need a weird samba configuration

2012-01-13 Thread Victor Sudakov
Any Samba gurus here?

I have a file server running samba34-3.4.14 as a domain member server
with security = domain. winbindd is not started and all Windows users
are resolved to Unix uids/gids via getpwnam() as described in
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html#id2604553

Now I need to start winbindd for other purposes, not connected with
smbd and the file service. How do I configure smb.conf so that smbd
should not consult winbind and should continue using getpwnam() for Windows
logon name - Unix uid/gid mapping? In other words, how do I disable the
idmap functionality and use existing Unix uids/gids with winbindd
running?

TIA for any input.

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Re: fstab problem

2012-01-13 Thread Frank Brendel

Use  /dev/ad0s1a instead of /ad0s1a.

Frank

Am 13.01.2012 11:01, schrieb Bernt Hansson:

Hello list!

I've moved /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab.org

When booting I get prompted with

mountroot

Ok. I type ufs:ad0s1a

The crap boot up. But I can't get the filesystem to become R/W

Tried /sbin/mount -o rw /ad0s1a /
/sbin/mount -o rw,force /ad0s1a /
/sbin/mount -o force /ad0s1a /

But /sbin/mount only shows ro.

Don't really know what to do, except reinstall and that's a noop.
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Re: fstab problem

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/01/2012 10:01, Bernt Hansson wrote:
 Hello list!
 
 I've moved /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab.org
 
 When booting I get prompted with
 
mountroot
 
 Ok. I type ufs:ad0s1a
 
 The crap boot up. But I can't get the filesystem to become R/W
 
 Tried /sbin/mount -o rw /ad0s1a /
 /sbin/mount -o rw,force /ad0s1a /
 /sbin/mount -o force /ad0s1a /
 
 But /sbin/mount only shows ro.
 
 Don't really know what to do, except reinstall and that's a noop.

fsck /dev/ad0s1a
/sbin/mount -u -o rw /dev/ad0s1a /

You should then be able to recover /etc/fstab, fix any problems within
it and then on exit, the system should continue with a normal multi-user
bootup.

Cheers,

Matthew


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Re: fstab problem

2012-01-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 11:01:40AM +0100, Bernt Hansson escribió:

 Hello list!

 I've moved /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab.org

 When booting I get prompted with

 mountroot

 Ok. I type ufs:ad0s1a

 The crap boot up. But I can't get the filesystem to become R/W

 Tried /sbin/mount -o rw /ad0s1a /
 /sbin/mount -o rw,force /ad0s1a /
 /sbin/mount -o force /ad0s1a /

 But /sbin/mount only shows ro.

 Don't really know what to do, except reinstall and that's a noop.

As a last resort, you could boot an USB livefs, mount the disk to /mnt
and do the change back in the root fs;

matthias

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upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk

I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r 
9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear the caveats.
My main problem lies with the installed ports. I know the -all- have to 
be recompiled, but I don't know an easy way for this job.  I always use 
portmaster. Do I have to make a list manually for all installed ports? 
Or is there a procedure to follow in this matter? I'd like to get some 
pointers if possible.

Thanks.
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Bladecenters and freebsd

2012-01-13 Thread Pascal S. Clermont

Hi

I am currently seeking a bladecenter solution that is supported by 
FreeBSD. As much as I would enjoy buying one and test it out, this 
method could come out very expensive.


we need to replace our old IBM Bladecenter by more recent equipment.
I have looked at ixsystems but they only provide a solution that 
supports ethernet/infiniband modules. I am wandering if a solution such 
as  a bridgex 
(http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=products_dynproduct_family=54menu_section=52) 
could give me the best of both worlds? but I have never played with any 
similar device.


Does anyone have any current bladecenter hardware that is running FreeBSD?
Ideally this bladecenter would possess Fibre Channel modules in order to 
speak directly with our current SAN.


Any gotchas, I should be aware of?

Pascal
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Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/13/2012 02:42 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
 I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
 I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r
 9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear the caveats.
 My main problem lies with the installed ports. I know the -all- have to be
 recompiled, but I don't know an easy way for this job.  I always use
 portmaster. Do I have to make a list manually for all installed ports? Or
 is there a procedure to follow in this matter? I'd like to get some
 pointers if possible.
 Thanks.
 _
It works great with source upgrade, so freebsd-update should not be a
problem but i haven't used it yet to upgrade to 9.
It is used like this: freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade  (i.e. not fetch)
See also the handbook for a good explanation

You can use portmaster --list-origins to make a list of all root and leaf
ports and use this to reinstall all ports after the upgrade.
See man portmaster for a good example.

Or you can use portmaster -af to recompile all ports.


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Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:03 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
 I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
 I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r 
 9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear the caveats.

Source update also shouldn't be a problem.
Setup your CVS supfile to get the 9.0-RELEASE
sources and follow the instructions in the
handbook and in /usr/src/Makefile's comment
header.



 My main problem lies with the installed ports. I know the -all- have to 
 be recompiled, but I don't know an easy way for this job. 

Not have to, but it's often considered
best practice. If you don't want to
recompile all your ports, make sure two
things are met:

1. You have COMPAT_FREEBSD8 in your kernel.

2. You have compat8x-i386-8.2.12345.67890
   installed (or amd64 respectively).

This will work as long as you're not starting
to install something new (which may cause
library version trouble).

However, using a port management tool to do
the job of update all ports is often highly
recommended.



 I always use 
 portmaster.

Did you look into its manual already? :-)



 Do I have to make a list manually for all installed ports? 

Depends. A possible approach is that you make
a list of your primary ports, i. e. the stuff
that you are _really_ intending to use, where
secondary ports they depend on (i. e. the
dependencies) are not mentioned, as they will
be installed anyway. So for example, if firefox
is on your list as you intend to use it, there's
no need to list all its dependencies as well
because they are implicit.



 Or is there a procedure to follow in this matter? I'd like to get some 
 pointers if possible.

Sure. See man portmaster, section EXAMPLES,
where you'll find Using portmaster to do a
complete reinstallation of all your ports
with a complete procedure.




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Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk

Op 13-1-2012 14:56, Bas Smeelen schreef:

On 01/13/2012 02:42 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:

I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r
9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear the caveats.
My main problem lies with the installed ports. I know the -all- have to be
recompiled, but I don't know an easy way for this job.  I always use
portmaster. Do I have to make a list manually for all installed ports? Or
is there a procedure to follow in this matter? I'd like to get some
pointers if possible.
Thanks.
_

It works great with source upgrade, so freebsd-update should not be a
problem but i haven't used it yet to upgrade to 9.
It is used like this: freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade  (i.e. not fetch)
See also the handbook for a good explanation

You can use portmaster --list-origins to make a list of all root and leaf
ports and use this to reinstall all ports after the upgrade.
See man portmaster for a good example.

Or you can use portmaster -af to recompile all ports.
Ah, yes, I remember the latter is disadviced because some ports can have 
differences so you have some garbage if you run portmaster -af
I will look up the example in the manual. It also will tell me 
(probably) if all ports have to be removed beforehand or that this does 
not matter.

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Re: Bladecenters and freebsd

2012-01-13 Thread Damien Fleuriot


On 1/13/12 2:27 PM, Pascal S. Clermont wrote:
 Hi
 
 I am currently seeking a bladecenter solution that is supported by
 FreeBSD. As much as I would enjoy buying one and test it out, this
 method could come out very expensive.
 
 we need to replace our old IBM Bladecenter by more recent equipment.
 I have looked at ixsystems but they only provide a solution that
 supports ethernet/infiniband modules. I am wandering if a solution such
 as  a bridgex
 (http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=products_dynproduct_family=54menu_section=52)
 could give me the best of both worlds? but I have never played with any
 similar device.
 
 Does anyone have any current bladecenter hardware that is running FreeBSD?
 Ideally this bladecenter would possess Fibre Channel modules in order to
 speak directly with our current SAN.
 
 Any gotchas, I should be aware of?
 
 Pascal



We're successfully running 8.2-RELEASE on Dell's PowerEdge M1000e.

We don't have a SAN and thus no use for FC, so I wouldn't be able to
tell you about that.

Why don't you just get a manufacturer to *lend* you a chassis + 1 blade
server, so that you may test ?

We've done that with Dell.
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Bladecenters and freebsd

2012-01-13 Thread Pascal S. Clermont

Hi

I am currently seeking a bladecenter solution that is supported by 
FreeBSD. As much as I would enjoy buying one and test it out, this 
method could come out very expensive.


we need to replace our old IBM Bladecenter by more recent equipment.
I have looked at ixsystems but they only provide a solution that 
supports ethernet/infiniband modules. I am wandering if a solution such 
as  a bridgex 
(http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=products_dynproduct_family=54menu_section=52) 
could give me the best of both worlds? but I have never played with any 
similar device.


Does anyone have any current bladecenter hardware that is running FreeBSD?
Ideally this bladecenter would possess Fibre Channel modules in order to 
speak directly with our current SAN.


Any gotchas, I should be aware of?

Pascal
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Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Da Rock 
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:

 On 01/13/12 17:11, Waitman Gobble wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Da Rock
 freebsd-questions@**herveybayaustralia.com.aufreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au
  wrote:

  On 01/13/12 15:29, Waitman Gobble wrote:

  Hello,

 I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having
 trouble
 with the wireless setup.

 I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an
 Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and
 the
 windows xp driver, and the Atheros with the ath driver that is installed
 with FreeBSD. (But BCM/ndis is noticeably much slower, Atheros - no
 green
 wireless light appears on netbook )

  i am getting the same results with either nic card, and i think i am
 just
 missing something simple.


 ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST   metric
 0 mtu

 2290
 ether 00:24:2b:ad:d6:5f
 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL

 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
 status: associated

  wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST
 metric 0

 mtu 1500
 ether 00:24:2b:ad:d6:5f
 inet 10.0.0.21 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL

 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/24Mbps mode 11g
 status: associated
 ssid CUDAPANG channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid 00:22:3f:9b:b8:aa
 regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
 wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
 bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
 wme burst

 connecting:

 ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
 ifconfig wlan0 up scan
 ifconfig wlan0 inet 10.0.0.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid CUDAPANG
 wepmode
 on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x10961323931B628F844360718A


 scan results:

 p00ntang# ifconfig wlan0 up scan
 SSID/MESH IDBSSID  CHAN RATE   S:N INT CAPS
 CUDAPANG00:22:3f:9a:16:1b6   54M -69:-93  100 EPS  ATH
 CUDAPANG00:22:3f:9b:b8:aa6   54M -68:-93  100 EPS  WME ATH
 Abujie  00:14:6c:7a:98:ec6   54M -89:-93  100 EPS  RSN WPA
 ATH
 TDMA
 chavez family   00:c0:02:11:22:336   54M -88:-93  100 EP   HTCAP RSN
 WME WPS

 My machine shows up on the wireless router as a connected device w/
 correct mac and ip showing

 But i cannot ping gw, no machine on lan or outside. (no route to host)

 p00ntang# netstat -nr
 Routing tables

 Internet:
 DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs  Use  Netif
 Expire
 default10.0.0.1   UGS 0 3338   ale0
 10.0.0.0/24link#2 U   0 2405   ale0
 10.0.0.20  link#2 UHS 00lo0
 10.0.0.21  link#9 UHS 02lo0
 127.0.0.1  link#8 UH  0   12lo0

 I do not see ath0' or wlan0 in the routing table under 'Netif', not
 sure
 if that's the problem :)


 p00ntang# less /etc/rc.conf
 hostname=p00ntang
 ifconfig_ale0= inet 10.0.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0
 defaultrouter=10.0.0.1
 sshd_enable=YES
 ntpd_enable=YES
 # Set dumpdev to AUTO to enable crash dumps, NO to disable
 dumpdev=NO
 fusefs_enable=YES
 hald_enable=YES
 dbus_enable=YES
 moused_enable=YES
 snddetect_enable=YES
 mixer_enable=YES
 avahi_daemon_enable=YES
 ices0_enable=YES


 p00ntang# grep ath /boot/loader.conf
 if_ath_load=YES
 p00ntang# grep wlan /boot/loader.conf
 wlan_wep_load=YES
 wlan_ccmp_load=YES
 wlan_tkip_load=YES



 i've tried /etc/rc.d/routing restart.. no worky :)

 here's my wired connection ifconfig  --- wired connection works :)

 ale0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST   metric
 0 mtu
 1500
 options=c319aTXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,
 TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE

 ether 00:23:5a:59:e1:e4
 inet 10.0.0.20 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
 inet6 fe80::223:5aff:fe59:e1e4%ale0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL

 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTXfull-duplex)
 status: active




 any help/suggestions much appreciated!

  The solution is simple, but I know the frustration well.

 Your problem is that the route is looking to go through your wired
 network
 port, you started the network on the wired and then switched to wifi so
 the
 routing needs to change.

 Run as root: route change default -interface wlan0 will fix that
 temporarily. To fix it permanently (better for a laptop situation
 anyway, I
 feel), setup a lagg port including ale0 and wlan0. See
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.htmlhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/**handbook/network-aggregation.**html
 http://www.freebsd.org/**doc/handbook/network-**aggregation.htmlhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html
 


 Good luck and happy networking!
 

Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió:

 Hi,
 
 Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll
 take your advice and take a step up in technology. My stubborn
 conservatism probably roots back to the time when not all devices could do
 WPA, or at least I had crazy trouble getting things to work. But this
 learned attitude was probably around 2000, which was like a million years
 ago with dinosaurs and stuff. Time for me to finally get with it.
 
 ...

Concerning WEP ./. WPA: From the technical point it is clear, WPA is
more secure; but there are other aspects as well; we have had in Germany
cases where the WAN IP of the AP appeared as source addr of some kind of
crime (access to child porn or whatever) and the AP owner said: I'm
using WEP, it was not me, and someone highjacked my AP ... and he/she
went home as free person;

matthias
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Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi,

Am 13.01.2012 14:42, schrieb Dick Hoogendijk:
 I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
 I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r
 9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear the caveats.

I did last week a source upgrade and the new generic kernel has not able
to detected my hard disks anymore and therefor the system could not be
booted, because the zfs file system was not mountable anymore.

But if some users are reporting here good results, I maybe will try it
again.

Bye
Matthias

-- 

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build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. --
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Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Warren Block

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote:


Hello,

I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble
with the wireless setup.

I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an
Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and the
windows xp driver, and the Atheros with the ath driver that is installed
with FreeBSD. (But BCM/ndis is noticeably much slower, Atheros - no green
wireless light appears on netbook )


On other models of the Aspire One (AOA150 and D250), adding some 
ath-specific settings to /boot/loader.conf enables the LED:


dev.ath.0.ledpin=3
dev.ath.0.softled=1
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no hyperthreading in FreeBSD 9?

2012-01-13 Thread Marco Beishuizen

Hi,

I just upgraded from 8-STABLE to 9-STABLE on my dual Xeon (nocona). Now I 
have in my boot messages:

...
root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does not 
exist.
root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed 
does not exist.

...

So isn't hyperthreading not available anymore in FreeBSD 9?

Regards,
Marco

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just dangle some carats in front of my nose.
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Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jan 13, 2012 7:19 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:

 El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble
escribió:

  Hi,
 
  Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll
  take your advice and take a step up in technology. My stubborn
  conservatism probably roots back to the time when not all devices
could do
  WPA, or at least I had crazy trouble getting things to work. But this
  learned attitude was probably around 2000, which was like a million
years
  ago with dinosaurs and stuff. Time for me to finally get with it.
 
  ...

 Concerning WEP ./. WPA: From the technical point it is clear, WPA is
 more secure; but there are other aspects as well; we have had in Germany
 cases where the WAN IP of the AP appeared as source addr of some kind of
 crime (access to child porn or whatever) and the AP owner said: I'm
 using WEP, it was not me, and someone highjacked my AP ... and he/she
 went home as free person;

matthias
 --
 Matthias Apitz
 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/
 UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370)
 UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5

thanks, going to try WPA this weekend.

My apartment is not so convenient for drive-by scanners (cant think of the
proper term at the moment) but i do have at least one neighbor who appears
potentially suspect.. like he might try to hack my ap for fun.

Waitman
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Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jan 13, 2012 7:38 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:

 On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote:

 Hello,

 I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having trouble
 with the wireless setup.

 I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an
 Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and the
 windows xp driver, and the Atheros with the ath driver that is installed
 with FreeBSD. (But BCM/ndis is noticeably much slower, Atheros - no green
 wireless light appears on netbook )


 On other models of the Aspire One (AOA150 and D250), adding some
ath-specific settings to /boot/loader.conf enables the LED:

 dev.ath.0.ledpin=3
 dev.ath.0.softled=1

cool thanks ill try it out.

Waitman
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Re: no hyperthreading in FreeBSD 9?

2012-01-13 Thread Mark Blackman

On 13 Jan 2012, at 16:30, Marco Beishuizen wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I just upgraded from 8-STABLE to 9-STABLE on my dual Xeon (nocona). Now I 
 have in my boot messages:
 ...
 root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does not 
 exist.
 root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed does 
 not exist.
 ...
 
 So isn't hyperthreading not available anymore in FreeBSD 9?

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.0.0/UPDATING?r1=222852r2=222853;

Seems to imply HT is enabled by default and new sysctls are used to take 
logical CPUs offline.

How many CPUs does your boot message suggest FreeBSD 9 is reporting?

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Re: no hyperthreading in FreeBSD 9?

2012-01-13 Thread b. f.

  Hi,
 
  I just upgraded from 8-STABLE to 9-STABLE on my dual Xeon (nocona). Now I 
  have in my boot messages:
  ...
  root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does not 
  exist.
  root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed does 
  not exist.
  ...
 
  So isn't hyperthreading not available anymore in FreeBSD 9?

I'm not sure what you mean by this double negative.  If you mean Is
hyperthreading still available on FreeBSD?, the answer is yes.  If
you mean Can hyperthreading still be disabled on FreeBSD? the answer
is still yes-- only some problematic and redundant means of disabling
it that were present in earlier versions of FreeBSD have been removed.
 (The primary commit is:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisionrevision=222853

.)  You can still use machdep.hyperthreading_allowed, but it is now
only a (loader) tunable, and not also a sysctl, so you can only set it
at boot time (via loader.conf(5), or by using set ... on the
loader(8) command line), and you cannot change it on the fly after the
system is up and running.


 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.0.0/UPDATING?r1=222852r2=222853;

 Seems to imply HT is enabled by default and new sysctls are used to take
 logical CPUs offline.


Yes -- although that has been the case for a while, and the OIDs are
not all sysctls (some are (loader) tunables or device hints (cf.
device.hints(5)), and they are not new.

b.
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NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-01-13 Thread _
Hi,

Since I've run into problems getting an ndisgen generated driver for my
Realtek RTL8185 54M to work on
my FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) system - kldload on the driver generates a permanent
kernel crash-, I am currently
thinking about buying the NetGear WG511T PCMCIA bus driven card.

I would like to ask if there are any users on this list that make use of
this card and that can confirm whether
or not this cards works fine alongside with WPA/WPA2 on 8.2 or 9.0 if I
decide to upgrade?

I am aware of the supported hardware list. The card in discussion is not
listed as supported.
However, this could still be the case, since I read in an older 7.0 related
thread
http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424 that it did work, at
least at one point in time.


Thanks
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Re: NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-01-13 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:17:54 +0100 pancakekin...@gmail.com articulated:

 Since I've run into problems getting an ndisgen generated driver for
 my Realtek RTL8185 54M to work on
 my FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) system - kldload on the driver generates a
 permanent kernel crash-, I am currently
 thinking about buying the NetGear WG511T PCMCIA bus driven card.
 
 I would like to ask if there are any users on this list that make use
 of this card and that can confirm whether
 or not this cards works fine alongside with WPA/WPA2 on 8.2 or 9.0 if
 I decide to upgrade?
 
 I am aware of the supported hardware list. The card in discussion is
 not listed as supported.
 However, this could still be the case, since I read in an older 7.0
 related thread
 http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424 that it did work, at
 least at one point in time.

It's compliant with 802.11g standards and going for approximately $6.00
on EBay, so you really have nothing to lose by trying it. You should be
able to ascertain the chip model and version easy enough once you get
the device.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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Please do not ignore the Reply-To header.
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OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Jorge Biquez

Hello all.

First of all a great year to all. My best wishes.

I was wondering if you can give your advice and comments about the following.

I am interested in learning about Android Development. I am searching 
information on the web, documentation about how to start learning 
about Android Development. Any links or tips to look at are more than welcomed.


Talking with a friend he told me he is learning using some tools he 
found but he is running them under Ubuntu.


If any of you is developing for Android using Freebsd as your 
platform. Can you tell me about your experience? Tips and advice on 
what to use to start are welcome.


I am not sure if this kind of off topic could be of interested to the 
list so please feel free to answer me directly .


Thanks in advance.

Jorge Biquez

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access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-13 Thread Gary Kline

excuse this slip of memory, but do you need the full path PLUS  the
filename to use access? or just the filename?

say that i'm i n ~/tmp/foob and want to deetermine  wheether i can
access file foob.  do i need to use access(home/kline/tmp/foob, F_OK)
or will access(foob, F_OK)  do the trick?  i have already rub 
chdir(~/tmp) in main(). please note.

gary



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Re: OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:46:13PM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote:
 
 I am interested in learning about Android Development. I am
 searching information on the web, documentation about how to start
 learning about Android Development. Any links or tips to look at are
 more than welcomed.
 
 Talking with a friend he told me he is learning using some tools he
 found but he is running them under Ubuntu.

What tools are these?  If you provide specifics, we might be able to
provide information on whether the tools he uses work on FreeBSD as well.


 
 If any of you is developing for Android using Freebsd as your
 platform. Can you tell me about your experience? Tips and advice on
 what to use to start are welcome.

I am not (yet) developing for Android on FreeBSD, but I plan to give it a
try in the very near future.  My first steps in that direction will
probably involve writing code in Ruby, to be packaged and distributed to
be used with the Scripting Layer For Android.  SL4A uses JRuby, which
means that Ruby applications for Android that use SL4A should have access
to the standard Java libraries on Android as well (in theory: I have not
tested this extensively yet).

I am considering graduating to Java/Dalvik development for Android at
some point, but I am not sure whether that would be necessary (or even
advantageous) for my purposes, at this point.  I am interested in any
information your query might draw forth here, though, so I'll be watching
this thread.


 
 I am not sure if this kind of off topic could be of interested to
 the list so please feel free to answer me directly .

I think this is, in fact, on-topic for this list.  It is a question
particular to FreeBSD, which is the point of the freebsd-questions
mailing list, as I understand it.

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Re: OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:46:13PM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote:
 
  I am interested in learning about Android Development. I am
  searching information on the web, documentation about how to start
  learning about Android Development. Any links or tips to look at are
  more than welcomed.
 
  Talking with a friend he told me he is learning using some tools he
  found but he is running them under Ubuntu.

 What tools are these?  If you provide specifics, we might be able to
 provide information on whether the tools he uses work on FreeBSD as well.


 
  If any of you is developing for Android using Freebsd as your
  platform. Can you tell me about your experience? Tips and advice on
  what to use to start are welcome.

 I am not (yet) developing for Android on FreeBSD, but I plan to give it a
 try in the very near future.  My first steps in that direction will
 probably involve writing code in Ruby, to be packaged and distributed to
 be used with the Scripting Layer For Android.  SL4A uses JRuby, which
 means that Ruby applications for Android that use SL4A should have access
 to the standard Java libraries on Android as well (in theory: I have not
 tested this extensively yet).

 I am considering graduating to Java/Dalvik development for Android at
 some point, but I am not sure whether that would be necessary (or even
 advantageous) for my purposes, at this point.  I am interested in any
 information your query might draw forth here, though, so I'll be watching
 this thread.


 
  I am not sure if this kind of off topic could be of interested to
  the list so please feel free to answer me directly .

 I think this is, in fact, on-topic for this list.  It is a question
 particular to FreeBSD, which is the point of the freebsd-questions
 mailing list, as I understand it.

 --
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The following pages may be useful if Free Pascal is used as development
environment :

http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_JVM_Android_Development
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Android_Interface
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Android_Interface/Using_the_Android_SDK%2C_Emulator_and_Phones
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Android_Interface/OpenGL_ES_GUI
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Android_Programming
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Android_Interface/Native_Android_GUI
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Custom_Drawn_Interface/Android


where Free Pascal and Lazarus are available in FreeBSD ports .

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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9.0-RELEASE and RealTek (re) watchdog timeout

2012-01-13 Thread Rob
I'm attempting to transfer a large amount of data from one zfs pool on 
one system to a zfs pool on another via zfs send/receive.  The sender is 
8.2 and the receiver is 9.0.  The receiver is using a re network driver, 
and sometime during the transfer all connectivity is lost with the 
receiver.  Looking at the machine, I see:


re0: watchdog timeout
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP

every 5-15 seconds in the logs.  I've tried disabling MSI/MSI-X, but 
that didn't have an affect.  The only way I've gotten connectivity back 
was to reboot the machine.  Has anyone seen this before?  Any ideas?


pciconf of the network interface:

vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint IRQ 2 max data 128(128) link x1(x1)
cap 11[b0] = MSI-X supports 4 messages in map 0x20 enabled
cap 03[d0] = VPD
ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected
ecap 0002[140] = VC 1 max VC0
ecap 0003[160] = Serial 1 1234567812345678


Rob
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buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL fails at lib/libarchive

2012-01-13 Thread Devin Teske
Not sure when this happened, but RELENG_8 circa FreeBSD-8.1 didn't have this 
problem.

Can anyone confirm that this appears to be a regression in RELENG_9?

Output below.
-- 
Devin

$ make buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL
[snip]
=== lib/libarchive (depend)
rm -f .depend
mkdep -f .depend -a-DDRUID -DHAVE_BZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBLZMA=1 
-DHAVE_LZMA_H=1 
-DPLATFORM_CONFIG_H=\/usr/src/lib/libarchive/config_freebsd.h\ 
-I/usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libarchive 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_check_magic.c
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_entry.c 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_entry_copy_stat.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_entry_stat.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_entry_strmode.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_entry_link_resolver.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_entry_xattr.c
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read.c 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_data_into_fd.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_disk.c 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_disk_entry_from_file.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_disk_set_standard_lookup.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_extract.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_open_fd.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_open_file.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_open_filename.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_open_memory.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_all.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_bzip2.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_compress.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_gzip.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_none.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_program.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_rpm.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_uu.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_xz.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_all.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_ar.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_cpio.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_empty.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_mtree.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_raw.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_tar.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_xar.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_zip.c
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_string.c 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_string_sprintf.c
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_util.c 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_virtual.c 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write.c 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_disk.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_disk_set_standard_lookup.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_open_fd.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_open_file.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_open_filename.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_open_memory.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_compression_bzip2.c
 
/usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_compression_compress.c
 

Re: NFSv4 and file locking

2012-01-13 Thread Leon Meßner
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:37:57PM +0100, Leon Meßner wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Does anyone know what you have to do to get locking working under NFSv4?
 I tried the following:
 
 # mount_nfs -o nfsv4,sec=sys ip.nfsv4:/nfstest /mnt/test
 # mount | grep ip.nfsv4
 ip.nfsv4:/nfstest on /mnt/test (newnfs)
 # kldstat | grep nfs
 62 0x8103f000 1015fnfscommon.ko
 91 0x81054000 3008fnfscl.ko
 # cd /mnt/test
 # lockf testlockfile ls
 lockf: cannot open testlockfile: Operation not supported

Looks like lockf is the wrong tool for this job. I tried the NFSv4 lock
testing suite from [1] and this worked flawlessly. I don't know if this
test actually does what it claims to do but as i couldn't find any
freebsd specific testing tool this will probably suffice.

Thanks,
Leon

[1] http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/tools/tests_index.php (see locks
robustness)
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Re: wireless and/or routing question

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock

On 01/14/12 01:38, Warren Block wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote:


Hello,

I am running 9.0-RC3 i386 on an Acer Aspire One D150. i am having 
trouble

with the wireless setup.

I have two wireless cards, the BCM94312MCG that came with it, and an
Atheros 5424/2424 that i swapped out. I can run the BCM with ndis and 
the

windows xp driver, and the Atheros with the ath driver that is installed
with FreeBSD. (But BCM/ndis is noticeably much slower, Atheros - no 
green

wireless light appears on netbook )


On other models of the Aspire One (AOA150 and D250), adding some 
ath-specific settings to /boot/loader.conf enables the LED:


dev.ath.0.ledpin=3
dev.ath.0.softled=1

I'm curious as to how you can find out which pin to use in this setting?
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Re: buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL fails at lib/libarchive

2012-01-13 Thread Devin Teske

On Jan 13, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

 Not sure when this happened, but RELENG_8 circa FreeBSD-8.1 didn't have this 
 problem.
 
 Can anyone confirm that this appears to be a regression in RELENG_9?
 
 Output below.
 -- 
 Devin
 
 $ make buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL
 [snip]
 === lib/libarchive (depend)
 rm -f .depend
 mkdep -f .depend -a-DDRUID -DHAVE_BZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBLZMA=1 
 -DHAVE_LZMA_H=1 
 -DPLATFORM_CONFIG_H=\/usr/src/lib/libarchive/config_freebsd.h\ 
 -I/usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libarchive
 [snip]
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_xar.c
 [snip]
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_mtree.c
  
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_pax.c
  
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_shar.c
  
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_ustar.c
  
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_zip.c
  /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/filter_fork.c
 In file included from 
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_xar.c:57:
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_hash.h:129:20:
  error: sha1.h: No such file or directory
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_hash.h:166:20:
  error: sha2.h: No such file or directory
 In file included from 
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_mtree.c:42:
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_hash.h:129:20:
  error: sha1.h: No such file or directory
 /usr/src/lib/libarchive/../../contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_hash.h:166:20:
  error: sha2.h: No such file or directory
 mkdep: compile failed
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libarchive.
 *** Error code 1

[snip]

Solved this with the following patch (RELENG_9; config_freebsd.h revision 
1.28.2.2):

--- lib/libarchive/config_freebsd.h.orig2012-01-05 03:44:55.0 
-0800
+++ lib/libarchive/config_freebsd.h 2012-01-13 18:43:46.0 -0800
@@ -176,9 +176,4 @@
 #defineARCHIVE_HASH_SHA256_OPENSSL 1
 #defineARCHIVE_HASH_SHA384_OPENSSL 1
 #defineARCHIVE_HASH_SHA512_OPENSSL 1
-#else
-#defineARCHIVE_HASH_MD5_LIBC 1
-#defineARCHIVE_HASH_SHA1_LIBC 1
-#defineARCHIVE_HASH_SHA256_LIBC 1
-#defineARCHIVE_HASH_SHA512_LIBC 1
 #endif

The above patch allowed the mkdep to succeed and later-compilation in the same 
directory succeeded (yay).
-- 
Devin

NOTE: I'll file a PR once we get a successful buildworld (... yeah, next place 
we stopped with -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL is making (all) in lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp -- 
but I'll start a new thread for that).

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Re: fstab problem

2012-01-13 Thread perryh
Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote:

 This is an old machine (1997), not sure it will boot from usb.
 I'll check.

If it can boot from floppy, Plop will boot it from USB.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html
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Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:18 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 
 excuse this slip of memory, but do you need the full path PLUS  the
 filename to use access? or just the filename?
 
 say that i'm i n ~/tmp/foob and want to deetermine  wheether i can
 access file foob.  do i need to use access(home/kline/tmp/foob, F_OK)
 or will access(foob, F_OK)  do the trick?  i have already rub 
 chdir(~/tmp) in main(). please note.

According to what I read from man 2 access I would
assume it has to be an absolute path. When you read
to the faccessat() function, you'll see:

The faccessat() system call is equivalent to
access() except in the case where path specifies
a relative path.  In this case the file whose
accessibility is to be determined is located
relative to the directory associated with the
file descriptor fd instead of the current
working directory.  If faccessat() is passed
the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter,
the current working directory is used and the
behavior is identical to a call to access().

Also see SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS later on.


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Re: buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL fails at (lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp (all)) (was: lib/libarchive (depend))

2012-01-13 Thread Devin Teske
Trying to buildworld in RELENG_9 with -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL and getting failures.

First failure we encountered required the following patch to get past 
lib/libarchive (depend)...


 
 --- lib/libarchive/config_freebsd.h.orig  2012-01-05 03:44:55.0 
 -0800
 +++ lib/libarchive/config_freebsd.h   2012-01-13 18:43:46.0 -0800
 @@ -176,9 +176,4 @@
 #define   ARCHIVE_HASH_SHA256_OPENSSL 1
 #define   ARCHIVE_HASH_SHA384_OPENSSL 1
 #define   ARCHIVE_HASH_SHA512_OPENSSL 1
 -#else
 -#define  ARCHIVE_HASH_MD5_LIBC 1
 -#define  ARCHIVE_HASH_SHA1_LIBC 1
 -#define  ARCHIVE_HASH_SHA256_LIBC 1
 -#define  ARCHIVE_HASH_SHA512_LIBC 1
 #endif
 
 The above patch allowed the mkdep to succeed and later-compilation in the 
 same directory succeeded (yay).

However, you don't get far before the next error.

Making all in lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp with -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL...

cc  -I/usr/src/lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp/../../../contrib/bsnmp/lib -DHAVE_ERR_H 
-DHAVE_GETADDRINFO -DHAVE_STRLCPY -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H 
-DQUADFMT='llu' -DQUADXFMT='llx' -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector 
-Wsystem-headers -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type 
-Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wunused-parameter -Wcast-align 
-Wchar-subscripts -Winline -Wnested-externs -Wredundant-decls 
-Wold-style-definition -Wno-pointer-sign -c 
/usr/src/lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp/../../../contrib/bsnmp/lib/snmpcrypto.c
/usr/src/lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp/../../../contrib/bsnmp/lib/snmpcrypto.c:371: 
error: conflicting types for 'snmp_passwd_to_keys'
/usr/src/lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp/../../../contrib/bsnmp/lib/snmp.h:273: error: 
previous declaration of 'snmp_passwd_to_keys' was here
/usr/src/lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp/../../../contrib/bsnmp/lib/snmpcrypto.c:384: 
error: conflicting types for 'snmp_get_local_keys'
/usr/src/lib/libbsnmp/libbsnmp/../../../contrib/bsnmp/lib/snmp.h:274: error: 
previous declaration of 'snmp_get_local_keys' was here


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FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-13 Thread Tobi
Hi,
I try to filter my maillist emails with slieve... but it dosen't work ;(

here are my config:

require fileinto;

if address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-b...@freebsd.org {
fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-bugs;
}

elsif address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org {
fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-questions;
}

else {
 keep;
}


can anybody help me?
thanks, tobi
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SSD for ZIL suggestions?

2012-01-13 Thread Rob
I'm looking at getting a couple of SSDs to act as ZIL drives on FreeBSD 
8/9 systems.  Are there any recommended drives?


Rob
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Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock

On 01/14/12 13:37, Tobi wrote:

Hi,
I try to filter my maillist emails with slieve... but it dosen't work ;(

here are my config:

require fileinto;

if address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-b...@freebsd.org {
 fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-bugs;
}

elsif address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org {
 fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-questions;
}

else {
  keep;
}

You probably want to change the owner to just the list in question.
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Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-13 Thread Warren Block

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote:


On 01/14/12 13:37, Tobi wrote:

Hi,
I try to filter my maillist emails with slieve... but it dosen't work ;(

here are my config:

require fileinto;

if address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-b...@freebsd.org {
 fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-bugs;
}

elsif address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org {
 fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-questions;
}

else {
  keep;
}

You probably want to change the owner to just the list in question.


Or use the List-ID header.
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Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock

On 01/14/12 15:13, Warren Block wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote:


On 01/14/12 13:37, Tobi wrote:

Hi,
I try to filter my maillist emails with slieve... but it dosen't 
work ;(


here are my config:

require fileinto;

if address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-b...@freebsd.org {
 fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-bugs;
}

elsif address :is [from, to] 
owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org {

 fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-questions;
}

else {
  keep;
}

You probably want to change the owner to just the list in question.


Or use the List-ID header.

Ahh yes! That was the one I used to use... :)
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Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-13 Thread Tobi
Am 14.01.2012 06:19, schrieb Da Rock:
 On 01/14/12 15:13, Warren Block wrote:
 On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote:

 On 01/14/12 13:37, Tobi wrote:
 Hi,
 I try to filter my maillist emails with slieve... but it dosen't
 work ;(

 here are my config:

 require fileinto;

 if address :is [from, to] owner-freebsd-b...@freebsd.org {
  fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-bugs;
 }

 elsif address :is [from, to]
 owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org {
  fileinto INBOX/Mailinglisten/FreeBSD/freebsd-questions;
 }

 else {
   keep;
 }
 You probably want to change the owner to just the list in question.

 Or use the List-ID header.
 Ahh yes! That was the one I used to use... :)
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Thanks!!!
It works fine with this:

if header :contains [List-ID] freebsd-questions@freebsd.org {
fileinto INBOX.Mailinglisten.FreeBSD.freebsd-questions;
stop;
}

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Re: wireless and/or routing question UPDATE - WPA

2012-01-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Jan 13, 2012 7:19 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
 
  El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble
 escribió:
 
   Hi,
  
   Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll
   take your advice and take a step up in technology. My stubborn
   conservatism probably roots back to the time when not all devices
 could do
   WPA, or at least I had crazy trouble getting things to work. But this
   learned attitude was probably around 2000, which was like a million
 years
   ago with dinosaurs and stuff. Time for me to finally get with it.
  
   ...
 
  Concerning WEP ./. WPA: From the technical point it is clear, WPA is
  more secure; but there are other aspects as well; we have had in Germany
  cases where the WAN IP of the AP appeared as source addr of some kind of
  crime (access to child porn or whatever) and the AP owner said: I'm
  using WEP, it was not me, and someone highjacked my AP ... and he/she
  went home as free person;
 
 matthias
  --
  Matthias Apitz
  e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/
  UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370)
  UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5

 thanks, going to try WPA this weekend.

 My apartment is not so convenient for drive-by scanners (cant think of the
 proper term at the moment) but i do have at least one neighbor who appears
 potentially suspect.. like he might try to hack my ap for fun.

 Waitman



Hi,

Today I picked up a D-Link DIR-815 and set it up for WPA with TKIP/PSK.
I believe i followed the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook. However, the
wpa_supplicant appears to hang indefinitely. If i control-c it barfs out an
error.

This clones ale0 wired NIC MAC to ath0 wireless NIC for lagg

ifconfig ath0 ether 00:23:5a:59:e1:e4
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ssid BOOTAY
ifconfig wlan0 up scan




here's the wpa_supplicant that's hanging:

wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf




p00ntang# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Trying to associate with 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52 (SSID='BOOTAY' freq=2452 MHz)
Associated with 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52 [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52 completed (auth)
[id=0 id_str=]


^CCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
ioctl[SIOCS80211, op 20, len 7]: Can't assign requested address
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data=0x284081c0 user_data=0x28412080
handler=0x806d620


If I terminate with ampersand to run asynchronously it keeps running and i
have a wireless connection - it works.

p00ntang# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf 


I guess that makes sense but the handbook is not clear to me that it's to
be done this way. It's the first time i've set up WPA on FreeBSD so i'm not
100% about what to expect.

i am noticing messages about rekeying, so maybe the wpa-supplicant is
supposed to keep running.

here's /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

network={
ssid=BOOTAY
psk=PASSWORD GOES HERE
}


here's the rest of the lagg to set wired/wireless interface with a failover
configuration. this is pretty clear in the handbook but i'll put it here in
case someone runs across the thread in the future.

ifconfig ale0 up
ifconfig wlan0 up
ifconfig lagg0 create
ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto failover laggport ale0 laggport wlan0
10.0.0.20/24



Thanks
Waitman
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Re: wireless and/or routing question UPDATE - WPA

2012-01-13 Thread Da Rock

On 01/14/12 16:28, Waitman Gobble wrote:

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Waitman Gobblegobble...@gmail.com  wrote:


On Jan 13, 2012 7:19 AM, Matthias Apitzg...@unixarea.de  wrote:

El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble

escribió:

Hi,

Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll
take your advice and take a step up in technology. My stubborn
conservatism probably roots back to the time when not all devices

could do

WPA, or at least I had crazy trouble getting things to work. But this
learned attitude was probably around 2000, which was like a million

years

ago with dinosaurs and stuff. Time for me to finally get with it.

...

Concerning WEP ./. WPA: From the technical point it is clear, WPA is
more secure; but there are other aspects as well; we have had in Germany
cases where the WAN IP of the AP appeared as source addr of some kind of
crime (access to child porn or whatever) and the AP owner said: I'm
using WEP, it was not me, and someone highjacked my AP ... and he/she
went home as free person;

matthias
--
Matthias Apitz
eg...@unixarea.de  - w http://www.unixarea.de/
UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370)
UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5

thanks, going to try WPA this weekend.

My apartment is not so convenient for drive-by scanners (cant think of the
proper term at the moment) but i do have at least one neighbor who appears
potentially suspect.. like he might try to hack my ap for fun.

Waitman



Hi,

Today I picked up a D-Link DIR-815 and set it up for WPA with TKIP/PSK.
I believe i followed the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook. However, the
wpa_supplicant appears to hang indefinitely. If i control-c it barfs out an
error.

This clones ale0 wired NIC MAC to ath0 wireless NIC for lagg

ifconfig ath0 ether 00:23:5a:59:e1:e4
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ssid BOOTAY
ifconfig wlan0 up scan




here's the wpa_supplicant that's hanging:

wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf




p00ntang# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Trying to associate with 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52 (SSID='BOOTAY' freq=2452 MHz)
Associated with 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52 [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 1c:7e:e5:de:ed:52 completed (auth)
[id=0 id_str=]


^CCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
ioctl[SIOCS80211, op 20, len 7]: Can't assign requested address
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data=0x284081c0 user_data=0x28412080
handler=0x806d620


If I terminate with ampersand to run asynchronously it keeps running and i
have a wireless connection - it works.

p00ntang# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf


I guess that makes sense but the handbook is not clear to me that it's to
be done this way. It's the first time i've set up WPA on FreeBSD so i'm not
100% about what to expect.

i am noticing messages about rekeying, so maybe the wpa-supplicant is
supposed to keep running.

here's /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

network={
 ssid=BOOTAY
 psk=PASSWORD GOES HERE
}


here's the rest of the lagg to set wired/wireless interface with a failover
configuration. this is pretty clear in the handbook but i'll put it here in
case someone runs across the thread in the future.

ifconfig ale0 up
ifconfig wlan0 up
ifconfig lagg0 create
ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto failover laggport ale0 laggport wlan0
10.0.0.20/24

Just stick the config in rc.conf and make sure you include WPA in the 
wlan0 definition. It will just work then.


For reference, to run wpa_supplicant from the cli you usually add -B 
in the flags to daemonise it, and run in the background; otherwise it 
will run in the foreground for debugging purposes.

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disk problem(s)

2012-01-13 Thread Bernt Hansson

Hello list!

 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Mar 21 06:15:01 UTC 2010 
r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


Whenever a program tries to make a directory on this slice it
gets this error

mkdir: spool/text/test: Too many links

This is the slice

/dev/ad4s4d202G 37G149G20%/news/spool/text

One can create a file without problems just not directories.

Checked sysctl but don't know what to look for. A boot in the right end 
would be helpful.

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Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
 From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Fri Jan 13 18:15:44 2012
 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:18 -0800
 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org
 To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Cc: 
 Subject: access(FULLPATH, xxx);


 excuse this slip of memory, but do you need the full path PLUS  the
 filename to use access? or just the filename?

 say that i'm i n ~/tmp/foob and want to deetermine  wheether i can
 access file foob.  do i need to use access(home/kline/tmp/foob, F_OK)
 or will access(foob, F_OK)  do the trick?  i have already rub 
 chdir(~/tmp) in main(). please note.

To repeat some advice from one of my Computer Science professors, many years
ago, whenever I asked 'how does it work' questions: Try it and find out.

That is -not- a flippant brush-off, but a rather profound truth. (Admittedly,
it did take me a while to understand that, but the professor *WAS* absolutely 
correct with that response.)

You see, the *ONLY* thing that matters is 'what the machine does'.  And,
a trivial test case will give an _authoritative_ answer.   Anything that
anybody says about 'how it works' is merely an *opinion*, and they could
be wrong.  The test case will, however, ALWAYS give you the 'hard truth'
about how it works in your environment.

If you have the skills to use an answer to the question you asked, you have
the skills to write the 'test case' program. 

And there is one other SIGNIFICANT benefit to doing so -- you will have an
*immediate* answer to your question, rather than having to wait for 'someone
else' to do the necesary research for you'.

'Try it and find out' -- you'll be amazed at how quickly it works.  grin


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