Using fetch in http server that requires authentication
Hi, I want to use fetch to get some files from our http snap server but it requires username and password; Here's the details username: renem password: mhall[;] How will I tell fetch to use those details and automatically provide it when the server asks for it? The reason why I want to do this is because I want the task to become automated during boot time. I also noticed the password contains special characters, but I don't know if they'll have to be escaped. Perhaps you do. Any idea? thanks. -jay ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Using fetch in http server that requires authentication
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:12:45AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez said: > Hi, > I want to use fetch to get some files from our http > snap server but it requires username and password; > > Here's the details > > username: renem > password: mhall[;] fetch http://renem:mhall\[\;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.txt > I also noticed the password contains special characters, but I don't know > if they'll have to be escaped. Perhaps you do. Any idea? thanks. They will. I have escaped them by prefixing a \ symbol before them. I suggest after this post you change the password. Even though you haven't provided us with much more detail, posting a username and password and saying "These are the credentials for our SNAP server" is a big security risk, as someone evil might know you by name :) -- Adam Smith Internode : http://www.internode.on.net Phone : (08) 8228 2999 Dog for sale: Eats lots and is fond of children. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed
Hello, I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD for both printing and scanning. The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my needs in terms of quality and price range, so if you have any experience using this or some other device along those lines under FreeBSD please let me know, any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ALeine P.S.: Please CC: me, I am not subscribed. ___ WebMail FREE http://mail.austrosearch.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..
On 2004-10-04 06:15, Joe Schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD system (4.9) running a fair number of processes in a > multi-user / shell hosting environment. > > One problem that routinely comes up is that the system will seem to be > fine in terms of CPU, and none of the top 10 or 15 processes that I > see in "top" are using much CPU ... but the load average is very high > - sometimes as high as 30 or 40 ... > > I have good reason to suspect that the load is high due to I/O. I can > see the number of processes blocking on I/O in vmstat, and I can see > iostat for the entire machine, of course ... You might want to see if the "io" mode of top can be ported to RELENG_4. In 5.X you can use top to display io statistics too: : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10 : PID USERNAME VCSW IVCSW READ WRITE FAULT TOTAL PERCENT COMMAND : 1742 keramida 32250 2182278 7 1376 1661 28.90% Xorg : 1829 keramida 5617 1601440 4472916 15.94% mozilla-bin : 416 root 5031 5119 0 0 1 1 0.02% moused : 1745 keramida 19871517 65 0 22 87 1.51% wmaker : 1789 keramida 5264425 2 0 1 3 0.05% xterm-static : 1837 keramida643205 17188 6211 3.67% mutt : 1792 keramida 2640 1023 0 0 0 0 0.00% screen : 1949 keramida260118 0 16 1 17 0.30% emacs : 293 root702181 9 3 0 12 0.21% syslogd The differences of top from RELENG_4 to CURRENT are many and I don't have the time right now to try porting the "io mode" stuff to RELENG_4, but if you cannot do it yourself I might find a bit of time this weekend. - Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..
--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to see if the "io" mode of top can be > ported to RELENG_4. > In 5.X you can use top to display io statistics too: Wow - that is really useful. I didn't know you could output like that in 5.x. > : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10 (snip) > The differences of top from RELENG_4 to CURRENT are > many and I don't have the > time right now to try porting the "io mode" stuff to > RELENG_4, but if you > cannot do it yourself I might find a bit of time > this weekend. Well, porting it is way beyond my abilities, so yes, if it is not too much trouble, that would be great. Alternatively, is there any other way to get this information in 4.x - perhaps without top, etc. ? thanks. __ 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: Release Compiler options
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 03:52 schrieb Haulmark, Chris: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Emanuel Strobl > > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:43 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Release Compiler options > > > > I really spent some time tracing the make release, but > > couldn't find any way > > to modify the compiler flags for the release. Why do I need a > > populated /usr/obj if it's never touched? I really think I'm missing > > something. Two years ago I had no problems building specail > > 4.4-RELEASEs. > > > > Any hint is welcome. > > There is an excellent hint for compiler flags to be found in the > 19.4.3 section of the FreeBSD handbook. Hm, this is for the world and is very well known and documented. I'm talking about /usr/src/release/Makefile > > The /usr/obj directory composes of the compiled applications from > the buildworld function. You can delete it after you did a successful > completion of the installworld on a system. That's what happens > when you do "make clean" in the /usr/src directory. Again, I'm not talking about make installworld, but 'make release' -Mano > > > -Mano > > -- > Chris Haulmark > System Admin. Freelancer > "In market for IT corrections for a salary." > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" pgpWQJkjHlmPT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun
On 2004-10-04 21:54, Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I developed a few rules and techniques for keeping the interest: > > 1. Avoid doing the same thing over and over again. > 2. Do bigger projects as well as some playful experimenting. > 3. Don't use closed-source (or commercial) software. I don't know how you >react to it, but the "closed" look and feel really puts me off. > 4. If it's running well, don't interrupt it. Unless you feel you're hitting >the wall, don't take a break while solving a complex problem. > 5. Keep one style for one session. If you're into multiple things that have to >do with computers, don't mix them up. Especially don't mix high-level and >low-level activities. For example, don't do Javascript programming (or >webdesign in general), complex image editing or maybe even 3D modelling on >the console with a CLI. On the other hand, don't do ASM programming in a >graphical IDE, use vi instead. If you do the dirtiest lowest-level hacks, >you may be well advised to even use TECO, or some other editor which is >really hard to use. I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor that can easily be adopted to editing plain text email messages, theses in LaTeX, or even to browse the source code of an operating system... why would you want to torture yourself with a strange, difficult to use editor? All this that I described above, and even more, I can do in Emacs or vim. Using the system vi(1) on Solaris isn't a problem either, but I don't push myself to use *THAT* editor if I don't have to. I stopped using vi(1) on Solaris when messages like this became annoying: sun2# stty columns 190 sun2# \vi Terminal too wide : These days my $EDITOR equals 'emacs' and all is done using exactly the same interface, using the same keystrokes, the same macros and configuration options (as opposed to, say, having to learn a dozen different editors, one for each language and/or job). - Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..
On 2004-10-05 01:45, Joe Schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10 > > (snip) > > > The differences of top from RELENG_4 to CURRENT are many and I don't > > have the time right now to try porting the "io mode" stuff to > > RELENG_4, but if you cannot do it yourself I might find a bit of > > time this weekend. > > Well, porting it is way beyond my abilities, so yes, if it is not too > much trouble, that would be great. Alternatively, is there any other > way to get this information in 4.x - perhaps without top, etc. ? Not sure if you can get statistics per process. `systat -vmstat' is a nice way of getting some bits of information, but AFAICT they're system-wide -- not per process. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Xserver mouse won't work
Hi everyone, I'm having troubles configuring my mouse for the X server. So, here's my story. I have a PIII 950MHz box with 128MB RAM. I have Windows98 on it and right now I'm turning it to dual boot with FreeBSD 4.7-Release being the second o.s. The installation itself went easy but setting up the X server has been terrible. Am I the only person who thinks this is a very tiresome and user-unfriendly procedure? Anyway, after downloading my monitor's technical specifications, studying about installing the X etc. I managed to get the X running. Almost! My mouse won't work properly. I have a very ordinary PS/2, 3-buttons mouse but I have tried others, too (one with 2 buttons, one with a scroll button). Nothing seems to work. The pointer sticks to the right upper corner and just goes nuts with continuous clicks. For the X server configuration I use xf86config (even though, I gave the graphical tool a chance, too). I choose /dev/sysmouse as my mouse device and I've tried different protocols like PS/2, Microsoft compatible, Mouse Systems (3-button protocol) etc. Nothing works :~( So, what am I doing so wrong? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks in advance, Dimitris - http://www.mail.gr/ - Get Your Private Free Email Address! http://www.ringtone.gr/ - Ringtones & Logos for your mobile! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor that can easily be adopted to editing plain text email messages, theses in LaTeX, or even to browse the source code of an operating system... why would you want to torture yourself with a strange, difficult to use editor? I think for a lot of people, myself included the choice of editor often comes down to the KISS principle, all I really need from an editor is a means of putting data in and changing it around in a comfortable manner, I tend to spend most of my time using easy edit (default editor if you didnt know) quite often even while in X although I also use gedit, it has all the functionality i need and syntax highlighting to boot which makes it handy for perl work but since i do a lot of my editng over ssh sessions it doesnt get used that often :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: netstat 'Ierrs' - meaning and possible causes
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:26:45PM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > What possible type of errors comprise 'Ierrs'? Here is an example of > the output: > > Name Mtu Network AddressIpktsIerrs OpktsOerrs Coll > xl0 1500 92977239 5723973 95001292 0 2070292 > > According to this, input errors amount to about 6% of the total input > packets. This number definitely exceeds the level of acceptable errors, > but since I'm not quite sure what Ierrs signifies I'm not sure where to > begin. Bad hardware or media? Are Ierrs received packets that are > identifiable by a header, but otherwise mangled? Yes -- this sort of error rate is almost always going to be bad hardware, given that you're on an ethernet network. (Things may be different for wireless). Since it's only affecting the receive side of one network card, it may well be just that the network cable has been kinked or that there's a bad spot in one of the conductors. It can even be simply that some RJ45 plugs aren't pushed into their sockets quite right. Generally that results in signals being reflected off the fault and so interfering with themselves. Try swapping in a new network cable -- at least it's fairly cheap if that is the case. Other causes can be broken network card on the PC, broken port on your switch. I should be pretty easy to diagnose by swapping cards in and out and so forth. 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 pgpheLL6TRvYD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Release Compiler options
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 03:52 schrieb Haulmark, Chris:
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> > > Emanuel Strobl
> > > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:43 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Release Compiler options
> > >
> > > I really spent some time tracing the make release, but
> > > couldn't find any way
> > > to modify the compiler flags for the release. Why do I need a
> > > populated /usr/obj if it's never touched? I really think I'm missing
> > > something. Two years ago I had no problems building specail
> > > 4.4-RELEASEs.
> > >
> > > Any hint is welcome.
> >
> > There is an excellent hint for compiler flags to be found in the
> > 19.4.3 section of the FreeBSD handbook.
>
> Hm, this is for the world and is very well known and documented.
> I'm talking about /usr/src/release/Makefile
>
> >
> > The /usr/obj directory composes of the compiled applications from
> > the buildworld function. You can delete it after you did a successful
> > completion of the installworld on a system. That's what happens
> > when you do "make clean" in the /usr/src directory.
>
> Again, I'm not talking about make installworld, but 'make release'
If you're using 'make release' you're expected to a) have your own
local copy of the FreeBSD src CVS repository and b) know how to use
cvs(1) and make(1). 'make release' is aimed at expert users;
beginners would be well advised to steer clear of it.
What you do is edit the /usr/src/release/Makefile, specifically the
CHROOTDIR, BUILDNAME and CVSROOT it tells you to set. Or specify them
on the command line if you prefer.
Then you setup the ${LOCAL_PATCHES} variable to point to a file of
patches to apply to the checked out chroot'ed source tree (hint: try
applying a patch to ${CHROOTDIR}/etc/make.conf to fiddle with the make
flags). Similarly you can run a shell script ${LOCAL_SCRIPT} to do
whatever you want to the chroot'ed sources before building.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:57:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > All this that I described above, and even more, I can do in Emacs or vim. > Using the system vi(1) on Solaris isn't a problem either, but I don't push > myself to use *THAT* editor if I don't have to. I stopped using vi(1) on > Solaris when messages like this became annoying: > > sun2# stty columns 190 > sun2# \vi > Terminal too wide > : Ah -- yes. That brings back memories. Trying to use sdiff(1) on Solaris. Where you want your terminal to be as wide as possible so you can display the files you're diffing side by side, but you can't use emacs(1) as your $EDITOR because the way it shuffles around copies of the files to keep a backup version confuses sdiff(1). Better hope that the stuff you're diffing is less that 66 columns wide, so you can fit it in the maximum 132 columns that Solaris vi permits. 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 pgpW0iRt0oXS4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Release Compiler options
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 12:00 schrieb Matthew Seaman:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
[...]
> > > There is an excellent hint for compiler flags to be found in the
> > > 19.4.3 section of the FreeBSD handbook.
> >
> > Hm, this is for the world and is very well known and documented.
> > I'm talking about /usr/src/release/Makefile
> >
> > > The /usr/obj directory composes of the compiled applications from
> > > the buildworld function. You can delete it after you did a successful
> > > completion of the installworld on a system. That's what happens
> > > when you do "make clean" in the /usr/src directory.
> >
> > Again, I'm not talking about make installworld, but 'make release'
>
> If you're using 'make release' you're expected to a) have your own
> local copy of the FreeBSD src CVS repository and b) know how to use
> cvs(1) and make(1). 'make release' is aimed at expert users;
> beginners would be well advised to steer clear of it.
>
> What you do is edit the /usr/src/release/Makefile, specifically the
> CHROOTDIR, BUILDNAME and CVSROOT it tells you to set. Or specify them
> on the command line if you prefer.
>
> Then you setup the ${LOCAL_PATCHES} variable to point to a file of
> patches to apply to the checked out chroot'ed source tree (hint: try
> applying a patch to ${CHROOTDIR}/etc/make.conf to fiddle with the make
Ok, so share/examples/etc/make.conf is not evaluated like
etc/defautls/make.conf was before? That's the point I guess.
Thanks for your explanation, I've been building releases some years ago, so
usually I'm quiet familar with cvs.
Thanks,
-Harry
> flags). Similarly you can run a shell script ${LOCAL_SCRIPT} to do
> whatever you want to the chroot'ed sources before building.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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namp usage ? (bug?)
I'm trying to use nmap to check for all hosts that are up on a subnet. I'm using this syntax: nmap -sP 170.85.113.0/25 Bit, I'm getting the follwing error messge; Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-10-05 07:22 EDT sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0, 170.85.113.0, 16) => Can't assign requested addres Here's the approriate NIC config: fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 170.85.113.56 netmask 0xff80 broadcast 170.85.113.127 ether 00:01:fa:ff:fa:bc media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active Am I using this incorectly? Yes I'm loged in as root, when I try this. I't on FreeBSD STABLE built a couple of weeks ago. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail
Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying to get mail auth to work so that my users can send mail (smtp port 25) through this server no matter which net they are connected to. I have installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.28_3 and followed the description given on this page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html. Everything seems to work and all tests give the expected results. I have also looked at this page http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html and done the initial test: #telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 my.server.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:31:13 +0200 (CEST) ehlo localhost 250-my.server.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP When I'm testing sending mail through this server (as smtp server) I use Eudora 6.1 from my WinXP PC. I always get relaying denied and it doesn't seem to check username/password. Here's what my logfile and Eudora log says: Oct 5 13:35:18 myserver sendmail[59394]: i95BZIow059394: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=my.ip.address.domain.com [x.x.x.x], reject=550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. I would be very grateful for any help here. I'm stuck and I don't know what to check next. Thanks alot! Andreas --- Andreas Wideroe Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile: (+47) 90 92 61 21 http://www.filmshooting.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Widerøe Andersen Sent: 05 October 2004 12:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying to get mail auth to work so that my users can send mail (smtp port 25) through this server no matter which net they are connected to. I have installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.28_3 and followed the description given on this page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html. Everything seems to work and all tests give the expected results. I have also looked at this page http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html and done the initial test: #telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 my.server.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:31:13 +0200 (CEST) ehlo localhost 250-my.server.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP When I'm testing sending mail through this server (as smtp server) I use Eudora 6.1 from my WinXP PC. I always get relaying denied and it doesn't seem to check username/password. Here's what my logfile and Eudora log says: Oct 5 13:35:18 myserver sendmail[59394]: i95BZIow059394: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=my.ip.address.domain.com [x.x.x.x], reject=550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. I would be very grateful for any help here. I'm stuck and I don't know what to check next. Thanks alot! Andreas --- Andreas Wideroe Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile: (+47) 90 92 61 21 http://www.filmshooting.com I have a similar setup, apart from I use cyrus-sasl2. Do you have the relevant options to start the sasl authd in your rc.conf? If so, have you tried using a different email client to check and make sure it is not Eudora that is at error? Mick Walker ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. *** ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying to get mail auth to work so that my users can send mail (smtp port 25) through this server no matter which net they are connected to. I have installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.28_3 and followed the description given on this page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html. Everything seems to work and all tests give the expected results. I have also looked at this page http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html and done the initial test: #telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 my.server.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:31:13 +0200 (CEST) ehlo localhost 250-my.server.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP When I'm testing sending mail through this server (as smtp server) I use Eudora 6.1 from my WinXP PC. I always get relaying denied and it doesn't seem to check username/password. Here's what my logfile and Eudora log says: Oct 5 13:35:18 myserver sendmail[59394]: i95BZIow059394: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=my.ip.address.domain.com [x.x.x.x], reject=550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. I would be very grateful for any help here. I'm stuck and I don't know what to check next. Try adding 'PLAIN' to the list of allowed authentications in your sendmail *.mc file, rebuild, and restart sendmail. Then test to see that it's advertised like you did above... Hope that helps, EB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Vinum Help Needed
Hi. I'm running Vinum on a 4.9 system with 3 drives. The first drive is a small one and I boot from it. The second and third drive are mirrored, using Vinum, and contain most of the system's data (1 volume, 1 plex per drive, 1 subdisk per plex). The system locked up on me this morning. When I rebooted there was a problem with the Vinum mirrored drives. When I did a "list" from Vinum both subdisks were "stale" and both plexes were "faulty". After playing around a while, I didn't know what to do, so I stupidly tried something which probably made things worse. I did a "start" on one of the plexes. It took a few minutes and then came up along with the subdisk on it. But I'm afraid that it seems to be empty. When I boot now I get a "bad super block: magic number wrong" error, along with "unexpected soft update inconsistency", "/dev/vinum/mirror: cannot figure out file system partition". Vinum now lists the drives as "up", the volume as "up", the plexes as "up" and "faulty", the subdisks as "up" and "stale". I'm guessing that I blew away the first plex. Is there any way to get the second plex up and running, and to restore the first plex from it? Thanks! John John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again
Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:22:30AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > I'm using an nfs mount to get at the underlying file system on a system > > that uses unionfs mounts ... instead of using nullfs, which, last time I > > used it over a year ago, caused the server to crash to no end ... > > > > But, as soon as there is any 'load', I'm getting a whack of: > > > > Oct 3 22:46:16 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: not > > responding > > Oct 3 22:46:16 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: is alive > > again > > Oct 3 22:48:30 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: not > > responding > > Oct 3 22:48:30 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: is alive > > again In my experience, this is caused by the server responding unpredictably. Someone smarter than me may correct me, but I believe the nfs client keeps track of how quickly the NFS server responds, and uses it to judge whether the server is still working or not. Any time the server's response time varies too much from that amount, the client will assume the server is down, but if the server is not down, you'll see the "is alive" message immediately after. Basically, during normal usage, the server is responding very quickly, so the client assumes it will always respond that fast. Then, under heavy load, the slower response makes the client a little paranoid. I've seen this when running NFS over WiFi, where the ping times are usually not consistent. One thing is to just ignore the messages and accept that this is a natural side effect of high loads. Another would be to use TCP mounts instead of UDP mounts, which don't have this trouble. What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve the problem as well. > > > > in /var/log/messages ... > > > > I'm running nfsd with the standard flags: > > > > nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4" > > > > Is there something that I can do to reduce this problem? increase number > > of nfsd processes? force a tcp connection? > > You could try giving the nfsd processes more priority as root with > rtprio. If the file /var/run/nfsd.pid exist then you could try something > like: rtprio 10 -`cat /var/run/nfds.pid`. > > You could also try giving the other porcesses less priority like > nice -n 2 rsync. But i'm am not show how this works at the other end. > > > The issue is more prevalent when I have >4 processes trying to read from > > the nfs mounts ... should there be one mount per process? the process(es) > > in question are rsync, if that helps ... they tend to be a bit more 'disk > > intensive' then most processes, which is why I thought of increasing -n > > ... Might help. I would look at networking before I looked at disk usage ... are there dropped packets and the like. But it could be either. -- 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: Release Compiler options
Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, so share/examples/etc/make.conf is not evaluated like > etc/defautls/make.conf was before? That's the point I guess. /etc/defaults/make.conf was *never* evaluated. That's *why* it was moved out to the examples tree. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD 5.2 Installation problem on HP workstation xw6000
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a HP workstation xw6000 which has two SCSI disk (40 GB each). The process evolved OK but at its end, after the required reboot of computer, everything messes up and the computer hangs at "Waiting 15 sec for reply of SCSI device". On the other hand, the installation goes fine with Linux 9 or Windows. Can anyone help figure out what is happening? Regards, Simon - Créez gratuitement votre Yahoo! Mail avec 100 Mo de stockage ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail Le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger est arrivé ! Découvrez toutes les nouveautés pour dialoguer instantanément avec vos amis.Téléchargez GRATUITEMENT ici ! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Xserver mouse won't work
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm having troubles configuring my mouse for the X server. > So, here's my story. I have a PIII 950MHz box with 128MB RAM. I have > Windows98 on it and right now I'm turning it to dual boot with FreeBSD > 4.7-Release being the second o.s. > > The installation itself went easy but setting up the X server has been > terrible. Am I the only person who thinks this is a very tiresome and > user-unfriendly procedure? No. X config is a pain. > I have a very ordinary PS/2, 3-buttons mouse but I have tried others, too > (one with 2 buttons, one with a scroll button). Nothing seems to work. > The pointer sticks to the right upper corner and just goes nuts with > continuous clicks. > > For the X server configuration I use xf86config (even though, I gave the > graphical tool a chance, too). I choose /dev/sysmouse as my mouse device > and I've tried different protocols like PS/2, Microsoft compatible, Mouse > Systems (3-button protocol) etc. Nothing works :~( > > So, what am I doing so wrong? Well, you didn't provide your config file, and I'm not psychic, so I can't be sure, but here are a few guesses based on common mistakes. 1) If you use /dev/sysmouse, you need to be running the mouse daemon. If you can use the mouse in a text console, then moused is running. If not, rerun sysinstall (or edit rc.conf) to enable it. 2) Have you tried the "Auto" protocol? You can manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and make the protocol line: Option "Protocol" "Auto" HTH -- 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]"
Downloading FreeBSD
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Re: RES: FreeBSD 5.2 Installation problem on HP workstation xw6000
It hangs indefinitely (actually I have been waiting 4 hours +) Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After that message, does the OS boot? Does the OS hangs? -Mensagem original- De: simon butsana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: terça-feira, 5 de outubro de 2004 10:04 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: FreeBSD 5.2 Installation problem on HP workstation xw6000 Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a HP workstation xw6000 which has two SCSI disk (40 GB each). The process evolved OK but at its end, after the required reboot of computer, everything messes up and the computer hangs at "Waiting 15 sec for reply of SCSI device". On the other hand, the installation goes fine with Linux 9 or Windows. Can anyone help figure out what is happening? Regards, Simon - Créez gratuitement votre Yahoo! Mail avec 100 Mo de stockage ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail Le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger est arrivé ! Découvrez toutes les nouveautés pour dialoguer instantanément avec vos amis.Téléchargez GRATUITEMENT ici ! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Esta mensagem pode conter informação confidencial e/ou privilegiada. Se você não for o destinatário ou a pessoa autorizada a receber esta mensagem, não pode usar, copiar ou divulgar as informações nela contidas ou tomar qualquer ação baseada nessas informações. Se você recebeu esta mensagem por engano, por favor avise imediatamente o remetente, respondendo o e-mail e em seguida apague-o. Agradecemos sua cooperação. This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. - Créez gratuitement votre Yahoo! Mail avec 100 Mo de stockage ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail Le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger est arrivé ! Découvrez toutes les nouveautés pour dialoguer instantanément avec vos amis.Téléchargez GRATUITEMENT ici ! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail
Thanks! However, could you please give me some more specific directions? Today my sendmail.mc file looks like this: divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.10.2.18 2003/04/24 16:57:30 gshapiro Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd4) DOMAIN(generic) FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T /etc/mail/access') FEATURE(blacklist_recipients) FEATURE(local_lmtp) FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') dnl set SASL options TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl define(`confDEF_AUTH_INFO', `/etc/mail/auth-info')dnl define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) Should I just replace the TRUST/SASL lines with: TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl Don't want to try it at the moment without knowing more since it is a live system. Thanks for your help! Andreas --- At 14:22 05.10.2004, you wrote: Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable on one of my servers and Sendmail 8.12.10. I'm trying to get mail auth to work so that my users can send mail (smtp port 25) through this server no matter which net they are connected to. I have installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.28_3 and followed the description given on this page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html. Everything seems to work and all tests give the expected results. I have also looked at this page http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html and done the initial test: #telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 my.server.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:31:13 +0200 (CEST) ehlo localhost 250-my.server.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP When I'm testing sending mail through this server (as smtp server) I use Eudora 6.1 from my WinXP PC. I always get relaying denied and it doesn't seem to check username/password. Here's what my logfile and Eudora log says: Oct 5 13:35:18 myserver sendmail[59394]: i95BZIow059394: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=my.ip.address.domain.com [x.x.x.x], reject=550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. I would be very grateful for any help here. I'm stuck and I don't know what to check next. Try adding 'PLAIN' to the list of allowed authentications in your sendmail *.mc file, rebuild, and restart sendmail. Then test to see that it's advertised like you did above... Hope that helps, EB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --- Andreas Wideroe Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile: (+47) 90 92 61 21 http://www.filmshooting.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Using fetch in http server that requires authentication
Adam Smith said: > fetch http://renem:mhall\[\;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.txt > >> I also noticed the password contains special characters, but I don't know >> if they'll have to be escaped. Perhaps you do. Any idea? thanks. > > They will. I have escaped them by prefixing a \ symbol before them. I > suggest after this post you change the password. Even though you haven't > provided us with much more detail, posting a username and password and > saying "These are the credentials for our SNAP server" is a big security > risk, as someone evil might know you by name :) This may depend on your shell, but you could also escape the whole thing at once with quotes on each end: fetch 'http://renem:mhall[;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.txt' This is often easier and less to type if there are more than 2 characters to be escaped. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Thanks! However, could you please give me some more specific directions? Today my sendmail.mc file looks like this: divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.10.2.18 2003/04/24 16:57:30 gshapiro Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd4) DOMAIN(generic) FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T /etc/mail/access') FEATURE(blacklist_recipients) FEATURE(local_lmtp) FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') dnl set SASL options TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl define(`confDEF_AUTH_INFO', `/etc/mail/auth-info')dnl define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) Should I just replace the TRUST/SASL lines with: TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl Don't want to try it at the moment without knowing more since it is a live system. Yes, that's correct (although I'd leave in CRAM-MD5 since mozilla et. al. support it nicely). Once you save the *.mc file, do this to build a proper sendmail.cf, update all your database configs, install and restart sendmail: cd /etc/mail make all install restart This should take only about 3 seconds and will give you console feedback so watch for any errors in syntax. Then: tail /var/log/maillog So you can verify that everything started up properly. Please note that I use 5.x (but same version of sendmail as you) so it is possible that the exact steps I outline above will be slightly different on a 4.x system (sorry but I don't know for sure -- been so long since I used 4.x). You can always check the Makefile in /etc/mail to verify this. The basic point is that you merely need to update your *.mc, rebuild it into a proper *.cf, install and restart sendmail. Cheers, EB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Downloading FreeBSD
On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD > distributions? The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD
Hello!! I'm from Brasil and I would like to know what kind of scheduling FreeBSD uses. Can you help me? If you didn't understand my question, please tell me!! I'm waiting for your answer! See ya! Rafael (Student of COTIL - UNICAMP (State University of Campinas - SP - BRASIL)) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Downloading FreeBSD
The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who wish to help seed the torrent. It would obviously be a bigger help around the time when new versions come out and the servers are being hammered. I'm not sure if that explanation was clear or not but it seems obvious to me what the bonuses would be. On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD > > distributions? > > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere? > > > > ___ > [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: FreeBSD
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rafa Teixeira wrote: > I'm from Brasil and I would like to know what kind of scheduling FreeBSD > uses. Can you help me? > > If you didn't understand my question, please tell me!! > > I'm waiting for your answer! FreeBSD 4.x uses the 4.4BSD scheduler which is a multilevel feedback queue scheduler. FreeBSD 5.x may use a different scheduler as an alternative with better behaviour concerning multi-threaded processes, but I don't know the details. Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Release Compiler options
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:01:04AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ok, so share/examples/etc/make.conf is not evaluated like
> > etc/defautls/make.conf was before? That's the point I guess.
>
> /etc/defaults/make.conf was *never* evaluated. That's *why* it was
> moved out to the examples tree.
/etc/defaults/make.conf was, and still is, evaluated in 4-stable. [1]
However since all lines in that file are commented out it doesn't
actually set any defaults (unlike e.g. /etc/defaults/rc.conf which
actually sets default values for many variables.)
However one has never (or at least not for a very long time) been
supposed to modify /etc/defaults/make.conf, but any local modifications
are supposed to go into /etc/make.conf which means that it made more
sense to move /etc/defaults/make.conf to /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
since it was just documentation of what variables one could set in
/etc/make.conf.
[1] From /usr/share/mk/sys.mk
[...]
.if exists(/etc/defaults/make.conf)
.include
.endif
__MAKE_CONF?=/etc/make.conf
.if exists(${__MAKE_CONF})
.include "${__MAKE_CONF}"
.endif
[...]
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Re: ipnat and "udp consistent translation" (Skype related)
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:45:40 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Using Skype on a machine behind a FreeBSD 4.x firewall using >ipf/ipnat, if I try a file transfer I get "your connection is relayed" >which suggests that there are problems using "UDP hole punching" to >get a direct connection. The Skype help page sends you to: > >http://bgp.lcs.mit.edu/~dga/view.cgi > >where ipnat gets a "no" in the "udp consistent translation" column. I think this info must be out of date, and that ipnat really does do "UDP consistent translation". This is a bit of output from ipnat -l: >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [159.148.187.95 27452] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [70.48.222.77 51689] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [80.131.15.67 24122] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [67.8.167.204 52284] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [24.201.154.49 57657] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [82.36.75.76 41765] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [139.91.190.109 4709] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [65.93.139.84 56670] >MAP 172.16.64.1613432 <- -> 195.74.141.61 5132 [210.221.94.233 5387] The machine running Skype is 172.16.64.16 and Skype's Options->Connections property page shows 13432 as the port number. I presume 5132 is the translated port number. Looks pretty consistent to me. So it was a red herring and I'll have to look elsewhere. jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: imapd problem.
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:59 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote: > I have problem with imapd. I can't start dovecot 'cause it says this: > > -- > koaze# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot > Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use > koaze# I appreciate your choice in IMAP servers. :) > But I don't know what could be using that address. I had cyrus for a > while, but I removed it and ps aux show nothing that could use imapd port. > Only other email app running is postfix as smtp. `ps aux' doesn't show which ports are in use. For that, you should use the most wonderful sockstat(1). Running something like this should show you the "Address already in use" culprit: 'sockstat -4 | egrep ":143\W"' > So. What could be wrong here? Exactly what the error message says: the address is already in use. Trust error messages: they're almost never wrong, especially when they're straight from libc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: imapd problem.
"Perttu Laine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I have problem with imapd. I can't start dovecot 'cause it says this: > > -- > koaze# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot > Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use > koaze# > -- > > But I don't know what could be using that address. I had cyrus for a > while, but I removed it and ps aux show nothing that could use imapd port. > Only other email app running is postfix as smtp. > > So. What could be wrong here? *Something* is holding the port. You can find out what with: sockstat | grep 143 -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I think you're problem is not that you disk is used havely but that you're NIC (rsync kinda does that) is. The warnings you get indicate that you're computer can't get a responce from you're server. It acts normaly as soon as it can. Except, the nfs mount is from the local host to the local host ... Why do you have rsync sync mounted nfs disks? I want to get at the unlying file system ... I have a real file system mounted as /vm, which /vm mounted as /du via nfs ... over top of /vm, I have several unionfs's mounted ... if I did a du of '/vm/dir', where dir is a union mount, I'd see all files on both "layers" ... if I do a du of '/du/dir', I only see the /vm layer ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
would async mount improve IO speed?
File systems used to be mounted with soft-updates(?) option. I disable it with "tunefs -n disable ." and mount all file system with "async" option but I can feel any difference. some said it's dangerous. Does it matter even if I'm not running any heavy load server? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve the problem as well. My bad ... I thought i had mentioned it in the original ... the nfs mount is from local machine to local machine, to do what nullfs normally would provide were I to risk it ... namely, to get at the 'bottom layer' of a unionfs based storage system ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:00:50PM -0700, ALeine wrote: > Hello, > > I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction > printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD > for both printing and scanning. > > The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my needs in terms of > quality and price range, so if you have any experience using this > or some other device along those lines under FreeBSD please let me > know, any feedback will be greatly appreciated. For infromation on supported printers, I suggest looking at http://www.linuxprinting.org/. Canons multifunction devices are not recommended. Not only do they not support Unix, they also don't support MacOS. HP actually provides linux support for their products. I haven't tried hooking my OfficeJet 6110 up to a BSD machine yet, but I think it should work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 pgpSNOWtXtHSZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
DRDB ... similar available for FreeBSD?
Does anyone know of anything similar to http://www.drbd.org/ that works under FreeBSD? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
INDEX* in /usr/ports
What different in this files?! I see the different package versions, but what naything else? For FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x different package organization? Why? Best regards, Tarc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Convert WMV to AVI, MOV or ASF format
I need a program to convert WMV video files to either AVI, MOV or ASF format. Could someone supply me with a good recommendation for one? Thanks Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q. If your wife keeps coming out of the kitchen to nag you, what have you done wrong? A. Made her chain too long. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: would async mount improve IO speed?
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:34:15AM -0400, Rae wrote: > File systems used to be mounted with soft-updates(?) option. > I disable it with "tunefs -n disable ." and mount all file system > with "async" option but I can feel any difference. > some said it's dangerous. Does it matter even if I'm not running any > heavy load server? async (as well as soft-updates) only improve performance when writing to the disk. Reading from the file system will not be affected by either. "async" can be dangerous, yes. If the computer crashes, or is otherwise not properly shutdown, then you risk losing a *lot* of data from an async filesystem, as well as risking leaving the filesystem in an inconsistent state. "async" should only be used for filesystems where both the following holds true: 1) The system makes a lot of writes to the filesystem. (Otherwise there is very little performance gain to be obtained from "async".) 2) Losing all the data on the filesystem is not a big problem. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: imapd problem.
Here's my message to the mailing list too. For some reason my mailer replied to the person who replied and not to the mailing list even tho I tried to do that. :) Damn webmails.. > 'sockstat -4 | egrep ":143\W"' -cut- root inetd 531 8 tcp4 *:143 *:* -cut- So. it's inetd. Now the question is why 'cause only ssh is not commented in inetd.conf (or then I should re-check it few times). And how I can stop that one? Regards, Perttu Laine ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: would async mount improve IO speed?
Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > File systems used to be mounted with soft-updates(?) option. > I disable it with "tunefs -n disable ." and mount all file system > with "async" option but I can feel any difference. > some said it's dangerous. Does it matter even if I'm not running any > heavy load server? Async greatly increases the possiblity that a hard crash (i.e. power outage) will corrupt the disk such that it will be impossible to repair the filesystem, or that data will be corrupted or lost. If you have perfect power, and you can be 100% sure that your system will never hard boot, then there is no danger in async. Softupdates has 90% of the performance of async, with 90% of the safety of sync. This is why you won't see a big performance improvement unless you specifically test for it. Since softupdates is so fast, I can see only a few edge cases where it makes sense to use async. -- 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: imapd problem.
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 17:40 +0300, Perttu Laine wrote: > > 'sockstat -4 | egrep ":143\W"' > > -cut- > root inetd 531 8 tcp4 *:143 *:* > -cut- > > So. it's inetd. Now the question is why 'cause only ssh is not commented > in inetd.conf (or then I should re-check it few times). > And how I can stop that one? Something running under the name of 'inetd' is binding to port 143 on all inet4 addresses. Either that, or there's a bug in sockstat or the kernel structures that it manipulates, though I've not seen mention of that anywhere. Maybe it's an old instance of inetd from a changed configuration? Perhaps you changed its configuration but forgot to restart it? Trust your tools, for you are lost without them. By the way, please remember to CC the list when responding to people. That way, your responses get archived for all to see years from now when they have the same or similar problems. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: imapd problem.
> Something running under the name of 'inetd' is binding to port 143 on > all inet4 addresses. Either that, or there's a bug in sockstat or the > kernel structures that it manipulates, though I've not seen mention of > that anywhere. Maybe it's an old instance of inetd from a changed > configuration? Perhaps you changed its configuration but forgot to > restart it? Funny. "killall -HUP inetd" helped. I didn't even need to do changes in inetd.conf. I should've just tried to restart it instead of checking config. No idea what I've been doing. Too much vodka perhaps - I'm from Finland you know. ;P Regards, Perttu Laine ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
/usr is growing and growing
uname -a:
FreeBSD serve.TechServSys.com 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14
21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
This box is a web server only. The web files are on their own filesystem which is at
8% utilization.
I have watched the /usr file system grow from about 69% utilization to 85% utilization
over 2 years and can not figure out what is taking the space. Doing a find . -mtime
-2 -print yields no files modified.
A find . -size +2000 -print yields only expected files.
Would someone be kind enough to give me suggestions as to what is using up the space
and/or how to find out ?
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bill
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Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: > > > What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you > > notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? > > You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve > > the problem as well. > > My bad ... I thought i had mentioned it in the original ... the nfs mount > is from local machine to local machine, to do what nullfs normally would > provide were I to risk it ... namely, to get at the 'bottom layer' of a > unionfs based storage system ... Well ... that's just weird. I guess the same problem could apply: if the loopback slows down when the kernel is loaded, it could cause the same effect. Have you tried forcing TCP mounts? IIRC, that's what solved the problem for me. -- 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: Downloading FreeBSD
On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD > > > distributions? > > > > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that > > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere? > The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone > would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the > FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load > (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who > wish to help seed the torrent. It would obviously be a bigger help > around the time when new versions come out and the servers are being > hammered. Please don't use top-posting :-/ Especially when part of the thread is already using bottom-posting. I'm asking because I don't know: a) What a bittorrent tracker is. b) What it takes to install and set up one. c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup? Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth". The next logical question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"? > I'm not sure if that explanation was clear or not but it seems obvious > to me what the bonuses would be. Not very, but I've seen BitTorrent being mentioned quite a few times in the past. I'm asking what it is, why one would use it, how it would be set up in order to learn more about BitTorrent. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: /usr is growing and growing
bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > uname -a: > > FreeBSD serve.TechServSys.com 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 > 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > This box is a web server only. The web files are on their own filesystem > which is at 8% utilization. > > I have watched the /usr file system grow from about 69% utilization to > 85% utilization over 2 years and can not figure out what is taking the > space. Doing a find . -mtime -2 -print yields no files modified. > A find . -size +2000 -print yields only expected files. > > Would someone be kind enough to give me suggestions as to what is using > up the space and/or how to find out ? [Please wrap you lines around 72 chars: see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html ] I don't have a guess as to the specific problem. I assume you've checked to see where your web server is logging to, and ensured that you're managing it. When I have problems like this, I start with: du -hd1 /usr Then I look at directory sizes, and possibly narrow it down more: du -hd1 /usr/local ... etc. ... until I've located the large files on the filesystem. I can then usually determine what is causing those large files. If I had to make a guess ... I would suspect that something is logging to /usr somewhere, without you realizing it. But I can only guess. -- 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: Convert WMV to AVI, MOV or ASF format
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I need a program to convert WMV video files to either AVI, MOV or ASF > format. Could someone supply me with a good recommendation for one? Try mencoder .It's part of the mplayer port. Fer ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: DRDB ... similar available for FreeBSD?
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:38:49AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Does anyone know of anything similar to http://www.drbd.org/ that works > under FreeBSD? GEOM Gate by Pawel Dawidek. It comes with the system, assuming you're running recent 5.x or 6.0: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/026768.html Man pages ggatel(8), ggatec(8), ggated(8) 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 pgpykStdldWZ4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /usr is growing and growing
Hi Bill, On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:01:16 -0400 UTC (10/5/2004, 10:01 AM -0500 UTC my time), bill in part wrote: b> I have watched the /usr file system grow from about 69% utilization b> to 85% utilization over 2 years and can not figure out what is taking the b> space. b> Would someone be kind enough to give me suggestions as to what is b> using up the space and/or how to find out ? try man du for finding out where file system block usage is being used. -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: INDEX* in /usr/ports
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:38:57PM +, Tarc wrote: > What different in this files?! I see the different package versions, but what > naything else? > For FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x different package organization? Why? The dependencies for many ports are different between 4.x and 5.x, which is why there are two different INDEX files generated. The different depencies are mostly due to: - the standard system compiler being gcc-3.4.x in FreeBSD-5.x and gcc-2.95.4 under FreeBSD-4.x: gcc-3.4.x is much stricter about C++ syntax and not entirely code compatible with gcc-2.95.4, so there's quite a few ports that depend on installing one of the gcc ports in order to compile under 4.x - changes in the threading support between 4.x and 5.x - various ports that only work under 5.x or that only work under 4.x, usually related to one or both of the previous points 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 pgpzdRwA3ZJ7N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed
On Tuesday, October 05, 2004, at 00:51AM, ALeine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction >printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD >for both printing and scanning. > >The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my needs in terms of >quality and price range, so if you have any experience using this >or some other device along those lines under FreeBSD please let me >know, any feedback will be greatly appreciated. We just got an Canon imageRUNNER C3200 at work and have been severely disappointed by the color print speed. On average, it takes about two minutes to process each page. Our old Xerox Phaser 860N is much faster. On the other hand, it does have CUPS support and can scan to an ftp server (FreeBSD 5.2.1 here), and the scans (scan to PDF) are clear and compact. However, we mainly got it to do black and white copying and color printing, so the abysmal color print processing speed is problematic at best. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Downloading FreeBSD
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for > > > > FreeBSD distributions? > > > > > > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that > > > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere? > > > > The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone > > would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the > > FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load > I'm asking because I don't know: > > a) What a bittorrent tracker is. > b) What it takes to install and set up one. > c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup? > > Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth". The next logical > question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"? snip > I've seen BitTorrent being mentioned quite a few times in > the past. I'm asking what it is, why one would use it, how it would be > set up in order to learn more about BitTorrent. Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the picture therefore reducing congestion. It's in ports. I use: /usr/ports/net/py-bittornado home page: http://bittornado.com/ When you seed a torrent, you make your file, whether it is an iso, text etc available to the bittorrent community. Most bittorrent clients will do this for you. If you do not seed a torrent. it will not be available to the bittorrent comunity even though the isos are on your machine. Other p2p networks don't require this tagging and so any files that you wish to share are available to the p2p users. The reduction in pressure on the servers would hold true for any of the p2p networks I have the 5.2.1. isos on my box, and accessible to the peer networks, but as yet have never noticed anyone downloading them. Once I move to 5.3 I could seed it and we can see whether it is picked up. I don't think there is any real reason to seed 5.2.1. .nbco ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve the problem as well. My bad ... I thought i had mentioned it in the original ... the nfs mount is from local machine to local machine, to do what nullfs normally would provide were I to risk it ... namely, to get at the 'bottom layer' of a unionfs based storage system ... Well ... that's just weird. I guess the same problem could apply: if the loopback slows down when the kernel is loaded, it could cause the same effect. Have you tried forcing TCP mounts? IIRC, that's what solved the problem for me. Haven't tried yet, but will ... thanks :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
I would expect they are running 4.x, but does anyone know if they have migrated any production boxes to 5.x? Are they contributing any code to either branch? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I would expect they are running 4.x, but does anyone know if they have > migrated any production boxes to 5.x? Are they contributing any code to > either branch? Yes, a number of committers work for Yahoo. kris pgpwOBwad7reb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Thanks to Bill Moran
Bill gave an excellent presentation on stopping unwanted email at last week's Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus. You can see it at: http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/index.php It was very informative, and I think everyone can get something out of this. Thanks again Bill! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to > > > CD and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard > > > Drive checks out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard > > > drive and boot the hard drive. > > > > > > Is that possible? What man pages and/or web pages should I read > > > to make it happen? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Cristobal > > > > > > Well, you could certainly mount the harddisk partitions somewhere in > > the filesystem while running under the CDROM booted kernel. > > However, I seriously doubt if you could change the running kernel to > > that from the harddisk. Why not just reboot to the harddisk after > > you have finished your diagnostics with the CDROM? > > > > Nathan > > > > > > Thanks for the response! > > I would like to have it completely automated: > > The machine goes down at 4am for the check and boots to cd, then the cd > controls the hand-off to the hard drive. I'd like to have the BIOS > setup to only boot the cd and if the HD checks out ok, boot up the HD. > That way there is a slim chance that any security breach will last > beyond one night on my machine. I seriously doubt a security breach > will occur, but I want to close every door imaginable. > > Anything else that could be done? > > Thx > -C > What is the reason that you find it necessary to reboot the machine to a CDROM every morning? Are you sure that there isn't a way to run your checks while booted to the harddisk? I am fairly sure that you will never find a way to have the BIOS selectively boot either the CDROM or the HD based on some OS specific factor, such as a successful check of the HD. I have a feeling that there may be a better way to accomplish your goal without a reboot to CDROM every morning. Will you tell the list more about what you are trying to accompish? Nathan -- PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49 pgpkWgiEpzyNN.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD
Seems you could just mount all the filesystems but /var and /tmp as readonly, set secure level to max, dump all logs to a new log daily, start a new log and do checks on the old logs. That would be my route. Or run a diskless server, or even a live cd of the setup install. > -Original Message- > From: Nathan Kinkade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 6:13 PM > To: Cristobal Miguelo > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal > Miguelo wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want > to boot to > > > > CD and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard > > > > Drive checks out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard > > > > drive and boot the hard drive. > > > > > > > > Is that possible? What man pages and/or web pages > should I read > > > > to make it happen? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Cristobal > > > > > > > > > Well, you could certainly mount the harddisk partitions > somewhere in > > > the filesystem while running under the CDROM booted kernel. > > > However, I seriously doubt if you could change the > running kernel to > > > that from the harddisk. Why not just reboot to the harddisk after > > > you have finished your diagnostics with the CDROM? > > > > > > Nathan > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the response! > > > > I would like to have it completely automated: > > > > The machine goes down at 4am for the check and boots to cd, > then the cd > > controls the hand-off to the hard drive. I'd like to have the BIOS > > setup to only boot the cd and if the HD checks out ok, boot > up the HD. > > That way there is a slim chance that any security breach will last > > beyond one night on my machine. I seriously doubt a security breach > > will occur, but I want to close every door imaginable. > > > > Anything else that could be done? > > > > Thx > > -C > > > > What is the reason that you find it necessary to reboot the > machine to a > CDROM every morning? Are you sure that there isn't a way to run your > checks while booted to the harddisk? I am fairly sure that you will > never find a way to have the BIOS selectively boot either the CDROM or > the HD based on some OS specific factor, such as a successful check of > the HD. I have a feeling that there may be a better way to accomplish > your goal without a reboot to CDROM every morning. Will you tell the > list more about what you are trying to accompish? > > Nathan > -- > PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49 > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
shell script
i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and so on anyone have any suggestions ? -- Brent Bailey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
shell script
i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and so on anyone have any suggestions ? -- Brent Bailey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:12:49 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to have it completely automated: > > > > The machine goes down at 4am for the check and boots to cd, then the cd > > controls the hand-off to the hard drive. I'd like to have the BIOS > > setup to only boot the cd and if the HD checks out ok, boot up the HD. > > That way there is a slim chance that any security breach will last > > beyond one night on my machine. I seriously doubt a security breach > > will occur, but I want to close every door imaginable. > > > > Anything else that could be done? > > > > Thx > > -C > > > > What is the reason that you find it necessary to reboot the machine to a > CDROM every morning? Are you sure that there isn't a way to run your > checks while booted to the harddisk? I am fairly sure that you will > never find a way to have the BIOS selectively boot either the CDROM or > the HD based on some OS specific factor, such as a successful check of > the HD. I have a feeling that there may be a better way to accomplish > your goal without a reboot to CDROM every morning. Will you tell the > list more about what you are trying to accompish? > > Nathan Since the code that checks the HD is on a CD, it is unlikely to be compromised. Any check in the running OS could be compromised, which the poster wants to avoid. Also, the BIOS will not be selectively booting to CD or HD, it will only boot to the CD. The CD-based check of the HD will be booting the disk if it checks out okay. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
PHP Upgrade
Hi, I have installed mod_php4 & php4-session using ports in my FreeBSD 5.2.1. Now I want to upgrade to mod_php5 & php5_session... How can I do it? Can I directly use the ports or do I need to uninstalled the current versions first or anything? Pls help me out thanks, digish ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: INDEX* in /usr/ports
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:29:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:38:57PM +, Tarc wrote: > > What different in this files?! I see the different package versions, but what > > naything else? > > For FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x different package organization? Why? > > The dependencies for many ports are different between 4.x and 5.x, > which is why there are two different INDEX files generated. > > The different depencies are mostly due to: > > - the standard system compiler being gcc-3.4.x in FreeBSD-5.x and > gcc-2.95.4 under FreeBSD-4.x: gcc-3.4.x is much stricter about > C++ syntax and not entirely code compatible with gcc-2.95.4, so > there's quite a few ports that depend on installing one of the > gcc ports in order to compile under 4.x > Note, that standart system compiller in FreeBSD RELENG_5_2 is gcc-3.3.3 > - changes in the threading support between 4.x and 5.x > > - various ports that only work under 5.x or that only work under > 4.x, usually related to one or both of the previous points > > 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 But why many ports differ between together only by version or revision number? and in dependenses of them stay different versions. How make(1) check this difference? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: shell script
> > i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file > and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the > passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and > so on Use Perl or similar. It will be right up its alley. jerry > > anyone have any suggestions ? > -- > Brent Bailey > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Thanks to Bill Moran
"Theodore K. Milbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill gave an excellent presentation on stopping unwanted email at last > week's Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus. > You can see it at: http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/index.php > It was very informative, and I think everyone can get something out of this. > Thanks again Bill! Thanks :) I'm glad the information is helpful. I want to point out that FreeBSD's very own Tom Rhodes led a FreeBSD BOF discussion after lunch that was well attended and well received. So consider heading out to Ohio Linuxfest next year if you can make it, as there seemed to be a pretty strong BSD showing. http://www.ohiolinux.org -- 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]"
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Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:32:50AM -0700, Peter Giessel wrote: > On Tuesday, October 05, 2004, at 00:51AM, ALeine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction > >printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD > >for both printing and scanning. > > > >The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my needs in terms of > >quality and price range, so if you have any experience using this > >or some other device along those lines under FreeBSD please let me > >know, any feedback will be greatly appreciated. > > We just got an Canon imageRUNNER C3200 at work and have been > severely disappointed by the color print speed. On average, > it takes about two minutes to process each page. Our old > Xerox Phaser 860N is much faster. > > On the other hand, it does have CUPS support and can scan > to an ftp server (FreeBSD 5.2.1 here), and the scans > (scan to PDF) are clear and compact. > > However, we mainly got it to do black and white copying and > color printing, so the abysmal color print processing speed > is problematic at best. Just so no one gets screwed, the Cacon multifunction devices are entierly different beasts from the regular printers. I can't find the refrence at the moment, but I looked at them when I was shopping for a new multifunction printer and they were rated as paperweights. :-( -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 pgpRUoAUOf7dE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:27:54PM -0400, Theodore K. Milbaugh wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:12:49 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I would like to have it completely automated: > > > > > > The machine goes down at 4am for the check and boots to cd, then the cd > > > controls the hand-off to the hard drive. I'd like to have the BIOS > > > setup to only boot the cd and if the HD checks out ok, boot up the HD. > > > That way there is a slim chance that any security breach will last > > > beyond one night on my machine. I seriously doubt a security breach > > > will occur, but I want to close every door imaginable. > > > > > > Anything else that could be done? > > > > > > Thx > > > -C > > > > > > > What is the reason that you find it necessary to reboot the machine to a > > CDROM every morning? Are you sure that there isn't a way to run your > > checks while booted to the harddisk? I am fairly sure that you will > > never find a way to have the BIOS selectively boot either the CDROM or > > the HD based on some OS specific factor, such as a successful check of > > the HD. I have a feeling that there may be a better way to accomplish > > your goal without a reboot to CDROM every morning. Will you tell the > > list more about what you are trying to accompish? > > > > Nathan > > Since the code that checks the HD is on a CD, it is unlikely to be > compromised. Any check in the running OS could be compromised, which > the poster wants to avoid. > Also, the BIOS will not be selectively booting to CD or HD, it will > only boot to the CD. The CD-based check of the HD will be booting the > disk if it checks out okay. > This still doesn't fully make sense to me. It seems to me that this is looking at security from the wrong direction. It is certainly a good thing to think about how one can mitigate the actions of a cracker after they have already got into the system. However, it seems like a better initial approach to focus on keeping crackers out in the first place, thereby obviating the need to go to extreme measures to avoid alterations to a file on the disk. As was already suggested, I would focus on keeping people out, and then use tools such securelevels, read-only mounted files systems and the like to help protect the system should someone happen to get in. Regarding booting to the CDROM or HD, I'm not sure I understand the difference between what you are saying and what I said in my previous reply. How can the CDROM "boot" the machine to the HD? If the machine reboots the BIOS will take control and boot the machine according to it's device priority. If there is a bootable CD in the CDROM device, and the BIOS is set to boot to the CDROM first, how can the machine be made to boot the HD prior to the CDROM? The only possible way I can think of would be to have the CDROM booted OS eject the CDROM tray before reboot, then have the HD booted OS close the CDROM tray again. Nathan -- PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49 pgpjOSDl76Pc8.pgp Description: PGP signature
reverse ssh
Quick Question~ I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I don't control. I also have a BSD box (work) with a static IP sitting on my university's network. Is there a way to open a ssh/other connection before I leave for work in the morning (from the home box to the work box), then travel to the university, sit at my desk and use this connection to get a terminal on my home machine? Is there any software out there that addresses this? Ideally it would involve ssh. Thanks in advance for any responses, ~Micah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: EAL ?
Stiven wrote: What is the "Evaluation Assurance Level" have FreeBSD ? FreeBSD is EAL 24. Seriously ;-) If you try to haXor with v5.3, it sends 220 Volts/50A current to your console via TCP/IP. B^) Actually, this might shed a little light: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2003-August/000733.html Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:22:47 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding booting to the CDROM or HD, I'm not sure I understand the > difference between what you are saying and what I said in my previous > reply. How can the CDROM "boot" the machine to the HD? If the machine > reboots the BIOS will take control and boot the machine according to > it's device priority. If there is a bootable CD in the CDROM device, > and the BIOS is set to boot to the CDROM first, how can the machine be > made to boot the HD prior to the CDROM? The only possible way I can > think of would be to have the CDROM booted OS eject the CDROM tray > before reboot, then have the HD booted OS close the CDROM tray again. > > Nathan The code on the CD can load the bootloader code from the HD, and execute it. I know it is possible, because if you boot off of the SuSE 9.1 Installation CD, it has an option to boot to the HD, and it does work. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: reverse ssh
Micah Bushouse wrote: Thanks in advance for any responses, ~Micah You could write a script that sends an email to you every morning which contains your IP-address. *Encrypted*, of course!!! Such a thing could easily be done in Perl or even in shell. Kind regards, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: /usr is growing and growing
How long has this server been up? Does it have softupdates enabled?
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:01:16 -0400, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> uname -a:
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> FreeBSD serve.TechServSys.com 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14
> 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
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> This box is a web server only. The web files are on their own filesystem which is
> at 8% utilization.
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> I have watched the /usr file system grow from about 69% utilization to 85%
> utilization over 2 years and can not figure out what is taking the space. Doing a
> find . -mtime -2 -print yields no files modified.
> A find . -size +2000 -print yields only expected files.
>
> Would someone be kind enough to give me suggestions as to what is using up the space
> and/or how to find out ?
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Re: namp usage ? (bug?)
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, stan wrote: I'm trying to use nmap to check for all hosts that are up on a subnet. I'm using this syntax: nmap -sP 170.85.113.0/25 Bit, I'm getting the follwing error messge; Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-10-05 07:22 EDT sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0, 170.85.113.0, 16) => Can't assign requested addres Here's the approriate NIC config: fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 170.85.113.56 netmask 0xff80 broadcast 170.85.113.127 ether 00:01:fa:ff:fa:bc media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active Am I using this incorectly? Yes I'm loged in as root, when I try this. I't on FreeBSD STABLE built a couple of weeks ago. Well, I had this with nmap 3.50, too. Upgrading to a later version of nmap solved that problem. I am running nmap 3.70. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: DRDB ... similar available for FreeBSD?
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:38:49AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Does anyone know of anything similar to http://www.drbd.org/ that works under FreeBSD? GEOM Gate by Pawel Dawidek. It comes with the system, assuming you're running recent 5.x or 6.0: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/026768.html Man pages ggatel(8), ggatec(8), ggated(8) Cheers, Matthew 'k, this looks sweet ... are there any better docs for it though? For instance, if I have two 5.x servers, and want to replicate serverA:/fs1 -> serverB:/fs1, from what I can tell, I setup/startup ggated on serverA, and serverB is setup with ggatec to "pull" that data across ... correct? Now, how do you get serverB:/fs1 in sync with serverA:/fs1 in the first place? Is there an 'initialize' function that will have ggatec pull everything across? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mail server questions (SMTP Auth, Imap and virtual domains)
> From: Wayne Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2. Setup a webmail solution. I'm currently using Squirrelmail for users > that exist in /etc/passwd (not very many!), and am considering a > migration to Horde/IMP. Near as I can tell though it's not the webmail > client that matters, but the imap server. Does anyone know of an imap > server that will do 'virtual mailboxes' like vm-pop3d does ? I'm using Cyrus IMAPD as IMAP backend for my Horde/IMP installation. Cyrus has its own userbase so you don't need to create UNIX users for all the mail users. I guess that's what vm-pop3d means by 'virtual mailboxes'. It's been working mostly fine since 2001. Only thing to watch out for is upgrades of the db3 package if you use sasldb authentication (one of many possible authentication methods in Cyrus). I've been bitten a couple of times when db3 got portupgraded as a dependency of 'something' and Cyrus was unable to read it's authentication database which was created with previous version of db3. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * RUNTIME ERROR 6D at 417A:32CF : Incompetent user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD schedulers (was: Re: FreeBSD)
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:59:27AM -0300, Rafa Teixeira wrote: > I'm from Brasil and I would like to know what kind of scheduling > FreeBSD uses. Hi Rafa, you may want to read Chapter 4 (Process Management), pages 99-108 of: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil Addison-Wesley Pearson. ISBN 0-201-70245-2 Fortunately for you, Chapter 4 also happens to be the online demo chapter for this book. You may find it here: http://www.awprofessional.com/content/images/0201702452/samplechapter/mckusick_ch04.pdf In a nutshell: FreeBSD (5.x) can use two schedulers, the old SCHED_4BSD and the new, but still somewhat experimental SCHED_ULE. You can find the source code here: /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c If you don't have the sources available, feel free to use cvsweb: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c Cheers, 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]"
Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:57, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-04 21:54, Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I developed a few rules and techniques for keeping the interest: > > > > 1. Avoid doing the same thing over and over again. > > 2. Do bigger projects as well as some playful experimenting. > > 3. Don't use closed-source (or commercial) software. I don't know how you > >react to it, but the "closed" look and feel really puts me off. > > 4. If it's running well, don't interrupt it. Unless you feel you're > > hitting the wall, don't take a break while solving a complex problem. 5. > > Keep one style for one session. If you're into multiple things that have > > to do with computers, don't mix them up. Especially don't mix high-level > > and low-level activities. For example, don't do Javascript programming > > (or webdesign in general), complex image editing or maybe even 3D > > modelling on the console with a CLI. On the other hand, don't do ASM > > programming in a graphical IDE, use vi instead. If you do the dirtiest > > lowest-level hacks, you may be well advised to even use TECO, or some > > other editor which is really hard to use. > > I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but > important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in > console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ > and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor that can easily be > adopted to editing plain text email messages, theses in LaTeX, or even to > browse the source code of an operating system... why would you want to > torture yourself with a strange, difficult to use editor? I'm really glad that I never got in touch with Slowlaris. IMHO there's just nothing like vi on FreeBSD, the best editor running on the best OS. Well, I already said that these are NOT rules for increased productivity. If emacs works well for you, then use it. If your interest is not fading, then you're already doing everything the right way. But for some people, including me, programming can quickly become work rather than fun. The above rules always helped to keep me interested. A little torture can be fun too. *g* Of course, I don't always do that. But when I feel that I like watching TV more than playing with ASM, I quickly switch to the monochrome terminal emulator, deactivate the mouse, emulate the destructive hardware cursor, pull out a primitive hexeditor (or TECO) and enter raw x86 opcodes. When I'm in a particularly bad mood, I might also pull out the Commodore64 emulator. On the other hand, I can also create beautiful and complex 3D scenes in a full-blown GUI with really high-level features, which is also fun. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Why is data linked to data-dist
Greetings, I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind this ? Thanks, LB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why is data linked to data-dist
LB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was > wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data > to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating > /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind > this ? This reduces the possibility of people losing their data during an upgrade. If you portupgrade (or use any other system) to upgrade to a newer version of Apache, data-dist will be overwritten with the new documentation that comes with the new version of Apache. data will not be touched. As a result, if you left data as a symlink to data-dist, it still works and shows you the most updated documentation. However, if relink data to a different directory, or replace the symlink with a real directory with your site in it, the upgrade doesn't obliterate your data. -- 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]"
FTP Proxies and Installing Ports
Hello,
What form does the FTP_PROXY shell variable need to take to work with fetch,
so that I can install ports through an FTP proxy server?
Andi L. Bigelow
Dyncorp EOS - Network Engineering Group
bigelowa{at}sec{dot}gov
(202) 942-4368
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PEAR in freebsd
Hey, How can I install PEAR Package for PHP using ports in FreeBSD 5.2.1?? Please reply asap digish ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why is data linked to data-dist
LB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was > wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data > to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating > /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind > this ? This reduces the possibility of people losing their data during an upgrade. If you portupgrade (or use any other system) to upgrade to a newer version of Apache, data-dist will be overwritten with the new documentation that comes with the new version of Apache. data will not be touched. As a result, if you left data as a symlink to data-dist, it still works and shows you the most updated documentation. However, if relink data to a different directory, or replace the symlink with a real directory with your site in it, the upgrade doesn't obliterate your data. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why is data linked to data-dist
At 20:47 5-10-2004, you wrote: LB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was > wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data > to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating > /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind > this ? Sorry about the double post. I resent wrong email. My bad But what I was supposed to post: Sounds like a good idea. So deleting the symlink and creating a real data directory would mean I have to physically copy any new version of web apps installed by ports if they're upgraded by portupgrade ? LB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: PEAR in freebsd
Hello digish, Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 8:46:49 PM, you wrote: > Hey, > How can I install PEAR Package for PHP using ports in FreeBSD 5.2.1?? install /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions and check what you need. > Please reply asap > digish -- Best regards +--==/\/\==--+ | DanGer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ261701668 | | http://danger.homeunix.org | +--==\/\/==--+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why is data linked to data-dist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 20:47 5-10-2004, you wrote: > > LB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was > > wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data > > to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating > > /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind > > this ? > > Sorry about the double post. I resent wrong email. My bad > > But what I was supposed to post: > > Sounds like a good idea. So deleting the symlink and creating a real data > directory would mean I have to physically copy any new version of web apps > installed by ports if they're upgraded by portupgrade ? Not if they're well done ports. Most web apps, when installed from the ports, do not install in that data directory. Instead, they are installed in /usr/local/www/, and the necessary configurations are put in place to make them accessible. (usually Apache-based symlinks ... I forget what the directive in Apache is called). Anyway, this protects the data you generate in the same way. -- 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]"
Problems updateing local cvsup mirrors
I haven't updated my machines in quite a while (a month or 2) and today I needed to do so. But when I looked I realized that both machines (at home, and at work) were no longer updateing. I'm getting erors like this in the logs: CVSup update begins at 2004-10-05 06:17:00 Updating from cvsup11.freebsd.org Cannot connect to cvsup11.freebsd.org: Connection refused CVSup update ends at 2004-10-05 06:18:15 And fastest_cvsup, also fails to connect to any (tried us) machines. Has something changed here? And if so, how can I get back in synch to get this working? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: reverse ssh
[ please don't loose context ] On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:45:38 +0200 Benjamin Walkenhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Bushouse wrote: > > > I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network > > (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I don't control. I also have a BSD box (work) > > with a static IP sitting on my university's network. > > > > Is there a way to open a ssh/other connection before I leave for work in > > the morning (from the home box to the work box), then travel to the > > university, sit at my desk and use this connection to get a terminal on > > my home machine? Is there any software out there that addresses this? > > Ideally it would involve ssh. > > You could write a script that sends an email to you every morning > which contains your IP-address. *Encrypted*, of course!!! Since he's home machine is behind a NAT at what would knowing its (private) ip serve? -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems updateing local cvsup mirrors
On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:43 PM, stan wrote: CVSup update begins at 2004-10-05 06:17:00 Updating from cvsup11.freebsd.org Cannot connect to cvsup11.freebsd.org: Connection refused CVSup update ends at 2004-10-05 06:18:15 cvs11 seems to be having problems; try using another machine. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Question about Installation --
Hello, I'm not sure if this is going to the right place, but hopefully you can help. I am a new user and I want to set up FreeBSD on a server. I'm just testing it on a server with a Pentium 233, 128MB RAM. The boot loader finds all of my devices, but when it gets to "cpu(0) on motherboard", the system just hangs. I cannot get to any installation options, or even to a command prompt. I have searched through the website, but I am unable to find anything that might help me. I have tried turning off "Plug-N-Play OS" in my CMOS settings, but that was also unsuccessful. Anywhere I can be directed for help would be great! Thank you, Vincent DeFabis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: reverse ssh
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:45 pm, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > [ please don't loose context ] > > On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:45:38 +0200 > > Benjamin Walkenhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Micah Bushouse wrote: > > > I have a BSD box (home) sitting on an apartment complex network > > > (dhcp/nat/firewall) that I don't control. I also have a BSD box > > > (work) with a static IP sitting on my university's network. > > > > > > Is there a way to open a ssh/other connection before I leave for > > > work in the morning (from the home box to the work box), then > > > travel to the university, sit at my desk and use this connection > > > to get a terminal on my home machine? Is there any software out > > > there that addresses this? Ideally it would involve ssh. > > > > You could write a script that sends an email to you every morning > > which contains your IP-address. *Encrypted*, of course!!! > > Since he's home machine is behind a NAT at what would knowing its > (private) ip serve? Wouldn't a vpn connection work? Then use ssh across the vpn. Of course, that assumes authorization on the university network. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed
Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HP actually provides linux support for their products. I http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/index.php -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Downloading FreeBSD
nbco wrote: Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the picture therefore reducing congestion. It's in ports. I use: /usr/ports/net/py-bittornado home page: http://bittornado.com/ [...] Once I move to 5.3 I could seed it and we can see whether it is picked up. I don't think there is any real reason to seed 5.2.1. If it offers the kind of performance edonkey offers, I won't use it. Unless the server were in real trouble when a new release comes out. But then again, there are lots of mirrors. Where I live (Germany), I usually get 180 kb./sec and more from a local mirror. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. P2P could be a very powerful tool for distributing free software, documentation, patches... On the other hand security comes to mind. But wait, you can still get your checksums from the server. But for anything you get from a source as trustworthy as a P2P network, you *want* to use checksums. =) ..nbco Kind regards, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
