Re: perl question
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Aug 13, 2004, at 1:10 AM, AlanSung wrote: IMHO, bsdpan-* means install via cpan directory (not via ports), p5-* means installed from ports.. Okay. Nuts. That's what I was afraid of. I guess I was a little thrown because the bsdpan modules are showing up with portversion and portupgrade, which I had always associated with just the ports database and ports collection. And yes, if you can find expected module in ports tree, it is better install from ports than install from cpan driectly.. Okay...question... When I set up this server, it was (at the time) just for the purpose of this portal server (web based). I followed their directions for Linux and FreeBSD, and did it to the letter, etc...a lot of install this and this from CPAN using this command line instruction... etc. etc. In this case, R'ing the F'ing M was apparently a bad idea :-( Wish this server software were available as a port! Anyway, I am tentatively hoping to replace the bsdpan modules with ports' p5 modules. Is there a method AND ORDER to best attempt this, so the application (hopefully) won't break? I don't want to install a p5 port and remove a bsdpan module only to have the bsdpan module erase parts of the p5 modules in the process :-( -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just noticed you have 2 threads on this. Are they the same? I think it was a case of R'ing the Wrong F'ing M. My other post has some info. Follow the docs you used to install the stuff to remove it. When you have your system back to a new clean enviroment use the ports to add what you want. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM x306 with Serial ATA Drives
eric wrote: I have an IBM x306 with two serial ATA drives. Unfortunately the installer for 5.2.1 comes up with No disks found. Is there any magic to get this machine to work? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The last install I did was at least a year ago. I want to say you can load or unload extra drivers for the installer before it begins. Just build the drivers for it on put it on a cd or floppy and loadem up before you start the installer. Does this sound right? Its been a load time since I have done this. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No sound from Avance Logic ALC655 onboard nForce2 sound card
[Please follow up to Multimedia]
5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 with pcm in kernel identifies onboard nForce2 card (K7
Triton GA-7N400-L mobo, enabled in BIOS), creates devices and behaves
correctly in every way except for producing any sound. No errors.
The /dev/{audio*,dsp*} devices appear to read sound data, but nothing
comes out of the jacks.
Searching the web and list archives has turned up nothing similar. All
ideas appreciated.
# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: Nvidia nForce2 at io 0xb000, 0xb400 irq 5 bufsz 16384 (1p/1r/0v channels
duplex default)
# egrep pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot
pcm0: Nvidia nForce2 port 0xb400-0xb47f,0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xe7001000-0xe7001fff irq
5 at device 6.0 on pci0
pcm0: Avance Logic ALC655 AC97 Codec (id = 0x414c4760)
pcm0: Codec features 5 bit master volume, no 3D Stereo Enhancement
pcm0: Primary codec extended features reserved 1, center DAC, surround DAC, LFE DAC,
reserved 5
pcm0: sndbuf_setmap 29a000, 4000; 0xe5b6d000 - 29a000
pcm0: sndbuf_setmap 2a2000, 4000; 0xe5b71000 - 2a2000
pcm0: measured ac97 link rate at 48018 Hz, will use 48000 Hz
# mixer
Mixer vol is currently set to 50:50
Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75
Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75
Mixer line is currently set to 75:75
Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0
Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75
Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0
Mixer ogainis currently set to 50:50
Mixer line1is currently set to 75:75
Mixer phin is currently set to 0:0
Mixer phoutis currently set to 0:0
Recording source: mic
# ls -l /dev/{audio*,dsp*,mixer*}
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 4 Aug 11 23:39 /dev/audio0.0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010004 Aug 11 23:39 /dev/audio0.1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 3 Aug 14 01:30 /dev/dsp0.0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010003 Aug 11 23:39 /dev/dsp0.1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 5 Aug 11 23:39 /dev/dspW0.0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00010005 Aug 11 23:39 /dev/dspW0.1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 11 Aug 11 23:39 /dev/dspr0.0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0 Aug 11 23:39 /dev/mixer0
-Andrew-
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Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but how? Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. I would appreciate any ideas. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best way to keep large ports uptodate
Only thing I can think of is that I have CPUTYPE as I686 in my custom kernel and as p3 in /etc/make.conf. Should I try changing /etc/make.conf to I686? The computer is a 600MHz p3. No. The settings you got is exactly right for your CPU. :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating Emacs without installing X?
On 2004-08-13 23:49, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your Name wrote: First i want to upgrade Emacs from an older version, but when i try to do this from ports it starts trying to install a whole bunch of X stuff. Emacs requires XFree libraries, and I think imake, in order to build and run. That's not true. Emacs can be built without X11 support if necessary: $ ldd `which emacs` /usr/local/bin/emacs: libutil.so.4 = /lib/libutil.so.4 (0x28168000) libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x28174000) libm.so.2 = /lib/libm.so.2 (0x281b3000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x281cd000) $ This version of Emacs has been built from the ports. I've used WITHOUT_X11 on the command line to force Emacs to build without any X11 support. Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB scanner
Does uscanner driver on FreeBSD 4.8-stable support USB 2.0 interface? It seems that my scanner (EPSON Perfection 2400) does not work at maximum speed. Besides this, it becomes inaccessible via scanimage (sane-find-scanner also cannot find it) in several time interval after system startup if it was not used during this time, and to work with it again it's necessary to completely restart computer. Thanks in advance. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Dead hard drive
Paul wrote: Henrik W Lund wrote: Has anyone got any clue as to what may have happened, and how one can go about accessing the drive? Take the electronics board from a similar drive and use it to run your bad drive. Does the drive at least spin up? Yes, the drive spins up perfectly. Sadly, it's quite an old drive, and I don't have any other drives like it (it's a 30GB IBM DTLA-307030), so I don't have any electronics boards that will fit. Oh well, I can at least leave it lying around, just in case. ;-) -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB scanner
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:32:17PM +0400, Fractal wrote: Does uscanner driver on FreeBSD 4.8-stable support USB 2.0 interface? It seems that my scanner (EPSON Perfection 2400) does not work at maximum speed. Besides this, it becomes inaccessible via scanimage (sane-find-scanner also cannot find it) in several time interval after system startup if it was not used during this time, and to work with it again it's necessary to completely restart computer. 4.8-STABLE is a bit old, could you try on a 4.10 please? Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dead hard drive
Kurt wrote: You might try the freezer trick. Bag the drive securely against moisture, put it in the freezer for several hours, then put it back in the machine while still very cold, and see if it responds. If it does, get the data you need from it quickly. You may require several attempts to get all of the data you need, or it may not work at all, but all it costs is a litle time. Quite the unorthodox suggestion there, but I'll try anything once. ;-) Just have to make sure that the condensed humidity doesn't fry anything. Leave all the cables plugged in and hanging outside the bag, maybe? Hmm... Now where did I put that spare extension power cable? -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop overheating problem.
Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, So my laptop was working just fine but after a whole day of usage everything slowed down, my physical memory was 89% full, and the openoffice did not want to start at all.As soon as it happend I knew the problem is I did not hear the cooling fan. After shutdown about a hour I turned back on and everything was working again very fast.I hope I didn't brake anything! Here are the spec about the laptop:: Toshiba Satellit A15-S157, 2.2ghz proc, 512mb ram. I installed FreeBSD 4.10 on it, adn I use KDE desktop. Is there any built in or third party program I can install to turn on the cooling fan when is necessary?? Or do I need to make some change in my installation?? Thank you soo much for all the answers. Laszlo Greetings! I'm pretty sure the cooling fan is hardware controlled (at least for laptops), and that no change you do to the system will affect the cooling fan in any way. I know that if you put your laptop in your lap, it can overheat (your thighs certainly do after a while!), especially if you place it on a pillow or some other soft object that prevents air from circulating properly around your laptop. Another thing, leave your laptop plugged in (i.e. to the power grid) whenever possible, as things like fans and such usually run at lower speeds or in shorter intervals when the laptop is running off of the battery. Have you checked the BIOS for any cooling fan settings? Switch them on if they're off or not at full speed. Try placing the laptop flat on a table and leave it running. If the laptop still overheats, my guess is that it's a hardware problem. Hope this helps! -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems connecting a digital camera
* v dot velox at vvelox dot net: | I find this second one works nicely. Turn on user mount and install | wmmount and it works nicely :) Hmm, still no onions. Using a card reader, I get umass0: SMSC 223 USB97C223, rev 2.00/1.95, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SMSC 223 U HS-CF 1.95 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 650KB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Looks like I'm still missing something ... norbert. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla and courier-imap
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:47:55PM +0200, Radek Kozlowski wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages in a folder until I restart mozilla. I was convinced it was mozilla that was broken, but I've seen similar behavior using Thunderbird on my Windows box. Now I'm not so sure. Anyone else seen this? What is another decent IMAP client in ports? I had the same problem with Thunderbird (both on FreeBSD and Windows) and I blamed Mozilla. But then I was told that Courier-IMAP is not very standards-compliant IMAP implementation and tried Dovecot (mail/dovecot) instead. It turned out that Courier was the one to blame. With Dovecot Thunderbird was showing mail like it should. FWIW, I don't have any problems with it in mutt+imap either. No problems with cyrus-imap and mutt(+esmtp). Thunderbird also works as it should with cyrus-imap. Didn't test Courier though. -Radek -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
propolice patch on 4.10
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I wanted the propolice protection for my 4.10 FreeBSD install. So I downloaded the latest available propolice patch (for 4.8) and patched the source (seemed to go ok). Now after going thru the entire rebuild process, how do I verify that the propolice thing is active and fine? thanks, Siddhartha -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBHgguOGaxOP7knVwRAs5DAJ428pXMgtLhqdPWdQIG7jp3FyaAFwCfTV0L TjWCWx5GeRDAZGBuDLBbQFk= =xoKI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
security run output
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* First time I've ever seen this: server.tcslea.org kernel log messages: ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE (one long line - sorry for the wrapping) It appears to be CPU related, but in what context? Is it something I need to investigate, and if so, how? Thanks, Chris _ Email harvesters eat this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:20:38AM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote: But most of what's in /usr/local/etc is machine-specific. Not if you have a lab/office with a hundred workstations all running the same set of third-party apps, it isn't. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.
I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the user in the wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has permissions set to 666, the same in devfs.conf (That solves the problem for xmms but not for k3b. I have tried to suid and kde won't let it start. I'm out of ideas. After this much time, I'm sure that I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill and I'm missing something very simple. Any help would be appreciated. I can't see my users using burncd Thanks ed P.S. Machines are running current and are AMD Athlon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/make.conf
Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As announced yesterday.. ..today I finished the upgrade process and all went just fine. ...have you had the chance to find out whether perl is needed at all in 5.2.1? I'm sorry, but I haven't. [I just moved to a new house this week and I can't even *find* my scratch machine yet.] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but how? Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. I would appreciate any ideas. Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. I don't know of any (other) program that allow you to do this on the client side. You can do this if you have shell access to the ISP server with procmail. Can you tell me if you have access to those files? (It doesn't make much sence going in to that rigth now.) -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: security run output
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:57:58AM -0500, Chris wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* First time I've ever seen this: server.tcslea.org kernel log messages: ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE (one long line - sorry for the wrapping) It appears to be CPU related, but in what context? Is it something I need to investigate, and if so, how? No -- that's entirely harmless. If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, you see that it's just part of the normal kernel output during boot. Specifically it's a list of the capabilities of your CPU. What's happened is that the message buffer has somehow got truncated at the beginning, and you're seeing just the end of that particular line. For some reason, the daily security script thinks it's significant kernel output, but it isn't really. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgphM77iTjKFM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: portupgrade/ports question
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:14:23PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Situation: I set up a portal server as per the instructions at their site; it involved installing some PERL modules from CPAN, which I have since learned on FreeBSD appears to be a no no... Now I have some updates to do, but I don't want it to interfere with the web portal software. In theory, the updates should just replace the CPAN stuff where they overlap, no? When I do some updates on software (like ClamAV) that apparently *uses* some of these modules, I get the error: pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MIME-tools-5.411 has no origin recorded pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MailTools-1.62 has no origin recorded pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MIME-tools-5.411 has no origin recorded pkg_delete: package bsdpan-MailTools-1.62 has no origin recorded but these errors aren't enough to keep it from completing the update on the software in question. Portversion is yielding: # portversion | grep -v = apache bsdpan-Archive-Zip bsdpan-DBD-mysql bsdpan-DBI bsdpan-IO-stringy bsdpan-Lingua-EN-NameParse bsdpan-MIME-tools # bsdpan-Mail-POP3Client bsdpan-MailTools# bsdpan-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel bsdpan-Test-Manifest bsdpan-URI bsdpan-Unicode-String bsdpan-XML-RSS bsdpan-perl-ldap expat ezm3 libiconv m4 openssl p5-libwww perl rc_subr rsync ruby Meaning some PAN modules are of *higher* versions than available through ports? How? Can I safely try upgrading those modules? Has anyone run into something like this before? I have got these may times over. You have nothing to wurry about. If you check with pkg_version then you will see that non of them are reported with a higher version (i.e. ). You can rebuilt varius package related stuf to be on the safe side. One command is portsdb -uU. There can be one or two other relevant command but i don't know these by memory. You can find them, do, in the portupgrade manual. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. Specifically, see the SPAM FILTERING section of the fetchmail(1) manual, and the --antispam option. Figure out what kind of error response sendmail is giving for the problem messages, and make sure fetchmail knows that it is allowed to throw those messages away. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security log question
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:46:47PM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 6 16:40:05 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 13:25:23 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 15:32:00 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 15:32:03 sara last message repeated 3 times Aug 8 22:30:53 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 10 19:47:31 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 11:11:46 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 13:08:15 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 13:10:26 sara last message repeated 12 times Aug 11 13:20:34 sara last message repeated 55 times Aug 11 13:30:00 sara last message repeated 66 times Aug 11 16:49:26 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 16:49:58 sara last message repeated 5 times Aug 11 16:52:04 sara last message repeated 20 times Aug 11 17:02:01 sara last message repeated 93 times Aug 11 17:18:01 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 17:23:03 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 with IPFW and NAT as a gateway/router/firewall for a home LAN. I am the only user (I hope!) with access to this system. I googled the drop session message and found e-mail correspondence indicating this message is a result of having too many telnet or ssh sessions open at the same time and could be an indication of a DOS attack. I have disabled telnet in inetd.conf. I am running ftp with anonymous log-in disabled and ssh with root login disabled. I am also running apache 1.3. Is this message something I should investigate further, or is it like the script kiddies who scan my ports every night - just something to live with? Yes, but I don't think you are likly at risk to have someone bracking in on you system. You're server proberbly just handle the traffic nicly. You need to investigate further to find out what is causing this and what you can do about it. P.S. I notices you have very lone lines in you'r mail and use mutt. Whould you consider adding the following line to .muttrc (and install vim) so that this is automaticly wraped at 72 char? set editor=vim +':set tw=72' +':set ww=,,h,l,[,]' %s -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:50:17 +, Rob DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 15:55, Paul Mather wrote: You should be able to use portupgrade to upgrade your linux_base-6.1_6 to a more recent version. This does assume you have the ports tree installed (and preferably up to date via cvsup) under /usr/ports... While I have some familiarity with the ports tree, I didn't install it this time because of limited disk space (though I suppose I could do a partial port-tree install). Also, my P150 makes compiles long and painful :) To avoid all that, I'm trying to see if a simple binary pkg_add to Linux-emul 7 would do the trick. Portupgrade can be made to use packages (see the man page), avoiding the compile problem. If you don't have portupgrade (sysutils/portupgrade), then you should install it. It's really useful! What he said. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 03:50, Rob DeMarco wrote: While I have some familiarity with the ports tree, I didn't install it this time because of limited disk space (though I suppose I could do a partial port-tree install). Also, my P150 makes compiles long and painful :) To avoid all that, I'm trying to see if a simple binary pkg_add to Linux-emul 7 would do the trick. You can instruct portupgrade to use binary packages only when upgrading. See the -PP option for details. Be careful when using partial ports trees that you get all the portions a package needs. (Portupgrade still needs to be able to determine what the latest version is of a port and its dependencies.) Also, if you do decide to force-delete emulators/linux_base 6 and pkg_add emulators/linux_base 7 then be sure to run pkgdb -F to fix up the dependencies. I could try a direct pkg_add from the FBSD-5 ports tree (it all goes into /compat anyway, right?) but I'm not sure about the kld issue. Anyway, I'll think about my options, and whether compiling from scratch is really worth it for me. Thanks for your help! There is a linux_base-7.1_7.tgz in the packages-4.10-release/emulators directory on ftp.freebsd.org (under /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386). That would be a better option for you, IMHO, if you're running 4-STABLE. I seem to recall when installing linux_base-8 that the only thing it actually compiled and built was the rpm package (a dependency). The rest was just fetching and unpacking various RPMs. So, I wouldn't worry about too much compilation demands for this particular port. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. --- Frank Vincent Zappa ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:37, Chuck Swiger wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. You ought to convince your ISP to apply better spam filtering before they accept messages for you, which will reduce the problem you see. I agree except that my ISP already provides extensive SPAM filtering. The problem is with those that don't trip the ISP's spam filter. I am able to set the spam trigger level -- maybe I should be setting this lower. But I don't believe unsolvable addresses is included in his criteria. Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. Nowadays, you can receive a lot of spam regardless of what you do, so it helps to reject most of it immediately. Agreed Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Problem: changing IP address
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Re: IS freebsd.org working
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Re: Problem: changing IP address (solved)
Sorry, I just figured out that I need to refresh network interfaces to activate new settings # /etc/netstart Parahat Melayev wrote: Hi list, When I change my IP Address (fxp0) from sysinstall, system does not activate new settings. It is activated only when I reboot system. what may be the problem? do I need restart something? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IS freebsd.org working
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Re: Problem: changing IP address
At Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:35:54 +0300, Parahat Melayev wrote: Hi list, When I change my IP Address (fxp0) from sysinstall, system does not activate new settings. It is activated only when I reboot system. Yes you have to reboot or use the ifconfig(8) program. Later, George ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broadcast radio station over internet.
Looking for port that has web application for changing radio stations on Radio tuner card and them stream broadcast over internet. Anybody know of such port or combo of ports to achieve this? Any suggestions on how to do this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Edwin Culp wrote:
I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I
can't get it
to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the
user in the
wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has
permissions set to
666, the same in devfs.conf (That solves the problem for xmms
but not for k3b.
I believe k3b runs dvd+rw-tools underneath, so you might consider
making
dvd+rw-tools setuid-root. See the port's Makefile if you have
questions.
Thanks, Chuck. I saw that dvd+rw-tools wasn't installed so I checked the make file
and found that it depends on:
cdrecord:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/cdrtools \
cdrdao:${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/cdrdao
So I set the uid-root on cdrecord, readcd and cdrdao. It still doesn't find cd0. I
must have missed one. I'm going to keep looking.
Thanks again, I was sure that was it.
ed
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Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:10, Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. -Z 451 on cli will have fetchmail trash all messages for which MTA returns code 451. There's an equivilent fetchmailrc option (antispam iirc). Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but how? Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. I would appreciate any ideas. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but how? Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. I would appreciate any ideas. Malcolm have a look at mail/filtermail Regards, Shantanoo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re[2]: sysinstall doesn't detect my harddrive
Hello JJB, Saturday, August 14, 2004, 9:08:34 PM, you wrote: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J This is an known bug in 5.0 thats why there is now 5.2.1. The 5.x J branch is an development version no intended for regular use. 5.3 J development is scheduled for Aug 20. Try using 4.10 stable instead J of any of the 5.x development versions. Thank you very much! I thought that nobody knows the answer to my question, or worse, i begun to think that everybody is avoiding to give me an answer... Thank you once more time! I'll consider your recomendation. hoping that everihing will be OK! -- Best regards, Iuliumailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla and courier-imap
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Re: IS freebsd.org working
JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's been down all day. http://www.uk.freebsd.org/ is still working though :) -- John. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IS freebsd.org working
On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:29, John Murphy wrote:
JJB wrote:
Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up
as not reachable.
Any body else having same problem
Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's been
down all day. http://www.uk.freebsd.org/ is still working though :)
Sadly you cannot the PR system via that as it cgi posts back to
www.freebsd.org :-{
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FreeBSD scanners
Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point of buying a new scanner, as I already have one which is not working in anything else but Windows..) EPSON perfection 1670 EPSON perfection 1670 Photo EPSON perfection 3170 photo EPSON perfection 2400 photo EPSON perfection 3200 photo EPSON perfection 4870 photo EPSON perfection 2480 photo EPSON Expression 1680 EPSON Expression 1680 Pro EPSON GT 1XL EPSON GT - 15000 EPSON GT - 3 MUSTEK ScanExpress 1248 UB Plus MUSTEK Bear Paw 1200 CU Plus MUSTEK Bear Paw 1200 Fast MUSTEK Bear Paw 2400 CU Plus MUSTEK Bear Paw 2448CS Plus MUSTEK Bear Paw 2448 TA Plus MUSTEK Bear Paw 4800 TA PRO II HP ScanJet 2400 HP ScanJet 3670 HP ScanJet 3690 HP ScanJet 3970 HP ScanJet 4600 HP ScanJet 4670 HP ScanJet 5590 HP ScanJet 8200 HP ScanJet 2400C HP ScanJet 3670C HP ScanJet 3690C HP ScanJet 3970C HP ScanJet 4070C HP ScanJet 4600C HP ScanJet 4670C HP ScanJet 5530C Thank you for your help and time. Yours Sincerely, -- Alin-Adrian Anton Spintech Systems GPG keyID 0x1E2FFF2E (2963 0C11 1AF1 96F6 0030 6EE9 D323 639D 1E2F FF2E) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 1E2FFF2E ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
find -exec surprisingly slow
Hello,
I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has
somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running
this yesterday:
find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \;
It's been running for well over 12 hours. It certainly is
working---the spams are slowly moving to their new home---but it is
taking a long time. It's a very modest system, running 4.8-R on a
P2-350. I assume this is all overhead for spawning a shell and
running mv 400K times. Is there a better way to move all files based
on some characteristic of their date stamp? Maybe separating the find
and the move, piping it through xargs? It's mostly done now, but I
will know better for next time.
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Re: FreeBSD scanners
On Sunday, 15 August 2004 at 1:46:17 +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point of buying a new scanner, as I already have one which is not working in anything else but Windows..) EPSON ... MUSTEK ... HP ScanJet ... I don't know any of these, but I'd be interested to hear opinions. One maker I can't recommend is Canon. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for more details. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpPJZSmBHUvo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IS freebsd.org working
Tim Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:29, John Murphy wrote:
JJB wrote:
Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up
as not reachable.
Any body else having same problem
Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's been
down all day. http://www.uk.freebsd.org/ is still working though :)
Sadly you cannot the PR system via that as it cgi posts back to
www.freebsd.org :-{
True. The OP should find the handbook is available there though.
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Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 08:31:43AM +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
Hello,
I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has
somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running
this yesterday:
find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \;
It's been running for well over 12 hours. It certainly is
working---the spams are slowly moving to their new home---but it is
taking a long time. It's a very modest system, running 4.8-R on a
P2-350. I assume this is all overhead for spawning a shell and
running mv 400K times.
I wouldn't make that assumption. The overhead for starting new
processes is probably only a relatively small part of the time.
You seem to have missed the fact that operations on very large
directories (which a directory with 400K files in it certainly
qualifies as) simply are slow.
A directory is essentially just a list of the names of all the files in
it and their i-nodes. To find a given file in a directory (e.g. in
order to create, delete or rename it) the system needs to do a linear
search through all the files in the directory. For directories
containing large number of files this can take some time.
If you have the UFS_DIRHASH kernel option enabled (which I believe is
the default since 4.5-R) then the system will keep bunch of hash-tables
in memory to avoid having to search through the whole directory every
time. There is however an upper limit to how much memory will be used
for such hashtables (2MB by default) and if this limit is exceeded
(which it probably is in your case) things will slow down again.
The effect of the UFS_DIRHASH option is effectively that instead of
directory operations starting to slow down after a few thousand files
in the same directory, you can have a few tens of thousands of files
before operations start to become noticably slower.
I am quite certain that if those 400K files had been divided into 40
directories, each with 10K files in it, things would have been much
faster.
Is there a better way to move all files based
on some characteristic of their date stamp? Maybe separating the find
and the move, piping it through xargs? It's mostly done now, but I
will know better for next time.
Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, but
a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory - that
is just asking for trouble.
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Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 08:31:43AM +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
Hello,
I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has
somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running
this yesterday:
find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \;
It's been running for well over 12 hours. It certainly is
working---the spams are slowly moving to their new home---but it is
taking a long time. It's a very modest system, running 4.8-R on a
P2-350. I assume this is all overhead for spawning a shell and
running mv 400K times. Is there a better way to move all files based
on some characteristic of their date stamp? Maybe separating the find
and the move, piping it through xargs? It's mostly done now, but I
will know better for next time.
Yup. Invoking mv 40,000 times is not particularly efficient.
Something like this would have been better:
find . -atime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 -J % mv % /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/
xargs defaults to taking up to 5,000 arguments from it's stdin to
generate the mv commands (or up to ARG_MAX - 4096 = 61440 bytes), so
that would have done the job with only 8 or so invocations of mv.
Cheers,
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Re: FreeBSD scanners
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: EPSON perfection 1670 http://www.sane-project.org says it has good support for the 1670. There's an entry for the printer in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c (FreeBSD 4.10), so FreeBSD should detect it as a uscanner device. (Assuming you'll be using USB; can't say how other interfaces work.) Based on my experience with the Epson Perfection 1640SU (works fine), this would be the way I'd look. Epson is better about assisting the open-source community than many other manufacturers. It may be possible to get the Expression 1680 to work, because SANE says it has complete support for it. There's no entry for the scanner in uscanner.c, but adding entries isn't difficult; usbdevs -v will tell you the ID numbers. It's not a guarantee that it would work, though. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: propolice patch on 4.10
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:10:15 +0530
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I wanted the propolice protection for my 4.10 FreeBSD install. So I
downloaded the latest available propolice patch (for 4.8) and patched
the source (seemed to go ok). Now after going thru the entire rebuild
process, how do I verify that the propolice thing is active and fine?
thanks,
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Following code (and the instruction) has been snatched from somewhere
discussing Solaris propolice. If you need the credibility, or better
solution please search them yourself.
% cat test-propolice.c
/* test-propolice.c */
#define OVERFLOW This is longer than 10 bytes
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{ char buffer[10]; strcpy(buffer, OVERFLOW); return 0;
}
% cc test-propolice.c
% ./a.out
Abort (core dumped)
% tail -2 /var/log/messages
Aug 15 08:15:48 hydra a.out: stack overflow in function main
Aug 15 08:15:48 hydra /kernel: pid 75040 (a.out), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core
dumped)
% cc -fno-stack-protector test-propolice.c
% ./a.out
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
% tail -3 /var/log/messages
Aug 15 08:15:48 hydra a.out: stack overflow in function main
Aug 15 08:15:48 hydra /kernel: pid 75040 (a.out), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core
dumped)
Aug 15 08:19:05 hydra /kernel: pid 75051 (a.out), uid 100: exited on signal 11 (core
dumped)
%
Above test is done on 4.9-STABLE.
Note the propolice produced messages:
o Abort on terminal, and
o stack overflow in log file.
horio shoichi
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Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:34, you wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but how? Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. have a look at mail/filtermail I've just downloaded this port and find it quite interesting. However it seems not to offer very much in this particular case as the criteria used are similar to those used by my ISP to reject mail -- I'm able to set the level. But I don't see a way of getting filtermail to reject based on domain name resolution. Others have pointed out that spam filtering in fetchmail can be used to delete mail based on the error code returned by sendmail. It seems it might also be reasonable to change sendmail.cf to issue a 553 error in place of the 451 as the 553 invoking messages are deleted by fetchmail by default. Thanks for the thought and bringing an interesting port to my attention. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: security run output
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* ... MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE No -- that's entirely harmless. If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, you see that it's just part of the normal kernel output during boot. Specifically it's a list of the capabilities of your CPU. What's happened is that the message buffer has somehow got truncated at the beginning, and you're seeing just the end of that particular line. For some reason, the daily security script thinks it's significant kernel output, but it isn't really. Odd, because I haven't booted in awhile. This just showed up out of the blue this one time, and has never shown up before. Thanks for the info, though. Chris _ Email harvesters eat this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
At 8:31 AM +0930 8/15/04, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
Hello,
I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has
somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running
this yesterday:
find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \;
It's been running for well over 12 hours. It certainly is
working---the spams are slowly moving to their new home---but
it is taking a long time. It's a very modest system, running
4.8-R on a P2-350. I assume this is all overhead for spawning
a shell and running mv 400K times.
Some of it is that, and some of it is the performance-penalty of
deleting files from a directory which has 400K filenames in it,
only to add the same files into a directory which will eventually
have 400K filenames in it. Directory adds/deletes are not fast
when a directory has that many filenames. It is probably even
worse if there are other processes still working on the same
directory (such as sendmail importing more mail).
Where is '.' in the above `find .' command? Is it is on the same
partition as /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ ?
You may find it much faster to do something like:
mkdir usermail.new
chown user:group usermail.new
mv usermail usermail.bigspam
mv usermail.new usermail
cd usermail.bigspam
find . \! -atime +1 -exec mv {} ../usermail \;
My assumption there is that you have a LOT fewer good files than
you have bad files, so there will be fewer files to move. But I
am also making the assumption that all your files are in a single
directory (and not a tree of directories), which may be a bad
assumption.
Is there a better way to move all files based on some characteristic
of their date stamp? Maybe separating the find and the move, piping
it through xargs?
The thing to use is the '-J' option of xargs. That way you can
have the destination-directory be the last argument in the command
that gets executed, and yet you're still moving as many files in
a single `mv' command as possible. E.g., change my earlier `find'
command to:
find . \! -atime +1 -print0 | xargs -0J[] mv [] ../usermail
Check the man page for xargs for a description of -J
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Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. Specifically, see the SPAM FILTERING section of the fetchmail(1) manual, and the --antispam option. Figure out what kind of error response sendmail is giving for the problem messages, and make sure fetchmail knows that it is allowed to throw those messages away. On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:15, SD wrote: -Z 451 on cli will have fetchmail trash all messages for which MTA returns code 451. There's an equivilent fetchmailrc option (antispam iirc). Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve reject=553 5.1.8 .. Domain of sender address .. does not exist It seems the former is to be interpreted as a 'temporary' condition while the latter is to be interpreted as 'permanent' (and is by default deleted by fetchmail)? Thanks Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sgi_fam/tcp server
Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on www.freebsd.org, but the site is down. This is on a FBSD-CURRENT i386 box, but I wanted to ask here before I asked on the Current list. uname -a: FreeBSD www.smsdesign.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Sat Aug 7 18:41:05 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BRASIDAS i386 Thanks Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trouble with sysinstall
Hi, When trying to do anything from sysinstall, I get the following error: Can't find the `5.2.1-RELEASE-p8' distribution on this x x FTP server. You may need to visit a different server forx x the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options x x menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's x x available on ftp1.freebsd.org (or set to any). x x x x Would you like to select another FTP server? Any ideas? Edward Carmody, CCNP Systems Engineer ShoreGroup, Inc. M: 845-649-7791 F: 646-349-3506 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sgi_fam/tcp server
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:28, Tim Kellers wrote: Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on www.freebsd.org, but the site is down. This is on a FBSD-CURRENT i386 box, but I wanted to ask here before I asked on the Current list. If you recently upgraded to a GCC 3.4.2 -CURRENT, you need to rebuild devel/fam. Joe uname -a: FreeBSD www.smsdesign.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Sat Aug 7 18:41:05 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BRASIDAS i386 Thanks Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: sgi_fam/tcp server
On Saturday 14 August 2004 08:30 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:28, Tim Kellers wrote: Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on www.freebsd.org, but the site is down. This is on a FBSD-CURRENT i386 box, but I wanted to ask here before I asked on the Current list. If you recently upgraded to a GCC 3.4.2 -CURRENT, you need to rebuild devel/fam. Joe uname -a: FreeBSD www.smsdesign.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Sat Aug 7 18:41:05 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BRASIDAS i386 Thanks Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT Wow... what a speedy response! Thanks Joe! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new NVIDIA driver is released
Hi There is a new version on NVIDIA site for those who are interested --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.737 / Virus Database: 491 - Release Date: 11/08/2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new NVIDIA driver is released
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 01:36, Ara Avvali wrote: Hi There is a new version on NVIDIA site for those who are interested --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.737 / Virus Database: 491 - Release Date: 11/08/2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know what the stabilty of theses drivers are like? ie when using 5.2.1 release startx used to reboot the machine with the driver, only -CURRENT + linking libthred libc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sgi_fam/tcp server
On Saturday 14 August 2004 08:30 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:28, Tim Kellers wrote: Console message: Aug 14 20:10:25 www inetd[645]: sgi_fam/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Anyone know what this message means? I tried searching on www.freebsd.org, but the site is down. This is on a FBSD-CURRENT i386 box, but I wanted to ask here before I asked on the Current list. If you recently upgraded to a GCC 3.4.2 -CURRENT, you need to rebuild devel/fam. Joe uname -a: FreeBSD www.smsdesign.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Sat Aug 7 18:41:05 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BRASIDAS i386 Thanks Tim Kellers $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. I thought I already had gcc 3.4, but I don't. fam is fam-2.6.9_6. Tim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve reject=553 5.1.8 .. Domain of sender address .. does not exist It seems the former is to be interpreted as a 'temporary' condition while the latter is to be interpreted as 'permanent' (and is by default deleted by fetchmail)? Sendmail pays attention to the return value from doing DNS queries. If sendmail receives an NXDOMAIN response, it treats that as a permanent, 5xx failure code. If sendmail gets a timeout/TRY_AGAIN, it will return a 4xx temp failure. It's not clear to me why this would matter if your ISP is the one running the mailserver: they aren't accepting the message in either case, which ought to mean that fetchmail will never see it. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Firefox Package
Will wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jason wrote: | I had no problem recompiling firefox on my machince, I'm running | current. What command did you use? It sounds like you might have | version conflicts due to not cleaning before recompiling. Try make | clean make reinstall. When I had 0.91 installed and saw that a newer version was out I did portupgrade firefox, but the build failed so it did'nt touch my installed version so I left it as is and decided I'd wait for a binary release of it. When the binary came I went to the port and did a make deinstall, than pkg_add firefox.tgz. Everything in theory should be cleaned up cause of the make deinstall, but perhaps I need to update my entire set of libs. I'll probably try and get portupgrade todo all my packages and retry it. - -- Do yourself a favor, don't use IE! www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ PGP is Preferable for Email, Public key available off PGP Key Server. GPG Key ID: 0x787AD6A9 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQRwUwQx4IHh4etapAQIVcgP/eOrd4ddQFEP96jb+XhF/aMAf8r9usVz/ PHIkTJmpJz1MuRry7a9IhjDcyHM4SJxggJVgPcfOUF0DKCgUTqS6mivjMBQG3lyG iI06TrkRhYrhcn1p/ICEii6upF55uh8pCJAluLcvqM5wBZKHuIik9TbVSuCJPGqQ EjDf09x7fuE= =oHFz -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just as a last thought, did you run firefox as root before you used it after the upgrade? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:32:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: You seem to have missed the fact that operations on very large directories (which a directory with 400K files in it certainly qualifies as) simply are slow. Good point. I had overlooked that. Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, but a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory - that is just asking for trouble. I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by .qmail-default. What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month and a half of collection. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:39:33AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: find . -atime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 -J % mv % /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ xargs defaults to taking up to 5,000 arguments from it's stdin to generate the mv commands (or up to ARG_MAX - 4096 = 61440 bytes), so that would have done the job with only 8 or so invocations of mv. Thanks for that. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 08:11:54PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
Where is '.' in the above `find .' command? Is it is on the same
partition as /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ ?
You may find it much faster to do something like:
mkdir usermail.new
chown user:group usermail.new
mv usermail usermail.bigspam
mv usermail.new usermail
cd usermail.bigspam
find . \! -atime +1 -exec mv {} ../usermail \;
My assumption there is that you have a LOT fewer good files than
you have bad files, so there will be fewer files to move. But I
am also making the assumption that all your files are in a single
directory (and not a tree of directories), which may be a bad
assumption.
All assumptions correct, and that is what I should have done.
The thing to use is the '-J' option of xargs. That way you can have
the destination-directory be the last argument in the command that
gets executed, and yet you're still moving as many files in a single
`mv' command as possible. E.g., change my earlier `find' command
to:
find . \! -atime +1 -print0 | xargs -0J[] mv [] ../usermail
Check the man page for xargs for a description of -J
Will do. Thanks for the tip.
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Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve reject=553 5.1.8 .. Domain of sender address .. does not exist It seems the former is to be interpreted as a 'temporary' condition while the latter is to be interpreted as 'permanent' (and is by default deleted by fetchmail)? Sendmail pays attention to the return value from doing DNS queries. If sendmail receives an NXDOMAIN response, it treats that as a permanent, 5xx failure code. If sendmail gets a timeout/TRY_AGAIN, it will return a 4xx temp failure. This sort of takes us back one more level -- how does the DNS service decide between responding with NXDOMAIN and a timeout/TRY_AGAIN? And does the difference have any real significance? It's not clear to me why this would matter if your ISP is the one running the mailserver: they aren't accepting the message in either case, which ought to mean that fetchmail will never see it. None of it is particularly clear to me -- but apparently my ISP's server is not rejecting these messages. If all mail servers rejected these messages it would seem to me to make the spammers endeavours rather pointless. Thanks, Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security log question
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:39:58PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:46:47PM -0500, James A. Coulter wrote: This message has been showing up in /var/log/security: Aug 6 01:56:44 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 6 16:40:05 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 13:25:23 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 15:32:00 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 7 15:32:03 sara last message repeated 3 times Aug 8 22:30:53 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 10 19:47:31 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 11:11:46 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 13:08:15 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 13:10:26 sara last message repeated 12 times Aug 11 13:20:34 sara last message repeated 55 times Aug 11 13:30:00 sara last message repeated 66 times Aug 11 16:49:26 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 16:49:58 sara last message repeated 5 times Aug 11 16:52:04 sara last message repeated 20 times Aug 11 17:02:01 sara last message repeated 93 times Aug 11 17:18:01 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries Aug 11 17:23:03 sara /kernel: drop session, too many entries I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 with IPFW and NAT as a gateway/router/firewall for a home LAN. I am the only user (I hope!) with access to this system. I googled the drop session message and found e-mail correspondence indicating this message is a result of having too many telnet or ssh sessions open at the same time and could be an indication of a DOS attack. I have disabled telnet in inetd.conf. I am running ftp with anonymous log-in disabled and ssh with root login disabled. I am also running apache 1.3. Is this message something I should investigate further, or is it like the script kiddies who scan my ports every night - just something to live with? Yes, but I don't think you are likly at risk to have someone bracking in on you system. You're server proberbly just handle the traffic nicly. You need to investigate further to find out what is causing this and what you can do about it. P.S. I notices you have very lone lines in you'r mail and use mutt. Whould you consider adding the following line to .muttrc (and install vim) so that this is automaticly wraped at 72 char? set editor=vim +':set tw=72' +':set ww=,,h,l,[,]' %s -- Alex Alex - thanks for the response and for the .muttrc tip. I added it and hopefully my mail will now wrap at 72 characters. Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
In the last episode (Aug 15), Malcolm Kay said: This sort of takes us back one more level -- how does the DNS service decide between responding with NXDOMAIN and a timeout/TRY_AGAIN? And does the difference have any real significance? NXDOMAIN means that a server replied this domain does not exist, and usually indicates a forged or mistyped domain. A timeout is just that. No authoritative servers replied, at all. This is usually due to misconfiguration or server failure at the domain in question, and mailers should retry the lookup later. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:26, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve reject=553 5.1.8 .. Domain of sender address .. does not exist It seems the former is to be interpreted as a 'temporary' condition while the latter is to be interpreted as 'permanent' (and is by default deleted by fetchmail)? Sendmail pays attention to the return value from doing DNS queries. If sendmail receives an NXDOMAIN response, it treats that as a permanent, 5xx failure code. If sendmail gets a timeout/TRY_AGAIN, it will return a 4xx temp failure. This sort of takes us back one more level -- how does the DNS service decide between responding with NXDOMAIN and a timeout/TRY_AGAIN? And does the difference have any real significance? It's not clear to me why this would matter if your ISP is the one running the mailserver: they aren't accepting the message in either case, which ought to mean that fetchmail will never see it. None of it is particularly clear to me -- but apparently my ISP's server is not rejecting these messages. If all mail servers rejected these messages it would seem to me to make the spammers endeavours rather pointless. Perhaps I've not made it clear that the above reject messages appear in the maillog on my local machine as a consequnce of fetchmail reposting the messages to local sendmail. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: find -exec surprisingly slow
Hi Paul, On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:09:55 +0930 UTC (8/14/2004, 8:39 PM -0500 UTC my time), Paul A. Hoadley trunco scripsit: Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, but a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory - that is just asking for trouble. P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P .qmail-default. Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If you have proper namespace or .qmail- files for your users, it is not necessary at all... all would then be bounced. Or if you wish just to drop mail coming in to .qmail-default, just put a # in it... P What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily P instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant P drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month P and a half of collection. I would never think of collecting them at all, not even allow them in. There are several techniques just to block them at SMTP negotiation all together, so they don't even enter your system... -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Sendmail pays attention to the return value from doing DNS queries. If sendmail receives an NXDOMAIN response, it treats that as a permanent, 5xx failure code. If sendmail gets a timeout/TRY_AGAIN, it will return a 4xx temp failure. This sort of takes us back one more level -- how does the DNS service decide between responding with NXDOMAIN and a timeout/TRY_AGAIN? Dan provided a good answer to this. And does the difference have any real significance? The real significance is that a 5xx response means the other side should give up and never attempt to redeliver that message. A 4xx response means the other MTA will keep retrying for several days. You want to reject spam permanently, and you want to do it as close to the source as possible. Meaning, you don't want to accept the message for relaying to some other machine, then have that other machine reject the message, because then your machine becomes responsible for generating a bounce. Which then clogs up your machine when bounces for spam are not deliverable. It's not clear to me why this would matter if your ISP is the one running the mailserver: they aren't accepting the message in either case, which ought to mean that fetchmail will never see it. None of it is particularly clear to me -- but apparently my ISP's server is not rejecting these messages. You should forward the log messages you showed us to your ISP, and ask them what's going on. Their mailservers should be rejecting the messages for the same reason your mailserver does. [ Hmm, I suppose it could also indicate that you have problems with your local DNS resolver, if you are getting lots of temp failures your ISP isn't. Unlikely, though, but you could test by switching to using their nameservers if you aren't doing so already. ] If all mail servers rejected these messages it would seem to me to make the spammers endeavours rather pointless. Spammers forge mail from legitimate addresses as well, but it certainly helps to reject mail from invalid domains. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: find -exec surprisingly slow
Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:09:55 +0930 UTC (8/14/2004, 8:39 PM -0500 UTC my time), Paul A. Hoadley trunco scripsit: Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, but a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory - that is just asking for trouble. P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P .qmail-default. Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If you have proper namespace or .qmail- files for your users, it is not necessary at all... all would then be bounced. Or if you wish just to drop mail coming in to .qmail-default, just put a # in it... P What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily P instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant P drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month P and a half of collection. I would never think of collecting them at all, not even allow them in. There are several techniques just to block them at SMTP negotiation all together, so they don't even enter your system... I have to second this. You should never accept email destin for users that don't exist, you should bounce it with a 5xx error prior to even accepting the data portion of the SMTP transmission. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:13:32PM -0500, Gary wrote: P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P .qmail-default. Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If you have proper namespace or .qmail- files for your users, it is not necessary at all... all would then be bounced. Or if you wish just to drop mail coming in to .qmail-default, just put a # in it... Good question---without context, my claim that I can do nothing else seems wrong. What I should have said is given I have an interest in collecting all the spams to non-existent addresses, I don't think I can make qmail do anything other than deliver it to the new/ subdir of a Maildir. The original problem was that _bouncing_ these messages is fruitless---they almost invariably have a forged From address. I'm getting on average about 10,000 of them per day, so there were constantly several thousand messages in my queue, as well as several thousand bounced bounces and failures in my postmaster mailbox every day. IMHO, these messages should be _rejected_ at the SMTP session, though (AFAICS) qmail won't do this (without being patched). (I am sure I once read a security justification for this behaviour, though I can't seem to find any justification for it at all now. I am willing to be convinced otherwise, but IMHO, accepting these messages is bogus behaviour.) Anyway, I was about to embark on tracking down a patch to do SMTP-level rejection, when I decided I would just funnel them into a Maildir and use them later to train Bogofilter, or whatever. P What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily P instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant P drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month P and a half of collection. I would never think of collecting them at all, not even allow them in. I may soon change my mind, though my original plan was to put the spam to use. The sheer volume looks like making that plan unworkable. :-) There are several techniques just to block them at SMTP negotiation all together, so they don't even enter your system... Techniques for qmail? Without patching it? I thought I had RTFMd pretty thoroughly, but I am willing to be enlightened. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ pgpddP9ABOTcL.pgp Description: PGP signature
[OT] Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
it was said: I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by .qmail-default. What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month and a half of collection. Hello, What I would do is avoid the problem in the first place by not having a .qmail-default. I don't know how important being sure you have no false positive spam rejections to incorrect/misspelled addresses is to you, but is it worth accepting hundreds of thousands of spams and then looking through them to find the very few that may be legitimate? I think you would be better off creating variations in the users' .qmail file, such as paul.hoadley@, phoadley@, [EMAIL PROTECTED] That could been done via a script that gets called when you create a user, so the only extra work would be to write script the first time and plugging it in. (Of course, you would have to run it against your existing users, too.) As I said, I don't know what your requirements are, just my 2% of the applicable currency's base unit. HTH, Stheg __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:27:29PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: I have to second this. You should never accept email destin for users that don't exist, you should bounce it with a 5xx error prior to even accepting the data portion of the SMTP transmission. I agree completely. I can't see how to make qmail do this, though---have I overlooked something? -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ pgpb5BPEDk8I7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
Paul A. Hoadley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:13:32PM -0500, Gary wrote: P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P .qmail-default. Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If you have proper namespace or .qmail- files for your users, it is not necessary at all... all would then be bounced. Or if you wish just to drop mail coming in to .qmail-default, just put a # in it... Good question---without context, my claim that I can do nothing else seems wrong. What I should have said is given I have an interest in collecting all the spams to non-existent addresses, I don't think I can make qmail do anything other than deliver it to the new/ subdir of a Maildir. The original problem was that _bouncing_ these messages is fruitless---they almost invariably have a forged From address. I'm getting on average about 10,000 of them per day, so there were constantly several thousand messages in my queue, as well as several thousand bounced bounces and failures in my postmaster mailbox every day. IMHO, these messages should be _rejected_ at the SMTP session, though (AFAICS) qmail won't do this (without being patched). (I am sure I once read a security justification for this behaviour, though I can't seem to find any justification for it at all now. I am willing to be convinced otherwise, but IMHO, accepting these messages is bogus behaviour.) I agree. Anyway, I was about to embark on tracking down a patch to do SMTP-level rejection, when I decided I would just funnel them into a Maildir and use them later to train Bogofilter, or whatever. Well, if you do have a reason to keep them, as example spams for a Bayes filter, for example, then I can't say otherwise. I'm surprised that qmail doesn't allow you to reject these properly, but I haven't been using qmail for a while now, so I don't remember. I've switched to Postfix, as this is pretty easy to set up in Postfix. I think the default config file for Postfix is set up this way as it is. I hope you find a better solution. Good luck. P What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily P instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant P drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month P and a half of collection. I would never think of collecting them at all, not even allow them in. I may soon change my mind, though my original plan was to put the spam to use. The sheer volume looks like making that plan unworkable. :-) There are several techniques just to block them at SMTP negotiation all together, so they don't even enter your system... Techniques for qmail? Without patching it? I thought I had RTFMd pretty thoroughly, but I am willing to be enlightened. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 08:01:47PM -0700, stheg olloydson wrote: What I would do is avoid the problem in the first place by not having a .qmail-default. Without a .qmail-default, qmail's default behaviour is to _accept_ the message and then _bounce_ it. IMHO, this is _worse_ than (a) saving the spam (which (I had hoped!) might be useful in other contexts), or (b) piping it to the bit bucket. Both (a) and (b) require a .qmail-default. Have I overlooked something really obvious here? Is there a way (preferably without patching it) to get qmail to _reject_ the mail sent to non-existent addresses? -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ pgpm0Fusalxmw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:30:01PM +0930 or thereabouts, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:13:32PM -0500, Gary wrote: P I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams P sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by P .qmail-default. Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If you have proper namespace or .qmail- files for your users, it is not necessary at all... all would then be bounced. Or if you wish just to drop mail coming in to .qmail-default, just put a # in it... Good question---without context, my claim that I can do nothing else seems wrong. What I should have said is given I have an interest in collecting all the spams to non-existent addresses, I don't think I can make qmail do anything other than deliver it to the new/ subdir of a Maildir. ah, okay... makes sense now. The original problem was that _bouncing_ these messages is fruitless---they almost invariably have a forged From address. I'm getting on average about 10,000 of them per day, so there were constantly several thousand messages in my queue, as well as several thousand bounced bounces and failures in my postmaster mailbox every day. right... this is why I block them at the SMTP level... IMHO, these messages should be _rejected_ at the SMTP session, though (AFAICS) qmail won't do this (without being patched). (I am sure I snip behaviour.) Anyway, I was about to embark on tracking down a patch to do SMTP-level rejection, when I decided I would just funnel them into a Maildir and use them later to train Bogofilter, or whatever. okay.. I would never think of collecting them at all, not even allow them in. I may soon change my mind, though my original plan was to put the spam to use. The sheer volume looks like making that plan unworkable. :-) hee, hee... always with spam.. g There are several techniques just to block them at SMTP negotiation all together, so they don't even enter your system... Techniques for qmail? Without patching it? I thought I had RTFMd pretty thoroughly, but I am willing to be enlightened. Most are patches, and very good. I use Eben Pratt's goodrcptto personally on my own server, and some that I have built for others (gives me control for accepting mail from lists only for those lists that do not subscribe via envelope sender, such as this one)... there are several to choose from http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#smtp-reject which will lead you here.. http://netdevice.com/qmail/rcptck/ Other techniques are my own RBL lists, commercial RBLs, etc... -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
it was said: The original problem was that _bouncing_ these messages is fruitless---they almost invariably have a forged From address. I'm getting on average about 10,000 of them per day, so there were constantly several thousand messages in my queue, as well as several thousand bounced bounces and failures in my postmaster mailbox every day. Hello, Ahh! That is much clearer! You may want to look into ucspi-tcp in sysutils/ports. Its tcpserver, tcprules, and rblsmtpd sub-programs do a fairly good job of rejecting connections from undesirable smtp servers - from the individual address all the way to netblock level. See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for details. Other possible options a something like spamassassin, route them to /dev/null, etc. Another 2%, Stheg __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:30:01PM +0930 or thereabouts, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Techniques for qmail? Without patching it? I thought I had RTFMd pretty thoroughly, but I am willing to be enlightened. forgot to add, there are also challange/auth mechanisms that one can use too.. I have used these in the past, until the simplicity of Eben's goodrcptto made it and RBLDNS /tcp.smtp files outdated and not necessary. For example, on qconfirm, I used to just send it an email and it would list all that was pending. I could then accept / drop / bounce it, etc.. Of course, if you are getting those large numbers, this would be unworkable. they are qconfirm and tmda -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
Hi Gary, On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:25:46PM -0500, Gary wrote: Most are patches, and very good. I use Eben Pratt's goodrcptto personally on my own server, and some that I have built for others (gives me control for accepting mail from lists only for those lists that do not subscribe via envelope sender, such as this one)... there are several to choose from http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#smtp-reject which will lead you here.. http://netdevice.com/qmail/rcptck/ Thanks. I was fairly sure it couldn't be done without patching. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ pgp2BwCrcOiIX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: find -exec surprisingly slow
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:06:42PM +0930 or thereabouts, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:25:46PM -0500, Gary wrote: http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#smtp-reject which will lead you here.. http://netdevice.com/qmail/rcptck/ Thanks. I was fairly sure it couldn't be done without patching. yes, for the 55x at SMTP level, but there are several others methods so that your queue will not fill with waiting junk from non-existent senders. One is a selective spamassassin setup by .qmail file, called ifspamh, IIRC, so you can drop this into any .qmail file you wish, and it will run spamassassin client, and then deliver it where you wish for inspection, deletion, etc... -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NAT / ipfw / GW - FreeBSD 4.10 to Linux Private Network???
Hello All, So with the help of all of you I have configure my FreeBSD 4.10 gateway. I am able to ping, tracerout, ssh and call webpages with a fully functioning DHCP client. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart, those of you that helped me out... its been hardwork and late nights (or early mornings) building these computers from scratch and then introducing them with Linux and FreeBSD OS's which I have only a combined year of experience. With that said I have come to the final component of my network... the NAT component. I was trying to play around with it until I found out that I really didn't know what I was doing... so here I am again. I'm trying to configure one box through NAT via my FreeBSD gateway. I figure after I do it once I'll be able to tweak it for the rest of my machines. This is my set up [internet] - [firewall/gateway] -- [ linux box ] 24.199.105.0-- 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.3 ( dc0 ) ( txp0 ) ( eth0 ) I'm trying to get internet connection for my linux box, and I also want all pop3, smtp and http passed to my linux box as well. The freebsd box is setup to be headless once I get this configured properly. In addition I would like SSH2 to be able to tunnel from box to box as well as SSH2 outside my network with my Linux box. I have attached my config files for ipfw.rules, rc.conf, and natd.conf however natd.conf is where I am lost I don't exactly know the rules for natd.conf. I reviewed my resources: The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey and Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas however there was not much on the actual syntax. If someone could help me in these areas it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance... Hakim Z. Singhji New York University 1st year Information Systems Management Student ### # RC.CONF FILE ### Network ## gateway_enable=YES network_interfaces=dc0 txp0 txp1 hostname=redgate.ath.cx ifconfig_dc0=DHCP ifconfig_txp0=inet 192.168.1.1/24 ifconfig_txp1=inet 192.168.1.2/24 natd_enable=dc0 natd_flags=-s -u -f /etc/natd.conf # IPFW firewall_enable=YES firewall_script=/etc/rc.firewall firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.rules firewall_quiet=NO firewall_logging_enable=YES ## Extra Firewalling Options ## log_in_vain=YES tcp_drop_synfin=NO tcp_restrict_rst=YES icmp_drop_redirect=YES MISC RC Rules # ... # IPFW.RULES add 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 add 00101 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 # from man ipfw: allow only tcp connections I've created add 00300 check-state add 00301 deny tcp from any to any in established add 00302 allow tcp from any to any out setup keep-state # allow DNS/UDP Packets add 00400 allow udp from 207.69.188.185 53 to any in recv dc0 add 00401 allow udp from 207.69.188.186 53 to any in recv dc0 add 00402 allow udp from 207.69.188.187 53 to any in recv dc0 add 00403 allow udp from any to any out # allow DHCP add 00500 allow udp from any 68 to 24.29.99.105. 67 out via dc0 add 00501 allow udp from 24.29.99.105 67 to any 68 in via dc0 # uncomment rules 00502 and 00503 if ISP's DHCP server has problems #add 00502 allow udp from any 68 to 255.255.255.255 67 out via dc0 #add 00503 allow udp from any 67 to 255.255.255.255 68 in via dc0 #allow some icmp types (codes not supported) add 00600 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 3 #allow source quench in and out add 00601 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 4 #allow me to ping out and receive response back add 00602 allow icmp from any to any icmp types 8 out add 00603 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0 in #allow me to run traceroute add 00604 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 11 in ## # NAT.CONF ## # I'm not at all sure if this is ok for diverting these packets # to my private network machines ip and port numbers??? redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.3:110 110 #pop3 redirect_port udp 192.168.1.3:110 110 #pop3 redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.3:25 25 #smtp redirect_port udp 192.168.1.3:25 25 #smtp redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.3:80 80 #http redirect_port udp 192.168.1.3:80 80 #http smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Dual Homing Networks with DSL and Cable
Hey all, I'm thinking about getting both DSL and Cable at home. I've currently got DSL with static Ips and I host servers. I would like to setup a dual-homed system, so I could utilize both download bandwidths. How should I best go about this, and does my desired setup make sense? Thanks, Eric F Crist Best Access Systems 11300 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 Phone: 952.894.3830 Cell: 612.998.3588 Fax: 952-894-1990 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kdm refuses to allow non-root login to kde
I've been battling this on and off (mostly off) since April. If I put exec startkde in .xesession in a non-root folder and I enable xdm in /etc/ttys, I can log into xorg's xdm and kde starts just fine -- even as a non-root user. If I enable kdm in /etc/ttys, I get the kdm login screen, and if I login with a non-root account, the display just stays at it's default background until I kill it with CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. At the kdm login screen, if I login as root, the kde desktop loads and starts just fine. I've read and implemented the commands in /usr/src/UPDATING regarding kde/kdm and I'm running the latest kde-everything as of a few hours ago. I do like Xorg's xdm, but I do like kdm/KDE better, but, apparently, kdm/kde doesn't like me at all. The box I'm currently testing this on is i386 FreeBSD-Current as of 8/7/2004, but I've also had this difficulty on 4.9/4.10 -STABLE installs at work. Any advice on wht I'm doing wrong (or a pointer to docs so I can RTFM) would be greatly appreciated. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kdm refuses to allow non-root login to kde
[If this gets posted twice, I apologize for the noise] I've been battling this on and off (mostly off) since April. If I put exec startkde in .xesession in a non-root folder and I enable xdm in /etc/ttys, I can log into xorg's xdm and kde starts just fine -- even as a non-root user. If I enable kdm in /etc/ttys, I get the kdm login screen, and if I login with a non-root account, the display just stays at it's default background until I kill it with CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. At the kdm login screen, if I login as root, the kde desktop loads and starts just fine. I've read and implemented the commands in /usr/src/UPDATING regarding kde/kdm and I'm running the latest kde-everything as of a few hours ago. I do like Xorg's xdm, but I do like kdm/KDE better, but, apparently, kdm/kde doesn't like me at all. The box I'm currently testing this on is i386 FreeBSD-Current as of 8/7/2004, but I've also had this difficulty on 4.9/4.10 -STABLE installs at work. Any advice on wht I'm doing wrong (or a pointer to docs so I can RTFM) would be greatly appreciated. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The switch to X.org
Hello all, Does anyone know where I can find, or what exactly needs to be done to switch a 5.2.1 system from XFree86 to X.org. Due to the lists currently being down I'm unable to find the official HEADS UP articles I was looking for. Thank you in advance -- As a wise man once said, You cannot create peace without paying a giant robot to throw people into a volcano. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla and courier-imap
I have some problem too with mozilla mail and courier imap. When i'm using imap with mozilla mail, everytime i sent email, mozilla mail idle with progrees tool bar Copy message to sent item is there any idea ? regards reza --- Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages in a folder until I restart mozilla. I was convinced it was mozilla that was What do you mean with a folder? If you mean the normal INBOX, just increase the value of MAXPERIP in /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd. This value must be increased for use with mozilla (16 should be fine). If you mean any folder, you have to tell Mozilla to monitor this folder for new incoming mails (right-click on the folder...). Generally Courier-Imap works perfectly with Mozilla: I have several servers running it with many users of Mozilla-Mail. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The switch to X.org
On Sunday 15 August 2004 12:51 am, Clinton MacKinnon wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know where I can find, or what exactly needs to be done to switch a 5.2.1 system from XFree86 to X.org. Due to the lists currently being down I'm unable to find the official HEADS UP articles I was looking for. Thank you in advance From /usr/src/Updating 20040723: AFFECTS: users of FreeBSD-current, users of xorg AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The XFREE86_VERSION variable is deprecated and has been replaced by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may be set to xorg, xfree86-4, or xfree86-3. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM defaults to xorg on FreeBSD-current. If you are switching to xorg, you should follow this set of commands to cleanly upgrade: pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-* cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make install pkgdb -F Users of -stable or older -current can switch to X.Org by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in make.conf and following the same process. You should have portupgrade installed before you attempt the above instructions. Assuming you do, follow the above instructions exactly. I did exactly the above, and it worked fine for me, though when running pkgdb -F, some of the replacement xorg choices aren't intuitive. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any external USB cdrw recommended for FreeBSD[4,5]* ?
Hello, I was looking for some ideas on an external USB burner for my laptop. I'm running 5.2.1 but would go back to 4.10 if needed to make a recommended model work. TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The switch to X.org
it was said:
Hello,
I don't personally have an answer, but from the archives comes this one
from Matthew Seaman:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:45:08PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:17:56 -0400
Jim Trigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFAICT, this won't really do anything -- there does not appear to
be a real way to tell the ports system that you want X ports to
depend on xorg instead of xfree. Every X port appears to have xfree
hardcoded.
Not sure, I think some do, but everything I have hear does not seem
to have that problem.
OK, so how do you get cvsup to use xorg? As best I can tell, it will
depend on either XFree86 (XFree86 v. 3) or
XFree86-4-libraries(XFree86 v. 4), with no option to depend on
xorg-libraries.
Both the XFree86-4-libraries and xorg-libraries provide the
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 shared library (amongst others). It's the
same ABI independent of which port the shlib comes from.
The short answer is just install the x11/xorg-libraries port before
you install cvsup.
In fact, cvsup works perfectly well even if you replace the XFree86
libs with the xorg ones underneath a previously installed copy of
cvsup. Doesn't even need a recompile. The same goes for most X based
software.
Here's how it works: when the Makefile in the cvsup port says
USE_XLIB that gets transformed into a LIB_DEPENDS line in
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk:
LIB_DEPENDS+= X11.6:${PORTSDIR}/x11/XFree86-4-libraries
(assuming you've not got XFREE86_VERSION == 3).
That LIB_DEPENDS line is in two parts separated by a colon. The first
bit:
X11.6
means that the port needs to link against libX11.so.6, and it checks
to see if a suitable shlib is installed and accessible by grep'ing in
the output of ldconfig:
% ldconfig -r | fgrep X11.6
116:-lX11.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
Since last night on my system that's from:
% pkg_info -W /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 was installed by package
xorg-libraries-6.7.0
If make(1) can find a suitable shlib, everything is happy and the
compile continues -- all make looks for is the presence of the
library. It doesn't check what (if any) port the library is part of.
Only if it can't find the correct shlib does the right hand side of
that LIB_DEPENDS line get considered:
${PORTSDIR}/x11/XFree86-4-libraries
That's simply a suggestion of a suitable port that will provide the
required shlib, and fulfil the dependency. But there are several such
ports in the tree, any of which could be used. Often in such
situations there will be some sort of 'WANT_FOO' or 'WITH_FOO_VER'
make variable to select which one gets used. Unfortunately, no such
mechanism for saying I want X.Org ports in preference to XFree86
ones has yet been committed.
One annoyance due to the lake of make(1) infrastructure is that the
suggested port will be listed in the package dependencies of the
installed port, rather than the actual port that provided the shlib
you used to build against. That, however, is just an administrative
detail which you can fix up with pkgdb(1), and has no real bearing on
the effectiveness of the software.
Cheers,
Matthew
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And an answer from Matthew to a follow-up question from Axel S. Gruner:
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:46:37PM +0200, Axel S. Gruner wrote:
i have written a howto for people willing to switch from XFree86 to
xorg. Ok, at this time it is only available in german:
http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?p=39983#post39983
But i also have some questions about switching to xorg.
(1) Will xorg be the default X in future FreeBSD Releases?
Probably. It seems that most of the Linux distros have switched or
are switching to it, and the Unix vendors like Sun always were behind
X.Org anyway.
There is has been a discussion on the x11 and docs mailing lists
covering all of the whys and wherefores. A good place to start is
here:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200406051411.04259.linimon
(2) I have xorg running, without a problem, but if i install a new
application with a XFree86 dependency i have to run pkgdb -F to fix
the dependency to xorg stuff (and imake-6).
If i change /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and the entries about XFree86
and
imake-4 to xorg and imake-6, the change will not be permanent (cvsup
will overwrite the change):
[...]
LIB_DEPENDS+= X11.6:${PORTSDIR}/x11/xorg-libraries
[...]
.if defined(USE_IMAKE)
BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${X11BASE}/lib/X11/config/date.def:
${PORTSDIR}/devel/imake-6
RUN_DEPENDS+= mkhtmlindex:${PORTSDIR}/devel/imake-6
[...]
So, is there another way to fix that permanently or a work-around?
Eventually something like what you propose
RE: Dual Homing Networks with DSL and Cable
You will have difficulty with this setup. Most large providers require that you register your multihomed capacity on a list. Otherwise traffic won't know to come in on a particular interface or that it can go either way. I must admit I'm going from memory here. I used to work at an ISP about 5 years ago. At that time we went from a T3 with UUNET to a multihomed setup with verio and uunet. It was rather odd actually.. 3 t1s connected us to our modem banks at the telco and then we had an ethernet connection to verio's pipe, plus the T3 in our main office. Anyway, verio required us to get on this list. They told us that most large ISPs use it for routing. I suspect you will need static ips with the cable provider to pull it off as well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Crist Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dual Homing Networks with DSL and Cable Hey all, I'm thinking about getting both DSL and Cable at home. I've currently got DSL with static Ips and I host servers. I would like to setup a dual-homed system, so I could utilize both download bandwidths. How should I best go about this, and does my desired setup make sense? Thanks, Eric F Crist Best Access Systems 11300 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 Phone: 952.894.3830 Cell: 612.998.3588 Fax: 952-894-1990 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Message: 4 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:47:09 -0500 From: edwinculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [..] I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the user in the wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has permissions set to 666, the same in devfs.conf (That solves the problem for xmms but not for k3b. I have tried to suid and kde won't let it start. I'm out of ideas. After this much time, I'm sure that I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill and I'm missing something very simple. Any help would be appreciated. I can't see my users using burncd Thanks ed P.S. Machines are running current and are AMD Athlon I see you've not got this going yet. I don't know about current but on 4.x, as well as vfs.usermount=1 you need to have non-root users mount CDs on a directory that they actually own. Might that be an issue here? Cheers, Ian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
