cups raw printing - client print queue sticking
I have cups set up on a FreeBSD server to receive raw queues from windows clients on my home network. It is being used indepently of Samba. Access is invoked directly with http - http://xx.yy.zz.ww:631/printers/lex312raw . The printer is an elderly Lexmark 312L. The printer prints fine from 3 different WinXP clients - except the windows print queue does not clear properly. Basically, I set up the printer via the cups gui interface and all works well but the windows print manager queue sticks. The queue permanently shows status of processing . Interestingly, I can print multiple print jobs and only one job remains permanently stuck. Which could/may mean that each new job clears the processing status of the last job..?? Each subsequent job prints fine, test pages, images, files all seem to work but the Windows print manager doesn't clear. Seems like a final handshake going wrong..? Could this be a client side setting? Thanks for any advice out there. Graham/ -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A good quiet power supply?
Seasonic seems to make pretty good stuff. The ones I looked at a couple of years ago were not passively cooled but had a load modulated cooling fan. Check out the link below and browse around. Cheers, Graham/ http://www.silentpcreview.com/article20-page2.html -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: normal mount points
Hi Parv:
And also thanks to the other people who responded earlier. I did not
knowingly set up automounter - is this something I would have had to do?
or part of a default install?
I am still hoping that somebody can tell me what /net and /host are -
inted? samba??
Thanks again.
Graham/
btw: My previous send seems to have bounced...
It read:
Hmmm. My system is 4.11 so that would explain /proc. Could /net and
/host be related to running apache or samba? I did not knowingly create
these devices I haven't been as vigilant as I could have been for
security (one of my reasons for an upcoming reinstall), so there is a
possibility of the server being hijacked...? But I don't want to assume
the worst on false concersns..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28/04/07, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of
doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine.
The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install
but also three additional (mount points?)
/proc
/net
/host
The machine is a simple web server and print server with little else on
it. Can some explain to me (or point me to) an explanation of mount
points?
Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 101297436926 895012 4%/
devfs 110 100%/dev
/dev/ad2s1d 5616214 716542 445037614%/home
/dev/ad0s1e 101297422352 909586 2%/tmp
. . .
Mount points are merely directories where devices
are mounted as part of the filesystem. These can be
automatically mounted by a listing in /etc/fstab or manually
mounted using /sbin/mount. That they show up in df's
listing means that something is in fact mounted on it.
Typing mount at a command prompt will give you a listing
of mounted devices like so:
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad2s1d on /home (ufs, NFS exported, local, nosuid, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
. . .
As none of those above (/proc /net /host) are part of the
standard layout (Well, /proc was on 4.x and earlier) some-
one at some time has added them.
Parv wrote:
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Jerry McAllister thusly...
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:21:20AM -0700, Graham North wrote:
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in
anticipation of doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new
machine. The output gave me not just normal slices that were
created at install but also three additional (mount points?)
/proc
/net
/host
No problem. /proc is sort of a psuedo file system that enables
some routines such as top to look at certain pieces of
information.
Probably /net and /host are also psuedo file systems, but I have
never seen them before. If they are legit, they are for something
I do not run.
Could it be that /{ne,hos}t mount points are due to use of
a{manda,utomounter}?
- Parv
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Re: normal mount points
I believe that they are mount points, not directories. I shut the server down last night until I learn more. G/ Chris Slothouber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-04-29 02:00, Graham North wrote: I am still hoping that somebody can tell me what /net and /host are - inted? samba?? As mentioned previously, no part of FreeBSD (port or package included) would ever create directories outside of hier(7), i.e. /usr/local would be the place to find user-installed software. What is the contents of these directories? - -- Chris Slothouber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin BIZ: http://www.hier7.com -=- building.better.ideas PGP: 7A83 F021 5AC3 4BD7 6738 21D8 B348 0B16 79C0 C27F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGNDoAs0gLFnnAwn8RAtA8AJ9cG64SJY9hlUWqNXXL767auifDHgCfQKYP XBCdxttvlQ6CXEAsxS/lkIA= =m6xc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: normal mount points
Hi Chris: I will fire it up again tomorrow or Monday and report back. Thank you for your help. Graham/ Chris Slothouber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-04-29 03:17, Graham North wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-04-29 02:00, Graham North wrote: I am still hoping that somebody can tell me what /net and /host are - inted? samba?? As mentioned previously, no part of FreeBSD (port or package included) would ever create directories outside of hier(7), i.e. /usr/local would be the place to find user-installed software. What is the contents of these directories? I believe that they are mount points, not directories. I shut the server down last night until I learn more. Hi Graham, thanks for your reply. Just for reference a file system is mounted to a directory. Before anyone can answer your question about what these could be, some more information would be very helpful, such as the contents of /net and /host, the output of `mount` and the contents of /etc/fstab. Hopefully then we can help further. Thanks! - -- Chris Slothouber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin BIZ: http://www.hier7.com -=- building.better.ideas PGP: 7A83 F021 5AC3 4BD7 6738 21D8 B348 0B16 79C0 C27F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGNEn8s0gLFnnAwn8RAiSXAJsH0FYmtxLakX4j0Q+RYbeZYYmKDgCgvrDZ /I0wpPsj7faKWhFflwhGd2g= =TKCc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: normal mount points
Hi CyberLeo: Thank you for such a full response! - now as to my understanding..? Does this mean that my Samba is likely to trigger this automount if I am sharing files with my windows box(es)? I will fire the machine back up and browse some documentation later tonight or tomorrow to see if I can understand better and try to come back with more refined questions. I will also run a couple of your commands below and send in output as one of the other writers requested. Thank you (and everyone) again. In the meantime - every send to this mailing list generates a delivery failure notice. It seems that my messagages are going out but each time this notice comes back to me: Have you seen it before? (framed in asterisks below) ** Hi. This is the deliver program at eyou.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 MI:SPF mx20,wKjR5bBbbQmyUTRGlc6+Pw==.1157S2 1177833906 http://mail.163.com/help/help_spam_16.htm --- Attachment is a copy of the message. CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Graham North wrote: /net /host /net and /host are populated by the NFS automounter daemon present in freebsd 4.x. My (ancient) 4.11 dev server has the same, enabled by an option in sysinstall. Accessing hosts and shares within these directories will, in theory, trigger the automounter daemon to mount the requested share, and link to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ps auxwww |grep 111 root 111 0.0 0.3 1160 360 ?? Is 14Apr07 0:01.25 amd -p -a /.amd_mnt -l syslog /host /etc/amd.map /net /etc/amd.map [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ mount -t nfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net on /net (nfs) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host on /host (nfs) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ showmount -e uzuri Exports list on uzuri: /usr/www 192.168.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -la /host/uzuri/usr total 8 dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 29 15:42 . dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 29 15:42 .. drwxr-xr-x 43 cyberleo wheel 1024 Oct 24 2006 www After accessing a share: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -la /host total 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 29 15:42 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Apr 29 15:41 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 26 Apr 29 15:41 192.168.0.6 - /.amd_mnt/192.168.0.6/host lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 20 Apr 29 15:42 uzuri - /.amd_mnt/uzuri/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ mount -t nfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net on /net (nfs) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host on /host (nfs) 192.168.0.6:/usr/www on /.amd_mnt/192.168.0.6/host/usr/www (nfs, nodev, nosuid) uzuri:/usr/www on /.amd_mnt/uzuri/host/usr/www (nfs, nodev, nosuid) Hope this helps! -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://www.fur.com/peace/ -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
normal mount points
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine. The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install but also three additional (mount points?) /proc /net /host The machine is a simple web server and print server with little else on it. Can some explain to me (or point me to) an explanation of mount points? Thanks, Graham/ -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
common freebsd mount points?
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine. The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install but also three additional (mount points?) /proc /net /host The machine is a simple web server and print server with little else on it. Can some explain to me (or point me to) an explanation of mount points? Thanks, Graham/ -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: normal mount points
Hmmm. My system is 4.11 so that would explain /proc. Could /net and /host be related to running apache or samba? I did not knowingly create these devices I haven't been as vigilant as I could have been for security (one of my reasons for an upcoming reinstall), so there is a possibility of the server being hijacked...? But I don't want to assume the worst on false concersns.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/04/07, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine. The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install but also three additional (mount points?) /proc /net /host The machine is a simple web server and print server with little else on it. Can some explain to me (or point me to) an explanation of mount points? Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 101297436926 895012 4%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/ad2s1d 5616214 716542 445037614%/home /dev/ad0s1e 101297422352 909586 2%/tmp . . . Mount points are merely directories where devices are mounted as part of the filesystem. These can be automatically mounted by a listing in /etc/fstab or manually mounted using /sbin/mount. That they show up in df's listing means that something is in fact mounted on it. Typing mount at a command prompt will give you a listing of mounted devices like so: /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad2s1d on /home (ufs, NFS exported, local, nosuid, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) . . . As none of those above (/proc /net /host) are part of the standard layout (Well, /proc was on 4.x and earlier) some- one at some time has added them. -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache Lenya Contact management
Thank you Tuareg. It looks promising and I will check it out further. Yours is the first response that I have seen on this query. Cheers, Graham/ Tuareg wrote: On 1/26/07, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: Maybe this should be going to Port or Java but I thought it might do okay here? Does FBSD support Lenya? I could not find it in Ports - but maybe I am missing something? I think it needs Java - could that be a problem? FBSD supports Java RTE now, no? Lenya looks pretty solid, good pedigree and good security features. I was comparing it to Joomla and Wordpress (yes, I know it is blog tool). If Lenya is not available does anyone have any favourite CMS to recommend? Something that works with ssl? JAWS [2]http://www.jaws-project.com/ Jaws is a Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites. It aims to be User Friendly giving ease of use and lots of ways to customize web sites, but at the same time is Developer Friendly, it offers a simple and powerful framework to hack your own modules. Thanks, Graham/ [3]http://lenya.apache.org/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC [4]www.soleado.ca ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [6]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.14/658 - Release Date: 2007-01-29 2:4 9 PM -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC [8]www.soleado.ca References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. http://www.jaws-project.com/ 3. http://lenya.apache.org/ 4. http://www.soleado.ca/ 5. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 6. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 7. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8. http://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]
Apache Lenya Contact management
Hi all: Maybe this should be going to Port or Java but I thought it might do okay here? Does FBSD support Lenya? I could not find it in Ports - but maybe I am missing something? I think it needs Java - could that be a problem? FBSD supports Java RTE now, no? Lenya looks pretty solid, good pedigree and good security features. I was comparing it to Joomla and Wordpress (yes, I know it is blog tool). If Lenya is not available does anyone have any favourite CMS to recommend? Something that works with ssl? Thanks, Graham/ http://lenya.apache.org/ -- 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]
Re: security certificates ssh
Hi Martin: Thank you for your help. I wasn't sure whether it was Putty or FreeBSD that did the blacklisting. I will take your suggestion and see what happens. Thanks! Graham/ Martin Miedema wrote: Graham North wrote: I just tried to ssh into freebsd server using Putty (pocketputty actually). I got a connection (sort of) but my Putty device put up the question ...unknown certificate.do you want to trust it... or words to that effect. Due to finger problems on the touchscreen I said NO. OOPs - now putty gives me error messages about not being able to connect to server. I think that my FreeBsd box is locking me out (or maybe it is the Windows Mobile?? Can anyone tell me how to unlock this situation ? Presumably if it is FreeBSD locking me out then there is a black mark against my mobile's mac address??? Can I find and remedy? Alternatively, perhaps my mobile device is not accepting the security certificate from the server in which case I need the FBSD server to issue a different one? I feel a bit like the guy who left his key inside the car and locked himself out..! Any help please? Thanks, Graham/ I'm not to up to date with Windows Mobile, but this is an issue were putty has put the certificate from the FreeBSD server on the black list because it thinks you told it that it was wrong. Try to remove putty from your PDA, remove any files etc it might have left behind and reinstall. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.5/425 - Release Date: 2006-08-22 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
security certificates ssh
I just tried to ssh into freebsd server using Putty (pocketputty actually). I got a connection (sort of) but my Putty device put up the question ...unknown certificate.do you want to trust it... or words to that effect. Due to finger problems on the touchscreen I said NO. OOPs - now putty gives me error messages about not being able to connect to server. I think that my FreeBsd box is locking me out (or maybe it is the Windows Mobile?? Can anyone tell me how to unlock this situation ? Presumably if it is FreeBSD locking me out then there is a black mark against my mobile's mac address??? Can I find and remedy? Alternatively, perhaps my mobile device is not accepting the security certificate from the server in which case I need the FBSD server to issue a different one? I feel a bit like the guy who left his key inside the car and locked himself out..! Any help please? Thanks, Graham/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.5/425 - Release Date: 2006-08-22 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash? G/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 3/30/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
As said, I am pretty new to unix but is the rehash command not used for reorganized the userland directory iindexes after program upgrades? G/ Yuan Jue wrote: On Friday 31 March 2006 14:02, Graham North wrote: Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash? sorry, but what is your point? -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 3/30/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Hi Yuan: I did not pose a question. My suggestion to do a rehash was in response to someone else having trouble after upgrading Firefox. It may or may not have been a great suggestion but that is all it was. If you have a good understanding of that command and why it may or may not be appropriate then I would be open ears. One of my friends who runs Debian tells me that he finds it necessary after doing software upgrades - yes I know that is a different OS. But sincerely, if you or someone else on this list has a good understanding of its function please enlighten, I love to learn. Thanks, Graham/ Yuan Jue wrote: On Friday 31 March 2006 14:20, Graham North wrote: As said, I am pretty new to unix but is the rehash command not used for reorganized the userland directory iindexes after program upgrades? if what you mean is why firefox cannot start after upgrade, then this is maybe a mozilla known problem. what you should do is su change to root and start firefox there and then everything will be fine Or, maybe you should make your question more clear ;) -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 3/30/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to clear userland?
Hi Erik: mtree eh? I had to man that one... and I will obviously have to read it again - properly. Any chance of asking for a bit of perspective on the command from you? If not, no big deal I will do a bit some background reading. Thanks, Graham/ Erik Norgaard wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/28/06, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a nice tidy way to clear my userland - CLEAN without jeopardizing or reloading the OS? pkg_delete -a should get rid of anything not in the base system. alternately, deleting /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 will remove it pretty quickly, as well. though one would have to check for things started in /etc/rc.conf Variables set in rc.conf refering to nonexistent programs have no effect. But if you delete /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 you'll mess up the package database. Clean it by deleting content of /var/db/pkg also. Recreate the /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 using mtree. Cheers, Erik -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.2/294 - Release Date: 3/27/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to clear userland?
Hi Erik - thank you again. I will explore. Cheers, Graham/ Erik Norgaard wrote: Graham North wrote: mtree eh? I had to man that one... and I will obviously have to read it again - properly. Any chance of asking for a bit of perspective on the command from you? If not, no big deal I will do a bit some background reading. you do something like this to rebuild the directory structure of /usr/local: mtree -U -f /etc/mtree/bsd.local.dist -p /usr Two things to note: I'm on 6.0, you may have a different -f argument. I don't if the -p argument should be /usr/local, I don't think so. Anyway, you can test and see what happens using -p /tmp that should create something in /tmp that you can then just delete. I know on 6.x that mtree is run on 'make installworld' to update the directory base tree, but I'm not sure if it is run for /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 since these are not part of base. For 4.x I don't remember. Cheers, Erik -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/296 - Release Date: 3/29/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to clear userland?
Is there a nice tidy way to clear my userland - CLEAN without jeopardizing or reloading the OS? My 4.11 box is still stable - it started life as a webserver (my first learning experience with Unix), then added printserver and was still pretty light in junk. Recently however, I decided to add a mail server - what with naivety and inexperience and looking at anti-spam and uncle virus etc I think I clogged up my HD with too many extras. I would like to take it back to a barebones OS and reinstall userland without having to re-install OS - can someone suggest safest and least painful options. Thanks, Graham/ BTW - I stayed with 4.11 mainly because it is stable, and it does what it is supposed to do - well, on fairly light hardware, IBM PIII-600 w. 256MB. If it ain't broke.. When the hardware breaks it will probably be time to upgrade the software and check out 6.x's new goodies - or maybe it will be 7.x or 8.x by that time. ..;--) Cheers, G/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.2/294 - Release Date: 3/27/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to clear userland?
Hi illoai: Thank you. G/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/28/06, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a nice tidy way to clear my userland - CLEAN without jeopardizing or reloading the OS? pkg_delete -a should get rid of anything not in the base system. alternately, deleting /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 will remove it pretty quickly, as well. though one would have to check for things started in /etc/rc.conf Unlike certain operating systems, the bloat doesn't do much except take up drive space if you're not actually running the stuff in the bloat. Make the locate database build a tiny bit slower, I suppose. rock the bloat/don't rock the bloat You can rebuild the base system from scratch by following the whole cvsup, buildworld, kernel business. Note what can be not installed in /etc/make.conf (I think you still have a partial reference living in /etc/defaults/make.conf on 4.11, though I may have forgotten.) -- -- -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.2/294 - Release Date: 3/27/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tightening up ssh
Hi Mark: You recently wrote: Users are encouraged to create single-purpose users with ssh keys and very narrowly defined sudo privileges instead of using root for automated tasks. Does this mean that there is a way to run ssh, but only allow certain users to use it. My default seems to have been that if someone has a username and password they can access ssh (except root as PermitRootLogin no is the default). The ssh port seems to be the most heavily attacked one on my machine and so I recently took to blocking port 22. My preference would be to enable it to only one user and give them an obscure username and strong password. Root is not currently allowed access by default in the setup. Is this the approach that you alluded to above? Can you point me to some information or provide some tips. Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.1/292 - Release Date: 3/24/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tightening up ssh
Hi Daniel Thank you! If I read the manpage correctly, invoking AllowUsers automatically changes the default behaviour and restricts access to only those users specificied. That fits my needs exactly. (or at least my current perceived needs :--)) Cheers, Graham/ Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hi Graham, Sunday, March 26, 2006, 9:52:11 PM, you wrote about: Does this mean that there is a way to run ssh, but only allow certain users to use it. My default seems to have been that if someone has a username and password they can access ssh (except root as PermitRootLogin no is the default). The ssh port seems to be the most heavily attacked one on my machine and so I recently took to blocking port 22. My preference would be to enable it to only one user and give them an obscure username and strong password. Root is not currently allowed access by default in the setup. check the AllowUsers and AllowGroups directive in sshd_config(5) -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.1/292 - Release Date: 3/24/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tightening up ssh
Thank youi. G/ fbsd_user wrote: The fact of life is there is no way to stop ssh logon attacks as long as you have port 22 open to the public internet. You all ready see ssh doing its job correctly by not allowing unauthorized logons. Review the questions archives, this subject has been beat to death the last 3 weeks. There are some port application that read the hosts.allow log and auto creates firewall rules to block that attacking ip address. But this is just busy work as it does not stop the packets hitting your front door or really add any additional security over what native ssh is providing you. A more popular method is to change the port number ssh uses and just have your remote ssh users use that port number when they remote logon to ssh. Now the mass majority of script kiddies robots attackers will find port 22 closed and lose interest in you. Only an dedicated attacker who has it out for just you, and knows your ip address all ready would make the special effort to scan all the high order port numbers looking for a ssh response. Read the end of this doc for more details on how to change ssh's port number. Direct link to Example of Host SSH Win SSH Clients is http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/index.jsp?topic=/com.fultus.doc s.software/books/ssh_how-to/cover.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Graham North Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; questions freebsd Subject: Tightening up ssh Hi Mark: You recently wrote: Users are encouraged to create single-purpose users with ssh keys and very narrowly defined sudo privileges instead of using root for automated tasks. Does this mean that there is a way to run ssh, but only allow certain users to use it. My default seems to have been that if someone has a username and password they can access ssh (except root as PermitRootLogin no is the default). The ssh port seems to be the most heavily attacked one on my machine and so I recently took to blocking port 22. My preference would be to enable it to only one user and give them an obscure username and strong password. Root is not currently allowed access by default in the setup. Is this the approach that you alluded to above? Can you point me to some information or provide some tips. Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.1/292 - Release Date: 3/24/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unfamiliar mount points /net /host
I just noticed a couple of additional mount points after running df. They are /net and /hosts . They were not there previously, I think they were created by automount which seems to have been added as a dependcy after doing a cvsup and ports upgrade. Can someone confirm this and/or explain their purpose(s). Thanks for the insights, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date: 3/17/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broken apache after upgrade and addition of php4.
I am running FBSD 4.11 with Apache 1.3.33-ssl, now upgraded to 1.3.34-ssl after doing a cvsup plus portupgrade. All continued to work well, with the new 1.3.34 (but not sure if I had done a reboot to put new program into play). I then added php4 via the mod-php4 port. After rebooting, Apache would not run, claiming syntax error in the config file I had added a couple of lines to httpsd.conf as per instructions at the end of the php4 install (have since commented them out again), but httpsd refuses to run.Cannot find any accidental changes to the config file and am stumped. Suggestions? Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date: 3/17/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unfamiliar mount points /net /host
Hi Dan: Thank you! I do not have another machine set up as an NFS but may do so at some future time. It also gives me comfort to know that they were not put there by someone else Cheers, Graham/ Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 18), Graham North said: I just noticed a couple of additional mount points after running df. They are /net and /hosts . They were not there previously, I think they were created by automount which seems to have been added as a dependcy after doing a cvsup and ports upgrade. Can someone confirm this and/or explain their purpose(s). Those are amd mount points; if you have another machine set up as an NFS server, you can cd into /net/serverhostname and it will automatically mount the remote server's shared filesystems and unmount them when you cd out of the directory. /hosts does the exact same thing. Amd is part of the base system, so is unaffected by port upgrades. Those directories were most likely always there; you just never noticed them. -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date: 3/17/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba Print server
This is supposed to be simple...? My file shares work fine, I can browse and access files without problem. But printer Access denied unable to connect It is driving me bonkers! My nobody account looks okay. My hosts file is okay. lpr works when on the print server machine - it will print. Windows can't. If anyone can give me some suggestions...? Here is my smb.conf file. # smb.conf20060220 - re-write - simplify # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command testparm # to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors. # #=== Global Settings = [global] workgroup = DELNORTE encrypt passwords = yes server string = www_server browseable = yes printing = bsd #print command = lpr -s -P %p %s; rm %s hosts allow = 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.102 192.168.1.103 #local network wins support = no # Share Definitions == [gn] comment = Soleado WebServer path = /home/gn browseable = yes valid users = gn writeable = yes [wqs] comment = WQS WebServer path = /home/wqs browseable = yes writeable = yes valid users = gn wqs # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to # specifically define each individual printer [ljet4l] comment = HP4L path = /var/spool/samba printable = yes public = yes #valid users = nobody #use client driver = yes Thanks to anyone who can help me out of my misery! Cheers, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.11/264 - Release Date: 2/17/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More questions on Samba Print server
Hi Andreas and Questions to All: Well, I took some of your advice and my system is now printing - thank you! The BSD setup recommendations are much more complicated than a couple of other Samba references which I have been reading...? I had already installed APSFilter last summer, and had a working configuration so I new the success was lurking about somewhere. Trouble is, I have been labouring under the assumption that I should be able to use the print services WITHOUT logging on as a user first. My previous attempts and this one, still require that I first log onto the network as a user. I have been hoping to set it up to be self-logging at time of use. Is it not possible for the printer to be setup using the nobody acount to essentially be a passwordless entry? Does yours work that way? If not - if any other users out there can share some secrets in this regard...? Finally, the printer share comments do not show up anywhere in Windows. My other shares display their comments, the lp on my server has for the comment field ljet4l; r=300x300 Not laser ljet4l on www_server as per my share comment below. Any suggestions what might be going on here?? Thanks Andreas, or to anyone else who can step in with answers. Cheers, My new smb.conf as per most of your suggestions: # smb.conf20060220 - re-write - simplify # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command testparm # to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors. # #=== Global Settings = [global] workgroup = DELNORTE encrypt passwords = yes server string = www_server browseable = yes printing = bsd #print command = lpr -s -P %p %s; rm %s hosts allow = 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.102 192.168.1.103 wins support = no # Share Definitions == [gn] comment = Soleado WebServer path = /home/gn browseable = yes valid users = gn writeable = yes [wqs] comment = WQS WebServer path = /home/wqs browseable = yes writeable = yes valid users = gn wqs # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to # specifically define each individual printer [printers] comment = laser ljet4l on www_server path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes printable = yes guest ok = yes create mode = 700 public = yes #valid users = nobody use client driver = yes Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:49:28 +0100, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas - thankyou, I will try something like it. Are you using CUPS or APSFILTER on your BSD machine? Thanks, Graham/ Actually I was just using the handbook to set up my printer: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-advanced.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-advanced.html#PRINTING-ADVANCED-PS I am using lpd, the standard spooler, and an input filter in printcap to manage postscript and the staircase effect, then the printing is done by Ghostscript (device=pxlmono). You should be able to do it this way to, if your printer is supported by Ghostscript, which it probably is. You already got the smb.conf-part. -- %cat printcap Kyocera|lp|Kyocera mita FS-1010:\ :sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/Kyocera:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/ifkyocera: -- %cat ifkyocera #!/bin/sh # Treat LF as CR+LF (to avoid the staircase effect on HP/PCL # printers): # printf \033k2G || exit 2 # # Read first two characters of the file # IFS= read -r first_line first_two_chars=`expr $first_line : '\(..\)'` if [ $first_two_chars = %! ]; then # # It is PostScript; use Ghostscript to scan-convert and print it. # /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pxlmono \ -sOutputFile=- - exit 0 else # # Plain text or HP/PCL, so just print it directly; print a form feed # at the end to eject the last page. # echo $first_line cat printf \033l0H exit 0 fi exit 2 -- I hope this will help a bit. Andreas -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: 2/21/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rootkit detection
Hi Spyridon: Thank you for your replies. I was able to install the chkrootkit port and it seems to show the system as clean. To all other replies, thank you for your help also. Cheers, Graham/ SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS wrote: Hi again, Well check this the message in my /var/log/messages is: kernel: arp: 192.168.2.34 moved from 00:13:8f:4c:1b:41 to 00:11:2f:0c:b1:0a on rl0 So Hmm now that i am thinking of it again: server /kernel: arp 00:11:43:4a:8d:18 is using my IP address 192.168.0.102 This also looks like an IP conflict!! And it is not similar to mine, even if it can be the same... Someone more experienced maybe can make this clear. To be honest i haven't seen the output you posted before... Sorry for the inconvenience if i was wrong before.. Spiros -Original Message- From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:23:08 -0800 Subject: Rootkit detection I would like to determine if my server has had rootkit installed by a hacker. FBSD 4.11. Main entrances are only http, ssh and also webmin. My server went down sometime recently. When I went investigate there was a somewhat nasty message saying: server /kernel: arp 00:11:43:4a:8d:18 is using my IP address 192.168.0.102 The mac address 00:11:43:4a:8d:18 does not belong to any of my hardware. (server is a pseudonymn for this email but is the machine name for the server on my home network - 192.68.0.102 is the LAN addr on my router) The auth log files have been rolled over several times in the last few weeks and I have not unzipped them yet to see if any entries were accepted but the most recent one is filled with unsuccessful attacks to sshd on high port numbers, ie sshd[86417]. My biggest concern is the message at the top of this email server /kernel: arp 00:11:43:4a:8d:18 is using my IP address 192.168.0.102, it sounds scary. Can someone give please me some guidance as to how to determine whether my machine is comprimised? Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rootkit detection
I would like to determine if my server has had rootkit installed by a hacker. FBSD 4.11. Main entrances are only http, ssh and also webmin. My server went down sometime recently. When I went investigate there was a somewhat nasty message saying: server /kernel: arp 00:11:43:4a:8d:18 is using my IP address 192.168.0.102 The mac address 00:11:43:4a:8d:18 does not belong to any of my hardware. (server is a pseudonymn for this email but is the machine name for the server on my home network - 192.68.0.102 is the LAN addr on my router) The auth log files have been rolled over several times in the last few weeks and I have not unzipped them yet to see if any entries were accepted but the most recent one is filled with unsuccessful attacks to sshd on high port numbers, ie sshd[86417]. My biggest concern is the message at the top of this email server /kernel: arp 00:11:43:4a:8d:18 is using my IP address 192.168.0.102, it sounds scary. Can someone give please me some guidance as to how to determine whether my machine is comprimised? Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host
Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net I have not noticed these before. Thanks for any help. Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1/135 - Release Date: 10/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host]
To clarify - on my home network the server machine is named www so that is probably where the www comes from in the device names below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net G/ Original Message Subject:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:21:11 -0700 From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: questions freebsd freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net I have not noticed these before. Thanks for any help. Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1/135 - Release Date: 10/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host
Thank you for the enlightenment! Cheers, G/ Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 16), Graham North said: Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net You have amd enabled. -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/137 - Release Date: 10/16/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cool 'n quiet and other AMD stuff
Two questions related to AMD motherboards and drivers. 1) Is the AMD Cool 'n quiet feature (PowerNow) feature supported while running i386 FBSD on this AMD64 processor? (Assuming MB support). 2) Does anyone have experience with whether the K8M800 (includes unichrome graphics) is supported in i386 - it does not appear to be supported in AMD64 FBSD. It seems to be quite a different animal from the K8t800 whch apppears to have solid support. Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 267.11.9 - Release Date: 9/29/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i386 on AMD64 architecture
It is my understanding that the AMD 64 family supports 32-bit i386 code completely...can someone confirm this. I would like to stay with 32 bit for the time being but run it on a new MB using an AMD64 architecture. Should I therefore be simply installing an i386 iso as though it is on an Intel machine? Will the i386 iso then have full support for AMD specific drivers such as the k8t800? I noticed from this link http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html THAT the the VIA K8T800 and K8T890 seem to be reasonably supported whereas not many other current AMD Northbridges are (note however that this support is for AMD64 iso). Any pearls of wisdom much appreciated. No I do not wish to install as 64 bit at this time... Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture
Thanks Micah! Which version of FBSD are you using? Your choice of MB looks pretty solid. Can you recommend a good, supported (and cheap) video card as the A8V-E does not seem to have video. Thanks again, Graham/ Micah wrote: Graham North wrote: It is my understanding that the AMD 64 family supports 32-bit i386 code completely...can someone confirm this. I would like to stay with 32 bit for the time being but run it on a new MB using an AMD64 architecture. Should I therefore be simply installing an i386 iso as though it is on an Intel machine? Will the i386 iso then have full support for AMD specific drivers such as the k8t800? I noticed from this link http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html THAT the the VIA K8T800 and K8T890 seem to be reasonably supported whereas not many other current AMD Northbridges are (note however that this support is for AMD64 iso). Any pearls of wisdom much appreciated. No I do not wish to install as 64 bit at this time... Thanks, Graham/ You'll probably get a lot of responses on this one. I'm currently running the i386 FreeBSD on an Ahtlon 64 as my desktop. I also have the 64 bit installed on a seperate partition to experiment with. I have an A8V-E mobo that has the K8T890. Works just fine except an occasional glitch while booting freezes the system. I've read it's an ACPI thing, but since I rarely reboot I've not bothered to disable ACPI. Later, Micah -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture]
Original Message Subject:Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:10:35 -0700 From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks again. Graphics is not a priority for my desktop applications - as long as it has something reasonable for desktop apps. I am also happy to use a standalone NIC for the time being (and have a spare:--)) I am in the due diligence mode for the hardware at the moment. It is actually tough finding what I want because ideally my preference would be an matx form factor to fit in a small case. All the matx boards which I have looked at so far seem to have k8m800 Northbridge which does not seem to be well supported in BSD - somebody please put me right if I am wrong..!! or else nvidia, or sis760 - none of these seem to be solid with BSD. So that leaves the k8T800 or K8T890. If someone knows of a good 754 or 939 micro atx board which works well on Freebsd then please let me know. I am choosing the 64 architecture because later in its life I hope to retire this board to a light duty server and would like the Cool 'n Quiet features of the A64 architecture. Graham/ Micah wrote: Graham North wrote: Thanks Micah! Which version of FBSD are you using? Your choice of MB looks pretty solid. Can you recommend a good, supported (and cheap) video card as the A8V-E does not seem to have video. Thanks again, Graham/ I'm using 5.4-RELEASE-p7 for the i386 install and 5.4-RELEASE for the AMD64 install. As for video, no particular recommendation. I have an ATI X300 SE by MSI. It's a cheap ($60) PCI-EX card. Unfortunately it has no graphics acceleration under FreeBSD/XORG so I might as well have bought a cheaper PCI card. :) Other caveats: I've read that the onboard NIC isn't compatible yet and I haven't tried the onboard wifi or sata since I don't have any equipment to test them with. I saw some messages in one of the freebsd lists that indicates /someone/ is working on the NIC though. Later, Micah Micah wrote: Graham North wrote: It is my understanding that the AMD 64 family supports 32-bit i386 code completely...can someone confirm this. I would like to stay with 32 bit for the time being but run it on a new MB using an AMD64 architecture. Should I therefore be simply installing an i386 iso as though it is on an Intel machine? Will the i386 iso then have full support for AMD specific drivers such as the k8t800? I noticed from this link http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html THAT the the VIA K8T800 and K8T890 seem to be reasonably supported whereas not many other current AMD Northbridges are (note however that this support is for AMD64 iso). Any pearls of wisdom much appreciated. No I do not wish to install as 64 bit at this time... Thanks, Graham/ You'll probably get a lot of responses on this one. I'm currently running the i386 FreeBSD on an Ahtlon 64 as my desktop. I also have the 64 bit installed on a seperate partition to experiment with. I have an A8V-E mobo that has the K8T890. Works just fine except an occasional glitch while booting freezes the system. I've read it's an ACPI thing, but since I rarely reboot I've not bothered to disable ACPI. Later, Micah -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re:rebuilding kernel 6.0beta4 for amd64
I'm still almost at newbie status so please forgive naive questions but if the FreeBSD development team has written some SIS drivers to support the 965 chipset shouldn't it be possible to re-compile for earlier (ie stable) versions instead of 6.0 beta? Do these kind of patches not get made available through cvsup? If not, are they still not made available for download so that we can compile into our earlier kernels? Presumably it wouldn't be too difficult to inject some small changes and new source codes into an an older ISO package and re-burn to a new cd..using the Windows box. Again, I am new to this so please don't flame me if I am missing some fundamentals here and overlooking some critical boogeymen. Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.22/97 - Release Date: 9/12/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for SIS 760GX, and SIS 965L
Hi Dimitry: There is great variation among chipsets used. Asus also uses a lot of VIA. The SIS760GX and SIS965L are relatively new and I believe a few months ago I saw postings indicating difficulties with FBSD. If anyone else has updated info on support for this chipset please holler. The board I wish to use is part of the Asus Pundit AE3 - maybe someone has freebsd installed on one already? Cheers, Graham/ Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/1/05, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me whether FreeBSD stable currently supports these two chips. North Bridge: SIS 760GX South Bridge: SIS 965L Asus seems to like them for its AMD barebones units. Not exactly the same chips, but FreeBSD 4.x-5.x has worked flawlessly on my ASUS Terminator K7 for years. -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/87 - Release Date: 9/1/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Support for SIS 760GX, and SIS 965L
Can anyone tell me whether FreeBSD stable currently supports these two chips. North Bridge: SIS 760GX South Bridge: SIS 965L Asus seems to like them for its AMD barebones units. Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: 8/31/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Security level problem with Samba Apsfilter print server
Recently I tried using Samba to print from the WinXP box to a FreeBSD webserver which has been using Samba 2.2.12 successfully to share folders to WinXP. It works - sort of. Problem is Samba keeps applying user level security to printer access. I thought that I could change security to share in the [printers} definition but that does not seem to work. Probably a doddle to fix for you pros..! I was able to connect printer to FBSD box, and install it as a printer in WinXP, however if I shutdown WinXP then the next time I boot WinXP my printer is inaccessible until I login to my FBSD file shares using a user id. There are lots of settings which I have tried which are currently commented out as they did not seem to be effective. Help with this would be greatly appreciated as I do not want to have to login to my webserver every time I need to print from Windows. Here is my smb.conf: (sorry the [printers] is at bottom) #=== Global Settings = [global] printing = BSD workgroup = DELNORTE encrypt passwords = yes server string = soleado server hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 printcap = /etc/printcap load printers = yes log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY wins support = no # Share Definitions == [gn] comment = Soleado WebServer path = /home/gn browseable = yes writeable = yes read only = no [configs] comment = Soleado Configs path = /home/soleado_configs browseable = yes writeable = yes read only = no [wqs] comment = WQS WebServer path = /home/wqs browseable = yes writeable = yes read only = no # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to #20060826 Opened up printer section again. [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/lpd # print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p -r %s public = yes browseable = no # security = share # set client driver use to no use client driver = yes # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = yes # guest account = nobody # writeable = yes printable = yes printer = lp -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/84 - Release Date: 8/29/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security level problem with Samba Apsfilter print server
Thank you for these suggestions - I may try them but to be honest think that the problem lies elsewhere. I did have this working fine more than a year ago but then changed computers, removed the printserver function and am only now coming back to re-install as a printserver (old smb.conf lost of course!) Does not FreeBSD allow a guest logon for printers and put into nobody user group, or something of that ilk. It seems to me that was what it did before. On another note, this was working perfectly with CUPS about 2 weeks ago - well almost, it actually didn't print localhost ascii files very well, they needed switches for manually shifting the margins. My solution was to create an alias for the lpr command which blew everything apart so that the lpd refused to load - finally I blew it all away and loaded apsfilter again.(that took a couple of tries too, because CUPS leaves behind a few boogeymen gotchas). Print server guest accounts anyoneone? Graham/ K Anderson wrote: - Original Message - From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: questions freebsd freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:56 PM Subject: Security level problem with Samba Apsfilter print server Recently I tried using Samba to print from the WinXP box to a FreeBSD webserver which has been using Samba 2.2.12 successfully to share folders to WinXP. It works - sort of. Problem is Samba keeps applying user level security to printer access. I thought that I could change security to share in the [printers} definition but that does not seem to work. Probably a doddle to fix for you pros..! I was able to connect printer to FBSD box, and install it as a printer in WinXP, however if I shutdown WinXP then the next time I boot WinXP my printer is inaccessible until I login to my FBSD file shares using a user id. There are lots of settings which I have tried which are currently commented out as they did not seem to be effective. Help with this would be greatly appreciated as I do not want to have to login to my webserver every time I need to print from Windows. My guess is that your XP user name and password are different from your FreeBSD user name and password. You can try a couple of things: On your XP computer create a user account that matchs your FreeBSD account and login information and see if it pesters for the password and name; the other is create an account on your FreeBSD computer to match your XP user name and password and see what happens. Here is my smb.conf: (sorry the [printers] is at bottom) #=== Global Settings = [global] printing = BSD workgroup = DELNORTE encrypt passwords = yes server string = soleado server hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 printcap = /etc/printcap load printers = yes log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY wins support = no # Share Definitions == [gn] comment = Soleado WebServer path = /home/gn browseable = yes writeable = yes read only = no [configs] comment = Soleado Configs path = /home/soleado_configs browseable = yes writeable = yes read only = no [wqs] comment = WQS WebServer path = /home/wqs browseable = yes writeable = yes read only = no # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to #20060826 Opened up printer section again. [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/lpd # print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p -r %s public = yes browseable = no # security = share # set client driver use to no use client driver = yes # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = yes # guest account = nobody # writeable = yes printable = yes printer = lp -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/84 - Release Date: 8/29/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/84 - Release Date: 8/29/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cupsd broken child
Hello again: I recently installed CUPS on a 4.11 webserver. After a few problems everything got sorted and ran fine for a couple days. Yesterday I set an alias for lp and everything seems to have broken. To ease text file formatting I set: alias lp='lp -o page-left=15 -o page-top=15' This was done to make text file printout more pretty as the default put the borders hard at the edge of the paper. When entered at the command line, the above options work well. (this is the cups lp daemon). Not only did the alias not work but now something seems to really be broken. I have tried unalias to fix it, have rebooted etc On reboot now, dmesg gives output: cupsd child exited with status 2! (exclamation provided courtesy bsd) cups: unable to start scheduler Trying to start manually from cups.sh gives me the same message. dmesg does not indicate problems with parallel port ppc0 or lpt0. Can anyone help me to figure out what might have happened and how to fix? Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.1/64 - Release Date: 8/4/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Process states lpd
Can someone tell me whether an idling freebsd machine should be running two (2) lpd daemons? Both are running under root and one is running in nanslp the other select. This is something I just noticed after installig CUPS. That exercise was a bit of ordeal and finally with some help from the author of a great how to article I succeeded in making almost everything work. (except the web interface to administration and documentation). One point of note, in this process CUPS inserts its own lpd in a different directory from BSD normal directory, as a result, it is necessary to remove the original lpd and create a symlink to the new one. Could this result in an extra process? BTW the sizes of the two processes differ also, one is 1036K and the other 980K - hmmm...? Graham North Vancouver, Canada. -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.1/64 - Release Date: 8/4/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server
Hi Daniel: As indicated, I have tried to create links that will redirect to the new lpr placed in /usr/local/bin I did not redirect anything to /usr/local/sbin. My changes were: mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak ln -s /usr/local/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr Thanks, Graham/ Daniel Marsh wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:13:18 +0800, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and Samba following great directions found here: http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=contentdo_pdf=1id=16 The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client to an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd, however it will not print files from itself using lpr. A bit of hunting found some gotchas at: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html ... and so I tried adding symbolic links for the lp and lpr commands as per the author's recommendations - see bottom of email. The problem still exists however, now instead of getting error messages, if I issue a lpr filename command, my printer gives a quick blink, no errror messages are generated, but neither is printer output - nada! Repeat - Samba and Cups work together fine on this elderly hp4l - print all sorts from Windows. Just cannot access from the server itself. I am sure that this is a simple configuration issue somewhere - my printcap definition, ie: hp4l|lp|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: ps. This was auto-generated from CUPs and oirignally was hp4l|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: (I later inserted the lp myself as CUPS does not, either way it doesn't work.) Can anyone please point me straight on this? Thanks, Graham/ Are you using the lpr that was installed with FreeBSD as part of the base or the lpr supplier by the cups-lpr package? FreeBSD base lpr is in /usr/bin|/usr/sbin and the cups-lpr is in /usr/local/bin|/usr/local/sbin... -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 8/3/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server
Update - problem partially solved. I believe that a typo in smb.conf caused the grief, HOWEVER the formatting of text files from lp kind of sucks. Printing is hard against the Left Hand Side of page and loses about 2 characters. I looked and did not seem to have a2ps installed therefore installed and rebooted. Print is still the same - bad ALSO - I have been periodically getting kernel IRQ 7 error messages...!!! This does not sound like a good thing. Suggestions? Should I perhaps de-install CUPS and do again? Note this was originally set up as a simple web server, but I thought since it is running 24/7 and has Samba installed to access files from my WinBox I might as well tie the printer to it so as to enable printing of config files etc (yes I can open Samba wider to access those files from Windows but I do not like the security implications!) Some ideas from a good CUPser might really help. Thanks, Graham/ Graham North wrote: I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and Samba following great directions found here: http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=contentdo_pdf=1id=16 The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client to an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd, however it will not print files from itself using lpr. A bit of hunting found some gotchas at: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html ... and so I tried adding symbolic links for the lp and lpr commands as per the author's recommendations - see bottom of email. The problem still exists however, now instead of getting error messages, if I issue a lpr filename command, my printer gives a quick blink, no errror messages are generated, but neither is printer output - nada! Repeat - Samba and Cups work together fine on this elderly hp4l - print all sorts from Windows. Just cannot access from the server itself. I am sure that this is a simple configuration issue somewhere - my printcap definition, ie: hp4l|lp|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: ps. This was auto-generated from CUPs and oirignally was hp4l|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: (I later inserted the lp myself as CUPS does not, either way it doesn't work.) Can anyone please point me straight on this? Thanks, Graham/ From gotchas With FreeBSD, cups will place its configuration files in /usr/local/etc rather than /etc. The lp or lpr command that you will use is also going to be in /usr/local/bin rather than /usr/bin. As /usr/bin is listed first in the path for both root and normal user, if one tries to print using the command lp filename you'll get an error message. There are various workarounds--one can edit the $PATH variable, type the entire path, eg /usr/local/bin/lp or do it the lazy man's way, which, as those who know me would expect, is what I did. I backed up the /usr/bin lp and lpr and then sym linked /usr/local/bin's commands to them. mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak ln -s /usr/local/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr ** -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 8/3/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
printing problems with CUPS on localhost server
I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and Samba following great directions found here: http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=contentdo_pdf=1id=16 The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client to an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd, however it will not print files from itself using lpr. A bit of hunting found some gotchas at: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html ... and so I tried adding symbolic links for the lp and lpr commands as per the author's recommendations - see bottom of email. The problem still exists however, now instead of getting error messages, if I issue a lpr filename command, my printer gives a quick blink, no errror messages are generated, but neither is printer output - nada! Repeat - Samba and Cups work together fine on this elderly hp4l - print all sorts from Windows. Just cannot access from the server itself. I am sure that this is a simple configuration issue somewhere - my printcap definition, ie: hp4l|lp|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: ps. This was auto-generated from CUPs and oirignally was hp4l|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: (I later inserted the lp myself as CUPS does not, either way it doesn't work.) Can anyone please point me straight on this? Thanks, Graham/ From gotchas With FreeBSD, cups will place its configuration files in /usr/local/etc rather than /etc. The lp or lpr command that you will use is also going to be in /usr/local/bin rather than /usr/bin. As /usr/bin is listed first in the path for both root and normal user, if one tries to print using the command lp filename you'll get an error message. There are various workarounds--one can edit the $PATH variable, type the entire path, eg /usr/local/bin/lp or do it the lazy man's way, which, as those who know me would expect, is what I did. I backed up the /usr/bin lp and lpr and then sym linked /usr/local/bin's commands to them. mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak ln -s /usr/local/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr ** -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.9/62 - Release Date: 8/2/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AsRock 760GX
Hi Don: Thank you for your feedback. I was planning to run X and was a little concerned because this board is new with new SIS chipset. Thanks again. Graham/ Don Brearley wrote: 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 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/55 - Release Date: 7/21/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AsRock 760GX
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 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/55 - Release Date: 7/21/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apache-ssl and mod_mysql mod_php4
Do the mysql and php4 modules integrate with apache-ssl. as with regular apache_1.3.33 ?? I installed apache-ssl instead of apache on a whim - SSL works and I can use the server for secure or regular port 80 http, however nowhere can I find info that explicitly indicates the compatability of mysql and php4 for this Apache variant. Can someone give me some assurance before I install the ports. Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/44 - Release Date: 7/8/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache-ssl and mod_mysql mod_php4
Hi Joe - thank you for this information/confirmation. Cheers, Graham/ Joe Wood wrote: Yes, it works fine; I installed apache mod_ssl (1.3.33) and installed both mysql4 and php4 from ports without a single issue. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham North Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 7:31 PM To: questions freebsd Subject: apache-ssl and mod_mysql mod_php4 Do the mysql and php4 modules integrate with apache-ssl. as with regular apache_1.3.33 ?? I installed apache-ssl instead of apache on a whim - SSL works and I can use the server for secure or regular port 80 http, however nowhere can I find info that explicitly indicates the compatability of mysql and php4 for this Apache variant. Can someone give me some assurance before I install the ports. Thanks, Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/44 - Release Date: 7/8/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ports backup
Hello all: Thank you Trevor and Ted for your help. I got rid of all but the PRN directory and will work on that. Trevor - will try your ideas, the command line del and rd didn't seem to work. Am not familiar with sfc but will do some digging. Ports tree was transferred from Freebsd to WinBox via samba without incident. Cheers, Graham/ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 5/10/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports backup corrupted windows - addendum
Discovered that ports Japanese has a port called prn - this is a privileged name in Windows - of course when I tried to blow away the whole ports backup it choked up and left a 97MB file hanging. I will try to find out how to deal with privileged file deletion in Windows via other forums (using command prompt del doesn't work). Cheers, Graham/ Graham North wrote: Okay, I know it sounds daft and I hope that it is not too far out there Some time ago when loading a new FreeBSD, I decided to back up the ports collection onto my Windows XP hardrive. Today, I decided to blow it away - but it won't go! It moved from C: drive to the recycle bin, and most got emptied out however some (97.2MB) is sticking.No matter that I try to empty recycle bin it gives me a message cannot remove folder prn: The parameter is incorrect. Everyting else in the bin was emptied but now the recycle bin seems broken when I try to delete other files - it is really weird. Could some set of Unix file permissions have thrown the Windows box for a loop? Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks, Graham/ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.7 - Release Date: 5/9/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ports backup corrupted windows
Okay, I know it sounds daft and I hope that it is not too far out there Some time ago when loading a new FreeBSD, I decided to back up the ports collection onto my Windows XP hardrive. Today, I decided to blow it away - but it won't go! It moved from C: drive to the recycle bin, and most got emptied out however some (97.2MB) is sticking.No matter that I try to empty recycle bin it gives me a message cannot remove folder prn: The parameter is incorrect. Everyting else in the bin was emptied but now the recycle bin seems broken when I try to delete other files - it is really weird. Could some set of Unix file permissions have thrown the Windows box for a loop? Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks, Graham/ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.7 - Release Date: 5/9/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Release 4.11 - compile errors
I just installed 4.11 on older IBM - not problems CVSUP'd and rebuilt kernel - no errors Installed kernel and installed world - still okay. Tried trimming kernel and making with CUSTOM Config file. make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM It barfs after 5 mins with: undefined reference to 'cam_sim_free' undefined reference to 'xpt_create_path' undefined reference to xpt_done' Can anyone give me an idea of what it is choking on. I did not try to be overly agressive in my config changes. Selected a cpu, removed a bunch of drivers - particularily scsi, firewire and wifi. Suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Graham/ Vamcouver, Canada No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 5/6/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Release 4.11 - compile errors
Kris: Thank you, you are correct - I found a previous post for a similar question. For those interested it was the umass device: From *Matt Emmerton *Feb. 2005 - You've got device umass in your kernel, but you've commented out the SCSI-related devices which are required. You need to uncomment device scbus and device da in order to use device umass. It worked for me too! Thanks Matt and Kris. Graham/ Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:33:33PM -0700, Graham North wrote: I just installed 4.11 on older IBM - not problems CVSUP'd and rebuilt kernel - no errors Installed kernel and installed world - still okay. Tried trimming kernel and making with CUSTOM Config file. make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM It barfs after 5 mins with: undefined reference to 'cam_sim_free' undefined reference to 'xpt_create_path' undefined reference to xpt_done' Can anyone give me an idea of what it is choking on. I did not try to be overly agressive in my config changes. Selected a cpu, removed a bunch of drivers - particularily scsi, firewire and wifi. You removed SCSI support but left in a driver that requires it. Go back to GENERIC or carefully review your changes. Kris No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 5/6/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Network Printing to Windows - CUPS?]
Hello: Has anyone had any joy printing from FreeBSD box to Windows print server? CUPS? Pointers? I have 3 machince and would prefer to leave printer attached to WinXP box. Suse is running another machine, and even using their YAST config too. I was not able to make it print properly - it found the printer but spooled gobbletygook! nb. printer is an HP LaserJet 4L wihich well supported with drivers etc.. Thanks for any help. Graham/ Vancouver, Canada. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmin - ssh - 4.11
Hello: I just installed Webmin - great program. Q - the telnet/ssh portion does not seem to work properly. It opens an ssh window for me but the window is unresponsive. It is configured for ssh instead of telnet, and I have port 22 open on my router. I am able to ssh into my server using Putty from Windows so my sshd is working fine. Webmin says that it has opened a connection but then just presents me with an unresponsive cursor, no prompts for username or password (maybe Wemin took care of that?) no feedback or response to keystrokes. Has anyone used this feature of Webmin ? had similar problems? Resolved? Extra note - this webmin only seems to have config options up to 4.10 - and therefore I entered that as the version number (for 4.11) - not sure whether that would make a difference? Cheers, Graham/ Vancouver, Canada No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?
Hello Svein: Thank you for this suggestion. I will follow-up. Graham/ Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Graham North [2005-02-23 22:36 -0800] Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? Take a look at ataidle in the ports collection. Note that the disk will come back to life again when you access it, and that several processes do exactly this all the time. In order for ataidle to be very useful, you'd have to twaek the system's crontabs et.al. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?
Hello Heikki: I stumbled on this post by you - but not resolving answers - I have the same question? Did you find good answers for FreeBSD? If so, would you be willing to share your experience? Thank you for any help you can offer. Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your post last year: I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-stable on an Mini ITX Epia system. (onboard C3 800 mhz, Video, sound, NIC, TV-out, 2 ATA IDE controllers.) Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? I'm building an fileserver with several disks that won't be used more than a couple of hours each day, and in the mean time I would like to reduce the noise level by putting the ATA harddrives in sleep/suspend mode with an timeout. This is an *critical* abillity, I like FreeBSD a lot, but without this functionality I'l have to run linux and use hdparm to reduce the noise to an acceptable level. Heikki Soerum. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree
Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98.After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is almost out of file handles. A sensible solution.. how about removing my 800M of Windows and capturing it for FBSD. NOTE - please read end of email concerning inodes. Looking for suggestions and warnings..! Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. Something important to note, I am not out of disk space but have run out of file handles (BSD calls them Inodes) - so it really is nodes that I need to recapture not space - might this have some implications that necessitate a complete reformat or re-install?? Suggestions and comments greatly appreciated. Cheers, Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree
Hello Bill: Thanks again for your help. Does the line wrap look better now? I reduced from 76 to 66. Regarding inodes - /usr is 778MB and began with 99,838 inodes. That would jive approximately with your million for 10G drive. It now has 96M of free space but only 590 inodes remaining.This heavy drain on inodes occurred when I downloaded the full Ports tree a month or so ago. Not sure of the numbers but it was clearly a TON of small files :--). /usr is /dev/ad0s2g - I cannot remember from my install but think that Windows may be the first partition..?? You said: _Assuming_ your Windows partition is the last partition on the HDD, and the /usr partition is second to last, the following will work: 1) BACK UP any important data ... this procedure is easy to screw up! 2) Use PM or something similar to remove the Win partition and expenad the BSD partition to take up the space used by Win. You can also use BSD's disklabel and related utilities to do this (in single-user mode). 3) Boot FreeBSD into single-user mode 4) Use growfs to increase the size of the /usr filesystem to take up the partition. I suspect that since the Ports download is an infrequent deal and most of my other files are much larger than the 500B or so of the Ports that the problem will be alleviated by adding space with a proportional number of nodes - (provided the next Ports update does not leave me with tons of debris) I will do some hunting for info on single user mode and growfs before proceeding. Is it necessary for me to user single user mode if I am the only user? I can of course restrict myself to a single logon. Thanks again for such really good help. Graham/ - Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:50 PM Subject: Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so ... see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html ] Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98.After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is almost out of file handles. This is very unusual. There are generally more than enough inodes so that you don't run out of inodes before you run out of space. Did you use custom options to newfs when you created the filesystem? Do you have a TON of small files? You may want to just ckeck the filesystem and see what's eating up all the inodes to make sure it isn't something you can just delete. My /usr filesystem is 10G, and the defaults created over 1 million inodes. I'm using 2.7G and 170,000 inodes, which means I'll run out of space when I still have 1/2-million free inodes. Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. You've got the right idea, but you're a little off. _Assuming_ your Windows partition is the last partition on the HDD, and the /usr partition is second to last, the following will work: 1) BACK UP any important data ... this procedure is easy to screw up! 2) Use PM or something similar to remove the Win partition and expenad the BSD partition to take up the space used by Win. You can also use BSD's disklabel and related utilities to do this (in single-user mode). 3) Boot FreeBSD into single-user mode 4) Use growfs to increase the size of the /usr filesystem to take up the partition. Since inodes are laid out in as a ration of #inodes/block, newfs will add more inodes in ration to the amount of space added. My point is that if you continue to use the filesystem in this manner, you're still going to run out of inodes before you fill the drive (even with the increased space). Although, this is a valid short-term fix that will provide you with more inodes. Depending on what you want to accomplish (long term) you may want to take the time now to backup this filesystem and re-newfs it with a value for -i that's appropriate. See the man page for newfs for more details. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any
Re: Pruning the Ports Tree
Hello Peder: Thank you for this suggestion, I will give it some thought. Thanks to everyone for their help - should other commets come in during the next couple of days please note that I will be offline for a little while so do not feel I am being rude if not responding immediately. Cheers all, Graham/ - Original Message - From: Peder Blom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Pruning the Ports Tree On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:52:18 -0700 Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Uli and the rest of the FreeBSD forum: Thanks for your advice - though I am not entirely sure what the purpose of your last questions are. To answer though: My HD is about 1.2G - it is sharing 2.0G with another OS. /usr~ 778M usr/ports ~247M total /usr being used is ~595M with about 183M free. The problem is not disk space - it appears to be file handles. Remember, those ports files are only about 0.5K each - so lots of inodes are being used in file infrastructure. Midnight Comm which I use for a lot of file navigation indicates that I had 99838 inodes available - of which there are now only 602 free! Yesterday that was about 900, but then I mirrored part of a friend's website and used another 300. As you can see, I need to free up some file handling capability. Thanks for any further advice you can give. Cheers, Graham/ Hi Graham You might consider using a file-backed disk (see the handbook sec 12.11) for your portstree. This should save a lot of inodes at the cost of wasting some space on your hd. Something along the lines of: 1) Point workdirs and distfiles to directories outside the ports dir by setting the environmental variables WRKDIRPREFIX and DISTDIR (man ports). 2) Estimate what will be the maximum size of your portstree for the lifetime of your setup, create a file of this size and make it into a file-backed disk. 3) Mount this file-backed disk on /usr/ports. For this to be meaningful you obviously have to remove your current portstree and build one on your file-backed disk. I'm running a setup similar to this for sharing ports between jails without any problems. (You might even be able to create the file-backed disk on the slice you are sharing with another OS and gain some space on /usr, if needed.) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pruning the Ports Tree
Is it alright to prune the Ports tree - and still do updates later. I am running 4.8 stable and recently did a full Ports tree update using CVSUP. This generates several questions. 1) I took the advice of Michael Urban's book and upgraded from the Head of the source tree rather than from that for 4.8 - did I really want to do that? Does it matter for a Ports only updating? 2) The tree is getting pretty big - result, lots of files. My hard drive is not very big - it is down to a few hundred inodes (file handles) within the usr directory. Can I prune the tree on my hard drive without compromising future updates? If it helps, my machine is not using X only command mode so there are lots of Ports that will never be made. Thanks for any help that can be offered. Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pruning the Ports Tree
Hi Uli and the rest of the FreeBSD forum: Thanks for your advice - though I am not entirely sure what the purpose of your last questions are. To answer though: My HD is about 1.2G - it is sharing 2.0G with another OS. /usr~ 778M usr/ports ~247M total /usr being used is ~595M with about 183M free. The problem is not disk space - it appears to be file handles. Remember, those ports files are only about 0.5K each - so lots of inodes are being used in file infrastructure. Midnight Comm which I use for a lot of file navigation indicates that I had 99838 inodes available - of which there are now only 602 free! Yesterday that was about 900, but then I mirrored part of a friend's website and used another 300. As you can see, I need to free up some file handling capability. Thanks for any further advice you can give. Cheers, Graham/ - Original Message - From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:29 AM Subject: Re: Pruning the Ports Tree On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Graham North wrote: Is it alright to prune the Ports tree - and still do updates later. I am running 4.8 stable and recently did a full Ports tree update using CVSUP. This generates several questions. 1) I took the advice of Michael Urban's book and upgraded from the Head of the source tree rather than from that for 4.8 - did I really want to do that? Does it matter for a Ports only updating? It is recommended to use the appropriate kernel and base system with your ports. Things might work the way you did it, or (probably) not. 2) The tree is getting pretty big - result, lots of files. My hard drive is not very big - it is down to a few hundred inodes (file handles) within the usr directory. Can I prune the tree on my hard drive without compromising future updates? If it helps, my machine is not using X only command mode so there are lots of Ports that will never be made. For further advices it would be helpful to know how big your hd is and how much diskspace is used by your ports tree. You can check the latter by # du -h -d 1 (see # man du) Regards, Uli. Thanks for any help that can be offered. Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pruning the Ports Tree
Hi Uli: Thanks again. There was an email from Mathew Seaman - however it came as only attachments, and not knowing him I did not open them - there was not text at all in the body of the email. Maybe I will now open it.. I do not know anything much about inodes or file handles either... My thinking was to just use brute force and chop away much of the ports collection that I am not likely to need on my little web server. There are a myriad of ports for audio, games etc. not to mention X files. That should free up a lot of file handles. I don't want to put everything into too much of a tizzy however the next time I update them. Probably the most sensible thing to do is simply remove it entirely and just do single port upgrades as needs be. Cheers, Graham/ - Original Message - From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Pruning the Ports Tree On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Graham North wrote: Hi Uli and the rest of the FreeBSD forum: Thanks for your advice - though I am not entirely sure what the purpose of your last questions are. I wanted to know about your ressources, since your ports dirctory might grow very big, if you don't clean it up every now and then. Matthew gave some hints about that at the last part of his mail. I hardly know anything about inodes, but as far as I understand, you would have to reformat your entire filesystem to change anything about this. The simpliest way to update your system on a small hd would be to keep strictly to binary upgrades and installations. You won't need the ports directory then (neither the system sources in /usr/src). Another simple idea would be to get another small hd somewhere, devide it into two slices and mount one on /usr/ports and the other on /usr/src . This would give you enough space to do full rebuilds of your system and your ports. If you have enough patience and time you can also download single port directories from www.freebsd.org/ports, place them in appropriate directories and try to make install them. They will complain when they are missing some other port. I have done that to set up a samba printer server, but next time I will use binary packages. Uli. To answer though: My HD is about 1.2G - it is sharing 2.0G with another OS. /usr~ 778M usr/ports ~247M total /usr being used is ~595M with about 183M free. The problem is not disk space - it appears to be file handles. Remember, those ports files are only about 0.5K each - so lots of inodes are being used in file infrastructure. Midnight Comm which I use for a lot of file navigation indicates that I had 99838 inodes available - of which there are now only 602 free! Yesterday that was about 900, but then I mirrored part of a friend's website and used another 300. As you can see, I need to free up some file handling capability. Thanks for any further advice you can give. Cheers, Graham/ - Original Message - From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:29 AM Subject: Re: Pruning the Ports Tree On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Graham North wrote: Is it alright to prune the Ports tree - and still do updates later. I am running 4.8 stable and recently did a full Ports tree update using CVSUP. This generates several questions. 1) I took the advice of Michael Urban's book and upgraded from the Head of the source tree rather than from that for 4.8 - did I really want to do that? Does it matter for a Ports only updating? It is recommended to use the appropriate kernel and base system with your ports. Things might work the way you did it, or (probably) not. 2) The tree is getting pretty big - result, lots of files. My hard drive is not very big - it is down to a few hundred inodes (file handles) within the usr directory. Can I prune the tree on my hard drive without compromising future updates? If it helps, my machine is not using X only command mode so there are lots of Ports that will never be made. For further advices it would be helpful to know how big your hd is and how much diskspace is used by your ports tree. You can check the latter by # du -h -d 1 (see # man du) Regards, Uli. Thanks for any help that can be offered. Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Pruning the Ports Tree
Hello Mathew: Thanks for this great reply. I will try some of your suggestions to remove files. I did not open it at first because it came as two attachments a txt file and a dat file. What is your rationale for doing this? What is the dat file - that still remains unopened. Cheers, Graham/ - Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fong, Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:08 AM Subject: Re: Pruning the Ports Tree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Router looks like a proxy
Okay, so maybe this is a dumb question but I need to ask My Apache logs are showing only calls from its own address...hmmm! Methinks that this is because all calls come in first through my USR Router/firewall - Yes the router has DHCP and the firewall enabled. Is it therefore inevitable that I will only see routed calls as originating from the router address - or do I have something set up incorrectly between my FreeBSD box and the router? Can I make my router more transparent and yet still retain its firewall? I know that I am getting hits from outside if only by the hack attacks plus a few accesses by myself from other locations such as mywork and/or from friends. Advice..? Thanks, Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R
Mathew: You must know your way around network cards!? Unfortunately this one is part of a docking station (which I would like to use) for the XPI, and you are correct it is ep0. I do have a second option in the form of a more recent linksys pcmcia card which can be stuck into a side slot - but will have then have to look into conflicts when docked. You said: See if your router can set its interface to 10BaseT/UTP full duplex. do a download test. Change router to half duplex... download test. I used this card for two years with Win98 through this router without problem - if Windows can make the card work nicely then shouldn't there be some similiar setting I can do for nic configuration in FBSD? Clearly I am still low on the learning curve, now I have to look up what mediaopt is..? You cannot use the the mediaopt option with ifconfig. no one bothered to code it into the driver. unlike xl0... Thanks again for your help. Tomorrow, after work... Cheers, g/ - Original Message - From: matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:35 PM Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Graham North wrote: Hi Rob: Thank you for this help. Thanks also to all others who replied this evening. I just came home and it is late so I will pursue all suggestions tomorrow evening. My gut sense is that it is the nic setup - at first I thought it might be my router (and maybe it is part of the problem but I have operated 3 different machines through it and networked them in the past so am starting to get pretty comfortable with it). But tomorrow I will start by checking my cabling carefully - though the same machine if booted into Win98 works flawlessly so I doubt that the problem is cabling or flaky nic. The nic is a 3com 3509 I thought so. it is a 10mb/s card only, full and half duplex. I will never use one of those ISA cards again. I now throw them out. See if your router can set its interface to 10BaseT/UTP full duplex. do a download test. Change router to half duplex... download test. If router cannot change its settings, do this on the freebsd machine. I am quite sure, you are using ep0. You cannot use the the mediaopt option with ifconfig. no one bothered to code it into the driver. unlike xl0... if you cannot resove the issue, i would seriously look for a pci card you can slap in it. l8r m which seems to be well supported. Auto negotiation - that sounds plausible - esp. since sometimes files do get through but painfully slowly. Lowering the MTU setting shouldn't hurt...? To all - thanks again, I will respond further after playing tomorrow. Cheers, Graham/ - Original Message - From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:15 PM Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: [snip] My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 [snip] It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new terminal to kill the process. It may be nothing to do with this, but I get similar problems on my DSL link with the default MTU setting, 1500, and I can get decidedly better performance by reducing it. Windows has some sort of dynamic adjustment, but I've found it's more reliable to set FreeBSD specifically. Try: #ifconfig network_interface mtu 1438 and see if that makes a difference. There are optimum values for the mtu, depending on your link parameters, and various formulae, but try that first before fiddling more. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FTP difficulties 4.8R
This is my second call for help regarding ftp and network connections - if anyone out there can help, I would greatly appreciate some advice. I have loaded an older pc with FreeBSD 4.8 to run as a webserver. It is behind a USR8000A router - the router has DHCP, NAT and firewall enabled. There is a second pc behind the router which runs WinXP, it operates well with email, http, it runs an ftp server and client fine (both are filezilla). I downloaded my FreeBSD ISOs without difficulty... connection speeds using Filezilla ftp client on XP was 160KB/s (1.6Mbs) which is the maximum provided by my service - so my lines are okay. My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 with only 48M of memory so I set it up as black screen - command line only. After the past month of starting to become familiar with the new OS I feel that most things are beginning to come together - my network connection really sucks though!! It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new terminal to kill the process. This makes it very difficult... Most recently, I have been trying to install Samba to better network with the Windows machine - I cannot download files - aaarrgghhh! Can someone please shed some insight into something that I have done or neglected to do. Something must be set badly or incompatibly that is creating these difficulties. This OS is dependent on robust file transfers for updating and ports etc...HELP! My earlier message: Help! I am a newbie who has set up a command line FreeBSD system on an XPI 166 laptop. Most things seem to work okay except the ftp - I have been struggling with this on and off for a couple of weeks. To download some packages I ended up running ncftp and it was able to successfully operate but excruciatingly slowly (ie 950secs) for a download of about 1MB - I operate on ADSL - go figure. Both the regular and nc ftp packages seem prone to stalling. My latest problems centre about trying to download some webpage files from another machine (WinXP) attached to (and behind) a USR router/firewall (yes the USRobotics firewall is enabled) my Freebsd one is not. The ftp server is filezilla server on the WinXP machine. I was starting with downloading a simple webpage to test apache - two files, index.htm and a small (30K) jpeg image. Index file downloaded quickly, the jpeg stalled after 26K - and kept on stalling - same place. When I tried using ncftp this time, it stalled at about 18K. Things are set up well enough that I am able to connect to and navigate the server from my FreeBSD system. (can connect to FreeBSD.org server - but stall on downloads) Clearly there must be some basic setting that is incorrect or incompatible - perhaps related to my router - but am not too sure. The only reference which I could find was related to problems with tcp.recvspace being set at 56K for 4.8, but it seemed to refer to modem related problems. In any event I was not able to change it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clarification re Samba Fw: FTP difficulties 4.8R
My last email - read: Most recently, I have been trying to install Samba to better network with the Windows machine - I cannot download files - aaarrgghhh! What is meant here is that I could not download the ports upgrade tar file. Invariably file transfers from the FreeBSD server (and most others) stall out. graham/ Graham North Vancouver, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: FTP difficulties 4.8R This is my second call for help regarding ftp and network connections - if anyone out there can help, I would greatly appreciate some advice. I have loaded an older pc with FreeBSD 4.8 to run as a webserver. It is behind a USR8000A router - the router has DHCP, NAT and firewall enabled. There is a second pc behind the router which runs WinXP, it operates well with email, http, it runs an ftp server and client fine (both are filezilla). I downloaded my FreeBSD ISOs without difficulty... connection speeds using Filezilla ftp client on XP was 160KB/s (1.6Mbs) which is the maximum provided by my service - so my lines are okay. My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 with only 48M of memory so I set it up as black screen - command line only. After the past month of starting to become familiar with the new OS I feel that most things are beginning to come together - my network connection really sucks though!! It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new terminal to kill the process. This makes it very difficult... Most recently, I have been trying to install Samba to better network with the Windows machine - I cannot download files - aaarrgghhh! Can someone please shed some insight into something that I have done or neglected to do. Something must be set badly or incompatibly that is creating these difficulties. This OS is dependent on robust file transfers for updating and ports etc...HELP! My earlier message: Help! I am a newbie who has set up a command line FreeBSD system on an XPI 166 laptop. Most things seem to work okay except the ftp - I have been struggling with this on and off for a couple of weeks. To download some packages I ended up running ncftp and it was able to successfully operate but excruciatingly slowly (ie 950secs) for a download of about 1MB - I operate on ADSL - go figure. Both the regular and nc ftp packages seem prone to stalling. My latest problems centre about trying to download some webpage files from another machine (WinXP) attached to (and behind) a USR router/firewall (yes the USRobotics firewall is enabled) my Freebsd one is not. The ftp server is filezilla server on the WinXP machine. I was starting with downloading a simple webpage to test apache - two files, index.htm and a small (30K) jpeg image. Index file downloaded quickly, the jpeg stalled after 26K - and kept on stalling - same place. When I tried using ncftp this time, it stalled at about 18K. Things are set up well enough that I am able to connect to and navigate the server from my FreeBSD system. (can connect to FreeBSD.org server - but stall on downloads) Clearly there must be some basic setting that is incorrect or incompatible - perhaps related to my router - but am not too sure. The only reference which I could find was related to problems with tcp.recvspace being set at 56K for 4.8, but it seemed to refer to modem related problems. In any event I was not able to change it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R
Hi Rob: Thank you for this help. Thanks also to all others who replied this evening. I just came home and it is late so I will pursue all suggestions tomorrow evening. My gut sense is that it is the nic setup - at first I thought it might be my router (and maybe it is part of the problem but I have operated 3 different machines through it and networked them in the past so am starting to get pretty comfortable with it). But tomorrow I will start by checking my cabling carefully - though the same machine if booted into Win98 works flawlessly so I doubt that the problem is cabling or flaky nic. The nic is a 3com 3509 which seems to be well supported. Auto negotiation - that sounds plausible - esp. since sometimes files do get through but painfully slowly. Lowering the MTU setting shouldn't hurt...? To all - thanks again, I will respond further after playing tomorrow. Cheers, Graham/ - Original Message - From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:15 PM Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: [snip] My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 [snip] It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new terminal to kill the process. It may be nothing to do with this, but I get similar problems on my DSL link with the default MTU setting, 1500, and I can get decidedly better performance by reducing it. Windows has some sort of dynamic adjustment, but I've found it's more reliable to set FreeBSD specifically. Try: #ifconfig network_interface mtu 1438 and see if that makes a difference. There are optimum values for the mtu, depending on your link parameters, and various formulae, but try that first before fiddling more. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: ftp problems R4.8
- Original Message - From: Graham North To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:17 PM Subject: ftp problems R4.8 Help! I am a newbie who has set up a command line FreeBSD system on an XPI 166 laptop. Most things seem to work okay except the ftp - I have been struggling with this on and off for a couple of weeks. To download some packages I ended up running ncftp and it was able to successfully operate but excruciatingly slowly (ie 950secs) for a download of about 1MB - I operate on ADSL - go figure. Both the regular and nc ftp packages seem prone to stalling. My latest problems centre about trying to download some webpage files from another machine (WinXP) attached to (and behind) a USR router/firewall (yes the USRobotics firewall is enabled) my Freebsd one is not. The ftp server is filezilla server on the WinXP machine. I was starting with downloading a simple webpage to test apache - two files, index.htm and a small (30K) jpeg image. Index file downloaded quickly, the jpeg stalled after 26K - and kept on stalling - same place. When I tried using ncftp this time, it stalled at about 18K. Things are set up well enough that I am able to connect to and navigate the server from my FreeBSD system. Clearly there must be some basic setting that is incorrect or incompatible - perhaps related to my router - but am not too sure. The only reference which I could find was related to problems with tcp.recvspace being set at 56K for 4.8, but it seemed to refer to modem related problems. In any event I was not able to change it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
