Dynamic symlink?
Are there any clever tricks you can do such that a filesystem access to /tmp is transparently redirected to /home/user/tmp ? (Reason: Web server cluster. Many scripts expect to be able to store session data in /tmp. Don't want to have a free-for-all NFS mount for /tmp) Something which looks like a symlink with a dynamic target depending on the uid of the person who reads it is the sort of thing I'm looking for. Thanks, Brian. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dynamic symlink?
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:39:58PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: Something which looks like a symlink with a dynamic target depending on the uid of the person who reads it is the sort of thing I'm looking for. You could probably use amd's hlfsd to do this That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you. , or make sure that $TMPDIR is set correctly before launching the script, and force everyone to use $TMPDIR instead of hardcoding /tmp in their scripts. Unfortunately, forcing people to be sensible in the design of their scripts is not an option. Also, I'm not sure that in PHP I can do session.save_path = $ENV['TMPDIR']; Cheers, Brian. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting mount_nfs options in /etc/fstab
I am reading large log files via NFS, and I find that if I mount them with mount_nfs -a 4 then performance is improved. My question is: is there any way to set the option '-a 4' in /etc/fstab? Or am I forced to mount the filesystems the manual way in /etc/rc.local? mount_nfs supports a number of options via -o, many of which it describes as historic and deprecated, but they don't include something to set readahead as far as I can see. Thanks, Brian. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting mount_nfs options in /etc/fstab
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:10:14AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
Here's an fstab entry of mine for an nfs mount.
fs:/data /data nfs -3,-R=3,-b,-i,-s,-r=32768,-w=32768,rw
0 0
Your options and milage may vary...
That works for me, thank you. Perhaps the fstab(5) page could be clearer
then. It says:
The fourth field, (fs_mntops), describes the mount options associated
with the file system. It is formatted as a comma separated list of
options. It contains at least the type of mount (see fs_type below) plus
any additional options appropriate to the file system type. See the
options flag (-o) in the mount(8) page and the file system specific page,
such as mount_nfs(8), for additional options that may be specified.
and also later:
struct fstab {
char*fs_spec; /* block special device name */
char*fs_file; /* file system path prefix */
char*fs_vfstype;/* File system type, ufs, nfs */
char*fs_mntops; /* Mount options ala -o */
char*fs_type; /* FSTAB_* from fs_mntops */
int fs_freq;/* dump frequency, in days */
int fs_passno; /* pass number on parallel fsck */
};
When I read this, the implication to me was that only options which you
could pass using -o to mount or mount_nfs were permitted.
Cheers,
Brian.
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Re: mysql user did not authenticate by courier-imap
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 14:12, Muhammad Kashif Yaqoob wrote: I am working on postfix Mailserver at freebsd.and install the courier Imap (courier-imap-4.0.2,1) and courier-authlib-0.55 in the system.and also Configuration the setting of courier-imap with mysql.When i authenticate the mysql pop user with courier-imap. I saw your question the first time. I answered it. Simply reposting your query (three times in succession) does *not* make me inclined to help you any more. However, I will repeat again what you need to know: 1. Make sure you are running courier-imap-4.x with courier-authlib-0.5x. If you are not, then upgrade. If you built from ports, then upgrade your ports collection first if you need to. Follow the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook to do that. 2. Next, follow the instructions for debugging courier authentication here: http://www.courier-mta.org/authlib/README.authdebug.html Make sure you implement the part which tells you to make sure you are logging syslog messages at 'debug' level. Under FreeBSD these messages usually end up in /var/log/debug.log 3. You will get detailled information in those logs showing exactly how the mysql connection is made, the query sent, and the response returned. 4. When you have all of that, post here again. Until then, please ask someone else for help (or pay a consultant to help you) Brian. P.S. There is also good advice at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html If the answer you got before was in any way incomplete or not understandable, then say what you tried, what was missing, or what you didn't understand. If you just blindly repost, you can expect a blunt rebuttal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql user did not authenticate by courier-imap
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 14:12, Muhammad Kashif Yaqoob wrote: I am working on postfix Mailserver at freebsd.and install the courier Imap (courier-imap-4.0.2,1) and courier-authlib-0.55 in the system. ... authdaemonrc = authmodulelist=authmysql daemons=5 version= courier-authlib has a DEBUG_LOGIN setting in that file - but you haven't shown it. This implies you're looking in an old authdaemonrc. Try completely uninstalling courier-authlib/courier-imap, deleting any old config files which are lying around, and then reinstalling. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: courier-imap authenticate mysqk user
On Friday 24 June 2005 14:42, Muhammad Kashif Yaqoob wrote: I am working on postfix Mailserver at freebsd.and install the courier Imap and courier-authlib-mysql .and also Configuration the setting of courier-imap with mysql.When i authenticate the mysql pop user with courier-imap.Following error message occour. Part of my maillog: Jun 24 22:44:44 post-4 authdaemond.mysql: modules=authmysql, daemons=5 Jun 24 22:48:20 post-4 authdaemond.mysql: modules=authmysql, daemons=5 Jun 24 22:48:43 post-4 pop3d: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::1] Jun 24 22:58:21 post-4 pop3d: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::1] You don't say what version of courier-imap you are using, but from those log messages I think it is 3.x or older. You should install 4.x with courier-authlib; it gives much better debugging. Full details of how to debug authentication problems with courier-authilb are in http://www.courier-mta.org/authlib/README.authdebug.html Turning on debugging will show you exactly what SQL queries are being sent to the database, for example. Brian. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [exim] TCP Header Rewrite
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:39:00PM +0200, John Oxley wrote: local ^ I I client -- smarthost -- router -- shaper -- international The smarthost is a FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE system running exim 4.50 built from the exim-mysql port. The router is transparent. This setup works well as is, but the problem is that the shaper thinks that the traffic has come from the smarthost itself, and not the client, and thus the client isn't being bandwidth limited for international mail. Yep. That's the thing about having a smarthost; your mail is aggregated with everyone else's. The first solution I can see, which does not scale, is to give everyone their own smarthost (or virtual smarthost), with its own IP address. You can do this with exim: 1. The trivial way is to set up N exim daemons, all bound to N different interfaces, and with slightly different configs (ACLs which permit only client X to relay through virtual smarthost X) 2. Being a bit cleverer, you can have a single exim configuration which listens on multiple IP addresses (which will happen anyway if your box has multiple interfaces), and then chooses which interface to bind to for outgoing connections based on which IP address the message arrived on. It sounds like (2) is closest to what you propose. You might even get away with something as simple as this: [under 'begin transports'] remote_smtp: driver = smtp interface = $interface_address Now, if you set up an Exim box with (say) 10 different IP aliases, try connecting to each in turn and relaying a message through it. If my guess is right, the relayed message will originate from the same interface as it came in on. If so, all you need to do is to modify your ACL so that each client can only relay via their own virtual smarthost, e.g. by making relay_from_hosts a lookup based on $interface_address (if each client comes from a different IP range). Alternatively, you could make them all use SMTP AUTH, and then lookup their authenticated identity to find the interface address for outgoing SMTP connections. Things may break down if Exim has multiple messages queued to the same remote host, and you don't want messages sent by one client to be relayed down a TCP/IP connection belonging to another client (at their expense). So you may need to set connection_max_messages = 1 to prevent that. Now, you're still stuck with needing N IP addresses for N customers. In theory you might be able to improve on that by using different ranges of source ports for different customers; e.g. customer 1's mail can originate from ports 1024-1039; customer 2's mail can originate from posts 1040-1055; customer 3 is ports 1056-1081; and so on. That would be really messy to implement, since Exim (sensibly) doesn't allow you to choose which port to bind to for an outgoing connection, and it still doesn't scale (allowing 16 ports per customer you'd be limited to about 4000 customers) The fundamental problem is how your shaper can associate a particular traffic stream with a particular customer. If the shaper had the ability to act as a SOCKS proxy, then perhaps Exim could use it to open outbound connections, and the shaper could use the proxy authenticated ID to associate the stream with the customer. I don't know of any such shaper, but maybe they do exist. You'd still need to modify Exim to be able to use a SOCKS proxy for outbound SMTP connections (which is perhaps a useful feature to have in the SMTP driver, although not that useful if nobody has asked for it before :-) HTH, Brian. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia chipset - ethernet support?
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:53:38AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Incidentally, my machine has two VGA ports. If anyone knows how to get both of those working together with XFree86, that would be appreciated too! You need the proprietary nvidia driver (from ports/x11/nvidia-driver). See the docs in the working directory of the port for more info, if you need a sample dual-layout I can send you mine. I've got that going too now, thanks; once using TwinView, and again using two X screens (in the latter case, KDE displays a separate toolbar on the bottom of each one, which is cool). Actually what I really wanted was to bind a second keyboard and mouse (USB) to the second screen, so I'd have two completely independent X sessions, with separate xdm logins. But I don't think I'll be able to get that to work without having a separate card and a separate X server process; X doesn't seem to allow multiple 'ServerLayout' sections to be active concurrently. But my machine does have one spare AGP slot as well as one PCI slot, so I might go down that route. Best wishes, Brian. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia chipset - ethernet support?
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:16:53PM -0800, peter lageotakes wrote: I dont have experience working with this particular driver. However, I did some searching on: www.freebsd.org/ports and I did locate the source code. It can be downloaded off of freebsd.org: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=nvnetstype=all I noticed that there are different version numbers on the .tgz files, which appears to be a later release.. However the site that you have listed www.onthenet.com.au) is listed as a location for the source. PS: have you tried doing a locate on nvnet? Yep: also # echo /usr/ports/net/*nv* /usr/ports/net/konverse /usr/ports/net/openverse /usr/ports/net/openvmps # tar -tzf /cdrom/ports/ports.tgz | grep nvnet # So for some reason it's not in the ports tree for 5.2.1 Regards, Brian. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia chipset - ethernet support?
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:53:38AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: I tried the nvnet driver from the ports some days ago with a nforce2 and it worked flawlessly. Many thanks, I have it working now. Summary for anyone else who needs to do this: - fetch nvnet.tar.gz from http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/net/nvnet/nvnet.tar.gz?tarball=1 - unpack nvnet.tar.gz under /usr/ports/net - since the network interface is not working at this moment, I had to fetch the other files into /usr/ports/distfiles/ manually: http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/nvnet-src-20040108.tar.gz ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz [this is a Microsoft FTP server, remember to set binary mode!] - cd /usr/ports/net/nvnet - in Makefile, change NVNETVERSION= 20040108 but leave NVVERSION=0261 (version 0269 is for AMD64 processors I am told) - append to 'distinfo' MD5 (nvnet-src-20040108.tar.gz) = 96730b413cb1f949f6cdadb6797740c2 SIZE (nvnet-src-20040108.tar.gz) = 17547 - make install - append to /boot/loader.conf if_nv_load=YES Regards, Brian. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nVidia chipset - ethernet support?
I have installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 on my brand new Soltek EQ3702A machine, which has an nVidia chipset. I have got most of the on-board hardware to work: kldload snd_ich -- pcm kldload firewire \ to mount my ipod kldload sbp / but I don't seem to be able to get ethernet to work. A google shows that this is a long-standing issue: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-August/016739.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/001016.html but I don't see anything else posted since August last year. I did come across this driver against FreeBSD-5.1: http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/ [1] Anyone have any experience with it? It claims to be in the official ports tree under net/nvnet, but I don't find it there (not in the 5.2.1-RELEASE ports tree anyway). Well actually, I did find something here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net/nvnet [2] Unfortunately the driver page [1] doesn't link to the Linux driver it requires, and the port at [2] links to a different version of nvnet than the one at [1]. If anyone has this working with FreeBSD-5.2.1 (and either an up-to-date port, or a pointer to the correct Linux module required), that would save me some random hacking. Incidentally, my machine has two VGA ports. If anyone knows how to get both of those working together with XFree86, that would be appreciated too! Cheers, Brian. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB keyboard rollover problem [PATCHED]
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:56:02PM +, Brian Candler wrote: Here's what I get if I compile in and turn on USB keyboard debugging in the kernel, and type asd as a down, s down, a up, d down: this generates asds on screen. I have just spent a couple of hours debugging and documenting the problem and submitted a kernel patch: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/63171 But dammit, I've just discovered that the fix was posted already on 27th September last year: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/57273 To prevent further time wasting, can someone please commit one of these? (Both fix the rollover problem, but kern/63171 also fixes a pointer type mismatch problem) Thanks, Brian Candler. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB keyboard rollover problem
Since my old Vaio laptop has a broken key, I decided to get a USB keyboard for it. I have been using a USB mouse successfully for a while. However I have a problem with keyboard rollover, meaning I get duplicate characters when typing quickly. Example: Depress a -- a Depress b -- b Release a Depress c -- cb So typing questions quickly tends to say questioins. I am having to type this very gingerly and still doing lots of backspaces! My question is: is this something I can tweak in FreeBSD? (I can't see anything under kbdcontrol). Is it a bug in FreeBSD? Or have I just bought a useless keyboard? System information: - Sony Vaio PCG-C1F - FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE - Packard Bell PB-KB400 USB Night glow keyboard (I didn't want the glow but it was the only small USB keyboard in stock locally :-) Feb 20 13:38:14 vaio /kernel: ukbd0: USB Multimedia Keyboard , rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 Feb 20 13:38:14 vaio /kernel: kbd1 at ukbd0 Feb 20 13:38:14 vaio /kernel: uhid0: USB Multimedia Keyboard , rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 - After inserting the keyboard, I enable it using #!/bin/sh kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 /dev/console kbdcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/uk.cp850.kbd (it would be nice if both keyboards would work together, as my external mouse and internal pointing device do, but I can live with that) Any helpl much apprerciataed, plelase copy me direcetlyl on any repely! Regarads, Brian Candlere. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB keyboard rollover problem
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:59:03PM +, Brian Candler wrote: However I have a problem with keyboard rollover, meaning I get duplicate characters when typing quickly. Example: Additional information: if I reboot my laptop into Windows 98 (forgot I had that partition!), the keyboard works properly with no rollover problem. So it looks suspiciously like FreeBSD is not initialising it properly or communicating correctly. W98 installed three default drivers (I think USB.INF, USBHID.INF and something else) when I first inserted it. There was no special driver disk which came with the keyboard. So I think it must be doing the default thing for a USB keyboard. Regards, Brian. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB keyboard rollover problem
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:49:43PM +, Brian Candler wrote: Additional information: if I reboot my laptop into Windows 98 (forgot I had that partition!), the keyboard works properly with no rollover problem. So it looks suspiciously like FreeBSD is not initialising it properly or communicating correctly. Here's what I get if I compile in and turn on USB keyboard debugging in the kernel, and type asd as a down, s down, a up, d down: this generates asds on screen. Feb 20 15:21:21 vaio /kernel: 0x428 (1064) released Feb 20 15:21:21 vaio /kernel: Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 0x4 (4) pressed a Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 4 Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 0x16 (22) presseds Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 4 22 Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 0x404 (1028) released Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 0x416 (1046) released Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 22 Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 0x7 (7) pressed d Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 0x16 (22) presseds Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 7 22 Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 0x416 (1046) released Feb 20 15:21:26 vaio /kernel: 7 Feb 20 15:21:27 vaio /kernel: 0x407 (1031) released Feb 20 15:21:27 vaio /kernel: I replaced ukbd.c with the latest (1.46) from cvsweb and rebuilt; no difference. I also set the debug level to 10 instead of 1, and all I got were a stream of extra messages of the form Feb 20 15:48:13 vaio /kernel: ukbd_intr: status=0 There doesn't seem to be a USB mailing list, so if nobody has any better suggestions I suppose I'd better file a bug report... Cheers, Brian. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
