Re: Portsnap -- update claims "up to date" but it's not.

[Jay Chandler]

Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Jay Chandler wrote:


Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

Maybe I'm just doing this completely wrong:

prime# portsnap update
Ports tree is already up to date.
prime# portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Mon Nov 12 18:16:16 EST 2007 to Tue Dec 25 21:36:54 
EST 2007.

Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 4 metadata files...
[and so on]

Am I using this thing wrong?

-Dan


Yup.  'portsnap fetch update' is the command I use-- the reverse 
order that you're using 'em in.


Shouldn't I just need one of the two?

-Dan


Nope.  fetch fetches the latest snapshot; update unpacks it.  extract 
does the ENTIRE snapshot again, but that's generally not needed after 
the first time.



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HP Proliant Series

[Bahman Movaqar]

Hi all,

Does anybody have some experience with HP Proliant DL380 G5?  Is it
compatible with FreeBSD (in particular 6.2)?  Following is the hardware
configuration:
CPU: Intel Xeon 5160 (2 GHz, FSB 1333)
RAM: HP 4GM PC2-5300 DDR2
HDD: 2 x 72GB 3G SAS (15K)
Storage Ctrlr: HP Smart Array P400/256
NIC: Broadcom 5721 PCI-Express

TIA,

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Re: HP Proliant Series

[Ron Wilhoite]

On 12/26/2007 05:52 AM Bahman Movaqar wrote:

Hi all,

Does anybody have some experience with HP Proliant DL380 G5?  Is it
compatible with FreeBSD (in particular 6.2)?  Following is the hardware
configuration:
CPU: Intel Xeon 5160 (2 GHz, FSB 1333)
RAM: HP 4GM PC2-5300 DDR2
HDD: 2 x 72GB 3G SAS (15K)
Storage Ctrlr: HP Smart Array P400/256
NIC: Broadcom 5721 PCI-Express



Same model, with slightly different CPU and NIC (2x E5355 and BCM5708), 
installed 6.2 with no problems.


Ron Wilhoite

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adding diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_8.tbz package in a script

[Omer Faruk Sen]

Hi,

Is there a way to add a package that requires the acceptance of the license
(such as diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_8.tbz) in a script.

I have made a yes "yes" | pkg_add diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_8.tbz but it didn't
work. Maybe there is an option that can be used somewhere .

Best Regards,
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Re: adding diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_8.tbz package in a script

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> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to add a package that requires the acceptance of the license
> (such as diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_8.tbz) in a script.
>
> I have made a yes "yes" | pkg_add diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_8.tbz but it
didn't
> work. Maybe there is an option that can be used somewhere .

For legal reasons unlikely... this is funny because I am the author
(but not maintainer) an other port that has a similar restriction and
was thinking about how to automate it for people who I know have
already read and agreed to the license but force people who have not
read it to read it (i.e. if your upgrading it doesn't bug you for
license acceptance)

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Browser-based VPN?

[Kurt Buff]

I've found this software:

http://3sp.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do

but don't see that it's supported under FreeBSD, neither in the docs
nor in my ports tree.

Has anyone used it in FreeBSD, or has anyone found another package for
FreeBSD that offers similar functionality?

Thanks,

Kurt
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Additional flag after 6.2-RELEASE-xx

[Anjang Aki]

Hi! Can I know what is this flag after 6.2-RELEASE meaning?

$ uname -r
6.2-RELEASE-p7

How come my box doesn't have the flag?
$ uname -r
6.2-RELEASE

if this is mean kernel updating/compiling hopefully someone can link
me to the URL guide to upgrade my box.

Thank you and regards,

-- 
-- Anjang Aki --
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Re: Browser-based VPN?

[Kurt Buff]

Cool.

Got any notes from your install process, or can you identify where it got hairy?

On 12/26/07, Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I've found this software:
> >
> > http://3sp.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do
> >
> > but don't see that it's supported under FreeBSD, neither in the docs
> > nor in my ports tree.
> >
> > Has anyone used it in FreeBSD, or has anyone found another package for
> > FreeBSD that offers similar functionality?
> >
> Yup,
>
> Using it right now... it's a bitch to install, but runs like charm.
> All software comes from the ports, except sslexplorer itself.
>
> Peter
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make buildworld fails. Whats wrong?

[User Elph]

I have updated a /usr/src from cvs-repositary. But buildworld fails with 
error code 1 in /usr/src/lib/

libcomm_err/doc. com_err.info - not found. whats wrong?

PS. I have installed a FreeBSD-7.0 - BETA4.
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Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x

[NetOpsCenter]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

I am building a new server out of both older and brand new
components.  It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z
mobo.  The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very
low hours on it.

So ... here's a fun one:  I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD)
or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the
DVD.  But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and
6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot.  The loader gets
as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily "spins"
to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine
just sits there.  There is some further activity on the optical
drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit.

I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt
this is the problem since I can load the other OSs.  I've tried
removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey
memory problem - no change.  I've tried removing the only
two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW -
no change.

I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is
to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode.
But that's it.  I am stumped.  Ideas anyone?




If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap
set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO
trick may work).

Also, 7.0 ran extremely well for me back in Sept., you might
try it as an alternative.

HTH

  

Aloha,

I had the same problem with a couple of older mobo's . I ended up 
loading 6.* on a hd on a different machine that I knew worked. I 
physically moved it to the problem box and it Worked.


I think the issue could be the size or the type of HD in my case. Some 
older mobo bios jam up when a HD is more than 60 gig I have found.



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Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 25, 2007 10:25:08 PM -0800 David Benfell 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:38:11 -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:


If we want people to give FreeBSD a try in good faith, it is both
profoundly  stupid and dishonest on our part to claim, we have a
working USB-system... It  does not matter, how great our buffer-sharing
VM is, if a home user can't  process their photos with a
FreeBSD-powered computer.



To the OP of this thread - generalized statements like this aren't very 
helpful.  I have a USB  mouse and a USB keyboard, both of which work fine 
and always have.  I mount USB thumb drives frequently to copy and move 
files back and forth.  I have a USB hard drive that is automounted at boot.


None of these devices has ever given me problems.

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I suspect it's the "failure" to 
automount devices without first doing some configuration or to mount 
devices when you are not logged in as root.



While I have not experienced difficulty with umass, I would have to
comment that as near as I can tell, *nothing* else on USB works.  Not my
scanner, nor my Treo.

Both have worked intermittently in the recent past, so I believe my
configuration is not at issue.


These I can't comment on, because I don't use them, although I note that 
there is a uscanner driver that *should* work for most scanners.  Man (4) 
uscanner has a lenghty list of supported scanners.  You might check to see 
if yours is on the list.


Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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Re: Additional flag after 6.2-RELEASE-xx

[Hugo Silva]

Anjang Aki wrote:

Hi! Can I know what is this flag after 6.2-RELEASE meaning?

$ uname -r
6.2-RELEASE-p7

How come my box doesn't have the flag?
$ uname -r
6.2-RELEASE

if this is mean kernel updating/compiling hopefully someone can link
me to the URL guide to upgrade my box.

Thank you and regards,

  

Hello,

-pX is the patchlevel. Both your systems are on RELENG_6_2, one has been 
updated, the other has not.


See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

Regards,

Hugo
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Re: Browser-based VPN?

[Peter Boosten]

Quoting Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Cool.

Got any notes from your install process, or can you identify where   
it got hairy?


The main 'problem' is that the installation cannot be automated, since  
you have to download the java jdk manually (because of the licensing).


If you install diablo-jdk and apache-ant from ports you'll be in the  
right direction. I cannot remember if I had to install anything else,  
but that'll show automatically.


I installed ssl-explorer in /usr/local, left the name of the directory  
like the ones from the zip and created a link to the directory like  
this:


lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel 23 Dec 13 07:48 sslexplorer ->  
sslexplorer-1.0.0_RC11/

drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel   1024 Dec 13 07:48 sslexplorer-1.0.0_RC11


That's make upgrading easier. I started of at RC3, and today downloaded RC12.

Initial installation is done via 'ant install' in the main sslexplorer  
directory (there's a sslexplorer subdir underneath), and sslexplorer  
then will listen on some exotic port (which I found by accident), I  
think it's 10080, but netstat will show. After configuring, 'ant  
start' will start sslexplorer on the port of your settings. Especially  
cool is the java rdp client!


Peter

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Re: Browser-based VPN?

[Kurt Buff]

On Dec 26, 2007 12:10 PM, Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Cool.
> >
> > Got any notes from your install process, or can you identify where
> > it got hairy?
> >
> The main 'problem' is that the installation cannot be automated, since
> you have to download the java jdk manually (because of the licensing).
>
> If you install diablo-jdk and apache-ant from ports you'll be in the
> right direction. I cannot remember if I had to install anything else,
> but that'll show automatically.
>
> I installed ssl-explorer in /usr/local, left the name of the directory
> like the ones from the zip and created a link to the directory like
> this:
>
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel 23 Dec 13 07:48 sslexplorer ->
> sslexplorer-1.0.0_RC11/
> drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel   1024 Dec 13 07:48 sslexplorer-1.0.0_RC11
>
>
> That's make upgrading easier. I started of at RC3, and today downloaded RC12.
>
> Initial installation is done via 'ant install' in the main sslexplorer
> directory (there's a sslexplorer subdir underneath), and sslexplorer
> then will listen on some exotic port (which I found by accident), I
> think it's 10080, but netstat will show. After configuring, 'ant
> start' will start sslexplorer on the port of your settings. Especially
> cool is the java rdp client!
>
>
> Peter
>
> --
> http://www.boosten.org

Thanks for the pointers!

I'm going to gin up a new box and play with it this week. The list
will probably see questions from me regarding this install...

Kurt
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Re: Anybody connected Nikon D300 to FreeBSD as umass?

[Yuri]

> Shouldn't need that.  The camera has to have the USB port set to MSC 
> ("Mass Storage") instead of MTP/PTP in the menus.  My D40 works that 
> way.
Yes, but if umass driver doesn't know about your device it isn't going to 
attach to it.
D40 is already added to umass, D300 should be added in the same way.
I already filed a patch for this.

Yuri
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Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x

[Tim Daneliuk]

NetOpsCenter wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

I am building a new server out of both older and brand new
components.  It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z
mobo.  The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very
low hours on it.

So ... here's a fun one:  I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD)
or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the
DVD.  But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and
6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot.  The loader gets
as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily "spins"
to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine
just sits there.  There is some further activity on the optical
drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit.

I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt
this is the problem since I can load the other OSs.  I've tried
removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey
memory problem - no change.  I've tried removing the only
two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW -
no change.

I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is
to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode.
But that's it.  I am stumped.  Ideas anyone?




If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap
set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO
trick may work).

Also, 7.0 ran extremely well for me back in Sept., you might
try it as an alternative.

HTH

  

Aloha,

I had the same problem with a couple of older mobo's . I ended up 
loading 6.* on a hd on a different machine that I knew worked. I 
physically moved it to the problem box and it Worked.


I think the issue could be the size or the type of HD in my case. Some 
older mobo bios jam up when a HD is more than 60 gig I have found.



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This was a brand new Abit LG-95Z mobo.  The solution was to return it
and get an Intel mobo instead.  Problem fixed.
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Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks

[David Benfell]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:52:25 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On December 25, 2007 10:25:08 PM -0800 David Benfell 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> To the OP of this thread - generalized statements like this aren't very 
> helpful.  I have a USB  mouse and a USB keyboard, both of which work fine 
> and always have.  I mount USB thumb drives frequently to copy and move 
> files back and forth.  I have a USB hard drive that is automounted at boot.
> 
Your thumb drives and hard drives are -- duh -- umass.  Okay, so the
original poster is even having problems with that.  I'll concede to an
over-generalization, but it is also rather frustrating when I--as an end
user--encounter problems with USB that I can't get any response on.

When I first posted about problems with my Treo, the suggestion was to
try upgrading to 7.0-BETA.  I've worked with CURRENT in the past, and have
generally had a positive experience, so I cheerfully complied, though I did
note that I was moving onto the bleeding edge.

I have had serious problems ever since and I will not repeat this mistake.
I initially had a little better luck with the Treo, but encountered the
"nasty IP bug" (and it was a doozy--I almost spent several hundred dollars
that I don't have on another router box from my ISP because all of a sudden
my system was both unreliable and my Internet access was unreliable).  I have
had to uninstall or disable pieces of software that, in one case, prevented
the system from coming all the way up, and in several cases, slowed the system
to less than a crawl.

And for all that, connectivity with the Treo is now non-existent, and I've
lost the functionality of my scanner.

Information on my system can be found at:



Inquiries to this list or to freebsd-current have generally yielded no response.

At least with 7.0-RC1, Xorg appears to be more stable.  (I noticed my port
upgrades rebuilding numerous gnome ports repeatedly.)

> None of these devices has ever given me problems.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I suspect it's the "failure" to 
> automount devices without first doing some configuration or to mount 
> devices when you are not logged in as root.
> 
The state of the documentation here leaves much to be desired.  In some
cases, information appears to be out of date, and in others, it is simply
wrong.  And before you complain that I should post reports of these problems,
see above about the response I get when I encounter problems.

Much as I love FreeBSD, and even with a background in computers going back to
the late 1970s (then as a programmer), the environment here does not seem to
foster a kind of interaction that solves problems.  Having been a programmer,
and having worked in customer service, I know that consumers are the most
frustrating people to deal with.  But we really need to be your friends.
Because that's how you make the product that we all love, better.

>> While I have not experienced difficulty with umass, I would have to
>> comment that as near as I can tell, *nothing* else on USB works.  Not my
>> scanner, nor my Treo.
>> 
>> Both have worked intermittently in the recent past, so I believe my
>> configuration is not at issue.
> 
> These I can't comment on, because I don't use them, although I note that 
> there is a uscanner driver that *should* work for most scanners.  Man (4) 
> uscanner has a lenghty list of supported scanners.  You might check to see 
> if yours is on the list.
> 
There is a conflict in the documentation here.  See the man pages for
sane, which specify that libusb should be used in place of the uscanner
driver.


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Re: Browser-based VPN?

[Peter Boosten]

Quoting Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


I've found this software:

http://3sp.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do

but don't see that it's supported under FreeBSD, neither in the docs
nor in my ports tree.

Has anyone used it in FreeBSD, or has anyone found another package for
FreeBSD that offers similar functionality?


Yup,

Using it right now... it's a bitch to install, but runs like charm.
All software comes from the ports, except sslexplorer itself.

Peter

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Re: Anybody connected Nikon D300 to FreeBSD as umass?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Yuri wrote:


Shouldn't need that.  The camera has to have the USB port set to MSC
("Mass Storage") instead of MTP/PTP in the menus.  My D40 works that
way.

Yes, but if umass driver doesn't know about your device it isn't going to
attach to it.
D40 is already added to umass, D300 should be added in the same way.
I already filed a patch for this.


I'm relatively sure it's a generic class of device--there are so many 
USB storage devices that it seems impractical to have to add them all 
explicitly.  The D40 isn't in umass.c; in fact, the only Nikon camera 
mentioned in the USB source is the E990.


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dovecot questions

[Andrew Falanga]

Hi,

I'm trying to install and configure Dovecot.  Thanks to the efforts of the 
port maintainer for Dovecot, installation was mindless.  However, 
configuration isn't quite so simple.  There were several in this list that 
suggested the use of Dovecot when I inquired for suggestions as to a good 
POP/IMAP server.

So, I'm hoping that these same folks can offer help in getting me running.  
The WIKI for Dovecot is helpful, but seems to assume much in terms of what 
the reader will understand.  How do I add users to the system?  If I've done 
my work correctly, I've setup my Dovecot system to store virtual users in a 
PostgreSQL database.  However, how do I add users?

Also, with respect to the configuration file (dovecot.conf) why are there so 
many passdb/userdb?  If I have passdb sql "turned on", should I "turn off" 
all other passdb sections?  What is the significance of the userdb static { } 
section in that file?  It appears that it is necessary for use if using a 
single user to access several mailboxes (i.e. virtual users which is what I 
want to implement).  Is this true?

If I'm understanding things correctly, the next, very important item, is how 
do I setup new users and how would those users then manage things like 
passwords, etc.?

Andy
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Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:

--On December 25, 2007 10:25:08 PM -0800 David Benfell 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:38:11 -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:


If we want people to give FreeBSD a try in good faith, it is both
profoundly  stupid and dishonest on our part to claim, we have a
working USB-system... It  does not matter, how great our buffer-sharing
VM is, if a home user can't  process their photos with a
FreeBSD-powered computer.


To the OP of this thread - generalized statements like this aren't very 
helpful.  I have a USB  mouse and a USB keyboard, both of which work fine and 
always have.


Well, me too, and a USB scanner which works well.  But I understand the 
frustration.


Lately, I was trying to use a card reader with a too-long USB cable. 
Not only did that not work, but it could slow the system down to nothing 
or panic it.  Fixed with a powered hub...


It seems like we need another kind of storage, something that is known 
to be only mostly data-safe.  If the system would gracefully handle 
unexpected media removals, that would be nice.  Not everything is a 
trustworthy hard drive.


The user ought to be able to tell the system "Yes, da0s1 is an msdos 
filesystem which I'm going to be yanking out at unexpected times.  Yes, 
I know it might lose some data, but at least figure things out and don't 
panic."


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Re: dovecot questions

[Peter Schuller]

> configuration isn't quite so simple.  There were several in this list that
> suggested the use of Dovecot when I inquired for suggestions as to a good
> POP/IMAP server.

I'll add my recommendation to that (having used courier in the past).

> So, I'm hoping that these same folks can offer help in getting me running.
> The WIKI for Dovecot is helpful, but seems to assume much in terms of what
> the reader will understand.  How do I add users to the system?  If I've
> done my work correctly, I've setup my Dovecot system to store virtual users
> in a PostgreSQL database.  However, how do I add users? 

Dovecot doesn't really care. You provide the method of obtaining the user list 
from the database, in the form of SQL statements (assuming they differ from 
defaults), and it's up to you to make sure this returns the appropriate 
information (so in other words, dovecot doesn't add users for you).

I used to run a pg+dovecot+postfix, but have since moved away from it and I 
don't have the configs easily accessible to check out specifics. But 
googling, this should be useful in terms of providing a bunch of real-world 
configuration examples:

   http://www.gjdv.at/snippets/linux/virtual_mail_hosting

> Also, with respect to the configuration file (dovecot.conf) why are there
> so many passdb/userdb?  If I have passdb sql "turned on", should I "turn
> off" all other passdb sections?  What is the significance of the userdb
> static { } section in that file?  It appears that it is necessary for use
> if using a single user to access several mailboxes (i.e. virtual users
> which is what I want to implement).  Is this true?

I can't answer each one of the above off hand, but things like uids is 
controlled by the user database that it sounds like you want to keep in 
PostgreSQL. This includes the ability to set the uid/gid, which you can have 
different for each user, the same, or some combination thereof, on a per-user 
basis. Your exact table design is up to you, as long as you can give dovecot 
the appropriate SQL statements for obtaining relevant information.

> If I'm understanding things correctly, the next, very important item, is
> how do I setup new users and how would those users then manage things like
> passwords, etc.?

This is up to you. dovecot does not provide and user interfaces for managing 
accounts (that I am aware of). Typically a reason to have the user database 
in a relational database would be to enable the construction of such 
interfaces, or perhaps use of existing tools. But unless I am missing 
something, user management is beyond the scope of what dovecot itself is 
providing.

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Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 26, 2007 3:45:15 PM -0700 Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:


Well, me too, and a USB scanner which works well.  But I understand the
frustration.



As do I.


Lately, I was trying to use a card reader with a too-long USB cable. Not
only did that not work, but it could slow the system down to nothing or
panic it.  Fixed with a powered hub...



I have encountered numerous problems with USB on Windows as well.  Some 
devices only work when plugged directly in to a port on the box.  Some are 
perfectly happy to share a hub with others.  So I don't think *all* of the 
problems are OS-related.



It seems like we need another kind of storage, something that is known
to be only mostly data-safe.  If the system would gracefully handle
unexpected media removals, that would be nice.  Not everything is a
trustworthy hard drive.

The user ought to be able to tell the system "Yes, da0s1 is an msdos
filesystem which I'm going to be yanking out at unexpected times.  Yes,
I know it might lose some data, but at least figure things out and don't
panic."



I absolutely agree with this.  At a minimum it should be possible to 
forcibly umount a device that you removed after forgetting to umount it 
first.  If I had the first clue about the code, I'd submit a patch.


Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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Re: dovecot questions

[Jay Chandler]

Peter Schuller wrote:


This is up to you. dovecot does not provide and user interfaces for managing 
accounts (that I am aware of). Typically a reason to have the user database 
in a relational database would be to enable the construction of such 
interfaces, or perhaps use of existing tools. But unless I am missing 
something, user management is beyond the scope of what dovecot itself is 
providing.


  

You are correct; I use Postfixadmin to do this personally.

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Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On December 26, 2007 3:45:15 PM -0700 Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:



It seems like we need another kind of storage, something that is known
to be only mostly data-safe.  If the system would gracefully handle
unexpected media removals, that would be nice.  Not everything is a
trustworthy hard drive.

The user ought to be able to tell the system "Yes, da0s1 is an msdos
filesystem which I'm going to be yanking out at unexpected times.  Yes,
I know it might lose some data, but at least figure things out and don't
panic."



I absolutely agree with this.  At a minimum it should be possible to forcibly 
umount a device that you removed after forgetting to umount it first.  If I 
had the first clue about the code, I'd submit a patch.


The code is likely... er, non-trivial, and might reach into some deep 
places.  Maybe a project the FreeBSD Foundation would sponsor?


(Seems like there was something about bounty projects being ungood, but 
maybe I have that wrong.  If not, I think a lot of us would be willing 
to contribute funds to a "Don't Panic: Removable Media" project.)


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Local Ports Started Twice on Boot with 6-Stable

[Seth Hieronymus]

I just noticed this today:

With 6-Stable (6.3-PRERELEASE csuped and built today), it appears that my
local ports are started multiple times as part of the boot process.  I have
not been able to find anything obvious.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for the help,
Seth Hieronymus

*
Here's an excerpt from the console log that shows pureftpd, postfix, apache,
and postgresql being started twice, failing the second time:

Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: savecore: no dumps found
Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib
/usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg
/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg
Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout
/usr/lib/compat/aout
Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: Initial i386 initialization:
Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: .
Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: Additional ABI support:
Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: .
Dec 26 23:47:23 hts3 kernel: Starting pureftpd.
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Running: /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -A -c50 -B
-C8 -E -fftp -H -I15 -lpuredb:/usr/local/etc/pureftpd.pdb -L2000:8 -m4
-p15000:2 -s -U133:022 -u100 -x -X -i -k99 -Z
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Clearing /tmp (X related).
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Starting pureftpd.
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Running: /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -A -c50 -B
-C8 -E -fftp -H -I15 -lpuredb:/usr/local/etc/pureftpd.pdb -L2000:8 -m4
-p15000:2 -s -U133:022 -u100 -x -X -i -k99 -Z
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) [ERROR]
Unable to start a standalone server: [Address already in use]
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Starting local daemons:
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: .
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Updating motd
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: .
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Mounting late file systems:
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: .
Dec 26 23:47:24 hts3 kernel: Starting ntpd.
Dec 26 23:47:29 hts3 kernel: postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix
mail system
Dec 26 23:47:29 hts3 kernel: Performing sanity check on apache22
configuration:
Dec 26 23:47:30 hts3 kernel: Syntax OK
Dec 26 23:47:30 hts3 kernel: Starting apache22.
Dec 26 23:47:34 hts3 kernel: pg_ctl: another server may be running; trying
to start server anyway
Dec 26 23:47:35 hts3 kernel: Dec 26 23:47:35 hts3 postgres[668]: [1-1]
FATAL:  lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists
Dec 26 23:47:35 hts3 kernel: Dec 26 23:47:35 hts3 postgres[668]: [1-2]
HINT:  Is another postmaster (PID 582) running in data directory
"/usr/local/postgres/data"?
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: pg_ctl: could not start server
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: Examine the log output.
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail
system is already running
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3
postfix/postfix-script[676]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already
running
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: Performing sanity check on apache22
configuration:
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: Syntax OK
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: Starting apache22.
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: (48)Address already in use: make_sock: could
not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: no listening sockets available, shutting down
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: Unable to open logs
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: Configuring syscons:
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: font8x16
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: font8x8
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: blanktime
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: screensaver
Dec 26 23:47:36 hts3 kernel: .
Dec 26 23:47:37 hts3 kernel: Starting sshd.
Dec 26 23:47:37 hts3 kernel: Starting cron.
Dec 26 23:47:37 hts3 kernel: Local package initialization:
Dec 26 23:47:37 hts3 kernel: .
Dec 26 23:47:37 hts3 kernel:
Dec 26 23:47:37 hts3 kernel: Wed Dec 26 23:47:37 UTC 2007
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PV entries

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello questions,

  I'm getting these messages on my FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 as well as on BETA4
  boxes (I haven't noticed it in the past):

  Dec 27 01:18:49 web1 kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider 
increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.

  I  would like to ask, what are these PV entries, in order to be able
  to tweak these numbers accordingly.

  Just for the record, following numbers are set (should be defaults):

  vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200
  vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 3254323

  Thanks.

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Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

[Lowell Gilbert]

Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:32:50AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> RA Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> > I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post:
>> >
>> >>>Somehow Ubuntu was given root user
>> >  permissions<<
>> >
>> > Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of 
>> > the user doing the login - not root - but we could login with any valid 
>> > user apparently FreeBSD thought it was presented with a wildcard password.
>> >
>> > And I can also verify that FreeBSD clients are able to use the password 
>> > map when x is used instead of * in the map to represent the password. So I 
>> > can secure the system using the x but still cannot get Ubuntu clients to 
>> > authenticate.
>> 
>> Sounds like Ubuntu is using the wrong map, probably one where it's
>> getting a different and empty field where it expects to find a password.
>
> The behavior with an asterisk instead of an X is pretty worrisome,
> however, and is not strictly Ubuntu's fault.  Security of a server should
> not rely on the good will and competence of the client developers.

I agree with the latter sentence, but not the former.  
When using NFS (without Kerberos), it is built into the protocol that
the server trusts the client on the UID/GID.  
That is a good reason not to use NFS in an untrusted environment, but
there really isn't anything FreeBSD can do about it.
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syslog-ng not logging

[Livia Markoczy]

I've just installed syslog-ng from ports on 7.0B4.

I put the following into /etc/rc.conf

syslog_ng_enable="YES"
syslog_ng_config="-u daemon"
syslog_ng_pid="/var/run/syslog-ng.pid"

And my syslog-ng.conf file is very similar to the example one (plus  
some special destinations for things that come in via UDP).


I killed the syslog process and started

 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/syslog-ng start

and everything seemed to start up just fine.  No errors reported, runing

   rc.d/syslog-ng status

tells me that it is running, as does ps.

But nothing has logged anywhere, including to console, since the time  
I killed the system syslogd.


Any suggestions of where I should look to debug this?

-j


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zfs-geli-zfs: opinions/suggestions

[Jacob Yocom-Piatt]

lo all,

have a freebsd 7.0-beta4 machine attached to an external disk enclosure 
and would like feedback on the following setup: have RAID-Z on 4 disks, 
ZFS volume that takes up entire RAID-Z, use ZVOL from volume for 
encryption via geli, use .eli (decrypted) device to make another ZFS 
pool. the idea being "no time/resources wasted doing fscks plus 
encryption sans hardware RAID".


translated to commands this reads:

# zpool create p_a raidz /dev/mfid1 /dev/mfid2 /dev/mfid3 /dev/mfid4
# zpool list
NAMESIZEUSED   AVAILCAP  HEALTH ALTROOT
p_a2.72T   4.02G   2.71T 0%  ONLINE -
# zfs create -V 2048g p_a/vol
# geli init -K /root/p_a.key -s 4096 -l 256 /dev/zvol/p_a/vol
# geli attach -k /root/p_a.key /dev/zvol/p_a/vol
# zpool create a /dev/zvol/p_a/vol.eli

i got a reboot while scp-ing some files to /a (only got ~3 GB in) from 
another machine with the above setup. am currently waiting far too long 
for a rm -R  to complete under /a. will test if any of this 
behavior is repeatable.


i welcome opinions or suggestions on the stability of such a setup 
(ZFS-geli-ZFS) and if this is not stable, as the reboot i just 
experienced would indicate, suggestions on alternative configurations 
that allow use of geli and minimize or eliminate fsck time. i do have a 
preference for no hardware RAID since it ties us to a particular card. 
will furnish a proper bug report if the reboots are repeatable in the 
aforementioned scenario.


NOTE: please CC me since i am not yet subscribed to this list

cheers,
jake

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Re: syslog-ng not logging

[Peter Boosten]

Quoting Livia Markoczy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


I've just installed syslog-ng from ports on 7.0B4.

I put the following into /etc/rc.conf

syslog_ng_enable="YES"
syslog_ng_config="-u daemon"
syslog_ng_pid="/var/run/syslog-ng.pid"

And my syslog-ng.conf file is very similar to the example one (plus
some special destinations for things that come in via UDP).

I killed the syslog process and started

 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/syslog-ng start

and everything seemed to start up just fine.  No errors reported, runing

   rc.d/syslog-ng status

tells me that it is running, as does ps.

But nothing has logged anywhere, including to console, since the time I
killed the system syslogd.

Any suggestions of where I should look to debug this?



Yup, file permissions. While your syslog-ng runs as daemon, it has no  
permission to log to files owned by root (syslogd).

I solved that by logging into a different subdir owned by daemon.

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Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x

[Tim Daneliuk]

David M. Patronis wrote:

Tim Daneliuk wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am building a new server out of both older and brand new
components.  It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z
mobo.  The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very
low hours on it.

So ... here's a fun one:  I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD)
or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the
DVD.  But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and
6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot.  The loader gets
as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily "spins"
to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine
just sits there.  There is some further activity on the optical
drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit.

I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt
this is the problem since I can load the other OSs.  I've tried
removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey
memory problem - no change.  I've tried removing the only
two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW -
no change.

I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is
to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode.
But that's it.  I am stumped.  Ideas anyone?



If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap
set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO
trick may work).




I just swapped out the optical drive with a CD-RW - exact same
symptoms.  Fiddling w/BIOS, seems to make no difference, though
I am still poking at it.  I am utterly lost - never seen
very standard hardware like this that FreeBSD could/would not
boot and run on ...

Response:

Its probably an issue with the 6X series. I have experienced something 
similar and just spoke to someone via this list with a similar problem. 
In all cases thus far we were able to install using the 7X series.


David


Not in this case.  As I mentioned in a prior post, I tried booting
with the 7.0-BETA4 ISO and got the exact same results.


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Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x

[David M. Patronis]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am building a new server out of both older and brand new
components.  It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z
mobo.  The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very
low hours on it.

So ... here's a fun one:  I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD)
or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the
DVD.  But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and
6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot.  The loader gets
as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily "spins"
to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine
just sits there.  There is some further activity on the optical
drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit.

I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt
this is the problem since I can load the other OSs.  I've tried
removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey
memory problem - no change.  I've tried removing the only
two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW -
no change.

I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is
to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode.
But that's it.  I am stumped.  Ideas anyone?



If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap
set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO
trick may work).




I just swapped out the optical drive with a CD-RW - exact same
symptoms.  Fiddling w/BIOS, seems to make no difference, though
I am still poking at it.  I am utterly lost - never seen
very standard hardware like this that FreeBSD could/would not
boot and run on ...

Response:

Its probably an issue with the 6X series. I have experienced something 
similar and just spoke to someone via this list with a similar problem. 
In all cases thus far we were able to install using the 7X series.


David







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dell Power Edge 2950

[Olivier Nicole]

Hello,

This is just to confirm that Dell Power Edge 2950, with Quad Core Xeon
E5420 is OK with FreeBSD 6.2/6.3.


TIA,

Olivier
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Re: remote x session

[Roger Olofsson]

Jonathan Horne skrev:
i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to 
another box, in a window of my currently running session.  xnest is one way 
of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little 
easier to configure and get going) ?


cheers,


You might want to look at WDM and Fluxbox. There are alot of other 
window managwers of course but these 2 have small overhead and run very 
nice. Read more at http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/WDM . There are 
some tips in the mailing list archive for these to get you started as well.


Greetings from Sweden
/Roger
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csup update actions

[CyberLeo Kitsana]

Hi!

Does anyone know how csup handles updating changed files?

Given that each branch of FreeBSD is nearly 500 megabytes in size, and
undoubtedly contains a significant number of identical files from branch
to branch, I figure it's feasable to create a new branch consisting
entirely of files hardlinked from a lower branch, then run csup over that.

Would csup properly handle this scenario and unlink/recreate the changed
files, or would it update them in-place, and thus destroy the parent branch?

Thanks!

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