Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??
I have a slight problem with my shiny new copy of FreeBSDI can't seem to get connected to my ISPI have read everything I could fid in the FAQs and manual but haven't managed to find a solution to my dilema When I went to install everything worked just fine...I even installed over FTP...I chose my NIC and did automatic DHCP configuration. It worked like a charm... however my extacsy was to be shortlived.. when booting there is a long pause when the dhclient startsmy guess is it is querying the server for the dhcp info. however once it comes back up it shows me as having BROADCAST of 255.255.255.255 and nothing I have done has enabled me to fix it. I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 but have also tried this on 4.10 both with no avail. I don't know what to do. I am somewhat new to freebsd (I can manage to get myself aroundcvsup, ports, kernel and the likejust don't expect me to code...yet ;) )and what I don't how to do I can generally look around till I find something that shows me how to accomplish it but I am at a loss here. Thanks for any help in advance __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??
--- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the last entry in /var/db/dhclient.leases ? > If there's something, does that make sense ? > > Anything dhclient related in /var/log/messages ? > > And how about running dhclient manually in the > foreground ? > As root, kill the running dhclient pid first, and > then start: > > # dhclient -d rl0 > > where you should replace "rl0" by your own network > card. > Does that tell you something useful? > > Rob. There was nothing in the /var/db/dhclient.leases and the only relevant thing I found in the /var/log/messages was this May 31 05:02:10 kernel: skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xe580-0xe5803fff irq 18 at device 9.0 on pci0 May 31 05:02:10 kernel: skc0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) May 31 05:02:10 kernel: sk0: on skc0 May 31 05:02:10 kernel: sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:a6:46:f4:d9 May 31 05:02:10 kernel: e1000phy0: on miibus0 May 31 05:02:10 kernel: e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto and May 31 05:02:34 dhclient: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use May 31 05:02:34 dhclient: Please make sure there is no other dhcp server May 31 05:02:34 dhclient: running and that there's no entry for dhcp or May 31 05:02:34 dhclient: bootp in /etc/inetd.conf. Also make sure you May 31 05:02:34 dhclient: are not running HP JetAdmin software, which May 31 05:02:34 dhclient: includes a bootp server. so it looks like the kernel is definitely identifying my NIC correctly (I guessed this seeing how I was able to install over FTP) but for whatever reason the dchlient is no longer working I killed the dhclient pid and reran it...both as just "dhclient" and "dhclinet -d sk0" both times the computer would just sit there with nothing happening...no messages no nothing (I let them sit there for 10-15 minutes before I killed it) Don __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aloha > This sounds a whole lot like my DHCP problem. It was > being > discussed on this list earlier last week. I have > attached my thread for your perusal. > > I have the same ethernet card as you. There is a > workaround in the attachment that I am using (I also > created a script to do it) but if someone comes up > with a real fix it would be muck better. > > Read through my attachment and see if you think we > have the same problem. > > Robert > Thanks for the helpI killed any open dhclients and then did the netstartit still wasn't working until I took a peek at my rc.conf and deleted the hostname line and made sure ifconfig_sk0="DHCP" and the appends were deleted...I then rebooted and viola!!! it works HOWEVER lol I now can't seem to get into XIt worked before I got my NIC working correctly and now when I startx it gets to the dark grey sceen where the pointer looks like an "X" and sits there. I'll play around with it some when I get back from my folks house but did you have that problem after you got your NIC working? Thanks again for ppinting me to your earlier conversation. It was a tremendous help Don __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??
Yes...what I did was completely delete the hostname line from my /etc/rc.conf and had my inconfig_sk0="DHCP" though this does seem somewhat problematic...every now and then I will boot up and it won't work...then I just reboot and all of a sudden it works *shrug* I fogured out what was wrong with starting X and you will probably have the same problem when you delete your hostname line from your rc.conf I googled it and found that a way to fix this problem isto simply delete the old .Xauthority fileI did that and now have my network and X back = D there may be (and probably is) a better way to accomplish this but this was just one way I found to get it to work...if someone has a better suggestion on how to do this I would be more than happy to hear about it = ) Thanks for all your help and good luck with getting your network to work at boot = ) Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aloha Don > I am very happy I was able to help. > > One question for you before I answer yours. I still > have to kill dhclient and netstart after a reboot. > > Did you imply that after wiping out the hostname in > rc.conf you can reboot and your dhcp is up? > > Now for your question. I have not had any problems > starting x before or after. I was always redoing the > > /stand/sysinstall to get the dhcp up and then startx > > so that I had a network. Have you checked your > /etc/hosts for the correct hostname? When I did not > have that set properly, I had x complaining, but not > just > a grey screen. > > Good Luck > Robert > > __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
kernel MAKE failed
can anyone give me some pointers on a failed kernel config I used the following method on 4.6.0 Run config to generate the kernel source code. # /usr/sbin/config WEBKERNEL Change into the build directory. # cd ../../compile/WEBKERNEL Compile the kernel. # make depend # make resulted in --snipped the last few lines on screen umass.o(.text+0x14e7): undefined reference to `xpt_free_path' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_action': umass.o(.text+0x1805): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o(.text+0x1815): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_cb': umass.o(.text+0x1911): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_sense_cb': umass.o(.text+0x1988): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o(.text+0x1999): undefined reference to `xpt_done' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/WEBKERNEL any ideas WEIRD, i just did the same on an entirely diff box, resulting in the same error, only diff in 2 systems is processors, 1 is single processor 1ghz, the other is dual 500mhz, otherwise they are basically the same. Don Weber To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
RE: kernel MAKE faile
GREAT, thanks for the numerous replies, fast too, my bad, i had failed to commend out the umass thingy under the usb support, commented that out and the make and make install went flawlessly. i think i'll wait til morrow to do the rest tho, its end of day, and i dont care for the reboot not to work and be stuck here for too much longer, altho on the first system, it is at home, i will be completing that one this evening. thanks again for the speedy replies Don Weber To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
a diff kernel MAKE failed
make install has now failed, claiming permission denied, i found the solution to that to be setting the kern_secure_level=n being currently higher than 1 i reset the kerne secure level to ="0" in the rc.conf file, and upon reboot, noticed that the very last line upon reboot, it had a line that told me kern_secure_level 0 reset to kern_secure_level='1' and as a result the make install still would not work, what in the world reset the kern level to 1 again when it is in the .conf file as 0? Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
install.cfg disklabel failure when PXE booting
I am attempting to set up network installs of FreeBSD 5.2.1 for a project I am working on. I can boot kern.flp and mfsroot.flp over the network with no problems and do a manual install. I can configure install.cfg to automatically set the distribution, network card, install method and so on. What I can not get working right is automatic disk partitioning. No matter what I have set up, the installer just will not set up partitions for me. install.cfg looks like: # Now set the parameters for the partition editor on ad0 disk=ad0 partition=all bootManager=standard diskPartitionEditor #diskPartitionWrite # All sizes are expressed in 512 byte blocks! ad0s1-1=ufs 199 / ad0s1-2=swap 6485760 none ad0s1-3=ufs 2097152 /var ad0s1-4=ufs 0 /usr # Let's do it! diskLabelEditor #diskLabelCommit Can anyone tell me where I am screwing up? I have tried several variations on the above config file all without success. There is also the somewhat related problem of sysinstall refusing to accept the BIOS definition of the drive geometry but I believe I was able to get beyond that problem. Thanks in advance, -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Custom kernel for PXE / cdrom installation
Related to a problem I had earlier: I am trying to set up a network installation of FreeBSD. I have a couple of other problems with this process but one of the most stubborn is getting a custom kernel to boot. If I take kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz from the boot floppies and put those in the NFS share for the PXE boot then the isntallation proceeds correctly through the normal boot floppy sequence. I want to avoid being prompted for a driver disk and things like that so I want to be able to boot my own kernel. I have taken a kernel from an identical system, copied it to the NFS share, and then copied my modules to the mfsroot image. Even though I do not use the modules I figured I would stick them in the mfsroot just to be sure. When I attempt to boot the new kernel I get errors about being unable to load each module, and the kernel ends up hanging. I have tried using my own kernel with the stock modules directory and I have made sure to compile in everything I can think of in the kernel. Can anyone shed some light on the kernel options required for a PXE boot image or why I am getting module loading errors? Thanks in advance, -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem
Ok last problem I am having: When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an error about my disk geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the geometry that FreeBSD wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I still get the error. Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted correctly. The only problems I am having are disk related. Can anyone shed any light on this subject? Thanks, -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
sysinstall "Unable to find device node..."
Using an install.cfg with sysinstall off the boot floppies I am getting the following error: "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!" "The creation of filesystems will be aborted" This only happens if I specify the file systems and sizes I want in install.cfg and tell it to do an installCommit or a diskLabelCommit. If I go into the disklabel editor after the install fails, I see the root partition and the swap partition but not my /usr or /var partitions. The debug screen says: "Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions" "Found swapdev at ad0s1b!" It would appear that the swap device is there, and being found, but for some reason sysinstall is erroring out and I do not know why. This is only a problem when running it from install.cfg -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
5.2.1-R sysinstall NFS install failure
Ok this is the last question I promise... I am attempting to install FreeBSD via NFS. I keep getting an error from sysinstall saying: "Error mounting 10.3.1.20:/usr/FreeBSD/5.2.1-RELEASE on /dist: No such file or directory" I can mount 10.3.1.20:/usr/FreeBSD/5.2.1-RELEASE on other systems within the network. The pxeboot loader is also pulling /kernel from an NFS mount on this server. Does anyone know why this might not be working? -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: compiling kernel :(
> whenever i try to run it i get an error and a question wheter i have added > USER_LDT option to my kernel > which brings me to my current problem > whenever i attempt to compile my kernel i get this after a while : The answer to your question is in the file you sent: > umass.o:/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/umass.c:2683: more undefined references to > `xpt_done' follow > deviceumass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da You have defined umass but the driver specifically says it requires scbus and da which you have not defined. The same is true of your network cards. You have defined ethernet cards whcih require the miibus and yet you have not defined the miibus device in your config file. The answers are there but you need to sit down and actually read the kernel config file. If you randomly delete or include options without reading them then the kernel is not going to compile. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bootup stalls on "Initial i386 initialization"
> I have a server that stalls during bootup for about 5 minutes. It shows > > Starting sshd > > and then stalls, If I press Ctrl C to cancel whatever it is that is stalling, > it shows Stalls during boot are often the result of DNS timeouts. Do you have a DNS server defined in /etc/resolve.conf and if so is it accessible? -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: kernel configuration
> o According to LINT the CONF_FLAGS "inhibit use of non-optimal function" > does this mean that my kernel will be "optimized"? If you don't know what a kernel variable or flag does, then don't use it. FreeBSD performs really well without configuring every last option. > o I increased the process limits to MAXDSIZ="(1024 * 1024 * 1024)" and > DFLDSIZ="(1024 * 1024 * 1024)". For an old PC like mine, is this a good > idea? I mostly use my computer for programming. However, I'd also like > it to be quite responsive at times. Any ideas? > > o PQ_CACHESIZE, what is it? what difference does it make if i set it to 512 and not > 256? Don't bother setting either of these options. The defaults that the kernel uses are based on your available memory and are good starting points. > o The options like: CPU_BLUE_LIGHTNING, CPU_ENABLE_SSE, > CPU_FASTER_5x86_FPU, CPU_SUSP_HLT, NO_FOOF_HACK. Are they all > applicable to my CPU? No. > > o USER_LDT, what is this? is it good or bad? This allows user level control of the LDT (Local descriptor table or some such). This is needed by some programs. > o options like: KTRACE, INVARIANTS, INVARIANT_SUPPORT, DIAGNOSTIC are > for kernel debugging, am I right? I also read in LINT that it will make > my kernel size larger. Does large kernels means worse performance? Do I > really need to debug my kernel? It will make a slightly larger kernel and it will be slightly slower. Disable these options unless you intend on doing debugging. > o PERFMON, do I need it? does it improve performance? Up to you. Not directly. > o UCONSOLE, USERCONFIG & VISUAL_USERCONFIG, do i need them? I'll be > running X, and according to handbook, UCONSOLE is good for something. > What about the rest? Why do they have comments like "XXX - don't belong > here" in LINT. Are they not suppose to be used? UCONSOLE allows the user to grab the console. The other two options are unnecessary. Most of these options are described on the web or in the FreeBSD handbook. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem
> the very same happened to me with a maxtor hard drive > and it happened to be a bad cable > > check jumper settings, cables, controlers etc It wasn't a jumper problem as it happened with a number of hard disks. I simply commented out the code in sysinstall that generated the error and supplied the geometry through the geometry directive in install.cfg. I was also calling diskPartitionEditor and diskPartitionWrite. If I just called diskPartitionEditor and left the rest for install commit most of the other problems I was having went away. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 5.2.1-R sysinstall NFS install failure
> "Error mounting 10.3.1.20:/usr/FreeBSD/5.2.1-RELEASE on /dist: No such > file or directory" > > I can mount 10.3.1.20:/usr/FreeBSD/5.2.1-RELEASE on other systems within > the network. The pxeboot loader is also pulling /kernel from an NFS mount > on this server. As usual this was my own stupidity. NFS is a kernel module on the boot floppies and the module is on the drivers floppy and not the mfsroot floppy. rsync'd the NFS modules over and the NFS install worked flawlessly. I think the above error is just _slightly_ misleading for a missing kernel module but perhaps that is just me :) -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem
> > When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an > > error about my disk > > geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the > > geometry that FreeBSD > > wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I > > still get the error. > > Even when you use the exact values your BIOS thinks it is? I am pretty sure it was still happening even then. Unfortunately, I had several other minor problems and it was easy enough to hack sysinstall so I did not bother to really check. If I have some time I will go back and look into it again. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mail command
> Just lately ive noticed my mail command via putty no longer works an ls shows > tape# ls -l /usr/bin/mail > -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 0 Mar 20 15:34 /usr/bin/mail > Which to me looks ok ive no idea how to fix the file as im quite new to > freebsd A zero size mail command looks ok to you? -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mail command
> > Just lately ive noticed my mail command via putty no longer works an ls shows > > tape# ls -l /usr/bin/mail > > -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 0 Mar 20 15:34 /usr/bin/mail > > Which to me looks ok ive no idea how to fix the file as im quite new to > > freebsd > A zero size mail command looks ok to you? I suppose it would help if I mentioned how to fix it. If you want to fix this, you will want to either copy the command from an identical working system, or go into /usr/src/usr.bin/mail and type "make && make install" -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: help with /cdrom
> When i go in the xterm shell i type in /cdrom so it mounts the freebsd > disk so i can continue on installing my ports, but instead it says > permission denied. Typing /cdrom will not mount the cdrom, nor should it. You may want to try: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /cdrom -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: File system error
> # df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 288M72M 193M27%/ > /dev/da0s1f15G13G 535M96%/usr > /dev/da0s1e 288M97M 168M37%/var > procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc > # du -h /usr > ... > 6.4G/usr > I have deleted some files but it does not restore the used disk. > Does anybody have an idea? Type "sync" -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
PXE Boot kernel problems
A heads up in case this happens to anyone else: Several custom kernels that I compiled to use with PXE network installs kept causing kernel panics. Removing "options SOFTUPDATES" from the kernel config allowed the kernel to boot correctly without any problems. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
sysinstall install.cfg disk unmount failure
I've scripted sysinstall to do a complete system installation, compiled a custom PXE kernel and mfsroot image, and gotten almost all of my disk issues straightened out. My last issue is this: After the system installation completes and the system reboots, I get errors about the file systems not being unmounted cleanly. If I remove "shutdown" from the end of my install.cfg script and replace it with "command=/sbin/reboot \ system" then I get an error in sysinstall about system command failing but the system reboots and the file systems are clean. Does anyone have any ideas where I might be screwing up this time? -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with mod_php4-4.3.5_7,1 (Signal 11)
> I'm hoping someone can help me, I've just upgraded a server to > mod_php4-4.3.5_7,1, running with abcache-0.14 and over > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.29+2.8.16_1. > > The problem is that it crashes with signal 11, I found this on the server's > dmesg output: > pid 1263 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 > pid 17611 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 > > On the error log I found this: > [Thu Apr 1 16:52:35 2004] [notice] child pid 17611 exit signal Segmentation > fault (11) > > This is after running for 24 hours. Has anybody else experienced something > similar? I had the same problem. The current version of PHP in the ports tree was crashing the current version of Apache with a sig 11. The slightly older packages were not affected and the problem seemed to exist whether I used Apache-13+mod_ssl or just plain Apache. I ended up using the packages because the problem wasn't critical. What needs to be done is to look at the core dump and figure out what is going on. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 5.2 Help
> Gee, I have made a lot of bootable floppies - we used to distribute > our system on floppy+DAT tape - and had to format all of the floppies > in order to write boot images to them. Sometimes we even had to reformat > floppies that were preformatted from the vendor. If you choose to waste your time formatting the disks that is your perogative :) > And double Gee, I just read through the piece on preparing the media > from the handbook section you just posted and golly if it doesn't say > to format the floppies yourself. So, what sup with your post? > > 2. Prepare the Floppy Disks > >You must prepare one floppy disk per image file you had to download. It is >imperative that these disks are free from defects. The easiest way to test >this is to format the disks for yourself. Do not trust pre-formatted >floppies. The format utility in Windows will not tell about the presence >of bad blocks, it simply marks them as ``bad'' and ignores them. It is >advised that you use brand new floppies if choosing this installation route. > ...etc... > Gee golly whiz Wally! If you had bothered to read the section you quoted you would see that the _ONLY_ reason you are told to format the floppy is to test it to make sure it is free of defects. rawrite dumps a raw disk image to the floppy and could care less what format is on the disk when you run it. The original poster seemed to be under the impression that you formatted the disk and them copied kern.flp onto the disk. This is obviously a mistake. Moreover, a floppy disk has a _raw_ capacity of 1.44 MB. Even if you don't copy the system files to the floppy disk you will lose space on the disk simply by formatting it because the file system itself uses up disk space. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: signal 6 meaning?
> What's signal 6? SIGABRT > Where can i rtfm on signals? man signal -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Freebsd as a web server
> install freebsd > install the ports > install the webserver from the ports You may find it easier to simply install the Apache package (by selecting Configure -> Packages during the isntall). Although the ports tree is more flexible and current, sometimes the overhead of compiling a package from source code is not worth the trouble. This depends entirely on what you want to use it for. Even if you decide to use packages for now, you must learn to use the ports tree eventually. Some somftware is only available through ports and custom configurations are only available by using the ports tree. > install the ftp server from the ports FreeBSD ships with an FTP server in the base system. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 5.2 to 5.greater
> using cvsup you can download the latest cvs branches from freebsd > and then update it from time to time or when security demands it ( a > must do ! :-) ) > > you can find it in /usr/ports/net/csvsup(-without-gui) If there is one program I would recommend you _NOT_ install from the ports tree then cvsup(without-gui) is it. Install the cvsup package (binary) and update your system. If you install it from the ports tree then you will spend quite some time installing dependencies. When you get done you will end up having installed cvsup as well as modula-3 and a ton of other packages you probably do not want. -Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
DHClient with Multiple ip's
I am attempting to have dhclient grab two ip's from comcast. I already have them allowing me two ip's for my account and dhclient is working so far grabbing the one ip. I know I have to set up the dhclient.conf with the pseudo section, but I am lost as what to do with the dhclient-script. It has to be different as to not drop the main interface ip configuration, but everything I do seems to just assign the same ip to the iface twice. Does it have to alias the second ip? Are there any suggestions you can give me? FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p13 #22 isc-dhcp3-3.0.1.r11 Thank you for any help you can give, Don --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
User IDs
Hi All, Looking for advice. I have had between 3 - 9 boxes on a small home business network. This network has been in place for 12+ years. On occasions there's a Linux box however I am trying to use PC-BSD instead. The non-FreeBSD boxes are used for office and general work the FreeBSD boxes are for development. The question is about dealing with adding users. I been using NIS for a while now it works ok however I've had to keep good notes on how to do thing mainly because I don't add user or boxes very often. I'm a software engineer not a system admin so I not clean on what the best way to deal with things like this. The problem is when I added a PC-BSD box and added a user with the GUI admin stuff provided it did not let me specify the user id so now the users file that are on the nfs mounted drives user id's don't match. I can login as root and use chpass and change the user ids but then I must go through add they files on the new box change uids and gids. Question is there an easier way?? Thx in advance... 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"
Re: User IDs
>On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:49:48 -0800, Don Dugger wrote: >> The question is about dealing with adding users. I been using NIS for a >> while now it works ok however I've had to keep good notes on how to do >> thing mainly because I don't add user or boxes very often. I'm a software >> engineer not a system admin so I not clean on what the best way to deal >> with things like this. The problem is when I added a PC-BSD box and added a >> user with the GUI admin stuff provided it did not let me specify the user >> id so now the users file that are on the nfs mounted drives user id's don't> >> match. I can login as root and use chpass and change the user ids but then >> I must go through add they files on the new box change uids and gids. >> >> Question is there an easier way?? >If the GUI tool of PC-BSD doesn't cover the specific need you >have, use the CLI equivalent. If you need an interactive way >of adding users, use "adduser", and if you have some time, >read "man pw" and use "pw useradd" (and maybe "pw usermod") >which will cover nearly all imaginable cases. >The advantage of pw is that you can easily script and automate >things. If urgently needed, you could create a GUI wrapper >with Tcl/Tk, but you'll probably find that the CLI tool is >much easier to use. Ya I tried that the problem is adduser doesn't set the users home directory up for the for PC-BSD system. (KDE) 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"
zfs configuration
Hi All, So I use zfs for the root file system. Works well. However now I want to move /tmp to ram-disk (memory disk or what ever). When I try to unmount /tmp with the zfs command of course it won't because its busy. With ufs I would just edit fstab and reboot what do I don with zfs?? Thx in advance... Don 8( ___ 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"
Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions
Hi everyone. recently my server started having issues with DNS and FTP sessions either not resolving or timing out. I've tracked the issue down to IPFW. if I issue a 'sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0' then my issues go away. I have the basic rules like this for dns; 01160 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state 01161 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state 01162 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state 01163 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state When I try an nslookup sometimes they fail, sometimes they get through, even if I change my DNS server to google, my ISP, or even OpenDNS. the firewall seems to be causing the issue. I have about 65 rules in all. Any ideas what could be causing this? My server load is low, usually hovering around .2 How can I look at the actual amount of traffic that the IPFW module is processing and track down potential performance issues? My server isn't pushing much data, only around 4-5 Mbps sustained. Thanks! ___ 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"
Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions
Hi everyone. recently my server started having issues with DNS and FTP sessions either not resolving or timing out. I've tracked the issue down to IPFW. if I issue a 'sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0' then my issues go away. I have the basic rules like this for dns; 01160 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state 01161 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state 01162 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state 01163 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state When I try an nslookup sometimes they fail, sometimes they get through, even if I change my DNS server to google, my ISP, or even OpenDNS. the firewall seems to be causing the issue. I have about 65 rules in all. Any ideas what could be causing this? My server load is low, usually hovering around .2 How can I look at the actual amount of traffic that the IPFW module is processing and track down potential performance issues? My server isn't pushing much data, only around 4-5 Mbps sustained. Thanks! ___ 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: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions
Thanks for the response... here's my full rullset: # ipfw list 00100 check-state 00101 allow tcp from any to any established 00102 allow ip from any to any out keep-state 00103 allow icmp from any to any 00201 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00202 allow ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 00203 allow ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 00204 deny tcp from any to any frag 00301 deny log logamount 50 ip from any to any ipoptions rr 00302 deny log logamount 50 ip from any to any ipoptions ts 00303 deny log logamount 50 ip from any to any ipoptions lsrr 00304 deny log logamount 50 ip from any to any ipoptions ssrr 00305 deny log logamount 50 tcp from any to any tcpflags syn,fin 00306 deny log logamount 50 tcp from any to any tcpflags syn,rst 01110 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 20 in 0 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 20 out 01112 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 21 in 01113 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 21 out 01114 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 990 in 01115 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 990 out 01116 allow udp from any to any dst-port 990 in 01117 allow udp from any to any dst-port 990 out 01118 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 989 in 01119 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 989 out 01120 allow udp from any to any dst-port 989 in 01121 allow udp from any to any dst-port 989 out 01122 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 1024-65000 keep-state 01125 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 22 in 01126 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 22 out 01130 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 in 01131 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 out 01132 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 587 in 01133 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 587 out 01134 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 2525 in 01135 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 2525 out 01140 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 110 in 01141 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 110 out 01142 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 995 in 01143 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 995 out 01144 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 2110 in 01145 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 2110 out 01150 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 143 in 01151 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 143 out 01152 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 993 in 01153 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 993 out 01160 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state 01161 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state 01162 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state 01163 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state 01170 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 80 in 01171 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 80 out 01172 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 443 in 01172 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 443 out 01180 allow tcp from any to any dst-port in 01181 allow tcp from any to any dst-port out 65535 deny ip from any to any I've tried these rules; 01160 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 in 01161 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 in 01162 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 out 01163 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 out Without the keep-state option, and the problem is still persisting... The weird thing is that I've run these rules for a number of years without any issues until just recently. I've checked my interface stats to make sure there aren't a bunch of fragmented packets or errors, and there aren't. I'm not running NAT, it's a publically accessible IP address. -Original Message- From: Michael Sierchio [mailto:ku...@tenebras.com] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:58 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions It would be really helpful if you'd post the ruleset. At first glance, your stateful rules seem rather wrong, unless there's a check-state above. Also, in and out aren't discriminating enough - every packet is seen by the ruleset more than once. You should think in terms of interfaces, direction, etc. Are you doing NAT? Stateful rules with NAT are indeed possible, but subtle. Your problem has nothing to do with server load, and probably everything to do with not-terribly-well-conceived ruleset. Please post yours here. - M On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: > Hi everyone. recently my server started having issues with DNS and FTP > sessions either not resolving or timing out. I've tracked the issue > down to IPFW. if I issue a 'sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0' then my issues go away. > > > > I have the basic rules like this for dns; > > > > 01160 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state > > 01161 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 in keep-state > > 01162 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state > > 01163 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state > > > > When I try an nslookup sometimes they fail, sometimes they get > through, even if I change my DNS serv
RE: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions
Well I tried changing them to various numbers up to 180 from 1 and 5 respectively and that didn't help. Anyone else get around all this DNS mess with timeouts? It's causing my mail server to throw errors; host lookup did not complete and not deliver mail. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:04 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_short_lifetime ? net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_udp_lifetime ? You might want to increase these, given the current state of things... ___ 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: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions
My DNS config is pretty generic. I did try putting in the options to stop
recursive lookups, but all that did was cause even more failures (permission
denied lookups, etc...), so I removed that.
Here's my basic config;
options {
directory "/etc/namedb";
pid-file"/var/run/named/pid";
dump-file "/var/dump/named_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/stats/named.stats";
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};
I'm not sure the problem is specific to named, but something more systemic
with IPFW like I said, FTP sessions are timing out as well, and when I
turn off IPFW that fixes that problem too.
Is there any way to monitor what IPFW is dropping, by some sort of counters
rather than logging everything, and see what's going on internally to IPFW?
Thanks!
-Original Message-
From: Michael Sierchio [mailto:ku...@tenebras.com]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 7:23 AM
To: Don O'Neil
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions
Okay, what's your DNS setup? Are you running a recursive cache that
contacts the root servers directly? Using your ISP's servers? Etc.
As a mitigation step, I tried pointing my caches to 8.8.8.8 and
8.8.4.4. - but it turns out that Google is intentionally blocking
(returning NX responses to) many netblocks right now because they
contain hosts known to be part of the botnet in the DDOS DNS
amplification attack.
I'm mirroring the root zone everywhere I have a cache, and it's helping.
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Problem making software distros
I've got an older FreeBSD 6.1 install that will no longer allow me to build any software distributions. Any time I try to do a 'configure', the configure seems to run fine, then I get a "config.status: error: cannot find input file:". This has happened on several packages from several different sources. Any ideas as to what could be causing this? Is one of my binaries make corrupted possibly? Thanks! ___ 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"
Amazon VPC instances
Has anyone used Colin Percival's FreeBSD builds for Amazon EC2 to build an Amazon VPC instance? If so, does it support multiple network interfaces or aliases with multiple IP's so that I can run multiple SSL certs on the same instance? Thanks! ___ 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: Amazon VPC instances
Thanks for the info... it looks like Apache supports, does anyone out there have first hand experience of using it? What issues, if any does this pose with email services like Dovecot or Exim and providing SSL authentication? What about anonymous FTP? Don't I need multiple IP's for multiple anonymous FTP sites? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Sean DuBois Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 8:35 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amazon VPC instances I don't know about FreeBSD + EC2, but you may be interested to know that you can use multiple SSL certificates with one IP address! So you can have multiple vhosts/server blocks with different certificates on one host. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 06:20:29PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > Has anyone used Colin Percival's FreeBSD builds for Amazon EC2 to > build an Amazon VPC instance? If so, does it support multiple network > interfaces or aliases with multiple IP's so that I can run multiple > SSL certs on the same instance? > > > > Thanks! > > ___ > 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" ___ 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: EC2 Instances Future
Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really know where to start to build one like this. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM To: jflowers Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended consequences Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in 8.3). No Windoze Tax. ;-) - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers wrote: > Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a > year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller > (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but > don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably > because I don't understand as much as I think. > > Thanks. > > -- > Jim Flowers > > ___ > 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" ___ 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: EC2 Instances Future
I personally need medium and large instances, but I would think others might need the tiny and small as well. Colin has published his for the cluster compute models, so I don't think there is need for that. Thanks! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:44 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of instance/OS combos are of interest, I can roll a few and make them available. - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: > Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a > medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't > really know where to start to build one like this. > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael > Sierchio > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM > To: jflowers > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future > > I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" > grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on > another > (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - > > - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when > modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). > > - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful > > - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended > consequences > > Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this > way, both > 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness > in 8.3). > > No Windoze Tax. ;-) > > - M > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers wrote: >> Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a >> year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller >> (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but >> don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably >> because I don't understand as much as I think. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Jim Flowers >> >> ___ >> 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" > ___ 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: no flames, please.
I am running XandrOS Linux on an old Digital PC box. It is almost scarily Windows-like, but installs in a snap and, if you buy the full edition, comes with Crossover Office for all the Windows applications you can't wait to run. On another test box (a Dell), MS Office ran just fine under XandrOS Linux and Crossover Office. It updates just like Windows Update (which is good or bad, depending on your point of view). Don > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no flames, please.
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:49:24PM -0500, Don Tyson wrote: > > I am running XandrOS Linux on an old Digital PC box. It is almost > > scarily Windows-like, but installs in a snap and, if you buy the > > full edition, comes with Crossover Office for all the Windows > > applications you can't wait to run. On another test box (a Dell), MS Office > > ran just fine under XandrOS Linux and Crossover Office. > > > > It updates just like Windows Update (which is good or bad, depending > > on your point of view). > > > > Or maybe you mean: All the Windows apps you can't wait to > have crash and burn!! Can you run this flavor of Linux > and dual-boot FBSD? About the *only* thing I want to use > Win for is the billions and billions of CD apps. Like > French, and "make your own greeting cards" and maybe a > few classic card/board games. > > gary > > PS: When did DEC ever have a PeeCee? I remember their > 11/* machines fondly; the next thing I knew they got > bought out by a PC firm. It's a Digital 5000 with a PII. As for Windows apps, I understand that the simpler they are the better they run; I've tried Quicken and Windows Media Player with no problems; MS Office won't load on this box, although it ran on the Dell. I understand Crossover Office is simply a tweaked version of Wine. XandrOS has a list of Windows stuff they've tested. Their X desktop is a slimmed-down version of KDE. I haven't dual-booted this particular Linux, but I don't know why you couldn't. You don't need a Windows OS to use Crossover Office; it will create its own fake C: drive when installed. It comes with Lilo and maybe Grub, I think, but you can always use the FreeBSD boot manager as well. For what it's worth, Digital 5000s are available, or were last year, on eBay for around $30; without hard drives. Shipping was about double that. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no flames, please.
> Don Tyson wrote: > > >I am running XandrOS Linux on an old Digital PC box. It is almost > >scarily Windows-like, but installs in a snap and, if you buy the > >full edition, comes with Crossover Office for all the Windows > >applications you can't wait to run. On another test box (a Dell), MS Office > >ran just fine under XandrOS Linux and Crossover Office. > > > > > > That's cool, but isn't it an, um, offense or, um, whatever to that > lon^H^Hittle > > * Umm, woops! "End User License Agreement", I see now it sez Yes, you must have a licensed copy of MS Office to install it. You do not need a copy of the Windows OS itself. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Stop in subversion-perl
Hi Gerard: On Saturday 05 November 2005 13:57, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am sure that someone else has all ready asked this question, but I have > not come across it. > > When trying to build 'subversion-perl', I receive this error message: > > //Start error message Snippet// > > /usr/local/bin/swig -noproxy -nopm -perl > -I../../../../../subversion/bindings/sw > ig -I../../../../../subversion/bindings/swig/perl/libsvn_swig_perl > -I../../../.. > /../subversion/include -I/usr/local/include/apr-1 -o core.c > ../../../../../subv > ersion/bindings/swig/core.i > /usr/local/include/apr-1/apr.h:389: Error: no decision has been made on > APR_PATH > _MAX for your platform > *** Error code 1 Since the swig preprocessor doesn't load all the system headers, unless you pass -includeall, it has not way to know that they system defined PATH_MAX, i.e., it doesn't load limits.h, et al. I'm not sure what the right fix would be, but you can edit apr.i and add #define PATH_MAX 1024, or whatever it's supposed to be on your system, just before %include apr.h. apr.i can be found here: /usr/ports/devel/subversion-perl/work/subversion-1.2.3/subversion/bindings/swig/apr.i As for the correct value, this is what I get: $ cpp -dM /usr/local/include/apr-1/apr.h |grep PATH_MAX #define _XOPEN_PATH_MAX 1024 #define _POSIX_PATH_MAX 256 #define APR_PATH_MAX PATH_MAX #define PATH_MAX 1024 So 1024 looks right... hth... don btw, I don't like the new logo either... > > Stop in > /usr/ports/devel/subversion-perl/work/subversion-1.2.3/subversion/bindin > gs/swig/perl/native. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/subversion-perl/work/subversion-1.2.3. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/subversion-perl. > > //end error message snippet// > > What can I do to alleviate this situation? -- Don Hinton 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University pgpAsBqZgPZTl.pgp Description: PGP signature
install freebsd with usb keyboard
I'm trying to install 5.4 with a usb keyboard. I saw the suggestion below on freebsd.org, however the keyboard doesn't work to allow me to select option 7. Any suggestions? Don ***During the boot process* before you ever get to sysinstall, when the daemon shows up on the screen and you're given a menu with several options, if you look closely, option seven (7) must be chosen to use a usb keyboard **during the install**. If you're waiting until the sysinstall appears, that's way too late. You need to chose option 7 before the kernel even loads, almost immediately after the system boots. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.11/191 - Release Date: 12/2/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: httpd_flags="-DSSL"?
Hi Jeff: On Sunday 18 December 2005 21:03, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > I've searched plenty looking for the proper method to get apache2 to start > up at boot time with little success. I've tried the various combinations of > httpd_flags/apache2_flags/apache_flags= to my rc.conf file to no avail: > > bobby# cat rc.conf > blah, blah, blah... > apache_enable="YES" > httpd_flags="-DSSL" > blah, blah, blah... > bobby# > > What's the trick? I've fixed the cert file to not require the dialog on > startup and have been able to start apache2 using the command: > > /usr/local/sbin/apachectl startssl > > and then it starts without the dialog. > > Ideas? Make sure your apache2.sh file exists and is executable, you probably need to rename if from apache2.sh.sample (or something like that), e.g.: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh Also, it will contain the flags you need to set in rc.conf. hth... don > > Jeff. > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Don Hinton 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University pgpAttW2PKaJN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what's an equivalent for the following Perl one-liner?
On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:52, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Try col(1) or tr(1) to remove the carriage return and then sed to remove > > the spaces. > > Well, yes, but that's a two-stage process. A shame to go through the whole > file twice just because our tools aren't good enough. How about this: sed 's/ *[[:cntrl:]]$//' hth... don > > -mi > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Don Hinton 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University pgpuOloR8y33y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BSD Question's.
Hi Danial: On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:44, Danial Thom wrote: > --- Miguel Saturnino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom > > > > wrote: > > > --- "Michael C. Shultz" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel > > > > A. > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Andy, > > > > > > > > > > I am sorry for the trouble you have had > > > > with > > > > > > Windows XP. > > > > > > > > > I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD > > > > > > > > really is not targeted at > > > > > > > > > people who want to use graphical user > > > > > > > > interfaces. > > > > > > > > In a few key areas FreeBSD is a better > > > > desktop > > > > > > OS than Linux: Easier to keep > > > > the kernel/world and installed ports up to > > > > date > > > > > > for example without having > > > > to resort to the microsoft/Linux fixall > > > > method > > > > > > of removing and reinstalling > > > > everything every now and again. Your > > > > opinion > > > > > > is correct IMO that FreeBSD > > > > managers put most emphasis on FreeBSD as a > > > > server and little as a desktop. > > > > My guess is because donations(cash) and > > > > hardware support for developers > > > > come from people who want servers while > > > > people > > > > > > who want a desktop OS tend to > > > > donate squat > > > > > > > > > The linux developers really have been > > > > trying > > > > > > to make a valuable > > > > > > > > > replacement for Windows, as they somehow > > > > have > > > > > > experienced the same > > > > > > > > > issues with Windows (And Microsoft > > > > products > > > > > > in general) that you have. > > > > > > > > > One Linux distribution in particular that > > > > I > > > > > > think you might like, is > > > > > > > > > Ubuntu. You can download it at > > > > > > > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/, or order a > > > > > > > > > CD (Free shipping, free CD, you pay > > > > nothing). > > > > > > Advertising Linux in a FreeBSD mailing > > > > list? > > > > > > Sounds like you may have more of > > > > axe to grind against the FreeBSD management > > > > folk than a desire to offer sound > > > > advice > > > > > > > > -Mike > > > > > > Why not just tell the truth, which is that > > > Windows XP is the best that you can do for > > > > the > > > > > desktop > > > > Well, that's your opinion. For me, FreeBSD is a > > much better desktop than > > Windows -- it runs solid and fast and enables > > me to be more productive > > in my work. Of course, what is good for me > > might not be so good for > > someone else, I guess it depends on your needs. > > "more productive" in what way? > > Without considering all of the programs I use > that only run in windows (such as my investment > analysis tools, camera interface and photo > editing programs), outline the "productivity" > advantages of FreeBSD in terms of: > > 1) Time from unwrapping the computer to having a > functional and usable system. For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy to install/configure, and infinitely cheaper. > 2) General productivity advantages in a typical > day. ie: what can you do with FreeBSD that you > can't do in WinXP, and what is faster or more > productive in FreeBSD Depends on what you use it for. I'm a C++ developer, and have a need to examine/search/manipulate text files quite often, Windows, out of the box, is inappropriate for this type of work. I'd have to install all sorts of applications, e.g., cygwin, et al, to get the applications/capabilities that come "out of the box" on a typical *nix system, FreeBSD, Linux, etc... If, on the other hand, you are wedded to an application that only runs on windows, then the question is moot. Unfortunately, there is one windows program I'm forced to use, so I have a cheap laptop that sits on my desk for that purpose. Though I never use it directly, except to reboot it when it hangs, say once a week, I access it via rdesktop in a window from one of my FreeBSD systems, typically my new HP laptop. But no one can convince you of which OS you should use. If you want to try one, try it. If not, don't. I couldn't care less which OS other people use, just as I couldn't care less which car you drive. happy holidays--I'm off to finish my shopping... don > > And please don't take this as an adversarial > post: I haven't looked at the desktop in a while > so I'd really like to know the answers, if in > fact your opinion is objective. > > DT > > > > > __ > Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. > http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Don Hinton 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University pgpCN2StR619C.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD 6.1
Does anyone know if FreeBSD 6.1 is on track to be released on Monday as per the release schedule? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput
Hi all I'm doing some stress testing (trying to force pre-mature failures of disks if they're going to happen and check system stability) of a 3-Ware 6000 series RAID card w/ some EIDE drives attached to it in RAID 5 mode I am getting the following results from raidtest: Read 50 requests from raidtest.data. Number of READ requests: 249361. Number of WRITE requests: 250639. Number of bytes to transmit: 32888206336. Number of processes: 1000. Bytes per second: 4737569 Requests per second: 72 Does this seem accurate? Should I only be seeing 4.7 MB/second throughput or is raidtest just not a good way to measure peak throughput? Any thoughts would be appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput
Chuck, Thanks... That is the intention of the filesystem, it is going in a web server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:43 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput Don O'Neil wrote: [ ... ] > Does this seem accurate? Should I only be seeing 4.7 MB/second > throughput or is raidtest just not a good way to measure peak throughput? > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. It does not astonish me that you get 5 MB/s on a RAID-5 config, although if you used SCSI and/or a real HW RAID-5 controller with significant cache (ie, 64+ MB) that would help the performance by quite a bit. Use RAID-5 for read-only or read-mostly situations and you'll be better off; use RAID-10 for write-heavy filesystems instead. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Sendmail Enable in 6.0
I've got the following in my /etc/rc.conf file: sendmail_enable="NO" And yet sendmail still starts on boot... Any clues as to why it's still starting? Is this a bug, or am I just forgetting something. This is FreeBSD 6.0-release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput
I would have thought I would at least see the raw single drive throughput, plus maybe a bit more. I've benched these drives independantly at 20+ MB/second... Is the 3ware card really slowing things down that much with the RAID-5 overhead? What "real HW RAID-5" controller would you suggest? I'd like to stick with IDE/ATA since I have a bunch of drives already. Am I maybe CPU bound, or have another issue? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:43 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput Don O'Neil wrote: [ ... ] > Does this seem accurate? Should I only be seeing 4.7 MB/second > throughput or is raidtest just not a good way to measure peak throughput? > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. It does not astonish me that you get 5 MB/s on a RAID-5 config, although if you used SCSI and/or a real HW RAID-5 controller with significant cache (ie, 64+ MB) that would help the performance by quite a bit. Use RAID-5 for read-only or read-mostly situations and you'll be better off; use RAID-10 for write-heavy filesystems instead. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Sendmail Enable in 6.0
I've got the following in my /etc/rc.conf file: sendmail_enable="NO" And yet sendmail still starts on boot... Any clues as to why it's still starting? Is this a bug, or am I just forgetting something. This is FreeBSD 6.0-release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Sendmail Enable in 6.0
DOH! I totally forgot about internal delivery, lol. -Original Message- From: Ken Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:02 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail Enable in 6.0 Don O'Neil wrote: > I've got the following in my /etc/rc.conf file: > > sendmail_enable="NO" > > And yet sendmail still starts on boot... Any clues as to why it's > still starting? Is this a bug, or am I just forgetting something. > > This is FreeBSD 6.0-release. > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.h tml Section 24.4.2.3 -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
6.0 APCI Config & PMAP
I am 'burning in' some hardware and drives before putting them into production using various tools (raidtest, etc...) and have a couple of questions.. Occasionally under high load when doing the raid test, I see: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC What does this mean, and what should I change it to to correct the problem? I also get the occasional error that it couldn't write to the device (twed) ... Everything seems to work ok though. Also, my motherboards APCI is horribly broken, I can boot ok without APCI if I select option 2 from the boot menu (it's a 'stock' 6.0 install). How do I configure the system to boot without APCI automatically? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: 6.0 APCI Config & PMAP
How do I upgrade to 6-Stable... I ran sysinstall and did an upgrade, but that left me back with 6.0-release. Do I need to do a 'make world', or is there another upgrade method? Any references online? I've never done an upgrade any other way than through sysinstall. -Original Message- From: Donald J. O'Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:38 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Don O'Neil Subject: Re: 6.0 APCI Config & PMAP On Friday 31 March 2006 18:55, Don O'Neil wrote: > I am 'burning in' some hardware and drives before putting them into > production using various tools (raidtest, etc...) and have a couple of > questions.. > > Occasionally under high load when doing the raid test, I see: > > collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC > > What does this mean, and what should I change it to to correct the > problem? I also get the occasional error that it couldn't write to the > device (twed) ... Everything seems to work ok though. > > Also, my motherboards APCI is horribly broken, I can boot ok without > APCI if I select option 2 from the boot menu (it's a 'stock' 6.0 > install). How do I configure the system to boot without APCI > automatically? > > Thanks! > > _______ Moving to 6-STABLE should fix APCI. It's about the first thing I do. After that, no problems with APCI. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.
Hi all... I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do this: tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfv - ) It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied as files of 0 length, rather than re-established as links. What am I doing wrong here, or is my tar broken? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.
My man says: -L number --tape-length numberChange tapes after writing number * 1024 bytes. Nothing about symbolic links Now there is an option --unlink-first and --dereference... Both of which don't copy the links, but unlink or copy the actual source file. Don -Original Message- From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:24 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right. # man tar specifically, the -L option On 5/10/06, Don O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all... > > I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I > do > this: > > tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfv - ) > > It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied as files of > 0 length, rather than re-established as links. > > What am I doing wrong here, or is my tar broken? > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info
Hi all... Ok... More info for the puzzle. I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do this: tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfv - ) It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied as files of 0 length, rather than re-established as links. BUT When I just: tar -cf file.tar /source/* And then: tar -xf file.tar Then the symbolic links are made correctly Any reason why this should work and not the piped version for 'all in one' copying? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info
Well... I'm moving it from one file system to another of different sizes, that's the main reason. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:35 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info > Hi all... > > Ok... More info for the puzzle. > > I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I > do > this: > > tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfv - ) > > It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied as files of > 0 length, rather than re-established as links. > > BUT > > When I just: > > tar -cf file.tar /source/* > > And then: > > tar -xf file.tar > > Then the symbolic links are made correctly Any reason why this > should work and not the piped version for 'all in one' copying? If it's an actual filesystem why not use dump/restore? Otherwise I'm not sure, but you might also want to add in -pS to handle permissions and sparse files as well... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.
I've tried both the BSD and GNU tars, I get the same results on both. It's very strange. When I add the B option, no different I used: tar cf - /array01/* | ( cd /mnt/disk01 && tar xfvBp - ) Maybe this is something specific to 4.11? Here's what happens: Source file: lrwxrwxrwx1 root wheel21 Feb 19 03:05 apache.log -> /var/shc/apache/logs/ Destination file created on the tar backup: -- 1 root wheel 0 May 11 11:02 apache.log Some have suggested using dump/restore. The problem with dump/restore is that I can't do it across the network and the file systems need to match. The whole point is to move these files/directories from one server to another to a volume with a LOT more space on a RAID array. -Original Message- From: Kevin Kinsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:54 AM To: Olivier Nicole Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right. Olivier Nicole wrote: >> I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when >> I do >> this: > > I think that the way to go is: > > tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfvBp - ) > > Note the Bp at the end of the extract tar. > > olivier Is that for BSD tar, or gtar (GNU)? We still haven't decided which is offering the problem, and I don't find "-B" described in bsdtar(1), although I can see why you'd want it in gtar, perhaps. Nonetheless, the tests I made with both tars didn't seem to have this problem. Can Don confirm whether this only occurs if /source/ is a filesystem mount point? (Also, which tar are you using? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info
I will... Thanks to all for helping... Still weird what's happening though! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:29 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right - More info > Well... I'm moving it from one file system to another of different > sizes, that's the main reason. Dump won't care about that... dd would, but dd isn't right for this anyway... I'd give dump a try. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip > Hallstrom > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:35 AM > To: Don O'Neil > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied > right > - More info > >> Hi all... >> >> Ok... More info for the puzzle. >> >> I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I >> do >> this: >> >> tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfv - ) >> >> It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied as files >> of 0 length, rather than re-established as links. >> >> BUT >> >> When I just: >> >> tar -cf file.tar /source/* >> >> And then: >> >> tar -xf file.tar >> >> Then the symbolic links are made correctly Any reason why this >> should work and not the piped version for 'all in one' copying? > > If it's an actual filesystem why not use dump/restore? > > Otherwise I'm not sure, but you might also want to add in -pS to > handle permissions and sparse files as well... > > -philip > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Possible hack?
This morning I had a process listed as [htttpd32] (perl), yes 3 t's... And it was eating up TONS of CPU. I could not find such a file named htttpd32, or where it could be running from, but as soon as I killed the process everything seemed to go back to normal. Anyone heard of such a hack, or know what the problem might be? A google search turned up nothing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Hacked Web Site
A customer of mine recently had their web site hacked and the index file defaced by Milli-Harekat... http://www.zone-h.org/en/search/what=Milli-Harekat.Org/ Does anyone know the exploit used for this and where to find out about fixing it? I have a feeling it's a brute force attack of some sort, but I can't find anything. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD weakness.
[snipped] > > Since I really can't from looking at my bookshelf, can anyone recommend > > a book with a few good chapters on general unix concepts to get a > > completely green user familiar and comfortable with "the way things are > > done"? Comming from $OTHER_OS to unix can be daunting but once you get General UNIX stuff: Visual Quickstart Guide [to] UNIX by Deborah & Eric Ray FreeBSD-specific stuff: Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD" Best all-around mini-nutshell introduction: Anneliese Anderson's "For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX, found in the doc section of the FreeBSD website. Don Tyson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I quit
> I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and trying to > get it to work. After figuring out There are a couple of other possibilities, too. One is to try 4.10, which still has the old X11 configuration tools, and does not load Xorg. The other is xandros linux --- www.xandros.com. Smooth install, elegant desktop (OK, it's still KDE, but slimmed down). Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mounting SD card of Treo600 via USB
Hi Tim: On Monday 02 January 2006 21:20, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > I've been trying to find out if there is a way to mount my Treo 600's > SD card using a USB cable. I stick mine inside a laxar usb converter (not sure what it's called or the model number). > > Most of what I seem to find from Google, etc seems to relate to > *syncing* which I have no need/desire to do, just to mount the card, > which I believe is formatted as FAT32. It should show up as a scsi drive, so I just do this: # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb hth... don > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.4 > > Thanks! > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Don Hinton 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University pgpXIsAVO84SB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Setquota on FreeBSD 4.11
I'm having problems getting the port 'setquota' to work on my FBSD 4.11 box... When I type: setquota -g -f /array01 -bh51200K root I get setquota : /array01 does not have quotas enabled. Or when I type: setquota -u -f /array01 -bh51200K root I get setquota : GETQUOTA(root) - Invalid argument Even though I have built the kernel w/ the option, enabled quotas in rc, etc... quota -v shows: Disk quotas for user root (uid 0): Filesystem usage quota limit grace files quota limit grace /array01 0 0 0 0 0 0 I can edit quotas using edquota no problems. I had to build setquota from sources, as the port package for 4.11 isn't available anymore. Any ideas what might be going on here? Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Pooomooocyyyy ;(
Hi Greg: On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:28, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 20:02:02 +0100, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > > vocativus wrote: > >> Witam! > > > > [...] > > > > Cze¶æ vocativus, > > > > Nie wiem w czym tkwi problem, ale spróbuj zapytaæ na polskim forum > > systemów BSD: > > http://www.bsdguru.org/dyskusja/ > > As I said a couple of days ago, this is an English language list. In > a case like this, it would be appropriate to *not* copy the list on > the reply, despite the policy to the contrary. Where exactly does it say that this is an "english only" list? ciao... don > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Don Hinton 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University pgpfYs0E87FoW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: awk question
Hi Alexandre:
On Friday 20 January 2006 16:59, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm making a script to generate some statistics for a batch job and I'm
> stuck with awk.
>
> For example:
>
> %echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 | awk {'print $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6'}
>
> it will output:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6
>
> I want to tokenize a string with another separating char (the : char):
>
> %echo 1:2:3:4:5:6
>
> and with awk to output:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6
>
> Is there any way of doing this?
Sure. Here's a link to the online awk documentation section on field
seperators...
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Field-Separators.html#Field-Separators
ciao...
don
>
> Real example:
>
> I have a log file with the following output:
> 2006-01-20 - 20:01:07 - Some text
> 2006-01-20 - 20:01:15 - Some text
> 2006-01-20 - 20:01:38 - Some text
> (...)
>
> and since I'm generating hourly stats I need to match the "20" which is in
> a string "20:01:07" that is separated by the char ":".
>
> I hope I've been clear.
>
> Thanks for your help.
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Re: trouble with KDE 3.4->3.5 and xorg -> 6.9.0
Hi Peter: On Sunday 22 January 2006 10:43, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > On 6.0-STABLE, after doing a portupgrade of KDE and xorg according to > UPDATING, I cannot start X as non-root. I've cleared /tmp, removed old > files in home directory created by to KDE and xorg but problem persists. > > I'm currently out of ideas and would really appriciate a hint, thanks. I ran into this the other day. I can't remember all the steps I took, most were probably unneccesary anyway, but I think the key was forcefully rebuilding/reinstalling kdebase. Try portupgrade -fN kdebase and see if that works for you. I ended up rebuilding practically everything, but that shouldn't be necessary. hth... don > X hangs forever here: ... > kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol "init_kdnssd" -- Don Hinton tel: 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University skype: donhinton http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~don.hinton/ pgpRgA58oGpai.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: best approach to clone a disk?
Hi Joe: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:49, Joe Auty wrote: > Okay, > > In taking the advice of an earlier poster in suggesting that the > instructions located here: > > http://www.unixcities.com/howto/ > > Are rather old, allow me to make my question a little broader in scope: > > What is the best way to clone a disk in FreeBSD? Do you have any step- > by-step instructions? The instructions I used above (even replacing > the restore -r flag with a -x) produced a core dump. > > Can I use DD on two disks of different size? Do you recommend Ghost > for Unix? Any other suggestions or recommendations should the dump > command just not work for me? One of our grad students recently posted a how to on using Frisbee here at ISIS. The only difference is that you'll need another server somewhere with imagezip install instead of ours. You can find the how to here: https://research.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ir_wiki/Using_Frisbee_to_take_an_image_of_a_hard_drive Please let us know if it contains any omissions or errors and we'll fix the page. Btw, I've been told that this will only image a partition, not the master boot record, so you'll need that on the destination as well. This is what emulab uses to image drives, and works for several OS's, including FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows. hth... don > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > --- > Joe Auty > NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians > http://www.netmusician.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Don Hinton tel: 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University skype: donhinton http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~don.hinton/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
3Ware Escalade Issues
Hi all, I've been experiencing some problems with my 3ware Escalade 6000 array lately that has been causing spontaneous reboots of the system. There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to smartctl, but nothing serious. However, every time the system tried to write to that sector in the array, the system would freeze, and then reboot, and of course it would say the file system isn't clean, etc... Since the file system is 1 TB in size, it would take 8+ hours to FSCK it. The array is only striped, and not mirrored or built with redunancy. I'm basically using the card/driver to make one large volume for a web server. I have a few questions: 1) Is this a known bug? I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 (for software compatibility issues at the moment, I will upgrade at some point in the future) 2) How can I trap the errors and eliminate the re-boot issue? 3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool' the system into thinking the file system is clean? 4) Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks all!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 124, Issue 26
Chuck, Thanks for the response, this helps me a lot... My answers are inline: >Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:47:08 -0500 >From: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues >To: "Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Don O'Neil wrote: >> There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to smartctl, >> but nothing serious. >What that may mean is that there have been many bad sectors, which have been >corrected using the spares, until no more spare sectors are left for replacements. >That drive may well fail catastrophically, soon. I figured as much, which is why I'm going to re-build the whole array with a new drive, etc... Fortunatly I got all my data off ok without any issues. >> However, every time the system tried to write to that sector in the array, >> the system would freeze, and then reboot, and of course it would say the >> file system isn't clean, etc... >> >> Since the file system is 1 TB in size, it would take 8+ hours to FSCK it. >> The array is only striped, and not mirrored or built with redunancy. I'm >> basically using the card/driver to make one large volume for a web server. >OK. Well, if this data is important to you, you should give consideration to >using a RAID-1, RAID-10, or RAID-5 configuration to gain redundancy. Yes, and when I re-build it with will be RAID-5 rather than just RAID-0 >> I have a few questions: >> >> 1) Is this a known bug? I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 (for software compatibility .> issues at the moment, I will upgrade at some point in the future) >Normally, the OS will only kill the affected processes using that sector, but >without knowing where it is, perhaps it's affecting some important file like the >kernel itself, /bin/sh...? Actually the only thing that was on the array was a DB, so I think the failure may have been causing MySQL to go nuts, and cascading up. >> 2) How can I trap the errors and eliminate the re-boot issue? >Shut down the system. Replace the failing hard drive. Use dd to make an exact >copy onto the new drive on some other system. and put the new drive back into >the array. Note that the replacement drive must be an exact match for this to >work, otherwise you will have to backup your data and rebuild the array. >Speaking of which, do you have known-good backups available? Of course I have backups!! Never work without them. I'm going to re-build with RAID-5 this time. >> 3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool' the system >> into thinking the file system is clean? >If you update to 5.x or later, you can use background FSCK rather than having to >wait for the FSCK to complete the way it does under 4.x. I wasn't aware 5.x could do this. My next question is how are my existing apps going to be affected by upgrading to 5.x? I have some builds of packages that were done by a company that is no longer in operation. I haven't fully figured out how they built the software yet so I can't re-build under 5.X yet. If I try to put the elf binaries and the other builds from 4.X on 5.X are they going to run ok or do I just need to give it a try? Would you suggest going all the way to 6.x or sticking with the 5.x chain? >> 4) Any suggestions on how to fix this? >Also, if you update to 5.x, you can run the smartmon tools, which will let you >do a drive self-test using SMART, this will give much better information about >what is going on with the drive, and also give an estimate of its remaining >lifespan. Yes, this would help a lot!!! >How old are the drives, if you know? They're less than 2 years old, and still under warranty. This is the second drive to fail and it's driving me nuts. They're Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250P0 250 GB PATA drives... Never had a problem with that particular drive until this batch. Can anyone suggest some good 250GB PATA drives for me to use? I might as well swap them all out since I'm starting over. The 6000 series Escalade card I'm using doesn't support anything more than 250 GB. Thanks all again!!! Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues
Chuck, Thanks for the response, this helps me a lot... My answers are inline: >Don O'Neil wrote: >> There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to smartctl, >> but nothing serious. >What that may mean is that there have been many bad sectors, which have been >corrected using the spares, until no more spare sectors are left for replacements. >That drive may well fail catastrophically, soon. I figured as much, which is why I'm going to re-build the whole array with a new drive, etc... Fortunatly I got all my data off ok without any issues. >> However, every time the system tried to write to that sector in the array, >> the system would freeze, and then reboot, and of course it would say the >> file system isn't clean, etc... >> >> Since the file system is 1 TB in size, it would take 8+ hours to FSCK it. >> The array is only striped, and not mirrored or built with redunancy. I'm >> basically using the card/driver to make one large volume for a web server. >OK. Well, if this data is important to you, you should give consideration to >using a RAID-1, RAID-10, or RAID-5 configuration to gain redundancy. Yes, and when I re-build it with will be RAID-5 rather than just RAID-0 >> I have a few questions: >> >> 1) Is this a known bug? I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 (for software compatibility .> issues at the moment, I will upgrade at some point in the future) >Normally, the OS will only kill the affected processes using that sector, but >without knowing where it is, perhaps it's affecting some important file like the >kernel itself, /bin/sh...? Actually the only thing that was on the array was a DB, so I think the failure may have been causing MySQL to go nuts, and cascading up. >> 2) How can I trap the errors and eliminate the re-boot issue? >Shut down the system. Replace the failing hard drive. Use dd to make an exact >copy onto the new drive on some other system. and put the new drive back into >the array. Note that the replacement drive must be an exact match for this to >work, otherwise you will have to backup your data and rebuild the array. >Speaking of which, do you have known-good backups available? Of course I have backups!! Never work without them. I'm going to re-build with RAID-5 this time. >> 3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool' the system >> into thinking the file system is clean? >If you update to 5.x or later, you can use background FSCK rather than having to >wait for the FSCK to complete the way it does under 4.x. I wasn't aware 5.x could do this. My next question is how are my existing apps going to be affected by upgrading to 5.x? I have some builds of packages that were done by a company that is no longer in operation. I haven't fully figured out how they built the software yet so I can't re-build under 5.X yet. If I try to put the elf binaries and the other builds from 4.X on 5.X are they going to run ok or do I just need to give it a try? Would you suggest going all the way to 6.x or sticking with the 5.x chain? >> 4) Any suggestions on how to fix this? >Also, if you update to 5.x, you can run the smartmon tools, which will let you >do a drive self-test using SMART, this will give much better information about >what is going on with the drive, and also give an estimate of its remaining >lifespan. Yes, this would help a lot!!! >How old are the drives, if you know? They're less than 2 years old, and still under warranty. This is the second drive to fail and it's driving me nuts. They're Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250P0 250 GB PATA drives... Never had a problem with that particular drive until this batch. Can anyone suggest some good 250GB PATA drives for me to use? I might as well swap them all out since I'm starting over. The 6000 series Escalade card I'm using doesn't support anything more than 250 GB. Thanks all again!!! Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Build Backwards Compatible MySQL Client Libs
Hi all... I have some OLD programs I don't have the source for that were built with the MySQL 3.23.55 client libraries. They still work great, even when using those libraries to connect to 4.1.18 Mysql (I have a copy of the old lib in the new lib dir) However, is there some way I can build a 3.X compatible library (the old one is mysqlclient.so.10) with the latest source so I can get all the bug fixes and still be backwards compatible? I tried creating a link to the new lib with the old name, but there is a function call that is missing the old programs complain about when they run. Thanks!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Mod_Auth_Mysql v2.20
Does anyone have instructions on how to build v2.2 of Mod_Auth_Mysql with the latest Apache HTTP release? I have old apps that I cannot rebuild that require some of the directives & syntax that are only supported in v2.2 Alternatively, if someone has a pre-built module for the 1x line of HTTPD, built for FreeBSD 4.11 that would be WONDERFULL!! Or, again, maybe there is a slightly later version than 2.2 that has all the same support that is easier to build? V 3.0 doesn't have the function calls I need, although I can build it in a snap. Thanks!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X?
Are there any reasons why I couldn't run any userland apps that were built on 4.X (some on 4.6, some one 4.11) on the 5.X or 6.X versions of FreeBSD? I'd like to take advantage of some of the newer core system changes, like better SMP, etc... But I'm afraid I'd break everything that I'm running, and some of it I can't re-build for 5.X or 6.X because I don't have the sources, and the company I bought it from is no longer in existance. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: 4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X?
I haven't tried running them yet, I'm just asking since I'm planning on building a new server and would prefer to use 5.x or 6.x rather than 4.11 which my old server is running. I guess the best way to find out is to try... I was just asking if there _could_ be any issues. If you were in my position, would you install 5.4 or 6.0? I noticed there are quite a lot of changes in 6.0 and it requires at least 5.3 for upgrade purposes... So my question is, is it really ready for 'prime time'? -Original Message- From: Björn König [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:07 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X? Don O'Neil schrieb: > Are there any reasons why I couldn't run any userland apps that were > built on 4.X (some on 4.6, some one 4.11) on the 5.X or 6.X versions of FreeBSD? Most likely there are reasons. What's the error message? Did you installed misc/compat4x? Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: 4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X?
So, if you were me you _would_ install 6.0? Any issues I could expect running my 4.X binaries? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:47 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Bj?rn K?nig' Subject: Re: 4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X? On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:35:24PM -0800, Don O'Neil wrote: > I haven't tried running them yet, I'm just asking since I'm planning > on building a new server and would prefer to use 5.x or 6.x rather > than 4.11 which my old server is running. > > I guess the best way to find out is to try... I was just asking if > there _could_ be any issues. > > If you were in my position, would you install 5.4 or 6.0? I noticed > there are quite a lot of changes in 6.0 and it requires at least 5.3 > for upgrade purposes... So my question is, is it really ready for 'prime time'? Absolutely yes. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
regarding new logo...
I'm wondering when the new logo will officially be used for FreeBSD and I'm also wondering if you have the contact info for Anton Gural, the designer who created the new logo. Thanks, DON POYNTER President & Creative Director D'ZINE ALASKA 3705 Arctic Blvd #2445 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 ph: (907) 240-1380 fx: (907) 334-9218 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
System Burn In
What is the best way to 'burn in' or 'stress test' a new system w/ FreeBSD? I'd like to stress test the CPU, Memory, Disk, etc.. To make sure the hardware is 100% good before putting it in production. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Weird NFS problems
On 26 May, Skylar Thompson wrote: > I'm having some problems with NFS serving on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE > machine. The FreeBSD machine is the NFS/NIS server for a group of four > Linux clusters. The network archictecture looks like this: > > 234/24 234/24 > Cluster 1 ---|--- Cluster 3 >| --- > em0| File server | fxp0 >| -- > Cluster 2 ---|--- Cluster 4 > 234/24230/24 > > > em0 and fxp0 are bridged, and em0 has a 234/24 IP address while fxp0 is > just in promiscuous mode. 234/24 is an 802.1q VLAN on the fxp0 side of > the server, so packets are untagged at the switch just before fxp0, and > are forwarded to em0 through the bridge. > > The problem manifests itself in large UDP NFS requests from Clusters 3 > and 4. The export can be mounted fine from both those clusters, and > small transfers such as with ls work fine, but the moment any serious > data transfer starts, the entire mount just hangs. Running ethereal on > the file server shows a a lot of fragmented packets, and RPC > retransmissions on just a single request. Reducing the read and write > NFS buffers on the Linux clients to 1kB from the default of 4kB solves > the issue, but kills the transfer rate. The moment I go to 2kB, the > problem reappearss. Clusters 1 and 2 use the default of 4kB buffers, and > have no problems communicating to em0. > > Poking through the list archives, I ran across this message > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-May/001007.html) > that reveals a bug in the fxp(4) driver in 4-RELEASE that incorrectly > detects the capabilities of the NIC. Is this still an issue in > 5-RELEASE, or am I looking at a different problem? Any ideas on how I > can get the NFS buffers up to a reasonable level? That problem was fixed quite some time ago. Which transfer direction fails? Client writing to server Client reading from server Both? Do you see all the fragments in the retransmitted request? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process
On 14 Jul, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>> How can I fix it on my system? >> >>SCSI or ATA? If it's ATA, turn off write cache with (atacontrol(8) or >>the sysctl. > > You do NOT want to do that. Not only will performance drop brutally > (example: drop to 1/5th of normal write speed for sequential writes, > probably worse for random writes) but it will also significantly > reduce the lifetime of your disk. Modern disks are designed to be > used with the write-back cache enabled, so don't turn it off. There's not much performance difference with SCSI if write caching is disabled. Typical SCSI drives can handle ~63 outstanding read and write transactions and can sort them into a somewhat optimal order if tagged command queuing is in use. >>The problem is that disks lie about whether they have actually written >>data. If the power goes off before the data is in cache, it's lost. > > No, the problem is that FreeBSD doesn't implement request barriers > and that softupdates is flawed by design and seemingly could not > make use of them, even if they were available (because, as I > understand it, it relies on a total ordering of all writes, unlike > the partial ordering necessary for a journalled fs). Softupdates only needs to be partial ordering. It just needs to be notified when the data hits the platter so that it can send any dependent writes to the disk. Wouldn't the use of barriers have the potential to force a lot of unrelated cached write data to be written much earlier than necessary? If so, there would seem to be a performance penalty under certain workloads, though performance would still be better than with write-caching disabled. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process
On 14 Jul, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:38:15 +0200 >> From: Anatoliy Dmytriyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Hello, everybody! >> >> I have found unusual and dangerous situation with shutdown process: >> I did a copy of 200 GB data on the 870 GB partition (softupdates is >> enabled) by cp command. >> It took a lot of time when I did umount for this partition exactly after >> cp, but procedure finished correctly. When you unmounted the file system, that should have flushed all the dirty files to the disk. >> In case, if I did âshutdown âh(r)â, also exactly after cp, the >> shutdown >> procedure waited for âsyncâ (umounting of the file system) but sync >> process was terminated by timeout, and fsck checked and did correction >> of the file system after boot. Did the timeout occur during the syncer shutdown, or at the "syncing disks ..." step. Did you have any ext2 file systems mounted? These should be manually unmounted before shutdown because they confuse the final sync code. >> System 5.4-stable, RAM 4GB, processor P-IV 3GHz. >> >> How can I fix it on my system? > > SCSI or ATA? If it's ATA, turn off write cache with (atacontrol(8) or > the sysctl. > > The problem is that disks lie about whether they have actually written > data. If the power goes off before the data is in cache, it's lost. That should only make a difference in a power-fail situation, and it only makes a difference if the only unwritten data is in the drive's write cache. > I am not sure if write-cache can be turned off on SCSI, but SCSI drives > seem less likely to lie about when the data is actually flushed to the > drive. Yes it can, and I recommend it. Use the camcontrol modepage command to set the WCE bit to 0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: AsRock 760GX
Graham, I've run FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x on my ASRock boards and it works fine. I havent run X on them though.. console only. I hope that helps. - Don Brearley >>> Graham North <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/21/05 08:20PM >>> Hello all: Has anyone installed FreeBSD on an ASRock or ECS 760GX motherboard? Any compatibility problems? fixes? Thanks for any feedback. Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
losing the war
Hello fellow newbies and hacks. I am 2/3 up with my first freebsd system (v5.3) but it has been a tough 3 weeks. I am ready to call it quits. I need help, and I am willing to pay a modest consultant fee to the hack that can help me get over my problems with: usbd apsfilter or cups wine packages (without an internet connection) thanks..don [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps disregard previous flame/anger outburst .. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
docs
Hi, I have a number of machines running FreeBSD and I would like to create a local mirror of the documentation available on the FreeBSD website. My problem is that I currently have a dial up connection (rural living :-) Is there a simple way to obtain a tarball of a mirror of the docs so that I can access the docs via a browser on my machine. I will have access to high speed for a couple of days next week so I would like to grab the info then. Better yet would be if the info is available via something like offline explorer so that I could set it to only grab updates on a regular basis. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
OpenLDAP 2.2.25 and FreeBSD 5.3 - group names and gid's
Hello, I am having some problems with OpenLDAP 2.2.25 and FreeBSD 5.3. I can currently authenticate against my ldap db, and utilities like id and chown work with no problem. The problem is gid to group name mapping. In my ldif files, I can have a "uid" entry and a "uidNumber" entry. It would look something like this: uid: testuser uidNumber: 2001 and that works. I cannot have a group entry of the same. gid: testgroup gidNumber: 2001 OpenLDAP would complain that it couldnt read this file properly.. not until the "gid:testgroup" entry was removed. When I attempt to use an app like "chown" I have to specify the actual gid number, eg: chown -R testuser:2001 /home/testuser I was wondering if anyone had found a way to have it so that you could just enter it by name, and not by number. eg: chown -R testuser:testgroup /home/testuser Obviously I would have to add a gid entry in my schema file, but I am left wondering why this isnt already in there.. I dont want to spend a few hours trying to re-invent the wheel when there is already a reason for it to not be in there. Any help or light on this situation is deeply appreciated. If you need more information, please let me know and I shall provide it. Thanks - Don Brearley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: OpenLDAP 2.2.25 and FreeBSD 5.3 - group names and gid's
Joerg, Yeah.. I just discovered my problem was that I wasnt putting appropriate groups into my groups ou when adding users. My mistake. (Doh!) Thanks for your email! - Don >>> Joerg Pulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/25/05 12:15PM >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Don Brearley wrote: > > Hello, > > I am having some problems with OpenLDAP 2.2.25 and FreeBSD 5.3. > > I can currently authenticate against my ldap db, and utilities like id and > chown > work with no problem. > > The problem is gid to group name mapping. In my ldif files, I can have a > "uid" entry and a "uidNumber" entry. It would look something like this: > > uid: testuser > uidNumber: 2001 > > and that works. I cannot have a group entry of the same. > > gid: testgroup > gidNumber: 2001 > > OpenLDAP would complain that it couldn't read this file properly.. not until > the "gid:testgroup" entry was removed. > > When I attempt to use an app like "chown" I have to specify the actual > gid number, eg: > > chown -R testuser:2001 /home/testuser > > I was wondering if anyone had found a way to have it so that you could > just enter it by name, and not by number. eg: > > chown -R testuser:testgroup /home/testuser > > Obviously I would have to add a gid entry in my schema file, but I am left > wondering why this isn't already in there.. I dont want to spend a few hours > trying to re-invent the wheel when there is already a reason for it to > not be in there. > > Any help or light on this situation is deeply appreciated. If you need more > information, please let me know and I shall provide it. Hi, i have authentication against OpenLDAP running a long time now and did not experience such a thing. I have splittet the user and group informations in two separate tree's. An example user and the group entry look like this: - --- the user uid=testuser,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=tld objectClass: top objectClass: posixAccount uidNumber: 2001 gecos: Test User loginShell: /bin/tcsh uid: testuser cn: Test User gidNumber: 2001 homeDirectory: /home/testuser userPassword: some_password - --- the group dn: cn=testgroup,ou=Group,dc=domain,dc=tld objectClass: posixGroup objectClass: top cn: testgroup userPassword: * gidNumber: 2001 description: Local Unix group if you configure nss_ldap to the following you will be able to chown(8) with names instead of numbers and id(1) should give you names for the groups too. - --- nss_ldap.conf nss_base_passwd ou=People,dc=domain,dc=tld?one nss_base_group ou=Group,dc=domain,dc=tld?one if i understand your comments right, you have tried to add an "gid" attribute to the user account with objectClass posixAccount, but this will not work. only the numeric gidNumber is allowed for this objectClass. it behaves like flat unix passwd(5) and group(5) files where the numeric gidNumber is stored in passwd(5) and this number is resolved using the group(5) file. please think about it ;-) and try the things above Joerg - -- The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCbTOrSPOsGF+KA+MRAioiAJ4oSK/EupIQphRIneHcbWSHJ6YcHgCgx1wf EHGs1oXINk95wgKc0IKW75A= =lneJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Does FreeBSD work with "SB Live" and "GeForce"?
> Also, if anybody knows of a good online store, please let me > know. I found a website called "tigerdirect.com". Am I > tossing the dice? anybody dealt with this place? > CDW for hardware; Crucial for memory --- very mainstream and not particularly inexpensive, but very reliable. Don > thankee, > > gary > > > -- >Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Does FreeBSD work with "SB Live" and "GeForce"?
> Do you knpw if CDW has a build-to-order page? --These guys > have been around since before the Flood; I've never heard > anything about them until your email. So thanks. > > gary Sorry, I don't know that. But it shouldn't be hard to find out on their Web page, www.cdw.com. Don > > > > > > Don > > > > > thankee, > > > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > -- > > >Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service > > > Unix > > > > > > ___ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > -- >Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
df -k vs. du -s
My /var partition is showing a different value for a df -k on the file system vs a du -s on the file system: df -k Filesystem1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 202603088954497440448%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e 2026030 964 1862984 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1d 8122126 1997988 547436827%/usr /dev/ad0s1f 8122126 5301938 217041871%/var du -s /var 993261 /var Any ideas why I would see this? Where is the other 4+G? Do I have a bunch of bad sectors in the file system or is it majorly fragmented? If so, how do I find out what the problem is? The other partitions match between the df and du... I'm running 6.1 if that makes a difference. ___ 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
>>> Roland Smith 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"
Requesting Service
Hello and Good day, We are looking for a company that provides on-site services on installing FreeBSD mailserver. We currently have a FreeBSD based mailserver running and we need to upgrade it. We need all emails and addressbooks to be transferred into the new server. We will provide the hardware. Can you please advise if you do such services or if you could refer us. Many Thanks, 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"
sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS
Hello, folks - I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost. I've added CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Addr=64.156.192.103, Name=MTA')dnl directly above the DAEMON_OPTIONS lines (after the FEATUREs), recompiled with make -C, and copied the domain-specific cf to sendmail.cf. I've reviewed the old docs on /usr/share/sendmail/cf and the newer ones on /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf that were referenced in the manual. Sendmail starts correctly, so the m4 compilation was successful, but it is still only listening on 127.0.0.1:25 according to netstat -atn. This seems to be more of a newbie issue than a STABLE issue, but please correct me if I'm wrong. I just updated to fix the null issue, but I don't see anything in either UPDATING file. If you need more configs, please forgive me for not including them. No other changes have been made to the mc file. Thanks in advance! :D -- -- Don Wilde " Engineering the Future " http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.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"
