the fun of it. Try escaping the asterisk (\*) and see if that works? //Svein Not in the script but on the command line. newjails rm2* as input to the script. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update upgrade
Glen Barber wrote: On 6/9/10 9:07 PM, Aiza wrote: The upgrade function requires the -r newrelease flag. The manpage does not state the formate of the newrelease value. Is it just the release number like this 8.0 or is it like this 8.0-RELEASE? 8.0-RELEASE. I believe you can pull 8.0-RELEASE-p2 using -r as well. Regards, Thanks. Have another question. When freebsd-update first entered the ports system, it was limited to updating systems that not been changed from the basic release. IE: Recompiling the kernel adding devices or removing them. Is that still true now? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
installworld and sources
Compiling a new kernel from source requires /usr/src to be populated, I understand that. The buildworld process for sure needs /usr/src. My question is , is /usr/src also used in the installworld process? Now I have never had to do this type of system RELEASE upgrade before, so I just don't know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
portsnap refuse
The postsnap says adding refuse statements to select the parts of the port tree you have use for will shorten the download process and conserve disk space on your host. That only the port categories not REFUSED will be selected and compressed for download. Well for a test I ran portsnap with out any portsnap.conf file. The download process took 16 minuets. The I mv portsnap.conf.sample to portsnap.conf and added REFUSE for all the categories except sysutils. Reran the portsnap and still it took 16 minuets. What gives here?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
/var/empty has schg flag turned on. Why?
Why does the base RELEASE have schg flag turned for the /var/empty directory? Is that directory really used for anything? Is this a release build problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Alternate method for fetching source
Ross Penner wrote: I'm trying to update my system and when I run cvsup, the connection repeatedly has problems (TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed). I'm wondering if anybody can suggest any other method to grab the current source files? Thanks for any ideas It has been my experience that when a new RELEASE cycle starts, Like right now with 8.1, the ftp servers get a real workout. Having difficulties making it through a complete download successfully in one try is very unlikely. Using ftp with a .netrc file to restart the download where it left off is better than restarting over from the start. Read this url all the way to the end where the restart is explained. http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4212 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD-update
After running FreeBSD-update fetch and install is there any way to tell it worked without rebooting? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: text editor
Walt Pawley wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. I'd suggest looking into aee. That has what I am looking and so simple. Thanks for your info. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: minicom freebsd 8.0
akash kumar wrote: Hi, Can some one help me with the steps configuring minicom on freebsd 8.0. I have a serial to usb converter running between my board and host machine. Thanks, Akash. I take it a minicom is a external serial modem for internet access over the phone lines. First off you better check if this is a windows modem. Phone modems are manufactured for two target markets, MS/Windows (Winmodems) and every thing else. Winmodems are cheep because the hardware controller function is handled by the software you have to install into MS/Windows. This hardware controller function is normally contained in a chip on the modem circuit board. Winmodems are missing this chip and directs the modem to use driver software running in the MS/Windows system to perform the controller function. The most common Winmodem chips are manufactured by Lucent. There are many versions of this Lucent chip resulting in each chip version needing a different MS/Windows software driver version. Up until version 4.4, FBSD did not have any solution to using Winmodems, but with the release of 4.4 the ports collection now contains the Linux Winmodem 'ltmdm' driver which was ported to FBSD. This port is very poorly documented, only works with a limited number of Lucent chip version, and can be somewhat unreliable. Your whole Internet connection is managed by your modem and trying to shoe horn a modem specially manufactured for the MS/Windows operating system into FreeBSD is not the way to achieve a satisfactory dialup Internet connection. Plug the usb to serial converter into a usb port on the pc. Plug the serial cable into the modem and the converter. Power on the minicon, and boot your pc. Check your boot messages for the address of the usb to serial converter and use that address in your ppp config for dialing your ISP. If you can't id the address you need, then post your boot message log here for next step in help. Use dmesg boot.msg.file to get a copy of the boot log. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: text editor
SNIP alot of text not related to original posted question. Can we get back on subject. I have worked many years with ispf so decided to check out THE I installed pkg_add -r the entering the on the command line produces something that is far removed from ispf/pdf. manpage and website documentation for the really sucks. Think I need to create a default profile that activates ispf but have found no instructions on how to do it. Can not find the profile file on my system. more help please. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: text editor
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:31 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd on the last line of the block and hit enter and the block of lines are deleted. OR Put cc on first line and cc on last line of black to copy and enter I on line where you want the copied block to be inserted after. Also same for mm meaning move block. Is there any editors with a function like this? Hmmm... block commands are a big strength of joe (Joe's own editor). Start block with ^KB, end block with ^KK. Blocks can be copied with ^KC, moved with ^KM and deleted with ^KY. ^KH and man joe for more details. Another solution is mcedit, the editor that comes with the Midnight Commander. Press PF3 on block start, move to block end, press PF3, the block will be selected. Press PF8 to delete it. And a third suggestion: the (The Hessling Editor), a very powerful editor, allthough a bit strange to learn. If you already have an ISPF/PDF background, this editor will be for you. I installed pkg_add -r the entering the on the command line produces something that is far removed from ispf/pdf. manpage and website documentation for the really sucks. Think I need to create a default profile that activates ispf but have found no instructions on how to do it. Can not find the profile on my system. more help please. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
text editor
Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd on the last line of the block and hit enter and the block of lines are deleted. OR Put cc on first line and cc on last line of black to copy and enter I on line where you want the copied block to be inserted after. Also same for mm meaning move block. Is there any editors with a function like this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
jails and one dynamic ip address
I get one dynamic ip address from my ISP. This is what I specify on the jail for public network access. When the ip address changes on me I have to manually change the ip address associated with the jail. Is there some method I can code so jail will all ways have public network access? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: jails and one dynamic ip address
I get one dynamic ip address from my ISP. This is what I specify on the jail for public network access. When the ip address changes on me I have to manually change the ip address associated with the jail. Is there some method I can code so jail will all ways have public network access? Hi, Sure there can be a better solution (I think :)): Use an rfc1918 private address range for your Jail, and use nat, to forward your external interface IP to the private address of the jail. This can be done in ipnat, PF, or the other natting, packet filtering tools. Hope I understood your question :). Regards, Balázs M. The jails are on the host with LAN behind it and with ipf firewall which allows out anything coming from LAN private ip address. I was not able to get this to work until I discovered the jail needed a copy of the hosts /etc/resolv.conf. Now it works without any special tweaks, and the dymanic ip address changing causes no problems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
class.phpmailer.php Warning: date() [function.date]:
Running Apache-1.3.41_1 PHP5-5.2.12 I did not get this message, which I now get running Apache/2.2.15 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.3.2 Is their way to stop this? Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Asia/Manila' for 'PHT/8.0/no DST' instead in /usr/local/website/mlsax/class.phpmailer.php on line 1406 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [#24513755] spam from mpcustomer.com
postmaster here is the whois info on mpcustomer.com as you can see there is a phone number to call. Why haven't you called to report this problem? Registration Service Provided By: UK2 Group Contact: hostmas...@westhost.com Visit: http://uk2group.com Domain name: mpcustomer.com Registrant Contact: midPhase Services, Inc. midPhase Services, Inc. () Fax: 223 W. Jackson Blvd #600 Chicago, 60606 US Administrative Contact: midPhase Services, Inc. midPhase Services, Inc. (dush...@midphase.com) +1.3123861640 Fax: +1.3123861630 223 W. Jackson Blvd #600 Chicago, 60606 US Technical Contact: midPhase Services, Inc. midPhase Services, Inc. (dush...@midphase.com) +1.3123861640 Fax: +1.3123861630 223 W. Jackson Blvd #600 Chicago, 60606 US ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: phpmyadmin apache22
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 14:54:20, Fbsd1 wrote: pkg_info -Ix php ap22-php5-5.3.2 PHP Scripting Language Version 5.3.2 php5-bz2-5.2.11 The bz2 shared extension for php php5-ctype-5.2.11 The ctype shared extension for php php5-filter-5.2.11 The filter shared extension for php php5-gd-5.2.11 The gd shared extension for php php5-mbstring-5.2.11 The mbstring shared extension for php php5-mcrypt-5.2.11 The mcrypt shared extension for php php5-mysql-5.2.11 The mysql shared extension for php php5-openssl-5.2.11 The openssl shared extension for php php5-pcre-5.2.11The pcre shared extension for php php5-session-5.2.11 The session shared extension for php php5-simplexml-5.2.11 The simplexml shared extension for php php5-spl-5.2.11 The spl shared extension for php php5-zip-5.2.11 The zip shared extension for php php5-zlib-5.2.11The zlib shared extension for php ^ Version 5.2.11 That's your problem. Delete php5-spl-5.2.11 and php5-pcre-5.2.11 (because those are part of the base php5-5.3.2 nowadays) and rebuild all the other php modules and you should be good to go. Cheers, Matthew Had to use the 8-stable packages and everything worked. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: class.phpmailer.php Warning: date() [function.date]:
Nerius Landys wrote:
Running Apache-1.3.41_1 PHP5-5.2.12 I did not get this message, which I now
get running Apache/2.2.15 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.3.2
Is their way to stop this?
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's
timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or
the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those
methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled
the timezone identifier. We selected 'Asia/Manila' for 'PHT/8.0/no DST'
instead in /usr/local/website/mlsax/class.phpmailer.php on line 1406
Somewhere on top of your script, set the time zone:
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Manila');
In my opinion a better idea is to address this issue directly in your
php.ini file, which will very likely be /usr/local/etc/php.ini . My
php.ini file has these lines:
;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = America/Los_Angeles
Created php.ini with this and things work again.
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
date.timezone = Asia/Manila
Thanks
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phpmyadmin apache22
Tried 'make install' on phpmyadmin port and got not found errors on php5-filter, php5-session, php5-ctype, php5-mysql all of which were all ready installed by pkg_add. Pkg_info verifies that they are there. And of course I have compiled php5 with the apache module. I have apache13 phpmyadmin installed on another box using the same method and it works fine. Does phpmyadmin work with apache22? Also why does the phpmyadmin pkg use the pdflib when there has never been a pdflib package built because of requirement of not distributing pdf executable module. All the make config defaults should be changed to off so the pkg is usable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: phpmyadmin apache22
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 12:39:44, Fbsd1 wrote: Tried 'make install' on phpmyadmin port and got not found errors on php5-filter, php5-session, php5-ctype, php5-mysql all of which were all ready installed by pkg_add. Pkg_info verifies that they are there. And of course I have compiled php5 with the apache module. I have apache13 phpmyadmin installed on another box using the same method and it works fine. Does phpmyadmin work with apache22? It certainly does work with apache22. Your problem is with your PHP installation rather than any of the other components mentioned. It sounds as if you've got some php modules that don't match the version of the main php interpreter / apache module. What does 'pkg_info -Ix php' return? Matthew pkg_info -Ix php ap22-php5-5.3.2 PHP Scripting Language php5-bz2-5.2.11 The bz2 shared extension for php php5-ctype-5.2.11 The ctype shared extension for php php5-filter-5.2.11 The filter shared extension for php php5-gd-5.2.11 The gd shared extension for php php5-mbstring-5.2.11 The mbstring shared extension for php php5-mcrypt-5.2.11 The mcrypt shared extension for php php5-mysql-5.2.11 The mysql shared extension for php php5-openssl-5.2.11 The openssl shared extension for php php5-pcre-5.2.11The pcre shared extension for php php5-session-5.2.11 The session shared extension for php php5-simplexml-5.2.11 The simplexml shared extension for php php5-spl-5.2.11 The spl shared extension for php php5-zip-5.2.11 The zip shared extension for php php5-zlib-5.2.11The zlib shared extension for php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to force end-of-line in man page source
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:36:20PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? You can generally override the hyphenation mode with .hy 0 Thank You very much. That works. But it is only in effect for one section header .Sh command. I added the .hy 0 (0 is zero) command after each .Sh command in the man page and it looks so much better now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
how to force end-of-line in man page source
I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
port pkg-plist
In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port pkg-plist
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. @cwd /var db/dbfile log/logfile HTH, Yuri Thanks that worked. Have another question. During the install of the port it adds a enable=YES statement to /etc/rc.conf. It there some pre-canned way to auto remove that statement when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port pkg-plist
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:19:35AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. @cwd /var db/dbfile log/logfile HTH, Yuri Thanks that worked. Have another question. During the install of the port it adds a enable=YES statement to /etc/rc.conf. It there some pre-canned way to auto remove that statement when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command? You shouldn't directly modify rc.conf to enable some service, put instructions on how to enable it in pkg-message instead. Having said that, check @unexec command, which is run on package deinstallation. Yuri Where do I find doc on this @unexec command? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port pkg-plist
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:32:26AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:19:35AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. @cwd /var db/dbfile log/logfile HTH, Yuri Thanks that worked. Have another question. During the install of the port it adds a enable=YES statement to /etc/rc.conf. It there some pre-canned way to auto remove that statement when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command? You shouldn't directly modify rc.conf to enable some service, put instructions on how to enable it in pkg-message instead. Having said that, check @unexec command, which is run on package deinstallation. Yuri Where do I find doc on this @unexec command? All these commands are documented in pkg_create(1). Thanks I read that. It will launch what I want to do at deinstall time. But I still need code to parse through a config file looking for a match to the desired literal and then delete that line from the config file and save it. I dont know how to do that in a .sh script. I need a sample doing that using the @unexec command and then I will be able to tweak it to my needs. Can you help me out? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
how to find literal in file and them delete that line
I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. Does anyone have a example they would share with me? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to find literal in file and them delete that line
Alberto Mijares wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. man(1) sed Regards That makes no sense to me. need example ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to find literal in file and them delete that line
Sahil Tandon wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Alberto Mijares wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. man(1) sed That makes no sense to me. need example What makes no sense? The sed(1) man page? Which section in particular is confusing? And please, explain the rationale for making your port automatically edit /etc/rc.conf. editing /etc/rc.conf was just given as a example for the post. Yes the whole man sed reads like Greek. For a neophyte programmer I can not even begin to comprehend what its saying. That man page needs examples of use. You have forgotten that those man pages are for reference for people who all ready know how to use it. Its not intended for novices. So yes it's useless to me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to find literal in file and them delete that line
b. f. wrote: Alberto Mijares wrote: snip It would make sense if you read the sed(1) and re_format(7) manpages. They may be a pain at first, but they are used often and can make your life a lot easier. There are also a lot of tutorial on the web, with many useful examples, e.g.: http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/ He is suggesting that, rather than using sh(1), you should use sed(1), which is typically used for this sort of task, and is also part of the base system, in some fashion like, for example: sed -e '/literal/d' file If you insist on doing this with sh(1), which will probably be less efficient, then you can cobble something together with a 'case' statement, or parameter expansion with substring processing. See the sh(1) manpage. I hope that you are not intending to use this for a FreeBSD Port in the context of your earlier message. As someone else has already told you, ports should _not_ be automatically editing configuration files like rc.conf. Instead they should just indicate what should be added by the user or administrator in a pkg-message. Although you are free to do whatever you want on your own system, if you submit a port that attempts to tamper with such files to FreeBSD Ports, it is likely that that part of your submission will be rejected. Thank you for your kind in-sight. Using sh was again just comments to help explain what I needed help with. A list reader replied offline with examples and now I have what I needed to proceed. Thanks to all who replied. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to map a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx Sounds like all your PCs are on a private LAN and this file you want access to will only be accessed from the LAN. I have the same setup and exchange files between Windows PCs and Freebsd using FTP. I enable the builtin FTP server in /etc/inetd.conf. Close FTP's ports to the public internet in the firewall. Then run a free shareware FTP client on the windows PC or just use the windows internet browser to target the Freebsd ftp server. The shareware FTP client method lets me exchange both ways, (move a file from win to fbsd and fbsd to win) The windows internet browser method is one direction only, (from fbsd to win). I set the FTP server up as anonymous so all LAN PCs can download and upload to each other using the FTP server as a post and forward service. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Addition to BSDstats
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2010, Robert Huff wrote: The problem with not including bsdstats in sysinstall or some other means of bringing it to peoples attention is that it gets forgotten and loses its effectiveness. Maybe it could go in the monthly subscription list reminder. I think everyone agrees that bsdstats needs more visibility right from the virgin install. Since its not appropriate to include bsdstats in the sysinstall program. How about getting the RELEASE team to change the content of the default logon message of the day /etc/motd, to advocacy installing the bsdstats package. What do you think about this idea? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
BSDstats website displaying data incorrectly
Why does this page show PCBSD has count of 387 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os= And this page shows PCBSD has count of 1307 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os=PC-BSD Why is this? I would think both should show the same value, or you better add explanation to the web page why the count is different. And that little selection box on the home page should have some explanation of its function. Just sticking it there on the right side of the page above the titles hoping someone will fall into it is not user friendly. What is going on with the release stats? What are you showing there? Is that just for Freebsd? If so then the count is incorrect. This should be showing the count for each release under each operating system. IE. what release are in use for freebsd, netbsd, openbsd ect. Website also needs explanation of the time frame being reported. Are the values shows as of the the first day of the current month? In general the website does not explain much of anything about what is being shown. Put a lot more text describing the overall process and the reporting cycle. Also think some kind of operating system monthly growth chart over time is needed. Say going back 3 years to current. The current website is way to passive in the way things are worded. Try to inspire people to show their loyalty, allegiance, and devotion by running the bsdstats client to anonymously report their usage to the benefit of everyone. Developers donate large amounts of their personal free time working on the operating systems, the least the users can do is fulfill their obligation to demonstrate their gratitude to the developers by running bsdstats. Emphasize the reporting is anonymously. Website needs to promote it self more. Get on the home page of all the different BSD systems. Try to become a default part of the BSD systems basic release. Like PCbsd does. Not option to go get it and turn it on, but all ready there with option to turn off if desired. This is only self promotion of the individual operating systems and should be something they should be interested in doing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Addition to BSDstats
Steve Bertrand wrote: Marc, et-al, I wasn't originally going to post this to the list, but I thought that it would be useful to do so in order to try to solicit feedback. There's a suggestion that I have for the server-side of bsdstats. I would find it very useful if the server could track the % of the reporting connections that come in over IPv6, and include that on the website front page. Of course, this would require that rpt.bsdstats.org reside on a reliable IPv6 network, and code changes to the server-side software. (if the code is Perl, I'll gladly take a look at it ;) I'm not interested in the actual addresses of the sending hosts, just whether the address contains a '.' or ':'. Cheers, Steve BSDSTATS is dead. Don't waste your time. I am a retired American who is now living in the Philippines. All during RELEASE 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and now 8.0 I have been running the bsdstats port on my single system. Yesterday I checked the http://bsdstats.org website by country and to my great surprise there are no Freebsd systems listed in the Philippines. Also the previous months reports are no longer shown on the website and the port stats don't show at all. This is not the results talked about on this list when the bsdstats project was trying to get Freebsd participation 3 years ago. The bsdstats website has been un-supported, un-updated for over 2 years and nobody noticed until I showed up in a country with out any Freebsd counts, but knowing I was reports regularly. What good is participation if there are no real-time results. I removed bsdstats from my system and the port should be removed from the ports system. I also emailed Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org the author and never received a reply. That is the best sign that bsdstats is dead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Addition to BSDstats
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Don't worry about it, found and fixed that bug ... it had to do with trying to masquarade behind haproxy, so it looked like all systems were coming in from Panama if they were running the newest code ... which means alot of ppl out there were running *old* code ... Basically, by setting up haproxy to load balance, all IPs hitting the backend were, as mentioned before, masquaraded ... but, of course, that means that when Geo::IP trying to determine country of origin, it always reports for the country of origin of the haproxy IP (Panama) ... I've fixed this ... still not recording IP, but at least the PHP script determing country basis it on the proper IP, not the haproxy IP ... No changes required on the client side, as things will normalize over the course of the next month as ppl report in ... If anyone on FreeBSD wishes to 'force an update': /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics -nodelay will push it through ... Just did pkg_add -r bsdstats followed by /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics -nodelay Still don't see any Freebsd systems listed for the Philippines on the website. What is YOUR definition of REAL-TIME. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?
Fbsd1 wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512k count=10 fdisk -i /dev/da0 newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 Thank you very much. Thats the answer I was hoping for. For the archives here is a detailed explanation. Create MS/Windows file system on a Hard Drive so it will be recognized on an MS/Windows system. The goal here is to initialize a hard drive that was previous initialized with a non-Microsoft Windows file system, with a single active partition populated with Microsoft Windows 32 bit FAT (LBA) file system. So this hard drive will be recognized as containing a valid MS/Windows file system when used on a Microsoft Windows system. I have an old IDE 3.5” hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it as external USB attached disk on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB adapter cable. It will work with 2.5” 3.5” IDE drives and SATA drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5” IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in “control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives” as there, but “windows explorer” does not assign a drive letter for it so I can not reformat it. All PC’s running a MS/Windows system inspect sector 0 of the hard drive for the partition/slice table to determine the sysid of each partition/slice. If the sysid value is 12 then it’s a valid Microsoft Windows file system and gets assigned a drive letter in “windows explorer”. Any other sysid value means non-Microsoft Windows file system and the device is seen in “control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives” as there but “windows explorer” does not assign a drive letter to it. There are 2 ways to initialize ((2.5” or 3.5”) (IDE or SATA)) hard drives with a valid MS/Windows file system. Using the Microsoft “fdisk” program or the FreeBSD “fdisk” program. The Microsoft “fdisk” program defaults to sysid =12. The FreeBSD “fdisk” program defaults to sysid = 165, but has alternate way to assign any sysid value you want. Microsoft method. Replace the 2.5” hard drive in your laptop with the 2.5” hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. If 3.5” hard drive then open your desktop PC, remove the data cable ribbon and power connection from the existing hard drive and attach them to the 3.5” hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. Put the Microsoft XP, Vista, or Windows7 install CD in the cdrom drive and boot. Select fdisk option from the install menu to populate the hard drive with official ntfs file system. No need to continue with the install after fdisk complete. FreeBSD method. You need a PC with a running FreeBSD system and USB hardware to attach the 2.5” or 3.5” IDE or SATA hard drives with. A USB external hard drive housing will work fine for 3.5” IDE and SATA drives. For 2.5” IDE or SATA drives you will need a USB adapter cable. The 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable I purchased works with 2.5” 3.5” IDE drives and SATA drives, cost $10 USA. If you have a 3.5” IDE or SATA hard drive and FreeBSD is running on a desktop PC, you could open it up and add it as a second hard drive on the data ribbon. Attach the hard drive to the USB equipment and plug into USB port on the PC running FreeBSD. Best if you are logged in as “root”. You will see the USB console messages as the USB hard drive is connected. In most cases the USB drive will be assigned da0 as the device name. The following instructions are for initializing the hard drive as a single MS/Windows partition occupying the whole hard drive. Wipe clean the sector 0 slice table # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 The following is what you would do if the initialized msdosfs hard drive will only be used on a FreeBSD system. The slice table is populated with the sysid of 165, which means FreeBSD is using this slice, but the slice contains a MSDOS FAT32 file system. The newfs_msdos command is really acting like the msdos format command. The larger your hard drive the longer this command will take to complete. #fdisk -BI /dev/da0 #newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 This creates the sector 0 slice table and loads the default bios boot code and activates a single slice covering the entire disk. If at this point you un-plugged the USB cable from the FreeBSD system and plugged it into a Microsoft Windows PC. The USB drive would be un-accessible by “windows explorer” because no drive letter gets assigned. That’s because Window’s see this hard drive as a non-windows drive. Which
How To create msdosfs on HD?
I have an old IDE 3.5 hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it for USB disk space on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable. It will work with 2.5 3.5 IDE drives and sata drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5 IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in system/devices/hard drives as there but windows explorer does not assign a drive letter for it. I'm thinking this is because the hard drive has UFS format and maybe it I reformat it to fat format xp will assign a drive letter to it. I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?
Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? ___ Why can't you format it in XP since you connected it to XP? Because like I say in the first part of post you snipped out that xp does not assign a drive letter to it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Rod Person rodper...@rodperson.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512k count=10 fdisk -i /dev/da0 newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 Thank you very much. Thats the answer I was hoping for. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
apache Perl CGI programs
I have Perl and apache installed on my system. Do I have to do anything additional to get apache to run Perl CGI programs? Is putting the perl script in the cgi-bin directory at /usr/local/www/data all it takes to make things work? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ezjail and dmsg -a command
I have a directory tree type of ezjail up and running. When in jail console I enter dmesg -a and i get the hosts last boot messages not the jails. Why is this dmesg command issued from within the jail have access to the host world? Something wrong here! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Host firewall and jails
Just where do jails fall in reference to the host firewall? Do jails see the inbound packets before the host's firewall does? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installation problem
Александров Иван wrote: Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi HDS721016LA386(0A39261)8MB SATA-II Codegen Q3337-A2 ATX 400W CD-ROM TOSHIBA (don't know 3 years old , HHD) problem: In various places errors occur when installing 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz and FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso everywhere timeout in 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz for example: ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0 acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out I would like to begin the study with nix feeBSD very disappointing Help please,bootable flash don't work too. can you help me? thanks Make sure the cdrom drive in cabled on the second motherboard ata port as master with nothing on the slave nipple. Your sata drive should be on the first motherboard port as master and the slave nipple empty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to make man pages
For the questions list archives: I wrote an How To Creating a manpage from scratch. You can read it here. http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4602 Thanks to all the people who replied to my post. Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Powered Speakers
Antonio Olivares wrote: On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with the speakers (even when turned off but still plugged in) interrupting the normal operation of my keyboard (basically it seems that power is cut to my keyboard at random). I have a beefy power supply (650W) so I really shouldn't be having any power distribution issues. I've tried the speakers in both the on-board USB ports and the USB expansion card (PCI) with the same results. Any ideas? You really need to explain in detail the problem. Without these new speakers plugged in does wall powered speakers work? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
usage of /usr/bin
Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: usage of /usr/bin
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL) is for local additions (ports and packages), while things outside this structure usually belong to the system itself; I'm excluding mounted filesystem and other things here for a moment. /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications bin/ common utilities, programming tools, and applica- tions But: local/local executables, libraries, etc. Also used as the default destination for the FreeBSD ports framework. Within local/, the general layout sketched out by hier for /usr should be used. Exceptions are the man directory (directly under local/ rather than under local/share/), ports documentation (in share/doc/port/), and /usr/local/etc (mimics /etc). Because we are on FreeBSD, there's excellent documentation that shows how and why the system tree has a well intended layout. :-) The command % man hier will explain everything in detail. But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. And I am sure postfix is not the only port to do this also. This intermingling of RELEASE binaries and port binaries in /usr/bin is a really big problem when trying to build jails. Any past ports which have been included into the base release should not be in /usr period. Saying system user utilizes are in /user/bin then why is fdisk or sysinstall not there also. That don't make sense. It time to modernize the directory layout keeping all RELEASE binaries out of /usr. I would think moving the /usr RELEASE binaries by the RELEASE development team is a far smaller task then reviewing all 21,500 ports for the bad ones that don't target /usr/local/bin and then correcting their make files. Before jails this problem was not a problem, But with the growing usage of jails this is becoming a major incentive to not use jails at all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: usage of /usr/bin
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not. You have to enable the Install into /usr and /etc/postfix configuration option for it to do so. I don't recommend that anyone do it without a *really* good reason. Turn that option back off and you'll be fine. Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: usage of /usr/bin
Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL) is for local additions (ports and packages), while things outside this structure usually belong to the system itself; I'm excluding mounted filesystem and other things here for a moment. [snip] But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. I haven't installed postfix, but is this possibly related to the recently (2010-03-22) added option to install postfix into the base? In which case the commit six days later claims to correct a problem with the default (non-base) install. Jonathan I installed the package of postfix and it installed is self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Packages are frozen some time before the RELEASE is distributed to the public. The change you question would have never made it into the RELEASE 8.0 package. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: usage of /usr/bin
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Unless you or whoever built the package changed $PREFIX: % pkg_info -Lx postfix Information for postfix-2.7.0,1: Files: /usr/local/man/man1/postalias.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1/postcat.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1/postconf.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1/postdrop.1.gz [ ... ] /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/tlsmgr.8.html /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/generic.5.html /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix ...every file is under /usr/local. Perhaps you set INST_BASE option? [ ] INST_BASE Install into /usr and /etc/postfix Regards, I installed the package of postfix and it installed is self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. This is now I know that. I swapped a empty drive with my live system drive. Installed the sysinstall kern developer option to get full binaries and sources. After the install I set chflags schg /dir/ and /dir/* for these dir. /bin /boot /lib /libexec /sbin /usr/bin /usr/include /usr/lib /usr/libexec /usr/sbin. This should have protected all those RELEASE base directors and all the files in then. With the dir also having schg on, no files should have been able to be added to it. I then did a ls -lo /dir file to save copy of their content. Then I did pkg_add -r postfix-current. After which i did another ls -lo /dir file and to my surprise i see all these new files have been added to /usr/bin. What am I to think? How else would you explain this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to make man pages
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2010 08:54:25, Fbsd1 wrote: OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? % cp /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz . % gunzip jail.2.gz % mv jail.2 myname.2 % ee myname.2 And how do I turn the edited text file back in to a man page .gz file? To compress the groff source: % gzip myname.2 To render the groff source as ascii text (what the man(1) command does): % groff -mdoc -Tascii myname.2 | less or % gzcat myname.2.gz | groff -mdoc -Tascii | less In general though, you should keep the man page source uncompressed while you're working on it and within the port; install it uncompressed and leave it to the ports machinery to compress it after installation. Getting closer but not there yet. Selected man jail to be my example of macro commands used. Did [gunzip jail.8.gz] and now I have jail.8 file. How to I convert this file to native macro file that I can edit with ee? After editing the macro file how to I convert it to format ready to compress? I want to test it with the man command. When I do groff -mdoc -Tascii jail.8 | less I get loads of this message mdoc warning: Empty input line #xxx. If I look at man jail screen output I see each message corresponds to a blank line in the man page. Is this suppose to happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to make man pages
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/04/2010 09:41:59, Fbsd1 wrote: Getting closer but not there yet. Selected man jail to be my example of macro commands used. Did [gunzip jail.8.gz] and now I have jail.8 file. How to I convert this file to native macro file that I can edit with ee? Ah -- did you copy the right file? /usr/share/man/man8/jail.8.gz should contain mdoc source, which looks like this: .\ .\ Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 Robert N. M. Watson .\ Copyright (c) 2008 James Gritton .\ All rights reserved. .\ .\ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\ modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\ are met: .\ 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\ 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the [... copyright statements elided for reasons of space ...] .\ $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8,v 1.97.2.3 2010/01/23 16:40:35 bz Exp $ .\ .Dd January 17, 2010 .Dt JAIL 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm jail .Nd create or modify a system jail .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm [...etc...] No blank lines there. Don't confuse this with the preprocessed version in /usr/share/man/*cat8*/jail.8.gz Cheers, Matthew Yep that is the problem. I have no source. I did minimum install. Is there any way to convert the preprocessed version in /usr/share/man/*cat8*/jail.8.gz to native macro file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD splash screen - freezes my Dell Inspiron 9400
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I'm observing the following with 8.0 Release: Just for fun I installed a FreeBSD splash screen The Power to Serve with the abstracted little demon. As long as the vidcontrol screen saver (not X11, I'm not running X11 at present) has not fired the first time, everything is fine - I can work in alphanumeric mode. But when I leave the computer unattended for a while so that the screensaver switches to darken/blank the screen the first time, the machine freezes or at least cannot be woken up again so that the character screen shows up again. Anyone seen this or having a clue? Also not sure whether it is a splash screen issue at all, butr I thought so, since it would have come up earlier otherwise. -- Christoph Kukulies Have you read the handbook section 12.3.3.4 Boot Time Splash Screens? The splash screen has its own screen saver. Or are you talking about the screen saver enabled in rc.conf? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to make man pages
On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it to taste. See groff(1) for documentation on the command used to format man pages from source, and groff_mdoc(7) for details on the groff macro syntax. groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all like HTML. If you're after how to install man pages for a port, then look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-manpages.html Note that the MANX and other ports Macros only affect the pkg-list and compressing the man pages /after/ installation. You'll still have to put in some code to copy your self-written man page into place. Cheers, Matthew OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do I turn the edited text file back in to a man page .gz file? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: /boot.config
krad wrote: On 31 March 2010 04:53, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? If you boot DOS from a floppy, can you see the USB stick as B: or C: ? If not, then the BIOS probably has no USB support at all, and you'll need to put a small boot partition somewhere on your hard drive to pull the kernel from. 128MB is large enough for a /boot directory, and you can set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a in loader.conf to make it mount its root filesystem from the USB stick (since at that point the kernel has loaded its own USB drivers). If you do see the USB drive from a DOS boot floppy, try entering 1:da(0,a)? at the boot block prompt and see if it lists the files in your USB filesystem. If it does, then 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader should let you boot FreeBSD. The USB stick is plugged in before booting. During boot I select option 6 from Freebsd menu to go direct to the loader prompt. I have ok on command line. I enter vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a and get not found after hitting enter key. At the ok prompt I enter ? for list of available boot devices and only have ad0 listed. It seems the da0 device USB stick is not recognized yet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org try legacy usb in the bios, it may help My bios have no reference to USB at all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
/boot.config
During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? Is this concept valid? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to make man pages
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Re: /boot.config
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? If you boot DOS from a floppy, can you see the USB stick as B: or C: ? If not, then the BIOS probably has no USB support at all, and you'll need to put a small boot partition somewhere on your hard drive to pull the kernel from. 128MB is large enough for a /boot directory, and you can set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a in loader.conf to make it mount its root filesystem from the USB stick (since at that point the kernel has loaded its own USB drivers). If you do see the USB drive from a DOS boot floppy, try entering 1:da(0,a)? at the boot block prompt and see if it lists the files in your USB filesystem. If it does, then 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader should let you boot FreeBSD. The USB stick is plugged in before booting. During boot I select option 6 from Freebsd menu to go direct to the loader prompt. I have ok on command line. I enter vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a and get not found after hitting enter key. At the ok prompt I enter ? for list of available boot devices and only have ad0 listed. It seems the da0 device USB stick is not recognized yet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition
Martin McCormick wrote: Fbsd1 writes: There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. Looks like you are SOL. Me thinks you are absolutely correct. I was only hoping I was doing something wrong and a slight syntax change would make it work. Thank you and thanks to Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl for his suggestion. I have one last trick up my sleve before giving up completely on this idea. Maybe I can hijack one of the rc.x scripts to cause it to spew a memory disk image of the mfsboot code on to the freshly-unmounted /dev/ad0 device during a reboot. Since the goal is to completely rebuild the system anyway, this would be the last gasp of the present system as it gets ready to reboot, hopefully with mfsbsd and all hard drives dismounted. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org just dd the image to what ever drive you want ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [ fbsd_questions ] tar(1) vs. msdos_fs: a death_spiral ?
spellberg_robert wrote: greetings, all --- i confess that this one has me flummoxed. the short question: does tar(1) spit_up when extracting onto an msdos_fs hard_drive ? [ i tried the mailing_list archives tar AND msdos, for -questions, -chat, -bugs, -newbies, -performance ] [ other research as indicated ] i have no problem using tar(1) on ufs. large files, small files; if i am on ufs, everything is fine. i have been creating tarballs from medium_size msdos_fs drives, also. this worked fine. i would check them by extracting into a ufs root_point. no problem. this week, i tried to do something new. i wanted to take a tarball, already on ufs, that was created from an msdos_fs drive and extract it onto an msdos_fs drive. this, to me, actually seems like a reaasonable idea; but, what do i know ? well, it starts out just fine, but, it rapidly degenerates into what is, normally, infinite_loop land. when ps(1) says cpu_% of 1%, 2%, 5%; ok, it is an active process. in about ten minutes, tar(1) enters 90% cpu. after 20 minutes, 99%. i does not matter if X_windows is running. foreground or background process, no difference. it seems to be working correctly because the error_file is always of zero_size. i suspect that if i left it alone, after a few days, it would finish. some details [ everything is ufs, using 8kB/1kB, except /mnt, which is clustered as indicated; of course, the tarball is not named ball, nor is the path, to the tarball, named path, but, then, you knew that ]. mkdir /path_c mkdir /path_c/88_x mkdir /path_d mkdir /path_d/88_x mount -v -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt [ fat_32, about 6_GB, 4_KB cluster, the c:\ drive, primary partition. ] cd /mnt ( tar cvplf /path_c/99_ball.tar . /path_c/90_cvpl.out ) /path_c/91_cvpl.err[ real time 16m 07s, exit_status 0 ] cd / ; umount /mnt mount -v -t msdos /dev/ad1s5 /mnt [ fat_32, about 12_GB, 8_KB cluster, the d:\ drive, extended partition. ] cd /mnt ( tar cvplf /path_d/99_ball.tar . /path_d/90_cvpl.out ) /path_d/91_cvpl.err[ real time 20m 15s, exit_status 0 ] cd / ; umount /mnt cd /path_c/88_x ( tar xvplf ../99_ball.tar ../92_xvpl.out ) ../93_xvpl.err [ real time 08m 11s; exit_status 0 ] diff ../9[02]* [ exit_status 0; the tables_of_contents are the same ] ls -l ..[ visually inspect the error_files to be of zero_size - verified ] cd /path_d/88_x ( tar xvplf ../99_ball.tar ../92_xvpl.out ) ../93_xvpl.err [ real time 12m 37s; exit_status 0 ] diff ../9[02]* [ exit_status 0; the tables_of_contents are the same ] ls -l ..[ visually inspect the error_files to be of zero_size - verified ] [ note that this approach works; it is a good excuse to refill my coffee_cup. ] [ physically replace the source hard_drive w/ 80_GB capacity, 32_KB cluster, primary_partition only, virgin hard_drive. this destination hard_drive was fdisked and formated yesterday_morning; this drive was scandisked yesterday for 12 hours, using the thorough option, it has zero bad clusters [ i wanted to eliminate the drive as the problem ] ]. mount -v -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt mkdir /mnt/path_cc cd/mnt/path_cc ( tar xvplf /path_c/99_ball.tar ../92_xvpl.out ) ../93_xvpl.err[ started this at 18:05_utc, it is now about 21:35_utc; the toc_file, from the 8_minute extraction above, has 87517 lines in it; the current toc_file has only 12667 lines. ] [ this is the second hard_drive i have tried this on, this week; i will probably kill the process as xterm is being updated about 8 seconds apart, now. ] on the first hard_drive [ i have not done this on the second drive, yet ] i noted that i had a successful extraction on the ufs drive. not being the smartest person around, i had, what i thought to be, a --brilliant-- idea, what if i try a recursive copy of the successful extraction ? this is interesting; the recursive copy started_out like gang_busters, then, just like the extraction, slowly bogged_down to 99%_cpu. hmmm..., two different msdos_fs hard_drives, two different normally_reliable utilities, same progressive_hogging of the cpu. this makes me wonder about the msdos_fs hard_drive, which is, rapidly, becoming the only remaining common factor. ok. i tried the mailing lists. right now, i am web_page searching; tar(1) seems to be slow in some situations, but, i have not, yet,
Loader.conf mfs statements
Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing. In its loader.conf file i see these statements geom_uzip_load=YES mfs_load=YES mfs_type=mfs_root mfs_name-/mfsroot tmpfs_laod=YES vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/mdo Where do I find documentation on the meaning of these statements? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Loader.conf mfs statements
Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:48:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing. In its loader.conf file i see these statements geom_uzip_load=YES mfs_load=YES mfs_type=mfs_root mfs_name-/mfsroot tmpfs_laod=YES vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/mdo Where do I find documentation on the meaning of these statements? loader.conf(5) and /boot/defaults/loader.conf All ready checked those sources before posting with no joy. IE: your are wrong. Those sources have no info on the mfs* statements. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition
Martin McCormick wrote: I have hit one of these impenetrable walls in which nothing seems to work but I know it should. I have tried several versions of /boot.config to no avail. The idea is exactly the same principle as described in depenguinator which is software that lets one use grub in Linux to install FreeBSD on a working Linux system. The idea is to steal the swap partition, put mfsboot there, and then tell grub to boot from that partition rather than the normal active one. The manual for boot.config makes me think I should be able to just put in the information describing the secondary partition and it should cause a boot from that one but: /boot.config: 1:ad(0,b)/boot/loader -P FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 1:ad(0,b)/boot/loader boot: error 1 lba 0 No /boot/loader The mfsboot image works when started from the primary partition so I am stuck as to why boot.config is not starting from that secondary partition. The present boot.config is: 1:ad(0,b)/boot/loader -P If mfsbsd was starting, shouldn't it see its boot loader? Is there a mfsbsd discussion list? Surely, somebody else has hit this brick wall, also. From what I read in this freebsd.org article http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/index.html There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. Looks like you are SOL. Booting mfsBSD Now that the mfsBSD image is ready, it must be uploaded to the remote system running a live rescue system or pre-installed Linux® distribution. The most suitable tool for this task is scp: # scp disk.img r...@192.168.0.2:. To boot mfsBSD image properly, it must be placed on the first (bootable) device of the given machine. This may be accomplished using this example providing that sda is the first bootable disk device: # dd if=/root/disk.img of=/dev/sda bs=1m If all went well, the image should now be in the MBR of the first device and the machine can be rebooted. Watch for the machine to boot up properly with the ping(8) tool. Once it has came back on-line, it should be possible to access it over ssh(1) as user root with the configured password. The mfsbsd process has new maintainer, Martin Matuska m...@freebsd.org Email him for help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Handbook Index
I find it very hard to find the subject I am looking for in the handbook. The index only gets me to the general area in the handbook and then I have to (next page) through it looking for what I hope is there. The Index really needs to be expanded to display each and every sub-section of all the major sections now in the index. For example Installing from a ms/dos partition or splash screen usage. These are both subjects in the handbook but are not in the index. What good is am index that does not index its content? The purpose of the index is to list all subjects documented in the handbook so the reader can skim through the index and click on the exact subject they want to read. Can not do that with the current handbook index. So what do other people think? Should I submit a Doc bug on this?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't boot off the USB image
rocwhite168 wrote: My computers (Dell SX280 PCs or Dell D600 laptop) seem to refuse to boot off the USB disk with non-Windows images are written to it (I have also tried OpenSolaris images). I've tried using dd to write the .img files, or using unetbootin to write either .img or .iso images, or using UltraISO to write the iso files to my USB disk, but all the methods failed. But if the image was a Windows boot disk, it did work. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Is it simply because the computers are to old? Or do I have to do anything special for the FreeBSD images to make the computers boot off a USB device? Thank you very much! ___ When you say USB disk, you do mean an USB cabled external disk hard drive correct? That being the case, you have to download the FreeBSD disc1.iso file and burn it to a cdrom disk and then boot off that to start the sysinstall process to populate your USB cabled external disk hard drive with the FreeBSD operating system. Reading the FreeBSD manual on the install process or the Freebsd install guide should help you a lot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ or http://www.a1poweruser.com Now if on the other hand you are really talking about a (USB memory stick, flash drive, key disk, stick disk, or pen) which all mean the same thing, then you should read this article Everything you want to know about Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick http://www.a1poweruser.com/30.00-USB_installing_article.php If none of this helps you then repost with an more detailed description of just what you did and what the result was. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their real name, post a email saying something like CLIK ON DIS LINK PLZ /and/ Websense kicks in, my paranoia takes over :) Yea like Christer Solskogen is your real name. Are you that naive that you believe a name used on a email address has any truth in who really is using it. If you have nothing to say about the article you should have kept your paranoia to your self instead of questioning the integrity of the writer. There was no reason to make your first reply. And even after being told your websence software is in error you still continue mouthing nonsense. Once again YOU SHOULD BE ASKING YOUR WEBSENSE SOFTWARE VENDOR WHAT ARE THE EXACT REASONS THEY FLAGGED THIS SITE. OTHER POSTERS HAVE ALL READY TOLD YOU THAT FALSE POSITIVES ARE COMMON FROM VENDORS OF SUCH SCAM SERVICES AS WEBSENSE. NOBODY HAS A GUN TO YOUR HEAD TO CLICK ON A LINK. THAT IS YOUR CHOOSE OR NOT AND NOBODY HERE ON THE LIST HAS THE LEAST INTEREST IN WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO CLICK ON SO KEPT IT TO YOUR SELF. Any reply from this point on just marks you as a flamer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Have no idea what you are talking about. Since your using their software maybe you should be asking them this question. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.
Hello list. I wrote this article on the different ways to install Freebsd on a USB stick. It covers a large range of related subjects dealing with installing Freebsd and the use of an USB stick. It's way to large to post here so the link below will take you to the article. Looking for feedback, errors, corrections, your thoughts in general. http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit
Bogdan Webb wrote:
try php's safe_mode but it is likely to keep the hackers off, indeed they
can get in and snatch some data but they would be kept out of a shell's
reach... but sometimes safe_mode is not enough... try considering Suhosin
but the addon not the patch... and define the
suhosin.executor.func.blacklist witch will deny use of certain php commands
that allow shell execution... but keep in mind it's impossible to prevent
all breaches... this php patch will only keep the hacker kiddos off but
there's still a good chance it can be broken... stay safe !
ref's:
http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin.127.html
http://beta.pgn.ro/phps/phpinfo.php
2010/1/31 James Smallacombe u...@3.am
Whoever speculated that my server may have been compromised was on to
something (see bottom). The good news is, it does appear to be contained to
the www unpriveleged user (with no shell). The bad news is, they can
still cause a lot of trouble. I found the compromised customer site and
chmod 0 their cart (had php binaries called core(some number).php that gave
the hacker a nice browser screen to cause all kinds of trouble)
Not sure if this is related to the UDP floods, but if not, it's a heck of a
coincidence. At times, CPU went through the roof for the www user, mostly
running some sort of perl scripts (nothing in the suexec-log). I would kill
apache, but couldn't restart it as it would show port 80 in use. I would
have to manually kill processes like these:
www 70471 1.4 0.1 6056 3824 ?? R 4:21PM 0:44.75 [eth0] (perl)
www 70470 1.2 0.1 6060 3828 ?? R 4:21PM 0:44.50 [bash] (perl)
www 64779 1.0 0.1 6056 3820 ?? R 4:07PM 2:24.34
/sbin/klogd -c 1 -x -x (perl)
www 70472 1.0 0.1 6060 3828 ?? R 4:21PM 0:44.84
I could not find ANY file named klogd on the system, let alone in /sbin.
Clues as to how to dig myself out of this are appreciated
I found this in /tmp/bx1.txt:
--More--(5%)#!/usr/bin/php
?php
#
# --- Zen Cart 1.3.8 Remote Code Execution
# http://www.zen-cart.com/
# Zen Cart Ecommerce - putting the dream of server rooting within reach of
anyone!
# A new version (1.3.8a) is avaible on http://www.zen-cart.com/
#
# BlackH :)
#
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
if($argc 2)
{
echo
=___ Zen Cart 1.3.8 Remote Code Execution Exploit =
| BlackH bl4c...@gmail.com |
| |
| \$system php $argv[0] url|
| Notes: url ex: http://victim.com/site (no slash) |
| |
;exit(1);
--- snipped --
It is dated from two nights ago, after these issues started, but it's
nonetheless larming. Security Focus is aware of the issue and refers you to
Zen for the fix. Only problem is, this is an old version of Zen cart, and
the
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
u...@3.am http://3.am
=
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FTP using .netrc
Goal is to download the install source directory tree so I can use it as an target for local ftp sysinstall. The problem is that the FreeBSD ftp server keeps timing out before everything is downloaded. This is the error message ftp gives me. 421 Service not available, remote server timed out. Connection closed This is the command line command used to launch the ftp session ftp -v ftp.FreeBSD.org It defaults to using /root/.netrc which is shown below machine ftp.FreeBSD.org login anonymous password f...@home.com macdef init prompt off cd /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE epsv4 off mget ERRATA.HTM ERRATA.TXT HARDWARE.HTM HARDWARE.TXT README.HTM mget README.TXT RELNOTES.HTM RELNOTES.TXT cdrom.inf docbook.css $ getdir base catpages dict doc games info kernels manpages ports proflibs src quit macdef getdir ! mkdir $i mget $i/* Question is how can I make FTP resume the download at the place it timed out. IE not start at the beginning and re-download all the same files all ready received. ftp -vR ftp.FreeBSD.org just starts downloading from the beginning again. I tried testing using fetch -avrpAF ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org but the /.netrc file is not being defaulted to like when using plan ftp as above. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
8.0 and floppy support
When booting release 8.0 i no longer get the fd0 floppy device prob message. This pc has run freebsd 6.4 7.0 7.2 which all supported the floppy drive. Has floppy drive support been dropped in 8.0? I know the floppy drive works because i can boot win98 floppy disk ok. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pf rules
Erik Norgaard wrote:
kalin m wrote:
tcp_in = { www, https }
ftp_in = { ftp }
udp = { domain, ntp }
ping = echoreq
set skip on lo
scrub in
antispoof for eth0 inet
block in all
pass out all keep state
pass proto udp to any port $udp
pass inet proto icmp all icmp-type $ping keep state
pass in inet proto tcp to any port $tcp_in flags S/SAF synproxy state
pass proto tcp to any port ssh
To debug pf rules:
- always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all
rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules
- group your rules per direction, then per interface
- add log to all rules and watch pflog to see which rule blocks or
passes traffic.
- use keyword quick for any decisive rule
- check the parsing of your ruleset, pfctl -sr
then come back and ask for help.
BR, Erik
See sample pf firewall rules in manual
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Re: Invalid partition table after installation
John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me. At least, I can't find it in the BIOS menu anywhere. When I boot from the CD-ROM with the 255 head geometry, though, it complains about the disk geometry, saying 16h,63s != 255h,63s or something like that - it flies by pretty fast (is there a way to go back and see that from the CD-ROM boot only boot?). I'm using the Standard boot manager, and the entire disk is devoted to FreeBSD. System BIOS version PT84510A.86A.2004.P05 Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 Processor speed: 2.20Ghz Memory: 512Mb Disk: Primary IDE Master ST380021A (Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80Gb) Primary IDE Slave: IOMega ZIP 250 Secondary IDE Master: Sony CD-RW CRX19 (what I boot from to install) Secondary IDE Slave: DVD-ROM DDU1621 Boot sequence: 1) ATAPI CD-ROM 2) Hard Drive 3) Removable Dev. Modern BIOS geometry: 155061/16/63 for ad0 calculated geometry: 9729/255/63 for ad0 ad0s1 start=63, size=2875572 ad0s2 start=2875635, size=10217340 ad0s3 start=13092975, size=143203410 unus start=156296384, size=5103 ad0s1a / 384Mb ad0s1d /usr 1Gb ad0s2b SWAP 1Gb ad0s2d /tmp 384Mb ad0s2e /var 512Mb ad0s2f /var/mail 2Gb ad0s2g /usr/ports 1Gb ad0s3d /home/mysql 4Gb ad0s3e /home 50Gb ad0s3f /usr/src 3Gb ad0s3g /usr/obj 3Gb ad0s3h /extra 8483Mb Suggestions, please? I'm making zero headway right now. :( What version of FreeBSD are you running Well, yes, I suppose that would be a good bit of information! What I'm *TRYING* to run is 8.0. It seems to install successfully (of course - after doing all that), but then when I try to boot from the hard drive, I see an otherwise-blank screen that says: Invalid partition table and that's as far as it goes! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org There are reports of this sort of thing caused by 8.0 fdisk when doing a install from scratch over a hard drive that all ready has an older version of Freebsd installed on it. The solution is to force the scratching of the MBR on the disk first before running sysinstall fdisk. Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 where x equals your drive number. OK. I did exactly that. I confirmed that the second 512 bytes were zero by doing a dd if/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=2 | od -c and everything from 001000 through 002000 was zero. But I still got Invalid partition table after the installation. I guess I should set up one of my other systems as a local mirror. I've done the installation so many time already, and it looks like I'm not done yet! On the 8.0 fdisk/MBR subject. Doing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 was the solution from another post to the list with subject 'SunFire X2100 fails'. Here is another post that gives more details http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=322687+326879+/usr/local/ www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20091227.freebsd-questions It seems in 8.0 gpart was introduced and a change was made to fdisk to support its sector o mbr format. 8.0 fdisk and disklabel are now broken. Searching the list archives may shed more light on your problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO THE MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE??? OR DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO ANOTHER USB STICK??? Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. YOU MEAN YOU PLUGGED THE STICK WITH THE ISO INSTALLED ON IT THAT THE DESKTOP BOOTED FROM??? Any clues? -- Christoph Older pc's have bios which do not have option to boot from USB stick. I think that is so in your case. Check mfg website for bios update. If not you are SOL. (shit outof luck) I can boot USB sticks in general from that notebook/BIOS. That Dell 9400 isn't that old. Today I tried an another USB stick (16GB) an Ubuntu 9.04 boot image and it worked fine. I saw the boot device under F12 in the bootable device menu. It's definitely not the BIOS. Could be some partition problem (active partition?). Why is it part #4 btw, that FreeBSD resides in and not part #1 ? LETS NOT GET CONFUSED WITH MSDOS /FREEBSD TERMS. IN FREEBSD A SLICE IS WHAT MSDOS CALLS A PARTITION. IN FREEBSD A PARTITION IS A FILE SYSTEM SUCH AS /, /USR, /VAR WITH IN THE SLICE. A SLICE IS MARKED AS ACTIVE MEANING ITS BOOTABLE. THE MBR (MASTER BOOT RECORD)PARTITION TABLE IS REALLY FREEBSD SLICE TABLE. FROM YOUR STATEMENT ABOVE YOU HAVE A MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE WITH 4 PARTITIONS/SLICES DEFINED IN THE MBR PARTITION TABLE. THE FIRST 3 PARTITIONS COULD BE HOLDING OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT YOU MAY WANT TO BOOT FROM. IS THIS CORRECT? I followed some FreeBSD howto, if I'm not wrong, to bring the ISO to the USB stick. Think it was a tool from HP to write it to the stick. -- Christoph Here is some thing for you to check. When you plug your USB stick into a running freebsd system a bunch of messages are printed on the root console. One of those messages contain the Revision level of the 2.0 standard used by the micro code in the usb stick. I have found through testing different non-branded and branded sticks that the Revision level makes a very large difference in whether you can boot from the stick. Sticks that show Rev 2.00/0.00 or 2.00/1.00 will never boot. Only sticks that show Rev 2.00/2.00 are bootable. Now since only one of my 4 pc's is new enough to have bios option to boot from usb stick I do not know if these results are dependent on my particular Acer TravelMate 4220 pc bios. Please let me know what usb stick Revision levels you can boot from on both your desktop and laptop. I would think if the stick is bootable on desktop it should also boot on the laptop. Here is the script I use to put the disc-1 iso on usb stick so I can use the stick as source media to install from. When booting from usb stick as install source and installing onto another usb stack as the target you have to have both sticks plugged in before booting. When you are in sysinstall fdisk check the stick size to verify you have chosen the correct da stick as target. You can find yourself fdisking your source stick by mistake. If you don't get prompt to chose da0 or da1 before fdisk starts then you have to tell sysinstall to re-probe devices by using options rescan (*) off the main menu, move highlight bar by using arrow keys and hit space bar to rescan. Then you should get prompt containing both da devices before fdisk. I have used this command to to write zeros to the usb stick MBR dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=1 and this command to display the MBR dd if=/dev/da0 count=1 | od -c I also notice that fdisk does not allocate space on usb sticks as i would expect. It always allocates a free space before and after the full stick single slice. It also never get the size of the stick correct. A 2GB stick is shown as 1.7GB and 4GB stick is shown as 3.7GB. Do you see the same thing happening with your usb sticks? #!/bin/sh #Purpose = Use to transfer the FreeBSD install cd1 to # a bootable 1GB USB flash drive so it can be used to install from. # First fetch the FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso to your # hard drive /usr. Then execute this script from the command line # fbsd2usb /usr/7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso /usr/7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.img # Change system bios to boot from USB-dd and away you go. # NOTE: This script has to be run from root and your 1GB USB flash drive # has to be plugged in before running this script. # On the command line enter fbsd2usb iso-path img-path # You can set some variables here. Edit them to fit your needs. # Set serial variable to 0 if you don't want serial console at all, # 1 if you want comconsole and 2 if you want comconsole and vidconsole serial=0 set -u if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then echo
Re: Invalid partition table after installation
John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me. At least, I can't find it in the BIOS menu anywhere. When I boot from the CD-ROM with the 255 head geometry, though, it complains about the disk geometry, saying 16h,63s != 255h,63s or something like that - it flies by pretty fast (is there a way to go back and see that from the CD-ROM boot only boot?). I'm using the Standard boot manager, and the entire disk is devoted to FreeBSD. System BIOS version PT84510A.86A.2004.P05 Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 Processor speed: 2.20Ghz Memory: 512Mb Disk: Primary IDE Master ST380021A (Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80Gb) Primary IDE Slave: IOMega ZIP 250 Secondary IDE Master: Sony CD-RW CRX19 (what I boot from to install) Secondary IDE Slave: DVD-ROM DDU1621 Boot sequence: 1) ATAPI CD-ROM 2) Hard Drive 3) Removable Dev. Modern BIOS geometry: 155061/16/63 for ad0 calculated geometry: 9729/255/63 for ad0 ad0s1 start=63, size=2875572 ad0s2 start=2875635, size=10217340 ad0s3 start=13092975, size=143203410 unus start=156296384, size=5103 ad0s1a / 384Mb ad0s1d /usr 1Gb ad0s2b SWAP 1Gb ad0s2d /tmp 384Mb ad0s2e /var 512Mb ad0s2f /var/mail 2Gb ad0s2g /usr/ports 1Gb ad0s3d /home/mysql 4Gb ad0s3e /home 50Gb ad0s3f /usr/src 3Gb ad0s3g /usr/obj 3Gb ad0s3h /extra 8483Mb Suggestions, please? I'm making zero headway right now. :( What version of FreeBSD are you running Well, yes, I suppose that would be a good bit of information! What I'm *TRYING* to run is 8.0. It seems to install successfully (of course - after doing all that), but then when I try to boot from the hard drive, I see an otherwise-blank screen that says: Invalid partition table and that's as far as it goes! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org There are reports of this sort of thing caused by 8.0 fdisk when doing a install from scratch over a hard drive that all ready has an older version of Freebsd installed on it. The solution is to force the scratching of the MBR on the disk first before running sysinstall fdisk. Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 where x equals your drive number. OK. I did exactly that. I confirmed that the second 512 bytes were zero by doing a dd if/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=2 | od -c and everything from 001000 through 002000 was zero. But I still got Invalid partition table after the installation. I guess I should set up one of my other systems as a local mirror. I've done the installation so many time already, and it looks like I'm not done yet! On the 8.0 fdisk/MBR subject. Doing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 was the solution from another post to the list with subject 'SunFire X2100 fails'. Here is another post that gives more details http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=322687+326879+/usr/local/ www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20091227.freebsd-questions It seems in 8.0 gpart was introduced and a change was made to fdisk to support its sector o mbr format. 8.0 fdisk and disklabel are now broken. Searching the list archives may shed more light on your problem. Hmmm. This seems to describe a case where fdisk fails to change the slice table. That is definitely not my case. The changes certainly get made. The next time I go to retry the installation, it has the information I gave it the previous time. I suppose it is possible that it is putting it (and reading it) in the wrong location, which is why the MBR throws up. The problem is that I have a finite (and smallish) amount of time in which to solve this. It seems like the most expedient route forward at this point may be to try to install 7.2 and see how that goes. OK - well, I just tried with 7.2. I got exactly the same results. After what seems like a successful installation, I try to boot from the hard disk and get Invalid partition table. Should I try Boot Manager? Could that make a difference? Is it possible that this combination of BIOS, processor, disk drive, etc., just isn't going to to do for me? I can't just keep throwing hours at this problem. Something is wrong with the MBR. Do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1 to blank out the MBR THEN Do you have a bootable win98 cd or floppy that contains the msdos fdisk pgm. If so boot that and fdisk the hard drive
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO THE MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE??? OR DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO ANOTHER USB STICK??? The former, I copied the 8.0 iso image to an USB stick, booted it and installed it to the desktop PCs hard drive. That was one story. The other point is, that I now wanted to plug this USB stick into my Dell inspiron and install FreeBSD in the same manner to a free partition on my notebooks hard drive. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. YOU MEAN YOU PLUGGED THE STICK WITH THE ISO INSTALLED ON IT THAT THE DESKTOP BOOTED FROM??? Yes, that same stick booted the desktop but is not recognized in the F12 menu of my notebook. Any clues? -- Christoph Older pc's have bios which do not have option to boot from USB stick. I think that is so in your case. Check mfg website for bios update. If not you are SOL. (shit outof luck) I can boot USB sticks in general from that notebook/BIOS. That Dell 9400 isn't that old. Today I tried an another USB stick (16GB) an Ubuntu 9.04 boot image and it worked fine. I saw the boot device under F12 in the bootable device menu. It's definitely not the BIOS. Could be some partition problem (active partition?). Why is it part #4 btw, that FreeBSD resides in and not part #1 ? LETS NOT GET CONFUSED WITH MSDOS /FREEBSD TERMS. IN FREEBSD A SLICE IS WHAT MSDOS CALLS A PARTITION. IN FREEBSD A PARTITION IS A FILE SYSTEM SUCH AS /, /USR, /VAR WITH IN THE SLICE. A SLICE IS MARKED AS ACTIVE MEANING ITS BOOTABLE. THE MBR The FreeBSD fdisk program names it partition. (MASTER BOOT RECORD)PARTITION TABLE IS REALLY FREEBSD SLICE TABLE. FROM YOUR STATEMENT ABOVE YOU HAVE A MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE WITH 4 PARTITIONS/SLICES DEFINED IN THE MBR PARTITION TABLE. THE FIRST 3 PARTITIONS COULD BE HOLDING OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT YOU MAY WANT TO BOOT FROM. IS THIS CORRECT? Actually, I thought the USB stick had been blanked out before, but I'm nit sure and will look at it again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. I will try out your method below now. kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: USB 2.0 at usbus4 umass0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 3 on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) /tmp/l12: unmodified, readonly: line 1 kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: USB 2.0 at usbus4 umass0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 3 on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: UNUSED The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 5 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 # -- Christoph The dd command is what is used to copy the memstick.img to USB stick. The memstick.img is created with the dd command so no compression done. It has fixit included and is 3 times larger than the disc-1 iso file. Thats why I download the disc-1 iso and run the script to build the img on USB stick. So much faster this way. So I see that both usb sticks you are using are revision rev 2.00/1.10. But the stick that boots on your desktop will not boot on the laptop. And the stick that boots on the laptop will not boot on the desktop. Very strange indeed. This indicates that the pc bios are playing a big part in which USB stick it recognizes as bootable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)
John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:35:21PM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01:02AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me. At least, I can't find it in the BIOS menu anywhere. When I boot from the CD-ROM with the 255 head geometry, though, it complains about the disk geometry, saying 16h,63s != 255h,63s or something like that - it flies by pretty fast (is there a way to go back and see that from the CD-ROM boot only boot?). I'm using the Standard boot manager, and the entire disk is devoted to FreeBSD. System BIOS version PT84510A.86A.2004.P05 Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 Processor speed: 2.20Ghz Memory: 512Mb Disk: Primary IDE Master ST380021A (Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80Gb) Primary IDE Slave: IOMega ZIP 250 Secondary IDE Master: Sony CD-RW CRX19 (what I boot from to install) Secondary IDE Slave: DVD-ROM DDU1621 Boot sequence: 1) ATAPI CD-ROM 2) Hard Drive 3) Removable Dev. Modern BIOS geometry: 155061/16/63 for ad0 calculated geometry: 9729/255/63 for ad0 ad0s1 start=63, size=2875572 ad0s2 start=2875635, size=10217340 ad0s3 start=13092975, size=143203410 unus start=156296384, size=5103 ad0s1a / 384Mb ad0s1d /usr 1Gb ad0s2b SWAP 1Gb ad0s2d /tmp 384Mb ad0s2e /var 512Mb ad0s2f /var/mail 2Gb ad0s2g /usr/ports 1Gb ad0s3d /home/mysql 4Gb ad0s3e /home 50Gb ad0s3f /usr/src 3Gb ad0s3g /usr/obj 3Gb ad0s3h /extra 8483Mb Suggestions, please? I'm making zero headway right now. :( What version of FreeBSD are you running Well, yes, I suppose that would be a good bit of information! What I'm *TRYING* to run is 8.0. It seems to install successfully (of course - after doing all that), but then when I try to boot from the hard drive, I see an otherwise-blank screen that says: Invalid partition table and that's as far as it goes! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org There are reports of this sort of thing caused by 8.0 fdisk when doing a install from scratch over a hard drive that all ready has an older version of Freebsd installed on it. The solution is to force the scratching of the MBR on the disk first before running sysinstall fdisk. Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 where x equals your drive number. OK. I did exactly that. I confirmed that the second 512 bytes were zero by doing a dd if/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=2 | od -c and everything from 001000 through 002000 was zero. But I still got Invalid partition table after the installation. I guess I should set up one of my other systems as a local mirror. I've done the installation so many time already, and it looks like I'm not done yet! On the 8.0 fdisk/MBR subject. Doing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 was the solution from another post to the list with subject 'SunFire X2100 fails'. Here is another post that gives more details http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=322687+326879+/usr/local/ www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20091227.freebsd-questions It seems in 8.0 gpart was introduced and a change was made to fdisk to support its sector o mbr format. 8.0 fdisk and disklabel are now broken. Searching the list archives may shed more light on your problem. Hmmm. This seems to describe a case where fdisk fails to change the slice table. That is definitely not my case. The changes certainly get made. The next time I go to retry the installation, it has the information I gave it the previous time. I suppose it is possible that it is putting it (and reading it) in the wrong location, which is why the MBR throws up. The problem is that I have a finite (and smallish) amount of time in which to solve this. It seems like the most expedient route forward at this point may be to try to install 7.2 and see how that goes. OK - well, I just tried with 7.2. I got exactly the same results. After what seems like a successful installation, I try to boot from the hard disk and get Invalid partition table. Should I try Boot Manager? Could that make a difference? Is it possible that this combination of BIOS, processor, disk drive, etc., just isn't going to to do for me? I can't just keep throwing hours at this problem
Re: Invalid partition table after installation
John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me. At least, I can't find it in the BIOS menu anywhere. When I boot from the CD-ROM with the 255 head geometry, though, it complains about the disk geometry, saying 16h,63s != 255h,63s or something like that - it flies by pretty fast (is there a way to go back and see that from the CD-ROM boot only boot?). I'm using the Standard boot manager, and the entire disk is devoted to FreeBSD. System BIOS version PT84510A.86A.2004.P05 Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 Processor speed: 2.20Ghz Memory: 512Mb Disk: Primary IDE Master ST380021A (Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80Gb) Primary IDE Slave: IOMega ZIP 250 Secondary IDE Master: Sony CD-RW CRX19 (what I boot from to install) Secondary IDE Slave: DVD-ROM DDU1621 Boot sequence: 1) ATAPI CD-ROM 2) Hard Drive 3) Removable Dev. Modern BIOS geometry: 155061/16/63 for ad0 calculated geometry: 9729/255/63 for ad0 ad0s1 start=63, size=2875572 ad0s2 start=2875635, size=10217340 ad0s3 start=13092975, size=143203410 unus start=156296384, size=5103 ad0s1a / 384Mb ad0s1d /usr 1Gb ad0s2b SWAP 1Gb ad0s2d /tmp 384Mb ad0s2e /var 512Mb ad0s2f /var/mail 2Gb ad0s2g /usr/ports 1Gb ad0s3d /home/mysql 4Gb ad0s3e /home 50Gb ad0s3f /usr/src 3Gb ad0s3g /usr/obj 3Gb ad0s3h /extra 8483Mb Suggestions, please? I'm making zero headway right now. :( What version of FreeBSD are you running ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Older pc's have bios which do not have option to boot from USB stick. I think that is so in your case. Check mfg website for bios update. If not you are SOL. (shit outof luck) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
8.0 sysinstall problem with usb stick as source media and usb stick as install target
I know the sysinstall pgm is a dinosaur that nobody wants to touch so I give Randi great respect in tackling it adding USB support in 8.0. Using 2 USB sticks. da0 2GB as the bootable install media and da1 4GB target device that freebsd is to be installed on. I have put the disc-1 iso onto a usb stick. I can install from this usb stick (da0)to any motherboard cabled hard drive. But when i try to target another usb stick (da1) to install to, sysinstall works normally up to the message this is your last chance before writing to the media. Then i get a abort message Unable to find device node for /dev/da1s1b in /dev! I then select vty1 and see this message geom: da1: media size does not match label. Followed by repeating messages debug scanning disk da1 root file system and debug scanning disk da1 swap file system I could be wrong but maybe the disc-1 iso is missing some /dev statements for partitions on usb da1 through da9. Can someone verify this ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Inserting PC card NIC, system stops
Hashimoto wrote: Thanks for your reply, Paul. $ uname -a FreeBSD musca.localdomain 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0 r201741: Fri Jan 8 01:01:18 JST 2010 r...@aries.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 insert PC card and eject it $ tail /var/log/messages Jan 9 21:29:12 musca kernel: cbb1: ready never happened, status = 00 Jan 9 21:29:12 musca kernel: ed0: corega K.K. (CG-LAPCCTXD) at port ed(4) appears to be driver for that card Sure. I'm using GENERIC kernel, and it includes cbb(4), ed(4) device driver. But the system does not work fine with this PC card. You are not clear just how you are inserting the nic card. Are you trying to insert the card while Freebsd is up and running or inserting the card while the pc is powered off and them during bootup post you get those msgs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
Paul Shi wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You did not burn the iso file to cd correctly. Here is link to old post containing details instructions for using nero to burn iso file. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/100238/match=nero+iso ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I need help on installation
Roger Agraviador wrote: I found an old pc that I just reformatted the HDD using G parted, now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system disk which I do not have, how do I go about that because I virtually cannot install any operating system. Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2? If so How do I go about that? Since I have found no iso image of GRUB2 to burn into a live cd. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org you have to change your bios boot options to boot from cd instead of the hard drive. after the freebsd install is complete then change it back or if your bios allow a boot order change it to first look at cd drive and then hard drive to boot from ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
re-write is this booting info correct?
How is this rewrite correct? Users with Microsoft/Windows knowledge of how a hard drive is configured may have a terminology issue with FreeBSD. Microsoft/Windows and FreeBSD use the word partition to mean different (but related) things. The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to allocate partitions on the hard drive. This program allocated two types of partitions “primary dos partition” and “extended dos partition”. A single “primary dos partition” occupying all the space on the hard drive would be assigned drive letter C. You can also sub-divide the hard drive into multiple “primary dos partition” each one being assigned a drive letter C, D, E, F, An alternate method is to allocate an “extended dos partition” and then sub-divide it into logical dos drives lettered C, D, E, F. One of these “primary dos partitions” or one of the logical dos drives in the “extended dos partition” must be set as the active partition to boot from. In a multiple partition allocation only one partition can be marked as bootable at one time. Typically legacy Microsoft/Windows Win3.1, Win95, Win98, WinMe, and Win2000 defaulted to a single “primary dos partition”. Starting with XP, PC manufactures started to provide support for their PC’s operating system by having a second “primary dos partition” where the original factory version of the system was hidden and used to restore the C drive back to the factory version when corrupted by a virus. Microsoft/Windows provides no native method of selecting which partition to boot from in a multiple partition allocation. FreeBSD’s fdisk program allocates disk space into slices. A FreeBSD slice is the same thing as a Microsoft/Windows “primary dos partition”. FreeBSD has nothing akin to an “extended dos partition”. The Microsoft/Windows partition and the FreeBSD slice is where the operating system software is installed. Microsoft/Windows operating system creates default folders that share the space in the partition. The FreeBSD ‘disk label’ program is used to sub-divide the slice into smaller chunks called partitions. In a standard install of FreeBSD, these partitions are the default directory names used by the operating system. The motherboard standard which was created in the days before windows desktop were even though of yet and at which time Microsoft DOS (disk operating system) was the only thing available. This legacy standard has continued un-updated to this current time and contributes to the limitations imposed on booting, disk layout and selection of which allocation on the hard disk to boot from. The motherboard BIOS ROM chip at power up inquires each device (floppies, cdrom, hard drive, usb memory stick) you selected in the BIOS menu to boot from. The hard drive has a MBR (Master Boot Record) a (512 byte block) located in sector-0 of the first physical track on the hard drive. This MBR contains bootstrap code and the disk partition table created by the fdisk program. The BIOS boot code reads the MBR code and disk partition table into memory and then transfers control to it. This MBR code is responsible for parsing the partition table and finding the bootable slice/partition that is marked 'active'. The MBR code then sets up the disk-address-offset information for the bootable slice/partition, and reads 'relative sector zero' from that slice/partition, and transfers control to that one-sector block of code that contains the unique operating system code to load it into memory. This hard drive 512-byte MBR is where all the limitations are. Do to it’s size the MBR partition table is limited to 4 entries. This means no matter how large your hard drive is (20MG or 200GB) you can only sub-divide it into a maximum 4 slices/partitions. The default MBR code written by the Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is hard coded to boot the C drive. The FreeBSD fdisk program has option to write a simple boot menu program to the MBR. There are MBR boot menu programs in the FreeBSD ports collection that you can load into the MBR on the first physical cabled hard drive to scan for other bootable primary-partitions/slices on this hard drive and any other hard drives cabled to the PC. It displays a menu giving you the option to choose which one you want to boot from. This gives you the ability to have more that one operating system installed on your PC at one time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: re-write is this booting info correct?
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to allocate partitions on
the hard drive. This program allocated two types of partitions “primary
dos partition” and “extended dos partition”.
Just a formal addition: primary DOS partition - DOS stands
for Disk Operating System, it's an abbreviation. You're
stating this later on, but you should do it at its first
occurance.
for correctness i agree.
A single “primary dos partition” occupying all the space on the hard
drive would be assigned drive letter C.
The drive letters used seem to include the : as a part,
so it would be C: instead of plain C.
I have the win98 fdisk english version. I tested this and the fdisk
program displays just the drive letter with out the :. Now on the DOS
command line you do have to use the : to change to different drive, like
in to change to A: drive.
An alternate method is to allocate an “extended dos partition” and then
sub-divide it into logical dos drives lettered C, D, E, F.
I think the term is logical volume inside an extended DOS
partition; I'm not very familiar with their english names,
but that would correspond to the correct german name (found
in german versions of DOS); the term is volume or drive.
I've got no english DOS documentation here, so I can't
check for the correct term.
German: Primäre DOS-Partition and Logisches Laufwerk in
einer erweiterten DOS-Partition, and Laufwerk means
drive, but I think I recall that DOS uses volume for
this...
The correct word as displayed in the fdisk program is 'logical dos
drives' just the way i have it.
One of these
“primary dos partitions” or one of the logical dos drives in the
“extended dos partition” must be set as the active partition to boot
from.
I'm not sure you can actually boot from a logical volume
inside an extended DOS partition... as far as I remember,
booting can only take place from a primary DOS partition.
I tested this and can confirm you can boot from a logical drive
inside an extended DOS partition. Just have to set the active flag first.
FreeBSD’s fdisk program allocates disk space into slices. A FreeBSD
slice is the same thing as a Microsoft/Windows “primary dos partition”.
FreeBSD has nothing akin to an “extended dos partition”.
It quite has - its slices (which are subdivided just as the
extended DOS partitions are, so its partitions are like -
but not the same as - the logical volumes inside a DOS
extended partition).
The
Microsoft/Windows partition and the FreeBSD slice is where the operating
system software is installed.
No. The software is installed on the partitions inside a
slice, or, to be more exact, in the file system that the
partition holds. There can be of course one partition
coviering the whole slice, so partition(s) would be
a valid term.
The FreeBSD
‘disk label’ program is used to sub-divide the slice into smaller chunks
called partitions. In a standard install of FreeBSD, these partitions
are the default directory names used by the operating system.
Not are - they _refer_ to them (or are refered to by
then), e. g. the default directory name / is the root
directory, but /dev/ad0s1a is the partition; /usr is the
directory for { UNIX system resources | user binaries and
libraries }, but /dev/ad0s1g is (maybe) the partition that
holds this data. In settings where one partition convers
the whole slice, there are no further mountpoints for the
divisions of functional parts of the system.
The motherboard standard which was created in the days before windows
desktop were even though of yet and at which time Microsoft DOS (disk
operating system) was the only thing available.
Sure. :-)
This hard drive 512-byte MBR is where all the limitations are. Do to
it’s size the MBR partition table is limited to 4 entries.
Due to its size...
good catch.
This means no
matter how large your hard drive is (20MG or 200GB) you can only
sub-divide it into a maximum 4 slices/partitions.
20MB. But I'd like to have a 20 machine gun hard disk, too. :-)
back in win3.1 days a 20MG hard drive was the largest made at the time.
The default MBR code written by the Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is
hard coded to boot the C drive. The FreeBSD fdisk program has option to
write a simple boot menu program to the MBR.
You could add that this program is called the FreeBSD boot
manager, because that's its actual name.
Everything else seems to be correct to me, as well as
written in an appealing way, and technically understandable.
I am adding this verbiage to my FreeBSD installer Guide for
release 8.0 which will be available to the public 1/1/2010 at
http://www.a1poweruser.com/
following is the corrected version incorporating your ideas.
Users with Microsoft/Windows knowledge of how a hard drive is configured
may have a terminology issue with FreeBSD. Microsoft/Windows and FreeBSD
Re: whats in your /etc/security/ files ? (AUDIT subsystem)
Mike Tancsa wrote: I am looking at getting more out of the FreeBSD AUDIT system and was wondering if anyone has feedback beyond what is in the handbook or links to other resources on this topic. http://bsdmag.org/ had a nice intro article and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/audit.html is actually pretty complete. But I was looking for additional feedback from folks using it on their servers in production. What do you find useful to log on large multi user systems ? What about boxes with limited access to just administrators ? Log everything? How do you manage your audit logs to ensure integrity ? Do you run at a higher secure level and make the file flags uappnd ? Write them to an nfs mount on a separate and separately secured system ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,m...@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org My experience is its “OVERKILL”. Better to invest your time in tuning your firewall rules. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
is this booting info correct?
Users with Microsoft/Windows knowledge of how a hard drive is configured may have a terminology issue with FreeBSD. Microsoft/Windows and FreeBSD use the word partition to mean different (but related) things. FreeBSD and Microsoft/Windows have primary-partitions, but they call them different things. FreeBSD calls the Microsoft/Windows primary-partition a slice. The number of hard drive primary-partitions/slices is determined by the motherboard BIOS (Basic input output system), not the operating system. Standard motherboard BIOS limits hard-drives to 4 main divisions Each of those are called primary-partitions in Microsoft/Windows terminology and slices in FreeBSD terminology. Each primary-partition/slice can be sub-divided into smaller chunks. In Microsoft/Windows, they are called extended-partitions. They are implemented very differently and are not compatible with FreeBSD. In FreeBSD the sub-divisions are called partitions. Each one of the 4 max primary-partitions/slices can be made bootable. The first physical track of the allocated space of each primary-partition/slice has an initial sector (512 byte block) that is called the boot sector. If it contains boot up code the motherboard BIOS considers it to be bootable. Each physical hard drive in the PC has it's own MBR (Master Boot Record). The MBR is located in sector-0 of the first physical track on the hard drive. The standard MBR in Microsoft/Windows and FreeBSD defaults to booting the first primary-partition/slice allocated on the first hard drive cabled to the PC. There are MBR booting programs that you can load into the MBR on the first physical cabled hard drive to scan for other bootable primary-partitions/slices on this hard drive and any other hard drives cabled to the PC. It displays a menu giving you the option to choose which one you want to boot from. This gives you the ability to have more that one operating system installed on your PC at one time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ipfilter nat redirect udp packets
Have this nat rule rdr rl0 0.0.0.0/0 port 6355 - 10.0.10.3 port 6355 I can see in the log that tcp packets are being redirected but udp packets are not. Can not find any verbiage in man 5 0r 8 ipnat that states rdr rule only matches on tcp packets. I thought tcp/udp packets should be redirected? Can anyone clarify this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ipfilter nat redirect udp packets
Have this nat rule rdr rl0 0.0.0.0/0 port 6355 - 10.0.10.3 port 6355 I can see in the log that tcp packets are being redirected but udp packets are not. Can not find any verbiage in man 5 0r 8 ipnat that states rdr rule only matches on tcp packets. I thought tcp/udp packets should be redirected? Can anyone clarify this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
what ports to open in firewall for bitlord
Want to allow the bitlord progran to pass through my firewall. Does anyone know the port numbers it uses for out bound and inbound packets. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: tty problem after upgrade to 8.0
Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I completed the upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0 this afternoon and have an error plaguing me that I cannot solve. When the system is booted, I am receiving the following error. Dec 5 20:43:30 getty[902]: open /dev/ttyd0: No such file or directory However, when I run ps -ax | grep ttyd0, I see the following entry. 902 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 I have a modem connected to cuau0 for dial-in purposes. The /etc/ttys file contains the following entry to allow for dial-in access. # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup on Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org this will point you in the correct direction http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140918 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.0 MYSQL50 denying access to user root no password
Tim Judd wrote: On 11/29/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: For many releases of Freebsd going back to 4.3 I have all ways used the default mysql user root localhost with no password which has been the default. With 8.0/mysql-server-5.0.86 I am denied access now. The mysql manual still says the normal install defaults to allowing access to user root with no password are in effect. After a fresh clean install of mysql Tried mysqladmin -u root drop test to delete the test db. Received this msg connect to srver at localhost failed access denied for user 'r...@localost (using password: no) This in not suppose to happen. Two issues, mysqladmin tries to connect to the mysql server -- i see in your message above it can't connect if it can't connect, how can it authorize? Read the post again. says access denied not connection refused. second, the undocumented mysql_install_db must be run to install the default database. But if you run this as root, you should change ownership of everything in /var/db/mysql to allow the mysql server access to the files. mysql_install_db is documented in the mysql manual. After re-reading the section about using mysql_install_db many times I finally saw my problem. mysql_install_db has to be run direct from the root command line. I was doing script capture.console.msg.rpt and them running another script which had the mysql_install_db command buried in it. The mysql manual says mysql_install_db will hose up the user account table locking out all access. I rm -rf /var/db/mysql to delete the hosed up mysql user db and then ran mysql_install_db from the root command line and the default root/nopassword worked again. Thanks for your pointer as to where to look. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
8.0 MYSQL50 denying access to user root no password
For many releases of Freebsd going back to 4.3 I have all ways used the default mysql user root localhost with no password which has been the default. With 8.0/mysql-server-5.0.86 I am denied access now. The mysql manual still says the normal install defaults to allowing access to user root with no password are in effect. After a fresh clean install of mysql Tried mysqladmin -u root drop test to delete the test db. Received this msg connect to srver at localhost failed access denied for user 'r...@localost (using password: no) This in not suppose to happen. Is anyone else having this problem? Has the package for mysql50-server been changed to force securing user root with a password? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
8.0 release php5 port not working
Have a clean install of 8.0 and trying to do cvs make install of port php5 just to turn on apache module. The php5 make install is complaining that autoconf262, pkg-config and libxml2 as non-existent -- dependency list incomplete. I installed these as packages and they show up in pkg_info. Only thing i can think of is the php5 make file is looking for the port make files of these so call non-existent ports to check that dependent is there when it should be checking the pkg-db to check if dependent is installed. Question is how do I force the port make install of php5 to accept the package versions of the dependents so the compile will start? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: From the 8.0 release notes is the following http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html [amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN. tested these rc.conf statements moused_port=/dev/cuau0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES serial mouse works again Can confirm. This means sysinstall mouse config needs to be changed to reflect the new dev names. That's correct. The handbook sec. 2.10.10 and fig. 2-44 would need an update, too. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-post.html submitted PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140887 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
8.0 release serial mouse not working
Been using the same serial mouse since release 7.0 through 7.1 and 7.2. Just installed release 8.0 and the rc.conf statements dont work any longer. # serial port radioshack 2 button mouse moused_port=/dev/cuad0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES Nothing has changed on the box hardware. Mouse worked in 7.2 but not in 8.0 I even tried sysinstall/configure/mouse to test other options and none worked. Has serial mouse support been dropped in release 8.0 and not removed from sysinstall? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
