Re: Read only file FSTAB after error config???

2001-10-22 Thread Soweb_Ahfei

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your kindly help.

Best regards.

Ahfei Ho

- Original Message -
From: Olivier Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Soweb_Ahfei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Read only file FSTAB after error config???



 Please post this kind of questions on the -QUESTIONS mailing list.

 when you are in single user mode, type :
 # /sbin/mount /

 then / will be mounted read-write.
 you can now edit /etc/fstab, or build a new one, or whatever you need
 to.

 good luck,

 Olivier


 On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:19:44PM +0800, Soweb_Ahfei wrote:
  Dear Sir,
 
  We have installed the Freebsd4.32 in our server.But we can not reboot
the system after we made an error configuration  in the file FSTAB.Now,we
can not delete or rename the error file Fstab and the system shown the file
is read only.
 
  We would not re-install the system since there are some available
data.Please give us an instruction how to revise it.
 
  Thanks.
 
  Best regards.
 
  We do need your kindly help!!
 
  Ahfei  Ho
 

 --
 Olivier Cortes


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Re: Read only file FSTAB after error config???

2001-10-22 Thread Soweb_Ahfei

Dear Sir,

Thank  for your advice.

Regards.

Ahfei 

- Original Message - 
From: Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Soweb_Ahfei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: Read only file FSTAB after error config???


 For future reference, this belongs on freebsd-questions. 
 
  Soweb_Ahfei wrote:
  
  
  
  Dear Sir,
  
  We have installed the Freebsd4.32 in our server.But we can not reboot
  the system after we made an error configuration  in the file
  FSTAB.Now,we can not delete or rename the error file Fstab and the
  system shown the file is read only.
 
 This is covered in the documentation at http://www.freebsd.org/ I
 believe in the FAQ, if not there, it's in the handbook. 
 
 Good luck,
 
 Doug
 -- 
 We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
 - George W. Bush, President of the United States
   September 20, 2001  
 



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Re: strange network performace

2001-10-22 Thread Erwan Arzur


 
 show us the output of ifconfig -a on each box.
 

Yeah ... did you try to force media opt to 100baseTX full duplex w/ 
ifconfig ?

I had once a lot of problems connecting 3C905 (XL) cards to 3COM 
switches, until i tried to force the negociation ...



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make buildworld not selfcontained?

2001-10-22 Thread Guido van Rooij


I have a system that is built with CPUTYPE=p2
When I set CPUTYPE to pentium and do a buildworld, I cannot use the
obj tree to do an installworld on a pentium system. The reason being that
the tools in usr/obj/usr/src/i386 are apparently built with libraries
from the p2 system.
I think that is broken.

The reason seems to be that xinstall is built in the bootstrap-tools:
target.  But because it is used later on in installworld, it seems
that it should be rebuild later.  

There does not seem to be a real solution for this problem..
I am not sure if xinstall is needed druing a make buildworld, but if not,
the most easy would be to make it only in the installworld phase. But
that would break installing from readonly mounts.
Adding an explicit bootstrap-tools target to Makefile might also
solve it..

-Guido

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Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2001-10-22 Thread Mike Silbersack


On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

 The problem is what to do when you are attacked.

 You need to balance resiliance in the face of attack with the
 ability to bear a legitimately high load.

 -- Terry

I understand that, and can understand leaving rate limiting off on the
clients so as to produce a realistic picture of how most hosts will react.
What I'm not clear on is how the built-in rate limiting hurts a server
under either normal conditions or while being attacked.  The packets being
limited are all error responses of one type or another; dropping them
should not hurt clients connecting to running services.  I've heard the
argument that RSTs are important so that old connections are terminated
when a server restarts, but I generally reject that argument based on the
observation that a downed server probably takes more time to reboot than
connections take to time out on their own.

The one case I haven't considered much is how load-balancers react to
systems behind them not returning RSTs in response to incoming packets; if
this is the case you're talking about, I'd like to hear more of what
happens and how we can accomidate for it better.

Mike Silby Silbersack


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How broken is IBSS creation (wicontrol) these days ?

2001-10-22 Thread John Kozubik


Having worked with `wicontrol` for quite some time, I am well aware that
IBSS creation is currently experimental.  I am wondering just how
experimental it currently is.

I currently have a 4.4-RELEASE machine configured as follows:

`wicontrol -c 1 -p 1 -n netname -q netname -s station`

When I boot machine number 2 (Linux) it does not see the FreeBSD machine,
however, when I set the netname on the Linux machine to 'netname' (as
above) suddenly activity lights flare up and things seem like they are
going to work - the linux `iwconfig` command reports that the access
point it is using is the MAC address of the card in the FreeBSD machine.

This was very encouraging - the fact that the Linux machine sees the
FreeBSD MAC as the access point, that is.  However, this is as far as I
have gotten.  Neither machine shows anything but a zero for signal
strength, and `ifconfig` on the FreeBSD host tells me that the status of
wi0 is no carrier.

So, does this sound like the normal results of this experimental
functionality, or are my last problems the result of a mistake on my part
?  (translation, is this where it breaks for everyone, or should I keep
trying to make this work)

If it is indeed a mistake on my part, help is appreciated.

-
John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com


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