enabling if_bridge STP
Hello! I've just built myself a VPN-network for testing bridge STP. I installed 3 FreeBSD boxes (2 FreeBSD-6.2 and 1 FreeBSD-6.1) and connected all of them with OpenVPN with TAP-bridging: * 1st box is OpenVPN server only and has tap0 bridged with its inner interface (192.168.1.1). * 2nd box is OpenVPN client only and has tap0 and tap1 bridged with its inner interface (192.168.2.1). * 3rd box is both OpenVPN client and server and has also bridged tap0, tap1 and its inner interface (192.168.3.1). So now the question is on which interfaces should I enable STP in such setup? I tried enabling it on all interfaces (well, besides the external ones ;) like this: = ifconfig bridge0 create addm tap0 stp tap0 addm sk0 stp sk0 addm tap1 stp tap1 up = But after doing so, all the interfaces just stay disabled, a'la: = bridge0: flags=28143 mtu 1500 ether ac:de:48:46:d3:ef priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 member: tap0 flags=7 port 7 priority 128 path cost 55 disabled member: tap1 flags=7 port 9 priority 128 path cost 55 disabled member: sk0 flags=7 port 1 priority 128 path cost 55 disabled = Am I doing smth wrong? -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/enabling-if_bridge-STP-tf4954594.html#a14188023 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Scanner Compatibility
Jason C. Wells wrote: Does this represent the state of the art in scanners under FreeBSD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html Any other up to the minute tips on purchasing a scanner? Does 7.0-RELEASE present any new issues? Thanks, Jason C. Wells ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" That article is very well written. The only thing that is not emphasized enough is that lots of scanners do require firmware (binary blobs) that you have to extract from M$ .cab files. (You will need to use /usr/ports/archievers/cabextract program to do so). You definitely want to look very carefully the list of supported devices http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html before you make a purchase. I do believe that Epson scanners are probably best solutions for Unix/Linux scanning. I use Epson Perfection 1670 and it works like a charm. Unfortunately it does require binary blob which might be something you want to avoid. The another option is to look the list of devices supported by HPLIP drivers. HPLIP drivers enable full functionality of many all-in-one HP products and also HPLIP can unlock some HP flat bad scanners that where problematic in the past. Bottom line is that you have to do your homework. If you need step by step instructions how to install scanner you might contact me via private mail. Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
fsck of big disk
Hi list we have a freshly installed FreeBSD 6.2 machine with a gstriped external disk, of 5.3Tb. The disk is composed of two slices of 2.6 Tb. We are trying to have a (background) fsck of it but few hours later since the start of the check the host get unresponsive: it responds to ping but it doesn't let login anyone, nor by ssh nor by console. In the meanwhile we are having a large rsync from another host. Tonight during the fsck/rsync we had a reboot, without special messages on the console. We have 1Gb of RAM on this server. Is 1Gb too small as memory to have a fsck and a rsync on a server with 5.3Gb as external disk? Thanks for your precious help Valerio Daelli Server: i386 - HP DL360 CPU pentium4 1Gb RAM HBA: LSI Logic 929 External disk: Apple XRAID with upgraded firmware ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: enabling if_bridge STP
On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:17:36 Atrox wrote: > Am I doing smth wrong? Hm, are these FreeBSD boxes you are trying to bridge, on the same ethernet? STP will create a tree by disabling some ports to eliminate loops in the topology. If you have a loop-free topology, all ports should be active. ASCII art time! What's your topology? Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
geom gmirror question
Forwarded Message From: "Dino Vliet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.orgDate: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 03:55:20 -0700 (PDT)Subject: hardware problems?..how to disable geom?Plain Text Attachment [ Scan and Save to Computer ] Hi folks,I have sinned:-(I have (for testing purposes) activated geom for mirroring on my freebsd 6.2 via c3 cpu system. However, I used two different brand IDE harddisks but identical in capacity.I have: ad0: 76319MB at ata0-master UDMA100 ad3: 76319MB at ata1-slave UDMA100At first everything worked, but lately I have noticed some weird things: 1) In the beginning the gmirror status command was showing the complete status for the components ad0 or ad3 (it was altering I guess due to the round robin thing I choose) However since a few weeks, only the ad0 component shows the complete status(the only thing I did in between was removing the seagate harddisk once to try to go to a pc mall and buy a second one but when I returned I just reattached it (I hadn't switched the pc on though in the mean time so I don't think it's an issue))2) I started to have problems building the ports and make buildword3) bash core dumped on my (I couldn't log in nomaly anymore and had to use csh)4) now I see that rsyncd, freshclam and clamav are core dumping when the machine boots up: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad3 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad3 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad0 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a pid 896 (rsync), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) pid 928 (clamd), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) pid 934 (freshclam), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) So I want to bring the machine back to its normal state by doing this:a) remove seagate harddisk b) remove the mirror c) see if everything works fine again because I don't want to reinstall (I CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS RIGHT?)The question is, how di I get rid of the mirror? Or is it better to order a new seagate harddisk, get rid of the maxtor harddisk and install the new seagate harddisk in stead of the maxtor one and rebuild the mirror?Thanks for your kind help *** Hi folks, I've bought my new hardware and want to give this another try. On the documentation sacttered around on the net I read that it's better to have 3 harddisks where one is for the main os and the other two are mirrored in stead of a situation where the OS resides on one of the two mirrored disks. Can you give me some advice on this? I have three identical seagate harddisks and want to put two in a mirror setup with the OS on it, and use the other as spare drive, in case sonmething goes wrong. Thanks in advanced Dino Vliet - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Re: enabling if_bridge STP
Nikos Vassiliadis-2 wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:17:36 Atrox wrote: >> Am I doing smth wrong? > > Hm, are these FreeBSD boxes you are trying to bridge, > on the same ethernet? > Yes, all these boxes are connected to our LAN with their ext_ifs. Also, one of them has a switch and a PC connected to its int_if, other int_ifs are "status: no carrier". > STP will create a tree by disabling some ports > to eliminate loops in the topology. If you have > a loop-free topology, all ports should be active. > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I understood it correctly? > ASCII art time! What's your topology? > Well, let's try ;) The machines stand like this: 192.168.8.15/24 - GW/NAT - 192.168.1/24 || 192.168.8.16/24 == 192.168.8/24 == == - GW/NAT - ||192.168.2/24 192.168.8.17/24 - GW/NAT - 192.168.3/24 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/enabling-if_bridge-STP-tf4954594.html#a14189511 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: enabling if_bridge STP
On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, > ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I > understood it correctly? It sounds like you want to isolate the ethernets, not bridge them. Bridging is not what you need, if I have understood correctly. You want to keep ARP and broadcasts to the relevant boxes, right? You have to use VLANs on your switch to achieve this, not bridging. HTH, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problem with network card in P35+ICH9
is your phy (mii) detected OK? FreeBSD 6.2 server# ifconfig -a re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1b inet 192.168.2.54 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:1a:4d:53:54:4d media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier server# dmesg |grep re0 re0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xf900-0xf9000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4 miibus0: on re0 re0: Ethernet address: 00:1a:4d:53:54:4d re0: [FAST] But these lan works good into windows with the same cable and connection. ___ 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: enabling if_bridge STP
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, > > ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I > > understood it correctly? > > It sounds like you want to isolate the ethernets, not bridge them. > Bridging is not what you need, if I have understood correctly. > > You want to keep ARP and broadcasts to the relevant boxes, right? > You have to use VLANs on your switch to achieve this, not bridging. Actually the final target is to connect all the 3 LANs over VPN, so that they can browse eachother networks etc. When I did it, I could see duplicate packets looping through all bridges, so I thought I'd bring in STP. That's what it's for, right? -- Silver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: enabling if_bridge STP
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an > > > example, ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach > > > 192.168.2.1. Have I understood it correctly? > > > > It sounds like you want to isolate the ethernets, not bridge them. > > Bridging is not what you need, if I have understood correctly. > > > > You want to keep ARP and broadcasts to the relevant boxes, right? > > You have to use VLANs on your switch to achieve this, not bridging. > > Actually the final target is to connect all the 3 LANs over VPN, so that > they can browse eachother networks etc. When I did it, I could see > duplicate packets looping through all bridges, so I thought I'd bring in > STP. That's what it's for, right? Not really, STP must be used/needed in a dynamic environment to eliminate loops. Your environment doesn't seem dynamic to me. You can create a loop-free topology like this: http://users.teledomenet.gr/nvass/topology.png 1) 10.0.0.0/24 is the shared network. 2) bridge1 bridges eth0 and tap0 which is the VPN to the root-bridge. 3) bridge2 bridges eth0 and tap0 which is the VPN to the root-bridge. 4) root-bridge bridges eth0, tap0 and tap1. If you want STP, which you shouldn't normally using this topology, increase root-bridge's priority manually, in order to win the elections and be the root bridge. Note that the external interfaces are not participating in the bridge. HTH, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2
hi folks,
i've got a huawei e220 hsdpa modem, which is connected
to a hp nx8220 notebook (ICH6 usb controller) w. 6.3-BETA2.
i tried GENERIC as well as custom kernels.
this is my current situation:
- custom kernel with just [u,o,e]hci and usb(4) support.
(removed all other usb device support except keyb/mouse)
- patched "ubsa" as beyond
- loaded ucom(4)
- loaded ubsa(4)
- left out umass(4) or loaded it AFTER ubsa/ucom
dmesg-cut when plugging in the E220 in this scenario:
ucom0: HUAWEI Technologies HUAWEI Mobile, Rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2
ucom0: Could not find interrupt in
device_attach: ucom0 attach returned 6
the patches (/usr/src/sys/dev/usb is base-dir):
--- usbdevs.pre 2007-11-04 03:28:31.0 +
+++ usbdevs 2007-12-06 12:14:46.0 +
@@ -1044,6 +1044,7 @@
/* HUAWEI products */
product HUAWEI MOBILE 0x1001 Huawei Mobile
+product HUAWEI E220 0x1003 Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem
/* IBM Corporation */
product IBM USBCDROMDRIVE 0x4427 USB CD-ROM Drive
--- ubsa.c.pre 2007-06-17 09:38:26.0 +
+++ ubsa.c 2007-12-06 12:18:55.0 +
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@
{ USB_VENDOR_OPTION, USB_PRODUCT_OPTION_GT3GQUAD },
/* Huawei Mobile */
{ USB_VENDOR_HUAWEI, USB_PRODUCT_HUAWEI_MOBILE },
+ /* Huawei Mobile E220 */
+ { USB_VENDOR_HUAWEI, USB_PRODUCT_HUAWEI_E220 },
{ 0, 0 }
};
usbdevs -v shows the device as:
full speed, power 500mA, config 1, VENDOR 0x12d1, PROD: 0x1003
i really NEED this device to work with freebsd so is
there anybody out there who had such a problem and
solved it?
thx in advance :)
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Re: enabling if_bridge STP
On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:01, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > > > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an > > > > example, ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach > > > > 192.168.2.1. Have I understood it correctly? > > > > > > It sounds like you want to isolate the ethernets, not bridge them. > > > Bridging is not what you need, if I have understood correctly. > > > > > > You want to keep ARP and broadcasts to the relevant boxes, right? > > > You have to use VLANs on your switch to achieve this, not bridging. > > > > Actually the final target is to connect all the 3 LANs over VPN, so that > > they can browse eachother networks etc. When I did it, I could see > > duplicate packets looping through all bridges, so I thought I'd bring in > > STP. That's what it's for, right? > > Not really, STP must be used/needed in a dynamic environment to > eliminate loops. Your environment doesn't seem dynamic to me. You > can create a loop-free topology like this: > > http://users.teledomenet.gr/nvass/topology.png > > 1) 10.0.0.0/24 is the shared network. > 2) bridge1 bridges eth0 and tap0 which is the VPN to the root-bridge. > 3) bridge2 bridges eth0 and tap0 which is the VPN to the root-bridge. > 4) root-bridge bridges eth0, tap0 and tap1. Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and not straight? In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through root-bridge. -- Silver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: geom gmirror question
On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I've bought my new hardware and want to give this another try. On the documentation sacttered around on the net I read that it's better to have 3 harddisks where one is for the main os and the other two are mirrored in stead of a situation where the OS resides on one of the two mirrored disks. Can you give me some advice on this? I have three identical seagate harddisks and want to put two in a mirror setup with the OS on it, and use the other as spare drive, in case sonmething goes wrong. Thanks in advanced Dino Vliet Dino, We're running all of our firewalls now with gmirror. Our setup uses a hot-swap SCSI setup, whereas you're using ATA disks. Keep in mind that, to remove the drives, you'll more than likely need to shut down the system. Have the third drive in there as a back up will certainly buy you time. Follow the how-to I've written at https://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/Gmirror , and simply don't do any configuration on the third drive in the system. When one fails, you'll then remove, or 'forget' the failed drive, and add in the hot-spare you've got in the system. HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: enabling if_bridge STP
On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: > Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if > bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and > not straight? Yes, they'll have to go through the root-bridge. STP will create a tree by shutting down ports causing loops. That's how STP works. It's all about avoiding loops... Not following the shortest path is not very important for a layer two device. Creating a loop in the topology and bringing the network down because of it, is. > In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 > and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through > root-bridge. Yes, but that also can create a loop and according to STP must be eliminated. Perhaps you can use some inventive IP addressing scheme, to force direct communication... some ifconfig option(the edge option?) to force forwarding... a tunnel... or some other weirdness(TM) ;) Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)
James Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move
>>> just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not cross
>>> filesystems") was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k
>>> blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice with 50k blocks, so
>>> obviously it blew right past the 'end' of / - did I miss something? Is
>>> there no other way except to umount [tmp,usr,var]?
>>>
>> I would use dump/restore.
>>
>> Build the filesystem in the new disk partition with fdisk, bsdlabel
>> and newfs as needed. Then mount the new partition somewhere -
>> example:
>> mkdir /newpart
>> mount /dev/ad1s1a /newpart
>> (presuming new disk is ad1, slice is 1, partition is a)
>> Doesn't hurt to do an fsck on it here before writing to it, but it
>> probably isn't really needed.
>>
>> Then, run the dump/restore
>>
>> cd /newpart
>> dump 0af - / | restore -rf -
>>
>> This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr
>> and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems. You
>> probably want that.
>>
>> jerry
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>>
>
> Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and
> there's something that I've never really been clear on.
>
> The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump dump a
> file system across a network?
>
> James
>
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Hi,
If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a
network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda.
Konstantinos
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FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. It's mostly just to see if I can do it - I have a number of "real" servers running FreeBSD 6 and was looking to make a test-bed platform inside my laptop for convenience more than anything else. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)
Konstantinos Pachnis wrote:
> James Harrison wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
>>>
>>>
I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move
just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not cross
filesystems") was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k
blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice with 50k blocks, so
obviously it blew right past the 'end' of / - did I miss something? Is
there no other way except to umount [tmp,usr,var]?
>>> I would use dump/restore.
>>>
>>> Build the filesystem in the new disk partition with fdisk, bsdlabel
>>> and newfs as needed. Then mount the new partition somewhere -
>>> example:
>>> mkdir /newpart
>>> mount /dev/ad1s1a /newpart
>>> (presuming new disk is ad1, slice is 1, partition is a)
>>> Doesn't hurt to do an fsck on it here before writing to it, but it
>>> probably isn't really needed.
>>>
>>> Then, run the dump/restore
>>>
>>> cd /newpart
>>> dump 0af - / | restore -rf -
>>>
>>> This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr
>>> and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems. You
>>> probably want that.
>>>
>>> jerry
>>>
>>>
Thanks,
Steve
>> Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and
>> there's something that I've never really been clear on.
>>
>> The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump dump a
>> file system across a network?
>>
Not following the rest of the thread so sorry if a duplicate answer.
you can easily dump to a file across a network if you have ssh configured.
something like
dump -f - /dev/ad1s1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat >
/path/to/dumpfile.ad1s1.oldhost"
Dump can also talk to remote tape devices using rmt apparently but I've
never tried this.
Vince
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> Hi,
> If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a
> network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda.
>
> Konstantinos
>
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Determining bus speed/memory
I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill available slots. For instance, I know one server has 1GB of mem, but do I have two 512MB or a single 1GB chip in place now. Can someone tell me the commands to determine either of these things? Thanks in advance! -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2
Hi, Can you make your modem show up like "ugen" by loading "ugen" before plugging your device. Then install "/usr/ports/sysutils/udesc_dump" and dump all the descriptors of your device. --HPS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in situatutions like this? Thanks, Randy Ramsdell Unix Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Determining bus speed/memory
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:20:28AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I > need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if > possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I > need to replace or match and fill available slots. For instance, I know > one server has 1GB of mem, but do I have two 512MB or a single 1GB chip > in place now. Can someone tell me the commands to determine either of > these things? The best and most reliable way of doing that is probably to open the server and look inside to see what is installed (or look at the paperwork from when you originally bought the servers.) When you boot the BIOS will often display this information as well. You could also try the sysutils/dmidecode port which will try to retrieve various information from the BIOS. Beware though that due to buggy BIOSes you cannot always trust this information. If none of the above works, I am afraid you are out of luck, A note for future consideration: When you have remote servers, or servers which must not be shutdown if it can be avoided, then it is a very good idea to write down on a paper exactly what is installed in each of them, at the time they are first installed. This can simplify things quite a bit a couple of years down the line. -- Erik Trulsson [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: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote:
James Harrison wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move
just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not
cross
filesystems") was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows
20k
blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice with 50k
blocks, so
obviously it blew right past the 'end' of / - did I miss
something? Is
there no other way except to umount [tmp,usr,var]?
I would use dump/restore.
Build the filesystem in the new disk partition with fdisk, bsdlabel
and newfs as needed. Then mount the new partition somewhere -
example:
mkdir /newpart
mount /dev/ad1s1a /newpart
(presuming new disk is ad1, slice is 1, partition is a)
Doesn't hurt to do an fsck on it here before writing to it, but it
probably isn't really needed.
Then, run the dump/restore
cd /newpart
dump 0af - / | restore -rf -
This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /
tmp, /usr
and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those
filesystems. You
probably want that.
jerry
Thanks,
Steve
Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and
there's something that I've never really been clear on.
The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump
dump a
file system across a network?
James
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Hi,
If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a
network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda.
Konstantinos
We do this little trick when we're moving an OS to a new system, and
don't want to reinstall:
https://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/Dump_Over_SSH
HTH
-
Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
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Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. > Could you give some specific error messages? It's mostly just to see if I can do it - I have a number of "real" servers running FreeBSD 6 and was looking to make a test-bed platform > inside my laptop for convenience more than anything else. > Virtualized machines are good way to learn/develop/prototype, etc. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in situatutions like this? What's causing the hard reboots? Is it on a UPS? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Bart Silverstrim wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in situatutions like this? What's causing the hard reboots? Is it on a UPS? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Well any number of things, but the most recent was a prolonged power outage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:04PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - --On Wednesday, December 05, 2007 23:40:07 +0100 Tore Lund > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bill Moran wrote: > >> Huh? > > > > The figure for PC-BSD in November was 6551. When I checked earlier this > > evening, it was 1997. I suppose this does NOT mean that 4554 PC-BSD > > users have kicked the bucket. Probably, it means that many PC-BSD > > systems have not YET reported to bsdstats in December. I think this way > > of doing it does not serve the following purpose: > > > >> The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for > >> advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems. > > > > For the fulfillment of this noble mission, it would be better to display > > statistics for the last complete month to casual visitors. If people > > want to see running counters, this could be done on a different page. > > Actually, what we should do is put a 'History' page off that main one that > expands that chart to include the previous two or three months, as well as > this > one ... would be easier/faster to implement then a graph too ... > > Antony? Have a couple of minutes to whip that together? Maybe do it similar > to the countries page, but instead of listing countries, list month/year? > maybe go back 6 months? Gee, maybe you could mine the data to do a 'most recent 31 days' report. That should not show the dips and peaks in the middle of the month. jerry > > - > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFHV2Iw4QvfyHIvDvMRAscwAKDCKGAHyKk4hrJvxZ8oRNYyVpqpawCeO7NF > s4J+XrhOYJom22oW47yzsvA= > =wG2c > -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]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: > We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found > that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is > there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use > FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in > situatutions like this? > This is unusual in my experience, part of the charm of FreeBSD for me is how rarely I have had to interact with fsck thanks to the whole background fsck thing. What version of FreeBSD are you using? Assuming a 5.x or later since you say you've started to use FreeBSD. What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? You can also try setting fsck_y_enable="YES" in rc.conf (this will do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.) Vince > Thanks, > Randy Ramsdell > Unix Systems Administrator > ___ > 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: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:48:40PM +0200, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote:
> James Harrison wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move
> >>> just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not cross
> >>> filesystems") was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k
> >>> ...
> >> I would use dump/restore.
> >> ...
> >> Then, run the dump/restore
> >>
> >> cd /newpart
> >> dump 0af - / | restore -rf -
> >>
> >> This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr
> >> and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems. You
> >> probably want that.
> >>
> >> jerry
> >>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >
> > Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and
> > there's something that I've never really been clear on.
> >
> > The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump dump a
> > file system across a network?
> >
> > James
> >
> Hi,
> If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a
> network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda.
He said he just wants to make a copy of the file system on to
another disk. Getting a whole new system set up is overkill for that.
Anyway, we were never happy with Amanda. Haven't used Bacula.
jerry
>
> Konstantinos
>
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Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Vince wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in situatutions like this? This is unusual in my experience, part of the charm of FreeBSD for me is how rarely I have had to interact with fsck thanks to the whole background fsck thing. What version of FreeBSD are you using? Assuming a 5.x or later since you say you've started to use FreeBSD. I am fairly sure it is v6.2 What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. This will be an offsite system so I do not want human intervention on boot for power outages or hard reboots. You can also try setting fsck_y_enable="YES" in rc.conf (this will do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.) I will use this. Do you mean by try, that this will work? I assume so. Thanks Vince! Oh, Is there a way to not receive 2 messages for every reply to this thread? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2
Can you make your modem show up like "ugen" by loading "ugen" before plugging your device. here it is ;) Standard Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType01 bcdUSB 0110 bDeviceClass 00 bDeviceSubClass00 bDeviceProtocol00 bMaxPacketSize 64 idVendor 12d1 idProduct 1003 bcdDevice iManufacturer 1 iProduct 2 iSerialNumber 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration 0: Standard Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 02 wTotalLength32 bNumInterface 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributesa0 (remote-wakeup) bMaxPower 250 (500 mA) Standard Interface Descriptor: bLength9 bDescriptorType04 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass08 bInterfaceSubClass 06 bInterfaceProtocol 50 iInterface 0 Standard Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 05 bEndpointAddress 83 (in) bmAttributes 02 (Bulk) wMaxPacketSize 64 bInterval0 Standard Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 05 bEndpointAddress 04 (out) bmAttributes 02 (Bulk) wMaxPacketSize 64 bInterval0 Codes Representing Languages by the Device: bLength 4 bDescriptorType 03 wLANGID[0] 0409 String (index 1): HUAWEI Technologies String (index 2): HUAWEI Mobile ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to stop screen from resizing my window??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/3/07, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi all - > > I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up > screen. > > And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on > linux. It's more likely that it's an issue with iTerm. Screen can resize dynamically if the term program works correctly. That said, screen and the relationship to the termcap is always a royal pain. I use tcsh and I always throw something in my .tcshrc to detect for the TERM environment variable value for screen and blow away TERMCAP if it finds it. if ($term == "screen") then unsetenv TERMCAP endif Syntax will be different for other shells. - -- Andy Harrison public key: 0x67518262 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFHWC5bNTm8fWdRgmIRArQ0AJ4ugxEkyarWyA+lxbHmHz6ZI4hFcwCeJ3yT SBWUaohWiTdTOMrebgtWP+M= =P/Ve -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]"
CD/DVD writer no longer works
Sometime in the past (I don't know when) my CD/DVD write device stopped working. I can no longer burn cds or even put known good cds in the drive and mount them. I *used* to be able to burn cds fine using burncd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] burncd -ef /dev/acd1 data /home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd acd0 acd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/acd1: Input/output error I'm wondering where to go to troubleshoot this problem. I'm loading atapicam. [EMAIL PROTECTED] kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 21 0xc040 6f6668 kernel 21 0xc0af7000 5fa0 snd_ich.ko 32 0xc0afd000 22b88sound.ko 41 0xc0b2 4ae8 atapicam.ko 51 0xc0b25000 1fde4radeon.ko 62 0xc0b45000 fd68 drm.ko 71 0xc0b55000 59f20acpi.ko 81 0xc4e57000 6000 linprocfs.ko 91 0xc4e5d000 16000linux.ko 101 0xc5111000 d000 ipfw.ko I can see the device using atacontrol. [EMAIL PROTECTED] atacontrol info ata0 Master: acd0 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 Slave: acd1 ATA/ATAPI revision 5 I can tell what mode the device is in. [EMAIL PROTECTED] atacontrol mode acd1 current mode = UDMA33 The channel reinits without errors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] atacontrol reinit ata0 Master: acd0 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 Slave: acd1 ATA/ATAPI revision 5 Camcontrol sees the device fine as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass1) at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (cd1,pass2) Yet cdrecord also fails. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=1,1,0 /home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jrg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,1,0' scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 0 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TSSTcorp' Identifikation : 'CD-RW TS-H292B' Revision : 'DE03' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Current: 0x Profile: 0x000A Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x0008 Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1016064 = 992 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 616 MB Total size: 707 MB (70:07.13) = 315535 sectors Lout start: 708 MB (70:09/10) = 315535 sectors cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! I just upgraded from FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE hoping that might solve the problem. (I cvsupped the sources and ran make buildworld/buildkernel, etc.) Do I have a hardware failure? Or is something else wrong? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: enabling if_bridge STP
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:37:21 +0200 Silver Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that > if bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge > and not straight? In my case there's a straight connection between > bridge1 and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate > through root-bridge. The problem is that, even with switched ethernet, some packets have to be broadcast, which can lead to packets going round in loops or multiplying into a broadcast storm. STP prevents this by disabling connections to remove loops in the network. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Determining bus speed/memory
At 09:20 AM 12/6/2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill available slots. For instance, I know one server has 1GB of mem, but do I have two 512MB or a single 1GB chip in place now. Can someone tell me the commands to determine either of these things? Thanks in advance! -- Robert If you know the motherboard maker and model, you can check either their website or one of the ram maker's sites. Most of the RAM manufacturer's offer an online catalog, you can look up compatible memory there. If you want to boot a window's compatible CD on the system you can run cpu-z available from: http://www.cpuid.com This application gives detailed information on the entire system. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Robert Huff wrote: Randy Ramsdell writes: > What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? > This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. I'm going to jump in here. Based on what you've said, it sounds like: the system was running there was power outage, the system did not have a UPS when the system rebooted, fsck complained but nothing was done about the errors Let me clarify. All our servers are on UPSes, however the power outage outlasted the UPSes. That is why I stated prolonged power outage. Fsck did complain, but everything was fixed as I sat there and dealt with it. We do not want to deal with it in an offsite location and that is why this thread. IF THAT'S TRUE ... ... then the "seems" in your description is applicable, and should be a red flag. Get someone to the system, reboot it into single user mode, and run (and re-run) fsck until it runs without error. (Answer 'y' to all prompts.) This should be done whenever the file system is not shutdown cleanly. The filesystem is fine. Our set up just does not recover gracefully on hard reboots. (And consider a UPS, even it it only keeps the system alive for the few minutes necessary for a clean shutdown.) Is a dirty file system causing the reboots? No. a power prolonged power failure caused the last shutdown. Possibly; wiser heads than mine would have to lay out scearios. But it may also be responsible for other damage, more subtle but equally unpleasant. A fix is available. Use it. I understand this will not be easy, and I sympathize. Balance that pain against the small but non-trivial chance to catastrophic data loss, and choose wisely. Robert Huff Thanks for the reply. I think I will just set the rc.conf variable to answer "Y" to fsck questions unless there is a better way. A side note, this system has been hard shutdown two times and each time required intervention. We also use several Linux system ( reiserfs and ext3 ) and raely do I have to interact with the systems on reboot. There is a differnce and I am in the fisrt stages trying to understand this. PS. I am confused about why so many people are replying to the list and my personal e-mail. This one was sent to me only. Others were sent to me and the list. Actually, every other reply. Is this normal for the list as I am new as of today? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to stop screen from resizing my window??
Le Thu 6/12/2007, Andy Harrison disait > > > On 12/3/07, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > Hi all - > > > > I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up > > screen. > > > > And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on > > linux. > > It's more likely that it's an issue with iTerm. Screen can resize > dynamically if the term program works correctly. Yes, but screen should NOT resize when given the -A option or with fit in the .screenrc -- Erwan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:42:22AM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > Oh, Is there a way to not receive 2 messages for every reply to this thread? Something like this in ~/.procmailrc :0 Wh: msgid.lock | $FORMAIL -D 8192 msgid.cache or like this in ~/.mailfilter `reformail -D 8000 duplicate.cache` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) exit I'm sure other delivery agents will have similar functionality. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgprdY468w5SZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7
Hello Everyone, I have a small blog about running Wine on Unix operating systems and over the last couple days I've been experimenting with Wine on FreeBSD 7 beta 2 (I see beta 4 is out, many thanks!) If anyone here is interested I ran Office 97 and 2000 out of the box on FreeBSD 7beta no registry files or special hacks needed. Ive also run a couple small applications (Qicktime 7.1.6) (IE 5 5.5 6) and then some benchmarks 3DMark 2000v1.1, 3DMark2001SE, GL Excess and PC Mark04. In the future ill see if I can get 3DMark 2003 and 3DMark 2005 to run and produce results as well. I don't know if any of you guys or gals are Gamers But just in case I also installed Halo in Wine and it runs about the same on FreeBSD as it does on Linux. With D3D, DDraw and OpenGL working most every game that is running in Wine should run on FreeBSD.. I don't know this as fact as I've only tried one Game and four Benchmarks, but it does look promising. More info can be found here: Wine-Review front Page: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/ Office 97/2000: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/microsoft-office-2000-on-freebsd-7-with.html http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/office-97-on-freebsd-with-wine.html IE, QT etc.. http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/quicktime-716-on-freebsd-7-with-wine.html http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/ies-4-freebsd-internet-explorer-50-55.html Benchmark results & Halo: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/benchmarking-wine-on-freebsd-7.html http:/http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/halo-combat-evolved-on-freebsd-with.html Oh yea, were seeking contributors... if your interested in Wine on FreeBSD and believe you can help us out see : http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/wine-review-is-currently-seeking.html Thanks for your time. Cheers, Tom Wickline ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7
Hello Everyone, I have a small blog about running Wine on Unix operating systems and over the last couple days I've been experimenting with Wine on FreeBSD 7 beta 2 (I see beta 4 is out, many thanks!) If anyone here is interested I ran Office 97 and 2000 out of the box on FreeBSD 7beta no registry files or special hacks needed. Ive also run a couple small applications (Qicktime 7.1.6) (IE 5 5.5 6) and then some benchmarks 3DMark 2000v1.1, 3DMark2001SE, GL Excess and PC Mark04. In the future ill see if I can get 3DMark 2003 and 3DMark 2005 to run and produce results as well. I don't know if any of you guys or gals are Gamers But just in case I also installed Halo in Wine and it runs about the same on FreeBSD as it does on Linux. With D3D, DDraw and OpenGL working most every game that is running in Wine should run on FreeBSD.. I don't know this as fact as I've only tried one Game and four Benchmarks, but it does look promising. More info can be found here: Wine-Review front Page: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/ Office 97/2000: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/microsoft-office-2000-on-freebsd-7-with.html http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/office-97-on-freebsd-with-wine.html IE, QT etc.. http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/quicktime-716-on-freebsd-7-with-wine.html http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/ies-4-freebsd-internet-explorer-50-55.html Benchmark results & Halo: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/benchmarking-wine-on-freebsd-7.html http:/http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/halo-combat-evolved-on-freebsd-with.html Oh yea, were seeking contributors... if your interested in Wine on FreeBSD and believe you can help us out see : http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/wine-review-is-currently-seeking.html Thanks for your time. Cheers, Tom Wickline -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wine-compatibility-and-performance-on-FreeBSD-7-tf4957778.html#a14198248 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works
/home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd acd0 acd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/acd1: Input/output error mount_cd9660 - unless you use FFS on CD/DVD. CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! looks like your device is broken - reports no disk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ng_netflow on PF + CARP firewall question
Hello all,
I'm trying to use ng_netflow module along with PF+CARP implementation on
freebsd 6.2.
I understand from different posts that ng_netflow module is performing quite
well and does not add so much cpu load since packets are processed in the
kernel.
However, ng_netflow documentation is very confusing for begginers and I'm
having a hard time to figure it out.
Like mentioned before, I have PF+CARP implementation along with
/usr/ports/net/ifstated port. This part is tested and is working fine. (If
anybody wants advice here feel free to ask:) )
I'm wonder if it's a good ideea to add ng_netflow on top of it or should I
use an additional system with TAP interface and just mirror incoming/outgoing
traffic from switch.
This is what I want to try for ng_netflow:
cat /boot/loader.conf
ng_ether_load="YES"
ng_ksocket_load="YES"
ng_tee_load="YES"
ng_socket_load="YES"
ng_netflow_load="YES"
cat /etc/rc.conf |grep ng
ng_netflow_enable="YES"
cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ng_netflow
#!/bin/sh
#
# PROVIDE: ng_netflow
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
. /etc/rc.subr
name="ng_netflow"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
ng_netflow_start()
{
echo "Starting ${name}."
/usr/sbin/ngctl -f- <<-SEQ
mkpeer bge2: tee lower right
connect bge2: bge2:lower upper left
name bge2:lower bge2_tee
mkpeer bge2_tee: netflow left2right iface0
name bge2:lower.left2right netflow
connect bge2_tee: netflow: right2left iface1
msg netflow: setifindex { iface=0 index=2 }
msg netflow: setifindex { iface=1 index=1 }
mkpeer netflow: ksocket export inet/dgram/udp
msg netflow:export connect inet/127.0.0.1:8818
mkpeer bge1: tee lower right
connect bge1: bge1:lower upper left
name bge1:lower bge1_tee
mkpeer bge1_tee: netflow left2right iface2
name bge1:lower.left2right netflow0
msg netflow0: setifindex { iface=2 index=4 }
connect bge1_tee: netflow0: right2left iface3
msg netflow0: setifindex { iface=3 index=3 }
mkpeer netflow0: ksocket export inet/dgram/udp
msg netflow0:export connect inet/127.0.0.1:8818
SEQ
}
ng_netflow_stop()
{
echo "Stopping ${name}."
/usr/sbin/ngctl -f- <<-SEQ
shutdown netflow:
SEQ
}
start_cmd="ng_netflow_start"
stop_cmd="ng_netflow_stop"
load_rc_config $name
: ${ng_netflow_enable="NO"}
run_rc_command "$1"
As can be seen from above script I'm planning sending packets on localhost
port 8818 first.
Is the above configuration correct?
It will affect in any way PF+CARP implementation regardging the fact that I'm
not using CARP inetrfaces with ng_netflow but physical ones like bge1 and bge2?
(I want to mention here that I'm not planning using ng_netflow on pf_sync
interface)
Should I stick with solutions from ports like softflowd & similar?
What could be cpu/memory requirements difference for 100Mbps traffic between
ng_netflow and with softflowd?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Senior Network/Security Administrator
Catalin Miclaus
Starcomms Ltd.
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Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:50:55PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > > > PS. I am confused about why so many people are replying to the list and my > personal e-mail. This one was sent to me only. Others were sent to me and > the list. Actually, every other reply. Is this normal for the list as I am > new as of today? It is standard procedure on this list to reply both to the list and directly to the person you are replying to. Since this is the "general help-line" for FreeBSD, there are many people posting here who are not subscribed to the list, and thus won't see the answers if they are only sent to the list. -- Erik Trulsson [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 filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: I think I will just set the rc.conf variable to answer "Y" to fsck questions unless there is a better way. A side note, this system has been hard shutdown two times and each time required intervention. We also use several Linux system ( reiserfs and ext3 ) and raely do I have to interact with the systems on reboot. There is a differnce and I am in the fisrt stages trying to understand this. Might want to be careful with the always answering "Y" thing, though...or at least make sure you have periodic backups ready to go in case the repair further loses data in the process. Is there an area that seems to be needing repairs in particular? Maybe you could find a way to move it to another drive so the system will come up more reliably and then other processes can remotely check the unmountable drive and remount it and start your process monitoring. PS. I am confused about why so many people are replying to the list and my personal e-mail. This one was sent to me only. Others were sent to me and the list. Actually, every other reply. Is this normal for the list as I am new as of today? If looks like if you hit reply all, both addresses are inserted (the list isn't stripping the personal one out). Unless the replier removes the personal address or the reply function on their mail client is only using a primary address (of the list) to send to, you'll get replies on both...depending on the issue some people prefer getting a response personally faster than waiting for the list to send it if for some reason it's bogging down :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2
On Thursday 06 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net wrote: > > Can you make your modem show up like "ugen" by loading "ugen" before > > plugging > > your device. > > here it is ;) Hi, Your HSDPA modem presented itself like a mass storage device, probably with some autorun and virus like drivers intended for the Windows operating system :-) If that is true you bought a memory stick and not a HDSPA modem. >bInterfaceClass08 >bInterfaceSubClass 06 >bInterfaceProtocol 50 Try loading "umass" and see for yourself. Maybe your device cannot be used on non-Windows operating systems. --HPS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
> Well any number of things, but the most recent was a prolonged power > outage. It is important to differentiate between expected fsck activity and unexpected. If you are running without write caching turned on (which is the default), a power outtage will constitute a crash from which a file system cannot guarantee to recover unless it takes measure to punch through the write cache at appropriate moments. If you machine shutdown softly as a result of the UPS communicating that power was running out, you "should" not have to fsck (barring other issues in the past). fsck need in these cases would indicate a software bug, or a hardware problem. If on the other hand your machine just lost power when the UPS finally died, you are relying on luck for recovery if you're on ufs/reiserfs/xfs/etc. Some environments will correctly handle this (e.g., ZFS), but most won't. The problem being that drive write caching will prevent the file system from guaranteeing ordering of certain critical operations that must be ordered in order to guarantee successfull recovery to a consistent state. That said, you are not supposed to need to answer interactive questions on boot for all cases of expected inconsistencies. If you are getting prompts as a result of unexpected inconsistencies, that indicates *something* is wrong. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
PF with VLAN's - Reference Physical Interface or VLAN Interface?
Hello All: Thanks to everyone for the hints on carp_alias interfaces. On a second note, we are implementing 802.1Q trunked interfaces. So, our pre-vlan configuration is: $ext_if="em1" And an associated NAT rule is: nat on $ext_if from $mail_in01_int to any -> $mail_in01_ext With the addition of VLAN's, em1 won't have an IP address. Instead, the addresses of $mail_in01_int and $mail_in01_ext will be on the VLAN interfaces. So, my question is, does the rule above stay the same or should it now be: $vlan2_if="vlan2" nat on $vlan2_if from $mail_in01_int to any -> $mail_in01_ext Regards, Mike PGP.sig Description: PGP signature
Plesk in a FreeBSD Jail: My Experiences
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, thanks to all those that have provided some useful pointers on this ... I was finally able to get a working install in place using 8.2.1 ... The main issue I found was that one of the components in the install seems to be calling in Apache 2.2, while Plesk uses Apache 2.0 ... so, somehow its able to get *both* installed at the same time, but when the installer goes to install the 'swsoft/psa' port, it fails because of a conflict ... So, what I ended up doing is reducing the components to install to the 'bare minimal', and then manually added components from /usr/ports/swsoft afterwards ... Everything started up fine ... and *appears* to work ... The one problem that I've not been able to figure out how to surmount is when you actually try and add a domain ... even if the client is set to have no limits on their resources (ie. disk space), adding a domain tries to set (or just check, not 100% certain there) the hardquota on the directory, which, in a jail, of course fails ... With the error being: "ERROR: PleskFatalException Create ShortcutCreate Shortcut Up LevelUp Level Unable to get hardquota state: usermng failed: usermng: No entry found for path /usr/local/www/vhosts in mounted System error 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device 0: /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/class.PHostingManager.php:1399 PHostingForm->assign(object of type PHostingManager, boolean true, boolean true, boolean true, boolean true, boolean true, boolean false) 1: /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/hosting/phosting_setup.php:296" Has anyone else tried this in a jail and notice this and/or found a word around? The .php file itself looks to be compiled php, so no way to just comment out code :( - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHWFs24QvfyHIvDvMRAn/CAJ4yaEmO1SBwgv6BPKXIsTbP950CUwCfdMDJ 3Hr7jyrUR4pX02L/jyDdaaY= =anLk -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]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:42:22 -0500 Randy Ramsdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vince wrote: > > What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? > > > > > This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? No, it's on by default, but there's an early check to determine if the background check can be run. That depends on whether the partition has soft-updates turned-on (the default in sysinstall), and whether soft-updates managed to protect the partition during the shut-down. If fsck is asking for user input, those checks would have failed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ports/database/ruby-dbi and ports/database/ruby-dbd_pg faulty.
Hello. I try to use DBI:Pg and DBI:MySQL within a ruby-skript for accessing either MySQL or PostgreSQL database. Box is FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Mysql is mysql50-server Postgresql is posgresql82-server and postgresql82-client with unixODBC and ruby-dbi and ruby-dbd_pg and ruby-dbd_mysql installed. When running an access using Pg as backend (Postgres) and run this connect: dsn = "DBI:Pg:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]" dbh = DBI.connect(dsn,@db_user,@db_passwd) I get this error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:344:in `load_driver': Could not load driver (no such file to load -- postgres) (DBI::InterfaceError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:227:in `_get_full_driver' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:213:in `connect' It seems that a class library 'postgres.rb' is missing, which is included by Pg.rb located in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/DBD/Pg/. I did a find on my whole filesystem looking for 'postgres.rb' or 'postgres*' and did not find suitable. It seems this file is missing and not been installed by the installation process via ports. Is this a 'feature', or should I fill out a PR? Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
On Thu, December 6, 2007 4:42 pm, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > Vince wrote: > >> Randy Ramsdell wrote: >> >> >>> We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found >>> that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is >>> there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use >>> FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in >>> situatutions like this? >>> >>> >> >> This is unusual in my experience, part of the charm of FreeBSD for me >> is how rarely I have had to interact with fsck thanks to the whole >> background fsck thing. What version of FreeBSD are you using? >> >> Assuming a 5.x or later since you say you've started to use FreeBSD. >> >> >> > I am fairly sure it is v6.2 > >> What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? >> >> >> > This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed > applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. > This will be an offsite system so I do not want human intervention on > boot for power outages or hard reboots. >> You can also try setting fsck_y_enable="YES" in rc.conf (this will do >> fsck -y if the initial preen fails.) >> >> > I will use this. Do you mean by try, that this will work? I assume so. > > > Thanks Vince! > I should first say that I am pretty new to all this, so my response is intended as a question as much as an answer! My understanding from the reading I have done is that in a situation like this where power outages are a danger (and presuably having the UPS signal the server to shut down gracefully is not practical), you need to make the file system as robust as possible in the first place, rather than rely on fsck -y after the event. Doesn't fsck -y rather sweep potential problems under the carpet? First step surely is to *disable* write caching if you have drives that are doing it? Then consider mounting the file system synchronously. Mind you, I don't know what the scale of the performance loss would be, and whether anyone does this nowadays! As I say, don't rely on my knowledge, but I was prompted to write by your latching on to a suggestion that was probably not intended to be the whole solution. Barnaby Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works
--On Thursday, December 06, 2007 19:14:51 +0100 Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd acd0 acd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/acd1: Input/output error mount_cd9660 - unless you use FFS on CD/DVD. Yeah, I knew that. Just mistyped it. The results are the same in either case - input/output error. CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! looks like your device is broken - reports no disk Does this provide any additional information? [EMAIL PROTECTED] atacontrol cap acd1 Protocol ATA/ATAPI revision 5 device model TSSTcorpCD-RW TS-H292B serial number firmware revision DE03 cylinders 0 heads 0 sectors/track 0 lba supported lba48 not supported dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support EnableValue Vendor write cacheno no read ahead no no Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) no no 0/0x00 SMART no no microcode download no no security no no power management yes yes advanced power management no no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management no no 0/0x00 0/0x00 The result of this command doesn't change if there's a known good CD in the drive. And are you saying that the *device* appears to be bad? Or the *driver* appears to be bad? Is there a way to confirm this (utility? test process?) -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:34:01 -0600 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The result of this command doesn't change if there's a known good CD > in the drive. And are you saying that the *device* appears to be > bad? Or the *driver* appears to be bad? Is there a way to confirm > this (utility? test process?) > FWIW, I had similar problems with a DVD burner a couple of weeks ago. I went ahead and replaced it and the troubles went away. You could try and see if you could boot a live file system with it. Or, boot from another optical drive (if you have one) on the system with something like freesbie/ubuntu and see if it works with the live file system. HTH Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Boot failure - Recent Kernel(s)
I am running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE with my last successful kernel build on 11/1/07. I successfully have built two kernels, one a couple of weeks ago and one just today but when I attempt to boot them these new kernels are not able to identify my boot partition. When I query the devices that the kernel sees during the boot failure all I see is an ad14 device(Which doesn't exist) and acd0. When I select the old kernel it boots without a problem. My boot device is ad10s1 which the November 1st kernel finds without a problem. I'm running a generic SMP kernel. Any ideas on what the problem is? Mark Jacobs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works
On 11:34:25 Dec 06, Paul Schmehl wrote: > [..] > I can see the device using atacontrol. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] atacontrol info ata0 > Master: acd0 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 > Slave: acd1 ATA/ATAPI revision 5 [..] > Drive buf size : 1016064 = 992 KB > FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB > Track 01: data 616 MB > Total size: 707 MB (70:07.13) = 315535 sectors > Lout start: 708 MB (70:09/10) = 315535 sectors > cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: retryable error > CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s > cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk! > > I just upgraded from FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE hoping that might > solve the problem. (I cvsupped the sources and ran make > buildworld/buildkernel, etc.) > > Do I have a hardware failure? Or is something else wrong? Check your jumpers. I had a similar problem that I fixed by using the right jumper on the CD/DVD drive. -Girish ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Randy Ramsdell writes: > What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? >This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. I'm going to jump in here. Based on what you've said, it sounds like: the system was running there was power outage, the system did not have a UPS when the system rebooted, fsck complained but nothing was done about the errors Let me clarify. All our servers are on UPSes, however the power outage outlasted the UPSes. That is why I stated prolonged power outage. Fsck did complain, but everything was fixed as I sat there and dealt with it. We do not want to deal with it in an offsite location and that is why this thread. IF THAT'S TRUE ... ... then the "seems" in your description is applicable, and should be a red flag. Get someone to the system, reboot it into single user mode, and run (and re-run) fsck until it runs without error. (Answer 'y' to all prompts.) This should be done whenever the file system is not shutdown cleanly. The filesystem is fine. Our set up just does not recover gracefully on hard reboots. (And consider a UPS, even it it only keeps the system alive for the few minutes necessary for a clean shutdown.) Is a dirty file system causing the reboots? No. a power prolonged power failure caused the last shutdown. Possibly; wiser heads than mine would have to lay out scearios. But it may also be responsible for other damage, more subtle but equally unpleasant. A fix is available. Use it. I understand this will not be easy, and I sympathize. Balance that pain against the small but non-trivial chance to catastrophic data loss, and choose wisely. Robert Huff Thanks for the reply. I think I will just set the rc.conf variable to answer "Y" to fsck questions unless there is a better way. A side note, this system has been hard shutdown two times and each time required intervention. We also use several Linux system ( reiserfs and ext3 ) and raely do I have to interact with the systems on reboot. There is a differnce and I am in the fisrt stages trying to understand this. PS. I am confused about why so many people are replying to the list and my personal e-mail. This one was sent to me only. Others were sent to me and the list. Actually, every other reply. Is this normal for the list as I am new as of today? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Aloha, If the power outages are prolonged and outlast the UPS you can parallel the small battery in the UPS with a 100 amp hour stationary battery if you have the room. We can get 9 hours on a stationery battery for our servers if we lose power here in Hawaii. (which just happened this week during a winter storm.) ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: > We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found > that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is > there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use > FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in > situatutions like this? Usually, FreeBSD can boot just fine without user interaction when power fails or there's some other cause for a "hard" OS failure (e.g. a kernel panic). That it isn't doing so in your case is significant, because it may point to serious problems. Firstly, what is the server used for? Do you have unusually high load on the file system - a busy file server or a database with lots of writes? - The default is for the root partition to be mounted "noasync" and Soft-updates to be used for all other file systems. Both settings can handle "hard" OS failures pretty good. Did you alter the default settings when creating the file systems? If you don't know, send the output of "mount" command. - How are your drives set up? Are they on a "dumb" disk controller or on a RAID controller? (which one?) Is the RAID controller perhaps doing write caching without a battery unit? - Can you connect the UPS devices with the server machines so they can shutdown gracefully when the power is about to fail? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Vince wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in situatutions like this? This is unusual in my experience, part of the charm of FreeBSD for me is how rarely I have had to interact with fsck thanks to the whole background fsck thing. What version of FreeBSD are you using? Assuming a 5.x or later since you say you've started to use FreeBSD. I am fairly sure it is v6.2 What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. This will be an offsite system so I do not want human intervention on boot for power outages or hard reboots. You can also try setting fsck_y_enable="YES" in rc.conf (this will do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.) I will use this. Do you mean by try, that this will work? I assume so. Thanks Vince! Oh, Is there a way to not receive 2 messages for every reply to this thread? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Questions on a FreeBSD reboot? Any boxes I have ever built can reboot by themselves with no human intervention. BUT SEE BELOW: This sounds like a BIOS settings issue on a box that has powered off. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
