Re: freebsd mount nwfs

2003-12-09 Thread Cristian Salan
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:22:02PM +, Feroz F. Basir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> IPX network number is 33A95AF6. Do I need to use this
> as ifconfig_fxp0_ipx="ipx 33A95AF6". Any way I can
> change this from command line instead of rebooting my
> box?
> 
Hello,
You are getting closer. I'm curious, is it working now?

As sugested by other list members is good to read man 3 ef and as long
as you can obtain information from the novell sysadmin try to bind
your nic to the specific ethernet frame used by novell server, eg. if
is using Ethernet_802.2 frame use ifconfig_fxp0f2_ipx="ipx 33A95AF6".

All the best,
Cristian

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PPP strangemess.

2003-12-09 Thread jimmie james
(user/pass == XX throughout)

FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Mon Dec  8 05:01:19 EST 2003   
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO


Dec  7 14:40:18 fortytwo ppp[278]: tun0: LCP:  TEXT
user-ppp 3.1 (built Nov  4 2
003)


My ISP, look.ca has a habit of dropping my PPP at
night (when no tech support is there, of course, not
that they can help), with "carrier lost" messages in
the logs (see below).  Most times I can close tun0,
and redial.  Quite often, I'll get:

fortytwo ppp[49859]: tun0: Warning: OpenSecret: Can't
open /etc/ppp/ppp.secret. 

Which, from my understanding, is for incomming
connections. Correct?  At this point, the only way
I've found to "reset" PPP is to reboot.

Does anyone know what's going on here?  it's happened
with a 4.7, 4.8 and now the 4.9-STABLE system.

 /etc/ppp/conf :

default:
 set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
 ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)

 set device /dev/cuaa1

 set speed 115200
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
   \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T
TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
 set timeout 0  
 set mru 1504   
 enable dns 
 disable lqr
 disable mppe
 disable ipv6cp
 nat enable yes

l:


# set phone 4162335711
 set phone 4166400481
 set authname xx
 set authkey xxx

 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0
0.0.0.0
 add default HISADDR

from dmesg:

puc0: 
port 0xdff0-0xdff7 irq 10 at 
device 11.0 on pci1
sio1: type 16550A
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A

And relevent log:
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:  TEXT
user-ppp 3.1 (built Dec  8 2003) 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: Phase:
bundle: Authenticate 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: Phase:
deflink: his = PAP, mine = none 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: Phase: Pap
Output: XXX  
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: RecvConfigNak(1), dropped (expected 2) 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: RecvConfigAck(254), dropped (expected 2) 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: RecvIdent(1) state = Opened 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: RecvIdent: magic 0xe93e1641 is wrong,
expecting 0xebec1200 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP: 
MAGICNUM ebec1200 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:  TEXT
user-ppp 3.1 (built Dec  8 2003) 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: Phase: Pap
Input: REQUEST (XXX) 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: Warning:
OpenSecret: Can't open /etc/ppp/ppp.secret. 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: Phase: Pap
Output: FAILURE 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: LayerDown 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: SendTerminateReq(2) state = Opened 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: State change Opened --> Closing 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: Phase: Pap
Input: FAILURE (Login incorrect) 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: RecvTerminateReq(2) state = Closing 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: SendTerminateAck(2) state = Closing 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: RecvTerminateAck(2) state = Closing 
Dec  9 02:02:30 fortytwo ppp[49883]: tun0: LCP:
deflink: LayerFinish 


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2003-12-09 Thread skoroxod(enreg.ru)
Hello freebsd-questions,

when i compiling kernel on FreeBSD 5.1 (5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD
5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386)

CPU Intel P4 2.6Ghz HT, 2Gb DDR SDRAM

> make buildkernel KERNCONF=MAIN

i have some error... (kernel config file in attachement)

> /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c: In function `acdioctl':
> /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c:1074: internal error:
> Segmentation fault
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for
> instructions.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAIN.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src.

Can somebody help?

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Re: FreeBSD IPFW/IPFILTER & sysctl MIB's

2003-12-09 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:49:42AM -0500, fbsd_user wrote:
[snip]

How's it goin', fbsd_user? Been a while.

> The question is,  who get access to the packets first, these MIB's
> or the firewall?

There is no simple answer to this. The MIB values affect behaviors
within the kernel. The important parts of ipfw(8) and ipf(8) are code
inside of the kernel. The some of the behavior of ipfw(8) and ipf(8)
themselves are controlled by sysctl(8) knobs,

  net.inet.ip.fw.enable
  net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass
  net.inet.ip.fw.debug
  net.inet.ip.fw.verbose
  ...

  net.inet.ipf.fr_flags
  net.inet.ipf.fr_pass
  net.inet.ipf.fr_active
  net.inet.ipf.fr_tcpidletimeout
  ...

Whether a specific entry in the sysctl(8) MIB has an effect felt
before a packet gets to ipfw(8) or ipf(8) processing depends on that
specific entry.

And just because the feature enabled by the sysctl(8) knob occurs
after firewall processing does not mean it is useless. Packets that
are allowed through the firewall still will be affected by their
settings. For example, you set net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin and have a
rule like,

  02000 pass tcp from any to ${smtpsrv} 25

For your mail server. You do not need to add an explicit drop rule for
SYN+FIN packets in your firewall rules (or more likely, you are
protected if you forget such a rule).
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Linux Hardware Drivers with FreeBSD?

2003-12-09 Thread Jonathan Walters
I connect to the internet with a wireless card (Blitzz 802.11b 11Mbps 
Wireless LAN PCI Card, http://www.iblitzz.com). This has always worked well 
under Windows 2000, but now I'd like to do the same with FreeBSD 4.9. 
Unfortunately, the closest drivers available on their website are one for 
RedHat 7.3 or one for 8.0. Is there any way for this work, or do I need to 
look for an alternate connection?

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Problem with vnconfig and ISO images

2003-12-09 Thread Marc Wiz
I'm using FreeBSD 4.9

I used to be able to mount an ISO image (disk file) using vnconfig
on 4.7 and 4.8.  Now I cannot.


-su-2.05b# vnconfig  -c vn2c /stage/daily-1.iso
-su-2.05b# file /stage/daily-1.iso
/stage/daily-1.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
-su-2.05b# mount -t cd9660 /dev/vn2c /mnt
cd9660: /dev/vn2c: Invalid argument


In my kernel config I have:

pseudo-device   vn  4   # 4 vnodes for vnconfig

Has anyone else run into any problems like this?

Thanks,
Marc

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RE: free bsd !!!

2003-12-09 Thread sundeep.puliccott

If u want to access FreeBSD from one of the ftp mirror sites
Ftp is the best and the fastest. However u could still do it
With http. The url needs to be modified
ftp://anonymous:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:@ftp.freebsd.org
However the downloads tend to break as the files are huge.
Maybe u would have a better luck than me.

Note : in the email id do not forget to escape the '@' with
   the backslash

Note : Traversing thru symbolic links would fail.

Suggestion : use http to check what u want but download using
Freebsd.

-sundeep

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Dear



I would like to down load the free bsd,I all ready tryd on the url :free
bsd
org but I am unable to down load it, since the down load source is FTP
and
I don't know how to down load an FTP file !! So please could you suggest
me how /where can I down load the free bsd in a simple manner







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Re: Radeon 7000 and dual head

2003-12-09 Thread Gary Hodder
No need for a reply, dual head now working.

Gary.

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:48, Gary Hodder wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> has anyone got a radeon 7000 to work with dual head?
> This card is the one with 2 15 pin d9 shell size connectors.
> I'm running Freebsd 4.9 and have upgraded X to the pre release version
> XFree86 4.3.99.12.
> All the examples I have got off the net dont work, I keep getting
> screen0 doesn't exist: deleting placement, in the X log.
> It appears there are a couple of versions of this card, from what of
> found is the ones with only 1 15pin d9 shell connector work but the
> versions with 2 dont.
> This cards works fine in dual head under Linux but I wont to move to
> Freebsd.
> Any ideas or examples to get it working would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Gary.
> 
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Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Lucas Holt
The ports collection is great for certain things.  I do happen to use 
it for spam assassin on 4.9 Stable.  I have perl 5.8.2 installed from 
ports and I used use.perl to set it up as default.

Here is the problem with ports, many maintainers are using 5.x now.  
Since there is only one ports collection, things are OFTEN broken or 
don't work quite right.  Sometimes features just aren't there.. look at 
the Sendmail -SASL port.. you can't use milter's without installing GCC 
3 or upgrading to 5.  Sometimes the ports are just plain out of date.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding the ports collection when you need 
control or recent software.  All of my web server related stuff is 
installed manually because I have a complex setup and i really don't 
feel like the extra hurdles the ports collection requires for apache 2 
+ mod jk + php 4.3 + perl + tomcat 4.1.x ... etc

On the flip side, i love it for x11.

If you change your mind on spam assassin, here is a procedure that 
should work.
Install Perl 5.8.2 from ports (or source)
Install Spam assassin from ports (or source)
Install razor (it helps a lot)

I personally use anomy mail (a script) with procmail to run spam 
assassin and clam av on incoming mail.  I switched over to smapd and 
spamc for a slight performance improvement.  It works fine on my mail 
server (low traffic).

The real thing to remember about ports is to try to use it all or 
nothing for a given type of services.  Trying to mix and match doesn't 
work well.  Its a lot of work actually.



On Dec 9, 2003, at 8:11 PM, Tony Jones wrote:

Hi Nick.

Thanks for the reply.

I already knew of the FreeBSD stock perl issues and was aware that
under no circumstances should I try to upgrade the stock Perl, but
I appreciate the reminded nontheless!!
I gave up on trying to install the SpamAssassin I obtained manually
from spamassassin.org after it bitched that my Bundle::Net (or 
similar, sorry,
forget the exact package) was out of date. Trying to install it via 
CPAM
crapped out bigtime and seems to have left my stock FreeBSD perl setup 
in a
goofy state.  Perl would spit out nasty method tracebacks.

Can someone tell me if it is possible to redo just the perl portion of 
a
"make installworld" so I can reset my stock module config ?

Giving up on this approach, with the help of Jan Grant's earlier reply
I got the ports tree to work. [I needed to unpack the whole ports.tgz, 
not
just the spamassassin subdir]

First problem was that the MD5 on the downloaded distfile (that the 
ports
Makefile downloaded from spamassassin.org) didn't match:

< MD5 (Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz) = 
65ece9dec35cc4701d98680d0651afd3
---
MD5 (Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz) = 46d1db67ed1d860ddb136e0beb5f6ac3
I temporarily updated the MD5 so I could get past this, e-mailed the
maintainer.  I wasn't planning on installing until I heard back, but 
since
the stock make did a bunch of perl module updating foo,  if the tar.gz 
is
trojaned I could already be screwed :-(

Next the make groks when it tries to configure spamd,  claims gcc 
isn't in
the PATH,  though it's in roots path once make drops back to the shell.

This is probably easily fixable, but at this point I gave up and 
started
working on what I get paid to do :-) All of this is on FreeBSD 4.9.

I'm reminded of Greg Lemis's chastisement of me for previously not 
using
the FreeBSD Ports system.  It isn't making my life much easier here 
:-)))

Tony

Hm, well, if you hate perl perhaps you should consider using a spam
filtering package written in some other language!
The problem with FreeBSD and perl is well documented . . . basically 
the
FreebSD system has perl 5.005_03 which is a very old version 
nowadays, and
many modules require 5.6.1 at least if not 5.8+.

The simplest and easiest way to clear up these problems is to install 
a
new perl from source, in a non-standard location, so it creates its 
own
libraries from scratch. I recommend creating a user perl and 
installing
everything under /home/perl. Then at the end just change the symlinks 
to
/usr/bin/perl etc.

Do _not_ try to install a new perl over the 5.005 version that 
FreeBSD has
installed by default. FreeBSD creates non-standard library locations 
and
you will have lots of problems.

If you follow this advice you won't have any problem using CPAN to 
install
libwww, Mail::SpamAssassin and all the other modules you need or 
currently
use.perl and CPAN are _very_ reliable.

If you upgrade your FreeBSD to 5.1 you will find that the stock perl 
is
5.6.1 and most stuff Just Works with it. The perl has also been 
separated
 from the base distribution and is now installed as a package (or 
port) so
it doesn't break when you update it.

On FreeBSD prior to 5.x I always built a new perl from source as I
described, and then built all my applications from source too 
(including
apache, mod_perl, mysql and a bunch of perl applications like
SpanAssassin). I too have encountered the 'ports or bust' mentality 
and
while

Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Tony Jones

> [ snip ]
> 
> I did suggest a very quick, easy and effective fix. It would have taken 
> you less than two hours to download, build and configure perl and multiple 
> CPAN modules [1] and been on your way.

Nick.   I did all of what I said *BEFORE* you e-mailed your (excellent)
suggestion.  I will of course be trying what you suggest but cannot yet
perform time travel ;-)

> [2] I don't know what you do with your server, but I do a lot of 
> internet-related stuff and it's an arena of dynamic development. I've 
> never found the ports able to keep up with the software I need. I build 
> perl, apache and their various components (mod_perl, mod_ssl etc) by hand, 
> and rely on the ports for other stuff. OTOH, as someone pointed out, the 

Agreed.  This is what I normally did, but when I ran into a problem with
Postfix (wrt sendmail compatability) I was whacked over the knuckes for
not using the Port :-)

Anyways, thanks much for your excellent advice.

Tony
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Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:11:10 -0800, Tony Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Nick.

Thanks for the reply.

I already knew of the FreeBSD stock perl issues and was aware that
under no circumstances should I try to upgrade the stock Perl, but
I appreciate the reminded nontheless!!
I gave up on trying to install the SpamAssassin I obtained manually
from spamassassin.org after it bitched that my Bundle::Net (or similar, 
sorry,
forget the exact package) was out of date. Trying to install it via CPAM
crapped out bigtime and seems to have left my stock FreeBSD perl setup 
in a
goofy state.  Perl would spit out nasty method tracebacks.
[ snip ]

I did suggest a very quick, easy and effective fix. It would have taken 
you less than two hours to download, build and configure perl and multiple 
CPAN modules [1] and been on your way.

I'm reminded of Greg Lemis's chastisement of me for previously not using
the FreeBSD Ports system.  It isn't making my life much easier here :-)))
Right: it's just not true (in FreeBSD < 5.1) that using ports makes your 
life easier with perl. The p5-* ports are great but the base perl 
installation is messed up; that's the problem. The FreeBSD developers 
acknowledge as much, in 
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html (section 6.3 - 
Common Notes):
  "Perl has been removed from the base system, and should be installed 
either from a pre-built package or from the Ports Collection. Building 
Perl as a part of the base system created a number of difficulties which 
made updates problematic."

Note that it _is_ true that the ports make your life easier with perl in 
FreeBSD > 5.1.x, since, as the same document continues:
"sysinstall(8) will now install the Perl package as a part of most 
distribution sets, so most users will not notice this change."

So in other words, the entire perl package is a port. Or a package :) This 
is a generally a good thing, though it is sad to see that the port is of 
5.6.1. This version of perl was superceded by 5.8 more than two years ago 
and stable perl version is now 5.8.2 ... [2]

Anyways, you still have two good choices, IMHO: build a new sandbox perl 
by hand (~ 2hrs) or build a new 5.1 system (~ 2 weeks? :)

Best,
-- nick
[1] CPAN's ability to install multiple related modules by groups via 
Bundle::* can save you a lot of time versus FreeBSD's ports of the p5-* 
modules. But that's another argument :)

[2] I don't know what you do with your server, but I do a lot of 
internet-related stuff and it's an arena of dynamic development. I've 
never found the ports able to keep up with the software I need. I build 
perl, apache and their various components (mod_perl, mod_ssl etc) by hand, 
and rely on the ports for other stuff. OTOH, as someone pointed out, the 
ports-installed perl _does_ play nice with CPAN, so you can use CPAN to 
get perl modules as well as use the p5-* ports.

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Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-09 Thread Simon Barner
Hi Vahric,

> First thanks for your answer . Please correct me if I mis understand
> something .
> 
>  1)   You mean if I want to keep source up-to-date method and use make world
> process I must test it another test machine before apply it to the
> production server .

I think that Scott put this quite nicely. Of course, you will not have a
test machine for your desktop machine at home, but depending on the
importance of a particular machine you, as a responsible admin, will not
use untested patches/updates, ... To continue the home network example,
you will try a patch on your FreeBSD desktop first, before applying it to
your FreeBSD gateway, proxy or whatever that several other people
depend on.

>  2) You said that FreeBSD was more than a kernel . What do you mean
> Could you explain little more or Do you know any documentation or whitepaper
> which explain mind of the FreeBSD operating System .

Have a look at
   http://www.freebsd.org/
and follow the links in the main text.

This might also interest you:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/

> 3)I red small paragraf from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/
> after your advise -FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically building,
> distributing, fetching, and applying binary security updates for FreeBSD.
> This makes it possible to easily track the FreeBSD security branches without
> the need for fetching the source tree and recompiling -
> *** it seems really  good _! Soory but if binary update make all things
> easyer than soruce update mechanism Why Everybody advising source-update
> instead of freebsd-update 

IMO, the reason is two-fold:

1. Using the source based method, you can tailor the system to your
   needs: You can build only those parts of the system you need
   (increasing security), use custom options, optimize for your CPU, ...
   
   If you are familiar with programming, you could also fix small issues
   on your own - although most people won't most likely do that.
   
2. Historically, FreeBSD is very source-centric. Not only the binary
   update-mechanism is rather young, but also FreeBSD started its life
   as a (source) patch set against 4.4BSD-Lite.
   
   If you browser the CVS repository, you will see, how carefully people
   document the changes to the source tree. In contrast to Linux, for
   example, you are able to reconstruct the history of every single
   FreeBSD feature.
   
   And this does not apply to FreeBSD's kernel only, but also to all the
   great pieces of software in the base system. If the responsible
   people of the FreeBSD team decide to add a new tool to the base
   system, they import it into the CVS repository and apply FreeBSD
   specify patches to it (which are, of course, fed back upstream). For
   example, FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE does not have the latest and greatest version
   of OpenSSH, but it came with a known-good version plus patches for
   the security holes.
   
If you have a look at all this, you will easily understand why there
aren't multiple FreeBSD distributions (like in the Linux world):
The FreeBSD Project provides more than a kernel - it also maintains
the base system and almost 1 ported third-party applications (the
so-called ports collection).

Hope that answered your questions at least a bit. I'd suggest that you
browse the web site and have a look at the documentation (also a very
important part of the project) in order to get a better feeling for FreeBSD.

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Re: Lots of disks.

2003-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday,  8 December 2003 at 14:05:28 +, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks,
> providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;).
>
>   At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add
> three more 120GB disks and set up RAID5.  This is somewhat offtopic (not
> entirely sure if it is FreeBSD or not) but if I were to put two 120GB
> disks per channel and buy an ATA controller for my PCI bus and put
> another disk (or some combination of this sort) would Vinum be able to
> handle it?

Vinum would have no problem with it.  Unless you're using tagged
queueing, though, you're going to slow things down by putting more
than one disk on an ATA channel.

>   Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks?

Yes.

> I know the performance would be terrible but I have considered this
> and realised it is irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit
> connection (it's for storing large data files (videos, etc.)).

In that case you shouldn't have too much trouble.

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Re: FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Andrew Boothman wrote:

Steve Bertrand wrote:

Sftp is great, and also loaded up by default is 'scp', which is the
Secure 'copy' program. From *nix to *nix, it is an effective way to copy
files to/from remote computers just as if they were local file systems:
From local to remote


# scp thisfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/steve

and to copy from remote to local:

# scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/steve/thisfile /home/steve


Agreed - I use scp a lot for copying files and directories between 
machines.

There's also a great command-line scp client available for windows 
called pscp available from http://www.putty.org.uk/download.html along 
with PuTTY itself which is IMHO the best free windows SSH client available.

Andrew
Additionally, there is winscp, http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/ which 
is a windows scp and sftp intereface, optionally importing it's setting 
from putty.

As a pre-warning, to avoid chasing the bugs i did when i decided to use 
sftp, sftp and scp require a clean login, so if you for instance run a 
shell script from your .profile (or similar), make sure it only runs on 
interactive logins.

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Re: QuakeForge glx and sgl binaries fail on Radeon DRI

2003-12-09 Thread kitsune

Well if you compiled it with WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS, I would check and see if
works with out it.

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:19:46 -0600
Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm attempting to get nq-glx or nq-sgl (I don't know what their differences
> are) to run on a FreeBSD4.9-STABLE box using a Radeon 7200 chip.
> 
> I've got my X Server configured correctly, DRI is functioning, glxgears makes
> an indirect GLX context just fine, etc.. QuakeForge is able to get the context
> and init the window, but then it just Does Not Like things. Here is the
> console output from nq-sgl:
> 
> ~>nq-sgl
> Host_Init
> Added packfile /usr/local/share/quakeforge/id1/pak0.pak (339 files)
> UDP (IPv4) Initialized
> 16.0 megabyte heap
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=35,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=36,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=37,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=38,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=39,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=40,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=41,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=42,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=43,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=44,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=45,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=46,doublebuf=0,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=47,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=48,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=49,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> libGL-DEBUG: vis=50,doublebuf=1,depth=16, rgba=1
> @@Created GLX Context..
> GL_VERSION: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
> GL_VENDOR: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect
> GL_EXTENSIONS: 
> Checking for multitexture: not found.
> Checking for 8-bit extension: disabled.
> Video mode 640x480 initialized.
> Particles: 3000 maximum vertex elements.
> Sprites: 4 maximum vertex elements.
> Text: 3000 maximum vertex elements.
> 
> Sound Initialization
> Not loading CD due to no driver
> JOY: Joystick not found.
> X Error of failed request:  GLXBadRenderRequest
>   Major opcode of failed request:  157 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (X_GLXRender)
>   Serial number of failed request:  91
>   Current serial number in output stream:  100
> 
> Now nq-glx does the same thing, only it caps cpu usage after checking off 3000
> max vertex elements for particles, and appears to do nothing. It will
> eventually spit out the next two lines of output, and then death becomes her.
> 
> For reference, here is dmesg - and I am attaching the XF86Config.
> 
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x622  Stepping = 2
>  
> Features=0x183f9ff AT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
>   AMD Features=0xc040
> real memory  = 268419072 (262128K bytes)
> avail memory = 256282624 (250276K bytes)
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc04f4000.
> Preloaded elf module "splash_pcx.ko" at 0xc04f409c.
> Preloaded elf module "vesa.ko" at 0xc04f4140.
> Preloaded splash_image_data "/boot/hautlos.pcx" at 0xc04f41dc.
> Preloaded elf module "linux.ko" at 0xc04f422c.
> VESA: v2.0, 65536k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc04d2282 (122)
> VESA: ATI RAGE128
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> md0: Malloc disk
> Using $PIR table, 8 entries at 0xc00f0ea0
> apm0:  on motherboard
> apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2
> npx0:  on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0:  on motherboard
> pci0:  on pcib0
> agp0:  mem 0xe000-0xe7ff
> at device 0.0 on pci0
> pcib2:  at device 1.0 on
> pci0 pci1:  on pcib2
> drm0:  port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
> 0xd700-0xd707,0xd800-0xdfff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
> info: [drm] AGP at 0xe000 128MB
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0
> isab0:  at device 4.0 on pci0
> isa0:  on isab0
> atapci0:  port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 4.1 on
> pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> uhci0:  port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 9 at device 4.2 on
> pci0 usb0:  on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhci1:  port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 9 at device 4.3 on
> pci0 usb1:  on uhci1
> usb1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> pci0:  (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3057) at 4.4
> pcm0:  port 0x9400-0x943f irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci0
> rl0:  port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xd680-0xd68000ff
> irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
> rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:7d:e2:df:03
> miibus0:  on rl0
> rlphy0:  on miibus0
> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> rl1:  port 0x8800-0x88ff mem 0xd600-0xd6ff
> irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
> rl1: Ethernet address: 00:e0:7d:e3:2c:74
> miibus1:  on rl1
> rlphy1:  on miibus1
> rlphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> ahc0:  port 0x8400-0x84ff me

Re: july, 2004...

2003-12-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:38:18PM -0200, Marco A. A. Pereira wrote:
> 
>Hi. I am a Master Professor at FATEC (Brazil) which is the largest
>Technology Faculty at Sao Paulo state, similar to your MIT. I am a
>beginner at FreeBSD world, and Im studying it there are a few months.
>As a member of a large faculty, and concerned about the kind of
>software we are using, coasts, licenses, and so on, I?d like to know
>about your interest in we be accomplishing some kind of educational
>agreement, with objective of we be diffusing the philosophy of the
>free software and the effective use of the FreeBSD operating system in
>our institution. For this, I would like to know if the University of
>Berkeley offers courses in the period of July and if there is some
>type of relationship that our institutions could be accomplishing. If
>you have interest in beginning some kind of negotiation,
>please contact with me by this e-mail so that we can change larger
>information and details, ok? I thank you very much for your attention
>a nd I await your answer more shortly the possible. Respectfully,
> 

Although BSD was originally developed at Berkeley, the FreeBSD Project
does not have any formal ties to the university.  It is a volunteer
project maintained and developed by volunteers around the world.
Given this, I'm not sure whether your original question still has
relevance.

Kris
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Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Tony Jones

Hi Nick.

Thanks for the reply.

I already knew of the FreeBSD stock perl issues and was aware that
under no circumstances should I try to upgrade the stock Perl, but
I appreciate the reminded nontheless!!

I gave up on trying to install the SpamAssassin I obtained manually
from spamassassin.org after it bitched that my Bundle::Net (or similar, sorry, 
forget the exact package) was out of date. Trying to install it via CPAM 
crapped out bigtime and seems to have left my stock FreeBSD perl setup in a 
goofy state.  Perl would spit out nasty method tracebacks.

Can someone tell me if it is possible to redo just the perl portion of a 
"make installworld" so I can reset my stock module config ?

Giving up on this approach, with the help of Jan Grant's earlier reply
I got the ports tree to work. [I needed to unpack the whole ports.tgz, not 
just the spamassassin subdir]

First problem was that the MD5 on the downloaded distfile (that the ports
Makefile downloaded from spamassassin.org) didn't match:

< MD5 (Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz) = 65ece9dec35cc4701d98680d0651afd3
---
> MD5 (Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz) = 46d1db67ed1d860ddb136e0beb5f6ac3

I temporarily updated the MD5 so I could get past this, e-mailed the 
maintainer.  I wasn't planning on installing until I heard back, but since
the stock make did a bunch of perl module updating foo,  if the tar.gz is 
trojaned I could already be screwed :-(

Next the make groks when it tries to configure spamd,  claims gcc isn't in
the PATH,  though it's in roots path once make drops back to the shell.

This is probably easily fixable, but at this point I gave up and started
working on what I get paid to do :-) All of this is on FreeBSD 4.9.

I'm reminded of Greg Lemis's chastisement of me for previously not using
the FreeBSD Ports system.  It isn't making my life much easier here :-)))

Tony

> Hm, well, if you hate perl perhaps you should consider using a spam 
> filtering package written in some other language!
> 
> The problem with FreeBSD and perl is well documented . . . basically the 
> FreebSD system has perl 5.005_03 which is a very old version nowadays, and 
> many modules require 5.6.1 at least if not 5.8+.
> 
> The simplest and easiest way to clear up these problems is to install a 
> new perl from source, in a non-standard location, so it creates its own 
> libraries from scratch. I recommend creating a user perl and installing 
> everything under /home/perl. Then at the end just change the symlinks to 
> /usr/bin/perl etc.
> 
> Do _not_ try to install a new perl over the 5.005 version that FreeBSD has 
> installed by default. FreeBSD creates non-standard library locations and 
> you will have lots of problems.
> 
> If you follow this advice you won't have any problem using CPAN to install 
> libwww, Mail::SpamAssassin and all the other modules you need or currently 
> use.perl and CPAN are _very_ reliable.
> 
> If you upgrade your FreeBSD to 5.1 you will find that the stock perl is 
> 5.6.1 and most stuff Just Works with it. The perl has also been separated 
>  from the base distribution and is now installed as a package (or port) so 
> it doesn't break when you update it.
> 
> On FreeBSD prior to 5.x I always built a new perl from source as I 
> described, and then built all my applications from source too (including 
> apache, mod_perl, mysql and a bunch of perl applications like 
> SpanAssassin). I too have encountered the 'ports or bust' mentality and 
> while it is good in theory it just doesn't work in practise where perl is 
> concerned. And there's way too much stuff depends on perl (for me at 
> least) for it to be flaky.
> 
> Hope this helps,
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Re: Whitle - Interjet Question

2003-12-09 Thread kitsune
Wrong list... you want [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:38:41 -0900
murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I try to install a videocard - trident 9000i - I can only  see the memory test
> 
> 
> How can I install a video card and other hard drive
> 
> Do you know how to convert an interjet to run windows 98?? or at least to get
> root access on the exisiting freebsd?

Use XFree86 -configure and xf86cfg -textmode for the card... look into cupsd for
the printer


I have no clue what you are trying to ask on the last one... if you want to
access a printer from windows then you will want to look into samba... 
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Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:29:26 -0800, Tony Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[ snip ]

So, this not working, I went and grabbed the sources for 
Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60
and figured I'd try building it manually.

trying: perl -MCPAN -e shell  (which is the INSTALL files recommended 
way)
just generated lots of messages telling me to install Bundle::libnet ASAP
and when I did, it failed to install and seems to have messed up the perl
packages on my system.

So, two questions:

1) How can I reinstall perl 5.005_03 (make install from /usr/src)
2) Once I have the perl restored,  what is the best way to install 
SpamAssassin
on 4.9 ?

Thanks

Tony (who hates perl)
Hm, well, if you hate perl perhaps you should consider using a spam 
filtering package written in some other language!

The problem with FreeBSD and perl is well documented . . . basically the 
FreebSD system has perl 5.005_03 which is a very old version nowadays, and 
many modules require 5.6.1 at least if not 5.8+.

The simplest and easiest way to clear up these problems is to install a 
new perl from source, in a non-standard location, so it creates its own 
libraries from scratch. I recommend creating a user perl and installing 
everything under /home/perl. Then at the end just change the symlinks to 
/usr/bin/perl etc.

Do _not_ try to install a new perl over the 5.005 version that FreeBSD has 
installed by default. FreeBSD creates non-standard library locations and 
you will have lots of problems.

If you follow this advice you won't have any problem using CPAN to install 
libwww, Mail::SpamAssassin and all the other modules you need or currently 
use.perl and CPAN are _very_ reliable.

If you upgrade your FreeBSD to 5.1 you will find that the stock perl is 
5.6.1 and most stuff Just Works with it. The perl has also been separated 
from the base distribution and is now installed as a package (or port) so 
it doesn't break when you update it.

On FreeBSD prior to 5.x I always built a new perl from source as I 
described, and then built all my applications from source too (including 
apache, mod_perl, mysql and a bunch of perl applications like 
SpanAssassin). I too have encountered the 'ports or bust' mentality and 
while it is good in theory it just doesn't work in practise where perl is 
concerned. And there's way too much stuff depends on perl (for me at 
least) for it to be flaky.

Hope this helps,

- nick
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Re: scripting make buildworld cycle

2003-12-09 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote David Bear
thusly...
>
> anyone know of an updated script like this one to handle
> 4.9-Release?  preferrably someplace that I can cut-n-paste it
> from?  or, is there an improved version?

I currently use this...

  http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/cleanbw


...which has worked perfectly for me so far for 4.[6-8] versions.
I could have been using it before 4.6, but i don't remember.


  - Parv

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Re: archiving and restoring disk images...

2003-12-09 Thread lists
Thanks, Dan. I'm thinking this whole process over based on what you've 
said. I've never tried storing a disk as an archive, so I thought I'd 
try it on for size.

Thanks for your point of view. Very helpful.

Alex

On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 05:26  PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (Dec 09), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I dumped a disk image of my root partition like this:

dd if=/dev/da0s1a | gzip -9 -c > where.ever.gz

Does this include the boot sector? In other words, if I need to
restore this disk image I can do the reverse and the boot sector and
root partition will be back to that state. How should I go about
this, if what I'm saying is valid? Can I do this in single user mode
or should I boot from CD and go from there? I haven't needed to do
this yet, but I want to know how. If dumping the root partition like
this is not a good means of backing up, please say so. What would you
recommend? I tar most everything else.
The first BSD partition includes the disklabel partition and the boot
blocks for that slice, but will not contain the MBR or fdisk partition
table.  Something like "dd if=/dev/da0 of=mbr count=1" would do that.
To restore the disklabel partition you'll need to dd your where.ever
dump to /dev/da0s1, since on a new disk there won't be an 'a' partition
to write to.  After the dd is done, the 'a' partition should appear.
I usually either use dump or tar to back up my root partition, and use
sysinstall or a bootable CD image to fdisk and disklabel new media
before restoring.  That way I can change the partition sizes if my new
disk is larger/smaller than the original.
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Talk Filters and Gaim...

2003-12-09 Thread epilogue
hello all,

just wondering if any of you has had luck getting the talkfilters port
integrated with gaim?  i tried applying the patches included with the
talkfilters port, but no dice.  i suspect that this failure has much to do
with the difference between the version of gaim for which the patches were
written and the version of gaim i am running (0.74).

excerpt of talkfilters gaim-patch README:

  This patch is provided for interested hackers only, not for end
users. Familiarity with UNIX and C development is assumed. Please DO
NOT email me if you need help appying this patch.

This directory structure contains a skeleton of the gaim-0.59.8 source
tree.  

well, i'm not familiar with UNIX or C development (and i'm definitely not
e-mailing the author of talkfilters...  heheh), so i turn to you, the other
users.  i would really appreciate it if one of you could point me in the
right direction.  thanks.


cheers,
epi
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group file limits

2003-12-09 Thread jonathan
Hi, I'm running a freebsd 4.8 data server on an intranet.

There is many group (10 and more will come) and a lot of members (10-12 by group) into 
them... So i'm having big trouble with the fact that 'pw' doesn't read further than 
1024 characters into the '/etc/group' file. 

Is there a way to bypass that limit?

Or a better way of managing many groups on freebsd?

I really need to solve this... any help will be a miracle!
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july, 2004...

2003-12-09 Thread Marco A. A. Pereira

   Hi. I am a Master Professor at FATEC (Brazil) which is the largest
   Technology Faculty at Sao Paulo state, similar to your MIT. I am a
   beginner at FreeBSD world, and Im studying it there are a few months.
   As a member of a large faculty, and concerned about the kind of
   software we are using, coasts, licenses, and so on, I´d like to know
   about your interest in we be accomplishing some kind of educational
   agreement, with objective of we be diffusing the philosophy of the
   free software and the effective use of the FreeBSD operating system in
   our institution. For this, I would like to know if the University of
   Berkeley offers courses in the period of July and if there is some
   type of relationship that our institutions could be accomplishing. If
   you have interest in beginning some kind of negotiation,
   please contact with me by this e-mail so that we can change larger
   information and details, ok? I thank you very much for your attention
   a nd I await your answer more shortly the possible. Respectfully,

   
   Marco Antonio Alves Pereira, MSc.
   FATEC - Taquaritinga (Coordinator)
   CeU Barão de Mauá - Ribeirão Preto
   Mobile: 55 (16) 9148-1726
 _

   MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. [1]Faça o seu agora. 

References

   1. http://g.msn.com/8HMABRBR/2731??PS=
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Lots of disks.

2003-12-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi,

I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks,
providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;).

  At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add
three more 120GB disks and set up RAID5.  This is somewhat offtopic (not
entirely sure if it is FreeBSD or not) but if I were to put two 120GB
disks per channel and buy an ATA controller for my PCI bus and put
another disk (or some combination of this sort) would Vinum be able to
handle it?

  Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks?  I know the performance
would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is
irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing
large data files (videos, etc.)).

  Now for the slightly off-topic question -- does anybody know of a good
hardware RAID IDE controller than can support 5 devices in RAID5?  I'm
not sure whether such a thing exists (unless it has a primary, secondary
and tertiary??? controller) and I fear it might be beyond my price range
but I'd be interested to hear anyway.

  I know I should really be using SCSI or FC for this kind of stuff but
I can't afford to go this way and the performance isn't my bottleneck.

  Thanks very much,

-lewiz.

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Re: archiving and restoring disk images...

2003-12-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 09), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I dumped a disk image of my root partition like this:
> 
> dd if=/dev/da0s1a | gzip -9 -c > where.ever.gz
> 
> Does this include the boot sector? In other words, if I need to
> restore this disk image I can do the reverse and the boot sector and
> root partition will be back to that state. How should I go about
> this, if what I'm saying is valid? Can I do this in single user mode
> or should I boot from CD and go from there? I haven't needed to do
> this yet, but I want to know how. If dumping the root partition like
> this is not a good means of backing up, please say so. What would you
> recommend? I tar most everything else.

The first BSD partition includes the disklabel partition and the boot
blocks for that slice, but will not contain the MBR or fdisk partition
table.  Something like "dd if=/dev/da0 of=mbr count=1" would do that.

To restore the disklabel partition you'll need to dd your where.ever
dump to /dev/da0s1, since on a new disk there won't be an 'a' partition
to write to.  After the dd is done, the 'a' partition should appear.

I usually either use dump or tar to back up my root partition, and use
sysinstall or a bootable CD image to fdisk and disklabel new media
before restoring.  That way I can change the partition sizes if my new
disk is larger/smaller than the original.

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RE: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-09 Thread Frederick Bowes
>>> Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a
>>> certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do
 > I had the same problem back in 4.5.  I worked around the problem by
> formating the hard drive with a Win98(Oh Boy) recovery floppy then
> ...
Formatting/fdisking under windows 98 or xp cd's didnt work for me, caused
the same trouble.

I've solved the problem and repreat it here for future generations reference
(: It appears that the MBR was infact corrupt, causing fdisk to get
confused...
the following command made the hd appear blank and let it all work again:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=2000

(Yes i lost my data but the drive now works!) Thanks for ur help (:

Fred
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Re: Apache

2003-12-09 Thread Mike Maltese
> Thanks, yes FreeBSD rocks!!! I know this is the right place to ask, so
> if you have the apache group list that would be nice, but what do I have
> to do to get my users account to work? Are they place for example
>
> /home/user_x/public_html
>
> On any web browser I get the following error.
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /~user_x/ on this server.
>
> On my linux server this is already turn on so I am little lost.

If you have indexes turned off and the user's directory does not contain a
file that is named in the DirectoryIndex directive, you will get this
response.

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Re: Installation question...

2003-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
> 
> Hi list...I've a very low bandwidth and I need to download
> any of 5-RELEASES, do I need to download disc1 or mini-disc,
> I only need a fully functional OS with networking not
> packages, thanks...

Well, it is probably all about the same really.

The MNI_ISO is just the install system and it then pulls what it
needs to install over the net from a site you specify.
The disk 1 is the full system and doesn't have to pull stuff
over the net for installation.  But it is bigger because it 
has everything and so you pull the stuff downloading that ISO
rather than during the installation.

I have had better luck sustaining the downloads when 
the install system is doing it rather than when I was trying to
download the larger ISO, but that may just be my location.

jerry

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archiving and restoring disk images...

2003-12-09 Thread lists
I dumped a disk image of my root partition like this:

dd if=/dev/da0s1a | gzip -9 -c > where.ever.gz

Does this include the boot sector? In other words, if I need to restore 
this disk image I can do the reverse and the boot sector and root 
partition will be back to that state. How should I go about this, if 
what I'm saying is valid? Can I do this in single user mode or should I 
boot from CD and go from there? I haven't needed to do this yet, but I 
want to know how. If dumping the root partition like this is not a good 
means of backing up, please say so. What would you recommend? I tar 
most everything else.

Thanks for the help.
Alex
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502
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Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Tue, 9 Dec 2003, the wise Peter Ulrich Kruppa entered:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the
> > specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using
> > Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd configured with
> > help of Apsfilter from the ports) it prints very slowly, I guess about 2
> > pages per minute.
> >
> > Is it possible to make printing go faster?
> Start apsfilter's setup and play around with resolutions and
> qualities.
> If you need different quality standards, you could give them
> different names like hplaser_lo and hplaser_hi .

Well I just tried a lot of settings (resolution to 300dpi, quality to
high/medium/low) but it has not influenced the speed of printing at all.
The only driver that seems suitable for my printer is the lj5mono or
lj5gray.

Any other suggestions?

gr.
Marco

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Re: Apache

2003-12-09 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
I think you have file permisson problem please check error log for more
detail you will see the problem %100

vahric

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Subject: Apache


> Hi,
>
> Thanks, yes FreeBSD rocks!!! I know this is the right place to ask, so
> if you have the apache group list that would be nice, but what do I have
> to do to get my users account to work? Are they place for example
>
> /home/user_x/public_html
>
> On any web browser I get the following error.
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /~user_x/ on this server.
>
> On my linux server this is already turn on so I am little lost.
>
> Payne
>
>
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Disklabel again

2003-12-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi, I am reposting this in hopes poeple who have disklabel and RAID perc
3DCL / SCSI experience see it tonight.

Hi,

I had a crash tonight. Server rebooted and everything seemed to restart OK.
Interesting disklabel output though. Should I be worried about all the "*"s?
:

If this helps, the disk below is a 10,000 spin RAID 5 Dell Perc DC/L (3
Fujitu disks).

enterprise# disklabel /dev/amrd0
# /dev/amrd0:
type: SCSI
disk: amnesiac
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 4405
sectors/unit: 70770688
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0   # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c: 707706880unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 -
4405*)
enterprise#


enterprise# disklabel /dev/amrd0s1
# /dev/amrd0s1:
type: ESDI
disk: amrd0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 4404
sectors/unit: 70766262
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0   # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:  102400004.2BSD0 0 0   # (Cyl.0 - 63*)
  b:  2048000  1024000  swap# (Cyl.   63*- 191*)
  c: 707662620unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 -
4404*)
  d:  8142848 461291524.2BSD 1024  819216   # (Cyl. 2871*-
3378*)
  e: 1024  30720004.2BSD0 0 0   # (Cyl.  191*- 828*)
  f: 3072 133120004.2BSD0 0 0   # (Cyl.  828*-
2740*)
  g:  2097152 440320004.2BSD0 0 0   # (Cyl. 2740*-
2871*)
  h: 16494262 542720004.2BSD0 0 0   # (Cyl. 3378*-
4404*)
enterprise#



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Re: Installation question...

2003-12-09 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
it's enough to download only Disc1 not Disc 2 and mini

vahric
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Subject: Installation question...


> Hi list...I've a very low bandwidth and I need to download
> any of 5-RELEASES, do I need to download disc1 or mini-disc,
> I only need a fully functional OS with networking not
> packages, thanks...
>
>
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Apache

2003-12-09 Thread Payne
Hi,

Thanks, yes FreeBSD rocks!!! I know this is the right place to ask, so 
if you have the apache group list that would be nice, but what do I have 
to do to get my users account to work? Are they place for example

/home/user_x/public_html

On any web browser I get the following error.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~user_x/ on this server.

On my linux server this is already turn on so I am little lost.

Payne

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Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Howse
Please tell me how you did it.
My build always fails.
I have /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 working.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin]# ./java -version
java version "1.4.2_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_02-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_02-b03, mixed mode)

-- 
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Charles
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Envelopes and stamps which don't stick when you lick
them will stick to other things when you don't want
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Installation question...

2003-12-09 Thread Xpression
Hi list...I've a very low bandwidth and I need to download
any of 5-RELEASES, do I need to download disc1 or mini-disc,
I only need a fully functional OS with networking not
packages, thanks...


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Two ISP connections

2003-12-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello.
I have a server with two ISP connections: a flat ADSL with an ISP and pay-per-traffic 
HDSL with another.
I'd like to use ADSL whenever possible, but switch to HDSL in case the first line 
drops.
Any pointer?

 bye & Thanks
av.



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Re: Apaches Ports

2003-12-09 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
of course you can . both of them are modules and if you add those modules to
httpd.conf you can use it ( if you install those to modules with using ports
collection it's automaticly update it )


Vahric
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> Hi.
>
> I have a question, can I use the Apache1.3_frontpage and mod_php? I love
> how easy it was to get frontpage working with apache it was a nightmare
> under linux. But I have a need for php as well.
>
> I am currently using 4.9.
>
> Payne
>
>
>
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Apaches Ports

2003-12-09 Thread Payne
Hi.

I have a question, can I use the Apache1.3_frontpage and mod_php? I love 
how easy it was to get frontpage working with apache it was a nightmare 
under linux. But I have a need for php as well.

I am currently using 4.9.

Payne



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Re: FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread Andrew Boothman
Steve Bertrand wrote:

Sftp is great, and also loaded up by default is 'scp', which is the
Secure 'copy' program. From *nix to *nix, it is an effective way to copy
files to/from remote computers just as if they were local file systems:
From local to remote
# scp thisfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/steve

and to copy from remote to local:

# scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/steve/thisfile /home/steve
Agreed - I use scp a lot for copying files and directories between machines.

There's also a great command-line scp client available for windows 
called pscp available from http://www.putty.org.uk/download.html along 
with PuTTY itself which is IMHO the best free windows SSH client available.

Andrew
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Re: apcupsd

2003-12-09 Thread Robert Downes
Barry Skidmore wrote:

Are there any users of apcupsd on the list?  If so, please respond to me
privately.  I have a question about recommended UPS's that work well
with FreeBSD.
 

I have used apcupsd before. I have an ancient old APC Back-UPS Pro 420 
with serial cable, and everything was working just dandy. Seems that 
almost any recent APC Back-UPS Pro or Smart-UPS is supposed to work with 
apcupsd.

However, mine does not work with apcupsd anymore. I think this was my 
fault, as I tried to send data from my FreeBSD machine to the UPS, and 
later realised that my model does not allow this. So I think I may have 
fried the UPS data-line. Possibly it was something else, though, so 
let's hope some more intelligent UPS+FreeBSD users post to this thread.

--
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FreeBSD 4.9 + XFree86 4.3 + Alpha

2003-12-09 Thread Stephen Agar
Hi,
I just recently installed freebsd 4.9 on a DEC PWS 500au. Everything 
works fine except X. I realize that the problem more than likely isn't 
FreeBSD specific, its probably a problem with XFree but I thought you 
guys may be able to give me some advice. When I try to run "xf86cfg" to 
configure my xserver, it just hangs and takes 99% of the CPU. Ive also 
tried manually creating config files just to see if I got the same 
behavior, and I did. I have tried with a few different vid cards, the 
Cirrus Logic that was originally in this machine, an ATI Mach64, and an 
S3 Trio. It always hangs at the same spot in the log and takes 99% of 
the CPU. Here's an excerpt from the log file. Thanks in advance for any 
help, i'm thinking I may need to just wait for X 4.4, but i'm hoping 
someone out there has had better luck than I have.

Start Log Excerpt***
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 1011,0019 card , rev 30 class 02,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1080,c693 card , rev 00 class 06,01,00 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1080,c693 card , rev 00 class 01,01,80 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 1080,c693 card , rev 00 class 01,01,00 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 1080,c693 card , rev 00 class 0c,03,10 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:14:0: chip 1011,0024 card , rev 02 class 06,04,00 
hdr 01
(II) PCI: 01:04:0: chip 1077,1020 card , rev 05 class 01,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:08:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:0a:0: chip 1000,000f card , rev 04 class 01,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:20:0), (0,1,0), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
[0] -1  0   0x8000 - 0x8fff (0x1000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1  0   0x8000 - 0x808f (0x90) MX[B]
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
[0] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1  0   0x8000 - 0x (0x8000) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1  0   0x8000 - 0x (0x8000) MX[B]
***End of Log Excerpt***

--Stephen Agar

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Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-09 Thread Mike Maltese
>  2) You said that FreeBSD was more than a kernel . What do you mean
> Could you explain little more or Do you know any documantation or
whitepaper
> which explain mind of the FreeBSD operating System .

Hmm, try www.freebsd.org (sic).

These two areas should be partiularly useful.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html

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Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-09 Thread Scott W
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:

Hi Simon Barner ,

   First thanks for your answer . Please correct me if I mis understand
something .
1)   You mean if I want to keep source up-to-date method and use make world
process I must test it another test machine before apply it to the
production server .
 

I realize I'm jumping in mid-thread here, but:

Anyone that gets paid to maintain a system or group of systems is 
certifiably insane if they routinely 'just apply patches and fixes' to 
their production box without testing on a staging server or cloned test 
system.  I realize that the definition of 'production' varies, ranging 
anywhere from someone running a web server at home (ok, not production, 
but some treat it as such) to companies primary database, web, mail, 
development and build systems.  While I've been 'guilty' myself of 
applying smaller patches to Solaris, HP-UX, etc boxes for development 
without prior testing:

a.  It's minimal impact- I could recreate the systems in question of 
need be from scratch.  It would be an inconvenience, and still not the 
best idea, but for some systems you don't always have cloned systems...

b.  Anything that could cost a company money or loss of uptime that 
customers depended on NEVER gets upgraded/patched/etc without testing on 
a staging system.  This includes kernel builds or patches, library 
changes, application patches etc.  Virtually anything.  Only exception 
will vary from person to person and company to company, but only sane 
changes are changes you KNOW (a in 99.99%) are limited in scope, as in 
self-contained applications that don't touch any of the core libraries 
required for the system to do it's job.  Even so, this one's debateable, 
as a 'self contained' app can certainly turn out to eat CPU or RAM, thus 
degrading system performance...

2) You said that FreeBSD was more than a kernel . What do you mean
Could you explain little more or Do you know any documantation or whitepaper
which explain mind of the FreeBSD operating System .
 

I'm sure this is covered in the Handbook or other docs at 
www.freebsd.org...Briefly...BSD is comprised of:
1.  Kernel.  Umm, I hope I don't have to expain this one ;-) 

2.  Core system- This one can likely be argued a bit with bsd (and 
others), but this should be considered any additional libraries and/or 
services that are required for mimimum accepted or targetted 
functionality.  In the strictest sense, this can be seen as core 
libraries that userland apps will generally require- libc and others, 
and core services- login/getty, inetd, etc.  Like a Windows kernel 
without any of the GUI or Win32 libraries would be of little use, Unix 
systems have their own generally accepted list of 'core requirements.'  
SSH and a few others may be debateable as far as if they're really core 
requirement or not, but it's generally agreed on that most networked 
*nix systems will be running ssh (hopefully as a replacement to telnet 
and ftp..)  FreeBSDs equivalent here is the output of 'make world.'

3.  userland apps- Kernel and core make a rudimentary system, but 
without much 'specialized' functionality.  You're networked, and perhaps 
running mail and ssh, but that's about it.  userland = everything else.  
Databases, Window Manager(s), MatLab, or whatever else you need to turn 
the system from a 'generic' system into what it's going to be used for.  
As already mentioned, without some of the contents of the 'core system,' 
you wouldn't be very likely able to even install userland apps as libc 
and friends would be missing

3)I red small paragraf from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/
after your advise -FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically building,
distributing, fetching, and applying binary security updates for FreeBSD.
This makes it possible to easily track the FreeBSD security branches without
the need for fetching the source tree and recompiling -
   *** it seems really  good _! Soory but if binary update make all things
easyer than soruce update mechanism Why Everybody advising source-update
instead of freebsd-update 
 

Binary updates don't allow compile time options to be set, nor are the 
binaries optimized for your specific system.  Check out the output of 
the 'configure' script on a samba or Perl tarball sometime- some apps 
have quite a few possible configurations, and binary distributions don't 
fit everyone's needs.  It's possible, depending on what you use your 
system(s) for that you can solely rely on binary packages, but as you 
expand the purpose of a given system further, it's likely you'll 
eventually need to configure and compile from source yourself.  BSD 
Ports is a good compromise or in between here, as it does compie from 
source, with the ability to still allow customization of packages...

Scott

Thanks .
Vahric
 



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Re: freebsd-update is giving an error

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Percival
At 22:19 09/12/2003 +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
bash-2.05b# freebsd-update -v fetch
Fetching public key...
fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/5.1/pub.key: Not Found
Error fetching updates
  According to uname, you're running FreeBSD 5.1.  I'm not building 
updates for 5.1-RELEASE yet; thanks to recent donations I now have a fast 
buildbox for this purpose, but I've been waiting for -CURRENT to stabilize 
before setting up the system (I hear that 5.2RC1 is just around the corner).
  In short, the updates are Not Found because they aren't there. :)

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Re: inode state

2003-12-09 Thread Fabian Thylmann
> Hmm.  Kqueue should be thread-safe in that it's a system call, but I can't
> speak to the safety of various arguments/parameters.  I don't know if
> linuxthreads tries to provide locking around file descriptors and might
> have reference problems if kqueue were held over a call to close(), but it
> could be kqueue will "just work" with linuxthreads.  Do calls like
> select()/poll() require thread-safe versions in linuxthreads?

Yeah, select/poll is not needed, but the thing is that my app, which I just
changed from pthreads to linuxthreads, did all ok, launched threads and all,
but it crashed when running kevent() and all the referrences it gave to
kevent() were fine.

> Do you have an outstanding PR on the LSI problem, and/or a stack trace for
> the trap?  In the past, our LSI drivers have been fairly well maintained
> on the LSI side.  I can certainly try shaking some branches and see if
> anything falls down, if there's a detailed bug report I can point at.

I have no PR nor do I have a stack trace for the trap right now. How would I
exactly get a stack trace of the trap? It happends when booting from the
5.2-beta cd-rom. Let me know when you need from me and I'll get all that.
The box is at a hosting provider so I'll have to get the info from them.

> I know some work has been done relating to this problem at Yahoo,
> especially relating to disk fragmentation resulting from allocation using
> mmap on sparse files.  You might want to try posting about this problem on
> freebsd-fs or freebsd-current and see if you manage to hook someone who's
> been looking at this.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Fabian

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freebsd-update is giving an error

2003-12-09 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi ,

I'm using freebsd-update1.5 When I try to update it's giving an error ,
I checked from web site I think that file  is not available after that I
check http://update.daemonology.net/4.9/pub.key it's Ok . ??!?!?!?

bash-2.05b# freebsd-update -v fetch
Fetching public key...
fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/5.1/pub.key: Not Found
Error fetching updates




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Apache+ssl

2003-12-09 Thread Marius Kirschner
Tried to update my old apache+ssl to the latest and am getting the following
error:

making all in tools...
===>  Installing for openssl-0.9.7c
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if security/openssl already installed
ln: illegal option -- h
usage: ln [-fisv] file1 file2
   ln [-fisv] file ... directory
   link file1 file2
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssl.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13-ssl.


Any idea how to work around that?

---Marius 

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Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-09 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Simon Barner ,

First thanks for your answer . Please correct me if I mis understand
something .

 1)   You mean if I want to keep source up-to-date method and use make world
process I must test it another test machine before apply it to the
production server .

 2) You said that FreeBSD was more than a kernel . What do you mean
Could you explain little more or Do you know any documantation or whitepaper
which explain mind of the FreeBSD operating System .


3)I red small paragraf from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/
after your advise -FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically building,
distributing, fetching, and applying binary security updates for FreeBSD.
This makes it possible to easily track the FreeBSD security branches without
the need for fetching the source tree and recompiling -
*** it seems really  good _! Soory but if binary update make all things
easyer than soruce update mechanism Why Everybody advising source-update
instead of freebsd-update 

Thanks .
Vahric








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Re: inode state

2003-12-09 Thread Robert Watson

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Fabian Thylmann wrote:

> thanks for the reply, and yea, totally forgot the version. its 4.9. 
> 
> Now, the problem is:
> 1) I can not use linuxthreads since my server is also multiplexing via
> kqueue's and I can not find any version of linuxthreads which implements a
> thread-safe version of kqueue.

Hmm.  Kqueue should be thread-safe in that it's a system call, but I can't
speak to the safety of various arguments/parameters.  I don't know if
linuxthreads tries to provide locking around file descriptors and might
have reference problems if kqueue were held over a call to close(), but it
could be kqueue will "just work" with linuxthreads.  Do calls like
select()/poll() require thread-safe versions in linuxthreads? 

> 2) I can not use freebsd 5.2 because it fails to boot on a dell
> poweredge 1750 with two harddisks. The LSILogic SCSI Controller the
> server uses (mpt driver) seems to not find any hdds and gives up with an
> error.  If I remove one of the two disks 5.2 boots but the kernel traps
> as soon as it tries to write to the hdd. 

Do you have an outstanding PR on the LSI problem, and/or a stack trace for
the trap?  In the past, our LSI drivers have been fairly well maintained
on the LSI side.  I can certainly try shaking some branches and see if
anything falls down, if there's a detailed bug report I can point at.

> Is there some way to keep the number of kernl-level locks as low as
> possible? This all seems to be associated to flushing dirty buffers and
> I wonder if there is no way to make it flush in way smaller bursts or
> why exactly it has to lock the process while doing so. 

I know some work has been done relating to this problem at Yahoo,
especially relating to disk fragmentation resulting from allocation using
mmap on sparse files.  You might want to try posting about this problem on
freebsd-fs or freebsd-current and see if you manage to hook someone who's
been looking at this.

Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research


> 
> Fabian
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Robert Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Fabian Thylmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: inode state
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Fabian Thylmann wrote:
> >
> > > I have a heavily used threaded server program running on one of my Dell
> > > Poweredge 1750 servers. Its a statistical analysis package for websites.
> > > Currently it analyses over 60 million requests a day, which (because of
> > > many different reasons) causes it to handle around 120 million http
> > > requests a day. At peaks around 1500 requests a second.
> > >
> > > The system stores most many statistics in memory which is flushed to
> > > disk in circles by a worker thread.
> > >
> > > Another big part is stored in an on-disk database which is mmap()'d into
> > > memory. Because we do not have enough memory to keep everything in
> > > memory at one time the mmap() system of course pages data in and out.
> > >
> > > When I look in systat -v I see that dirtybuf climbs to about 1700 and
> > > then they get flushed to disk, causing high disk usage of around 300-400
> > > tps whcih renders the disks useless for anything else.
> > >
> > > When those flushes occure, my apps state as displayed by top(1) gets
> > > into inode state, PRI is set to -14 and cpu usage rapidly drops. The
> > > program and ALL of its threads are stalled at that time. Those inode
> > > states take around 2 oe 3 seconds and happen every 30 seconds or so.
> > >
> > > In those 3 seconds we lose around 1500 hits at peak times for processing
> > > because the app can not handle them fast enough. This results in around
> > > 2 million or so hits lost over the day for processing.
> > >
> > > I am now wondering if anyone can explain to me why ALL threads and not
> > > just the threads that actually do I/O work get blocked when dirty
> > > buffers are flushed and what to do to fix this problem.
> > >
> > > I would be very happy if someone could reply and point me into the right
> > > direction!
> >
> > You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're running -- if 4.x, you
> > probably want to relink your application against the "linuxthreads" port.
> > This is because libc_r implements threads inside a single process without
> > the support of the kernel, which means that if the process is blocked in
> > kernel, all threads will be blocked in kernel.  The linuxthreads package
> > uses a model similar to Linux's threading implementation (hence the name)
> > to allow the threads to be scheduled using lightweight versions of
> > processes (shared file descriptors, etc).  This isn't quite
> > POSIX-compliant, but it works quite well for disk-bound applications such
> > as databases.
> >
> > If you're running on 5.x, especially recent 5.1 or 5.2 prereleases, you
> > probably want to give libkse a try.

Re: user timer/alarm

2003-12-09 Thread Troy
That was it!!!

Thank you sir,

Troy

On Dec 9, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:

Troy wrote:

Hello,
I found a command a few days ago that would allow a user to type in 
the command + time in minutes then it would allow a person to 
continue to work, when the time was up it would let you know and that 
was it.  Can someone please refresh my memory as to what that command 
might've been?  I of course did not write it down and thus can't 
remember.

Thanks,

Troy

And, behind door number three, leave(1):

#leave 1105

Which will prompt "time to leave" at
11:05 (am) local time
KDK

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Re: inode state

2003-12-09 Thread Fabian Thylmann
Hi Robert,

thanks for the reply, and yea, totally forgot the version. its 4.9.

Now, the problem is:
1) I can not use linuxthreads since my server is also multiplexing via
kqueue's and I can not find any version of linuxthreads which implements a
thread-safe version of kqueue.
2) I can not use freebsd 5.2 because it fails to boot on a dell poweredge
1750 with two harddisks. The LSILogic SCSI Controller the server uses (mpt
driver) seems to not find any hdds and gives up with an error.
If I remove one of the two disks 5.2 boots but the kernel traps as soon as
it tries to write to the hdd.

Is there some way to keep the number of kernl-level locks as low as
possible? This all seems to be associated to flushing dirty buffers and I
wonder if there is no way to make it flush in way smaller bursts or why
exactly it has to lock the process while doing so.

Fabian

- Original Message - 
From: "Robert Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fabian Thylmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: inode state


> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Fabian Thylmann wrote:
>
> > I have a heavily used threaded server program running on one of my Dell
> > Poweredge 1750 servers. Its a statistical analysis package for websites.
> > Currently it analyses over 60 million requests a day, which (because of
> > many different reasons) causes it to handle around 120 million http
> > requests a day. At peaks around 1500 requests a second.
> >
> > The system stores most many statistics in memory which is flushed to
> > disk in circles by a worker thread.
> >
> > Another big part is stored in an on-disk database which is mmap()'d into
> > memory. Because we do not have enough memory to keep everything in
> > memory at one time the mmap() system of course pages data in and out.
> >
> > When I look in systat -v I see that dirtybuf climbs to about 1700 and
> > then they get flushed to disk, causing high disk usage of around 300-400
> > tps whcih renders the disks useless for anything else.
> >
> > When those flushes occure, my apps state as displayed by top(1) gets
> > into inode state, PRI is set to -14 and cpu usage rapidly drops. The
> > program and ALL of its threads are stalled at that time. Those inode
> > states take around 2 oe 3 seconds and happen every 30 seconds or so.
> >
> > In those 3 seconds we lose around 1500 hits at peak times for processing
> > because the app can not handle them fast enough. This results in around
> > 2 million or so hits lost over the day for processing.
> >
> > I am now wondering if anyone can explain to me why ALL threads and not
> > just the threads that actually do I/O work get blocked when dirty
> > buffers are flushed and what to do to fix this problem.
> >
> > I would be very happy if someone could reply and point me into the right
> > direction!
>
> You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're running -- if 4.x, you
> probably want to relink your application against the "linuxthreads" port.
> This is because libc_r implements threads inside a single process without
> the support of the kernel, which means that if the process is blocked in
> kernel, all threads will be blocked in kernel.  The linuxthreads package
> uses a model similar to Linux's threading implementation (hence the name)
> to allow the threads to be scheduled using lightweight versions of
> processes (shared file descriptors, etc).  This isn't quite
> POSIX-compliant, but it works quite well for disk-bound applications such
> as databases.
>
> If you're running on 5.x, especially recent 5.1 or 5.2 prereleases, you
> probably want to give libkse a try.  It's the new m:n threading
> implementation that will become the default in 5.3, and also permits
> parallelism (only in a more POSIX-compliant way, and in theory offering
> much greater scalability for large numbers of threads).  I stick the
> following lines in my /etc/libmap.conf on 5.x boxes to force all
> applications linked against libc_r to use libkse instead:
>
>   libc_r.so.5 libkse.so.1
>   libc_r.so   libkse.so
>
> One particularly nice thing about the m:n thread support is that you can
> run-time plug the thread library between several options (libc_r, libthr,
> libkse) to pick the one that performs best for your application.  Another
> benefit of running with a non-libc_r threads package is that if you have
> an SMP box, you'll see real parallelism.
>
> Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
>
>
>

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Re: FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
> > I never used this, but I know there is sftp and sftp-server
> > on your system, which use ssh-encryption and -protocol.
> >
> Since your question made me curious: sftp-server is started
> automatically with sshd (i.e. you probably have it running
> now) and there is a small gpl'ed sftp client
> for windows available on i-tree.org . This is nice to transfer
> files from work to my home machine.
> 

Sftp is great, and also loaded up by default is 'scp', which is the
Secure 'copy' program. From *nix to *nix, it is an effective way to copy
files to/from remote computers just as if they were local file systems:

>From local to remote

# scp thisfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/steve

and to copy from remote to local:

# scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/steve/thisfile /home/steve

Steve

> Uli.
> 
> > Please have a look at the man pages.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Uli.
> >
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Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Howse
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:18 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Charles Howse wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:19 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to
> > > > the specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute.
> > > > When using Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd
> > > > configured with help of Apsfilter from the ports) it prints very
> > > > slowly, I guess about 2 pages per minute.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to make printing go faster?
> > >
> > > Start apsfilter's setup and play around with resolutions and
> > > qualities.
> > > If you need different quality standards, you could give them
> > > different names like hplaser_lo and hplaser_hi .
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Uli.
> >
> > Uli,
> > With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works?
> > I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very
> > same thing, and it only prints at 600 dpi.
>
> Sorry, this is bad. This works - as described - with my
> hp-deskjet at home and one kyocera-laser at work. So I guessed
> one could do it with your printer, too.
>
> Uli

No problem.  The bad thing is that there is a HP1100 DeskJet AND a HP1100 
LaserJet.  People seem to get the drivers confused.

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Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Howse
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:04 pm, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:29:15 -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
> > With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works?
> > I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very
> > same thing, and it only prints at 600 dpi.
> >
> > Does anyone know the correct driver for the HP1100 LaserJet?
> > I've been using ljet4.
>
> I have a Laserjet 1012 and I can only get 600dpi. I use the hpijs driver w/
> CUPS.

Frustrating, isn't it?
The hpijs driver was suggested to me, I guess it's useless to try it.

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Definition of an elephant:
A mouse built to goverment specifications.

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failed install of apache/mod_php4

2003-12-09 Thread chip . wiegand
I am trying to install mod_php4/apache2 on a new install of 5.1. The 
install failed because of egcs - says it should be updated. Sorry I can't 
provide the exact messages, they scrolled off the screen, long gone now. I 
tried to update egcs by installing the egcs-1.1.2 port but it says it is 
broken. What do I do now?
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Re: fsck not recognizing vinum filesystem type

2003-12-09 Thread Nate Lawson
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, DAVID THOMPSON wrote:
> I am a relatively new FreeBSD user and I have never posted a request
> for help before so I hope I am doing this right and not plugging up the
> board with irrelevant and out of context questions. My apologies if I
> am. Here is my problem:

Welcome to the club!

> I have vinum installed on my FreeBSD 5.1-Release box. Vinum starts and
> runs fine, but I can't fsck any of the volumes because it says...
>
> "fsck: Could not determine filesystem type."
>
> If I do a fsck -T ufs /dev/vinum/??? it will work fine, but it's when I
> don't explicity tell fsck what the filesystem type is that I get this
> error.

You probably didn't disklabel the disk.  Do a "man disklabel".  In
particular, you should do:

   disklabel -w /dev/vinum/??? auto

Edit the disklabel:

   disklabel -e /dev/vinum/???

Then newfs:

   newfs /dev/vinum/???

Note that you can potentially trash the system with all this, so please
read the section in the handbook on setting up vinum and/or disklabels
before doing this on a production system.  In fact, test on a scratch disk
first.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

-Nate
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Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Charles Howse wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:19 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the
> > > specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using
> > > Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd configured with
> > > help of Apsfilter from the ports) it prints very slowly, I guess about 2
> > > pages per minute.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to make printing go faster?
> >
> > Start apsfilter's setup and play around with resolutions and
> > qualities.
> > If you need different quality standards, you could give them
> > different names like hplaser_lo and hplaser_hi .
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Uli.
>
> Uli,
> With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works?
> I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very same
> thing, and it only prints at 600 dpi.
Sorry, this is bad. This works - as described - with my
hp-deskjet at home and one kyocera-laser at work. So I guessed
one could do it with your printer, too.

Uli.

>
> Does anyone know the correct driver for the HP1100 LaserJet?
> I've been using ljet4.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Charles
> http://howse.homeunix.net:8080
>
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> There is no such thing as a straight line.
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Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:29:15 -0600, Charles Howse wrote:

> With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works?
> I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very same 
> thing, and it only prints at 600 dpi.
> 
> Does anyone know the correct driver for the HP1100 LaserJet?
> I've been using ljet4.

I have a Laserjet 1012 and I can only get 600dpi. I use the hpijs driver w/
CUPS.

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Re: FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

> I never used this, but I know there is sftp and sftp-server
> on your system, which use ssh-encryption and -protocol.
>
Since your question made me curious: sftp-server is started
automatically with sshd (i.e. you probably have it running
now) and there is a small gpl'ed sftp client
for windows available on i-tree.org . This is nice to transfer
files from work to my home machine.

Uli.

> Please have a look at the man pages.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Uli.
>
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How to configure usb printer with ulpt0 rather than ugen0?

2003-12-09 Thread Aaron
Note: recently asked, I tried someone's suggestion, still can't do it.

How do i associate my usb printer with ulpt0, rather than the ugen0 that 
it boots up with?

Original question and data repeated below, the only difference is:
- My officejet k80xi usb printer is the only usb equipment connected to 
my computer.  I have moved it to the first physical port, so now the 
printer shows up on ugen0.  Still nothing on ulpt[01].
- I have removed the hub mentioned below.  Nothing on the second 
physical port, only the usb printer on ugen0
- all data/indications below the same, except the printer is now on 
ugen0 rather than ugen1.

I can't figure out how to bind my usb printer to ulpt0,
rather than ugen1 as it is now.
My physical setup:
first usb port: logitech wingman hub
second usb port: HP OfficeJet K80xi
The hub has an HP 7400c scanjet, and the cable for a camera,
with nothing currently connected to the cable.  In a
previous freebsd install with this same setup, I've
downloaded pictures through that cable, haven't tried that
yet with this install.  Never tried scanning.
But back to printing ...

Here's my failure indication (besides not printing).  I'm
using apsfilter to set up my printer.  When I try printing a
test page I get this:
  Printing test page...
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3808147 Dec  7 13:56 
/tmp/apsfilter320/test_page.aps
  /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP: line 1: /dev/ulpt0: Device not 
configured

So I guess I have to figure out what "Device not configured"
means, and how to fix it.
I'm using the generic kernel supplied with FreeBSDMall's 4.9
CD set
  # uname -a
  FreeBSD haiku.krelm.com 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct
  27 17:51:09 GMT 2003
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
All manner of usb is enabled in the generic kernel,
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:
  # USB support
  device  uhci# UHCI PCI->USB interface
  device  ohci# OHCI PCI->USB interface
  device  usb # USB Bus (required)
  device  ugen# Generic
  device  uhid# "Human Interface Devices"
  device  ukbd# Keyboard
  device  ulpt# Printer
  device  umass   # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus 
and da
  device  ums # Mouse
  device  uscanner# Scanners
  device  urio# Diamond Rio MP3 Player
  # USB Ethernet, requires mii
  device  aue # ADMtek USB ethernet
  device  cue # CATC USB ethernet
  device  kue # Kawasaki LSI USB ethernet

Some dmesg output:

  # dmesg | grep -i ugen
  ugen0: hp hp scanjet 7400c, rev 1.00/0.01, addr 3
  ugen1: Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet  K80xi, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 4
  # dmesg | grep -i usb
  uhci0:  port 0x1080-0x109f 
irq 9 at device 7.2 on pci0
  usb0:  on uhci0
  usb0: USB revision 1.0
  uhub1: Texas Instruments UT-USB41 hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2

  # dmesg | grep -i ulpt
  #
  # dmesg | grep -i lpt
  lpt0:  on ppbus0
  lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
usbdevs output:

  # usbdevs -dv
  Controller /dev/usb0:
  addr 1: self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x), 
rev 1.00
uhub0
   port 1 addr 2: power 100 mA, config 1, UT-USB41 hub(0x1446), Texas 
Instruments(0x0451), rev 1.00
 uhub1
port 1 addr 3: self powered, config 1, hp scanjet 7400c(0x0801), 
hp(0x03f0), rev 0.01
  ugen0
port 2 powered
port 3 powered
port 4 powered
   port 2 addr 4: self powered, config 1, OfficeJet  K80xi(0x0811), 
Hewlett-Packard(0x03f0), rev 1.00
 ugen1

At this point let me ask, if a new entry in /etc/usbd.conf
turns out to be the solution, would the values shown above
for port 2 addr 4 be plugged into that entry?  If so, how to
translate the rev 1.00 to usbd.conf format?  Finally, if
that *is* the solution, would anyone care to post their
entry for a usb printer?
Back to the data:

If I unplug the cable from the printer, the console says
this, immediately:
  ugen1: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 4) disconnected
  ugen1: detached
Plugging the cable back in gets this on the console,
immediately:
  ugen1: Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet  K80xi, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 4

After disconnecting and connecting the cable, here's what
dmesg says, which appears to be a combination of what it
said before disconnect/connect, plus the console message
just reported:
  # dmesg | grep -i ugen
  ugen0: hp hp scanjet 7400c, rev 1.00/0.01, addr 3
  ugen1: Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet  K80xi, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 4
  ugen1: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 4) disconnected
  ugen1: detached
  ugen1: Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet  K80xi, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 4
The rest of dmesg wrt to usb hasn't changed.

Here's my devices:
  # ll ulpt* unlpt* ugen*
  crw-rw  1 root  operator  114,   0 Nov 26 11:07 ugen0
  crw-rw  1 root  operator  114,   1 Nov 26 11:07 ugen0.1
  crw-rw  1 root  operator  114,  10 Nov 26 11:07 ugen0.1

RE: Set boot loader to boot off CD manually

2003-12-09 Thread John Baldwin

On 09-Dec-2003 Daniel Goepp wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was banging my head against the wall too long yesterday, so I have
> broken down, and have to ask.  Any help on this matter is greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Here is what I'm trying to do.  I have two computers, both running 4.8,
> clean, minimal installs.  They have two serial cables connected to each
> other to act as serial consoles, and -Dh has been added to /boot.config,
> along with ttys having been updated.  The console bit works great.  What I
> want to be able to do, is completely rebuild one of the machines remotely.
>  So I log into one, serial over to the other, and reboot it.  Then, when
> the loader comes up, I stop it, and break to the "ok" prompt.  I unload
> the kernel that was starting to load, and at this point, want to boot off
> CD, to rebuild the system, as though I had gone into the BIOS, and set the
> CD as the first boot device.  However, I don't have remote access to the
> BIOS, so I can't do this.

The BIOS does not provide a way to talk to the CD to read files off of it
unless you boot from it.  So, no, you can't boot from the hard drive and
read files off the CD from the loader.  However, you can copy the kernel
and mfsroot off of the CD and stick them in /boot/new/kernel and
/boot/new/mfsroot.gz and then manually load the new kernel and mfsroot
from the hard disk's loader to get into the installer.  I.e. something
like:

ok unload all
ok load /boot/new/kernel
ok load -t mfs_root /boot/new/mfsroot
ok boot

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Re: export PATH ???

2003-12-09 Thread staf wagemakers
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:06:44AM -0500, Xpression wrote:
> Hi again list, I've posted a question recently about
> uninstalling packages, in fact, when I installing changin
> the prefix path (eg.--prefix=/usr/local/package_name) it
> creates me some subdirs. The trouble is that I can't execute
> any installed program, until I put, for example: cd
> /usr/local/package_name/bin && ./program, anyone with this
> issue ??? Thanks...

If you're using csh, type "rehash" before you run a new installed 
program. Lookat man csh for more information.

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Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-09 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:14:38 +1300
"Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:39 -0800, "Chris Pressey"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300
> > "Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> > > ** Missing package files for cvsupit-3.1.
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > 
> > > ... mean the machine is in a good state or a bad state (.. ah, the
> > > eternal question :-)
> > 
> > Hm, I would say a bad state, but not *very* bad.  Looks like cvsupit
> > is partially installed?  You might be able to fix it up by running
> > 
> >   pkg_delete cvsupit-3.1
> > 
> > which should delete any files that were installed by the cvsupit
> > package (and possibly give you some warnings when trying to delete
> > ones that weren't.)
> > 
> That's a good idea, I hadn't thought of it. However strange stuff
> persists because when I tried that I got ...
> 
> trinidad# pkg_delete cvsupit-3.1
> pkg_delete: no such package 'cvsupit-3.1' installed
> 
> ... - that's even though it just ran ! I then started looking in to
> the relevant ports directory and this is what I saw ...
> 
> trinidad# pwd
> /usr/ports/net/cvsupit
> trinidad# ls
> work
> trinidad# cd work
> trinidad# ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Dec  7 22:59 .build_done.cvsupit-3.1
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Dec  7 22:59 .configure_done.cvsupit-3.1
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Dec  7 22:59 .extract_done.cvsupit-3.1
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Dec  7 22:59 .patch_done.cvsupit-3.1
> trinidad#
> 
> ... I take it those files are used as a form of logging ?

Sort of.  They're little 'cookies' that help indicate which phases have
been completed thus far, to the ports 'make' scripts.

> So on the
> one hand it's 'build_done' but on the other hand pkg_delete doesn't
> know about the package !

Not too surprising; if the install had completed sucessfully, there'd be
a '.install_done.cvsupit-3.1' file there too.

> Just did a ...
> 
> trinidad# find / -name "*vsupi*" -print
> 
> ... and didn't find anything elsewhere in the system either ... 
> 
> All in all a bit of a mystery - anyone else fancy having a go at
> explaining what might have happened or what it all means ;-)

Most likely, it built cvsupit sucessfully, then went to install it, but
found something it didn't like, so it stopped there.

Chances are it stopped before it installed anything - especially in
light of your find command.  In which case, your system isn't in a bad
state after all.

But if you want to be *really* certain, have a look at
/usr/ports/net/cvsupit/pkg-plist.  It should contain a list of all the
files the port wanted to install.  You can search for each of them in
your system, and delete them if you find them.

Note that the files listed in pkg-plist are missing the installation
prefix, usually "/usr/local/", so you have to tack that on yourself
mentally before looking for them.  Also, there might be filenames with
variables like %%THIS%% in it, in which case you'll have to look in the
Makefile to see what those variables would have been replaced with.

> regards
> 
> richard.

HTH,
-Chris
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Re: inode state

2003-12-09 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Fabian Thylmann wrote:

> I have a heavily used threaded server program running on one of my Dell
> Poweredge 1750 servers. Its a statistical analysis package for websites.
> Currently it analyses over 60 million requests a day, which (because of
> many different reasons) causes it to handle around 120 million http
> requests a day. At peaks around 1500 requests a second. 
> 
> The system stores most many statistics in memory which is flushed to
> disk in circles by a worker thread. 
> 
> Another big part is stored in an on-disk database which is mmap()'d into
> memory. Because we do not have enough memory to keep everything in
> memory at one time the mmap() system of course pages data in and out. 
> 
> When I look in systat -v I see that dirtybuf climbs to about 1700 and
> then they get flushed to disk, causing high disk usage of around 300-400
> tps whcih renders the disks useless for anything else. 
> 
> When those flushes occure, my apps state as displayed by top(1) gets
> into inode state, PRI is set to -14 and cpu usage rapidly drops. The
> program and ALL of its threads are stalled at that time. Those inode
> states take around 2 oe 3 seconds and happen every 30 seconds or so. 
> 
> In those 3 seconds we lose around 1500 hits at peak times for processing
> because the app can not handle them fast enough. This results in around
> 2 million or so hits lost over the day for processing. 
> 
> I am now wondering if anyone can explain to me why ALL threads and not
> just the threads that actually do I/O work get blocked when dirty
> buffers are flushed and what to do to fix this problem. 
> 
> I would be very happy if someone could reply and point me into the right
> direction! 

You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're running -- if 4.x, you
probably want to relink your application against the "linuxthreads" port.
This is because libc_r implements threads inside a single process without
the support of the kernel, which means that if the process is blocked in
kernel, all threads will be blocked in kernel.  The linuxthreads package
uses a model similar to Linux's threading implementation (hence the name)
to allow the threads to be scheduled using lightweight versions of
processes (shared file descriptors, etc).  This isn't quite
POSIX-compliant, but it works quite well for disk-bound applications such
as databases.

If you're running on 5.x, especially recent 5.1 or 5.2 prereleases, you
probably want to give libkse a try.  It's the new m:n threading
implementation that will become the default in 5.3, and also permits
parallelism (only in a more POSIX-compliant way, and in theory offering
much greater scalability for large numbers of threads).  I stick the
following lines in my /etc/libmap.conf on 5.x boxes to force all
applications linked against libc_r to use libkse instead:

  libc_r.so.5 libkse.so.1
  libc_r.so   libkse.so

One particularly nice thing about the m:n thread support is that you can
run-time plug the thread library between several options (libc_r, libthr,
libkse) to pick the one that performs best for your application.  Another
benefit of running with a non-libc_r threads package is that if you have
an SMP box, you'll see real parallelism. 

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how to make dhclient give up its lease and get a new one with routes, etc. ?

2003-12-09 Thread paul beard
I am on a cable modem and am running an http server, natd, the Usual 
Suspects, and have been doing this for a couple of years. I use dhcp to 
get the address for my externally-facing NIC and through reboots, power 
outages, even changes in network ownership (@ home -> ATT -> comcast) 
all has been solid.

Until today. I decided over the past couple of weeks to actually get a 
domain instead of using no-ip.org (paulbeard.org: how imaginative) and 
I started using Zoneedit to manage it since I wanted DNS to be 
somewhere other than on my network. As luck would have, I got assigned 
a new IP address last night (for the first time since I used @home more 
than 3 years ago) and for some reason the dhcp client wouldn't get the 
new address. I ran dhclient and that just set my address to all 0's. I 
then killed it and restarted and got an address but no routes. I ended 
up rebooting and that solved it (I then had to fix both no-ip's config 
file since the old one was unparseable by version 2 clients and go to 
zoneedit and update my address).

So how to make dhclient do all this without the Windows workaround of 
rebooting?

Advice on automagically notifying zoneedit is welcome, as well but not 
as pressing: I think they work with dyndns and of course I chose 
no-ip.org.

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Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Howse
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:19 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the
> > specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using
> > Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd configured with
> > help of Apsfilter from the ports) it prints very slowly, I guess about 2
> > pages per minute.
> >
> > Is it possible to make printing go faster?
>
> Start apsfilter's setup and play around with resolutions and
> qualities.
> If you need different quality standards, you could give them
> different names like hplaser_lo and hplaser_hi .
>
> Regards,
>
> Uli.

Uli,
With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works?
I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very same 
thing, and it only prints at 600 dpi.

Does anyone know the correct driver for the HP1100 LaserJet?
I've been using ljet4.

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Re: FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, fbsd_user wrote:

> Besides the built in FTP server started by inetd,
> does FBSD have any other built in FTP servers?
>
> I ask because FBSD comes with 2 built in firewall applications.
>
>
> Does the FBSD built in FTP client transmit the login ID & pw in
> clear text?
I never used this, but I know there is sftp and sftp-server
on your system, which use ssh-encryption and -protocol.

Please have a look at the man pages.

Hope that helps,

Uli.

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Re: FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:06 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
Besides the built in FTP server started by inetd,
does FBSD have any other built in FTP servers?
"locate ftpd" would answer your question, BTW, but yes: besides the 
stock ftpd, there is also lukemftpd and tftpd.  Other good choices from 
the ports collection would be proftpd and pureftpd.

I ask because FBSD comes with 2 built in firewall applications.
Yep, it does.

Does the FBSD built in FTP client transmit the login ID & pw in
clear text?
Generally, yes.  A Kerberized version of the FTP which uses encryption 
is probably also available as part of the system, but it is not likely 
that Kerberos is applicable to your situation.

However, using scp or sftp is another reasonable option, especially if 
you want users to authenticate: plain old FTP is best used for 
anonymous-only cases.

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Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Marco Beishuizen wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the
> specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using
> Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd configured with
> help of Apsfilter from the ports) it prints very slowly, I guess about 2
> pages per minute.
>
> Is it possible to make printing go faster?
Start apsfilter's setup and play around with resolutions and
qualities.
If you need different quality standards, you could give them
different names like hplaser_lo and hplaser_hi .

Regards,

Uli.

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marco
>
> --
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> people refuse to see it.
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FBSD built in FTP server

2003-12-09 Thread fbsd_user
Besides the built in FTP server started by inetd,
does FBSD have any other built in FTP servers?

I ask because FBSD comes with 2 built in firewall applications.


Does the FBSD built in FTP client transmit the login ID & pw in
clear text?

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Re: a technical how to

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 8, 2003, at 8:51 PM, homeyra g wrote:
Here is the question: How to truncate a file from the
begining to a certain point in the file?
The question is whether this file is ASCII text so line-based tools 
(such as tail) work, or whether you are truncating a binary file, in 
which case "split -b" is probably a better bet.

If you've got a logfile named /var/log/messages, and you want to 
truncate that to the last 100 lines:

mv /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.$$
tail -100 < /var/log/messages.$$ > /var/log/messages
rm -f /var/log/messages.$$
Use "wc -l" and "grep -n" to identify where to truncate the file if 
it's not a fixed size that you want...

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Re: export PATH ???

2003-12-09 Thread Scott W
Xpression wrote:

Hi again list, I've posted a question recently about
uninstalling packages, in fact, when I installing changin
the prefix path (eg.--prefix=/usr/local/package_name) it
creates me some subdirs. The trouble is that I can't execute
any installed program, until I put, for example: cd
/usr/local/package_name/bin && ./program, anyone with this
issue ??? Thanks...
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This isn't really a PATH issue, it's a fundamental dir structure layout 
problem.  I think I know what you're trying to do (keep all 
user-installed programs seperate), but if you insist on doing it that 
way (as opposed to leaving/using the default prefix /usr/local), you'll 
need to create symlinks into /usr/local/bin, which your default PATH 
presumably includes.

Bear in mind there's no guarantee that all ports will relocate to a 
different dfefault directory and work properly- they should, but I've 
ran across several that will look in the wrong/old location for config 
files, log files, etc...

The alternative is ugly, evil, and can slow down shell response 
significantly, which would require modifying your PATH for each and 
every package you install in the manner you specfied...

I've got to ask- what's wrong with leaving the default prefix alone?

Scott

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scripting make buildworld cycle

2003-12-09 Thread David Bear
In Greg's Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD (3rd ed) on page 379 
there is a script for combining the make buildworld process.  I'm
thinking there may be new tags for FBSD 4.9-RELEASE that should be
included in the script that are not there.

anyone know of an updated script like this one to handle 4.9-Release?
preferrably someplace that I can cut-n-paste it from?  or, is there an
improved version?


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Re: user timer/alarm

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Troy wrote:

Hello,
I found a command a few days ago that would allow a user to type in 
the command + time in minutes then it would allow a person to continue 
to work, when the time was up it would let you know and that was it.  
Can someone please refresh my memory as to what that command might've 
been?  I of course did not write it down and thus can't remember.

Thanks,

Troy

And, behind door number three, leave(1):

#leave 1105

Which will prompt "time to leave" at
11:05 (am) local time
KDK

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Re: How to Setup Reverse DNS on LAN?

2003-12-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - 
From: "Jason Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:21 AM


> On 09/12/03 05:50 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > When connecting via ssh to my FBSD boxes, it takes over a minute
before the
> > connection is established.  Searching the archives suggests that
this is due
> > to a failed reverse DNS lookup that must time out before connecting.
> > Suggestions include adding the hosts to the local host file which
I've done.
> > However this does not seem to provide reverse DNS resolution which
appears
> > required.
> 
> > Short of setting up named, is there a way to solve my problem?
>
> Are you using privilege separation? If you are, the ssh daemon is not
> looking for hosts in /etc. It will be looking somewhere else for the
> /etc/hosts file. Are you using sshd from the base?

Thanks for your reply.  AFAIK, I'm using sshd from the base system with
defaults.  How can I check?

Also, I use courier-imap.  With desktop machines physically attached to
my LAN, I don't have the IMAP clients using SSL and I get no delay
connecting.  However I have a laptop that I bring home from work on
occasion and it is configured to use SSL.  When I use it with a wireless
card on my home LAN, I seem to get similar delays when using it's IMAP
client.  Might the two be related?

Thanks for your help!

Drew

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Set boot loader to boot off CD manually

2003-12-09 Thread Daniel Goepp
Hi all,

I was banging my head against the wall too long yesterday, so I have
broken down, and have to ask.  Any help on this matter is greatly
appreciated.

Here is what I'm trying to do.  I have two computers, both running 4.8,
clean, minimal installs.  They have two serial cables connected to each
other to act as serial consoles, and -Dh has been added to /boot.config,
along with ttys having been updated.  The console bit works great.  What I
want to be able to do, is completely rebuild one of the machines remotely.
 So I log into one, serial over to the other, and reboot it.  Then, when
the loader comes up, I stop it, and break to the "ok" prompt.  I unload
the kernel that was starting to load, and at this point, want to boot off
CD, to rebuild the system, as though I had gone into the BIOS, and set the
CD as the first boot device.  However, I don't have remote access to the
BIOS, so I can't do this.

Here is some information about the systems, and what I have tried so far:

They are identical computers, that I built myself, very default machines. 
IDE everything.

atapci0:  port 0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5 on
pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0

ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded
ad0: 38166MB  [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master PIO4

I have tried all combinations of load that I can think of.  And I have
tried setting loaddev and root_disk_unit to all sorts of things.  Here is
the output from a lsdev:

cd @ 0xff5c
disk @ 0xef68
disk0:   BIOS drive A:
disk1:   BIOS drive C:
disk1s1a: FFS
disk1s1b: swap
disk1s1e: FFS
disk1s1f: FFS
disk1s1g: FFS
pxe @ 0xd6d8

I have also tried just doing an ls on the device, by setting currdev to
all sorts of things...like cd9660:cd, just 'cd' and the BIOS physical
addresses in the form X:acd(Y,Z) [0-4]:acd([0-4],[a-c])

No joy.

I have also tried booting with the -C option, and here is the tail end of
that attempt:

acd0: CDROM  at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from cd9660:cd0a
no such device 'cd'
setrootbyname failed
iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Root mount failed: 6
Mounting root from cd9660:acd0a
cd9660: RockRidge Extension
init: not found in path
/sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/stand/sysinstall
panic: no init

No joy.

I'm trying to think what other information might be useful.  As I see it,
the problem is, that once a version of FreeBSD has been installed, and the
loader loads off the HD, it doesn't want to have anything to do with the
CD any more...

I realize I have other options, like PXE or FTP, or having an "install
partition", to hold an install of BSD, just to install to the other
partition.  I really don't want to go down these roads right now, since I
want to be able to have someone pop in a new CD, to switch around versions
of BSD running on these boxes.

Help anyone!?

Thanks!

-dg
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Apache+mod-ssl dumps core on shutdown only

2003-12-09 Thread Viren Patel
Hello. I am running apache+mod_ssl-1.3.29+2.8.16 with
mod_php4-4.3.4_2,1 on FreeBSD 4.8-p13. Everything works fine.
However, upon shutting down apache (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh
stop), apache dumps core. The following are the syslog entries to
the console:

pid 13918 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
pid 13916 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
pid 13915 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
pid 13912 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
pid 13914 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
pid 13913 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
pid 13910 (httpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

Does anyone have any idea of why this is happening? Thanks.



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How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Marco Beishuizen

Hello,

I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the
specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using
Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd configured with
help of Apsfilter from the ports) it prints very slowly, I guess about 2
pages per minute.

Is it possible to make printing go faster?

Thanks in advance,

Marco

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export PATH ???

2003-12-09 Thread Xpression
Hi again list, I've posted a question recently about
uninstalling packages, in fact, when I installing changin
the prefix path (eg.--prefix=/usr/local/package_name) it
creates me some subdirs. The trouble is that I can't execute
any installed program, until I put, for example: cd
/usr/local/package_name/bin && ./program, anyone with this
issue ??? Thanks...


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Re: ipfw keep-state (ASAP anwser need)

2003-12-09 Thread Miguel Mendez
./[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> ${fwcmd} add allow udp from any 1024-65535,53 to any 53
> ${fwcmd} add allow udp from any 53 to any 1024-65535

That ruleset is a really bad idea. Imagine the following scenario: You
run a vulnerable service (bind, sendmail, you name it), Joe Haxor
launches a exploit against that service and creates a bindshell on port
1337. Now all he has to do is use port 53 as source and automagically
trespasses your firewall settings. Always use *stateful* firewalling,
and never allow anything not strictly necessary. Btw, zone transfers use
TCP, so you'd have to allow that as well.

Cheers,
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Re: apcupsd

2003-12-09 Thread Dave McCammon

--- "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi...
> 
>I have the same UPS and cable running with
> apcupsd on FreeBSD 4.8.  I 
> have nothing but good things to say about the UPS
> and apcupsd.  Detects 
> and reports power failures and power restores. 
> Properly halts the 
> system upon reaching remaining-charge-percentage or
> time-until-failure 
> thresholds.  I have messages logging to stdout and
> to apcupsd.log via 
> syslog.  apcupsd does not send out email
> notification (AFAIK) but I have 
> swatch configured to email me any apcupsd syslog
> messages.  I receive 
> bi-weekly self-test messages.   It has been working
> flawlessly for about 
> 18 months.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> Barry Skidmore wrote:
> 
> >OS: 5.1-RELEASE
> >UPS: Back-UPS 650, serial interface
> >Cable: 940-0020B
> >
> >With the above setup apcupsd detects a power
> failure, but not a return
> >of power, and thus does not send a notification
> email.
> >
> >Also, apcupsd does not halt the system.  I noticed
> in the docs that for
> >this to work on FreeBSD you need a Smart UPS, and
> use the
> >--kill-on-powerfail option at the command line. 
> Since I do not have a
> >Smart UPS, I have not tried this option.
> >
> >My question is what model number of APC UPS is
> working well for you with
> >apcupsd 3.10.6 
> >
> >My current setup did work fine with Red Hat 9.0 and
> upcupsd 3.8.0, so I
> >do not think this is an issue with the cable.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Barry 
> >On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 01:22, Robert Huff wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Are there any users of apcupsd on the list?  If
> so, please
> >>> respond to me privately.  I have a question
> about recommended
> >>> UPS's that work well with FreeBSD.
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>There are.  :-)
> >>QHat's the question?
> >>
> >>
> >>Robert Huff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
[snip] 


I've got 4 FBSD 4.9 servers, 1 Win2k server, 1 FBSD
5.1 server running on a apc Smart-UPS 1400XL w/extra
battery(all rack mount) with APCUPSD 3.8.6. One of the
FBSD 4.9 servers is the master.

I've got two W2k servers running on a Smart-UPS 1000XL
w/extra batter. Both running APCUPSD 3.8.6. One
master, the other slave.

And there is another FBSD 4.9 server running on a
Smart-UPS 620 running APCUPSD 3.8.6 as a standalone.

The FBSD master on 1400xl collects info from the
standalone and W2K master for the web based network
monitor.

All host send email to root when there is an
event(except tests). The mail is sent by the
scripts(changeme, commfailure, commok, mainsback, and
onbattery) called from apccontrol in the
/usr/local/etc/apcupsd directory.

3.8.6 works like a charm, except for the zombie
process that happens on the FBSD master and standalone
which doesn't seemed to cause any problems.


Dave

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Re: help

2003-12-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
You forgot to Cc: list, so here it is:

> Could you give me an example ?

 start script 

#!/usr/bin/perl

print ("Hit any key: ");

$userVar = <>;

if ($userVar eq "\n") {
print "You hit the enter key!\n";
} else {
print "You did not only hit the enter key!\n";
}

 end script 

Technically, no ascii required, just had to check for a return.

Steve

> - Original Message -
> From: "Steve Bertrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Mümin Maslak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: help
> 
> 
> > > I use FreeBSD4.7
> > > On script, how can I run the function of return/enter key ?
> > >
> >
> > Depends on what type of script. In a Perl script, you can do this so the
> > user has to interact with the keyboard:
> >
> > $userVar = <>;
> >
> > and then you could potentially do some ASCII checking to make sure it
> > was the enter key they pressed.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > > thanks
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Re: a technical how to

2003-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
> 
> So, I hope this is the right address for this type of
> question. If not would you please forward this and/or
> let me know the correct address.

Is it a text or binary file?

First, I suggest working from a copy of the file for safety sake.

For a text file, Use vi.  Count down to which line is the last one 
you want to get rid of (lets say you want to get rid of 1-1152 and keep
from 1153-end).   Then, in vi, put your cursor on the first line
and do '1152dd'. save the file off with ':wq'   and voila, you got it.

For a binary file, use dd and tell it to skip the bytes in front
and start copying from there to end to the new file.  You may also have
to play around with blocksize and notrunc to get just what you want if
you need to break it on some odd boundary.

jerry

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Here is the question: How to truncate a file from the
> begining to a certain point in the file?
> 
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Re: free bsd !!!

2003-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
> 
> Dear 
> I would like to down load the free bsd,I all ready tryd on the url :free =
> bsd
> org but I am unable to down load it, since the down load source is FTP   =
> and
> I don't know how to down load an FTP file !! So please could you suggest =
> me
> how /where can I down load the free bsd in a simple manner =0D

Most browsers will download ftp files for you if you click on them.

Otherwise, 
just run cmd on your MS-Win system and then
doftp ftp.freebsd.org
login as  anonymous   with a password of your email address
cd to the right directory (down a ways)  
  NOTE: Case is significant in these names.
 cd pub
 cd FreeBSD
 cd releases
 cd i386
 cd ISO-IMAGES
 cd 4.9
  You can do all this in one cd command
 cd pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9
  but I always make typing mistakes so I do it in pieces.
set it to binary  (type binary)
retrieve the files  by typing   get .ISO   whatever the filename is
 get 4.9-i386-mini.iso
 get CHECKSUM.MD5 (Checksum on ly needed for verification)
quit out of ftp by typing  'bye'

Find some instructions for your particular machine on burning the ISO to a CD 
  NOTE: It is already an ISO so you do not have to make an ISO out
of it.  Just burn that file to CD.
Boot it and install will begin.   Follow it through and select 
installation over the net and select a convenient (close) ftp site.

Probably you had better do some manual reading before actually trying
this stuff out though.

jerry

> Regards=0D
> Mark =0D
> Europe
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Re: Ports + cpan question

2003-12-09 Thread Scott I. Remick

--- Michael Sig Birkmose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However lately I have also used Perl CPAN to install some perl modules.
> When I get a list of
> the packages I need to upgrade (portversion -l \<) these packages also
> shows up - why?

I recently went through this, and although no expert, here's what I learned:

Somehow the portupgrade suite can detect stuff installed via CPAN. They
appear prefixed with "bsdpan-". However, because it wasn't installed in the
normal manner, portupgrade can't manage upgrades, so they are all marked as
"held".

Each has an equivalent in the official ports tree... prefixed w/ "p5-" and
maybe named a tad different (but close enough that you can figure it out).
If you uninstall the CPAN versions and install the p5- versions, this seems
to make portupgrade happy.

That's all I know. Someone may correct me and/or elaborate. I ran into this
w/ f-prot and eventually sorted everything out so I didn't get tons of
errors everytime I ran portupgrade.

Hope this helps!

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Re: How to Setup Reverse DNS on LAN?

2003-12-09 Thread Jason Stewart
On 09/12/03 05:50 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> When connecting via ssh to my FBSD boxes, it takes over a minute before the
> connection is established.  Searching the archives suggests that this is due
> to a failed reverse DNS lookup that must time out before connecting.
> Suggestions include adding the hosts to the local host file which I've done.
> However this does not seem to provide reverse DNS resolution which appears
> required.

> Short of setting up named, is there a way to solve my problem?

Are you using privilege separation? If you are, the ssh daemon is not
looking for hosts in /etc. It will be looking somewhere else for the
/etc/hosts file. Are you using sshd from the base?

Jason
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ident patch for NATD

2003-12-09 Thread hugle
Hello all.
I've found this : http://ofca.pl/bsdident/
thsi is a patch for oidentd 2.0.7 and natd + libalias under freebsd
4.8
It used to work for me, but my HDD have died. so i downlaoded 4.9.iso,
burned, upgraded kernel source, and now can't patch ne libalias/natd

Could someone implement this code to natd in the future ?

Or maybe I could post my ipfw/natd rules so someone can help
'translating' them to ipf/ipnat?

Thank you in advance
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Re: pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts acroread-3*'

2003-12-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Carter-Hitchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Anyone got a clue why this is happening?  Should I pkg_delete acroread-3
> and reinstall?  I googled this one with no luck.

I don't think acroread-3 has been in the ports system in quite some
time.  I think the 'conflicts' support post-dates it, so if you remove
it and install a newer acroread port, the problem should go away.

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Re: free bsd !!!

2003-12-09 Thread Jason Stewart
On 08/12/03 19:05 -0800, Marco wrote:
> Dear 
> 
> I would like to down load the free bsd,I all ready tryd on the url :free bsd
> org but I am unable to down load it, since the down load source is FTP   and
> I don't know how to down load an FTP file !! So please could you suggest me
> how /where can I down load the free bsd in a simple manner 

Have you considered purchasing the Cd's from FreeBSD Mall? It would
solve your problems of not knowing how to download FreeBSD.

Jason
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Re: Which might be the problem ???

2003-12-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Xpression" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi list, I've a FreeBSD-4.5 server running tacacs+, exim and
> popa3d, it's working fine, no problem, but sometimes when I
> reboot via: name_server# reboot I see this message...
> 
> Waiting for ..
> Waiting for ..
> Waiting for ..
> Syncing disks 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 3 4 1 1 1 1
> 
> (I always see this message but when it give me error is when
> Syncing disks get too large the string)
> 
> ...then saids me that message on init.
> 
> /kernel Mounting root from ufs: /dev/ad0s1a
> /kernel WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> 
> Any clues ???

I'd recommend rebooting with "shutdown -r" rather than "reboot" unless
you have a good reason to do otherwise.  This shouldn't happen anyway,
but the extra shutdown steps will certainly be a bit safer.

It's likely (based on a *very* quick look at the code) that you're
hitting a bug which has been fixed since 4.5, so perhaps you should
consider an update.

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Re: IPACCT

2003-12-09 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:46PM -0800, Doloonkhuch wrote:
> I want to control users per ip accounting. Now I using FreeBSD 5.0 and 
> IPFW2. How I enable IPACCT and how configure.
Just configure your ipfw rules to count traffic for each user on your
system.  I'll include my custom ipfw startup script which I load before
everything else with the name:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/.000.ipfw.sh 

note the CHANGE ME lines though - also note that I DON'T use ipfw for
blocking traffic, instead opting to use ipfilter for that.  If you do
use ipfw for blocking then you could modify this script to do that as
well.

Here's the script:

#!/bin/sh
# script to add ipfw counter rules for users
# in /etc/passwd

# path to ipfw:
fw=/sbin/ipfw
sed=/usr/bin/sed
passwd_file=/etc/passwd
# CHANGE THIS:
ip="1.2.3.4"

# allowall rule:
allow_all=`echo $fw -q add 65000 allow all from any to any`

# flush cmd:
flush=`echo $fw -f -q flush`

# $users a list of all users in pw db, one per line:
# CHANGE THIS - THESE ARE THE USERS YOU *DON'T* WANT TO 
# LOG TRAFFIC FOR:
users=`$sed -E -e '/^(#|root|toor|daemon|operator|bin|tty|kmem|\
games|news|man|smmsp|bind|uucp|xten|pop|nobody|mysql|sonictown|\
test|www|sshd|ftp|cpimps|administrator|eggshell|cyrus|analog)/d' \
-e 's/:.*//' $passwd_file`

startfw () {
# Flush the current rules:
$flush

# for each user, create a rule:
for user in `echo $users`
do
$fw add 1 count all from any to $ip uid $user
$fw add 2 count all from $ip to any uid $user
$fw add 3 count all from any to any uid $user
done

# add counters for all traffic:
$fw add 4 count all from any to $ip
$fw add 5 count all from $ip to any
$fw add 6 count all from any to any

# add counters for dns and http:
#   $fw add 7 count all from any to $ip 53
#   $fw add 8 count all from any to $ip 80

# make sure we allow all:
$allow_all

# no restriction on our block:
$fw add 10 pipe 10 ip from any to 213.152.51.194/29
$fw pipe 10 config bw 9Mbyte/s

$fw add 11 pipe 11 ip from 213.152.51.194/29 to any
$fw pipe 11 config bw 9Mbyte/s

# add a bandwidth restriction on http:
$fw add 20 pipe 20 tcp from any 80 to any out
$fw pipe 20 config bw 25KByte/s


# add a bandwidth restriction on ftp:
#   $fw add 12 pipe 2 tcp from any to any 20 in
#   $fw pipe 2 config bw 20Kbit/s

# and zero all rules:
$fw zero

echo "ipfw accounting rules added... "
}

case "$1" in
stop)
$flush
$allow_all
$fw -q zero
echo "ipfw accounting rules flushed..."
;;
start)
startfw
echo "ipfw accounting rules loaded..."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` { start | stop }"
;;
esac
> 
> Best regards
> Doloonkhuch.A 
> 
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Re: user timer/alarm

2003-12-09 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:17:48PM -0700, Troy wrote:
> Hello,
> I found a command a few days ago that would allow a user to type in the 
> command + time in minutes then it would allow a person to continue to 
> work, when the time was up it would let you know and that was it.  Can 
> someone please refresh my memory as to what that command might've been? 
csh built-in 'sched' command perhaps?:

   sched -n (+)
   The first form prints  the  scheduled-event  list.   The  sched
   shell  variable  may  be  set to define the format in which the
   scheduled-event list is printed.  The second form adds  command
   to the scheduled-event list.  For example,

   > sched 11:00 echo It\'s eleven o\'clock.

see the manpage for tcsh(1) for more details if so.

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RE: ATI Radeon IGP 340M

2003-12-09 Thread Minnesota Slinky
Ian,

I have the same graphics card, and XFree86 seemed to detect it
automagically.  I even have working GL drivers.  Performance isn't the
best, and the GL is a little choppy, but I'm not looking at gaming on
this machine.

Eric F Crist
President
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
(612) 998-3588
 

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Subject: ATI Radeon IGP 340M

Juan...I need helpful info on how to install the xfree...I have no clue
as how to do this...

I have a laptop with the 340m and need drivers to improve its
performance..what isthe xfree and how  exactly does it work??

thank you...hope u can help

Ian Cole
dallas tx

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How to Setup Reverse DNS on LAN?

2003-12-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
When connecting via ssh to my FBSD boxes, it takes over a minute before the
connection is established.  Searching the archives suggests that this is due
to a failed reverse DNS lookup that must time out before connecting.
Suggestions include adding the hosts to the local host file which I've done.
However this does not seem to provide reverse DNS resolution which appears
required.

For example, I have a Win XP machine at 192.168.1.3 named 'bigdaddy' and a
FBSD box at 192.168.1.2 named 'blacksheep'.  blacksheep contains a line in
/etc/hosts:

192.168.1.3 bigdaddy  bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net

Using the 'host' command, I see that 'bigdaddy' gets resolved:

blacksheep> host bigdaddy
bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net has address 192.168.1.3

But 192.168.1.3 does not:

blacksheep> host 192.168.1.3
Host not found, try again.

Short of setting up named, is there a way to solve my problem?

Thanks,

Drew

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Re: freebsd mount nwfs

2003-12-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:03, Cristian Salan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:51:55AM +, Feroz F. Basir wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read your email to freebsd mailing list. You be able
> > to mount nwfs under freebsd. I'm trying to mount nwfs
> > as well but failed for some reason. I compiled in IPX,
> > NCP and NWFS in kernel. I put these two line below in
> > rc.conf file:
> >
> > ipxrouted_enable="YES"
> > ifconfig_fxp0_ipx="ipx 0x00010010"
> >
> > This is base on freebsd example. When I ran "ncplist
> > s" I got nothing at all. What am I missing here? Can
> > you ched some light, please? How do I go about setting
> > this ipx thingy under fxp0 interface?
>

I have not been able to find the original posting; perhaps to
a different mail list.

I am mounting nwfs on freebsd versions 4.5 to 4.8. The details
of how to do this a not easy to find -- even when I've done it before.

I think I originally only found the way through a query to this mailing list.

At least for FBSD 4.x it is necessary to generate additional pseudo
interfaces derived from the fxp0 (or whatever your base interface is)
interface each dedicated to a particular IPX variant.

This is done with the pseudo-device ef in the kernel configuration
or you should be able to use the loadable module if_ef.ko.

Take a look at the man page ef(4).

Now configure with
# ifconfig fxp0f2 ipx 0x00010010
or whatever the appropriate variant is in your case or
if you are not sure you should be able to fire up all 4 variants

I have actually included this in the kernel configuration with:

options IPX #IPX/SPX communications protocols
options NCP #NetWare Core protocol
pseudo-device   ef  # Multiple ethernet frames support
options ETHER_II# enable Ethernet_II frame
options ETHER_8023  # enable Ethernet_802.3 (Novell) frame
options ETHER_8022  # enable Ethernet_802.2 frame
options ETHER_SNAP

and then in rc.conf you could use :
 ifconfig_fxp0f2_ipx="ipx 0x00010010"

Malcolm Kay
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Re: help

2003-12-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I use FreeBSD4.7
> On script, how can I run the function of return/enter key ?
> 

Depends on what type of script. In a Perl script, you can do this so the
user has to interact with the keyboard:

$userVar = <>;

and then you could potentially do some ASCII checking to make sure it
was the enter key they pressed.

Steve

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help

2003-12-09 Thread Mümin Maslak
Hello 
I use FreeBSD4.7
On script, how can I run the function of return/enter key ?

thanks
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free bsd !!!

2003-12-09 Thread Marco
Dear 

I would like to down load the free bsd,I all ready tryd on the url :free bsd
org but I am unable to down load it, since the down load source is FTP   and
I don't know how to down load an FTP file !! So please could you suggest me
how /where can I down load the free bsd in a simple manner 



Regards
Mark 
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