date:20050504


There is a better description of using 'user ppp' to do what you
want in this Install guide.

http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/fbsd_installguide/index.php


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Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PPP


Hallo:

We want to use a machine with FreeBSD and PPP over Modems. Is it
possible to
configure PPP in that way, that it supports client/server on one
machine.
That means we want to dial in to that machine and also to dialout on
demand
on that machine. In both cases we have the same partner (with same
IP-address and CHAP-name).

In your online-description i only found client or
server-configurations.

Regards
Thomas Pipek
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Re: Can't play CD / mount CDROM

2005-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister

 
 Hey Toomas,
 In followup to my prev. reply and your question.
 Here is the output of the command: 'grep acd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot'
 acd0: CDROM Compaq CRD-8322B/1.03 at ata0-slave PIO4
 
 Thanks.
 PS: Kent, your suggestion is what I have already tried ...I've tried to 
 'umount /cdrom' it doesn't do anything since BSD cannot find it... when 
 I go in /dev I do not see /cdrom there is only acd0, However when I try 
 mkdir cdrom under /dev it says it already exists...? ls -a doesn't show 
 anything. The intelligence behind the O/S is what amazes me...lol

I haven't been following this thread so I may be jumping in out of
order, but a comment on this post.

You would not do a mkdir of anything in /dev.   
That directory is a special one for devices.   acd0 is a device,
for example.   You want to mount this device to a mount point.
To make a /cdrom mount mount, 
you would probably want to do mkdir cdrom in root, eg.
   cd /
   mkdir cdrom

Then do something like mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom
or probably more like:

   mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom

But, that is for looking at files in a file system way.
Probably, for sound, you don't want to mount the cd at all.
I had sound in a FreeBSD 3.xxx a long time ago, but haven't
bothered in several years with more recent version.   So things
may well have changed.

I believe you do still need to have your kernel built with 'device  snd'.
Check in:  /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
or its 5.xxx equivalent (I don't have a 5.xxx handy at the moment to look at).

jerry

 
 From: Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Michael Neeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Can't play  CD / mount CDROM
 Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 23:23:13 +0300
 
 Hi Michael!
 
 I was hoping someone can give you a more definite answer, but it seems 
 no-one knowledgeable has responded, so here are my comments, worth exactly 
 what you paid for them :)
 
 I've been trying since the past couple of days to get my sound back... it 
 all started when I followed the steps from the manual in setting up 
 statically sound drivers for my old Compaq DeskPro EN series...for FreeBSD 
 5.3. I included the snd_sbc driver, since when I kldload snd_driver it 
 comes up as ESS 1869 in my kernel file (MYKERNEL).. I also included the 
 line device sound in the MYKERNEL (customized kernel Chp. 7) for some 
 reason it doesn't work when I want to run mpg123...
 
 The above stuff seems roughly correct. That's how I built sound into kernel 
 on my home PC, but I'm not at that PC now so I can't check my kernel 
 config.
 
 What do you mean by it doesn't work? Do you get an error message? Or 
 simply nothing happens? In the latter case, check your mixer settings, 
 speaker volume knob and physical connections.
 
 After building sound into kernel, you can also remove the relevant module 
 loading lines from /boot/loader.conf, but I think that even if you left 
 them in it shouldn't prevent sound from working - you would just get an 
 error message saying something to the tune of file already exists, 
 meaning that the functionality for which you are trying to load the module 
 is already included in the kernel.
 
 ...Anyways this is the least of my problems. I now comment the lines: 
 device snd_sbc, device sound recomplie the kernel and keep getting cd9660: 
 device /dev/acd0 Input/Ouput error when I try to mount any of my CDs... 
 (music or data)
 
 You shouldn't try to mount music CDs since they don't contain any 
 filesystem that can be mounted. The error message above is exactly what you 
 get when you try to mount an audio CD. Mounting data CDs should work, 
 though.
 
 Does the command 'grep acd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot' contain any text?
 
 I've tried : mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom and several other 
 combinations :
 mount cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom; mount cd9660; mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 
 /cdrom; mount /cdrom  - still the same thing...
 
 At least *some* of the above commands should work ;-)
 
 I even tried loading my old kernel (GENERIC)  from /boot/kernel.old/kernel 
 (Btw, is this the same as the last recompile of MYKERNE?L... I think I 
 have compiled 3/4 times by now in the hopes that this would work)
 
 Yes, every time you build an install new kernel, the previous kernel is 
 copied to kernel.old and previous kernel.old is wiped out. So it is well 
 possible that you don't even have the original kernel with which things 
 worked on your system any more.
 
 HELP - I'm a newbie... I've got almost everything working with KDE 
 3.3...and now back to this. I was so happy when I could run cdcontrol from 
 the command line and now I'm :o( frustrated !!
 
 One more thing you could try is to get the GENERIC kernel from e.g. 
 installation CDs and boot with that.
 
 --
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 |arvutivõrgu peaspetsialist | head specialist on computer networks|
 |Tartu Linnakantselei   | Tartu City Office   |

RE: Freebsd 4.11 cannot install


Can you boot one of the other systems on that hard drive?  If not
then you have bad cable to HD or HD it self is going bad, so replace
it.


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hello i'm tryin to install freebsd 4.11 without succes.
After configuring my kernel and starting to sysinstall the systems
stops
while detecting hardware in this section (this is the default
message shown)

ad0:Read commad timeout tag=0 serv=0 -resseting
ata0: resetting devices.

i don't know what to do to solve the problem , i know that the
problem come
from my hard drive because i have done several operation on it
(partitions,
ntfs/linux format) but i'm really in trouble i have
succesfully instaledl freebsd 5.2 and 5.3 release with another
partition
that handle winxp .
please help ,
thanks
James Snipes

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Re: fatal trap 12

2005-05-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert

Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi folks.  My gateway has been getting this a few times a day for the 
 past few days.
 
   Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
 
 More detail at http://www.langille.org/tmp/fatal-trap-12.txt
 
 Conversations to date indicate a hardware problem.  Any 
 recommendations/suggestions?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#TRAP-12-PANIC
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Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni

I would love to see a wiki for FreeBSD. I think that it would be
really beneficial for the project. It would take some work to
establish it but if there were enough participants, it could turn into
a very robust documentation project. Some hard work would be required
to make the wiki healthy and to police it but the spirit of a wiki is
many users reviewing each other.

Benjamin Keating wrote:

A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily
include a 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into
reading that one line where it says you have to recompile your kernel
with IPFIREWALL support.

Things like that bring noise to this mailing list. Idon't know about
you but I'd rather just add my new found info to the site rather find
a PR addy, submit it and wait for it to be added. We have software
that does this now. Lets use it! :)

- bpk

On 5/3/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:06PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote:

Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little
more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of
date.

What is out of date?

Generally, if you want to improve something in the handbook, just
submit a PR.

Kris



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Re: fatal trap 12

2005-05-04 Thread Dan Langille

On 4 May 2005 at 9:35, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Hi folks.  My gateway has been getting this a few times a day for the 
  past few days.
  
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
  
  More detail at http://www.langille.org/tmp/fatal-trap-12.txt
  
  Conversations to date indicate a hardware problem.  Any 
  recommendations/suggestions?
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#TRAP-12-PANIC

Thanks!  Perhaps after BSDCan I can get time to do this.

cheers
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Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread MikeM

On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote:

|A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
|Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
|could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily
|include a 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into
|reading that one line where it says you have to recompile your kernel
|with IPFIREWALL support.
|
|Things like that bring noise to this mailing list. Idon't know about
|you but I'd rather just add my new found info to the site rather find
|a PR addy, submit it and wait for it to be added. We have software
|that does this now. Lets use it! :)
 =

When I found a spot in the Handbook that was a bit sparce, I send in an
email describing what I was looking for, what I found, and what i expected
to find.  The Handbook was updated within a few days, and the update was
much better than what I could have written.


Maybe a wiki would supplement the Handbook, rather than replace it.





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Re: FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem

2005-05-04 Thread Randy Dawson

The new driver (March 31, 2005 release: NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7174.tar.gz)
downloaded from Nvidia's site works great in 5.3.

you have to sysinstall and install the kernel sources for its make to work,
or you will get this error:
cant find:
/usr/share/mk/bsd.kmod.mk

Remember to update your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change the driver nv to
nvidia

enjoy the open gl screensavers!

Randy Dawson
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From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem


I had installed the nvidia-1.0.7174 from nvidia.
I had used 1.0-6113 from ports. It works nice. But i wanted just to
upgrade to the new NVIDIA Version.

On 03 May 2005 12:08:40 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I have problem using NVIDIA-1.0.7174.
  It failed to load GLX. What i can do for this?
 
  This is a warnings and errors of my X.org log
 
  (WW) NV(0): Option CursorShadow is not used
  (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)
  I have attached the complete X.org log

 It turns out that you have not.

 My guess is that you need to use the nvidia driver (available from
 ports) instead of the nv one that comes with X.org.

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Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Trevor Sullivan

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Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote:

 I would love to see a wiki for FreeBSD. I think that it would be
 really beneficial for the project. It would take some work to
 establish it but if there were enough participants, it could turn
 into a very robust documentation project. Some hard work would be
 required to make the wiki healthy and to police it but the spirit
 of a wiki is many users reviewing each other.

 Benjamin Keating wrote:

 A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). Some parts are out
 of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that could really
 help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily include a
 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into
 reading that one line where it says you have to recompile your
 kernel with IPFIREWALL support.

 Things like that bring noise to this mailing list. Idon't know
 about you but I'd rather just add my new found info to the site
 rather find a PR addy, submit it and wait for it to be added. We
 have software that does this now. Lets use it! :)

 - bpk

 On 5/3/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:06PM -0700, Benjamin Keating
 wrote:

 Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a
 little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content
 wasn't so out of date.

 What is out of date?

 Generally, if you want to improve something in the handbook,
 just submit a PR.

 Kris



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Wiki's in general are a great idea, I agree. However, you must still
consider that anyone can add to a wiki, and the content within could
become very cumbersome to maintain. It would (still) require the
FreeBSD development team considerable time to verify what is in it and
make sure that it isn't going to throw people off. For official
documentation, I would have to say that a wiki is not the best idea
(unless it is exclusively maintained by the FreeBSD team). Don't get
me wrong, wiki's are really cool, but if you want to get down to the
facts in official documentation, you can't allow it to get out of
hand. My 2 cents...any thoughts?  :-)

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RE: dynamically limit ip connections to ports over time?

2005-05-04 Thread Steven R Howe

Alex, 

You may want to consider using an IDS such as Snort. There is a plugin
called SnortSam (www.snortsam.net) which will accomplish what you want
to do. Here is text copied from the front page of their website:

SnortSam is a plugin for Snort, an open-source light-weight Intrusion
Detection System (IDS). The plugin allows for automated blocking of IP
addresses on following firewalls:

#  Checkpoint Firewall-1
# Cisco PIX firewalls
# Cisco Routers (using ACL's or Null-Routes)
# Former Netscreen, now Juniper firewalls
# IP Filter (ipf), available for various Unix-like OS'es such as FreeBSD
# FreeBSD's ipfw2 (in 5.x)
# OpenBSD's Packet Filter (pf)
# Linux IPchains
# Linux IPtables
# Linux EBtables
# WatchGuard Firebox firewalls
# 8signs firewalls for Windows
# MS ISA Server firewall/proxy for Windows
# CHX packet filter
# ...and more to come

There are several other programs in the ports collection. But I
recommend Snort.

Good Luck!!!




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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: dynamically limit ip connections to ports over time?


Hi all,

I have been running a FreeBSD box for a few years. Over this time
spammers and other unfriendlies have found my box and have been
attacking at a slowly increasing rate. Every night the daily periodic
scripts run and report to me the number of rejected mail hosts. Last
week, one of the rejected mail hosts had the number of rejections listed
at 3000. My hard drive has been getting louder and louder as it gets
busier rejecting and logging all of these and now I would like to do
something about it... but I'm not sure what I can do. When the hard
drive is at its busiest I see mail being virus and spam scanned at a
dizzying rate (tail -f /var/log/maillog), hence the hard drive grinding.
What I would LIKE to do is allow any ip to connect to a port for a
specified number of times per minute.  If they connect too many times
than I would like to freeze them out for a specified amount of time.
This solution should be dynamic so that I don't need to constantly
monitor the offending ip addresses.
Originally, I thought I would attach a sendmail milter to do this,
since mail cannons are my main problem right now. I looked at:

http://www.milter.info/milter-limit/index.shtml

but it requires manually adding a rule for each ip.

Then I considered grey-listing:

http://www.milter.info/milter-gris/index.shtml

but I don't want to reject messages and cause mail delivery delays
on my system.

Finally, it occurred to me that the firewall would probably be a
better solution and would have the nice side effect of limiting traffic
to other ports as well. To try to accomplish this I have been reading a
lot of IPFilter rules via google and lists, but I havn't found any that
seems that it can do what I describe above - limit by ip over time.
I'm sure this is not a unique problem - can someone point me in a
helpful direction?

Many Thanks

P.S.- please cc my email address as I am not subscribed.
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[BTX Halted] Install FreeBSD revision 5.3 on SCSI HDD

2005-05-04 Thread Phoenix_Chang

Dear sir :
 
I can't install FreeBSD revision 5.3 on SCSI HDD.
Configuration : 
1. Intel chipset CanterWood + Hance Rapids
2. Intel CPU 478
3. Unbuffer DDR memory 256MB
4. SCSI card(both LSI  Adaptec) with one Hard disk drive
5. Legacy CD-ROM
Boot from CD-ROM(FreeBSD 5.3) to install FreeBSD into SCSI HDD.
No matter plug SCSI card to PCI-X slot or PCI slot.
 
Here's the error :
 
Boot from CD: CD Loader 1.2
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT /LOADER ... Found
:   - I can't see the message clearly !
 
int=000d err=000 efl=00010046 eip=90db
eax=0011 ebx=0700 ecx= edx=0080
esi=000c edi= ebp= esp=1800
cs=0008 ds= es= fs= gs= ss=0010
cs:eip=0f 01 15 d0 96 00 00 66 - ea e8 90 18 00 b1 20 8e
  d1 8e d9 8e c1 8e e1 8e - e9 48 0f 22 c0 ea fd 90
ss:esp=0a 69 6e 74 3d 30 30 30 - 30 30 30 30 64 20 20 65
   72 72 3d 30 30 30 30 30 - 30 30 30 20 20 65 66 6c
BTX halted
Loop the red text !
 
 
I have no idea what the loader doing at this time.
Could you have some information can provide to me ?
Many thanks !
 
Best Regards,
Phoenix Chang
AsusTek COMPUTER INC.
Tel: 886-2-28943447 Ext: 3008
 
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Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread cpghost

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:54:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 A compromise approach could be to do what www.php.net does.  On this site
 they have the official manual, which has the same flaws as the FBSD handbook
 (out of date pages, obtuse descriptions, ...).  In addition, postings from
 users are attached to each page.  These postings often contain information
 more pertinent to a particular query than the manual page itself.
 
 With this scheme, it is easy for a manual user to distinguish the official
 information from the information from general users.  So one can apply the
 appropriate mental filters on the information.

FWIW, enabling discussions like these on otherwise more tightly
controlled pages is fairly trivial in Plone (http://plone.org/).

If someone would like to set up a plone site with the handbook
as content, and with enabled discussions, perhaps the official
handbook pages could point to the inofficial pages which would
also contain the discussions (links like: - user discussions)?

Wether linked to or not, the REAL problem here would be that the
handbook gets updated now and then, and keeping the plone site
(together with its discussions) in sync with the official handbook
looks like a major time sink and will soon be abandoned eventually.

 I am sure there is some monitoring and selection of posts by some
 responsible people.  But the effort involved should be considerably less
 than that required for the Wikipedia model.
 
 dayton

Regards,
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Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Randy Pratt

On Wed, 04 May 2005 09:12:09 -0400
MikeM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote:
 
 |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
 |Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
 |could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily
 |include a 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into
 |reading that one line where it says you have to recompile your kernel
 |with IPFIREWALL support.
 |
 |Things like that bring noise to this mailing list. Idon't know about
 |you but I'd rather just add my new found info to the site rather find
 |a PR addy, submit it and wait for it to be added. We have software
 |that does this now. Lets use it! :)
  =
 
 When I found a spot in the Handbook that was a bit sparce, I send in an
 email describing what I was looking for, what I found, and what i expected
 to find.  The Handbook was updated within a few days, and the update was
 much better than what I could have written.
 
 
 Maybe a wiki would supplement the Handbook, rather than replace it.
 

There's some benefits to the present documentation approach that are
being overlooked.

It has a revision control system.  This enables you to obtain a
version of a handbook for any given date thru CVS.  This magic is
also what allows you to update your local documentation and use a
minimum of bandwidth.

It can produce output in a number of formats (HTML, PDF, PS, etc)
from a single set of sources.  Don't forget that the FreeBSD Handbook
is also published occasionally from these same sources.

The documentation is available in a variety of languages due to
the efforts of the translation teams.  They use the revision control
system to determine when updated translations are needed.

The documentation is available as part of the system and web access
isn't required.  It can also be freely distributed whereas I'm not
sure who owns the content of a wiki.

As others have mentioned, peer review is very important especially
with documentation.  The wording and syntax needs to be very clear
since many users do not speak english as a first language.

I'm probably overlooking some other aspects of the benefits but
the present system does produce documentation that many consider
to be the best of any comprable OS's.

Granted, the centralized approach to documentation doesn't produce
instant gratification that a wiki might but it seems to lend itself
well for a variety of uses in a quality manner.  In the end, its
the content that is important and not the method.  It probably
doesn't take any more time on the part of a user to fill out a
wiki-form than it takes to send-pr.

There might be some niche that a wiki might be useful but I'd
need to see a rough implementation showing how it addresses
something that is lacking in the present method.  There's always
room for improvement.

I just thought I'd throw a few things out for thought before we
continue building the Big Bikeshed ;-)

Randy
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Re: mail/sendmail submit question

On May 3, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
I am trying to allow mail submission and sending on a 5.3-RELEASE box 
from inside a jail, but not a running MTA...
[ ... ]
When I try to do a mail on the command line, I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chad# can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): 
Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

Where do I set this TrustedUser and how do I make the mail program 
work as a TrustedUser?
You might do better to run the MSA as normal, not from within the jail, 
but from the base system.  This will give you a mail submission agent 
listening on localhost and a queue runner to flush the 
/var/spool/clientmqueue/.  If you don't run the MSA as a daemon, you'll 
need to schedule a queue runner via cron, or else any mail being 
submitted will probably just get left in that spool directory and never 
get sent onwards.

The other option would be to make sendmail setuid-root, which will 
solve the permissions problem and let it queue or forward mail via SMTP 
directly.  Of course, there's a security tradeoff being made in doing 
so, but if you're using a jail, you've already set up restrictions...

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Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni

MikeM wrote:

 On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote:

 |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). |Some parts are out
 of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that |could really help.
 For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily |include a
 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into
 |reading that one line where it says you have to recompile your
 kernel |with IPFIREWALL support. | |Things like that bring noise to
 this mailing list. Idon't know about |you but I'd rather just add
 my new found info to the site rather find |a PR addy, submit it and
 wait for it to be added. We have software |that does this now. Lets
 use it! :) =

 When I found a spot in the Handbook that was a bit sparce, I send
 in an email describing what I was looking for, what I found, and
 what i expected to find. The Handbook was updated within a few
 days, and the update was much better than what I could have
 written.


 Maybe a wiki would supplement the Handbook, rather than replace it.

Now I think that would be a better idea. It would be cool to have a very
active handbook wiki but just like forums, starting and running a
successful one is not easy work.






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Allowing GRE in IPFILTER

2005-05-04 Thread Calvin Lane

Hello everyone,

I've recently installed and configured mpd. I've been able to establish VPN 
connections with no problem internally on my network. When I attempt to 
establish a connection through my firewall, I get a number of error 
messages. The problem is that I'm not allowing GRE to get through on my 
firewall. Here is currently what I have:

pass in quick on xl0 proto gre from any to
192.168.10.253/24http://192.168.10.253/24
pass out quick on xl0 proto gre from
192.168.10.253/24http://192.168.10.253/24to any

Please let me know what the correct syntax is for allowing gre traffic 
through through an ipfilter firewall running BSD 4.10. Thanks.

Calvin

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Where tcp_timer_rexmt() is called?

2005-05-04 Thread Lei Luo

Hello,
Does anyone know where the TCP retransmission function tcp_timer_rexmt() 
is called? In other words, where is the code that checks if a timer is 
timed out? In BSD4.3, there is a function called tcp_timers() in 
tcp_timer.c. But in the recent release, the function is removed. But 
where the functionality is placed now?

Thanks,
Louis
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Re: Allowing GRE in IPFILTER

2005-05-04 Thread Toomas Aas

Calvin Lane wrote:
Please let me know what the correct syntax is for allowing gre traffic 
through through an ipfilter firewall running BSD 4.10. Thanks.
FreeBSD 4.10 contains IPFilter 3.4.31. For what you need to do, you need 
PPTP proxy which is available only in IPFilter 4.1.

So you'd need to install the latest IPFilter (4.1.8 I think) and then 
just add this to ipnat.rules:

map external_if internal_net - 0/32 proxy port 1723 pptp/tcp
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Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Schmehl

--On Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:58:39 PM +0200 Matthias F. Brandstetter 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi all,
I have to plan and setup a mail solution for about 50.000 users, here are
some key features requested by our customer:
 - self coded webfrontend w/ webmail and administration (filter, alias
etc)
I'm not sure what you mean by self coded.  Squirrelmail is a webmail front 
end that meets the requirements you've mentioned.  There are others as well.

 - 100MB quota per user
I would recommend that you put the mailboxes on a separate partition - 
perhaps even put var on a separate drive - and you should probably use 
RAID0 at least.

 - autoresponder
 - about 50.000 user
 - online backup of data
Without knowing if you're local or remote, it's hard to say.  I do backups 
on a remote server using rsync to a local disk and rsync over ssh to a 
remote disk.  The local backups make it easy to restore something in a 
pinch.  The remote backups ensure that I don't lose data if the server 
crashes and both disks are toast.

 - some more featuers for web frontend
Like what?
Since I happily use qmail for some other (but smaller) installations, I
want to try it with qmail here for this project as well. My only problem
is, I have no clue where to start ... beginning from should I use 2
redundant and really strong or some more but cheaper servers? to which
qmail distributions and patches should I use (ldap, mysql, ...)? and
how  to store data (mails) and do online backup w/o downtime?.
Mail servers have a lot of I/O so you should use SCSI disks, if possible. 
RAID mirroring at least.

I think LDAP would make user admin a lot easier.  Mysql would probably help 
as well, given the number of users.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by store data (mails).  If you're using 
qmail, set up IMAP and the mails are stored in maildir (I think).  You can 
create a virtual user so you don't have to have /home/{uid} for all 50,000 
users.

Surely there's a doc on the web that walks you through all of this?  No 
sense in reinventing the wheel.

Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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Creating an Installation CDROM

In the handbook section 2.13.1 Creating an Installation CDROM it states
that there is an  mini.iso file which contains everything needed to install
FreeBSD. I do not see this file on the FreeBSD FTP download sites for 5.3 or
5.4 RC4.  What happened to this small iso file.  What is the new name for
this small install iso file. It's my understanding that it was built small
for people who use a modem to connect to the internet. Why is it no longer
there.












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Re: Creating an Installation CDROM

2005-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 13:48:32 -0400
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In the handbook section 2.13.1 Creating an Installation CDROM it
 states that there is an  mini.iso file which contains everything
 needed to install FreeBSD. I do not see this file on the FreeBSD FTP
 download sites for 5.3 or 5.4 RC4.  What happened to this small iso
 file.  What is the new name for this small install iso file. It's my
 understanding that it was built small for people who use a modem to
 connect to the internet. Why is it no longer there.
 
hmm, e.g. here it's available :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.3/
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.3/5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso

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Re: A make world/kernel interface?

2005-05-04 Thread cpghost

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:50:56AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
 Would it be a good idea having some sort of interface for
 those who desire to have their system updating (make world and
 kernel) made interactive? I am not talking a GUI here, but
 something that can make it more convenient:

Hmmm, what about automatically taking /usr/src/UPDATING
into account? Seriously: the make buildworld dance is
normally pretty simple and scriptable. BUT you should
still eyeball UPDATING and take actions manually, when
it is needed. How would that fit into an interactive UI,
besides merely displaying UPDATING entries in a parallel
window?

 1. Put the entire process under one roof.
 2. Be able to see the completion percentage
 3. Be able to halt/resume the process
 4. I'm sure there would be many other upsides to this
 
 I hope somebody can turn this into something viable.
 
 Thanks!
 
 --
 
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   Senior Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop
   Furious @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf

Cheers,
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Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

Trevor Sullivan wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
know it's off-topic, but I thought it might surprise some folks, and
it's possible it could prove important to some, I guess. Notice the
words above, about him using the sha-1 hash. You realize it's been
broken? The crypto world is unambiguous about it, and firmly
reocmmening that everyone immediately move over to using the sha256,
which is already implemented on FreeBSD. Since it's already here, and
hopefully possible (maybe) to modify your amil system to use it, I
thought I would toss in the data here.

If you would like (as I usually do) to read it from the hourses mouth,
Bruce Schneier is the best authority around, and here's his take on it:

http://http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.htmlwww.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html
BTW, if you haven't bought his Applied Cryptography, shame on you. He
wrote this thing, and it alone tosses his name up against lights such as
Richard Stevens, because he explains ALL of the horrible math, explains
all of the algorithms in detail enouigh to program from, actually
manages to make it entertaining, and I hope he lives forever.

Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote:

I would love to see a wiki for FreeBSD. I think that it would be
really beneficial for the project. It would take some work to
establish it but if there were enough participants, it could turn
into a very robust documentation project. Some hard work would be
required to make the wiki healthy and to police it but the spirit
of a wiki is many users reviewing each other.
Benjamin Keating wrote:

A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). Some parts are out
of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that could really
help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily include a
'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into
reading that one line where it says you have to recompile your
kernel with IPFIREWALL support.
Things like that bring noise to this mailing list. Idon't know
about you but I'd rather just add my new found info to the site
rather find a PR addy, submit it and wait for it to be added. We
have software that does this now. Lets use it! :)
- bpk
On 5/3/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:06PM -0700, Benjamin Keating
wrote:

Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a
little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content
wasn't so out of date.
What is out of date?
Generally, if you want to improve something in the handbook,
just submit a PR.
Kris

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Wiki's in general are a great idea, I agree. However, you must still
consider that anyone can add to a wiki, and the content within could
become very cumbersome to maintain. It would (still) require the
FreeBSD development team considerable time to verify what is in it and
make sure that it isn't going to throw people off. For official
documentation, I would have to say that a wiki is not the best idea
(unless it is exclusively maintained by the FreeBSD team). Don't get
me wrong, wiki's are really cool, but if you want to get down to the
facts in official documentation, you can't allow it to get out of
hand. My 2 cents...any thoughts? :-)
- -Trevor
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port-fetch, ftp passive, and port priority

2005-05-04 Thread Peter Much

Hi all,

some internet providers use a feature called port priority to
slow down filesharing programs.

The problem is, ftp transfers in passive mode are also slowed down
by this feature (and ftp transfers in classical active mode are
usually out of question because one has to open any firewall
for them to work).

There is a nice option for the fetch utilitiy, so that one can
use passive ftp and still get around the providers port priority
thruput throttle. One can put the variable
FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-U
into /etc/make.conf for this to work on port-builds, or 
when calling fetch from the commandline, use the option -U.
(Only the root user is allowed to use this option, otherwise 
permission is denied.)

I'm posting this, because it seems no one knows about this option:
it actually does not work: although the option exists and gets 
handed thru the various functions, the code to do the real work 
is missing!

I have just added some necessary code, and now it works for me as
intended, and I have sent a bug-report, so I hope this will be 
implemented soon. Interim, my fix is published in bugreport
bin/80620

PMc
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Re: Building kernel without some modules

Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:03:49AM +0500, Vitaly Bogdanov wrote:
Hi.
Is it possible to build kernel without compiling unnecessary modules?
My system - freebsd5.3.

See make.conf(5)
That wasn't very nice.  It's not that it's wrong, but the fella sounded 
to me like he was asking if a target existed, and not everyone is 
familiar with our make.  Responding like you did had the sole function 
of trying to shut off any other responses, and was just not helpful at 
all to the querent.

I honestly consider that what's happened to our make, the slow code 
changes that have just ruined it for cross-platform portability, to be 
scandolous (sp?).  There was no reason that the stuff needed to go into 
using all those specialized libraries that exist nowhere else but 
FreeBSD.  We have a functionally very , very nice make, but it's not so 
good that it knocks out the competition ... gmake has more than a few 
points that are definitely superior than ours (as the reverse is also 
true).  Making it so totally non-portable was a great example of bad 
spartsmanship.

I can't say that Linux isn't equally guilty of it, heck, more so, but 
that doesn't excuse it, sorry.

Kris
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FreeBsd : Abit AV-20 Unichrome XFree

2005-05-04 Thread nospamme_vizion


I am returning to FreeBsd after an absense of years nd find myself trying
to remember how to ride this bike with all its new bells  whistles.

I have an Abit AV-20 M/B that has an integrated Unichrome Pro Graphics
with 2D/3D video controller. I am trying to install XFree onto FreeBSD 5.3
and am having trouble getting X11R6.4.5. to work. It seems I need a driver
and noticed that in a discussion on the topic:
 FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem
Twas said by Randy Dawson:
-
 The new driver (March 31, 2005 release:
 NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7174.tar.gz)
 downloaded from Nvidia's site works great in 5.3.
 you have to sysinstall and install the kernel sources for its make to
 work,
 or you will get this error:
 cant find:
 /usr/share/mk/bsd.kmod.mk
 Remember to update your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change the driver nv to
 nvidia
--
I wondered if there is a similar driver for the Unichrome. Also some more
detailed instructions for the sequence of commands needed to successfully
add new drivers and carry out the sysinstall would be much appreciated.

Thanks
David

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   Remove  nospamme_ from reply to ** 
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Re: Multiple routes

2005-05-04 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan

+++ Tomas Quintero [freebsd] [03-05-05 14:36 -0400]:
| On 5/3/05, Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|  How can I have multiple gateways, and, all the packets
|  to be sent using all the gateways simultaneously under
|  FreeBSD 4.11? Is this possible only modyfing the
|  kernel? :) Thank you very much for your help.
| 
| Under 5.3-RELEASE I have 3 DSL connections set to round-robin using
| PF. Under 4.11 I had used IPF and IPNAT and had half of the net range
| set to utilize one gateway, the other half to use another. I find the
| PF round-robin solution to be much more effective. I am unsure if you
| can use IPF/IPFW to round-robin nat, at least as easily as PF.
| 
| In short though, you won't need to modify your kernel, short of
| including whichever firewall module you choose to utilize.
| 
| I'm curious, when you say simultaneously, do you mean you want the
| same duplicated data to be sent out all of your gateways at the same
| time?

'man ng_one2many' on 5.x


Regards,
Shantanoo
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Re: Sendmail with sasl2 build fails. FIX

2005-05-04 Thread Richard Mcintyre

Richard Mcintyre wrote:
All,
I've checked the mailing lists and it appears that this has been a 
problem for other people in the past, but I can't seem to fix the 
issue I'm having.

I have installed cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd from ports.
I then added the following to /etc/make.conf:
# SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags...
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2
SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+= -L/usr/local/lib
SENDMAIL_LDADD+= -lsasl2
# Adding to enable alternate port (smtps) for sendmail...
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL
Then, I attempted to rebuild sendmail, I have tried both of the 
following steps...
First I tried:
   # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
   # make clean
   # make depend
   # make
   # make install

When that failed I tried:
   # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm
   # make obj
   # make depend
   # make
   # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil
   # make obj
   # make depend
   # make
   # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
   # make obj
   # make depend
   # make
   # make install
Finally when that failed I tried:
   # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm
   # make clean
   # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil
   # make clean
   # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
   # make clean
   # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm
   # make obj
   # make depend
   # make
   # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil
   # make obj
   # make depend
   # make
   # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
   # make obj
   # make depend
   # make
   # make install
All return the same problem at the make on /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail...
SNIP
cc -O -pipe  -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src 
-I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include -I. 
-DNEWDB -DNIS -DTCPWRAPPERS -DMAP_REGEX -DDNSMAP -DNETINET6 -DSTARTTLS 
-D_FFR_TLS_1 -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL  -c 
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/version.c
make: don't know how to make 
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../lib/libsmutil/libsmutil.a. Stop
/SNIP

Can anyone help out? Thanks in advance...
~REM

tco1# uname -a
FreeBSD tco1.iaminsane.net 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Mon 
May  2 22:32:50 EDT 2005 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/TCO1.2005.05.02.001  
i386

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I followed some advice I found on the [EMAIL PROTECTED]  email list 
and after cvsup'ing my src I ran a 'make buildworld' in /usr/src.
After the make buildworld finished I cd'd to /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/ 
and did a make install and it installed just fine.

~REM
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Re: USB GPS Receiver

2005-05-04 Thread Alexandre Biancalana

Thank you Mike !!

Now it's working great !



On 5/4/05, Mike Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
 
 usb in my kernel:
 # USB support
 device  uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface
 device  ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface
 device  usb # USB Bus (required)
 device  ugen# Generic
 device  uhid# Human Interface Devices
 device  ulpt# Printer
 device  umass   # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
 device  ums # Mouse
 device  ucom
 
 
 device uplcom is what you need for that particular adaptor.
 
 --
 Mike Woods
 Systems Administrator

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Netgraph and firewall

2005-05-04 Thread DrVince

Hi,
Is there a stateful packet filtering/firewall/address translation node type
for netgraph or the project of one?

Thanks

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Re: Building kernel without some modules

2005-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:20:59PM +, Chuck Robey wrote:
 Kris Kennaway wrote:
 On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:03:49AM +0500, Vitaly Bogdanov wrote:
 
 Hi.
 Is it possible to build kernel without compiling unnecessary modules?
 My system - freebsd5.3.
 
 
 See make.conf(5)
 
 That wasn't very nice.  It's not that it's wrong, but the fella sounded 
 to me like he was asking if a target existed, and not everyone is 
 familiar with our make.  Responding like you did had the sole function 
 of trying to shut off any other responses, and was just not helpful at 
 all to the querent.

That's kind of silly.  The answer to his question is documented right
there in that manpage, so why should I type it out for him?

Kris


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Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan Winograd

Hi all,
I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up 
is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i 
do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?

Thanks,
Ryan
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mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould

My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64.  If 
FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better.

I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard 
drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data.  Is 
there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types?  (I've never messed 
with SATA before.)

Thanks,

Andrew
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Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

Andrew L. Gould wrote:
My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64.  If 
FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better.

I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard 
drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data.  Is 
there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types?  (I've never messed 
with SATA before.)
YMMV, but for myself, I notice that SATA is notably less reliable than 
straight SCSI drives are.  Less than Ide also.  I don't know why.

Thanks,
Andrew
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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread W. D.

At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote:
Hi all,
I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up 
is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i 
do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?

http://www.Google.com/search?q=install+ntp+on+FreeBSD

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Re: Clock running fast

On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote:
I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set 
up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What 
can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be 
helpful?
Try changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl; you can look at the 
available choices via:

 sysctl kern.timecounter.choice
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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread James Alexander Cook

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0500, W. D. wrote:
 At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote:
 Hi all,
 I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up 
 is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i 
 do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?
 
 http://www.Google.com/search?q=install+ntp+on+FreeBSD

I might be wrong here, but doesn't NTP only make occasional adjustments to the
system clock?

If your clock runs twice as fast as normal, it would jump to the correct time
every time ntpd corrected it, but in between automatic adjustments, the time
would become wildly innacurate.

Also, wouldn't a problem like this make your system try to play movies at
twice the frame rate, and things like that?  NTP is worth a try, but I doubt
if it will fix things like that.

A google search for fast clock seemed to turn up a few results about this
problem on mailing lists; I haven't looked into them further.

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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread W. D.

At 16:07 5/4/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0500, W. D. wrote:
 At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote:
 Hi all,
 I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up 
 is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i 
 do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?
 
 http://www.Google.com/search?q=install+ntp+on+FreeBSD

Unfortunately ntp will not always help in these situations, because
the time is changing too quickly/slowly to keep up with.  The OP
should check whether changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl to
one of the other values listed in kern.timecounter.choice will fix the
problem (they are ranked in order of quality).  Also look for a BIOS
update for your system - that may fix it.

Kris

Also: sometimes the clock speeds up when the battery is dying.

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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread Tomas Quintero

On 5/4/05, Ryan Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all,
 I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up
 is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i
 do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?
 
 Thanks,
 Ryan

Have you considered running an ntp service on the box? I run OpenNTPd
on a few of my systems and it seems to work quite well.


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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread John Pettitt



Tomas Quintero wrote:

On 5/4/05, Ryan Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Hi all,
I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up
is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i
do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?

Thanks,
Ryan



Have you considered running an ntp service on the box? I run OpenNTPd
on a few of my systems and it seems to work quite well.

  

ntp isn't going to fix a 2x clock problem which is probably hardware
related.

The OP didn't say what hardware or version of FreeBSD so it's kinda hard
to figure out the actual problem.

john
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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0500, W. D. wrote:
 At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote:
 Hi all,
 I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up 
 is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i 
 do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?
 
 http://www.Google.com/search?q=install+ntp+on+FreeBSD

Unfortunately ntp will not always help in these situations, because
the time is changing too quickly/slowly to keep up with.  The OP
should check whether changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl to
one of the other values listed in kern.timecounter.choice will fix the
problem (they are ranked in order of quality).  Also look for a BIOS
update for your system - that may fix it.

Kris


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Kerberos 5

2005-05-04 Thread Damian Sobieralski


  I have a fairly weird question for the group.  I recently set up a
FreeBSD 5.3 box to use pam_krb5 for sshd authentication. It worked
great.  I created a local workstation user via adduser and when it came
time for the password based question, I selected no.  So when I logged
in, I typed klist and got some verbage back about my ticket in /tmp.

 I rebuilt the box and although I can log into the box, when I type
klist now I get:

klist: No ticket file: /tmp/krb5cc_0

Or some variation of the ticket file name.  It authenticates me okay
via kerneros or I couldn't get logged in, but any idea why this might
happen?  

 BTW- I read online that storing tickets like this (in /tmp) is
potentially a security risk for a server so the thought was to change
it to home directory tickets like the website recommends. But I did the
same procedures on the install and I cannot even get to the point (step
1) where the ticket can be found in /tmp.  If it didn't let me log in
I'd say it just isn't working, but if I try to ssh in with any other
password besides the correct one it reject me (like it should).  The
right password lets me in so it must be workingright?

  Any ideas?

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Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:25 pm, Chuck Robey wrote:
 Andrew L. Gould wrote:
  My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64.  If
  FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better.
 
  I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE
  hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database
  data.  Is there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types?  (I've
  never messed with SATA before.)

 YMMV, but for myself, I notice that SATA is notably less reliable
 than straight SCSI drives are.  Less than Ide also.  I don't know
 why.

  Thanks,
 
  Andrew

Thanks for the warning.  I just did a google search on sata 
reliability with lots of interesting results.  The expected lifespan 
(MTBF) of a sata is lower than the scsi; but I haven't found any 
comparisons to ide yet.

Andrew
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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan Winograd

Charles Swiger wrote:
On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote:
I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set 
up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What 
can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be 
helpful?

Try changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl; you can look at the 
available choices via:

 sysctl kern.timecounter.choice
Thanks for all the advice everyone. The solution was changing the 
kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl to i8254 (was ACPI-safe). I was using 
NTP, but when the clock is at 2x even having cron run ntp every minute 
is too innacurate.

Thx again!
Ryan
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Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC

On May 4, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:25 pm, Chuck Robey wrote:
Andrew L. Gould wrote:
My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64.  If
FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better.
I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE
hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database
data.  Is there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types?  (I've
never messed with SATA before.)
YMMV, but for myself, I notice that SATA is notably less reliable
than straight SCSI drives are.  Less than Ide also.  I don't know
why.

Thanks,
Andrew
Thanks for the warning.  I just did a google search on sata
reliability with lots of interesting results.  The expected lifespan
(MTBF) of a sata is lower than the scsi; but I haven't found any
comparisons to ide yet.
they should be the same as IDE as almost all the SATA drives use the  
same mechanisms as their comparable IDE brethren.  SATA is just the  
interface.  SCSI drives are different in that the market for the SCSI  
interface also demands a different mechanism.  They could, if they  
wanted to (and used to) add SCSI interfaces to the same mechanisms as  
the IDE mechanisms and you'd have a lower SCSI MTBF

Chad
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RE: Clock running fast



On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote:
 I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently
set
 up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring.
What
 can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would
be
 helpful?

Try changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl; you can look at
the
available choices via:

 sysctl kern.timecounter.choice

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*



sysctl kern.timecounter.choice does not work on my 4.10 system

sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware  and sysctl kern.timecounter do
work.

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Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread David Kelly

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
 
 I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard 
 drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data.  Is 
 there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types?  (I've never messed 
 with SATA before.)

I have one PATA with FreeBSD installed, and two SATA striped with
gvinum. Swap spread across all 3. No particular problems. The SATA
drives are fairly recent models in 160G, the PATA is prior generation in
120G, all Hitachi. The SATA drives seem to handle seeks from multiple
processes better than the PATA, better even than might expect from
striping.

At about 4500 hours of runtime one SATA drive developed a bad block
which the drive firmware was not able to automagically substitute. gvinum
shut down.

I see no reason why a SATA drive should be less reliable than a PATA
drive. Also remember back when one could purchase the same drive
hardware in either PATA or SCSI, so find it hard to accept the interface
makes much difference in reliability.

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Re: Clock running fast

On May 4, 2005, at 6:19 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
sysctl kern.timecounter.choice does not work on my 4.10 system
sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware  and sysctl kern.timecounter do
work.
True, this interface has changed slightly, since 4.x as 5.x has better 
APCI support.  Running a sysctl -a kern.timecounter ought to be a 
useful starting point for any recent version of FreeBSD.

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RE: Clock running fast


On May 4, 2005, at 6:19 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
 sysctl kern.timecounter.choice does not work on my 4.10 system

 sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware  and sysctl kern.timecounter do
 work.

True, this interface has changed slightly, since 4.x as 5.x has
better
APCI support.  Running a sysctl -a kern.timecounter ought to be a
useful starting point for any recent version of FreeBSD.


***

Your response is not very clear.
Are you saying that  kern.timecounter.choice is not in 4.10

How can I find out what choices are?

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Re: Clock running fast

On May 4, 2005, at 6:46 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
Running a sysctl -a kern.timecounter ought to be a
useful starting point for any recent version of FreeBSD.
Your response is not very clear.
Are you saying that  kern.timecounter.choice is not in 4.10
How can I find out what choices are?
You can find out what the choices are by running the command I gave.  
:-)

1-ns1# sysctl -a kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.method: 0
kern.timecounter.hardware: i8254
2-ns1# uname -a
FreeBSD ns1.pkix.net 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #3: Tue Apr  5 
00:29:47 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NORMAL  
i386

If there are more than one available, one can change 
kern.timecounter.method to the index of the timecounter method name 
that you want.  In practice, most people simply change 0 to 1 and if 
that works, stop there.

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Re: Installing DCOM98 with Wine

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Hodgins

On 5/4/05, Karel Miklav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Chris Hodgins wrote:
  I have the latest Wine and Winetools installed and I am now trying to
  install DCOM98 with the purpose of installing internet explorer 6 for
  my web development needs.
 
 Have you considered using QEMU? I have it installed on an old 300MHz
 notebook. It runs Win98 perfectly and applications like IE are usable on
 this hardware.
 

Unfortunetly I gave up all of my windows software for FreeBSD a couple
of years ago now.  All I have is the CD that came with my laptop to
ghost windows back onto my machine.

I have emailed the port maintainer regarding this and wine is indeed
broken on FreeBSD and he does not have the knowledge to repair it. 
The wine faq actually says that none of their team use FreeBSD so
there is no support from them for it either.

I would like to see this working again if possible.  Is there even
anyone out there who has this working already who could send me a tar
of their wine directory with ie6 installed?

Thanks
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download

2005-05-04 Thread calin turcan


i download from:
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/5.3/
 
 these file:
 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso
 
 when i tried to instal??? see on the attachet screen shot.
 
 Thanks!!
 
 
 


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Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-04 Thread Benson Wong

I run a qmail-ldap installation for about 10,000 users. Each has 100MB
of quota. I use 2 LDAP servers, 2 qmail servers and have all the
Maildirs stored on a 5.6TB Xserve RAID.

There are a couple of issues you will run into here. 

1. Mass storage. FreeBSD doesn't support file systems  2TB, at least
not that I found decent documentation and support for.

2. Backing up 50,000 Maildirs, where each email is a separate file
requires something custom. I use Bacula, a network backup tool, and I
instruct it to do a tar-gzip of each Maildir before backup. This adds
a bit of overhead, and almost doubles space usage, but it sure beats
backing up millions of little 4K - 80K files!

3. There is a MAJOR bug with maildirsize, the quota file. These quota
files go out of sync a lot. From a year of statistics about 0.1% of
users will likely have out of sync maildirsize files everyday. Who it
happens to seems to be random. I wrote a custom script that runs every
15 minutes to clean up the out of sync maildirsize files.

Other than those issues my qmail-ldap installation runs super stable.
On the two mail servers I have serving up IMAP and POP3, their load
hovers around 0.1 to 0.3 barely anything at all. On my NFS server the
load is about 0.3... it's barely working too.

Hope that was helpful. 

Ben. 



On 5/4/05, Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I have to plan and setup a mail solution for about 50.000 users, here are
 some key features requested by our customer:
 
  - self coded webfrontend w/ webmail and administration (filter, alias etc)
  - 100MB quota per user
  - autoresponder
  - about 50.000 user
  - online backup of data
  - some more featuers for web frontend
 
 Since I happily use qmail for some other (but smaller) installations, I
 want to try it with qmail here for this project as well. My only problem
 is, I have no clue where to start ... beginning from should I use 2
 redundant and really strong or some more but cheaper servers? to which
 qmail distributions and patches should I use (ldap, mysql, ...)? and how
 to store data (mails) and do online backup w/o downtime?.
 
 I know you can't give me _the_ solution for this issue, but I am thankful
 for any hints and internet links on this topic.
 
 I am sure you guys can help me :)
 Greetings and TIA, Matthias
 
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Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

David Kelly wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard 
drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data.  Is 
there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types?  (I've never messed 
with SATA before.)

I have one PATA with FreeBSD installed, and two SATA striped with
gvinum. Swap spread across all 3. No particular problems. The SATA
drives are fairly recent models in 160G, the PATA is prior generation in
120G, all Hitachi. The SATA drives seem to handle seeks from multiple
processes better than the PATA, better even than might expect from
striping.
At about 4500 hours of runtime one SATA drive developed a bad block
which the drive firmware was not able to automagically substitute. gvinum
shut down.
I see no reason why a SATA drive should be less reliable than a PATA
drive. Also remember back when one could purchase the same drive
hardware in either PATA or SCSI, so find it hard to accept the interface
makes much difference in reliability.
I don't know why it's true... I can state that I've had 3 of them so 
far, and had troubles with 2, and google is chock full of reports. 
Further, the info about them being the same as their IDE brethren isn't 
true, at least, the access rate specifications are higher for SATA 
drives, in general, as compared to IDE.  Least they were the last time I 
checked, maybe it's changed inthe last 6 months.

OTOH, when I first bought mine, I was comparing in my mind with SCSI, 
not IDE, maybe they *do* compare equally with IDE, is IDE that bad? 
Certainly, SATA is less reliable thant he scsi drives.
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Re: Allowing GRE in IPFILTER

2005-05-04 Thread Murray Taylor

On Thu, 5 May 2005 02:59, Calvin Lane wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 
 I've recently installed and configured mpd. I've been able to establish VPN 
 connections with no problem internally on my network. When I attempt to 
 establish a connection through my firewall, I get a number of error 
 messages. The problem is that I'm not allowing GRE to get through on my 
 firewall. Here is currently what I have:
 
 pass in quick on xl0 proto gre from any to
 192.168.10.253/24http://192.168.10.253/24
 pass out quick on xl0 proto gre from
 192.168.10.253/24http://192.168.10.253/24to any
 
 Please let me know what the correct syntax is for allowing gre traffic 
 through through an ipfilter firewall running BSD 4.10. Thanks.
 
 Calvin
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


This works for my win2k laptop to access work through 
my FreeBSD 4.9 / ipf firewall

you need the TCP port 1723 for initial establishment

(The variables are from the shell script I use to reset things when
my ISP changes my ip number)

--8-

oif=rl0   # internet side interface
myip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx# internet IP number from ISP DHCP
ks=keep state
fks=flags S keep state

--8-
#
# pptp and gre for Work VPN  outbound
#
pass out quick on $oif proto tcp from any to any port = 1723 $fks
pass out quick on $oif proto gre from any to any 

--8-
#
# GRE vpn stuff (inbound from work)
#
pass in quick on $oif proto gre from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy to any 




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FreeBSD Installation Horror

2005-05-04 Thread Sebastian Reichelt

Hello!
As a programmer and computer science student, I wanted to try out 
FreeBSD on my old computer (Pentium 166). Mainly I just want to get to 
know the differences between FreeBSD and Linux, and see whether it 
really has a better design (which many people I know claim).

However, so far I have not been able to install it on my hard drive. I 
have already spent several days on this. Please help me, this is 
becoming really frustrating.

I downloaded the three floppy images for 5.3-RELEASE and dd'ed them on 
the disks. Then I booted the installation and tried to partition my 
hard drive. To my surprise, the partition table shown by the 
installation was complete nonsense. I figured it probably had something 
to do with the fact that my BIOS doesn't support the disk size. I'm 
using the OnTrack disk manager to fix the problem for Windows. So I 
booted from the disk, and used the OnTrack feature to boot from a 
floppy after OnTrack has been loaded. The partition table was exactly 
the same junk, though. I also tried different geometries (reported by 
LILO, BIOS, FreeBSD installation, etc.), but this didn't change the 
view of the partition table either.

OK, so I emptied another (smaller) disk and tried to install FreeBSD on 
it. I have a PPP connection to another PC over a serial cable on COM1, 
which works fine from Windows. (The other PC is running Linux with a 
script to emulate a modem.) So I thought I would use the same link for 
the FreeBSD installation. I selected PPP on COM1, then it ran the PPP 
program, but this program always crashes the entire computer after a 
few seconds, even if I don't type anything.

Of course, then I got someone to burn me a CD. I booted from the CD, 
but then the kernel said it couldn't figure out which drive it was 
booting from. Apparently it had not detected the CDROM at all for some 
reason. So I had to boot from floppy over and over again. (It would be 
nice to be able to put the installation program on a small hard disk 
partition.) Then I selected CD as the installation medium. Somehow the 
CDROM has some problems reading the CD; this is not FreeBSD's fault, of 
course. However, when it gets to the bad locations, usually it reports 
a page fault and reboots! Now this is getting really annoying...

By now, I have tried to get the CD burnt three times, but every single 
one of them seems to be broken at some place. With the latest one, at 
least the installation doesn't page fault any more. But it still aborts 
if it can't read some file. If it didn't do that, I would probably be 
finished by now.

As a last resort, I tried to copy the installation files from the CD to 
a disk. I can't use the OnTrack-formatted disk because FreeBSD can't 
read it. So I have to use the disk I want to install to. After all, it 
could read the files, and the installation went fine. When I rebooted, 
the boot manager showed up, and asked me to press F1 for DOS (the 
source partition), F2 for FreeBSD, and F5 for the other disk. When I 
pressed F2, it just beeped, but didn't do anything.

I thought that maybe I could only install FreeBSD on the first 
partition, then. (Although that really surprises me.) So I created an 
extended partition, copied the installation files there, and deleted 
the primary partition. Oh no, FreeBSD can't read extended partitions! 
How nice: It expects the installation files to be on a primary 
partition, but you can only install it on the first partition? I think 
that in the Linux fdisk, I can create up to 4 primary partitions, but 
the Windows version only supports one.

This is the story so far. Please help me find a happy end. Thank you 
very much.

--
Sebastian Reichelt
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Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-04 Thread J65nko BSD

See http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/ Maybe you could ask on the
qmail-ldap mailing list ;)

=adriaan=
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Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski

Ryan Winograd writes:

 Hi all,
 I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up
 is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i
 do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?

If the machine has network access to an NTP server, you can install and
run the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon to discipline and synchronize
the clock on the machine.  It works very well, holding the clock
accurate to with a tiny fraction of a second (milliseconds, in good
conditions).

Twice real time does sound odd, though.  Clocks are often off by many
seconds a day, but running at twice normal speed sounds like something
may be wrong.

-- 
Anthony


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