date:20080908

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:35:07 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other
> things keep happening that took precedence.  Now it's time to ask what
> are the voodoo commands to set up in my ~/.zshrc or other initiation
> files (probably including my muttrc) that will let me print to stdout,
> characters like the "e-aigu" or "u-umlaut" and the currency pound or
> Euro?
>
> I keep running into '\240' characters that are likely M$ format
> commands. [...]

That's not really an ISO 8859-1 problem, but a locale setup issue.

In my .bashrc file I have the following:

# Locale setup.
export LANG="C"
export LC_CTYPE="el_GR.ISO8859-7"
export LC_COLLATE="el_GR.ISO8859-7"
unset LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME

You can use something similar to set things up for `en_US.ISO8859-1':

# Locale setup.
export LANG="C"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1"
export LC_COLLATE="en_US.ISO8859-1"
unset LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME

If you want _everything_ to be displayed using the standard en_US
conventions for en_US.ISO8859-1, you can alternatively use:

export LANG="C"
export LC_ALL="en_US.ISO8859-1"
unset LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME

and let LC_ALL override everything.

A slightly better idea (which doesn't hardcode LANG and LC_ALL for all
shell instances) is to configure your personal `.login_conf' file with
something like:

me:\
:charset=iso-8859-1:\
:lang=en_US.ISO8859-1:\
:setenv=LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1:

With this in place you will get the 'correct' environment regardless of
the login shell you are using: bash, csh or zsh.

Note: By avoiding hardcoded locale setup in your shell startup file
you can even spawn sub-shells with different locales.  Here's how
a zsh session with `en_US.ISO8859-1' can spawn a ksh session with a
Greek locale for example:

zsh> env | egrep '^(LANG|LC_ALL)'
LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1
zsh> env LANG='el_GR.ISO8859-7' LC_ALL='el_GR.ISO8859-7' ksh
ksh$ mutt

Note that this is only ``half of the setup'' though.  You will then have
to make sure that your terminal emulator can display ISO 8859-1 text
correctly, by choosing an appropriate font set.  The xlsfonts(1) and the
fc-list(1) utilities can show you a list of installed fonts:

# xlsfonts | fgrep '8859-1'
# fc-list

Pick one that includes ISO 8859-1 characters, and off you go :)

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Exiting Gnome

2008-09-08 Thread FBSD1

Started Gnome for first time. Can not figure how to exit (stop) gnome and
return to the FreeBSD command line. The System/logout option just hangs.

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how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-08 Thread Gary Kline

Guys,

This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions;
but other things keep happening that took precedence.  Now
it's time to ask what are the voodoo commands to set up in my
~/.zshrc or other initiation files (probably including my muttrc)
that will let me print to stdout, characters like the "e-aigu"
or "u-umlaut" and the currency pound or Euro?

I keep running into '\240' characters that are likely M$ format
commands.  Catting a saved file thru Giorgos sed
's/[^[:print:]]/*/g' {or whatever} resolved that --and other
such.  But it isn't my main gripe.  

I realize this is probably a complex issue; it's time to work on
a reasonable solution.

thanks in advance for all insights,

gary



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Re: {Spam?} Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7

2008-09-08 Thread Derek Ragona


At 10:37 PM 9/8/2008, Michael wrote:



Derek Ragona wrote:
I have a FreeBSD 7 release I wanted to use as a host for virtual 
machines.  What software is anyone else using to host virtual machines 
under FreeBSD?


I'd just like to here what has worked, or what has not worked.  I find it 
easier to find a solution asking for real world experiences.


Thanks for your help.



-Derek
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>> In my honest opinion, there aren't many good ways of doing what I 
think you're wanting.
VMware is a no go for now, or probably any time soon. I don't think 
virtualbox is running on freebsd yet. You could use jails, for just other 
freebsd installs, not really a VM so to speak.
bochs is crap for this purpose, simics doesn't run on it worth a crap 
either. If I were you, I would use something else. say a hypervisor 
running on bare hardware, ie: VMware ESX, or similar. I would say xen if 
it was ready, but I don't think it is.


Cheers Mate,

Mike


Mike,

Thanks for the quick response.  I had seen that there are a lot of 
non-working virtual machine implementations.  It seems a shame that as well 
as FreeBSD runs there are no ways to run a VM on it.


-Derek


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Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7

2008-09-08 Thread Michael




Derek Ragona wrote:
I have a FreeBSD 7 release I wanted to use as a host for virtual 
machines.  What software is anyone else using to host virtual machines 
under FreeBSD?


I'd just like to here what has worked, or what has not worked.  I find 
it easier to find a solution asking for real world experiences.


Thanks for your help.



-Derek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



>> In my honest opinion, there aren't many good ways of doing what I 
think you're wanting.
VMware is a no go for now, or probably any time soon. I don't think 
virtualbox is running on freebsd yet. You could use jails, for just 
other freebsd installs, not really a VM so to speak.
bochs is crap for this purpose, simics doesn't run on it worth a crap 
either. If I were you, I would use something else. say a hypervisor 
running on bare hardware, ie: VMware ESX, or similar. I would say xen if 
it was ready, but I don't think it is.


Cheers Mate,

Mike
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Re: Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread wsw

The GENERIC kernel maybe have no ext2fs module. You can install it by:
cd /usr/src/sys/module/ext2fs && make && make install clean
and load the module
kldload ext2fs

If you do not have mount_ext2fs tool:
cd /usr/src/sbin/mount_ext2fs && make && make install clean

then, try to mount the ext2 partition.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>My thanks to a member of this list  who showed me what I was
> doing wrong. in an example, the command is
>
> mount -t ext2fs /dev/[yourstoragedevicename] /mnt
>
> I had originally been typing -t ext2 which equals nothing to
> FreeBSD.
>
> Martin McCormick
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Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7

2008-09-08 Thread Derek Ragona

I have a FreeBSD 7 release I wanted to use as a host for virtual 
machines.  What software is anyone else using to host virtual machines 
under FreeBSD?


I'd just like to here what has worked, or what has not worked.  I find it 
easier to find a solution asking for real world experiences.


Thanks for your help.



-Derek
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Re: Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread Michael




Martin McCormick wrote:

My thanks to a member of this list  who showed me what I was
doing wrong. in an example, the command is

mount -t ext2fs /dev/[yourstoragedevicename] /mnt

I had originally been typing -t ext2 which equals nothing to
FreeBSD.

Martin McCormick
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>> lol, i could say something about it not being anything to freebsd...
cheers mate

mike
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Re: Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread Martin McCormick

My thanks to a member of this list  who showed me what I was
doing wrong. in an example, the command is

mount -t ext2fs /dev/[yourstoragedevicename] /mnt

I had originally been typing -t ext2 which equals nothing to
FreeBSD.

Martin McCormick
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Re: IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:03:29PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Dan Nelson wrote:
>
>> In the last episode (Sep 08), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said:
>>> I have the following rule set up in ipfw to limit the exposure of bad
>>> php scripts and trojans that try to send mail directly.
>>>
>>> allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 uid root
>>> deny log tcp from any to any dst-port 25 out
>>>
>>> However, the log messages I get look like this:
>>>
>>> Sep  8 13:21:11  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
>>> 72.9.101.130:58117 209.85.133.114:25 out via em0
>>> Sep  8 13:21:16  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
>>> 72.9.101.130:56672 202.12.31.144:25 out via em0
>>>
>>> Which is to say, they don't include the UID -- and I have several hundred
>>> sites, each with its own UID.
>>>
>>> Yes, I could go ahead and set up a thousand "deny" rules, one for
>>> each UID -- but being able to log this info (since it IS being
>>> checked) would be great.
>>
>> It should be possible to add a couple more arguments to ipfw_log() so
>> that ipfw_chk() can pass it the ugid_lookup flag and a pointer to the
>> fw_ugid_cache struct.  Then you can edit ipfw_log to print the contents
>> of that struct if ugid_lookup==1.  That would result in the logging of
>> uid for any failed packet that had to go through a uid check on the way
>> to the deny rule.
>
> Okay, so if it's fairly easy to do, the question would be "since I don't  
> feel right hacking in this change myself -- how could I propose this as a 
> feature?"  It's not a BUG per-se, but I think it could be useful to 
> others as well.

send-pr it.  Category=kern, Class=change-request.

Reference this thread in the Fix section:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-September/025920.html

FWIW, I think it's also a good idea.  The output formatting of the log
line might need to be adjusted "carefully" though, since any programs
which grep on a very strict regex will start failing.  I'm inclined
to recommend the string ", UID xxx" be appended to the existing string,
e.g.

Sep  8 13:21:11  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:58117 209.85.133.114:25 out via em0, UID 6592

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Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

   I have been trying a lot of things, I want to start again, I think I just
need to delete /usr/ports?

   Let me read again the manual and see those Flags.

   I remember that the first time u run portsdb the manuals recommend to sue
Uu, but let read the manual page, I will back soon!!!

   Thanks all for your support!!!

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Michael Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> perikillo wrote:
>
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html
> >
> >   I supposes that "portsnap extract" have to run just once, latter u have
> >   to
> > just run  portsnap fetch && portsnap update?
> >
> >   Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap?
> >
> >   This is normal? This would not broke my tree?
> >
> >Right now I already run cvsup and is running portsdb -Uu, I will let u
> > know what happend, thanks!!!
> [snip]
>
> Unless you have a specific overriding reason to do -Uu you might want to
> try -uF instead. It's what I use and it's always worked. In fact, this is
> what I do to see if I need an upgrade:
>
> csup -L 2 ports && portsdb -uF && pkgdb -u && portversion
>
> But since I have never used portsnap don't really know anything about it.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Powell

perikillo wrote:

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html
> 
>   I supposes that "portsnap extract" have to run just once, latter u have
>   to
> just run  portsnap fetch && portsnap update?
> 
>   Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap?
> 
>   This is normal? This would not broke my tree?
> 
>Right now I already run cvsup and is running portsdb -Uu, I will let u
> know what happend, thanks!!!
[snip]

Unless you have a specific overriding reason to do -Uu you might want to
try -uF instead. It's what I use and it's always worked. In fact, this is
what I do to see if I need an upgrade:

csup -L 2 ports && portsdb -uF && pkgdb -u && portversion

But since I have never used portsnap don't really know anything about it.

-Mike



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Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

  This cannot be possible:

Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.."Makefile",
line 56: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> sysutils/apcupsd failed
*** Error code 1

 Again!!!

  Now, this could be a bug or what?

  I follow your instructions Sean and look again the same error, same
port!!!

  This is my ports-supfile

*default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress

## Ports Collection.
ports-all

This is my make.conf

CPUTYPE?=pentium4
#NO_CPU_CFLAGS= # Don't add -march= to CFLAGS automatically
#NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS=  # Don't add -march= to COPTFLAGS automatically
#
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
#
CXXFLAGS+= -fconserve-space
#
MAKE_SHELL?=sh
#
BDECFLAGS=  -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align \
-Wcast-qual -Wchar-subscripts -Winline \
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith \
-Wredundant-decls -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wwrite-strings
COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
# Mtree will follow symlinks
MTREE_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS= -L
# To enable installing ssh(1) with the setuid bit turned on
ENABLE_SUID_SSH=
#ENABLE_SUID_NEWGRP=
#
# To avoid building various parts of the base system:
NO_ACPI=# do not build acpiconf(8) and related programs
NO_ATM= # do not build ATM related programs and libraries
#NO_AUTHPF= # do not build and install authpf (setuid/gid)
NO_BLUETOOTH=   # do not build Bluetooth related stuff
#NO_BOOT=   # do not build boot blocks and loader
#NO_CRYPT=  # do not build any crypto code
#NO_CVS=# do not build CVS
#NO_CXX=# do not build C++ and friends
NO_DICT=# do not build the Webster dictionary files
#NO_DYNAMICROOT=# do not link /bin and /sbin dynamically
#NO_FORTRAN=# do not build g77 and related libraries
NO_GAMES=   # do not build games (games/ subdir)
#NO_GDB=# do not build GDB
#NO_GPIB=   # do not build GPIB support
NO_I4B= # do not build isdn4bsd package
NO_INET6=   # do not build IPv6 related programs and libraries
#NO_INFO=   # do not make or install info files
NO_IPFILTER=# do not build IP Filter package
#NO_KERBEROS=   # do not build and install Kerberos 5 (KTH Heimdal)
#NO_LIBC_R= # do not build libc_r (re-entrant version of libc)
#NO_LIBPTHREAD= # do not build libpthread (M:N threading library)
#NO_LIBTHR= # do not build libthr (1:1 threading library)
#NO_LPR=# do not build lpr and related programs
#NO_MAILWRAPPER=# do not build the mailwrapper(8) MTA selector
#NO_MAN=# do not build manual pages
#NO_MODULES=# do not build modules with the kernel
#NO_NETCAT= # do not build netcat
#NO_NIS=# do not build NIS support and related programs.
#   # If NO_NIS is set, you might need to adopt your
#   # nsswitch.conf(5) and remove `nis' entries.
#NO_NLS_CATALOGS=   # do not build NLS catalog support for csh(1)
#NO_OBJC=   # do not build Objective C support
#NO_OPENSSH=# do not build OpenSSH
#NO_OPENSSL=# do not build OpenSSL (implies
NO_KERBEROS/NO_OPENSSH)
NO_PF=  # do not build PF firewall package
#NO_PROFILE=# Avoid compiling profiled libraries
NO_RCMDS=   # do not build or install BSD r* commands (rsh,
etc).
#NO_SENDMAIL=   # do not build sendmail and related programs
#NO_SHARE=  # do not go into the share subdir
#NO_SHARED= # build /bin and /sbin statically linked (bad idea)
NO_SHAREDOCS=   # do not build the 4.4BSD legacy docs
#NO_TCSH=   # do not build and install /bin/csh (which is tcsh)
#NO_TOOLCHAIN=  # do not build programs for program development
NO_USB= # do not build usbd(8) and related programs
#
# Variables that control how ppp(8) is built.
PPP_NO_NAT= # do not build with NAT support (see make.conf(5))
PPP_NO_NETGRAPH=# do not build with Netgraph support
PPP_NO_RADIUS=  # do not build with RADIUS support
PPP_NO_SUID=# build with normal permissions
#
TRACEROUTE_NO_IPSEC=# do not build traceroute(8) with IPSEC support
NO_BIND=# Do not build any part of BIND
#NO_BIND_DNSSEC=# Do not build dnssec-keygen, dnssec-signzone
#NO_BIND_ETC=   # Do not install files to /etc/namedb
#NO_BIND_LIBS_LWRES=# Do not install the lwres library
#NO_BIND_MTREE= # Do not run mtree to create chroot directories
#NO_BIND_NAMED= # Do not build named, rndc, lwresd, etc.
#NO_BIND_UTILS= # Do not build dig, host, nslookup, nsupdate
#WITH_BIND_LIBS=

Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-08 Thread Sean Cavanaugh

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From: "perikillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:25 PM
To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" 
Subject: Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html

 I supposes that "portsnap extract" have to run just once, latter u have 
to

just run  portsnap fetch && portsnap update?

 Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap?

 This is normal? This would not broke my tree?

  Right now I already run cvsup and is running portsdb -Uu, I will let u
know what happend, thanks!!!

I've never fully trusted portsnap. I do run portsnap fetch before every 
portupgrade but I always follow it up with CVSUP and I usually find some 
more files that get changed anyway. 

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Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html

  I supposes that "portsnap extract" have to run just once, latter u have to
just run  portsnap fetch && portsnap update?

  Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap?

  This is normal? This would not broke my tree?

   Right now I already run cvsup and is running portsdb -Uu, I will let u
know what happend, thanks!!!


On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sean Cavanaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > --
> > From: "perikillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:41 PM
> > To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" 
> > Subject: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3
> >
> >>  Hi people.
> >>
> >>  Well I have time locking for a solution for this problem I have, I have
> >> googling around and have not found a solution, I have 2 serves running
> >> FreeBSD 6.1/6.2, normally I update my ports tree each day, but I already
> >> stop doing that because I still cannot fix the problems with the
> commmand:
> >>
> >> portsdb -Uu, each time I run that command on both servers I receive this
> >> error:
> >>
> >> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> >> wait.."Makefile",
> >> line 56: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk
> >> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> >> ===> sysutils/apcupsd failed
> >> *** Error code 1
> >
> >
> > CVSUP your tree to straighten it out. I noticed that portsnap will not
> fix
> > damaged/missing files.
>
> Portsnap will if you do "extract". It WONT if you do "update."
>
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Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Jay Chandler


David Southwell wrote:
I pay for my connection to receive.. and pay for my connection to send. Some people just want to not paly their part in absorbing the risks that go with participation. It is up to us to defend our systems. 

  
Your server, your rules.  You can whitelist or blacklist anyone you 
choose.  The downside is that so can everybody else; your lack of 
non-generic rDNS means that mail to my server (alcatraz.sequestered.net) 
will bounce if not smarthosted through somewhere that has a static IP 
and properly configured DNS.  This was deemed an acceptable threshold on 
my box when I was selecting anti-spam mechanisms.  If you're that 
concerned about privacy, use GPG/PGP and  request a key exchange.


What's more is that I've applied that same metric at several employers, 
ranging from mid-sized businesses to universities.  My previous (and 
current!) employers were familiar with all sides of the argument and 
ultimately decided to reject mail from dynamic address pools to combat 
spam.  Complaining about it doesn't do much good, since (as previously 
stated) their server, their rules.
To classify a whole load of users, the majority of whom are genuine, as 
invalid users is degrading and discriminatory.


  
The majority of users smarthost their mail.  If you want to retain 
control, drop the $15 a month on a VPS somewhere with a static IP, 
configure DNS correctly, and be your own smarthost; I did this for a 
while before I upgraded to a static IP at home. 

My point of viwew -- you are entitled to yours but IMHO not to enforce it!!
  
Ah, but on my server I can enforce whatever makes the most sense for my 
userbase; my responsibility is to them, not to you.


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Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-08 Thread Schiz0

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sean Cavanaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --
> From: "perikillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:41 PM
> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" 
> Subject: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3
>
>>  Hi people.
>>
>>  Well I have time locking for a solution for this problem I have, I have
>> googling around and have not found a solution, I have 2 serves running
>> FreeBSD 6.1/6.2, normally I update my ports tree each day, but I already
>> stop doing that because I still cannot fix the problems with the commmand:
>>
>> portsdb -Uu, each time I run that command on both servers I receive this
>> error:
>>
>> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
>> wait.."Makefile",
>> line 56: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> ===> sysutils/apcupsd failed
>> *** Error code 1
>
>
> CVSUP your tree to straighten it out. I noticed that portsnap will not fix
> damaged/missing files.

Portsnap will if you do "extract". It WONT if you do "update."
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Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Gerard

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:35:14 -0700
David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I agree and they do BUT they need a warrant to do so!! That is the
> safeguard.
> 
> With the internet no warrant is needed. There is no protection for
> civil liberties as applies with pohysical mail.

First of all, this is not a civil liberties issue. Are you so naive
that you honestly believe that by using a dynamic IP rather than
securing a static one or using your hosts mail service that you have
made the interception and viewing of your mail by someone other than
its intended recipient impossible? Furthermore, what are you
transmitting that makes you so paranoid? Why not just use some
form of encryption if you are so paranoid?

Your claim of civil liberties is bogus. Consider the rights of other
users, in this case the Postfix mailing list, that does not want to be
inundated with SPAM and accordingly blocks mail from sites that fail
authentication tests. In your case, reverse DNS.

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RE: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Powell

Joe Tseng wrote:

> Yeah that was it...  The chown -R mysql:mysql /var/db/mysql was what did
> it...  Thx to all for the help.
> 
>  - Joe
> 
[snip]

Look in /usr/local/share/mysql for my.cnf examples you can use for tuning
your install. One thing that bit me once was the location of the my.cnf
changed. I used to keep it in /var/db/mysql but found after one particular
upgrade it seemed like it wasn't being read any longer. That was because
the FreeBSD port install's new default location changed to /usr/local/etc.

-Mike

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Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-08 Thread Sean Cavanaugh


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To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" 
Subject: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3


 Hi people.

  Well I have time locking for a solution for this problem I have, I have
googling around and have not found a solution, I have 2 serves running
FreeBSD 6.1/6.2, normally I update my ports tree each day, but I already
stop doing that because I still cannot fix the problems with the commmand:

portsdb -Uu, each time I run that command on both servers I receive this
error:

Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please 
wait.."Makefile",

line 56: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> sysutils/apcupsd failed
*** Error code 1



CVSUP your tree to straighten it out. I noticed that portsnap will not fix 
damaged/missing files. 


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Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

  Hi people.

   Well I have time locking for a solution for this problem I have, I have
googling around and have not found a solution, I have 2 serves running
FreeBSD 6.1/6.2, normally I update my ports tree each day, but I already
stop doing that because I still cannot fix the problems with the commmand:

portsdb -Uu, each time I run that command on both servers I receive this
error:

Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.."Makefile",
line 56: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> sysutils/apcupsd failed
*** Error code 1

I try to follow some sites solutions but no luck, I remove the port
"portupgrade" and install again but again no luck, download the Index file,
etc, etc, today I build a server, fresh install, update my ports with
portsnap, them run the portsdb
-Uu and again the same error.

This could not be the sync of the server and my files, because the last time
I try to sync my servers this was the same error I got today.

I don't know if this is  the only way we can have  our ports sync:

portsnap fetch && portsnap update && portsdb -Uu ?

  This is my normal commands I use to sync my ports,  maybe I am wrong
please confirm this if I'am wrong,  but  the  error appear  right in my
server, what could I do to fix this error?

  I have seen other people with the same error and no solution yet.

  "sysutils/apcupsd failed"

  Thanks all for your time!!!


FreeBSD 6.3-Release!!!
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Re: logcheck doesn't work anymore

2008-09-08 Thread Greg Larkin

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Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After upgrading logcheck from 1.1.1 to 1.2.54 I suddenly get errors of
> logcheck not working correctly:
> 
> ...
> Warning: If you are seeing this message, your log files may not have
> been checked!
> 
> Details:
> Could not run logtail or save output
> 
> Check temporary directory: /tmp/logcheck.6IZZmq
> 
> Also verify that the logcheck user can read all files referenced in
> /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles!
> 
> declare -x HOME="/var/lib/logcheck"
> declare -x LOGNAME="logcheck"
> declare -x MAILTO="root"
> declare -x OLDPWD
> declare -x
> PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
> declare -x PWD="/var/lib/logcheck" declare -x SHELL="/bin/sh"
> declare -x SHLVL="1"
> declare -x USER="logcheck"
> ...
> 
> In version 1.1.1 there was a script logcheck.sh in cron that ran every
> hour but that doesn't seem to exist anymore. Trying to run logcheck
> manually results in:
> 
> ...
> logcheck should not be run as root. Use su to invoke logcheck:
> su logcheck -c "/usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/sbin/logcheck"
> Or use sudo: sudo -u logcheck logcheck.
> ...
> 
> But this doesn't seem to do anything.
> 
> How can I use logcheck again?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marco
> 

Hi Marco,

I recently committed the upgrade to logcheck, and I am looking into your
problem now.  I'll post back here with details once I've figured it out.

Regards,
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7-stable-amd64 on ibm x86-64 daughter card

2008-09-08 Thread Michael

I'm running 7-stable on an x86-64 card in an ibm server and was 
wondering if anyone else was, or in a similar environment, and has IO 
errors on the shared disk. The errors do not happen all the time, not 
even under heavy load, it seems to be at random. Shared disk presents 
itself as an LSI scsi disk.

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logcheck doesn't work anymore

2008-09-08 Thread Marco Beishuizen

Hi,

After upgrading logcheck from 1.1.1 to 1.2.54 I suddenly get errors of
logcheck not working correctly:

...
Warning: If you are seeing this message, your log files may not have
been checked!

Details:
Could not run logtail or save output

Check temporary directory: /tmp/logcheck.6IZZmq

Also verify that the logcheck user can read all files referenced in
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles!

declare -x HOME="/var/lib/logcheck"
declare -x LOGNAME="logcheck"
declare -x MAILTO="root"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x
PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
declare -x PWD="/var/lib/logcheck" declare -x SHELL="/bin/sh"
declare -x SHLVL="1"
declare -x USER="logcheck"
...

In version 1.1.1 there was a script logcheck.sh in cron that ran every
hour but that doesn't seem to exist anymore. Trying to run logcheck
manually results in:

...
logcheck should not be run as root. Use su to invoke logcheck:
su logcheck -c "/usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/sbin/logcheck"
Or use sudo: sudo -u logcheck logcheck.
...

But this doesn't seem to do anything.

How can I use logcheck again?

Thanks,

Marco

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Re: IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin


On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Dan Nelson wrote:


In the last episode (Sep 08), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said:

I have the following rule set up in ipfw to limit the exposure of bad
php scripts and trojans that try to send mail directly.

allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 uid root
deny log tcp from any to any dst-port 25 out

However, the log messages I get look like this:

Sep  8 13:21:11  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:58117 209.85.133.114:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:21:16  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:56672 202.12.31.144:25 out via em0

Which is to say, they don't include the UID -- and I have several hundred
sites, each with its own UID.

Yes, I could go ahead and set up a thousand "deny" rules, one for
each UID -- but being able to log this info (since it IS being
checked) would be great.


It should be possible to add a couple more arguments to ipfw_log() so
that ipfw_chk() can pass it the ugid_lookup flag and a pointer to the
fw_ugid_cache struct.  Then you can edit ipfw_log to print the contents
of that struct if ugid_lookup==1.  That would result in the logging of
uid for any failed packet that had to go through a uid check on the way
to the deny rule.


Okay, so if it's fairly easy to do, the question would be "since I don't 
feel right hacking in this change myself -- how could I propose this as a 
feature?"  It's not a BUG per-se, but I think it could be useful to others 
as well.


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Re: changing network interface names

2008-09-08 Thread benjamin thielsen


On Sep 08, 2008, at 12.03, Mikel King wrote:



On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:24 AM, benjamin thielsen wrote:


hi-

i have a computer with 2 ethernet interfaces (a dell poweredge  
2900) on which the interface names are transposed logically versus  
physically (e.g. the interface labelled "ethernet 1" is named  
"bce1" and the interface labelled "ethernet 2" is labelled "bce0").


how can i change this, aside from using the ifconfig name argument?

thanks
-ben



Ben,

The manpage for rc.conf includes the following example:

It is also possible to rename interface by doing:

ifconfig_ed0_name="net0"
ifconfig_net0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0x"

	Obviously you can also do this manually w/ ifconfig, but I suspect  
hat you'd like this change to occurr everytime you restart.



Cheers,
Mikel King


hi-

thanks for the reply.  is there no other way aside from ifconfig?  i  
was hoping for a mechanism to say something like "this device at pci  
address X should be considered the first interface" or such.  pciconf - 
w seemed like it might be suitable, but i'm not quite sure how one  
would go about that.  my goal is to be able to do it earlier in the  
boot process, and avoid playing musical interface names with ifconfig  
if i want to retain the existing naming convention.  there must be  
some logic that relates to which interface is picked up or labelled  
first, no?


thanks
-ben
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RE: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Joe Tseng

Yeah that was it...  The chown -R mysql:mysql /var/db/mysql was what did it...  
Thx to all for the help.

 - Joe

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> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:46:02 -0800
> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67
> 
> On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng said:
> > So I checked in that directory you suggested and I found this:
> >
> > 080908 13:35:05  mysqld started
> > 080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value
> > 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295 080908 13:35:05
> > [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value
> > 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295 080908 13:35:05 
> > InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
> > InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
> > InnoDB: the directory.
> > InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
> > InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
> > InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
> > 080908 13:35:05  mysqld ended
> >
> > So my questions are:
> > 1. What directory is it referring to?  Is it /var/db/mysql by
> > default?  I just tried to give ownership using chown -R mysql
> > /var/db/mysql but that made no difference. 2. I've read also for
> > this kind of issue I have to reinstall the software...  When I
> > initially installed this from ports I didn't use any kind of extra
> > parameters.  Are they needed?
> 
> Yes, the /var/db/mysql dir needs to be readable and writeable by 
> mysql. Try the following: chown -R mysql:mysql /var/db/mysql.
> 
> The error is telling you that innodb can't 
> create /var/db/mysql/ibdata1. After fixing permissions, you may need 
> to do another initdb.
> 
> Beech
> 
> >
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:56:48 -0800
> > > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67
> > >
> > > On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng said:
> > > > I've got a server running FreeBSD7 and got MySQL 5.0.67
> > > > installed on it today.  I ran mysql_install_db and then
> > > > assigned the root password.  I tried to get it running on boot
> > > > (mysql_enable="YES") and by hand
> > > > (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start) but I can't get the
> > > > daemon to start.  What else do I need to do to get this
> > > > working?
> > > >
> > > >  - Joe
> > >
> > > Check the logfiles in /var/db/mysql, they will usually tell you
> > > what it's choking on. My first guess without more info would be
> > > you probably don't have something configured correctly.
> > >
> > > Beech
> 
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Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Beech Rintoul

On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng said:
> So I checked in that directory you suggested and I found this:
>
> 080908 13:35:05  mysqld started
> 080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value
> 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295 080908 13:35:05
> [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value
> 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295 080908 13:35:05 
> InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
> InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
> InnoDB: the directory.
> InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
> InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
> InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
> 080908 13:35:05  mysqld ended
>
> So my questions are:
> 1. What directory is it referring to?  Is it /var/db/mysql by
> default?  I just tried to give ownership using chown -R mysql
> /var/db/mysql but that made no difference. 2. I've read also for
> this kind of issue I have to reinstall the software...  When I
> initially installed this from ports I didn't use any kind of extra
> parameters.  Are they needed?

Yes, the /var/db/mysql dir needs to be readable and writeable by 
mysql. Try the following: chown -R mysql:mysql /var/db/mysql.

The error is telling you that innodb can't 
create /var/db/mysql/ibdata1. After fixing permissions, you may need 
to do another initdb.

Beech

>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:56:48 -0800
> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67
> >
> > On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng said:
> > > I've got a server running FreeBSD7 and got MySQL 5.0.67
> > > installed on it today.  I ran mysql_install_db and then
> > > assigned the root password.  I tried to get it running on boot
> > > (mysql_enable="YES") and by hand
> > > (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start) but I can't get the
> > > daemon to start.  What else do I need to do to get this
> > > working?
> > >
> > >  - Joe
> >
> > Check the logfiles in /var/db/mysql, they will usually tell you
> > what it's choking on. My first guess without more info would be
> > you probably don't have something configured correctly.
> >
> > Beech



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Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Greg Larkin

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Joe Tseng wrote:
> So I checked in that directory you suggested and I found this:
> 
> 080908 13:35:05  mysqld started
> 080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value 
> 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295
> 080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value 
> 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295
> 080908 13:35:05  InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
> InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
> InnoDB: the directory.
> InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
> InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
> InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
> 080908 13:35:05  mysqld ended
> 
> So my questions are:
> 1. What directory is it referring to?  Is it /var/db/mysql by default?  I 
> just tried to give ownership using chown -R mysql /var/db/mysql but that made 
> no difference.
> 2. I've read also for this kind of issue I have to reinstall the software...  
> When I initially installed this from ports I didn't use any kind of extra 
> parameters.  Are they needed?
> 
> 
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:56:48 -0800
>> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67
>>
>> On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng said:
>>> I've got a server running FreeBSD7 and got MySQL 5.0.67 installed
>>> on it today.  I ran mysql_install_db and then assigned the root
>>> password.  I tried to get it running on boot (mysql_enable="YES")
>>> and by hand (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start) but I can't
>>> get the daemon to start.  What else do I need to do to get this
>>> working?
>>>
>>>  - Joe
>> Check the logfiles in /var/db/mysql, they will usually tell you what 
>> it's choking on. My first guess without more info would be you 
>> probably don't have something configured correctly.
>>
>> Beech
>>

Hi Joe,

Do you have a my.cnf file anywhere?  If so, look for the following
options and make sure that the directories they are set to are also
accessible by the mysql user:

innodb_data_home_dir
innodb_data_file_path

If that doesn't work, I often use truss
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html)
to debug permissions issues like this.  You'll usually be able to tell
from its output what syscall generates an EACCES and causes MySQL to fail.

Regards,
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Kill NFS connection

2008-09-08 Thread patrick

Is there a way to kill an NFS connection to a server that's stopped
responding? When I try to simply unmount it, I get a never-ending
stream of "server not responding" messages. (Using FreeBSD 6.2, BTW.)

Thanks,

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RE: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Joe Tseng

So I checked in that directory you suggested and I found this:

080908 13:35:05  mysqld started
080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value 
18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295
080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value 
18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295
080908 13:35:05  InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
080908 13:35:05  mysqld ended

So my questions are:
1. What directory is it referring to?  Is it /var/db/mysql by default?  I just 
tried to give ownership using chown -R mysql /var/db/mysql but that made no 
difference.
2. I've read also for this kind of issue I have to reinstall the software...  
When I initially installed this from ports I didn't use any kind of extra 
parameters.  Are they needed?


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> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:56:48 -0800
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67
> 
> On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng said:
> > I've got a server running FreeBSD7 and got MySQL 5.0.67 installed
> > on it today.  I ran mysql_install_db and then assigned the root
> > password.  I tried to get it running on boot (mysql_enable="YES")
> > and by hand (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start) but I can't
> > get the daemon to start.  What else do I need to do to get this
> > working?
> >
> >  - Joe
> 
> Check the logfiles in /var/db/mysql, they will usually tell you what 
> it's choking on. My first guess without more info would be you 
> probably don't have something configured correctly.
> 
> Beech
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Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread Martin McCormick

The subject line is the question. I am not sure if it isn't
working because I am using the wrong nomenclature for the file
system I need to mount or if I need to do some more to the
kernel which, right now, is just the standard FreeBSD generic
build which usually has everything one normally needs.

Thank you.

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Re: safest way to upgrade a production server

2008-09-08 Thread Bob Johnson

On 9/8/08, John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
 uname -a
>>> FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1:
>>> Mon Dec  3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/
>>> src/sys/INET_ON  amd64
>>
>> oooh, that is a bit old I think.
>
> I chose this server as an example, because it's the oldest one. I
> didn't install the OS on this server, the vendor did. Not sure why
> they chose a prerelease version... perhaps 6.3 was almost ready to go
> and they wanted to put us on the 6.3 branch? I don't know.
>

I had the same problem, except I was the vendor. Set up a system with
6.3-PRERELEASE for testing, then forgot it wasn't -RELEASE and put it
in production.

> Anyway, I guess what I should do is patch this to the latest 6.3
> version?
>

My strategy was to do a source-base upgrade to 6.3-RELEASE, and then
use freebsd-update to apply critical patches. Freebsd-update only
works on -RELEASE versions with generic kernels, but I find it much
faster and easier than trying to do upgrades from source. You also
need to keep track of ports that need updating: use portaudit for
that.

> Or should I go to the latest 6.x version? I am pretty sure I don't
> want to experiment with a 7.x upgrade.

I believe 6.3 is the latest 6.x version. For now the thing to do is
get to an up-to-date 6.3 system. Then take your time figuring out the
best strategy for the transition to 7.x.

- Bob
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Re: IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson

In the last episode (Sep 08), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said:
> I have the following rule set up in ipfw to limit the exposure of bad
> php scripts and trojans that try to send mail directly.
> 
> allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 uid root
> deny log tcp from any to any dst-port 25 out
> 
> However, the log messages I get look like this:
> 
> Sep  8 13:21:11  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
> 72.9.101.130:58117 209.85.133.114:25 out via em0
> Sep  8 13:21:16  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
> 72.9.101.130:56672 202.12.31.144:25 out via em0
> 
> Which is to say, they don't include the UID -- and I have several hundred 
> sites, each with its own UID.
> 
> Yes, I could go ahead and set up a thousand "deny" rules, one for
> each UID -- but being able to log this info (since it IS being
> checked) would be great.

It should be possible to add a couple more arguments to ipfw_log() so
that ipfw_chk() can pass it the ugid_lookup flag and a pointer to the
fw_ugid_cache struct.  Then you can edit ipfw_log to print the contents
of that struct if ugid_lookup==1.  That would result in the logging of
uid for any failed packet that had to go through a uid check on the way
to the deny rule.

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Re: HW recommendations for light weight server

2008-09-08 Thread Al Plant

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

I know that this is pretty far off topic, but I'm asking anyway.

I need to purchase/rebuild a relatively light-weight server for a small
LAN. It will run a small MySQL server, DNS, DHCP, nagios, LDAP,
syslog-ng and a few other things, serving only a LAN. My previous box
running this was a cheapo Fry's reject. I went through two power
supplies on that one, before I gave up on it.

My current box is an HP Pavilion Slimline s3220n

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01154947&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3548659

that I got at a CompUSA fire sale. Although it is still running, the
case near the power supply is very hot to the touch and it is giving off
a terrible stench. CPU temperatures are perfectly fine, but I'm taking
the smell as a very bad sign. That machine came with many things that I
don't use (DVD burner (only used during FreeBSD installation), TV tuner,
Wireless, etc) so they shouldn't be drawing any power.

I need something that will run 24/7 in an environment that can sometimes
get up to 30C. (I live in Texas, and try not to over do the air
conditioning.)

Something with an amd64 architecture would make the transition easier,
since I might be able to use my current disk.

So any thoughts or recommendations will be welcome. If people wish to
email me off list, I'll provide a summary of responses.

Cheers,

-j

Aloha,

My servers are housed in a shed. I have louvers at the top and bottom so
the laws of convection work well. I have had hot powersupplies at
times. I usually change them to a heavy duty one mostly taken from cast
off military or HP boxes. This usually solves the problem nicely. Also
in every one of my servers I added a big fan over and above the ones
that come with the box. (I dont have to worry about noise with the
servers since that are in the outside shed).

For reference: I live in a uplands area on Oahu where our night
temperatures is in the upper 60's (18c) and in the fall the daytime can
be in the low 90's (35c)

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Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Beech Rintoul

On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng said:
> I've got a server running FreeBSD7 and got MySQL 5.0.67 installed
> on it today.  I ran mysql_install_db and then assigned the root
> password.  I tried to get it running on boot (mysql_enable="YES")
> and by hand (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start) but I can't
> get the daemon to start.  What else do I need to do to get this
> working?
>
>  - Joe

Check the logfiles in /var/db/mysql, they will usually tell you what 
it's choking on. My first guess without more info would be you 
probably don't have something configured correctly.

Beech

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freebsd 7.0 and jail

2008-09-08 Thread gahn

Hello:

I am trying to build jails on 7.0 system and got errors:

/

>>> Installing everything
--
cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 install
===> share/info (install)
===> lib (install)
===> lib/csu/i386-elf (install)
gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -I/usr/src/lib/csu/i386-elf/../common  
-I/usr/src/lib/csu/i386-elf/../../libc/include -Wsystem-headers -Wall 
-Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings 
-Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wunused-parameter -Wchar-subscripts -Winline 
-Wnested-externs -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-sign -c crt1.c
gcc:No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/lib/csu/i386-elf.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/lib.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

///

looks like the code of jail is broken, did anyone have similar problem?

I am working in an environment that is able to use "freebsd-update" script.

Thanks in Advance

 


  
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Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-08 Thread John Almberg



On Sep 7, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote:


Polytropon skrev:

Anyway, the best reading contrast - black on white -


No. The best contrast is light yellow background with black letters.


I play around with terminal colors occasionally (a great time waster)  
but the main colors I care about in a terminal are my vim color  
scheme... those looks best in a black on white terminal. I know  
because for years I used a white on black terminal, but always had a  
hard time seeing the dark blue on black... it finally dawned on me  
that it would look a lot better if I had a white background (duh!)


I guess you could create your own color schemes for everything, but I  
don't have that kind of time!


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Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-08 Thread Al Plant


Jerry McAllister wrote:

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:06:03AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:


On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:37 +0100
Mike Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Sunday 07 September 2008, James Strother wrote:


That said, I still think that as long as the freebsd foundation
distributes CD images it would be worthwhile to make them as
effective as possible. Actually, even if the install were moved to a
DVD, the ordered install I proposed would still improve the
situation.  When the packages are haphazardly ordered on the disc,
the CD/DVD reader is forced to perform a large number of seeks that
dramatically reduces data throughput.  When they are read in order,
read rates should be much better.
They might not be as haphazard as you suggest. ISTR once reading that 
the CDs were arranged with the most popular packages on the first CD so 
that you would only need to download disk 2 (and 3) if you wanted some 
of the less common packages. With your suggested layout it's quite 
likely that a package which most of the others depend on would be right 
down at the bottom of the list with the result that you'd invariably 
need to download all 3 CD images.


I think the best way to avoid the need for frequent CD switching would 
be for sysinstall to sort the list of selected packages into CD order 
before installing them. I imagine this would require some changes to 
pkg_add to prevent it from installing dependencies and I expect the 
possible benefits would not be considered to be sufficient to justify 
the effort.

Another way to avoid switching CDs is to select an FTP server for
installing packages.  This also avoids downloading bits you don't
need or want.


I think the OP mentioned having a difficult or slow internet
connection as being part of the reason for the question/comment.
Although I enjoy having a 100MB line to my office into a 10GB
backbone, still not all people are that fortunate and I don't even
have a good line at home where I am still stuck with dialup (so I 
drag my machine in to the office for installs).


jerry


There is another discussion:

  http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1220762797.29265.43.camel

which would address the disk swapping by removing all the packages
from disc1 and providing a DVD of packages that could be used
after installation.

HTH,

Randy



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Aloha,

Slow internet is an unforunate fact of life. Here in Hawaii we have many 
military  installations and many times they down load or up load 
satellite or other images that hog our Trans Oceanic band width. I have 
a 3 meg download line and it is excellent most of the time. However, 
when there are certain missions or satellite tests going on it slows 
things noticably. I have found that by using the Australian Mirrors can 
help from here or trying one of the less popular mirrors from MIT or one 
of the Canadian ones can really speed up down loads.


I Make a copy of CD 1 FreeBSD and then load a minimal install (with 
ports). Then down load from a FreeBSD server anything else I need for 
the server or desktop I am setting up. And select one of the ftp mirrors 
 that is normally not too choked.


Best of luck.

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Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Joe Tseng

I've got a server running FreeBSD7 and got MySQL 5.0.67 installed on it today.  
I ran mysql_install_db and then assigned the root password.  I tried to get it 
running on boot (mysql_enable="YES") and by hand 
(/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start) but I can't get the daemon to start.  
What else do I need to do to get this working?

 - Joe

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RE: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when using tip over aserial port to another device

2008-09-08 Thread Wayne Sierke

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:50 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wayne Sierke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:12 AM
> > To: Jeff Haran
> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when 
> > using tip over aserial port to another device
> > 
> > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:20 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote:
> > > Dear Sirs,
> > > 
> > > I have connected one of the RS232 ports of my PC with 
> > FreeBSD (v6.3) on
> > > it to a device that does not understand XON/XOFF flow 
> > control. I run the
> > > tip program to connect to that device.
> > > 
> > > How do I configure tip and/or the serial port so that the FreeBSD PC
> > > will NOT send XOFFs or XONs to the device?
> > > 
> > > When I run:
> > > 
> > > stty -a -f /dev/cuad0
> > > 
> > > where /dev/cuad0 is the device associated with the port, it outputs
> > > (among other things):
> > > 
> > > iflags: ... ixon -ixoff ...
> > > 
> > > >From my reading of the stty man page, I would think that 
> > means the port
> > > is already configured to not send XOFFs.
> > > 
> > > Is there something I need to do to /etc/remote to tell tip 
> > to not enable
> > > XON/XOFF?
> > > 
> > > Please respond to this email address as I do not subscribe to the
> > > mailing list.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Jeff Haran
> > 
> > Hi Jeff,
> > 
> > I think there might be a problem with the man page for tip(1) 
> > on 6.x, as
> > an entry for 'tandem' was added to the tip sources about 2 years ago.
> > It's in the 7.x man page as you can see at:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tip&manpath=FreeBSD+7
> .0-RELEASE&format=html
> > 
> > in 'Variables'. 'tandem' shows up in a variable listing (~v) 
> > in tip on a
> > 6.x system I have here but I don't have an appropriate set up 
> > at hand to
> > verify that it operates correctly.
> > 
> > Let us know how you go with it. If it works for you then a PR would be
> > in order.
> > 
> > 
> > Wayne
> > 
> > [1] Extract from the tip(1) man page on 7.x:
> >  tandem  (bool) Use XON/XOFF flow control to throttle 
> > data from the remote
> >  host; abbreviated ta.  The default value is true 
> > unless the nt
> >  capability has been specified in /etc/remote, in 
> > which case the
> >  default value is false.
> > 
> 
> Wayne,
> 
> Thanks for the response. After I sent the original email, I found the
> tandem variable in the tip source code and toggling it off did indeed
> disable the generation of XOFFs. It would have been easier if tandem had
> been documented in the 6.3 man pages.
> 
> It would also be convenient if there was some way to set these tip
> varibles non-interactively (e.g. via a command line option, .rc file or
> some such thing). I am using tip in an expect script to automate a test
> case and coding the expect script to generate the ~s escape sequence to
> turn tandem off was something less than straight forward.
> 
> Jeff Haran

I encountered exactly the same situation just recently when I set up cu
to monitor a serial console from another box. I'd like to be able to
unset beautify and set the script and record variables on startup but
couldn't see how it might be done other than patching the source.

In your case, however, it seems you're in luck. Take another look at
that last sentence in the description of 'tandem'. You should be able to
add the 'nt' (presumably, "no tandem") capability to /etc/remote.


Wayne


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IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin


Hey all,

I have the following rule set up in ipfw to limit the exposure of bad php 
scripts and trojans that try to send mail directly.


allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 uid root
deny log tcp from any to any dst-port 25 out

However, the log messages I get look like this:

Sep  8 13:21:11  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:58117 209.85.133.114:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:21:16  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:56672 202.12.31.144:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:21:16  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:58131 209.85.133.27:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:21:28  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:58117 209.85.133.114:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:21:32  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:58131 209.85.133.27:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:22:45  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:65313 64.202.166.12:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:22:45  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:65313 64.202.166.12:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:22:46  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:65313 64.202.166.12:25 out via em0
Sep  8 13:22:49  prime kernel: ipfw: 610 Deny TCP 
72.9.101.130:65313 64.202.166.12:25 out via em0


Which is to say, they don't include the UID -- and I have several hundred 
sites, each with its own UID.


Yes, I could go ahead and set up a thousand "deny" rules, one for each UID 
-- but being able to log this info (since it IS being checked) would be 
great.


Thoughts?

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RE: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when using tip over aserial port to another device

2008-09-08 Thread Jeff Haran

> -Original Message-
> From: Wayne Sierke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:12 AM
> To: Jeff Haran
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when 
> using tip over aserial port to another device
> 
> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:20 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote:
> > Dear Sirs,
> > 
> > I have connected one of the RS232 ports of my PC with 
> FreeBSD (v6.3) on
> > it to a device that does not understand XON/XOFF flow 
> control. I run the
> > tip program to connect to that device.
> > 
> > How do I configure tip and/or the serial port so that the FreeBSD PC
> > will NOT send XOFFs or XONs to the device?
> > 
> > When I run:
> > 
> > stty -a -f /dev/cuad0
> > 
> > where /dev/cuad0 is the device associated with the port, it outputs
> > (among other things):
> > 
> > iflags: ... ixon -ixoff ...
> > 
> > >From my reading of the stty man page, I would think that 
> means the port
> > is already configured to not send XOFFs.
> > 
> > Is there something I need to do to /etc/remote to tell tip 
> to not enable
> > XON/XOFF?
> > 
> > Please respond to this email address as I do not subscribe to the
> > mailing list.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff Haran
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I think there might be a problem with the man page for tip(1) 
> on 6.x, as
> an entry for 'tandem' was added to the tip sources about 2 years ago.
> It's in the 7.x man page as you can see at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tip&manpath=FreeBSD+7
.0-RELEASE&format=html
> 
> in 'Variables'. 'tandem' shows up in a variable listing (~v) 
> in tip on a
> 6.x system I have here but I don't have an appropriate set up 
> at hand to
> verify that it operates correctly.
> 
> Let us know how you go with it. If it works for you then a PR would be
> in order.
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> [1] Extract from the tip(1) man page on 7.x:
>  tandem  (bool) Use XON/XOFF flow control to throttle 
> data from the remote
>  host; abbreviated ta.  The default value is true 
> unless the nt
>  capability has been specified in /etc/remote, in 
> which case the
>  default value is false.
> 

Wayne,

Thanks for the response. After I sent the original email, I found the
tandem variable in the tip source code and toggling it off did indeed
disable the generation of XOFFs. It would have been easier if tandem had
been documented in the 6.3 man pages.

It would also be convenient if there was some way to set these tip
varibles non-interactively (e.g. via a command line option, .rc file or
some such thing). I am using tip in an expect script to automate a test
case and coding the expect script to generate the ~s escape sequence to
turn tandem off was something less than straight forward.

Jeff Haran
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HW recommendations for light weight server

2008-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg

I know that this is pretty far off topic, but I'm asking anyway.

I need to purchase/rebuild a relatively light-weight server for a
small LAN. It will run a small MySQL server, DNS, DHCP, nagios, LDAP,
syslog-ng and a few other things, serving only a LAN. My previous box
running this was a cheapo Fry's reject. I went through two power
supplies on that one, before I gave up on it.

My current box is an HP Pavilion Slimline s3220n

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01154947&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3548659

that I got at a CompUSA fire sale. Although it is still running, the
case near the power supply is very hot to the touch and it is giving
off a terrible stench. CPU temperatures are perfectly fine, but I'm
taking the smell as a very bad sign. That machine came with many
things that I don't use (DVD burner (only used during FreeBSD
installation), TV tuner, Wireless, etc) so they shouldn't be drawing
any power.

I need something that will run 24/7 in an environment that can
sometimes get up to 30C. (I live in Texas, and try not to over do the
air conditioning.)

Something with an amd64 architecture would make the transition easier,
since I might be able to use my current disk.

So any thoughts or recommendations will be welcome. If people wish to
email me off list, I'll provide a summary of responses.

Cheers,

-j

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openoffice spadmin doesn't install fonts

2008-09-08 Thread Rich Winkel

Ok, this used to work ... I'm using oo 2.4.0 on release-7.0-p3.  Using
the "add fonts" menu in spadmin, it copies the TT font files into
/usr/local/openoffice.org-2.4.0/share/fonts
but they never show up in the font menu in the writer.
Does anyone know?  Does this have something to do with fontconfig?

Thanks,
Rich

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Re: Sendmail become open relay

2008-09-08 Thread Chris Pratt



On Sep 8, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote:



This might be more general advice than a specific help, but i've  
found most bad mail originating from me comes from php driven forum  
sites.
After originally patching the php src to log sitenames that send  
mail, i found enabling MAILHEAD support in php build adds customs  
headers which help to identify the site anyway.


I plan on adding a milter to pick these up dynamically, but for  
now, it helps identify sites from stuck items in mailq.


i.e a grep into mailq  for X-PHP-Script

/var/spool/mqueue/qfm83AltWj045560:H??X-PHP-Script:  
www.siteonserver.com/signup.php for x.101.27.178


Its easy to spot dubious scripts as the ip is commonly the same.

gd luck.
Paul.


I was thinking somewhat the same thing. It can be the leveraging
of any scripts if the server is a web server of any sort. Spammers test
every possible crack against your scripts. While you attempt to find
which is being leveraged, you can minimize the damage by
using the MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE within sendmail. It allows
you to catch and destroy their use of your system prior to much
mail going out. You set this value to 2 and it's impossible to send
in one pass to more than two recipients. Monitoring your mailq
will allow you to see quickly if someone has got your number. This
will help keep you off BLs while you tighten your security.



lyd mc wrote:

Hi guys need help..

My mailserver become an open relay.

Unknown user can now send mail.

snippet from mailq

m88C8iWq042874  689 Mon Sep  8 20:08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 (Deferred: Name server: mx1.mail.tw.yahoo.com.:  
host name loo)

 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I don't  have user 'osxch' and there others can also send..


best regars thnx

alydio




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Re: changing network interface names

2008-09-08 Thread Mikel King



On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:24 AM, benjamin thielsen wrote:


hi-

i have a computer with 2 ethernet interfaces (a dell poweredge 2900)  
on which the interface names are transposed logically versus  
physically (e.g. the interface labelled "ethernet 1" is named "bce1"  
and the interface labelled "ethernet 2" is labelled "bce0").


how can i change this, aside from using the ifconfig name argument?

thanks
-ben



Ben,

The manpage for rc.conf includes the following example:

It is also possible to rename interface by doing:

ifconfig_ed0_name="net0"
ifconfig_net0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0x"

	Obviously you can also do this manually w/ ifconfig, but I suspect  
hat you'd like this change to occurr everytime you restart.



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changing network interface names

2008-09-08 Thread benjamin thielsen


hi-

i have a computer with 2 ethernet interfaces (a dell poweredge 2900)  
on which the interface names are transposed logically versus  
physically (e.g. the interface labelled "ethernet 1" is named "bce1"  
and the interface labelled "ethernet 2" is labelled "bce0").


how can i change this, aside from using the ifconfig name argument?

thanks
-ben
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Re: joomla15-1.5.3 has known vulnerabilities:

2008-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert

"tethys ocean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all
>
> one of the co-locatin customer want to use joomla(lestest version 15) i want
> to install from port but i ve taken this error
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/joomla15]# make install clean
> ===>  joomla15-1.5.3 has known vulnerabilities:
> => joomla -- flaw in the reset token validation.
>Reference: <
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/8514b6e7-6f0f-11dd-b3db-001c2514716c.html
>>
> => Please update your ports tree and try again.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/joomla15.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/joomla15]#
>
> port is updated
>
> firstly it would install i patch it but not install

If you have patched to fix the vulnerability, then you can just
disable portaudit.
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Re: file root partition

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry McAllister

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 05:39:27PM -0400, Nicholas Langford wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> File named YES appears in root partition.  Ive searched but nothing
> online...any ideas?

Sounds like you answered yes to something that was actually looking for
some file name, maybe as tmp space.   Look what is inside of it.
If it is junk, get ride of it.

jerry


> 
> thanks
> Nicholas
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joomla15-1.5.3 has known vulnerabilities:

2008-09-08 Thread tethys ocean

Hi all

one of the co-locatin customer want to use joomla(lestest version 15) i want
to install from port but i ve taken this error


[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/joomla15]# make install clean
===>  joomla15-1.5.3 has known vulnerabilities:
=> joomla -- flaw in the reset token validation.
   Reference: <
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/8514b6e7-6f0f-11dd-b3db-001c2514716c.html
>
=> Please update your ports tree and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/joomla15.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/joomla15]#

port is updated

firstly it would install i patch it but not install




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Re: ssh

2008-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert

"joeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> In FreeBSD 6.2 and older the port SSH listened on was controlled by
> /etc/services. Now in 7.0 SSH no longer looks at /etc/services to find out
> what port to listen on. Is this by design or error in the move to a newer
> release of SSH?

I hadn't noticed that sshd had *ever* used that file for that
purpose.  It can be explicitly configured for a variety of
address/port configurations, using the "Port" and "ListenAddress"
configurations in the sshd_config file.  Or overridden on the command
line.  I recommend you leave the services file standard and modify the
config file, because that's how other admins would expect you to have
done it anyway.

> When it comes to security through obscurity don't be so fast to shoot it
> down.  On my system port 22 was receiving over 700 scans or login attempts a
> day. Changing the SSH to use xx22 port stopped all the high school and
> college script kiddies cold. Now I only get maybe 5 hits on my xx22 port
> every 3 months. 

I would word it a little differently. I don't think of changing the
ssh port as providing security at all: what it does is allows you to
put less effort into providing (roughly) the same security.  Still a
desirable goal.

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Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry McAllister

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:06:03AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:37 +0100
> Mike Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 07 September 2008, James Strother wrote:
> > 
> > > That said, I still think that as long as the freebsd foundation
> > > distributes CD images it would be worthwhile to make them as
> > > effective as possible. Actually, even if the install were moved to a
> > > DVD, the ordered install I proposed would still improve the
> > > situation.  When the packages are haphazardly ordered on the disc,
> > > the CD/DVD reader is forced to perform a large number of seeks that
> > > dramatically reduces data throughput.  When they are read in order,
> > > read rates should be much better.
> > 
> > They might not be as haphazard as you suggest. ISTR once reading that 
> > the CDs were arranged with the most popular packages on the first CD so 
> > that you would only need to download disk 2 (and 3) if you wanted some 
> > of the less common packages. With your suggested layout it's quite 
> > likely that a package which most of the others depend on would be right 
> > down at the bottom of the list with the result that you'd invariably 
> > need to download all 3 CD images.
> > 
> > I think the best way to avoid the need for frequent CD switching would 
> > be for sysinstall to sort the list of selected packages into CD order 
> > before installing them. I imagine this would require some changes to 
> > pkg_add to prevent it from installing dependencies and I expect the 
> > possible benefits would not be considered to be sufficient to justify 
> > the effort.
> 
> Another way to avoid switching CDs is to select an FTP server for
> installing packages.  This also avoids downloading bits you don't
> need or want.

I think the OP mentioned having a difficult or slow internet
connection as being part of the reason for the question/comment.
Although I enjoy having a 100MB line to my office into a 10GB
backbone, still not all people are that fortunate and I don't even
have a good line at home where I am still stuck with dialup (so I 
drag my machine in to the office for installs).

jerry

> 
> There is another discussion:
> 
>   http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1220762797.29265.43.camel
> 
> which would address the disk swapping by removing all the packages
> from disc1 and providing a DVD of packages that could be used
> after installation.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
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Re: Sendmail become open relay

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Macdonald



This might be more general advice than a specific help, but i've found 
most bad mail originating from me comes from php driven forum sites.
After originally patching the php src to log sitenames that send mail, i 
found enabling MAILHEAD support in php build adds customs headers which 
help to identify the site anyway.


I plan on adding a milter to pick these up dynamically, but for now, it 
helps identify sites from stuck items in mailq.


i.e a grep into mailq  for X-PHP-Script

/var/spool/mqueue/qfm83AltWj045560:H??X-PHP-Script: 
www.siteonserver.com/signup.php for x.101.27.178


Its easy to spot dubious scripts as the ip is commonly the same.

gd luck.
Paul.

lyd mc wrote:

Hi guys need help..

My mailserver become an open relay.

Unknown user can now send mail.

snippet from mailq

m88C8iWq042874  689 Mon Sep  8 20:08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 (Deferred: Name server: mx1.mail.tw.yahoo.com.: host name loo)
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I don't  have user 'osxch' and there others can also send..


best regars thnx

alydio




  
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Sendmail become open relay

2008-09-08 Thread lyd mc

Hi guys need help..

My mailserver become an open relay.

Unknown user can now send mail.

snippet from mailq

m88C8iWq042874  689 Mon Sep  8 20:08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 (Deferred: Name server: mx1.mail.tw.yahoo.com.: host name loo)
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I don't  have user 'osxch' and there others can also send..


best regars thnx

alydio





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cvsup.uk.freebsd.org down

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Macdonald



I just noticed this cvs server is down

I've switched to cvsup2 which seems fine  for now, I presume any updates 
to 2 are not dependent on cvsup.uk.freebsd being up?


thanks
Paul.


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Re: State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?

2008-09-08 Thread John Nielsen

On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote:
> I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem
> is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati,
> or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these
> nowadays?

This is becoming a FAQ. You should be able to find some good information in 
a couple of relatively recent threads.

The nutshell summary (in my opinion, from memory) is this:
 nVidia support is good w/ the binary driver on i386. Not available on amd64
 ati support is great for hardware supported by radeon(4x). The manpage has 
a pretty good list. Better support for fancier cards ("hd", etc) is coming 
but not quite all the way there
 intel support is very good. Not quite as many souped-up options but modern 
onboard intel graphics are more than adequate for almost anything, 
including many games.

Personally I would look for Intel gfx in a laptop and a well-supported ATI 
card for a desktop.

> I'm planning to use FreeBSD (duh) mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed,
> desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the
> occasional BZFlag (call me oldschool). Which vendor I choose will affect
> my options for motherboard and (onboard/separate) video, which will
> affect my choice of CPU, and so on. So this seems to be a fundamental
> question, but I can't find an authoritative guide to 3D in FreeBSD.

JN
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Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-08 Thread m cassar

Hey, James Strother, if i'm on the same wavelength with you on this, god
knows how many times my pc almost made it out the window with this swapping
thingy. don't know if this helps a bit at this point to at least save some
energy.

Well _last _ thing first ---> i finally downloaded the dvd, which is well
worth it in the long run ( from mini if i recall, plus someone here gave a
link ), but if you have a slow connection or download limits, it is a bit
hard to suggest that at the moment since 7.1 is around the corner and i'm
not sure if that means new discs with latest packages will be available
anyway.

Apart from that, i am very much new to fbsd, but did quite a few fresh
installs before i found my best setup, so here are a few points that made
life easier for me.

Firstly, which shouldn't be new - cd1 has the base system, source and ports
tree, and Xorg. After that kde for instance, can be entirely installed from
cd2 ( which i am most familiar with); and i always just do one package or
*chunk* at a time. But i just used to install cd1 (base, src/ports, and
xorg), reboot without installing packages, copy the packages directory off
cd2 to my hard disc under /home and then still use sysinstall to add them
from there ->  by selecting "from an existing filesystem' instead of from
CD/DVD.  But this never gave my trouble since kde is entirely on  cd2. To
add cd3 might need fixing the index file for sysinstall to work - not sure;
but using pkg_add should work from the hard disk.

This is just in case you need to reinstall, but i know it does not solve
what you hoped for; which i think is still not so straightforward. Here is a
basic idea of what i can make of the swapping discs thing.

eg. Gnome as the basic meta-port is mainly on cd2 - (i think!). However, i
remember coming across a part in the porter's handbook that recommends
dependencies, for any given port, be listed alphabetically.
So say apache (e.g.) was added as a gnome dependency, (maybe not directly -
say depend of a depend) but it is not actually a part of the meta-port, and
most probably on cd3--> then it still gets added/installed alphabetically or
just before the package that needs it.  ( I had noticed some roughly
alphabetical order once that made me think that - unless i was
hallucinating).

I hope this makes sense - even if it not the case - because i am in a rush
and i had to comment as this had bugged me alot. Still, even the dvd
packages (which are the same version as on the cds with 7-release) are
pretty much all outdated now, besides the fact that you will have to build
them all from ports, since packages are only available for Stable. I
actually built kde4.1 twice from scratch before realising it was easier to
upgrade to 7Stable, then add packages using portupgrade -NP --> which saves
a local copy of all downloaded packages under /usr/ports/packages/All, and
saved my lots of time later. It works better than pkg_add -rK; which only
saves the package you ask for and none of the downloaded dependencies.

Sorry if i made a mess of this right now. i'm finally up to date right now
with all my packages and running 7.1 prerelease, so will see what happens
with 7.1 release before i bother making my own dvd with latest packages.

phew.
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State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?

2008-09-08 Thread KlaymenDK

Hi all,
I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem is
that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati, or
nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these
nowadays?

I'm planning to use FreeBSD (duh) mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, desktop
workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the occasional BZFlag
(call me oldschool). Which vendor I choose will affect my options for
motherboard and (onboard/separate) video, which will affect my choice of CPU,
and so on. So this seems to be a fundamental question, but I can't find an
authoritative guide to 3D in FreeBSD.

Any tips?

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Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-08 Thread koberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hello,

> Afaic this only happens on a power loss or otherwise unclean shutdown
> but I used the "reboot" command from the shell (in a background (sleep

Don't use "reboot", use shutdown -r now. I also had the same problem once
(had to get physical access to the box to fix it) and it was because of
the "reboot".

Bye,
Nejc
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Re: safest way to upgrade a production server

2008-09-08 Thread John Almberg




uname -a

FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1:
Mon Dec  3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/
src/sys/INET_ON  amd64


oooh, that is a bit old I think.


I chose this server as an example, because it's the oldest one. I  
didn't install the OS on this server, the vendor did. Not sure why  
they chose a prerelease version... perhaps 6.3 was almost ready to go  
and they wanted to put us on the 6.3 branch? I don't know.


Anyway, I guess what I should do is patch this to the latest 6.3  
version?


Or should I go to the latest 6.x version? I am pretty sure I don't  
want to experiment with a 7.x upgrade.


-- John

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File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-08 Thread Gunther Mayer


Hi guys,

I recently updated my FreeBSD 6.3 on our server to the latest patch with 
freebsd-update and seeing that it involved some kernel patches on 64bit 
I had to reboot. So I carried out an automated reboot during low-load 
times but alas, the box never came back up again.


After gaining physical access to the console I realised that it choked 
on the unclean /usr file system and was unable to proceed as the 
automatic fsck failed, prompting for an emergency shell. An fsck -y 
followed by a reboot sorted out the issue but it caused a good 1.5h of 
total downtime which should have been only 4min.


So, why was the file system unclean even though I rebooted properly?

Afaic this only happens on a power loss or otherwise unclean shutdown 
but I used the "reboot" command from the shell (in a background (sleep 
21600; reboot) & but that shouldn't matter). So surely it would have 
flushed all the buffers in time? Or is the standard 60 seconds it waits 
maximum for kernel tasks to finish upon reboot too low and it couldn't 
finish in time (in which case, how do I change that?)?


To give you a bit more background, I run a gmirror(8) RAID 1 over two 
disks whose health seems intact (zero bad gmirror log entries):


$ mount
/dev/mirror/gm0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)

Gunther
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Re: Error :Code 1

2008-09-08 Thread Manolis Kiagias


mohd hilmi mohd salleh wrote:

I try to build and install custom kernel.However when i write this command,

 make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

I got this error:

ERROR:Missing kernel configuration file(s) (MYKERNEL)
Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src
Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src

Can somebody help me!

Thanks,
-Hilmi

  
Let me guess, you have been reading the Handbook and taken the 
instructions *too* literally ;)


MYKERNEL is your kernel configuration file, and you should create it 
yourself by hand, before running the command.
You can start with a copy of GENERIC. Better to keep it in your own 
folder rather than /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. (I assume you use the i386 
version)


Example (as root):

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC   /root/MYKERNEL
ln -s /root/MYKERNEL   .

Now edit /root/MYKERNEL and make any changes you wish. Then run your 
make command.
(Note: Typically, you will name it after the machine's hostname rather 
than MYKERNEL)





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Re: Postfix issue

On Monday 08 September 2008 05:09:03 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:21:03 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > If the same protocol was applied to physical mail then we would not
> > have been allowed to send letters unless we had a big building to send
> > it from and all letters would have had to have had a "big building"
> > sending address.
>
> We have a big building; it's called "Post Office".  Or do you think that
> someone determined enough cannot monitor where you are sending physical
> letters?

I agree and they do BUT they need a warrant to do so!! That is the safeguard.

With the internet no warrant is needed. There is no protection for civil 
liberties as applies with pohysical mail.
David
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Re: Postfix issue

On Monday 08 September 2008 05:03:30 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> David Southwell:
> > In yesterday's world anyone could send a physical letter to any address
> > anywhere in the world. I get spam letters through the letter box it is up
> > to me to chuck them in the bin. Why should the internet be different
> > especially when the restrictions on fixed IPs are brought about soleley
> > for commercial interests.
>
> Because of sheer volume... in yesterday's world one was not able to send
>   thousands of letters in a few seconds for free...or by using services
> one has not paid for...

In the past world one paid to send and received for free. That was the deal.

In the past people abused the mail system by using forged stamps or freepost 
labels. There is no difference. I pay for my connection to receive.. and pay 
for my connection to send. Some people just want to not paly their part in 
absorbing the risks that go with participation. It is up to us to defend our 
systems. 

To classify a whole load of users, the majority of whom are genuine, as 
invalid users is degrading and discriminatory.

My point of viwew -- you are entitled to yours but IMHO not to enforce it!!

David
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wmp54g card not recognized

2008-09-08 Thread James Strother

Sorry, email misfired.  Please ignore.

Thanks.
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Re: Postfix issue

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:21:03 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the same protocol was applied to physical mail then we would not
> have been allowed to send letters unless we had a big building to send
> it from and all letters would have had to have had a "big building"
> sending address.

We have a big building; it's called "Post Office".  Or do you think that
someone determined enough cannot monitor where you are sending physical
letters?

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Re: [laptop-discuss] wmp54g card not recognized

2008-09-08 Thread James Strother

Here is the output from scanpci:

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x254c
 Intel Corporation E7501 Memory Controller Hub

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2543
 Intel Corporation E7500/E7501 Hub Interface B PCI-to-PCI Bridge

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2482
 Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2484
 Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2487
 Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1e function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x244e
 Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1f function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2480
 Intel Corporation 82801CA LPC Interface Controller

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1f function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x248b
 Intel Corporation 82801CA Ultra ATA Storage Controller

pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1f function 0x03: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2483
 Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1229
 Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100

pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x1c function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1461
 Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC

pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x1d function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1460
 Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge

pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x1e function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1461
 Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC

pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x1f function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1460
 Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge

pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x03 function 0x00: vendor 0x1814 device 0x0301
 RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x06 function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x5960
 ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]

pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x06 function 0x01: vendor 0x1002 device 0x5940
 ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary)

pci bus 0x0004 cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x100f
 Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)
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Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot




David Southwell:
In yesterday's world anyone could send a physical letter to any address 
anywhere in the world. I get spam letters through the letter box it is up to 
me to chuck them in the bin. Why should the internet be different especially 
when the restrictions on fixed IPs are brought about soleley for commercial 
interests.


Because of sheer volume... in yesterday's world one was not able to send 
 thousands of letters in a few seconds for free...or by using services 
one has not paid for...


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Re: Error :Code 1

2008-09-08 Thread Andreas Rudisch

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
mohd hilmi mohd salleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I try to build and install custom kernel.However when i write this command,
> 
>  make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> 
> I got this error:
> 
> ERROR:Missing kernel configuration file(s) (MYKERNEL)
> Error code 1

Your kernel configuration file is missing or has another name.

Read: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html

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Re: Postfix issue

On Monday 08 September 2008 04:47:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:33:14 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> >On Monday 08 September 2008 03:57:11 you wrote:
> >>On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:47:47 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> >>> Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix configuration
> >>> files to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that emanate from a
> >>> source outside my local network.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry to ask the question here but postfix users mailing list is
> >>> currently rejecting mails from servers on a dynamic ip address - so I
> >>> cannot get through to ask a question there.
> >>
> >> I don't think that restriction is going to be lifted any time soon.  So
> >> why are you not using your ISP to relay emails, using its mail gateway
> >> (which should have a static IP address)?
> >
> > I think the restriction is OTT especially in the light of civil
> > liberties issues.
> >
> > I do not like the fact that a number of governments (including most
> > european ones) now have the right to access all emails that pass
> > through an ISP's server. They do not have the right to access private
> > server systems unless they have a warrant.
>
> 'civil liberties' are only meaningful in the context of a specific
> 'civilization'.  Welcome to the civilization that allows spammers to use
> dynamic IP addresses to disrupt, annoy, cause harm, commit commercial
> and all other sorts of fraud.
>
> One may easily argue that the 'civil laws' that forbid stealing from
> other people are 'limiting the freedom we have to use the potentially
> boundless resources available all over the place'.  I don't think anyone
> would consider the argument in favor of stealing as very sound.
>
> The same can be said of the IP address space.  One can argue for days,
> nay for _weeks_ or even years, that requiring a static IP address to be
> able to post to a 'common resource' --like the mailing list-- is a limit
> to the freedom of everyone.  I'm not very convinced this limit is as bad
> as you are trying to describe, though.
>
> Giorgos
In yesterday's world anyone could send a physical letter to any address 
anywhere in the world. I get spam letters through the letter box it is up to 
me to chuck them in the bin. Why should the internet be different especially 
when the restrictions on fixed IPs are brought about soleley for commercial 
interests.

If the same protocol was applied to physical mail then we would not have been 
allowed to send letters unless we had a big building to send it from and all 
letters would have had to have had a "big building" sending address.

No banning on the grounds of address type is discriminations. Yes bad because 
there has been specific abuse and ban until the abuse is cleaned up.. but do 
not ban on type of address!!

It would be like saying only the rich could send letters!!

David
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Re: Postfix issue

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:33:14 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Monday 08 September 2008 03:57:11 you wrote:
>>On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:47:47 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix configuration
>>> files to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that emanate from a
>>> source outside my local network.
>>>
>>> Sorry to ask the question here but postfix users mailing list is
>>> currently rejecting mails from servers on a dynamic ip address - so I
>>> cannot get through to ask a question there.
>>
>> I don't think that restriction is going to be lifted any time soon.  So
>> why are you not using your ISP to relay emails, using its mail gateway
>> (which should have a static IP address)?
>
> I think the restriction is OTT especially in the light of civil
> liberties issues.
>
> I do not like the fact that a number of governments (including most
> european ones) now have the right to access all emails that pass
> through an ISP's server. They do not have the right to access private
> server systems unless they have a warrant.

'Civil liberties' are only meaningful in the context of a specific
'civilization'.  Welcome to the civilization that allows spammers to use
dynamic IP addresses to disrupt, annoy, cause harm, commit commercial
and all other sorts of fraud.  It is not a perfect civilization, but
it's the one we have, and trying to hide our heads in the sand about the
*real* problem these restrictions are trying to solve isn't going to
make things much better any time soon now.

One may easily argue that the 'civil laws' that forbid stealing from
other people are 'limiting the freedom we have to use the potentially
boundless resources available all over the place'.  I don't think anyone
would consider the argument in favor of stealing as very sound.

The same can be said of the IP address space.  One can argue for days,
for weeks, or even _years_, that requiring a static IP address to be
able to post to a 'common resource' --like the mailing list-- is a limit
to the freedom of everyone.  I'm not very convinced this limit is as bad
as you are trying to describe, though.  In particular, I am not really
convinced the 'freedom' of everyone to post from non-static IP addresses
is worth the immediate problems this would cause by massively increasing
the problems we have with spam mail even today.

Giorgos

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RE: Error :Code 1

2008-09-08 Thread Johan Hendriks


>I try to build and install custom kernel.However when i write this command,

> make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

>I got this error:

>ERROR:Missing kernel configuration file(s) (MYKERNEL)
>Error code 1

>Stop in /usr/src
>Error code 1

>Stop in /usr/src

>Can somebody help me!

>Thanks,
>-Hilmi

You need to create a kernel config file and give it a name like MYKERNEL
Place this file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/
If you use amd64 then it needs to go in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/

If you named that file KRNL then the command needs to be:
make buildkernel KERNCONF=KRNL


regards
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Re: Error :Code 1

2008-09-08 Thread Polytropon

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:14:38 -0700 (PDT), mohd hilmi mohd salleh <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I try to build and install custom kernel.However when i write this command,
> 
>  make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> 
> I got this error:
> 
> ERROR:Missing kernel configuration file(s) (MYKERNEL)
> Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src
> Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src
> 
> Can somebody help me!

Check if your kernel configuration file is named "MYKERNEL" and
is located in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (in case you're using x86).
You may have chosen another name? Pay attention to case sensitivity,
MyKerNel != MYKERNEL. :-)


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Re: LVM2 under FreeBSD ?

2008-09-08 Thread Albert Shih

 Le 08/09/2008 à 11:02:05+0200, Wojciech Puchar a écrit
> >>
> > Yes of course ZFS is very powerful FS, but I'm not very sure it's ready (on
> 
> you meant very powerrequiring ;)

Yes...but can you say if we have many power (RAM, CPU, etc...) we can use
ZFS in production ? 

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Re: LVM2 under FreeBSD ?

2008-09-08 Thread Albert Shih

 Le 08/09/2008 à 13:24:51+0200, Wojciech Puchar a écrit
> >>> Yes of course ZFS is very powerful FS, but I'm not very sure it's ready 
> >>> (on
> >>
> >> you meant very powerrequiring ;)
> >
> > Yes...but can you say if we have many power (RAM, CPU, etc...) we can use
> 
> if you just want to waste that power - you probably could.

I don't very like the «probably»  ;-)

IMHO ZFS is something amazing, I'm using it on Solaris, and whe you have
~30 To on the server you cannot use UFS or ext3 or anything to need a fsck
(event it's not every time, when one of our linux server need to make his
fsck that block everything). 

So I'm very happy the ZFS is on FreeBSD, and I'm waiting when ZFS become
stable and could use in production.

All of that to say it's not a «waste that power» for me if ZFS working. 

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Error :Code 1

2008-09-08 Thread mohd hilmi mohd salleh

I try to build and install custom kernel.However when i write this command,

 make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

I got this error:

ERROR:Missing kernel configuration file(s) (MYKERNEL)
Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src
Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src

Can somebody help me!

Thanks,
-Hilmi

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Re: Postfix issue

On Monday 08 September 2008 04:19:11 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > I do not like the fact that a number of governments (including most
> > european ones)  now have the right to access all emails that pass through
> > an ISP's
>
> only if you use big operators.

All UK operators are "big operators and covered by this -- if you provide 
internet access you jhave to give government access!!
>
> > BIG BROTHER is watching far too much. Frankly I am surprised that
>
> we have democracy. in democracy majority decides for everybody.
> majority wanted it for "they own good". minority has to shut up or go
> away.

A democracy that does not respect minority rights including civil liberties  
is not a democracy but an authoritarian state.

>
> > Another emerging issue is cable operators refusing to allow fixed IP
> > address so they can receive revenue from reporting on user usage data.
>
> could you please tell more about the sentence above. maybe it's my bad
> english but i don't understand. why constantly changing user IP could help
> reporting user data and getting revenue?
They keep track of who is connected by using  hardware info and by use of 
login security.

>
> > This movement to commercialise the internet and limit access in this way
> > is deplorable when there are alternative methods of dealing with
> > legitimate
>
> even now we are more restricted than people in China, where they have
> "chinese internet" with very very limited access to outside, but withing
> chinese internet there are very little limits.

Whether anyone else is more or less affected is irrelevant. I would not want 
to sanction state executions in my own country because state executions are 
permitted in either USA or China or Iran or Iraq!! Neither would I want to 
approve breaches of civil liberties because there are breaches in Chine.

David


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Yes of course ZFS is very powerful FS, but I'm not very sure it's ready (on


you meant very powerrequiring ;)


Yes...but can you say if we have many power (RAM, CPU, etc...) we can use


if you just want to waste that power - you probably could.

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Re: Postfix issue



I do not like the fact that a number of governments (including most european
ones)  now have the right to access all emails that pass through an ISP's


only if you use big operators.


BIG BROTHER is watching far too much. Frankly I am surprised that


we have democracy. in democracy majority decides for everybody.
majority wanted it for "they own good". minority has to shut up or go 
away.



Another emerging issue is cable operators refusing to allow fixed IP address
so they can receive revenue from reporting on user usage data.


could you please tell more about the sentence above. maybe it's my bad 
english but i don't understand. why constantly changing user IP could help 
reporting user data and getting revenue?



This movement to commercialise the internet and limit access in this way is
deplorable when there are alternative methods of dealing with legitimate


even now we are more restricted than people in China, where they have 
"chinese internet" with very very limited access to outside, but withing 
chinese internet there are very little limits.

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Re: Postfix issue

On Monday 08 September 2008 04:10:11 Sahil Tandon wrote:
> David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry to ask the question here but postfix users mailing list is
> > currently rejecting mails from servers on a dynamic ip address
> > - so I cannot get through to ask a question there.
>
> Incidentally, your IP is also listed on several RBLs.

You are right - that is why I am asking this question to help me fix the 
problem. Someone hacked our network. I have fixed most stuff but need to fix 
this issue to close the final door. !!!

Someone got a trojan onto my wifes  windows 32 bit system which has access to 
my picture library (I am a photographer). It has taken me three days to fix 
the problem there and then I found they had used that route to get onto the 
freebsd server. I have blocked that access now but there are some things to 
fix on the mail suystem and this is one of them.

I think I have closed most loopholes now.

If you could help me with this one it would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help
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Re: Postfix issue

On Monday 08 September 2008 03:38:05 Sahil Tandon wrote:
> David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix
> > configuration files to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > that emanate from a source outside my local network.
>
> After permitting your networks in the smtpd_recipient_restrictions, use
> check_recipient_access to REJECT any messages with an RCPT TO
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#check_recipient_access
> http://www.postfix.org/access.5.html

Thanks very much..

I seem to be struggling getting with the postfix command structure.

If you have the time would you be kind enough to give me specific examples of 
the actual entries to be made in the appropriate files. In case it is 
relevant my server has a  number of virtual domains but the problem I am 
getting is on the primary address for the mail server. Assume the email 
address in question is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which appears to be subjected to problems and I want to 
permit only addresses on the local network to send emails to that address.

Thanks in advance

No problem if you are too busy

David

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Re: Postfix issue

On Monday 08 September 2008 03:57:11 you wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:47:47 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix configuration
> > files to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that emanate from a
> > source outside my local network.
> >
> > Sorry to ask the question here but postfix users mailing list is
> > currently rejecting mails from servers on a dynamic ip address - so I
> > cannot get through to ask a question there.
>
> I don't think that restriction is going to be lifted any time soon.  So
> why are you not using your ISP to relay emails, using its mail gateway
> (which should have a static IP address)?

I think the restriction is OTT especially in the light of civil liberties 
issues.

I do not like the fact that a number of governments (including most european 
ones)  now have the right to access all emails that pass through an ISP's 
server. They do not have the right to access private server systems unless 
they have a warrant. 

BIG BROTHER is watching far too much. Frankly I am surprised that 
organisations such as Postfix are not aware of the issue and realise the 
civil liberties implicati

Another emerging issue is cable operators refusing to allow fixed IP address 
so they can receive revenue from reporting on user usage data.

Additionally  low volume users, unless they pay a high premium and subscribe 
to a business service cannot acquire fixed IPs.  IN some areas that are 
primarily residential they will not even allow fixed IPs at any price.

This movement to commercialise the internet and limit access in this way is 
deplorable when there are alternative methods of dealing with legitimate 
problems. 

David
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Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Sahil Tandon

David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sorry to ask the question here but postfix users mailing list is 
> currently rejecting mails from servers on a dynamic ip address 
> - so I cannot get through to ask a question there.

Incidentally, your IP is also listed on several RBLs.

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Re: Postfix issue

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:47:47 -0700, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix configuration
> files to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that emanate from a
> source outside my local network.
>
> Sorry to ask the question here but postfix users mailing list is
> currently rejecting mails from servers on a dynamic ip address - so I
> cannot get through to ask a question there.

I don't think that restriction is going to be lifted any time soon.  So
why are you not using your ISP to relay emails, using its mail gateway
(which should have a static IP address)?

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Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-08 Thread Sahil Tandon

David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix 
> configuration files to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> that emanate from a source outside my local network.

After permitting your networks in the smtpd_recipient_restrictions, use 
check_recipient_access to REJECT any messages with an RCPT TO 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#check_recipient_access
http://www.postfix.org/access.5.html

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Postfix issue

Hi

Could anyone tell me what entry I should make in postfix configuration files 
to bounce mails directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that emanate from a source 
outside 
my local network.

Sorry to ask the question here but postfix users mailing list is currently 
rejecting mails from servers on a dynamic ip address - so I cannot get 
through to ask a question there.

Thanks

David
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Re: safest way to upgrade a production server

2008-09-08 Thread DA Forsyth

On 8 Sep 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about
 "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 232, Issue 1":

Hi John

> So, my first question is, do I really need to do this?

yes

> If so, what is the minimum amount of upgrading I can do to be safe?   
> And how?

I track RELENG_7_0 in my source tree, but only build it when I see 
somehting important in UPDATING.  what is important?  stuff like,I 
don't run bind, so can ignore any bind related issues, but I do run 
Samba and Apache, so if anything effects them, I get right on it.

If I need to build world (I have a custom kernel) I can do it 
anytime, then after it is built (and kernel) I come in on a Saturday 
and take the server to single user and install world and kernel etc 
etc, following all the relevant instructions.  The thing that can 
take most time is mergemaster, but so what?  on a Saturday that only 
affects web visitors for half an hour or so.

> I also think I need to do this using freebsd-update to do a binary  
> update, to upgrade on an errata branch.

if you are not running custom kernels then freebsd-update is 
fantastic.  I use it on my 2 print servers, which have almost 
identicle 'minimal' setups and don't need a custom kernel.

> I've never done this, so will try upgrading a test system, first. If  
> all goes well, I will give it a whirl on one of the production servers.

I have installed all my software from ports, so I do this:

 - keep the ports tree updated.  I wrote a little script that gets 
called from cron on Monday morning early, that sends me an email 
telling me what ports have been updated in the last week.   
this mornings list is
 1  2 ipmitool
 1  2 mailman
 1  4 rsync
 1  5 samba
 1  9 apcupsd
 2  1 lsof
 2 10 pear-XML_Parser
 4  4 libksba
 7  7 libxslt
 9 11 pear-Log
10 58 gtk
24  1 png
54  5 apache

The numbers are 'required by', and 'requires', giving me an idea of 
how many things are affected by this upgrade.

- following that list, I decide whether to upgrade now or leave it 
till next week.
- to upgrade, I run 'portupgrade -vrR portname' and just fill in the 
portname from my emailed list.  sometimes I do several related ports 
at the same time, like all php* or lib*
- restart any services that were upgraded, in my case usually samba, 
but sometimes net-snmp and so on.
- TEST

with some early experiences in having a portupgrade break things, I 
prefer not to do a 'portupgrade -a', instead doing them one by one 
and thus seeing all the messages and so on.

Note that I do this Monday or Tuesday morning, on a live server with 
~25 local users online, and external web service, and have never had 
a huge problem.  A few years ago the horde upgrade broke a lot of 
stuff, but I fixed it from the backups of the setup files I keep on 
another server.  I tar /etc /usr/local/etc 
/usr/local/www/horde/config and so on.  havn't needed them in ages, 
but I do it anyway.

> Frankly, I find this idea terrifying, but I guess it needs to be done.

yeah, me too, but it gets easier.  keep records of what you have 
done, and what the results are.  makes problem tracking easier.  I 
use a 'sort of a blog' so I can access the information remotely.  I 
used to have the blog on a machine in a different building but that 
has become impossible, so now it exists on 2 local machines.
if the main machine dies I can still see my blog entries for help in 
fixing it.
info on how you set something up is just as important as backups of 
the machine itself.

>  > uname -a
> FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1:  
> Mon Dec  3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/ 
> src/sys/INET_ON  amd64

oooh, that is a bit old I think.  


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Re: incomplete build

2008-09-08 Thread Desmond Chapman


===> Running ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib
===> Registering installation for libthai-0.1.5_3
===> Returning to build of kdelibs-3.5.8
===> kdelibs-3.5.8 depends on shared library: tiff.4 - found
===> kdelibs-3.5.8 depends on shared library: xml2.5 - found
===> kdelibs-3.5.8 depends on shared library: xslt.2 - found
===> kdelibs-3.5.8 depends on shared library: cups - not found
===> Verifying install for cups in /usr/ports/print/cups-base
===> Patching for cups-base-1.3.5_2
===> Applying FreeBSD patches for cups-base-1.3.5_2
Ignoring previously applied (or reversed) patch.
10 out of 10 hunks ignored--saving rejects to cups/ipp.c.rej
=> Patch patch-CVE-2007-4351 failed to apply cleanly.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/print/cups-base.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3.
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Re: LVM2 under FreeBSD ?




Yes of course ZFS is very powerful FS, but I'm not very sure it's ready (on


you meant very powerrequiring ;)


FreeBSD) for production.

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Re: [FreeBSD 6.3] Right-way to recover a module?