Re: PAWS security vulnerability
Ted, I don't know your experience lately with people on this or any other list, but that last personal attack was WAY out of line. I am not a Troll, nor have I ever been one. I use freeBSD extensively on hundreds of servers, but I am not a FreeBSD source contributor. Yes, I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person, read it over, and thought that it might be a legitimate exploit. I even picked up on the fact that Microsoft had already patched it in the service pack 2, which may mean that it was under wraps for a while, and was suspicious. So, after doing a little research on the net myself and not finding much, I decided to post something to the list to see if anyone had heard anything about it, and if the FreeBSD commiters were working on a possible patch. Maybe I wrote my post wrong, but it didn't deserve you biting my fucking head off. Now, you'll probably start in on well, if you run that many servers, then why don't you know what you're doing?. I do know what I'm doing. I would very well be able to apply your patch,and compile a new system. Problem is, I'm afraid I don't quite understand the vulnerability enough to properly test what it is supposed to fix... I would first need a way to break it, and then after applying your patch, verify that I couldn't break it any longer. If I knew how to break it, then I would be a better programmer than you, which I am not, and have never claimed to be. From the description of the issue, it sounds like a single cleverly made TCP packet with a bogus timestamp on it could take down ALL of the TCP commections to that machine. To quote the article : A large value is set by the attacker as the packet timestamp. When the target computer processes this packet, the internal timer is updated to the large attacker supplied value. This causes all other valid packets that are received subsequent to an attack to be dropped as they are deemed to be too old, or invalid. That sounds like it is pretty serious to me. One packet takes down ALL TCP services to the machine. You make it sound like its no big deal...Is it valid ? I don't know. I never claimed to know. I wasn't crying wolf here, just asking... So, my statement of I'm not sure I have the ability to test out your patch. should really have been, I don't have the knowledge enough of the vulnerability to test whether or not your patch works. And I would hardly consider If it works, I would submit it to the security list as some sort of command that I was supposed to follow. After reading that email, I thought that you were going to submit it to the security list. After all, its your fucking patch. I am slowly working my way into the community, and would love to help with these kind of things. But, like many other busy sys admins, I don't have a whole lot of spare time to work on things like this. Yes, if it was a serious problem enough to where I had to have a patch right away, I might have to devote some work time and give it a try for the team. I'm not sure that I know how serious it is, as I've already stated that I don't fully understand the supposed vulnerability. I hardly made any kind of desparate demands for someone to quickly make me a patch. You might want to go re-read those posts... I can understand why you may have suspected troll because of the vague questions, but man, you flew off the handle awefully quick. Maybe you just need a vacation. You bashed OpenBSD for their knee jerk reactions, and I think you just made a big one... Tim. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi Tim, If you don't have the ability to test out the patch then LEARN! As the advisory said no known exploits have been released I also noticed that the only 2 vendors listed as implementing a fix were Cisco and Microsoft. And Microsoft was NOT on the problem list for ANY of their patched OSs. I would therefore assume that the release of this so-called vulnerability was carefully timed to take place AFTER Microsoft had got it's ass covered, to make them look good, and everyone else look bad. I continue therefore to assume that this is a political security hole, not an actual security hole. OpenBSD is well known for knee-jerk reactions to real and supposed security holes, so it's not surprising they released a patch right away - of course, little good that did them since this advisory trashed them anyway. But knee jerk reactions don't always take all variables into account. I rewrite their patch because it was simple and easy to apply to the FreeBSD source - but I did not write the networking code in FreeBSD and have no idea if it is correct, or if OpenBSD even wrote the fix properly, or if in fact this is a real vulnerability that anyone needs to be concerned about. In theory, any flat-key lock can be picked in less than a minute (I've seen it done that fast, and done it myself somewhat more slowly) but that does not stop millions of them from being sold at Home Depot every
RE: PAWS security vulnerability
Tim, In my first e-mail I said: If it works I would submit it to the FreeBSD security list OK., so I see how you might have misinterpreted that. But the sentence if it works you would submit it to the FreeBSD security list isn't grammatically correct. In my second e-mail I said: I told you to post the patch and info to the appropriate FreeBSD security lists, and you aren't the least bit interested in doing what I told you On the index page of http://www.freebsd.org there is a link called FAQ On that page is a link called Security On that page is the text: ...This point and others are often discussed on the mailing lists, particularly the FreeBSD security mailing list with a link to the appropriate mailing list. I find it real hard to believe you use FreeBSD on hundreds of servers and are unaware of the appropriate forum to post security questions. The general freebsd questions mailing list is not this place. You should have known this before you even posted your first question. Reading instructions for products that you use is not optional, it is mandatory, and FreeBSD's instructions are on the website. You posted your query in the wrong forum, you got a patch in response which is far more than you should have got, you were directed, hinting at first, forcibly at second, to go to the appropriate forum to post the patch, the results of the patch, and your security questions. You still, as far as I know, have not done this. So, OK maybe your not a troll and I assumed wrong. But I will point out that you said absolutely nothing in your first post about who you are, what you are doing, why you even give a shit about this issue. If you had simply opened your first post with I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person and I have to respond to him in some fashion or something like that, it would have gone a long way towards establishing credibility as to why you cared about this. If even better you had done a bit of research and said well the vulnerability shows that OpenBSD already patched for this, maybe FreeBSD should or if even better than that you had said I looked at the OpenBSD patch and it's really simple, could we use it on FreeBSD that would have done a lot to establishing that you were at least willing to offer help and assistance. Instead, reread your second post - you not once offered to do anything, not even apply the patch to see if it compiled, all you did is ask for yet more research to be done for you. Well we all are busy, you don't have a lock on that, buddy. Apply the patch. If the FreeBSD system doesn't panic then the patch isn't grossly wrong. If you do not have a test system then don't apply it. Either way, just take the patch to the appropriate FreeBSD security forum and post it with some asshole on questions told me to apply this in results of insert all research on this is this the right way to fix it? As I said, IF you are a fucking troll then you WOULDN'T do the above. That means that if you WOULD do the above then you AREN'T a fucking troll. You still have a chance to redeem yourself. Do it! FreeBSD is for adults, not kids. Kids want the adults to do all their homework for them. Adults at least try to do the homework, then call for help when they are stuck. Look at your first 2 posts again and put yourself in my shoes - do those posts make you look like an adult, or a whiny kid wanting someone to do his homework for him? Ted -Original Message- From: Tim Traver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:24 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: bsd Subject: Re: PAWS security vulnerability Ted, I don't know your experience lately with people on this or any other list, but that last personal attack was WAY out of line. I am not a Troll, nor have I ever been one. I use freeBSD extensively on hundreds of servers, but I am not a FreeBSD source contributor. Yes, I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person, read it over, and thought that it might be a legitimate exploit. I even picked up on the fact that Microsoft had already patched it in the service pack 2, which may mean that it was under wraps for a while, and was suspicious. So, after doing a little research on the net myself and not finding much, I decided to post something to the list to see if anyone had heard anything about it, and if the FreeBSD commiters were working on a possible patch. Maybe I wrote my post wrong, but it didn't deserve you biting my fucking head off. Now, you'll probably start in on well, if you run that many servers, then why don't you know what you're doing?. I do know what I'm doing. I would very well be able to apply your patch,and compile a new system. Problem is, I'm afraid I don't quite understand the vulnerability enough to properly test what it is supposed to fix... I would first need a way to break it, and then after applying your patch, verify that I couldn't break it any longer. If
Re: stupid question
Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anyway: vi /etc/resolv.conf clem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD legal question
Suppose I distribute a library that is under my own copyright, (B yet carries a BSD-like license. (B (B Suppose you then come along and take my library, and a GPLed (B library, link both of them together into a new program of yours. (B (B The FSF says that the entire code now becomes GPL. (B (B That's not true. The GPL requires you to license any distributed code (B derived from GPLed code under the GPL. (B (B This is a hairsplit since FSF=GPL, but yes, technically it's not the FSF (B saying the entire code now becomes GPL, it's the GPL saying that the (B entire (B code now becomes GPL. (B (BNOT(FSF=GPL) (B (BYou can assign a copyright you own to the FSF if you've put it under the (BGPL. You can also put the code under GPL and retain the copyright to (Byourself. This is clearly explained on the FSF's FAQs. (B (Bhttp://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesUsingTheGPLForAProgramMakeItGNUSoftware (B (BAnd splitting hairs is exactly how lawyers and judges get us to behave (Bcivilly towards each other, so splitting hairs or not splitting hairs is (Balso irrelevant. Or, rather, you do have to split hairs to understand (Bwhat's going on because this is a contract. It's the same thing as (Bunderstanding the fine print on your car loan. (B (BThe GPL does not say the entire code becomes GPL. It says the work as a (Bwhole is licensed under the GPL. In fact, section 2 is explicit about (Bparts: (B (BIf identifiable sections of that work are not derived from (Bthe Program, and can be reasonably considered independent (Band separate works in themselves, then this License, and (Bits terms, do not apply to those sections when you (Bdistribute them as separate works. (B (BTherefore, the GPL is explicit that it does not attempt to alter the (Boriginal license of any part that has an independent existence. The (Boriginal license of a part remains in force. (If the license of a part (Bis to be changed when incorporated into the combined work, the author or (Bcopyright holder of the part must explicitly change it.) (B (BIf the license of the part is incompatible, distribution of the whole (Bcan't legally occur under the GPL. (B (BIf the license of the part is compatible, it remains in force on the (Bpart as an independent work. (B (BThere is some detail following the part I quoted, which specifies that (Byou can't take the license of a part and extend it to new works derived (Bfrom the whole as a way to get around the GPL, but there is nothing in (Bthe GPL that alters (or allows a licensee to alter) the license of a (Bpart. (B (BWell, if I leave it at that, there may be some confusion. There is a FAQ (B (Bhttp://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleAlone (B (Bwhich says that the license for a part would have to allow the part to (Bbe distributed as an independent part under the GPL for the license to (Bbe compatible with the GPL. In other words, the license of the part has (Bto be at least as liberal as the GPL. (B (BBut what this FAQ is about is conditions like, "You may distribute this (Bprogram as a part of a combined work under an approved open source (Blicense, but as a standalone program, it must be distributed under (Blicense Q." (B (BI'm not sure I agree with that interpretation. But if it is the case, it (Bdoes not mandate distribution under GPL, only requires it to be allowed. (BAnd it still does not remove or alter the original license. (B (BIf the license is incompatible, distribution of the combined work is (Bengaging in illegal activity, not modifying licenses. (B (BOn the other hand, nothing prevents an author from offering more than (Bone licensing option, as long as none of the optins is an exclusive (Blicense. (B (B Since, as you point out... (B (B The problem here is that since you never owned copyright on (B my library, you do not have legal rights to modify the copyright (B and license on it. Thus, you cannot legally apply GPL to it. (B Nor can the FSF or anyone else apply GPL to it. (B (B ... the conclusion is that you cannot *distribute* the derived (B program; (B NOT that it magically relicenses code you've used to build it. (B (B Except that this is only the case if your definition of distribution (B is limited like the FSF's. (B (BDistribution is distribution, even if it comes with a little sleight of (Bhand. (B (B That is exactly why the FreeBSD ports system was created. (B (BI don't think it's the only reason. (B (B The idea behind ports is that 'unknowledgeable user' who I will (B refer to as a UU, can go to the ports, flick a switch (type (B make install) and whala- instantly the GPL licensed libraries that (B the FSF wants to prevent you from distributing with your nasty (B BSD stuff, are FTP'ed from whatever dark hole that (B they come from, the nasty BSD stuff is FTP'ed from wherever it (B
Re: Can't run natd after upgrade to 5.4
From: Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wisut Ponpattana [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't run natd after upgrade to 5.4 Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 00:23:40 -0400 (EDT) On Fri, 20 May 2005, Wisut Ponpattana wrote: Look back at my configuration file. Sure enough, at the bottom are options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT How about /etc/rc.conf? firewall_enable=YES firewall_logging=YES # Set to YES to enable events logging firewall_quiet=NO firewall_type=simple #Whatever type you have been using.. gateway_enable=YES # IF this machine will be a gateway natd_enable=YES # Enable natd (if firewall_enable == YES). natd_flags=-f /etc/natd.conf # Set rules file for the NAT daemon natd_interface=ed0# Public/external interface or IPaddress to use. network_interfaces=fxp0 ed0 lo0 replace natd_interface with whatever your public interface is.. Also I spent nearly 2 days tracking down some problems.. and they got fixed after adding the network_interfaces... It seems the code to automatically detect the cards doesn/wasn't working.. Thanks for the response. I tracked my mistake down. Working from memory, I used the command: make buildkernel KERNCONFIG=KEPLER. When I looked in the Makefile I discovered it should have been KERNCONF! So make naturally made the default GENERIC, which doesn't support networking (or at least not the firewall and divert). So I'm rebuilding the kernel and shouldn't have any more problems (at least I haven't with this part of it for years). Well, they say the three symptoms of aging are loss of memory and I forget the other. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp server
No, it's working ... try traceroute to server, maybe it's something with route ... I am unable to get access to the ftp.freebsd.org server. Is it down? Jason King ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I run this cron job?
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 01:49 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Perhaps trivial How do I run a cron job at the end of every month? #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command 59 23 29 * * user/path/to/cmd http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BSD legal question
(B (B -Original Message- (B From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel (B Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:12 AM (B To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (B Subject: Re: BSD legal question (B (B (BSuppose I distribute a library that is under my own copyright, (Byet carries a BSD-like license. (B (BSuppose you then come along and take my library, and a GPLed (Blibrary, link both of them together into a new program of yours. (B (BThe FSF says that the entire code now becomes GPL. (B (B That's not true. The GPL requires you to license any (B distributed code (B derived from GPLed code under the GPL. (B (B This is a hairsplit since FSF=GPL, but yes, technically it's (B not the FSF (B saying the entire code now becomes GPL, it's the GPL saying that the (B entire (B code now becomes GPL. (B (B NOT(FSF=GPL) (B (B (BNOT(NOT(FSF=GPL)) (B (BPolitically, the two are the same - the FSF owns copyright on the GPL (Bitself, (Bthey can change it anytime they want - thus the GPL says what the FSF (Bwants (Bit to say. Legally, no, but that doesen't count (Bwhen the press is interviewing Eric Raymond for the bazillonth time. And (Bit is those interviews that do the damage, not the legalities. (B (B You can assign a copyright you own to the FSF if you've put it (B under the (B GPL. You can also put the code under GPL and retain the copyright to (B yourself. This is clearly explained on the FSF's FAQs. (B (B http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesUsingTh (BeGPLForAProgramMakeItGNUSoftware (B (B (BYes, I knew that - of course if you retain copyright the FSF won't pay (Byour legal bills if someone infringes your code (and the GPL) and you (Btry to sue them. (B (B And splitting hairs is exactly how lawyers and judges get us to behave (B civilly towards each other, so splitting hairs or not (B splitting hairs is (B also irrelevant. Or, rather, you do have to split hairs to understand (B what's going on because this is a contract. It's the same thing as (B understanding the fine print on your car loan. (B (B (BYes and no. Judges also weigh the intent of things as well. In fact if (BI recall correctly, there is a law or some such in the US that if a (Bcontract's clause is not well defined and vague, that it's interpretation (Bis made in favor of the person who signed it, not the person that (Bauthored (Bit. (B (BThe law wasn't designed to be used by an unscruplous person to twist (Bup someone, at least in the US. Judges take a dim view of this and (Bthe legal system has mechanisms to filter out the worst of the abuses. (BIt happens more frequently on criminal trials - the defendant may get (Baway scott free on his fraud charge, but then they turn around and (Bconvict him on tax evasion and give him a penalty that is worse than (Bwhat he would have got if he had not got off on a technicality. That (Bis what happened to Martha Stewart - she got tossed in the pen anyway, (Beven though her lawyers will eventually be able to get her off because (Bshe's filthy rich. (B (B The GPL does not say the entire code becomes GPL. It says the work as a (B whole is licensed under the GPL. In fact, section 2 is explicit about (B parts: (B (B If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from (B the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent (B and separate works in themselves, then this License, and (B its terms, do not apply to those sections when you (B distribute them as separate works. (B (B Therefore, the GPL is explicit that it does not attempt to alter the (B original license of any part that has an independent existence. The (B original license of a part remains in force. (If the license of a part (B is to be changed when incorporated into the combined work, the (B author or (B copyright holder of the part must explicitly change it.) (B (B If the license of the part is incompatible, distribution of the whole (B can't legally occur under the GPL. (B (B If the license of the part is compatible, it remains in force on the (B part as an independent work. (B (B (BBut, their definition of compatible is so narrow only the GPL fits it. (BThis is political posturing. It's like saying your free to buy gasoline (Banywhere you want, but only 1 gas station, the one I own, sells the (Bspecial gas your car takes. (B (B There is some detail following the part I quoted, which specifies that (B you can't take the license of a part and extend it to new works derived (B from the whole as a way to get around the GPL, but there is nothing in (B the GPL that alters (or allows a licensee to alter) the license of a (B part. (B (B Well, if I leave it at that, there may be some confusion. (B There is a FAQ (B (B http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompat (B ibleAlone (B (B which says that the license for a
Re: How do I run this cron job?
Odhiambo Washington wrote: How do I run a cron job at the end of every month? Depending how date-critical 'end of every month' is to you, you may also consider adding your script in /etc/periodic/monthly/ Rob. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amavis
Trey asking on the amavis email list On 5/19/05, Charles Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran cvsup. Installed clamav, amavisd-new, and spam assassin. I changed my sendmail configuration file to allow amavisd-milter. When I restart sendmail and try to send a test email the email goes into oblivion and the following is what I get in my maillog May 19 16:17:12 myserver sendmail[18448]: j4JKHC25018448: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=346, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] May 19 16:17:12 myserver amavis-milter[17589]: j4JKHC25018448: (mlfi_eom) failed to connect(): No such file or directory May 19 16:17:12 myserver amavis-milter[17589]: j4JKHC25018448: (mlfi_eom) communication failure May 19 16:17:12 myserver sendmail[18448]: j4JKHC25018448: Milter: data, reject=451 4.3.2 Please try again later May 19 16:17:12 myserver sendmail[18448]: j4JKHC25018448: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:00, pri=30346, stat=Please try again later May 19 16:17:12 myserver sendmail[18445]: j4JKH8Y3018445: to=me, ctladdr=clamb (1001/0), delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30015, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
syncing sources without cvs and cvsup
Hi, i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. There's an alternative? Something like subversion or a client for cvsweb? current.freebsd.org services seem to be suspended... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and Exim
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:03:32PM -0400, Joe Wood wrote: Can someone point me to a good how-to on setting up Exim on FreeBSD 5.4? I've looked in a few places but haven't seen anything informative yet. http://ws.edu.isoc.org/workshops/2005/pre-SANOG-VI/bc/mail/exim/EximPrac.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD legal question
[...] (B NOT(FSF=GPL) (B (B (B NOT(NOT(FSF=GPL)) (B (B Politically, the two are the same - the FSF owns copyright on the GPL (B itself, (B they can change it anytime they want - thus the GPL says what the FSF (B wants (B it to say. (B (BThen why is the copyright on the current version 1991 (or was it 1992)? (BThat's a long time without changes. (B (B Legally, no, but that doesen't count (B when the press is interviewing Eric Raymond for the bazillonth time. And (B it is those interviews that do the damage, not the legalities. (B (BWell, that explains a lot. (B (BYou know, you don't have to jump either left or right when they say jump (Bleft. You can specify, for instance, v. 2.0 of the license, and it never (Bchanges until you specify something else, as long as you don't give them (Bthe copyright. Or you can specify a compatible license. Or you can (Bspecify an incompatible license. (B (BYou choose a license that fits your business model. (B (B(And I'm not sure what the relevance of them not paying your legal bills (Bmight be. If you don't give them the copyright, why should you expect (Bany favors from them just because you might decide to use a license (Bmodel they've provided for free?) (B (B[snipping a bunch of stuff I don't agree with but don't want to spend (Btime arguing about] (B (B If the license of the part is compatible, it remains in force on the (B part as an independent work. (B (B (B But, their definition of compatible is so narrow only the GPL fits it. (B (BThen why do they have that page full of supposedly free or open licenses (Bthat says more than twenty licenses are both free _and_ compatible with (Bthe GPL, including the non-advertising version of the BSD? (B (B[snipping more stuff] (B (B Thanks for the warning. Now I know one of the things I'll need (B to be very (B careful about if I sell FreeBSD workstations with ports pre-installed. (B (B (B Exactly, you should never do this. You should sell workstation hardware (B then have the customer contract with you to build the software on them. (B It needs to be a separate contract and all of that. That is exactly what (B we do when we deal with these sorts of things. (B (BInteresting that we come to the same conclusion here. (B (BMaybe that should be in a FAQ somewhere. Is it? (B (B-- (BJoel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bdigitcom, inc. $B3t<02q
Re: The availability of socketbits.h?
Xu Qiang wrote: Thanks for finding the info I need. But I really don't know how you find it. I have done info gcc, and pressed 's' button in my keyboard to search -std or -fstd, but got nothing. :( info gcc Move down the screen using the arrow key to the line * Invoking GCC:: and press return. Move down the screen using the arrow key to the line * C Dialect Options:: and press return. Move down the screen with arrow key or Page Down and there it is. Typing h at any point gives you help, but that's very long winded. Typing ? shows key bindings in a split window. Finish with this window by typing ^X0 (control-X then a 0 (zero)). There's also an emacs mode. I don't know if there is a proper X interface of any kind. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BSD legal question
(B (B -Original Message- (B From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel (B Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:40 AM (B To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (B Subject: Re: BSD legal question (B (B (B Legally, no, but that doesen't count (B when the press is interviewing Eric Raymond for the (B bazillonth time. And (B it is those interviews that do the damage, not the legalities. (B (B Well, that explains a lot. (B (B You know, you don't have to jump either left or right when (B they say jump (B left. You can specify, for instance, v. 2.0 of the license, (B and it never (B changes until you specify something else, as long as you don't (B give them (B the copyright. Or you can specify a compatible license. Or you can (B specify an incompatible license. (B (B You choose a license that fits your business model. (B (B (BI am not choosing the licenses on the open source software I get. (BAnd although I honestly don't care one way or another about the (BGPL itself, I detest lying. And most GPL proponents engage in it (Bvociferoiusly starting with their claim that the GPL is more "free" (Bthan the BSD license. That is a goddam lie if there ever was one. (B (B But, their definition of compatible is so narrow only the (B GPL fits it. (B (B Then why do they have that page full of supposedly free or (B open licenses (B that says more than twenty licenses are both free _and_ compatible with (B the GPL, including the non-advertising version of the BSD? (B (B (BWhat the FSF means by compatible is those are the licenses that give (Bup the copyright holders authority to determine distribution on the (Bsoftware, so anyone can come along and apply the more restrictive GPL (Bdistribution licensing on the software. (B (B [snipping more stuff] (B (B Thanks for the warning. Now I know one of the things I'll need (B to be very (B careful about if I sell FreeBSD workstations with ports (B pre-installed. (B (B (B Exactly, you should never do this. You should sell (B workstation hardware (B then have the customer contract with you to build the (B software on them. (B It needs to be a separate contract and all of that. That is (B exactly what (B we do when we deal with these sorts of things. (B (B Interesting that we come to the same conclusion here. (B (B Maybe that should be in a FAQ somewhere. Is it? (B (B (BIf it was the GPL bigots would scream about it. They hate (Bthe BSD license with a passion and GPL BSD code every chance they (Bget. Just look at the Linux distros. There's absolutely no reason (Bto apply the GPL license to the BSD utilities that are in those (Bdistros but you check the source code and you will see it there. (BAnd if you know nothing about Ghostscript and GNU Ghostscript/Alladin (BGhostscript, you ought to read up on the dispute, it is a textbook (Bexample of rabid GPL bigotry being so rabid that they bit off their (Bown nose. (B (BI assume somewhere there are reasonable people who have logical (Breasoned arguments that they personally prefer the GPL over the (BBSD license. But I've never read anything any of those people (Bhave written on the global scene. I suppose it's like the Baptist (BChurch, you know the majority of them are normal people, but (Bnone of those are in control of the organization. (B (BTed (B (B___ (Bfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list (Bhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions (BTo unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Correct system message configuration?
Hello, My system appears to be sending system messages to my ISP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I disable this? I still want to be able to view log messages, of course. Thanks for your help. Regards, Frits ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Correct system message configuration?
On Fri, 20 May 2005 12:36:53 +0200 Frits Westra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system appears to be sending system messages to my ISP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I disable this? I still want to be able to view log messages, of course. you didn't mention whether you want to run a MTA at all or not, if not disable the MTA but what about looking at /etc/aliases and give root and postmaster a proper alias, and then run : newaliases ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD legal question
Legally, no, but that doesen't count (B when the press is interviewing Eric Raymond for the (B bazillonth time. And (B it is those interviews that do the damage, not the legalities. (B (B Well, that explains a lot. (B (B You know, you don't have to jump either left or right when (B they say jump (B left. You can specify, for instance, v. 2.0 of the license, (B and it never (B changes until you specify something else, as long as you don't (B give them (B the copyright. Or you can specify a compatible license. Or you can (B specify an incompatible license. (B (B You choose a license that fits your business model. (B (B (B I am not choosing the licenses on the open source software I get. (B (BWell, of course you don't choose the license on the software you get. At (Bleast, not unless the author says you can. (B (BSince copyright exists, and the only way to have more rights than fair (Buse is if the author expressly gives you those rights, I don't see the (Bpurpose in complaining if the author gives you more than fair use. (B (B And although I honestly don't care one way or another about the (B GPL itself, I detest lying. And most GPL proponents engage in it (B vociferoiusly starting with their claim that the GPL is more "free" (B than the BSD license. That is a goddam lie if there ever was one. (B (BSome people believe in free love. Some people believe you can't have (Blove without a contract. Both points of view, and many others, are (Bcorrect, although not in all contexts, and not necessarily to the (Bextreme degrees that are sometimes claimed. (B (BIf you have too many degrees of freedom, you can't move, because there's (Bnothing to put your feet on. Contracts give you something to plant your (Bfeet on. (B (BSome people can see the social contracts without having to be hit over (Bthe head with them. I think such people are comfortable with the BSD, (BMIT, and similar licenses. (B (BSome people need to have more explicit boundaries, and certainly the GPL (Bis more free than Microsoft's EULAs. (B (B[more snipping] (B (B Just look at the Linux distros. There's absolutely no reason (B to apply the GPL license to the BSD utilities that are in those (B distros but you check the source code and you will see it there. (B (BI'll have to go looking, I suppose. I know it's hard to get your hands (Bon actual code any more. Care to name some specific examples? (B (B And if you know nothing about Ghostscript and GNU Ghostscript/Alladin (B Ghostscript, you ought to read up on the dispute, it is a textbook (B example of rabid GPL bigotry being so rabid that they bit off their (B own nose. (B (BOkay, there's one to look for, I guess? (B (B I assume somewhere there are reasonable people who have logical (B reasoned arguments that they personally prefer the GPL over the (B BSD license. (B (BI think I'm reasonable, although, if you read some of my not-quite-free (Blicenses, you might wonder. I do use an MIT-style license at times. But (Bif I ever finish a certain product, I don't want Microsoft embracing and (Bextending the code for that, so I'm likely to use a dual license on that, (Bwith the GPL as one alternative and something anti-Microsoft as the (Bother. (B (BMaybe I'm not reasonable? (B (B;-/ (B (B[more snipping] (B (B (B-- (BJoel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bdigitcom, inc. $B3t<02q
Can't install jre - fails on install of /usr/ports/misc/compat3x
I have tried to install jre from the ports collection and get the following error: freebsd jre # make install === jre-1.1.8 depends on shared library: c.3 - not found ===Verifying install for c.3 in /usr/ports/misc/compat3x === compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 is forbidden: FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr, FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath - not fi xed / no lib available. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/misc/compat3x. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jre. . . .Looks like a problem in compat3x (which I haven't been able to install from ports). Can anybody advise? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdconfig problem on make release of 5_4_0_RELEASE
i'm attempting to make a release and the build of the mfs image is failing (see below). it's mdconfig that's failing: + mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device if fact i chroot'ed into the release directory and played around with mdconfig. i cannot get it to function properly. it always responds with 'mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device' i cannot get google to find anything related to this problem. what gives? i'm dumb-founded. please help me! sh -e /usr/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh bsdlabel /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot /R/stage /mnt 4320 /R/stage/mfsfd 8000 minimum3 + export BLOCKSIZE=512 + DISKLABEL=bsdlabel + shift + MACHINE= + shift + FSIMG=/R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot + shift + RD=/R/stage + shift + MNT=/mnt + shift + FSSIZE=4320 + shift + FSPROTO=/R/stage/mfsfd + shift + FSINODE=8000 + shift + FSLABEL=minimum3 + shift + [ 4320 -eq 0 -a minimum3 = auto ] + rm -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot + dd of=/R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot if=/dev/zero count=4320 bs=1k + uname -r + [ -f /R/stage/trees/base/boot/boot ] + BOOT=-B -b /R/stage/trees/base/boot/boot + dofs_md + [ x != x ] + mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device + MDDEVICE= *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/release. + umount /dev *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/w/FreeBSD_20050519/usr/src/release. # uname -a FreeBSD bsdmaster.hcs.tl 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 mdconfig fails in chroot'ed environment: -- Any opinions as lame as the ones expressed above could only belong to me, and are not those of Texas Life Insurance Company. The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, Face of Evil Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Correct system message configuration?
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:36 +0200, Frits Westra wrote: Hello, My system appears to be sending system messages to my ISP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I disable this? I still want to be able to view log messages, of course. Try to edit /etc/mail/aliases ... you must find: root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chang this email and save file Thanks for your help. Regards, Frits ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, PHP 5, MySQL 4.1 (and ftpd)
OK, both of my problems are now resolved: 1. I didn't know I needed to restart inetd. I don't know what I was thinking... =) 2. I used the ports collection to reinstall MySQL, PHP and all the PHP libraries I need. I thought it was gonna become a nightmare but it didn't. Only the MySQL compilation took quite a lot of time (since this server of mine is a really old one), but everything seems to be working right now. Thanks... =) -- Can Berk Guder Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey On May 19, 2005, at 21:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2005 05:56:14 +0300 Can Berk Guder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I've just installed these packages on my fresh 5.4-RELEASE system using pkg_add -r: * apache-1.3.33_1 * mysql-server-4.1.10a * php5-5.0.3_2 However, since php5-mysqli isn't in the 5.4-RELEASE packages collection, I can't install php5-mysqli, and therefore PHP 5 is of no use for me. I've updated my ports collection using cvsup, however php5-mysqli requires php5- 5.0.4. Anyway, is there any way that I can install these packages from either the ports or the packages collection, or should I switch the whole system to 5- STABLE? Since I'm using a customized kernel, it'd be much easier for me if I could just use the packages collection. from the ports-collection it should be no problem, not sure about remote package-install 2. I uncommented the necessary lines in /etc/inetd.conf to allow ftpd, but I still can't connect to localhost using FTP. What else do I need to do to run the FTP daemon? did you enable inetd ? (e.g. via /stand/sysinstall post-config) did you restart inetd ? is inetd running correctly ? what about possible firewall-settings ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't install jre - fails on install of /usr/ports/misc/compat3x
compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 is forbidden http://www.freshports.org/misc/compat3x/ Mark FORBIDDEN because of FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr and FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath: xdr isn't fixed, and the realpath lib isn't available precompiled (at least we haven't found one). So...the question on my mind is do you just need to run java apps? On Fri, 20 May 2005, Robert S wrote: I have tried to install jre from the ports collection and get the following error: freebsd jre # make install === jre-1.1.8 depends on shared library: c.3 - not found ===Verifying install for c.3 in /usr/ports/misc/compat3x === compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 is forbidden: FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr, FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath - not fi xed / no lib available. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/misc/compat3x. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jre. . . .Looks like a problem in compat3x (which I haven't been able to install from ports). Can anybody advise? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.
Just a thought here. Is ssh blocked? :) You have a machine on the outside that you trust? You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not? On Fri, 20 May 2005, Julien Gabel wrote: i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stupid question
You're breaking my heart here. :) emacs /etc/resolv.conf *ducks* On Fri, 20 May 2005, Clement Twine wrote: Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM: How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses? the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :) anyway: vi /etc/resolv.conf clem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-identical CPUs in dual-processor system
My general thoughts on the matter is that if the bios is happy and letting you boot up multi-cpu, then you should be fine. The OS is going to throw instructions at the two cpu's, and those instructions will be run. The only real difference between any chips that are i386-compatible that you insert in there are transistor sizes, and probably some brand-specific-deal that identifies brand name, model number, and chip-specific instructions (such as MMX). At the end of the day, you're sending x86 instructions to an x86 compatible cpu. I would think you're fine. If the OS is correctly measuring the load on the cpus, I twould think it should balance that load nicely, just be sure to compile your apps for threading where it's supported (perl comes to mind). Tony On Thu, 19 May 2005, Brian O'Shea wrote: Hello all, I have a dual-processor system that I have been using with only a single CPU for some time. Recently I got ahold of another CPU from an old retired system. I thought that both processors were identical (they came from what appears to be the same model PC, an HP Kayak XU). However, after booting the system I see that the processors are not the same: CPU information in mptable output: Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model StepFlags 0 0x11BSP, usable 6 3 3 0x80fbff 1 0x11AP, usable 6 5 2 0x183fbff (sorry for the long lines) In this output you can see that the model for CPU0 is 3, but for CPU 1 it is 5. Also, the flags are different. Are there likely to be any adverse effects from using this combination of processors? There are no errors in dmesg, and the system appears to be using both processors: ... CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (266.08-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x633 Stepping = 3 Features=0x80fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX ... MPTable: HP XU/XW FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ... cpu0 on motherboard cpu1 on motherboard ... SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Thanks, -brian Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pine
Just a point of curiousity here, how are you trying to fetch pine? pkg_add -r pine, or pkg_add -r pine4 ? Only the latter works. That, and if you'r etrying to retrieve it from the default server, no shock that it fails. That server gets quite overloaded during the day. I'm getting more and more tempted to start up a wiki for newbies on good package management practices and port management. The handbook seems to deal well with these things once you know they need to be done, but for someone starting out, they have no idea that they need to be doing this start with. Granted, an argument could be made that you should read the handbook cover to cover before you begin. ;) Who actually DOES that though? Tony On Fri, 20 May 2005, RW wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 18:37, Charles Lamb wrote: What is a good alternative to Pine? It would seem it is nolonger available for freebsd? The pine distfile is generic unix source code, if you can't fetch it, it's probably just a temporary server problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portaudit is being stubborn
This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up. Chris On 5/17/05, Tony Shadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is driving me nuts. I just downloaded the latest portaudit database and ran it on my system: mx02# portaudit -ad Database created: Tue May 17 13:40:02 CDT 2005 Affected package: wget-1.8.2_7 Type of problem: wget -- multiple vulnerabilities. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/06f142ff-4df3-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html 1 problem(s) in your installed packages found. You are advised to update or deinstall the affected package(s) immediately. Okayso, that vulnerability isn't of much concern to me, but just to be sure I'm current: mx02# portversion ftp/wget wget= So life is good there, so I got back and add this to my /usr/local/etc/portaudit.conf file: # Make portaudit ignore wget vulnerability (no shell users here anyway) portaudit_fixed=06f142ff-4df3-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82 I then re-ran portauditit gives me the same output. :( I want to have this cron'ed where I only get ouput when something that actually concerns me comes up. Is the portaudit_fixed variable no longer supported? Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ng_netflow complile problems
Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. I've made ng_netflow work on one of my SMP boxes, and now I need to make it work on a UP box...should be fairly simple. I'm trying to compile ng_netflow, and I get the following error: --- === ng_netflow /usr/share/mk/bsd.man.mk, line 53: bsd.man.mk cannot be included directly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/netflow/ng_netflow-0.2.5-UP. --- I've grep'ed for bsd.man.mk in the Makefiles and all the source and cannot find it. Anyone have any ideas here? I'm at a loss... It was in 4.4BSD-Lite, so your system is incomplete if it doesn't have bsd.man.mk in /usr/share/mk/. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). Just a thought here. Is ssh blocked? :) You have a machine on the outside that you trust? You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not? Yes, ssh is blocked. We can just use the web and ftp via a farm of three proxies, which are able to resolve names on the Net. We can't even do that from our workstations or internal servers. So... -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted
I hope noone minds but as I have not had a reply I thought I would repost hoping that someone would pick up the thread. Thanks David Original follows: - Hi Below is the output from dmesg.boot I have some questions: 1. re: 802.11a This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat - then intention is to be able to disconnect it from the ships network, lug it to a position in range of a wireless network and do a portupgrade as the need arises chuckles). Is this card recognized by freebsd. Is there a suitable driver? How do I set it up? 2. Uhicio [GIANT LOCKED] What does this mean? 3. (da1:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Unretryable error What is the significance if any of these lines? 4. I want to use energy saving (mainly to protect the drive from unnecessary risk of damage in rough weather) to turn off the hard drive when access is not required. How do I do that? Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP (1593.55-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x6a0 Stepping = 0 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc048MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow! real memory = 1006567424 (959 MB) avail memory = 975376384 (930 MB) ACPI APIC Table: KM400A AWRDACPI ioapic0 Version 0.3 irqs 0-23 on motherboard npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: KM400A AWRDACPI on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU (3 Cx states) on acpi0 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: VIA Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xd000-0xd7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci0: network, ethernet at device 9.0 (no driver attached) fwohci0: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 mem 0xde01-0xde013fff,0xde014000-0xde0147ff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci0 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:d0:03:56:00:b2:b7:e6 fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 3 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci0 fwe0: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:d0:03:b2:b7:e6 fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:d0:03:b2:b7:e6 fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp0: SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop = 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) atapci0: VIA 6420 SATA150 controller port 0xa400-0xa4ff,0xa000-0xa00f,0x9c00-0x9c03,0x9800-0x9807,0x9400-0x9403,0x9000-0x9007 irq 20 at device 15.0 on pc i0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci0 ata3: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: VIA 8237 UDMA133 controller port 0xa800-0xa80f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci1 ata1: channel #1 on atapci1 uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xac00-0xac1f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 21 at device 16.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 21 at device 16.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered umass0: USB2.0 CardReader, rev 2.00/91.38, addr 2 uhci3: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 21 at device 16.3 on pci0 uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb3: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 16.4 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 17.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pci0: multimedia, audio at device 17.5 (no driver attached) vr0: VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX port 0xc400-0xc4ff mem
Spontaneous reboot before AND after memory swap
Hi all, I'm running 4.11 on a server, and for the last week or so it has been spontaneously rebooting about once a day or so. It has 512M of memory. I ran memtest and it causes the reboot as well. I went and bought 2 sticks of memory, took out the old one, and put the new ones in. That gave me 1G. But a buildworld fails with signal 11 and memtest still causes the reboot. Any ideas? Jonathon McKitrick -- My other computer is your Windows box. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bad nat on ipnat
Hi, i`m natting about 200 pc on one machine ipnat -s shows: ipnat -s mapped in 1569397 out 1688052 added 40190 expired 39045 no memory 0 bad nat 728 inuse 494 rules 8 wilds 0 the bad nat value is increasing in time, my ipnat rules are: #squid rdr bge0 0/0 port 80 - 192.168.0.1 port tcp rdr xl0 0/0 port 80 - 192.168.0.1 port tcp map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 - a.b.c.d/32 proxy port 21 ftp/tcp map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 - a.b.c.d/32 portmap tcp/udp 1025:65000 map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 - a.b.c.d/32 what is this bad nat? it doesn`t sound too good, but i cannot find an error in my config.. Any advices/links are welcome PS please replay to the list ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Test
Disregard Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shared /usr/ports directories
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:13:09PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: Hi all, I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering if it was possible to have it all on just one machine and NFS mount it? That is certainly possible. I have already been doing this for the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, but had not shared everything else as I was not sure if settings from a build on one machine may cause problems when building on another machine. Each machine has it's own /etc/make.conf with settings such as the processor type, so it is important that one build can't effect another. I would suggest you set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf so that the files built by the ports system do not get placed under /usr/ports but somewhere else. Is it just the object (.o) files that this effects, or all generated files? Where do the configurations get saved (for those ports with a config menu)? Almost all generated files - all that would end up under /usr/ports anyway. Where configurations get saved can vary slightly. Ports using the OPTIONS system get their configurations saved under /var/db/ports/. Some ports have their own home-rolled config menu (mostly because the port was created before OPTIONS made its debut) and they usually have their configuration saved in the work directory (among all the .o files.) Thanks Erik, and all who replied. I now have just one ports tree to keep up to date which is much easier for me! It also frees up a lot of space on my laptop! Rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/make.conf weirdness
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:51, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:31:02PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote:
Hi,
This is probably a user problem (me), but why is it that when I put this
in /etc/make.conf:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/transcode}
WITH_DIVX5=yes WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes
.endif
and build transcode, it will only receive WITH_DIVX5 and not the other
flag.
and if I put this instead:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/transcode}
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes WITH_DIVX5=yes
.endif
it will receive WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS and not the other again?
Same with all the ports such as :
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/mplayer}
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes WITHOUT_RUNTIME_CPUDETECTION \
WITH_RTC=yes WITH_LIBUNGIF=yes WITH_ARTS=yes \
WITH_FRIBIDI=yes WITH_CDPARANOIA=yes WITH_LIBDV=yes\
WITH_MAD=yes WITH_SVGALIB=yes WITH_AALIB=yes WITH_THEORA=yes\
WITH_SDL=yes WITH_ESOUND=yes WITH_VORBIS=yes WITH_XANIM=yes \
WITH_LIVEMEDIA=yes WITH_MATROSKA=yes WITH_XVID=yes WITH_LZO=yes \
WITH_XMMS=yes
.endif
will only receive WITH OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS.
Any way around this?
Put each entry on separate lines, don't try to separate them with
whitespace.
I think this was probably inspired by the portmanager man-page. The mplayer
section above is a slightly edited version of it's sample make.conf.
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Re: Spontaneous reboot before AND after memory swap
Mainboard, cpu or power supply. Take your pick which to test for next. :\ How many devices do you have to power in your system? http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/ Make sure your power supply has enough 'oomph' to power everything you're trying to power in your system. Other than that, cpu and mainboard may need replacing (or one or the other). On Fri, 20 May 2005, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I'm running 4.11 on a server, and for the last week or so it has been spontaneously rebooting about once a day or so. It has 512M of memory. I ran memtest and it causes the reboot as well. I went and bought 2 sticks of memory, took out the old one, and put the new ones in. That gave me 1G. But a buildworld fails with signal 11 and memtest still causes the reboot. Any ideas? Jonathon McKitrick -- My other computer is your Windows box. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.
Hmm. Is port 80 actually blocked then to everyone but the actual proxy servers? Just getting a feel for your environment. Try telnet www.google.com 80. Does it connect? If it does, then I wonder if your firewall is statefully inspecting non-http traffic across 80. You could get an ssh server on the outside to listen on 80, then ssh to it as I mentioned before. Just trying to come up with ideas. If it's a legitimate business need, then I would suggest making a request to your IP dept. to set up a rule on the firewall to allow cvsup to connect outbound from your box's IP address, and all to connections to the list of cvsup mirrors for your country. So you're asking for a rule for one host, to connect to a list of say, 20 hosts. That seems like a very reasonable request to me. Tony On Fri, 20 May 2005, Julien Gabel wrote: i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). Just a thought here. Is ssh blocked? :) You have a machine on the outside that you trust? You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not? Yes, ssh is blocked. We can just use the web and ftp via a farm of three proxies, which are able to resolve names on the Net. We can't even do that from our workstations or internal servers. So... -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel SE7320VP2 support ?
Hi all, we're planning to buy some new servers for our company (an IXP), we would like to run FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on these servers: we got an offering for dual Xeon machines with Intel SE7320VP motherboard. The board has a dual Intel pro gigabit lan adapter and SATA controller, anyone knows wether this hardware is fully supported by 5.4 ? Any suggestions will be appreciated ! Best regards, Francesco Ferreri -- - Francesco Ferreri NaMeX - Nautilus Mediterranean Exchange Via dei Tizii 6b, 00185 - Roma Tel. +39-0644486.386 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW http://www.namex.it - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cyrus IMAP from Ports in 5.X?
Do I need to create users from cyardm or from saslpasswd2? saslpasswd2. Recall that sasl2 is a system-wide authentication framework -- a one-stop shop for controlling access to cyrus-imapd and your MTA, or any other daemon designed to use this framework. It is conceivable that you would want an account in sasl2 but not in cyrus-imapd (for an MTA-MTA authentication requirement, for instance). Cyradm is just a mailbox creation/administration tool that looks to sasl2 for security account information. http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/ Looking at it... Also do I need loginrealms for using virtdomains? I believe loginrealms is just the term used by the cmu folks but is pretty much analogous to virtdomains as we're using the term here. By default, the saslpasswd2 utility will append the server's hostname UNLESS you specify that you want the namespace separate for a particular user account either using the command line switch and specifying a loginrealm or just adding @domainname after the userid portion. As a side note, this default scheme can lead to some surprises should you ever decide to change the hostname of the system. It will break auth for non-vhosted users because they will no longer be considered local. You'll either have to start using the fully qualified form of the login ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or delete and re-create those accounts taking the automatic new hostname, or specify something else explicitly. Also, while you're adding accounts to sasl2 don't forget to use the sasldblistusers2 utility so you can verify that the accounts have been added and what ends up appearing in their loginrealms position after the '@'. It may also be worthwhile to poke around in /usr/local/cyrus/bin to see these tools and the others (like squatter for building search indexes) included with the cyrus package. G ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portaudit is being stubborn
On Fri, 20 May 2005 13:43:29 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up. Chris On 5/17/05, Tony Shadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is driving me nuts. I just downloaded the latest portaudit database and ran it on my system: mx02# portaudit -ad Database created: Tue May 17 13:40:02 CDT 2005 Affected package: wget-1.8.2_7 Type of problem: wget -- multiple vulnerabilities. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/06f142ff-4df3-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html 1 problem(s) in your installed packages found. You are advised to update or deinstall the affected package(s) immediately. Okayso, that vulnerability isn't of much concern to me, but just to be sure I'm current: mx02# portversion ftp/wget wget= So life is good there, so I got back and add this to my /usr/local/etc/portaudit.conf file: # Make portaudit ignore wget vulnerability (no shell users here anyway) portaudit_fixed=06f142ff-4df3-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82 I then re-ran portauditit gives me the same output. :( I want to have this cron'ed where I only get ouput when something that actually concerns me comes up. Is the portaudit_fixed variable no longer supported? Tony I think the ftp/wget-devel version has addressed the security concerns. I switched to ftp/wget-devel and portaudit doesn't show any problems. I've not noticed any differences in using that version. I had a few other ports which depended on ftp/wget so I used portupgrade to switch the dependencies to ftp/wget-devl: portupgrade -o ftp/wget-devel ftp/wget According to the portupgrade man page, all the dependencies on the old package will be succeeded to the new package cleanly without leaving inconsistencies. There may be occasions when an update to a port which depended on the old ftp/wget may cause pkgdb to complain about a stale dependency on ftp/wget and you will need to repoint the dependency to the ftp/wget-devel package. If at some point the ftp/wget gets fixed, then it could be switched back from ftp/wget-devel with portupgrade. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). Just a thought here. Is ssh blocked? :) You have a machine on the outside that you trust? You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not? Yes, ssh is blocked. We can just use the web and ftp via a farm of three proxies, which are able to resolve names on the Net. We can't even do that from our workstations or internal servers. So... Hmm. Is port 80 actually blocked then to everyone but the actual proxy servers? Just getting a feel for your environment. Try telnet www.google.com 80. Does it connect? If it does, then I wonder if your firewall is statefully inspecting non-http traffic across 80. You could get an ssh server on the outside to listen on 80, then ssh to it as I mentioned before. It is not possible here. The name resolution is only possible when done from proxies. So not only are the ports blocked, but it is impossible to do a telnet www.google.com 80 from inside network (and public @ip are not routed internally). That is why we _need_ to pass through our proxies to get the Net. Since the outside ssh servers i know (and trust a little) use the HTTP port, it seems not possible to bypass the firewalls using the proposed method (in fact i already though about it, but without much success in the past). Just trying to come up with ideas. If it's a legitimate business need, Yes it is... as always in banking departments ;) then I would suggest making a request to your IP dept. to set up a rule on the firewall to allow cvsup to connect outbound from your box's IP address, and all to connections to the list of cvsup mirrors for your country. So you're asking for a rule for one host, to connect to a list of say, 20 hosts. That seems like a very reasonable request to me. Yes. But, in fact, and since fetch(1) knows about HTTP and FTP authenticated proxies, we really have not much need since we can get all that we need using FTP (ports tree and distfiles) and CTM (src-5 sources). We eventually lack the /usr/doc tree, but that doesn't justify a special rule on firewalls and an internal cvsup mirror :-) Thanks for your ideas though! -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd Messages showing up in /var/log/messages
Hello everyone. Just recently, some very odd messages started showing up in my /var/log/messages on a FreeBSD 4.9 MailGateway box.This box serves as our primary email scrubber, removing viruses and quarnatining spam. It has worked flawlessly for over a year. This messages started popping up just this week. Here is a few snips: May 20 08:22:27 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0 May 20 08:22:38 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0 May 20 08:23:44 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0 May 20 08:26:45 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0 May 20 08:31:50 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 9 with signal 0 May 20 08:34:39 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 9 with signal 0 May 20 08:35:01 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0 May 20 08:37:37 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0 Just to be sure, I ran chkrootkit as well as rootkithunter on the boxes, just to check. They both came back negative for any infections or foul play. But, I am still concerned about these messages and would like to know what they are and what is causing them. It would make me feel better. Anyone have any recommendations on where to start? I'm a little baffled at this moment. I appreciate it. Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing to a USB-printer + making it available to one other Windows machine
Hi there, Since the last thread I started died, I start a new one. I was using CUPS, but when I tried printing a test page, the printer did respond(by doing it's usual initializing work(like cleaning the printhead(I think))), but didn't print the testpage. Someone said if you don't use CUPS, it can work. Now, my question is: what printing sytem enables me to print locally and over the network with the least amount of configuration? Regards, Ron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
25. FreeBSD and Exim (Joe Wood) Message: 25 Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:03:32 -0400 From: Joe Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD and Exim Can someone point me to a good how-to on setting up Exim on FreeBSD 5.4? I've looked in a few places but haven't seen anything informative yet. Thanks in advance. There are FreeBSD specifics, usually in the work subdir; so you may wish to defer make clean until you review that. It's a habit I've developed: regardless of any docs installed by any port, I always look into work after make install, just to see what might be in there. Additionally, there is copious documentation provided seperately in the ports tree for Exim; it should be enough to get you started for local delivery. That's all I use it for. I do lurk on the Exim list; it's fairly friendly, so you could ask there. They do expect you to read the docs, first, I think. If you want to go beyond using it for local delivery, I can't help. It's not complex to set it up for local stuff. -- I don't care what you think. This is not a stylishly insouciant stroll out of the jungle, here. It's more like we've fallen out of our trees and rolled, butt-naked before the entire galaxy, downhill. That, and we seem to have a teensy problem lifting ourselves off the ground. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:49, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it responds momentarily when I send anything directly to /dev/ulpt0. I would appreciate the correct parameters for ghostscript - I think it should work with device ijs and 'server' ijsgimpprint, which has been installed in /usr/local/bin. Some of the instructions recommend CUPS and FooMatic, and seem much more complicated than I ought to need for a local installation. I tested the printer with Windows, and it does work. You haven't mentioned what kind of problems you're having. Personally, I use apsfilter, which I find makes life very easy... I have had help from several people, especially Ted Mittelstaedt, and now have a working printer. It can be done as follows: Install ijsgimpprint without CUPS: cd /usr/ports/print/gimp-print make deinstall # if you need to make WITHOUT_CUPS='yes' Make sure you have ghostscript installed, with the 'ijs' driver Create a filter as follows: #!/bin/sh gs -sDEVICE=ijs \ -sIjsServer=/usr/local/bin/ijsgimpprint \ -sDeviceManufacturer=EPSON \ -sDeviceModel=escp2-c84 \ -sIjsParams=Quality=720x360sw,InkType=CMYK,MediaType=Plain \ -dIjsUseOutputFD \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dBATCH \ -sOutputFile=- - (This is simple one that will ONLY handle Postscript files; I plan to enhance it by filtering text files through enscript first). Put it in a suitable directory (mine is in /home/mike/bin/C86-test, which is not a very good choice), and chmod +x it. Create an /etc/printcap containing: lp|C86:\ :lp=/dev/unlpt0:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/home/mike/bin/C86-test:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :mx#0\ :sh: In the filter above, change the 'escp2-c84' to match your printer as closely as possible. Google for ijsgimpprint to get some valid codes. Good luck, and thanks to everone who helped. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAWS security vulnerability
Ted, you just can't stop being a dickhead, can you ??? I admitted what I did wrong (unlike you), and yes, I posted this to the wrong list. Big deal. A lot of things get posted to this list that are a thousand times worse. Get off your high horse, and maybe use some manners instead of barking orders at everyone. I don't know which is worse. Trolls, or those that scream troll at the drop of a hat. Tim. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tim, In my first e-mail I said: If it works I would submit it to the FreeBSD security list OK., so I see how you might have misinterpreted that. But the sentence if it works you would submit it to the FreeBSD security list isn't grammatically correct. In my second e-mail I said: I told you to post the patch and info to the appropriate FreeBSD security lists, and you aren't the least bit interested in doing what I told you On the index page of http://www.freebsd.org there is a link called FAQ On that page is a link called Security On that page is the text: ...This point and others are often discussed on the mailing lists, particularly the FreeBSD security mailing list with a link to the appropriate mailing list. I find it real hard to believe you use FreeBSD on hundreds of servers and are unaware of the appropriate forum to post security questions. The general freebsd questions mailing list is not this place. You should have known this before you even posted your first question. Reading instructions for products that you use is not optional, it is mandatory, and FreeBSD's instructions are on the website. You posted your query in the wrong forum, you got a patch in response which is far more than you should have got, you were directed, hinting at first, forcibly at second, to go to the appropriate forum to post the patch, the results of the patch, and your security questions. You still, as far as I know, have not done this. So, OK maybe your not a troll and I assumed wrong. But I will point out that you said absolutely nothing in your first post about who you are, what you are doing, why you even give a shit about this issue. If you had simply opened your first post with I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person and I have to respond to him in some fashion or something like that, it would have gone a long way towards establishing credibility as to why you cared about this. If even better you had done a bit of research and said well the vulnerability shows that OpenBSD already patched for this, maybe FreeBSD should or if even better than that you had said I looked at the OpenBSD patch and it's really simple, could we use it on FreeBSD that would have done a lot to establishing that you were at least willing to offer help and assistance. Instead, reread your second post - you not once offered to do anything, not even apply the patch to see if it compiled, all you did is ask for yet more research to be done for you. Well we all are busy, you don't have a lock on that, buddy. Apply the patch. If the FreeBSD system doesn't panic then the patch isn't grossly wrong. If you do not have a test system then don't apply it. Either way, just take the patch to the appropriate FreeBSD security forum and post it with some asshole on questions told me to apply this in results of insert all research on this is this the right way to fix it? As I said, IF you are a fucking troll then you WOULDN'T do the above. That means that if you WOULD do the above then you AREN'T a fucking troll. You still have a chance to redeem yourself. Do it! FreeBSD is for adults, not kids. Kids want the adults to do all their homework for them. Adults at least try to do the homework, then call for help when they are stuck. Look at your first 2 posts again and put yourself in my shoes - do those posts make you look like an adult, or a whiny kid wanting someone to do his homework for him? Ted -Original Message- From: Tim Traver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:24 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: bsd Subject: Re: PAWS security vulnerability Ted, I don't know your experience lately with people on this or any other list, but that last personal attack was WAY out of line. I am not a Troll, nor have I ever been one. I use freeBSD extensively on hundreds of servers, but I am not a FreeBSD source contributor. Yes, I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person, read it over, and thought that it might be a legitimate exploit. I even picked up on the fact that Microsoft had already patched it in the service pack 2, which may mean that it was under wraps for a while, and was suspicious. So, after doing a little research on the net myself and not finding much, I decided to post something to the list to see if anyone had heard anything about it, and if the FreeBSD commiters were working on a possible patch. Maybe I wrote my post wrong, but it didn't deserve you biting my fucking head off. Now, you'll probably start in on well, if you run that
Re: Printing to a USB-printer + making it available to one other Windows machine
If you can get it working locally it is easy to make it work with CUPS on the network. CUPS is the easiest way to print on the network. (though there are good reasons to use others) Start simple: get something (either ghostscript or plain text) printing locally. Until the printer works on freeBSD locally you can never be sure it isn't a flakely cable or some simple thing that you are misdiagnosing. It's not a bad cable since the printer works under Windows and my previous Linux install(via CUPS) I don't remember the original thread, did you go to www.linuxprinting.org and follow their instructions? In most cases that is enough to get your printer working. Yes, I did. The hard part is making the printer work. Once it works, it is almost trivial to add CUPS. I know. If I want to communicate with the printer to get the inklevels etc, the kernel crashes. (I use escputil). It's a bug in the usb drivers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mdconfig problem on make release of 5_4_0_RELEASE
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:49:44AM -0500, William Richter wrote: i'm attempting to make a release and the build of the mfs image is failing (see below). it's mdconfig that's failing: + mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device Do you have md support in your kernel? Kris pgpyMP9M4mgn2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /etc/make.conf weirdness
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:13:08PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:51, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:31:02PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote:
Hi,
This is probably a user problem (me), but why is it that when I put this
in /etc/make.conf:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/transcode}
WITH_DIVX5=yes WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes
.endif
and build transcode, it will only receive WITH_DIVX5 and not the other
flag.
and if I put this instead:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/transcode}
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes WITH_DIVX5=yes
.endif
it will receive WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS and not the other again?
Same with all the ports such as :
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/mplayer}
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes WITHOUT_RUNTIME_CPUDETECTION \
WITH_RTC=yes WITH_LIBUNGIF=yes WITH_ARTS=yes \
WITH_FRIBIDI=yes WITH_CDPARANOIA=yes WITH_LIBDV=yes\
WITH_MAD=yes WITH_SVGALIB=yes WITH_AALIB=yes WITH_THEORA=yes\
WITH_SDL=yes WITH_ESOUND=yes WITH_VORBIS=yes WITH_XANIM=yes \
WITH_LIVEMEDIA=yes WITH_MATROSKA=yes WITH_XVID=yes WITH_LZO=yes \
WITH_XMMS=yes
.endif
will only receive WITH OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS.
Any way around this?
Put each entry on separate lines, don't try to separate them with
whitespace.
I think this was probably inspired by the portmanager man-page. The mplayer
section above is a slightly edited version of it's sample make.conf.
Someone should talk to the portmanager author then :-)
Kris
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Re: 5.4 +apache (how to restart)
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How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radeon+nForce4 NIC for AMD64
Emelianov wrote: Dear friends! Please help me with my new equipment: FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE/AMD64 mobo Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS Socket-939 nForce4 U RAM2x512Mb PC3200 (Dual Channel) VGAPCI-Express 128Mb PowerColor R41A-PC3 (ATI Radeon X700 Pro,TV-Out,DVI) NICInternal 1Gbps (nForce4) Look the #dmesg | grep pci command: 8--- pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pci0: memory at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 1.1 (no driver attached) ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem 0xfebff000-0xfebf irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0 pci0: serial bus, USB at device 2.1 (no driver attached) pcm0: nVidia nForce4 port 0xec00-0xecff,0xf000-0xf0ff mem 0xfebfd000-0xfebfdfff irq 20 at device 4.0 on pci0 atapci0: nVidia nForce4 UDMA133 controller port 0xe800-0xe80f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 6.0 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: GENERIC ATA controller port 0xd400-0xd40f,0xb70-0xb73,0x970-0x977,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x9f0-0x9f7 irq 22 at device 7.0 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci1 ata3: channel #1 on atapci1 atapci2: GENERIC ATA controller port 0xc000-0xc00f,0xb60-0xb63,0x960-0x967,0xbe0-0xbe3,0x9e0-0x9e7 irq 21 at device 8.0 on pci0 ata4: channel #0 on atapci2 ata5: channel #1 on atapci2 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 9.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: multimedia, video at device 8.0 (no driver attached) pci1: multimedia at device 8.1 (no driver attached) fwohci0: Lucent FW322/323 mem 0xfe9ff000-0xfe9f irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci1 pci0: bridge at device 10.0 (no driver attached) pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 11.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 12.0 on pci0 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 13.0 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 14.0 on pci0 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 pci5: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci5: display at device 0.1 (no driver attached) 8--- Wich kind of kernel options I need include to my config? Or may be some modules need to load at boot time? I'm already try to load the radeon.ko but also can't see any positive result. (See the 'pci5' lines) And more... What do you think about NIC on this m/board? Wich options/modules/third party programms? And the #kldstat command output for your attention: 8--- Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 11 0x8010 7cf120 kernel 21 0x808d 5ef0 snd_ich.ko 32 0x808d6000 2cb00sound.ko 41 0x80903000 28218radeon.ko 54 0x8092c000 8970 agp.ko 61 0xa794d000 4add tdfx.ko 71 0xa7952000 1090cr128.ko 8--- Kernel is GENERIC now. Thanks in advance. Get rid of r128.ko, you would use radeon.ko but the x700 has only 2d now support so you could drop radeon.ko also. tdfx.ko if for voodoo cards, drop that too. By the way the 9800s(IIRC) and newer show as 2 devices on one card. Its sad, but no one no one reads warnings about video drivers on the front page of the release notes. It could be more in depth, but if you do a little research and you will find nvidia is really the only brand you want to use for 3d on FreeBSD. Last time I check the nforce agp controllers were not properly initilized, so they don't work. I would like to know if nforce chipsets do 3d with the nvidia video drivers from the port if any one is listening. This said the 6600 GT, which can be found for around the price of the x700 pro, will wipe the floor with the x700 pro. The nic should work with the net/nvnet port. If you run current the driver is now in the base system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 here's some of my bookmarks from dru lavigne's stuff at oreilly on working with ports. the one on portupgrade really helped jumpstart my learning it. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html === Unix is like a wigwam. No gates, no windows, and an apache inside. === On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:17:32AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:36:58AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: yes sorry i jumped in without reading the man page for it's useage. however some digging and a few other helpful emails and TA DA!!! it works!!! i portupgraded freetype2, and then firefox built successfully. i was under the impression that portupgrade looked after dependencies like this on it's own however? If you tell it to..again, please see the manpage :) Kris Specifically: -R --upward-recursive Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well. (When specified with -F, fetch recursively, including the brand new, uninstalled ports that an upgraded port requires) The man page is your friend. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't i need to be wary of -R ?? wholesale upgrading of library's might break other apps that use them It's *always* a good idea to update your ports with your brain turned on :-) portupgrade -a is often safer, because it won't update a port but leave other dependencies of that port than the one you specified untouched. Kris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCjiaay0Ty5RZE55oRAj+AAKC9wzfw+v4vJVSK1FX8rDWu+46IGgCgmeGY FNi5kyTLkoF0/a5uWN1AhPk= =MCVh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to DTRT: backup UFS2 with POSIX.1e ACLs, how?
What is the recommended method to backup UFS2 file systems with ACLs enabled? I made the mistake of assuming (yes, yes, I'm well aware of the old adage) that dump(8) and restore(8) are compatible with POSIX.1e ACLs. I found during some testing that my assumption was either incorrect or I have not figured out how use dump/restore to properly play with ACLs. I've searched around the Interweb as well as the usual local sources (and read the man pages (dump(8), restore(8), acl(3), etc...) along with /usr/src/sys/ufs/ufs/README.acls) for an answer to creating backups and restoring UFS2 file systems with POSIX.1e ACLs enabled. I did not gain any insight from the local documentation and my Internet searches have produced conflicting results. In this ONLamp article (http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4053), the author states that FreeBSD's dump has been modified to understand UFS2 (including ACLs). My experience has been to the contrary. I've also found newsgroup/mailing list articles stating that dump(8) does not yet understand ACLs and to use the archivers/star port. I don't have a problem installing a port to facilitate my backups (ACLs show up in snapshots, so I should be able to get a consistent backup), however I would obviously prefer to use dump(8)/restore(8), if I have the option. I'm running a relatively recently -STABLE (5.4-STABLE #0: Tue May 17 18:09:01 CDT 2005). I have been passing the following flags to dump(8)/restore(8) for testing: dump -0a -f filename mount point | device name restore -rf filename Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, -Ash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pine (Tony Shadwick) giving in to temptation(s)
hello, I'm getting more and more tempted to start up a wiki for newbies on good package management practices and port management. get on with that, wouldya? The handbook seems to deal well with these things once you know lots of ways to get yourself into lots of deep water, yes. and a large disparity between beginners and experts. Granted, an argument could be made that you should read the handbook cover to cover before you begin. ;) Who actually DOES that though? there are large portions of the handbook that demonstrate vividly just how profound my lack of understanding remains, despite repeated attempts. i'd definitely welcome an intermediate level documentation. and a convenient means to confirm a) accuracy and b) timeliness, both of which seem non-trivial to me, would also help. regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mdconfig problem on make release of 5_4_0_RELEASE
well, it's the kernel that's on disc1 of the 5.4 release iso's. mdconfig works. it just doesn't work when chroot'ed into the build directory. i've just discovered that the /sbin/mdconfig that comes with the distribution works when copied into the release tree (i also had to copy libc.so.5 in the release directory's /lib). but then i was able to complete building the release. i've been building my own releases since 5.2 and never had this issue. On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:49:22 -0700 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:49:44AM -0500, William Richter wrote: i'm attempting to make a release and the build of the mfs image is failing (see below). it's mdconfig that's failing: + mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /R/stage/mfsroot/mfsroot mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Inappropriate ioctl for device Do you have md support in your kernel? Kris -- Any opinions as lame as the ones expressed above could only belong to me, and are not those of Texas Life Insurance Company. The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, Face of Evil Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NEWBIE: pkg_add syntax clarification for opera 8.01?
hello, reading the manpages for pkg_add pkg_create have left me no wiser. i'm still confused as to how to use pkg_add to replace a wonky opera 8 with a patched opera 8.01. the handbook instructions i have advise: ... 226 Transfer complete. 92375 bytes received in 5.60 seconds (16.11 KB/s) ftp exit # pkg_add lsof-4.56.4.tgz i'm unclear where the .tgz file should be prior to unleashing pkg_add currently, it's sitting on my main user's Desktop. but the handbook [3rd ed., 132] cites the subdirectory -- cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/sysutils/ [admittedly for lsof, above] -- so i'm wondering if i should move opera-8.01-20050509.1-static-qt.i386.freebsd-en.tgz to /usr/ports/distfiles? thanks for any suggestions, short of suicide. :c) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4
Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running the i386 version of FreeBSD. Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump/restore over ssh question
From: Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Xian wrote: To restore the filesystems: Boot from a rescue disk and create the partitions of on the disk. I've never smashed anything badly enough to need to work out how to do this. At least the partitions were still there. Well this is more complicated than it seems. First of all, using the fixit mode from 4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso and trying to use disklabel -e does not work. It gives this error: disklabel: /mnt2/stand/vi: No such file or directory It turns out vi is located at /mnt2/usr/bin/vi and one has to set EDITOR=/mnt2/usr/bin/vi for disklabel to work. Is that a bug? This also happens when I boot off disk1, enter fixit mode, and use the live filesystem with disk2. It is very easy to dump filesystems for backup, but it is not easy to restore filesystems. (I am trying to do this all over ssh...not tape) It is probably just better, easier, faster, to backup all your data and config files (rsync -e ssh -avp ...) and in case of disk failure, replace the disk, install fresh OS, then restore data and config files. What do you think? Why not just create a bootable disk *as* your backup. That's what I do. I run it once a week and then also backup every night to a disk based backup server. If my system disk fails, I just need to but off of my backup disk and then restore my nightly backups. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running the i386 version of FreeBSD. I don't know about the particular motherboard, but you need to enable PAE in your kernel. Not all drivers work with PAE, so you'll need to do some research to check your hardware compatibility. Kris pgpmpOasz0q2K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4
On May 20, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running the i386 version of FreeBSD. I don't know about the particular motherboard, but you need to enable PAE in your kernel. Not all drivers work with PAE, so you'll need to do some research to check your hardware compatibility. ok, thanks That will get me going. I don't have the 4gb now but am thinking about the years upgrades best Chad Kris --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java 1.3.1 Port Build Problem linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1
warpstone# make install === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 = Checksum OK for j2sdk-1_3_1_14-linux-i586.bin. === linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 depends on file: /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 - not found ===Verifying install for /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/amd64/8.0. = Attempting to fetch from http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.inet.it/pub/Linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.inet.it/pub/Linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm:
Java 1.3.1 Port Build / File dependency Problem
Please ignore the previous post - I clicked the send button prematurly When I attempt to install the port linux-sun-jdk13 from the directory /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk13 port I eventually get this message after the search for the dependency file glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm fails. This is version 5.4-amd64 - I have pulled the latest source ports via CVSup and built the kernel and userland to ensure I have the latest and greatest available system. We really need this version of the JDK becuase of the weberver we are running. Any help and direction is appreciated. Thank you!!! M Goodell warpstone# make install === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 = Checksum OK for j2sdk-1_3_1_14-linux-i586.bin. === linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 depends on file: /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 - not found ===Verifying install for /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/amd64/8.0. = Attempting to fetch from http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.inet.it/pub/Linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.inet.it/pub/Linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from
Re: Pine (Tony Shadwick) giving in to temptation(s)
On Friday 20 May 2005 11:09, the author David Armour contributed to the dialogue on Re: Pine (Tony Shadwick) giving in to temptation(s): hello, I'm getting more and more tempted to start up a wiki for newbies on good package management practices and port management. get on with that, wouldya? The handbook seems to deal well with these things once you know lots of ways to get yourself into lots of deep water, yes. and a large disparity between beginners and experts. I believe the challenge faced by writers of additional manuals for unix systems is how to bridge the very wide gap between clean slate approach for newbies and the assumed minimum knowledge level standards which prevail in existing documentation. My suggestion would be to build upon what we already have and: 1. create a project which extends existing man pages by: (a) Using an XML implementation of man pages to facilitate searches for meaning rather than just words. (b) Reviewing each man page and producing a clean slate version for each page. (c) Create links in the man pages to provide a clean slate presentation of concepts which are relevant to the contents of the page. Each such link (and sub links) would need to be organized so the reader could return to the start or any intermediate page s/he has travelled at any time . This could perhaps be achieved by a backward tracking module written in java. (d) Write a clean slate introduction manual which puts the whole within a conceptual framework and links to expanded man page system. (e) provide a framework with a user notes sytem such as is already provided by some X-windows manual implementations. 2. If you want to use a clean slate approach its definition would pose a challenge. I would offer a draft guideline in the following terms: The objective is to enable any user to enter any page with zero knowledge and as a result of studying the page, and any links s/he has the opportunity of both (i) understanding the material and (ii) placing the material in context (ii) putting the knowledge gained into practice 3. The latter requirement means that any smart manual would be rich in application examples and illustrate (i) circumstances in which the commmand is applicable (ii) identify similar circumstances for which the command is not appropriate (iii) identify appropriate alternative commands for those circumstances. Granted, an argument could be made that you should read the handbook cover to cover before you begin. ;) Who actually DOES that though? there are large portions of the handbook that demonstrate vividly just how profound my lack of understanding remains, despite repeated attempts. i'd definitely welcome an intermediate level documentation. and a convenient means to confirm a) accuracy and b) timeliness, both of which seem non-trivial to me, would also help. regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 40 yrs navigating and computing in blue waters. English Owner Captain of British Registered 60' bluewater Ketch S/V Taurus. Currently in San Diego, CA. Sailing May bound for Europe via Panama Canal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
all users to mount cd's
Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance for all advice, Ryan w ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java 1.3.1 Port Build Problem linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:22, the author M. Goodell contributed to the dialogue on Java 1.3.1 Port Build Problem linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1: warpstone# make install === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 = Checksum OK for j2sdk-1_3_1_14-linux-i586.bin. === linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.14_1 depends on file: /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 - not found ===Verifying install for /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/amd64/8.0. = Attempting to fetch from http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/8 .0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/8 .0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glib c-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common- 2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common- 2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/gl ibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2 .3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/updates/8.0/e n/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/updates/8.0/e n/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0 /en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0 /en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2. 3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd 64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd 64/glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.inet.it/pub/Linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/. grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.inet.it/pub/Linux/redhat/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/glibc-common-2.3. 2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/ . grep: /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/distinfo.amd64: No such file or directory fetch: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/amd64/ glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Attempting to fetch from
Keyboard key repetition
Hi list, I installed the 5.4-Release an updated to 5-Stable on a friend's notebook Toshiba A20. A problem the I never seen before is happening when he start the X, all the keyboard keys have a lot of repetitions I Tried to change the following /etc/rc.conf parameters: pcvt_keydel=750 # key repeat delay, 0-3 (250,500,750,1000 msec) (or NO). pcvt_keyrate=5# keyboard repetition rate 31-0 (2-30 char/sec) (or NO). and keyrate=slow I tried too the following option in the xorg.conf Option AutoRepeat 1000 10 And finally I tried to change the timing using KDE. The repetition raise after this changes but still occurs... some more ideas ? Regards, Alexandre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: all users to mount cd's
On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance for all advice, Ryan w Everything in that FAQ still works : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT Basically, type sysctl vfs.usermount=1 or add the line vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf so that it changes itself at boot. Make sure your cdrom has the correct permission in /etc/devfs.conf (example : perm acd0 777). Make a user-readable folder in the users home directory (/home/myself/cdrom) Make a fstab entry in /etc/fstab for that user (/dev/acd0 /home/myself/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0) Make an device icon on the KDE desktop with that user's fstab entry (found in the Device tab). Anyone sees a mistake in this, please fix, Nicolas. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maxproc limit exceeded with vpopmail
We keep getting the following error on the console every 2 minutes: May 20 13:30:45 mail /kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid , please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5). Uid is vpopmail. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, John (Please respond to john (at) vqis (dot) net directly as this list sends to many e-mail's to my blackberry :-) ) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: PAWS security vulnerability
You STILL haven't taken this to the correct security mailing list, after being told gently, then yelled at, then told firmly. What do we have to do to get you to do this? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Traver Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 9:33 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: bsd Subject: Re: PAWS security vulnerability Ted, you just can't stop being a dickhead, can you ??? I admitted what I did wrong (unlike you), and yes, I posted this to the wrong list. Big deal. A lot of things get posted to this list that are a thousand times worse. Get off your high horse, and maybe use some manners instead of barking orders at everyone. I don't know which is worse. Trolls, or those that scream troll at the drop of a hat. Tim. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tim, In my first e-mail I said: If it works I would submit it to the FreeBSD security list OK., so I see how you might have misinterpreted that. But the sentence if it works you would submit it to the FreeBSD security list isn't grammatically correct. In my second e-mail I said: I told you to post the patch and info to the appropriate FreeBSD security lists, and you aren't the least bit interested in doing what I told you On the index page of http://www.freebsd.org there is a link called FAQ On that page is a link called Security On that page is the text: ...This point and others are often discussed on the mailing lists, particularly the FreeBSD security mailing list with a link to the appropriate mailing list. I find it real hard to believe you use FreeBSD on hundreds of servers and are unaware of the appropriate forum to post security questions. The general freebsd questions mailing list is not this place. You should have known this before you even posted your first question. Reading instructions for products that you use is not optional, it is mandatory, and FreeBSD's instructions are on the website. You posted your query in the wrong forum, you got a patch in response which is far more than you should have got, you were directed, hinting at first, forcibly at second, to go to the appropriate forum to post the patch, the results of the patch, and your security questions. You still, as far as I know, have not done this. So, OK maybe your not a troll and I assumed wrong. But I will point out that you said absolutely nothing in your first post about who you are, what you are doing, why you even give a shit about this issue. If you had simply opened your first post with I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person and I have to respond to him in some fashion or something like that, it would have gone a long way towards establishing credibility as to why you cared about this. If even better you had done a bit of research and said well the vulnerability shows that OpenBSD already patched for this, maybe FreeBSD should or if even better than that you had said I looked at the OpenBSD patch and it's really simple, could we use it on FreeBSD that would have done a lot to establishing that you were at least willing to offer help and assistance. Instead, reread your second post - you not once offered to do anything, not even apply the patch to see if it compiled, all you did is ask for yet more research to be done for you. Well we all are busy, you don't have a lock on that, buddy. Apply the patch. If the FreeBSD system doesn't panic then the patch isn't grossly wrong. If you do not have a test system then don't apply it. Either way, just take the patch to the appropriate FreeBSD security forum and post it with some asshole on questions told me to apply this in results of insert all research on this is this the right way to fix it? As I said, IF you are a fucking troll then you WOULDN'T do the above. That means that if you WOULD do the above then you AREN'T a fucking troll. You still have a chance to redeem yourself. Do it! FreeBSD is for adults, not kids. Kids want the adults to do all their homework for them. Adults at least try to do the homework, then call for help when they are stuck. Look at your first 2 posts again and put yourself in my shoes - do those posts make you look like an adult, or a whiny kid wanting someone to do his homework for him? Ted -Original Message- From: Tim Traver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:24 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: bsd Subject: Re: PAWS security vulnerability Ted, I don't know your experience lately with people on this or any other list, but that last personal attack was WAY out of line. I am not a Troll, nor have I ever been one. I use freeBSD extensively on hundreds of servers, but I am not a FreeBSD source contributor. Yes, I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person, read it over, and
Re: NTP issues with 5.4 (SOLVED) (fwd)
On Friday 20 May 2005 01:01:01, Darrel wrote: I installed openntpd considering that it should run with reduced privileges. The Workgroup did not sync up right away and I reinstalled NTP4. Currently, I can sync Window XP and Windows 98. My /var/log/messages: May 19 12:25:37 ntpd[379]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 May 19 12:42:40 ntpd[379]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 May 19 14:59:14 ntpd[379]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 May 19 15:16:19 ntpd[379]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 May 19 18:24:09 ntpd[379]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 May 19 18:41:14 ntpd[379]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 I am not sure, but this could be normal phase-lock-loop of the kernel. I think this is normal, the above status codes are in hex. Bit 0 of the 1st byte tells about clock source (0=A 1=B), bit 1 of 1st byte stands for mode status (0=PLL 1=FLL), bit 2 of 1st byte represents resolution status (0=us 1=ns) and bit 7 of the 2nd byte indicates that PLL updates are enabled. status 0x2001 = source A, mode PLL, resolution ns, PLL updates enabled status 0x6001 = source A, mode FLL, resolution ns, PLL updates enabled The command 'ntpdc -c kerninfo | grep status' displays some of this status information in human-readable format. You can find a document that describes the Adaptive Hybrid Clock Discipline Algorithm at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/papers/allan.pdf Cheers, ch -- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu pgpL7BNSORxZr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: all users to mount cd's
Ryan Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance for all advice, See the How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable media?, but an automounter may be what you want. Check out amd(8). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
downloading entire directories
I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The problem is I do not have remote access to this particular ftp server. The only alternative that I could think of using is wget. Although I would prefer to use ftp. Thank you. This is for a perl script to basically check an ftp server every day, download what's new, and add the new items to a database to not download the same items again the next day. Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Penis enhancement patch, doctor approved and recommended.
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Re: downloading entire directories
Hmmm could you possibly try rsync? Also, I believe that ncftp has a recursive (-R) option in it that would allow you to download all of the files in a given directory structure. I'm not sure if thats what your looking for. HTH, -- Jonathan On Fri, May 20, 2005 5:10 pm, Eugene Hercun said: I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The problem is I do not have remote access to this particular ftp server. The only alternative that I could think of using is wget. Although I would prefer to use ftp. Thank you. This is for a perl script to basically check an ftp server every day, download what's new, and add the new items to a database to not download the same items again the next day. Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DDB
I have compiled my kernel with options SMP and with following options in hope that I will be able to drop into debuuger after fatal trap 12 (FreeBSD-5.4-STABLE). I have added following lines to my config: options KDB options KDB_TRACE options DDB Although dmesg | grep SMP says FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! top shows that processes are running only on CPU's 0 and 2. systat also shows: root idle: cpu0 XXX nobodysquid XX root idle: cpu2 XXX root swi1: net X Is this normal, or am I missing something? Regards, Goran Gajic ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away
I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with Xinerama. When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of the desktop. (I'm using gdm and gnome, but xdm with twm does the exact same thing.) After a while (30 minutes or more) the right monitor will begin displaying its half of the desktop. I've been hunting through the logs and googling trying to figure out what the cause is, but so far I'm stumped. This is a copy of the most recent display log (but they all look about the same.) less /var/log/\:0.log X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.4 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD utd59514.utdallas.edu 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Build Date: 20 May 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Fri May 20 16:07:53 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list! AUDIT: Fri May 20 16:24:03 2005: 567 X: client 4 rejected from local host And this is all the warnings in the Xorg.0.log: grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 9500 and newer cards (WW) RADEON(1): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 9500 and newer cards (dri is not enabled in the xorg.conf file.) If anyone has a clue or can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. I've already posted my xorg.conf file to the list, so I won't do that again. Look through the archives. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: maxproc limit exceeded with vpopmail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We keep getting the following error on the console every 2 minutes: May 20 13:30:45 mail /kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid , please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5). Uid is vpopmail. Any ideas? Increase maxproc limit? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading entire directories
There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so: create the actually directory locally ftp to the remote system cd to the directory Then type the following: prompt mget * Now, that doesn't recurse. :\ The other way would be to do 'portinstall wget', then 'man wget'. Tony On Fri, 20 May 2005, Eugene Hercun wrote: I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The problem is I do not have remote access to this particular ftp server. The only alternative that I could think of using is wget. Although I would prefer to use ftp. Thank you. This is for a perl script to basically check an ftp server every day, download what's new, and add the new items to a database to not download the same items again the next day. Eugene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: all users to mount cd's
Ryan Winograd wrote: On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance for all advice, Ryan w Everything in that FAQ still works : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT Basically, type sysctl vfs.usermount=1 or add the line vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf so that it changes itself at boot. Make sure your cdrom has the correct permission in /etc/devfs.conf (example : perm acd0 777). Make a user-readable folder in the users home directory (/home/myself/cdrom) Make a fstab entry in /etc/fstab for that user (/dev/acd0 /home/myself/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0) Make an device icon on the KDE desktop with that user's fstab entry (found in the Device tab). Anyone sees a mistake in this, please fix, Nicolas. I was hoping to avoid adding to the fstab for every user on my network. Otherwise that would work. I got another suggestion recommending using amd (automounter), which i will look into a little more. Thx for advice though. Side note: Is it a mistake to be using FreeBSD as a desktop OS? Its main purpose is as a server, FreeBSD even admits its goal is not to be a desktop OS. So should i be looking for a Linux solution here? It might be worth looking into. Anyways, i'll report back when i explore amd a little bit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: all users to mount cd's
On May 20, 2005 06:02 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Side note: Is it a mistake to be using FreeBSD as a desktop OS? Its main purpose is as a server, FreeBSD even admits its goal is not to be a desktop OS. Funny, I just gave a presentation discussing FreeBSD as a desktop os. I run FreeBSD as a desktop OS, my wife's cursed Compaq Presario R3240CA runs FreeBSD as a desktop OS and I convinced many friends (aka geeks) to try FreeBSD as a desktop OS and that was a success. I have 4 computers at home and only one is running XP, and that's for games. Maybe FreeBSD should only be used for servers instead of desktop, but I'll honestly tell you that it does a great job on my computers doing both. At the same time. While making buildworld and ripping/encoding a dvd... Plus I hate the BSOD. Nicolas. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GUI mailer...
I've just tried 'sylpheed' again. --This time I do have pop3 and IMAP. After I set up the configuration, (pointing at ns1.thought.org), when I tried to get mail, I was asked to input a password. I typed in my password for kline on ns1 and sylpheed quit immediately. evolution works with sendmail, so it worked far more easily. There is nothing to set up. The thing with evolution is that when I see an http://URL and mouseclick on it, nothing happens. I would expect that mozilla or firefox would popup at the URL, but no such luck. (I didn't see anyplace that associates evolution with a browser.) Are there any GUI mailers that use sendmail and that open an underlined URL with browser-whatever? On my daughter's RH-8 system stuff works out-of-the-box. Somehow. But I'm getting ready to replace the RH swith something called Ubuntuu. Sorry if these seem gto be lame questions, but I'm a cmdline Luddite. I just need to have a good GUI mailer handy. tia, guys, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: all users to mount cd's
On Friday 20 May 2005 23:02, Ryan Winograd wrote: Ryan Winograd wrote: On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance for all advice, Ryan w Everything in that FAQ still works : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOP PYMOUNT Basically, type sysctl vfs.usermount=1 or add the line vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf so that it changes itself at boot. Make sure your cdrom has the correct permission in /etc/devfs.conf (example : perm acd0 777). Make a user-readable folder in the users home directory (/home/myself/cdrom) Make a fstab entry in /etc/fstab for that user (/dev/acd0 /home/myself/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0) Make an device icon on the KDE desktop with that user's fstab entry (found in the Device tab). Anyone sees a mistake in this, please fix, Nicolas. I was hoping to avoid adding to the fstab for every user on my network. What I do is add a few lines like chown $USER /dvd to /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xstartup so when a user logs in through kdm the ownership of the mountpoints are changed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gvinum, raid5 on 5.4
Hello, Wondering on gvinum's stability status on 5.4 for raid5? So far i've worked with vinum and raid1 creating mirrored disks, but i'd like now having 3 identical disks and a partition i could take off of an optional fourth create a completely redundant raid5 array where i can take any of the drives in question and set them to master and the box goes on. I was wondering any experiences with this? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
any way to tell memory config of a machine?
Hi I was wondering if there was any way to tell the memory configuration of a server running FBSD 5 (while running). By this I mean: can I tell if 2GB is 2x1GB or 4x512MB etc? Obviously I can shut it down and either look at the BIOS or physically look inside, but I would rather not do that. Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root filesystem occationally not found
Hello, I've got a 5.2 box that on the very rare times i have to reboot it occationally, not always but enough to be a concern, it can not find it's root filesystem, and i'm dropped at a loader prompt. At the loader prompt i issue reboot the box does so again and this time it boots completely. I am at a loss to explain this and wonder if anyone has seen anything similar? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newbie question
last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp mirror, now i cant find it does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 release announcement? or it has been permanently removed (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.4/README.TXT) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie question
last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp mirror, now i cant find it does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 release announcement? or it has been permanently removed This has been well documented in the installation instruction. The layout of the discs has been reorganized so now disk1 functions the same as mini-inst or the former disk1 or the fixit disk. jerry (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.4/README.TXT) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
radeon
Hello. Once again, I have problems in order to use any kind of graphical environment on FreeBSD, therefore I write from Wingsdowz. I was trying to move to RADEON-based cards, but I have no idea how to make them work with X servers. I have a mixed-up 4.7 and 4.11 system, with the kernel of the new one, and the X server of the old one. I have both the collection of ports available. I'm testing the Radeon chipsets from 9250 to 9800, even if the firts experiences are crappy also on Wingsdowz, as for the desktop stuff. If I could find a couple of ABIT FX5800 OTES, I'll trash the ABIT RADEONS. On FreeBSD I only run Windowmaker, GNUstep, GTK1 at the moment; the system also runs emulators like Wine and Xmame: it is extremely fast. On Wingsdowz I have two customized graphical engines for the desktop. Both the systems look exactly like a NeXT. I would like to receive some suggestions. Please, CC me. Thanks in advance. VITTORI ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: radeon
On Friday 20 May 2005 07:11 pm, .VWV. wrote: Hello. Once again, I have problems in order to use any kind of graphical environment on FreeBSD, therefore I write from Wingsdowz. I was trying to move to RADEON-based cards, but I have no idea how to make them work with X servers. I have a mixed-up 4.7 and 4.11 system, with the kernel of the new one, and the X server of the old one. I have both the collection of ports available. When you are having problems, I find that you need to get consistant. Your comment about kernel is scary because on FreeBSD you don't have a different kernel and user land. You have 4.11 or 4-stable but not a combo of both. No one will have a similar system to see what you can do to fix a problem until you have a consistant system with what other people are also running. If you are running a 4.11 system, you need to upgrade all of your ports to 4.11. There is on the order of a year between the release of 4.7 and 4.11. Lots of things have changed. So, I would get all of the ports updated to 4.11. The port program sysutils/portupgrade will make this easier. You can set the option -P and it will use packages from /usr/ports/packages/All or you can mount the 4.11 CD and load the packages from the CD. Chapter 4 in the Handbook is on maintaining your ports. It goes in to much better detail than anyone will in a simple email. I'm testing the Radeon chipsets from 9250 to 9800, even if the firts experiences are crappy also on Wingsdowz, as for the desktop stuff. If I could find a couple of ABIT FX5800 OTES, I'll trash the ABIT RADEONS. The XFree86 Organization will have documentation on what cards it supports. You will have to track them down and see what cards are supported. The newer ones may only be fully supported on Xorg. That doesn't work very well on 4.x and you should consider updating to FreeBSD 5.4. There is an iso that you can download and burn on to CD-R material. Kent On FreeBSD I only run Windowmaker, GNUstep, GTK1 at the moment; the system also runs emulators like Wine and Xmame: it is extremely fast. On Wingsdowz I have two customized graphical engines for the desktop. Both the systems look exactly like a NeXT. I would like to receive some suggestions. Please, CC me. Thanks in advance. VITTORI ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAWS security vulnerability
Ted, I did take it to the security list (freebsd-security@freebsd.org). Since I did not actually know if this was an issue yet, I figure I would ask it to the appropriate list before sending it directly to the security officers. I'd rather not waste their time until I knew it was an issue. I guess maybe you don't subscribe to that list. At the time, neither did I, because I can't subscribe to ALL of the lists... The answer was that your patch was flawed, and that there was already a patch for it in CVS anyway. I figured from your high chair, that you would have seen the post when it was made this morning, and the response back from one of the people on the list about it. I didn't feel the need to update you about it since you've been so friendly to me. And since no one else joined in on the conversation, I figured I would let that info sit on the security list for people to find. Tim. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You STILL haven't taken this to the correct security mailing list, after being told gently, then yelled at, then told firmly. What do we have to do to get you to do this? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Traver Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 9:33 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: bsd Subject: Re: PAWS security vulnerability Ted, you just can't stop being a dickhead, can you ??? I admitted what I did wrong (unlike you), and yes, I posted this to the wrong list. Big deal. A lot of things get posted to this list that are a thousand times worse. Get off your high horse, and maybe use some manners instead of barking orders at everyone. I don't know which is worse. Trolls, or those that scream troll at the drop of a hat. Tim. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tim, In my first e-mail I said: If it works I would submit it to the FreeBSD security list OK., so I see how you might have misinterpreted that. But the sentence if it works you would submit it to the FreeBSD security list isn't grammatically correct. In my second e-mail I said: I told you to post the patch and info to the appropriate FreeBSD security lists, and you aren't the least bit interested in doing what I told you On the index page of http://www.freebsd.org there is a link called FAQ On that page is a link called Security On that page is the text: ...This point and others are often discussed on the mailing lists, particularly the FreeBSD security mailing list with a link to the appropriate mailing list. I find it real hard to believe you use FreeBSD on hundreds of servers and are unaware of the appropriate forum to post security questions. The general freebsd questions mailing list is not this place. You should have known this before you even posted your first question. Reading instructions for products that you use is not optional, it is mandatory, and FreeBSD's instructions are on the website. You posted your query in the wrong forum, you got a patch in response which is far more than you should have got, you were directed, hinting at first, forcibly at second, to go to the appropriate forum to post the patch, the results of the patch, and your security questions. You still, as far as I know, have not done this. So, OK maybe your not a troll and I assumed wrong. But I will point out that you said absolutely nothing in your first post about who you are, what you are doing, why you even give a shit about this issue. If you had simply opened your first post with I was shown this vulnerability by our network security person and I have to respond to him in some fashion or something like that, it would have gone a long way towards establishing credibility as to why you cared about this. If even better you had done a bit of research and said well the vulnerability shows that OpenBSD already patched for this, maybe FreeBSD should or if even better than that you had said I looked at the OpenBSD patch and it's really simple, could we use it on FreeBSD that would have done a lot to establishing that you were at least willing to offer help and assistance. Instead, reread your second post - you not once offered to do anything, not even apply the patch to see if it compiled, all you did is ask for yet more research to be done for you. Well we all are busy, you don't have a lock on that, buddy. Apply the patch. If the FreeBSD system doesn't panic then the patch isn't grossly wrong. If you do not have a test system then don't apply it. Either way, just take the patch to the appropriate FreeBSD security forum and post it with some asshole on questions told me to apply this in results of insert all research on this is this the
Portupgrade breaks Apache13-modssl
I am running Freebsd 5.3 and just did a portupgrade(upgraded php, amavis, clamav, and cyrus-sasl. When I rebooted apache refused to start. I can get apache started with no ssl but not with it. I have apache13-modssl installed. It wasn't modified during the upgrade though. So it would seem taht teh ssl mod is crashing. Any ideas? Anyone else experience this? Thanks, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away
On 5/20/05, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with Xinerama. When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of the desktop. (I'm using gdm and gnome, but xdm with twm does the exact same thing.) After a while (30 minutes or more) the right monitor will begin displaying its half of the desktop. I've been hunting through the logs and googling trying to figure out what the cause is, but so far I'm stumped. This is a copy of the most recent display log (but they all look about the same.) I'd post a copy of your xorg.conf file. The info bellow states that it can not detect the monitor, but with out the config we can't tell if it's a problem with your setup or a hardware issue. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
