Help Required!!!! , Regarding to FreeBSD
Hello Sir We are going to Make a Socks Yahoo Voice Server using FreeBSD. Is this possible in FreeBSD , if then which software ll require for this in FreeBSD We have found noting on web regarding to do this , Could your please provide little bit Guide us Regarding to Making FreeBSD Server waiting for your reply , Thank you Kindest Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Troubleshooting ral0 device timeouts
I have set up a FreeBSD access point, it is equipped with a ralink based card and works most of the time. I would appreciate some help for troubleshooting ``the rest of the time''. Thanks! First there is nothing fancy about my wirelesse setup, I merely use the ralink card as an ethernet switch to create a LAN. I therefore configured my ralink R2600 ral0 interface, an ethernet card and bridged them together as described in if_bridge(4) or ifconfig(8). Note that only the bridge has got an IP address. Also, hostapd is up and running, managing the ral0 interface. This setup somehow works: I can succefully connect stations to the AP. However, from times to times, the ral(4) driver emits a `device timeout' message and the interface is hen stuck. All connections to the AP are lost and no station would notice the AP anymore. I could not successfully reset the interface with the sequence: # /etc/rc.d/netif stop ral0 # /etc/rc.d/hostapd stop # /etc/rc.d/netif start ral0 # /etc/rc.d/hostapd start Although it does not emit any error message, the AP remains undetectable. Rebooting the machine brings back the AP to a working state, but that is annoying! I am running amd64/7.2, the ralink chip is reported to be 2600 or 2610 by the kernel. -- Best regards, Michaël ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9
gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9 pkg_version -vIL= reported today as ports to upgrade: gtar-1.22 needs updating (index has 1.22_1) librsvg2-2.26.0_1 needs updating (index has 2.26.0_2) lzmautils-4.32.7! Comparison failed I have lzmautils-4.32.7 $ pkg_info | grep lzmautils-4.32.7 lzmautils-4.32.7LZMA compression and decompression tools -- What does this Comparaised failed mean ?? I started a portupgrade: # portsnap fetch # portsnap update # portupgrade -yaRrpb | tee /tmp/portupgrade-mail the output reports about gtar-1.22 : ... === gtar-1.22_1 depends on executable: lzop - found === gtar-1.22_1 depends on executable: xz - not found xz-4.999.9beta.tar.gz is fetched from http://tukaani.org/xz/ extracted and installed ... === xz-4.999.9 conflicts with installed package(s): lzmautils-4.32.7 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/xz. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/gtar. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/gtar. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20090922-22 895-zz3ywq-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=gtar-1.22 UPGRADE_PORT_VE R=1.22 make DEPENDS_TARGET=package reinstall --- Updating dependency info --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/kde-3.5.10_2/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/kdeutils-3.5.10_2/+CONTENTS --- Restoring the old version --- Keeping old package in '/usr/ports/packages/All' ** Fix the installation problem and try again. Is xz-4.999.9 a complete replacement for package lzmautils-4.32.7 must I completely pkg_delete lzmautils-4.32.7 and never install it again? Then retry portupgrade ? Or what should I best do ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Why configure files don't find /usr/local based headers?
I noticed many times that configure files of various projects fail to find headers of third party packages under /usr/local/include. They run command line like this: gcc -c conftest.c and it doesn't find them without -I/usr/local/include. Is something misconfigured on my system? How to make this issue go away without modifying all configure files? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
internet access from FreeBSD
I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. I did access the internet with a take-off copy of FreeBSD, but I don't have access to it any more. Can I access the internet with a currently gettable copy of FreeBSD, and if so, for what versions is that true (my personal version is old, but it works well so I never upgraded)? Since I get my mail via juno , can I access them nicely from FreeBSD or do I need something to interface to it and present me with my mailbox, listing the items in it and telling me the usual stuff about envelop mail (sender, subject, when received)? $5,000 a Week For Life Publishers Clearing House winner annouced on NBC. Enter now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=NJLnQx9Yu8C9A0FjGKLJHAAAJ1CMuunOdcztR0sdySRQWupwAAQFAArXIzwACQGZAA== ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why configure files don't find /usr/local based headers?
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:29:38 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I noticed many times that configure files of various projects fail to find headers of third party packages under /usr/local/include. They run command line like this: gcc -c conftest.c and it doesn't find them without -I/usr/local/include. Is something misconfigured on my system? How to make this issue go away without modifying all configure files? Because gcc in FreeBSD doesn't automatically include header files from `/usr/local', unless you explicitly add the directory to the list of include directories. In other systems there may not be a `/usr/local/include' path at all. For example, in my Debian installation there is no such directory. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Undelete or recover from badblocks on disks
Thanks again Roland, I think I must have lost those files when fsck_ffs did its salvage operation The expected files were /disk02/bkup/dump/ad0s1a-090909.dump /disk02/bkup/dump/ad0s1e-090909.dump /disk02/bkup/dump/ad0s1f-090909.dump fls from the image file = listfile # sed -n 30153,30158p list d/d 4804608:bkup d/d 918528: servers + d/d 918529: apache ++ d/d 918530: httpd-2.0.40 +++ d/d 918531: os d/d 918532:os2 Shows the bkup directory but no subdirectory (i.e ../dump/. or dumpfiles Now, if perchance these files were found with fls what would have been the method to extract them back and make them readable to the file system. Thanks _ Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:17:31PM -0700, jaymax wrote: Thanks Roland, Create a disk image from the damaged drive, and save it on another disk with enough space. You can use dd(1) to create a disk image. You can devide the image into several files. For example, I will use dd to get two consecutive 10 # dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=dd1.img bs=1m count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 10485760 bytes transferred in 1.031497 secs (10165575 bytes/sec) The (valid, IMHO) reason for using disk images is that you want to investigate a copy of the data, so you cannot accidentily destroy the original data. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Undelete-or-recover-from-badblocks-on-disks-tp25498179p25530662.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?
List, Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: man 3 getenv snip Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized value to the same name will result in a memory leak. The FreeBSD seman- tics for these functions (namely, that the contents of value are copied and that old values remain accessible indefinitely) make this bug unavoidable. Future versions may eliminate one or both of these semantic guarantees in order to fix the bug. /snip This is a memory leak within the process which calls sentenv() or putenv(), not a memory leak in the kernel, right? Like, if I called putenv() a in a loop and then exited the process, the kernel will reclaim that cluster-fuck of lost allocated memory, right? (If it's a kernel leak that would be super retarded as any process could affectively starve the kernel of memory. ) So it's a userland leak right? Anybody? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: internet access from FreeBSD
Is there a later copy Not that I'm aware of. I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. Weird. Did you try Internet? Can I access the internet with a currently gettable copy of FreeBSD If I understand correctly, you're asking if you can use FreeBSD to access the Internet? If so...yes. Any version will do! If you're referring to using a web browser and such, then you'll have to install those yourself, but it's not difficult. Since I get my mail via juno , can I access them nicely from FreeBSD or do I need something to interface to it... I have no experience with this 'juno', so I can't help there. Perhaps others will have further advice. -Modulok- On 9/22/09, gs_stol...@juno.com gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. I did access the internet with a take-off copy of FreeBSD, but I don't have access to it any more. Can I access the internet with a currently gettable copy of FreeBSD, and if so, for what versions is that true (my personal version is old, but it works well so I never upgraded)? Since I get my mail via juno , can I access them nicely from FreeBSD or do I need something to interface to it and present me with my mailbox, listing the items in it and telling me the usual stuff about envelop mail (sender, subject, when received)? $5,000 a Week For Life Publishers Clearing House winner annouced on NBC. Enter now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=NJLnQx9Yu8C9A0FjGKLJHAAAJ1CMuunOdcztR0sdySRQWupwAAQFAArXIzwACQGZAA== ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
/sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors
An update committed since Friday appears to have broken mii/nsgphy.c in the kernel. When I try to build a kernel now, I get the following errors during the compilations of mii/nsgphy.c. /usr/src/sys/modules/mii/../../dev/mii/nsgphy.c:104: error: 'MII_MODEL_NATSEMI_DP83865' undeclared here (not in a function) /usr/src/sys/modules/mii/../../dev/mii/nsgphy.c:104: error: 'MII_STR_NATSEMI_DP83865' undeclared here (not in a function) *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error Having run cvsup just a few minutes ago and then having tried again to build a kernel, I see that the errors persist. Is this something that someone is already fixing? Or should I try to submit a PR? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army. * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: internet access from FreeBSD
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:32 AM, gs_stol...@juno.com gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. I did access the internet with a take-off copy of FreeBSD, but I don't have access to it any more. Can I access the internet with a currently gettable copy of FreeBSD, and if so, for what versions is that true (my personal version is old, but it works well so I never upgraded)? Since I get my mail via juno , can I access them nicely from FreeBSD or do I need something to interface to it and present me with my mailbox, listing the items in it and telling me the usual stuff about envelop mail (sender, subject, when received)? It's a bit unclear what you're asking, but it sounds like you want help regarding more recent versions of freeBSD and their capabilities. Have you looked at www.freebsd.org and the documentation there? I'm not sure what a book about freeBSD would have that the official documentaioin wouldn't. freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:43:57 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: man 3 getenv snip Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized value to the same name will result in a memory leak. The FreeBSD seman- tics for these functions (namely, that the contents of value are copied and that old values remain accessible indefinitely) make this bug unavoidable. Future versions may eliminate one or both of these semantic guarantees in order to fix the bug. /snip This is a memory leak within the process which calls sentenv() or putenv(), not a memory leak in the kernel, right? Yes, it's a userland leak. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Announcing: FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 Custom XFCE build available
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, For everyone who has been following my little project here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com I am now pleased to announce the immediate availability of an 8.0-RC1 based XFCE custom DVD iso (i386 only). Here are the direct download links: http://freebsd.dev-urandom.com/iso/i386/xfce-desktop/FreeBSD_8.0-RC1-XFCE-22092009.iso Checksum and signature files: http://freebsd.dev-urandom.com/iso/i386/xfce-desktop/FreeBSD_8.0-RC1-XFCE-22092009.iso.CHECKSUM.MD5 http://freebsd.dev-urandom.com/iso/i386/xfce-desktop/FreeBSD_8.0-RC1-XFCE-22092009.iso.CHECKSUM.SHA256 http://freebsd.dev-urandom.com/iso/i386/xfce-desktop/FreeBSD_8.0-RC1-XFCE-22092009.iso.asc Please note this is a test build of pre-release software, so treat accordingly. It has only been tested in VMWare so far, but I am about to install as my main desktop soon as first tests were promising. Make sure to read the README file: http://freebsd.dev-urandom.com/iso/i386/xfce-desktop/README-8.TXT as it contains important information on installation. Note this release includes the latest openoffice 3.1.1 as well as abiword / gnumeric for those who prefer them. Gnash has been dropped (linux flash plugin works very well now) and avant-window-navigator is also included (but is untested). Latest versions of well known packages (gimp, inkscape, evince, firefox35 etc) are included as well. As always, please report any problems, success stories, comments and criticisms to mano...@freebsd.org Thanks and happy FreeBSDing! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkq4um8ACgkQZ/MxGm4PtJR6CACeJO1PlVUOhutRFFPG5qduH1bE As0AnR+CMYiMP0fhyPEwFgTDjhtVnoKP =AcpI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
Hello, I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I can't. Using all prerequisits from ports (pam_ldap/nss_ldap/ldap as most recent) my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this as it has been the most reasonable (and only working!) solution for the past 2 years: passwd: ldap [unavail=continue notfound=continue] files [success=return notfound=return] The same for group. Intention is to have root- or wheel-group access of local managed service users without timeouts due to irresponsible LDAP servers. But it does not work! If the LDAP service is not available, FreeBSD 8.0/AMD64-RC1 (most recent source/build) does nothing for approx. 120 seconds and sometimes much longer when trying to login as root from console. In some cases, the same box under the very same conditions refuses login due to a timeout, very strange. After a couple of time and lots of questiosn, the above showed nsswitch.conf entries were evaluated as those which should work, but exchanging 'ldap' and 'files' results in a never-can-login-situation, when LDAP isn't responsible. Is there a way to shorten the timeouts and if yes, where to look for? 2 minutes for a login within services sessions is too much, a waste of time. Our network is very fast, so 30 seconds should be enough ... Any help appreciated. Thanks, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Microsoft Dynamic DNS
stan wrote: I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says no static DNS entries. They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machiens register thier names with the corprate DNS. My Windows laptop for instance, may get different IP addresses using DHCP depending on what physical location I connect it in. but it's always the same DNS name. Can anyone sugest where to look for information as to how this works, and how I cna make my FreeBSD machine participate in this? Stan, You may also have to set the option dhcp-client-identifier in the /etc/dhclient.conf file. The value should be the MAC address of the interface you are requesting the DHCP address on. I think this is something that the Microsoft DHCP server expects. E.g. interface ep0 { send host-name andare.fugue.com; send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c; } -mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked
My server installation of FreeBSD 6.3 is hacked and I am trying to find out how they managed to get into my Apache 2.0.61. This is what I see in my http error log: [Mon Sep 21 02:00:01 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Sep 21 02:00:14 2009] [notice] Apache/2.0.61 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.2.5 mod_jk/1.2.25 configured -- resuming normal operations wget: not found Can't open perl script /tmp/shit.pl: No such file or directory wget: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory curl: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lwp-download: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lynx: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory zuo.txt 11 kB 56 kBps wget: not found Can't open perl script /tmp/shit.pl: No such file or directory wget: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory curl: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lwp-download: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lynx: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory zuo.txt 11 kB 107 kBps Died at zuo.txt line 20. GET: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory wget: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory curl: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lwp-download: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lynx: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory zuo.txt 11 kB 108 kBps Died at zuo.txt line 20. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked
Aflatoon Aflatooni escreveu: My server installation of FreeBSD 6.3 is hacked and I am trying to find out how they managed to get into my Apache 2.0.61. This is what I see in my http error log: [Mon Sep 21 02:00:01 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Sep 21 02:00:14 2009] [notice] Apache/2.0.61 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.2.5 mod_jk/1.2.25 configured -- resuming normal operations wget: not found Can't open perl script /tmp/shit.pl: No such file or directory wget: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory curl: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lwp-download: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lynx: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory zuo.txt 11 kB 56 kBps ... It does not look they entered using any apache bug. Probably you had a world writable directory and they managed to access it by ftp (or any other way) and sent a file containing commands to it. Once it is there, they've 'called' the file using apache to execute whatever was in there (probably binding a shell to some port) in order to get access to the box. -- Leandro Quibem Magnabosco. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 05:01 -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: My server installation of FreeBSD 6.3 is hacked and I am trying to find out how they managed to get into my Apache 2.0.61. This is what I see in my http error log: [Mon Sep 21 02:00:01 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [M According to Apache.org, there were vulns in 2.0.6x before 2.0.63. However, when you do your forensic analysis, you'll want to focus on code installed on your webserver that runs with the posix user 'www''s permissions. ~BAS This mail was sent via Mail-SeCure System. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked
I found a script in /tmp directory which could have been uploaded using php or Java. How would they execute the code in /tmp directory? I couldn't figure it out. Thanks - Original Message From: Leandro Quibem Magnabosco leandro.magnabo...@fcdl-sc.org.br To: Aflatoon Aflatooni aaflato...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:51:05 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked Aflatoon Aflatooni escreveu: My server installation of FreeBSD 6.3 is hacked and I am trying to find out how they managed to get into my Apache 2.0.61. This is what I see in my http error log: [Mon Sep 21 02:00:01 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Sep 21 02:00:14 2009] [notice] Apache/2.0.61 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.2.5 mod_jk/1.2.25 configured -- resuming normal operations wget: not found Can't open perl script /tmp/shit.pl: No such file or directory wget: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory curl: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lwp-download: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory lynx: not found Can't open perl script zuo.txt: No such file or directory zuo.txt 11 kB 56 kBps ... It does not look they entered using any apache bug. Probably you had a world writable directory and they managed to access it by ftp (or any other way) and sent a file containing commands to it. Once it is there, they've 'called' the file using apache to execute whatever was in there (probably binding a shell to some port) in order to get access to the box. -- Leandro Quibem Magnabosco. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked
Aflatoon Aflatooni escreveu: I found a script in /tmp directory which could have been uploaded using php or Java. How would they execute the code in /tmp directory? Thanks You can execute files from scripts or from apache itself when they are scripts. There are several programming/scripting languages that are accessible by web and those are the ones that an intruder will have to use to exploit some scenario like yours. Take some time to read this doc: http://www.dataloss.net/papers/how.defaced.apache.org.txt It is pretty interesting as, unfortunately, it suits the same scenario you, unintentionally, created for the hackers. Cheers, -- Leandro Quibem Magnabosco. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I can't. Using all prerequisits from ports (pam_ldap/nss_ldap/ldap as most recent) my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this as it has been the most reasonable (and only working!) solution for the past 2 years: passwd: ldap [unavail=continue notfound=continue] files [success=return notfound=return] I just have passwd: cache files ldap group: cache files ldap and I can login as root locally without any delay. That said my LDAP server is on the same machine so perhaps it fails faster. I am using uri ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/ to connect to. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 11:53 +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I can't. Using all prerequisits from ports (pam_ldap/nss_ldap/ldap as most recent) my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this as it has been the most reasonable (and only working!) solution for the past 2 years: passwd: ldap [unavail=continue notfound=continue] files [success=return notfound=return] The same for group. Intention is to have root- or wheel-group access of local managed service users without timeouts due to irresponsible LDAP servers. But it does not work! If the LDAP service is not available, FreeBSD 8.0/AMD64-RC1 (most recent source/build) does nothing for approx. 120 seconds and sometimes much longer when trying to login as root from console. In some cases, the same box under the very same conditions refuses login due to a timeout, very strange. After a couple of time and lots of questiosn, the above showed nsswitch.conf entries were evaluated as those which should work, but exchanging 'ldap' and 'files' results in a never-can-login-situation, when LDAP isn't responsible. Is there a way to shorten the timeouts and if yes, where to look for? 2 minutes for a login within services sessions is too much, a waste of time. Our network is very fast, so 30 seconds should be enough ... I've only recently started playing with LDAP but it sounds to me like you probably have one of the 'hard' options set for the reconnect policy in your nss_ldap.conf file. I use 'bind_policy soft' so that if the LDAP server isn't available we fail over to the next nsswitch service immediately. I don't think further discussion of this thread belongs on the freebsd-current list. Hope this helps. -- John Marshall pgpEO2ABkokeG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9
Pieter Donche wrote: === xz-4.999.9 conflicts with installed package(s): lzmautils-4.32.7 The XZ utils are intended to replace the LZMA utils, so the xz port was added and the lzmautils port removed. This is why you got the comparison failed message: portversion wasn't able to compare port versions because the port doesn't exist anymore. Apparently, portupgrade isn't able to handle package moves automatically, so you'll have to deinstall lzmautils manually, and then let gtar pull in the xz ports. Kind regards, Maks Verver. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maks Verver wrote: Pieter Donche wrote: === xz-4.999.9 conflicts with installed package(s): lzmautils-4.32.7 The XZ utils are intended to replace the LZMA utils, so the xz port was added and the lzmautils port removed. This is why you got the comparison failed message: portversion wasn't able to compare port versions because the port doesn't exist anymore. Apparently, portupgrade isn't able to handle package moves automatically, so you'll have to deinstall lzmautils manually, and then let gtar pull in the xz ports. Kind regards, Maks Verver. Portupgrade can handle the package move with a little extra help from an entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING and the correct command argument (-o ORIGIN). For instance, see this entry in the file: 20090802: AFFECTS: users of devel/libtool15 and devel/libltdl15 ... portupgrade -o devel/libtool22 libtool-1.5\* portupgrade -o devel/libltdl22 libltdl-1.5\* ... The committer hasn't added an entry to UPDATING yet, but it's a good idea in this situation. Best regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKuN670sRouByUApARAuZvAJ9BGTDRrUsdXFv26XfF89ocPWzDgACgpcSr JrAtJ+fNMHfnJbUVIm7rje4= =5j7K -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to smart host
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mark Willson cdr@gmail.com wrote: Phusion wrote: I need some help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to a smart host being the ISP's mail server. I'm running 7.2-RELEASE. I've looked over http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/outgoing-only.html but want to use the built-in sendmail. I've run the following command: sendmail -d0.1 -bv, but SASL isn't included. Also, I would rather uses packages. Please advise. Phusion, I originally replied via Google, but it doesn't seem to have hit the list, so here's a repeat. Apologies for the repetition, if it occurs. This link might provide useful information: http://www.hydrus.org.uk/journal/smtp-client-auth.html -mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I recompiled sendmail and now get the following when running sendmail -d0.1 -bv. Version 8.14.3 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) (short domain name) $w = server (canonical domain name) $j = server.domain.com (subdomain name) $m = domain.com (node name) $k = server.domain.com Recipient names must be specified I now have added the following to sendmail.mc. FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable') GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains') TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(authinfo, `hash -o /etc/mail/auth/authinfo') define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.test.com') define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O') I created /etc/mail/auth/authinfo and then did the makemaps to create the hashd .db file. When trying to email outbound, I still get the same error in the logs. ...relay=mail.test.com. [public_IP_address], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error The /etc/mail/auth/authinfo file looks like the following. AuthInfo:mail.test.com U:usern...@isp.com P:password I am using the mail server of the local ISP I use. It doesn't appear that it even checks for authentication. Please advise. Phusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
network freebsd computers
Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. I find it easier to network machines using FreeBSD :) I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? In what sense are you trying to 'network' them? Via the likes of Windows file sharing? Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I guess that depends on perspective as I would say the opposite is true, or at least truer. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. You need to provide more details. What do you mean by networked? Filesharing? NAT? Same subnet? Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Carmel, Could you perhaps describe what it is you want to accomplish? I might be able to direct you to a nice how-to or even walk you through it... Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://mikelking.com http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? Hi, Maybe you are looking for this ? http://www.freebsddiary.org/nfs.php Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:46:53 -0400 Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Carmel, Could you perhaps describe what it is you want to accomplish? I might be able to direct you to a nice how-to or even walk you through it... Sorry, I should have been more informative. Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I want the same functionality between the FreeBSD boxes. Eventually, at least one of them will be run headless; the mail server in particular. I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However, there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows products. At present, all machines are connected, either wired or wireless, through a linksys router. -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:52:47 +0300 Peter peterp...@aboutsupport.com wrote: [snip] Maybe you are looking for this ? http://www.freebsddiary.org/nfs.php That article is quite dated. However, I will investigate it ASAP. Thanks! -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com BLISS is ignorance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:46:53 -0400 Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Carmel, Could you perhaps describe what it is you want to accomplish? I might be able to direct you to a nice how-to or even walk you through it... Sorry, I should have been more informative. Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I want the same functionality between the FreeBSD boxes. Eventually, at least one of them will be run headless; the mail server in particular. I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However, there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows products. At present, all machines are connected, either wired or wireless, through a linksys router. -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_smbfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8-currentformat=html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Carmel NY wrote: Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I want the same functionality between the FreeBSD boxes. Eventually, at least one of them will be run headless; the mail server in particular. It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:18:24PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:52:47 +0300 Peter peterp...@aboutsupport.com wrote: [snip] Maybe you are looking for this ? http://www.freebsddiary.org/nfs.php That article is quite dated. However, I will investigate it ASAP. This isn't Windows where everything changes between every new release. The fundamentals of NFS haven't changed much in 10 years. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However, there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows products. Perhaps because it is *harder* to network Windows than Unix? Skimming this thread something I would suggest that may be falling through the cracks is to unify your user accounts across all the machines. No matter that user joe isn't supposed to be using a particular machine do not reuse joe's userid on that machine. Also reconsider the need to share all filesystems across all machines. A typical Windows network application often runs client-fileserver rather than client-server. When one can not remotely login to a single-user Windows machine, filesharing band-aids that issue. Multi-user Unix systems trivially allow remote logins including ftp and scp file copying. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba. I want to be able to access a FreeBSD box from another FreeBSD box. I rarely access a Windows machine from FreeBSD as it is just easier to do it the other way around. Anyway, I have been given a few ideas to follow upon. Thanks! -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com SAFETY I can live without Someone I love But not without Someone I need. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake up time
That would be a possibility. Although I prefer a solution without additional hardware. Also, I'm not sure, if it's good to constantly disconnect the board from power. Well, it's certainly better for your power bill, but maybe not for the BIOS battery. I know that my BIOS supports setting a wake up time (you can set only the time, and it will wake up each day on that time). I've just discovered the /dev/nvram device and there is a program for Linux called nvram-wakeup, that uses the nvram device to set this wakeup time from the OS. One can then compute the next wakeup time (within a day) at every shutdown and write it to the nvram. I have to see if this program also compiles/runs on FreeBSD ... On Sep 21, 2009, at 23:19 , Scott Schappell wrote: On Sep 21, 2009, at 14:16:53, Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Roland Smith wrote: There are such timers, that run over a week rather than just 24 hours, and they can have different times each day. And make sure you set in the BIOS (if able) to power on after power fail and test it to make sure it works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I want the same functionality between the FreeBSD boxes. Eventually, at least one of them will be run headless; the mail server in particular. You can connect from one FreeBSD machine to another via the 'telnet' or 'ssh' programs, where telnet is frowned upon because it sends passwords over the network as plain text. You can mount a shared resource from a SMB file server via mount_smbfs(8). [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_smbfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html] I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However, there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows products. OpenSSH, the implementation that FreeBSD uses is covered (both client and server) in § 14.11 of the FreeBSD Handbook: [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/openssh.html] Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpCXqylOZc2I.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba. I want to be able to access a FreeBSD box from another FreeBSD box. I rarely access a Windows machine from FreeBSD as it is just easier to do it the other way around. Anyway, I have been given a few ideas to follow upon. Thanks! -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com If you're doing stuff on a LAN, and you want semi-permanent shares the easiest method is to use sshfs. NFS works fine it, it's a better solution than Samba considering you're new requires. one time transfers or backups are best handles by some combination of scp/rsync/rdiff-backup -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:48:58PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba. I want to be able to access a FreeBSD box from another FreeBSD box. I rarely access a Windows machine from FreeBSD as it is just easier to do it the other way around. Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? jerry Anyway, I have been given a few ideas to follow upon. Thanks! -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com SAFETY I can live without Someone I love But not without Someone I need. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
John Marshall wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 11:53 +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I can't. Using all prerequisits from ports (pam_ldap/nss_ldap/ldap as most recent) my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this as it has been the most reasonable (and only working!) solution for the past 2 years: passwd: ldap [unavail=continue notfound=continue] files [success=return notfound=return] The same for group. Intention is to have root- or wheel-group access of local managed service users without timeouts due to irresponsible LDAP servers. But it does not work! If the LDAP service is not available, FreeBSD 8.0/AMD64-RC1 (most recent source/build) does nothing for approx. 120 seconds and sometimes much longer when trying to login as root from console. In some cases, the same box under the very same conditions refuses login due to a timeout, very strange. After a couple of time and lots of questiosn, the above showed nsswitch.conf entries were evaluated as those which should work, but exchanging 'ldap' and 'files' results in a never-can-login-situation, when LDAP isn't responsible. Is there a way to shorten the timeouts and if yes, where to look for? 2 minutes for a login within services sessions is too much, a waste of time. Our network is very fast, so 30 seconds should be enough ... I've only recently started playing with LDAP but it sounds to me like you probably have one of the 'hard' options set for the reconnect policy in your nss_ldap.conf file. I use 'bind_policy soft' so that if the LDAP server isn't available we fail over to the next nsswitch service immediately. I don't think further discussion of this thread belongs on the freebsd-current list. Hope this helps. bind_policy soft is a bad solution. When you have network lags, you have chance to get flapping connection error. http://www.liquidx.net/blog/2006/04/03/nss_ldap-undocumented-nss_reconnect_tries/ nss_reconnect_sleeptime 0 nss_reconnect_maxsleeptime 1 nss_reconnect_maxconntries 1 WBR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7.2 - stable postfix port updated problem
I update to postfix 2.6 from 2.5 and this don't work with VDA patch and the port say: ported for 32 bit port postfix25 use the 2.6 version too. And after update don't exec this pipe never more: autoreply unix - n n - - pipe flags=F user=nobody argv=/usr/local/autoresponder/main.php $sender $recipient somebody have problems like this? -- Jorge Andrés Medina Oliva. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:53:17PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:48:58PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba. I want to be able to access a FreeBSD box from another FreeBSD box. I rarely access a Windows machine from FreeBSD as it is just easier to do it the other way around. Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. FYI, syncronizing files between FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems is quite easy with rsync [http://www.samba.org/rsync/]. This is also quite easy to automate (e.g. running rsync from cron). For simple and fast data exchange, nothing beats netcat. [nc(1)] For remote backups I tend to pipe the output of dump(8) through netcat on one machine, and pipe the output from a listening netcat on another machine to a file. Suppose I want to backup machine 'foo' to machine 'bar'. On 'bar' I would start the following command: 'nc -l 65000 |bzip2 -c foo-root-20090922.dump.bz2'. On 'foo' I would then start the following command as root: 'dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - /|nc bar 65000' Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal running ssh to the other machine open. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpm87CJEgLmr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors
Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu writes: An update committed since Friday appears to have broken mii/nsgphy.c in the kernel. When I try to build a kernel now, I get the following errors during the compilations of mii/nsgphy.c. /usr/src/sys/modules/mii/../../dev/mii/nsgphy.c:104: error: 'MII_MODEL_NATSEMI_DP83865' undeclared here (not in a function) /usr/src/sys/modules/mii/../../dev/mii/nsgphy.c:104: error: 'MII_STR_NATSEMI_DP83865' undeclared here (not in a function) *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error Having run cvsup just a few minutes ago and then having tried again to build a kernel, I see that the errors persist. Is this something that someone is already fixing? Or should I try to submit a PR? You don't mention which branch you're on, but it sounds like it's probably a local issue for your installation. I built and installed from the latest RELENG_7 today, and there are new bug reports on RELENG_8 since Friday. Those failing identifiers *are* present in the correct sources; it looks like your miidevs.h isn't being regenerated properly. You *are* remembering to do a buildworld before a buildkernel, right? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Lady Luck brings added income today. Lady friend takes it away tonight. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Fwd: Wake up time
Begin forwarded message: From: Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Date: September 22, 2009 8:55:42 PM GMT+02:00 To: Don Brearley donbrear...@hibbing.edu Subject: Re: Wake up time Good idea. Would work for my setup, my router should be always on. And I think there is a wakeonlan port for FreeBSD. The advantage of this solution would be that I can trigger a wakeup on very dynamic events. If I set the wakeup time in the BIOS it's rather static, and I have to know the next wakeup before I shut down the host. On Sep 21, 2009, at 23:25 , Don Brearley wrote: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl 09/21/09 4:06 PM On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:06:28PM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, anybody knows if it's possible to set BIOS wake up time in FreeBSD. I have a machine I would like to regularly shutdown and wake up at different times depending the on the day of week. Could you enable Wake-On-LAN in the BIOS and then configure another box to wake it up via the LAN at your specified time? - Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com writes: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? Of course. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? Yes. But, before this thread turns into your personal tutorial, have a look at the documentation on freebsd.org. -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Lady Luck brings added income today. Lady friend takes it away tonight. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: [snip] It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. I am not sure what that is even suppose to mean, so I'll just ignore it. -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Beware of friends who are false and deceitful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:08:44 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each other. FYI, syncronizing files between FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems is quite easy with rsync [http://www.samba.org/rsync/]. This is also quite easy to automate (e.g. running rsync from cron). I use rsync quite often. It is not relevant to this discussion however. For simple and fast data exchange, nothing beats netcat. [nc(1)] For remote backups I tend to pipe the output of dump(8) through netcat on one machine, and pipe the output from a listening netcat on another machine to a file. Suppose I want to backup machine 'foo' to machine 'bar'. On 'bar' I would start the following command: 'nc -l 65000 |bzip2 -c foo-root-20090922.dump.bz2'. On 'foo' I would then start the following command as root: 'dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - /|nc bar 65000' Useful information; however, not relevant. Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal running ssh to the other machine open. I have not experimented with that yet. If needed, would I be able to run a program that required a GUI on the remote machine, or would I need to install and load all the X programs also? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com The person who marries for money usually earns every penny of it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting ZFS and GPT
My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to include GPT and ZFS setup in sysinstall during an initial installation? Cheers, Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org To big a rewrite needed i think. I've heard of plans to potentially release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the bells an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. The biggest thing we need for the release is for the loader to be compiled with zfs support in. It seems to have been in and out over the past few months so i try to make sure i have my own version specially compiled with it in. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal running ssh to the other machine open. I have not experimented with that yet. If needed, would I be able to run a program that required a GUI on the remote machine, or would I need to install and load all the X programs also? You can run a program on the remote machine and have it display on your local machine. If you set the DISPLAY variable on the remote machine to point to your local machine it should work, provided that you are not blocking the ports used by X (6000-6063, IIRC). You can also use xon(1) to start an X program on a remote machine. Keep in mind that not all X protocol extensions are supported over the network, though. You will need the X11 libraries on the remote machine, but not the server. If you are connecting via ssh, you can also configure that to allow X11 forwarding, if you want to keep the connection secure. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpN3a6NW5BnV.pgp Description: PGP signature
zyd TEW-424UB
Hi all I'm using FreeBSD 7-stable on my laptop. The wifi card is not working with FreeBSD. So I just buy a Trendnet TEW-424UB wifi usb adapter. I find this in the man zyd but when I plug my adapter (after add if_zyd_load=YES in my loader.conf and reboot) it's not working. Anyone have a idea why this f(*!@)(# adapter don't work ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Mar 22 sep 2009 21:52:24 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Sep 22, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Absolutely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting ZFS and GPT
2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to include GPT and ZFS setup in sysinstall during an initial installation? Cheers, Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org To big a rewrite needed i think. I've heard of plans to potentially release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the bells an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. The biggest thing we need for the release is for the loader to be compiled with zfs support in. It seems to have been in and out over the past few months so i try to make sure i have my own version specially compiled with it in. I dont think there are any specific plans at present, as its not deemed stable enough. Its also a complete resource hog compared to ufs, so for the foreseeable future I can't see it happening. One of the good things about freebsd is the range of hardware it supports. If you made zfs the default option you would be making most hardware over a few years old unusable without tinkering with the default options. However two or three years (ish) when the average new purchase its a 16 core system with 16 GB ram, a few ssds and 10 TB of disk and the older systems are the hi spec systems from today then there would be a good case for it i guess. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I can't. Using all prerequisits from ports (pam_ldap/nss_ldap/ldap as most recent) my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this as it has been the most reasonable (and only working!) solution for the past 2 years: passwd: ldap [unavail=continue notfound=continue] files [success=return notfound=return] I just have passwd: cache files ldap group: cache files ldap and I can login as root locally without any delay. That said my LDAP server is on the same machine so perhaps it fails faster. I am using uri ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/ to connect to. This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept as for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want your root credentials possibly be leaked accross the network. On the other hand you don't want or need user accounts in the local files. Default first check local files which is fast, then fall back on ldap if the user is not found. BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: [snip] It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. I am not sure what that is even suppose to mean, so I'll just ignore it. It means you are trying to make Unix conform to your Windows habits. For security, simplicity, and security (yes, security twice) we are not in the habit of wantonly sharing our file systems. Historically remote login has been difficult on Windows systems while file(system) sharing has been relatively easy so Windows Administrators learned how to manage systems by pushing files around on shared file systems. I'm saying it sounds an awful lot like that is what you are trying to do. If so then you will quickly find Unix doesn't like to let root (Administrator) easily cross system boundaries. Meanwhile others have listed a multitude of utilities for shooting files across multiple machines, including simple terminal login and more advanced GUI X11 login. None of which use shared file systems as their core connection method. Expanding on what I said earlier, if joe is userid 1001, do not reuse 1001 on any other machine unless joe has an account there too. Unix file ownership is by userid and groupid *numbers*. The number doesn't have to be defined in the password or group databases to be used. Most file sync and archivers only use the numbers. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:40:41PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: [snip] It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. I am not sure what that is even suppose to mean, so I'll just ignore it. It means you are trying to make Unix conform to your Windows habits. For security, simplicity, and security (yes, security twice) we are not in the habit of wantonly sharing our file systems. Historically remote login has been difficult on Windows systems while file(system) sharing has been relatively easy so Windows Administrators learned how to manage systems by pushing files around on shared file systems. I'm saying it sounds an awful lot like that is what you are trying to do. If so then you will quickly find Unix doesn't like to let root (Administrator) easily cross system boundaries. Really, it sounds like this guy is a candidate for AFS. Actually probably serious over-kill for his situation, but it does wonders.I think there is now (again) an OpenAFS for FreeBSD. AFS plus X-windows would more than do it. jerry Meanwhile others have listed a multitude of utilities for shooting files across multiple machines, including simple terminal login and more advanced GUI X11 login. None of which use shared file systems as their core connection method. Expanding on what I said earlier, if joe is userid 1001, do not reuse 1001 on any other machine unless joe has an account there too. Unix file ownership is by userid and groupid *numbers*. The number doesn't have to be defined in the password or group databases to be used. Most file sync and archivers only use the numbers. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? It will put a key there for every place you go to with ssh. The only annoyance is when you upgrade a machine, or otherwise cause the key for a machine to change, you may have to go in to that file and manually delete the old key before it will store another one for the same address. That is easy, but I always forget to do it until the key is refused, and of course, I am in a hurry. jerry -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Lady Luck brings added income today. Lady friend takes it away tonight. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: internet access from FreeBSD
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:32:04AM +, gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. I did access the internet with a take-off copy of FreeBSD, but I don't have access to it any more. Can I access the internet with a currently gettable copy of FreeBSD, and if so, for what versions is that true (my personal version is old, but it works well so I never upgraded)? Since I get my mail via juno , can I access them nicely from FreeBSD or do I need something to interface to it and present me with my mailbox, listing the items in it and telling me the usual stuff about envelop mail (sender, subject, when received)? I think you might have left out some important information we could use to better help you. Are you talking about the ISP Juno? (Do they still exist?) Are you in the US? Are you asking about how to connect to your ISP via a dial-up connection? I think most of us are using DSL or cable broadband, so people may not be making the same assumptions about what connect to the Internet as what you expect. What is a take-off copy of FreeBSD? Do you perhaps mean a LiveCD -- a CD on which a bootable install of FreeBSD exists, so you can boot into FreeBSD on the CD, but then take out the CD and reboot into whatever OS is installed on the computer's hard drive? I'm making some wild guesses here, because I really don't know what you're asking. Please help us clarify your needs so we can help you satisfy them. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpXyD1YX4zS9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Device naming on scbus using isp
Brent Bloxam wrote: I'm wondering about how device names are assigned on scbus, specifically when using the isp driver. It seems to me that there's potential when an HBA has access to multiple LUNs that on boot the scbus will have entries in /dev scrambled compared to the previous run (thus messing up mounts). My experience so far has been that da0 will be assigned to the first target scanned, da1 to the second, etc. Is this generally something countered with device.hints? If a LUN were to go away, but a device hint pointing to the target:unit remained, would that cause any issues on boot? Thanks, Brent Thought I'd follow up with a bit of information I've determined about this, despite the lack of response from anyone on list. Maybe someone will find it useful :) I can only speak for this applying to use of isp(4) with scbus(4). Devices that operate in target mode appear to isp(4) and are assigned a target ID starting at 0. The order in which they appear depends on their fcid or what's known to isp(4) as PortID. This order is ascending, so the lower fcid takes precedence. isp(4) will then check the target to see if any LUNs are available to it. If not, the target disappears -- and here's the important thing to note -- but its target ID does not go away. Say you have 5 devices with the following fcids, 4 in target mode: 0x00 - target 0x01 - target 0x02 - another server with an HBA 0xF0 - target with LUN 0xF1 - target with LUN isp(4) is loaded at boot, and the following occurs: 0x00 appears, is assigned target 0, and disappears because there are no LUNs 0x01 appears, is assigned target 1, and disappears because there are no LUNs 0x02 appears and simply disappears because it is not a target 0xF0 appears, is assigned target 2, and is assigned to da0 0xF1 appears, is assigned target 3, and is assigned to da1 You can see because of this example that maintaining device names using /boot/device.hints is impossible if targets in the fabric change. If 0x00 were to disappear, the target IDs would change and render /boot/device.hints invalid, or worse, the wrong LUN could be given the wrong device name. Ideally, there would be a way to assign target IDs by fcid, but that does not exist presently. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? It will put a key there for every place you go to with ssh. I think this is the place one puts the public key of accounts (not the host) from which one is *coming* from that one wishes to accept login without further challenge. ~/.ssh/known_hosts automatically (prompted first time) records the host public key of places you have been so as to warn you that the connection is not to a previously known machine. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? It will put a key there for every place you go to with ssh. I think this is the place one puts the public key of accounts (not the host) from which one is *coming* from that one wishes to accept login without further challenge. ~/.ssh/known_hosts automatically (prompted first time) records the host public key of places you have been so as to warn you that the connection is not to a previously known machine. While this is correct, as I said before, let's not let this thread be a regurgitation of the documentation. I think the M$/OP dude has been lead down the right path and needs to reach the end (more or less) on his own. Our bandwidth should be devoted to more important things, like . . . . well . . . anything else. (Yes, yes . . . I took up bandwidth to make this silly comment. Nip-it-in-the-bud, so to speak) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Device naming on scbus using isp
In the last episode (Sep 22), Brent Bloxam said: Brent Bloxam wrote: I'm wondering about how device names are assigned on scbus, specifically when using the isp driver. It seems to me that there's potential when an HBA has access to multiple LUNs that on boot the scbus will have entries in /dev scrambled compared to the previous run (thus messing up mounts). My experience so far has been that da0 will be assigned to the first target scanned, da1 to the second, etc. Is this generally something countered with device.hints? If a LUN were to go away, but a device hint pointing to the target:unit remained, would that cause any issues on boot? Thought I'd follow up with a bit of information I've determined about this, despite the lack of response from anyone on list. Maybe someone will find it useful :) I can only speak for this applying to use of isp(4) with scbus(4). Devices that operate in target mode appear to isp(4) and are assigned a target ID starting at 0. The order in which they appear depends on their fcid or what's known to isp(4) as PortID. This order is ascending, so the lower fcid takes precedence. isp(4) will then check the target to see if any LUNs are available to it. If not, the target disappears -- and here's the important thing to note -- but its target ID does not go away. Say you have 5 devices with the following fcids, 4 in target mode: 0x00 - target 0x01 - target 0x02 - another server with an HBA 0xF0 - target with LUN 0xF1 - target with LUN isp(4) is loaded at boot, and the following occurs: 0x00 appears, is assigned target 0, and disappears because there are no LUNs 0x01 appears, is assigned target 1, and disappears because there are no LUNs 0x02 appears and simply disappears because it is not a target 0xF0 appears, is assigned target 2, and is assigned to da0 0xF1 appears, is assigned target 3, and is assigned to da1 You can see because of this example that maintaining device names using /boot/device.hints is impossible if targets in the fabric change. If 0x00 were to disappear, the target IDs would change and render /boot/device.hints invalid, or worse, the wrong LUN could be given the wrong device name. Ideally, there would be a way to assign target IDs by fcid, but that does not exist presently. If you're mounting UFS filesystems, you can label them and mount them by label (see the tunefs and glabel manpages for more info). ZFS should find its pool devices automatically, but you can always manually label devices with glabel and refer to the label instead of the da## name. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:22:54PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? It will put a key there for every place you go to with ssh. I think this is the place one puts the public key of accounts (not the host) from which one is *coming* from that one wishes to accept login without further challenge. ~/.ssh/known_hosts automatically (prompted first time) records the host public key of places you have been so as to warn you that the connection is not to a previously known machine. You are right. I didn't look at the file name closely. You can still have more than one. jerry -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I want the same functionality between the FreeBSD boxes. Eventually, at least one of them will be run headless; the mail server in particular. I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However, there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows products. At present, all machines are connected, either wired or wireless, through a linksys router. Okay, so it sounds like you want to be able to do two things between your FreeBSD systems: 1. You want to be able to log into them remotely, as you do from MS Windows machines using PuTTY. This is trivially accomplished using a tool that is already installed on all your FreeBSD machines, unless you have a very abnormal install. It's called OpenSSH. Assuming you have either DHCP managing hostname resolution on your network or all the appropriate entries in your /etc/hosts file, you can log into remote machine bar as username foo like so: ssh f...@bar 2. You want to be able to access the remote filesystem as an extension of however you browse local filesystems (using Dolphin, Konqueror, the shell, whatever). To do this, you must mount the remote filesystem on the local system. To do *that*, you must have some kind of network filesystem software running -- a server on the remote machine, and a client on the local machine. NFS is the generally accepted normal way to do so on Unix systems. If you're using Samba on your FreeBSD machines anyway, you should be able to use Samba to do so between FreeBSD machines as well (and others in this discussion have mentioned some starting points for doing so). Another option is to use sshfs, which is a network filesystem tool that uses the SSH protocol to let you mount remote filesystems locally. Of course, depending on what you *actually* want to do from one moment to the next with your remote filesystem, you could use SCP and SFTP (part of the OpenSSH suite of remote access utilities) to transfer files back and forth. I use SSH and SCP quite extensively, and occasionally use sshfs (for things like using Herrie to play music on the local machine from a directory on a remote fileserver). I haven't had need for Samba for several years, because I just interact with MS Windows that much. Your mileage may vary. I hope this helps get you on the track to solving the problem. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpoi1uW3xZGH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: network freebsd computers
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:51:42PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal running ssh to the other machine open. I have not experimented with that yet. If needed, would I be able to run a program that required a GUI on the remote machine, or would I need to install and load all the X programs also? You can run a program on the remote machine and have it display on your local machine. If you set the DISPLAY variable on the remote machine to point to your local machine it should work, provided that you are not blocking the ports used by X (6000-6063, IIRC). You can also use xon(1) to start an X program on a remote machine. Keep in mind that not all X protocol extensions are supported over the network, though. You will need the X11 libraries on the remote machine, but not the server. If you are connecting via ssh, you can also configure that to allow X11 forwarding, if you want to keep the connection secure. I keep X forwarding disabled in configuration and, when necessary, enable it for one specific connection using the -X option for SSH. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpD3pmBpJtpC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: internet access from FreeBSD
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:32 AM, gs_stol...@juno.com gs_stol...@juno.comwrote: I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. I did access the internet with a take-off copy of FreeBSD, but I don't have access to it any more. Can I access the internet with a currently gettable copy of FreeBSD, and if so, for what versions is that true (my personal version is old, but it works well so I never upgraded)? Since I get my mail via juno , can I access them nicely from FreeBSD or do I need something to interface to it and present me with my mailbox, listing the items in it and telling me the usual stuff about envelop mail (sender, subject, when received)? $5,000 a Week For Life Publishers Clearing House winner annouced on NBC. Enter now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=NJLnQx9Yu8C9A0FjGKLJHAAAJ1CMuunOdcztR0sdySRQWupwAAQFAArXIzwACQGZAA== The handbook is available in ports here /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en or you may be more interesting in this: http://www.absolutefreebsd.com/ which I believe is more current than Mr Lehey's fine but aging work. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router. How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly? --jg I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Device naming on scbus using isp
Dan Nelson wrote: If you're mounting UFS filesystems, you can label them and mount them by label (see the tunefs and glabel manpages for more info). ZFS should find its pool devices automatically, but you can always manually label devices with glabel and refer to the label instead of the da## name. Thanks Dan, I'm using UFS so looks like labeling will be the solution to this issue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to smart host
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:37:27 -0500, Phusion phusio...@gmail.com wrote: I recompiled sendmail and now get the following when running sendmail -d0.1 -bv. I now have added the following to sendmail.mc. FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable') GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains') TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(authinfo, `hash -o /etc/mail/auth/authinfo') define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.test.com') define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O') I created /etc/mail/auth/authinfo and then did the makemaps to create the hashd .db file. When trying to email outbound, I still get the same error in the logs. ...relay=mail.test.com. [public_IP_address], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error More about this later. The /etc/mail/auth/authinfo file looks like the following. AuthInfo:mail.test.com U:usern...@isp.com P:password This looks ok. The ``dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error'' error code is described (along with other SMTP error codes) in RFC 1893 as: 5.X.X Permanent Failure A permanent failure is one which is not likely to be resolved by resending the message in the current form. Some change to the message or the destination must be made for successful delivery. X.6.X Message Content or Media Status The message content or media status codes report failures involving the content of the message. These codes report failures due to translation, transcoding, or otherwise unsupported message media. Message content or media issues are under the control of both the sender and the receiver, both of whom must support a common set of supported content-types. X.6.0 Other or undefined media error Something about the content of a message caused it to be considered undeliverable and the problem cannot be well expressed with any of the other provided detail codes. A few things to check are: * Can you resolve your own IP address correctly? * Can you resolve 'mail.test.com' correctly? * Can you connect to `mail.test.com' at port 25? * Can you connect to port 587 of `mail.test.com'? * Is `mail.test.com' the actual ISP mail server name? If not, please tell us its _real_ name, so we can also check if there are DNS or other problems. It may even be useful to show us tcpdump output obtained with: tcpdump -n -v -l -X -i em0 'host a.b.c.d port 25' Where 'em0' is replaced by your outgoing interface, 'a.b.c.d' is replaced by the IP address of 'mail.test.com' and you have carefully edited the log file to _hide_ any occurrence of your password *only*. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept as for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want your root credentials possibly be leaked accross the network. On the other hand you don't want or need user accounts in the local files. Default first check local files which is fast, then fall back on ldap if the user is not found. Actually I wrote them the wrong way, how odd! I actually have.. group: cache ldap files passwd: cache ldap files I think that if it fails ldap, it does so very quickly - it certainly did this morning when I rebooted uncleanly. I believe I did try it as cache files ldap but I had some issues, I can't recall what they were though. I had quite a bit of difficulty getting it to work acceptably so when it did I left it alone :) On a related note, why is slapd so damn fragile? It's a righteous pain in the bum the way you have to run db_recover-X.Y /var/db/openldap-data if slapd fails to start. It wouldn't be so bad if it logged anything, but even with full logging it gives a very cryptic message and if you have logging disabled (which is recommended for performance!) it won't say _anything_. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
On 9/22/09, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept as for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want your root credentials possibly be leaked accross the network. On the other hand you don't want or need user accounts in the local files. Default first check local files which is fast, then fall back on ldap if the user is not found. Actually I wrote them the wrong way, how odd! I actually have.. group: cache ldap files passwd: cache ldap files I think that if it fails ldap, it does so very quickly - it certainly did this morning when I rebooted uncleanly. I believe I did try it as cache files ldap but I had some issues, I can't recall what they were though. I had quite a bit of difficulty getting it to work acceptably so when it did I left it alone :) On a related note, why is slapd so damn fragile? It's a righteous pain in the bum the way you have to run db_recover-X.Y /var/db/openldap-data if slapd fails to start. I run OpenLDAP on a few boxes. I don't recall the power failures or rude shutdowns to ever give me problems... Course, I don't have anything hi-traffic, so I would definately have time for softupdates to flush to disk before a crash is inevitable. I've marked this thread, it's been useful already with the '[unavail=continue notfound=continue]' pieces after the ldap dictionary in nsswitch.conf Now I have another command, db_recover It wouldn't be so bad if it logged anything, but even with full logging it gives a very cryptic message and if you have logging disabled (which is recommended for performance!) it won't say _anything_. To have OpenLDAP logging, you have to insert local4.* statements in syslog.conf, touch the given file, and restart syslog. Any logging that OpenLDAP would need to send, is then recorded in syslog. Why they picked 4, of 1 through 7, I'm not sure. I'd help you with that, if you'd like. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Tim Judd wrote: On a related note, why is slapd so damn fragile? It's a righteous pain in the bum the way you have to run db_recover-X.Y /var/db/openldap-data if slapd fails to start. I run OpenLDAP on a few boxes. I don't recall the power failures or rude shutdowns to ever give me problems... Course, I don't have anything hi-traffic, so I would definately have time for softupdates to flush to disk before a crash is inevitable. This isn't high traffic, it's basically read only. I've marked this thread, it's been useful already with the '[unavail=continue notfound=continue]' pieces after the ldap dictionary in nsswitch.conf man nsswitch.conf :) Now I have another command, db_recover You can benefit from my torn out hair from when I went looking for it :) disabled (which is recommended for performance!) it won't say _anything_. To have OpenLDAP logging, you have to insert local4.* statements in syslog.conf, touch the given file, and restart syslog. Any logging that OpenLDAP would need to send, is then recorded in syslog. Why they picked 4, of 1 through 7, I'm not sure. Thanks, I've enabled it, normally I just fish through all.log :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote: I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router. How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly? --jg I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do?? If you're using WPA, create your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid=myssid psk=mykey } Then you need the entries in /etc/rc.conf to create the wlan0 interface and set it up for WPA and DHCP: wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP If you're not using WPA, well, why not? See the Handbook for more: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org