Problems with php5-pdo_pgsql, libpq etc. after upgrading postgresql
Hi list, Last week, I ran portupgrade as usual (after reading UPDATING). At lot of ports were upgraded, one of them the postgresql database. In the first place, I had to change the user name to start and access the database (I placed postgresql_class=postgres in /etc/rc.conf). Secondly, I could not use davical (caldav calendar server) anymore. I cannot connect to the database and when I try to access the web interface, I get an error: Fatal error: PDO connection error 'pgsql:dbname=davical user=davical_app': could not find driver in /usr/local/share/awl/inc/AwlDBDialect.php on line 78.* *I checked my php configuration through phpinfo and I could confirm that there was no pdo driver for postgresql. There were only drivers for sqlite and mysql. When I try to rebuild databases/php5-pdo_pgsql with portupgrade -fRv databases/php5-pdo_pgsql, I got this error: ... checking for gawk... gawk checking for PostgreSQL support for PDO... yes, shared checking for pg_config... /usr/local/bin/pg_config checking for openssl dependencies... no checking for PQparameterStatus in -lpq... no Unable to build the PDO PostgreSQL driver: libpq 7.4+ is required === Script configure failed unexpectedly. My configuration: uname -a: FreeBSD servername 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun Oct 16 04:26:18 CEST 2011 root@servername:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/servername i386 Some of the relevant ports: postgresql-client-8.4.9 postgresql-server-8.4.9_2 php5-pdo-5.3.8 php5-pdo_mysql-5.3.8 php5-pdo_pgsql-5.3.8 php5-pdo_sqlite-5.3.8 I will appreciate any help, since I really need this calendar server. -- *Jon Theil Nielsen* ___ 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: MFP recommendations
2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Hi list, I want to buy another printer to use mainly with Windows. Even though I have no good feelings about those devises, that claims to be able to do everything I need. Even though, I need a better scanner with ADF and duplex printing (it need to be able to connect wirelessly to my Windows stations). So my question is if I can find such a thing, that I can connect to my FreeBSD server too. And if you can recommend a specific model. I have been looking at a lot of models, but I can't figure out if any of them would be able to work through FreeBSD, cups etc. Examples: HP Officejet Pro 8500A (CM755A) HP Photosmart Premium Fax e-All-in-One (CQ521B) Canon PIXMA MX885 Epson... Brother... In the first place, I may have to connect it via USB or ehternet. If it could be connected by my wireless adapter (Linksys WUSB600N), it would be nice Best regards, Jon Theil Nielsen Since my main goal is to be able to print over the network via my FreeBSD station, I could put in another way: Can I expect that printers known to be supported by HPLIP ( http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html) actually work in FreeBSD? And would one of the HP models by a safe choice? Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ 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: MFP recommendations
2011/8/11 Michael cada...@tucu.net On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:51 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Since my main goal is to be able to print over the network via my FreeBSD station, I could put in another way: Can I expect that printers known to be supported by HPLIP ( http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html) actually work in FreeBSD? And would one of the HP models by a safe choice? Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen Hi, If you buy something like an Lexmark X543, you'll get all the features you want and it connects directly to your LAN. It speaks IPP and LPR which will work great with FreeBSD. It also speaks fluent MS Windows, Bonjour, Appletalk, etc. It's a little more expensive and larger than the HP you're looking at but you'll end up saving money over time using toner rather than ink. Michael Hi Michael, Thank you very much for your suggestion. It seems like a very nice printer. And I actually like the idea of a laser compared to inkjet. But for now, both the physical size and the price are too much. So I have too keep looking for another FreeBSD compatible solution (though it mostly - and certainly for scanning purposes - will be used with Windows). Regards, Jon ___ 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: mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1
2010/8/2 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Hi list After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. The error message is: Bareword P_DETACH not allowed while strict subs in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/MRTG_lib.pm line 1172. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89. I filled a PR on this but haven't seen any answers/solutions: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148914 Am I the only one having this problem? If the port needs upgrading (as suggested in my PR), but this does not happen, how can I fix it myself? Cheers, Jon -- Jon Theil Nielsen Hi again, Hope I'm not beeing a pain... But I wolud really like to hearing from *anyone* who has upgradeded perl and has mrtg installed. Even if is working whtout problems. So, at least, I know that I have to look for a specific problem on my own server. I forgot to mention that I'm running 8.1 Stable. Cheers, Jon -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ 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: mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1
2010/8/2 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz On 2010-08-02 10:49, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2010/8/2 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Hi list After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. The error message is: Bareword P_DETACH not allowed while strict subs in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/MRTG_lib.pm line 1172. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89. I filled a PR on this but haven't seen any answers/solutions: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148914 Am I the only one having this problem? If the port needs upgrading (as suggested in my PR), but this does not happen, how can I fix it myself? Cheers, Jon -- Jon Theil Nielsen Hi again, Hope I'm not beeing a pain... But I wolud really like to hearing from *anyone* who has upgradeded perl and has mrtg installed. Even if is working whtout problems. So, at least, I know that I have to look for a specific problem on my own server. I forgot to mention that I'm running 8.1 Stable. Cheers, Jon Hi Jon. You're not alone. :-) I ran into the same issue and it has also been reported on Gentoo (which I use too). The solution is mrtg 2.16.4 and until the ports tree is updated there's a patch here you can apply manually which worked for me: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/149016 Regards Morgan Hi Morgan, Thanks a lot! I'll try it out as soon as possible. If it worked for you, I guess it will work for me too. Strange, though, that so few people report this problem. Maybe they just live happily with the old perl version. :-) Regards, Jon -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ 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
mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1
Hi list After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. The error message is: Bareword P_DETACH not allowed while strict subs in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/MRTG_lib.pm line 1172. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89. I filled a PR on this but haven't seen any answers/solutions: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148914 Am I the only one having this problem? If the port needs upgrading (as suggested in my PR), but this does not happen, how can I fix it myself? Cheers, Jon -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ 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: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/2 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # sizeoffset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like gpart: index '9': No space left on device I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? I believe that FreeBSD does support more than 8 partitions on a disk (apparently up to 20 using gpart), but that you need sufficient entries for these partitions to be created in the disklabel, viz. gpart create -n 20 ... Some testing seems to indicate that you can manually override this by changing by byte 0x28a of the disk from 0x08 to 0x14, and that bsdlabel / gpart will then allow you to create further partitions on the disk. Kind regards, Christopher Key Thanks Christopher I am not sure if I understand all of if. And I wouldn't like to wipe the drive to test if is possible to mass produce partitions like that. Could be useful in another situation, though. My knowlodge of GEOM and its utilities is very limited. Since I have succeded in creating the two slices with fdisk and subsequently populate them with bsdlabel, my only problem is how to create the last partition from the unpartioned space on da0s2. As mentioned in the beginning of this post, I have tried with both bsdlabel (from a file) and by issuing the gpart add command. With no luck. Would it be any help to give more specific about the drive/slice? The output of df -h | grep dev/da0 is: /dev/da0s2a 3.9G 630M2.9G17%/ /dev/da0s2g97G 160K 89G 0%/home /dev/da0s2e 3.9G 129M3.4G 4%/tmp /dev/da0s2f48G 6.6G 38G15%/usr /dev/da0s2d 9.7G 151M8.8G 2%/var /dev/da0s2h 3.9G 1.5M3.6G 0%/var/log and of gpart show da0: = 0 1759551255 da0s2 BSD (839G) 0 1048576 - free - (512M) 1048576 8318064 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) 9366640 7303168 - free - (3.5G) 16669808 8388608 1 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 2505841620971520 4 freebsd-ufs (10G) 46029936 8388608 5 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 54418544 104857600 6 freebsd-ufs (50G) 159276144 209715200 7 freebsd-ufs (100G) 936891344 8388608 8 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 377379952 1382171303 - free - (659G) and, finaly, of bsdlabel da0s2: # /dev/da0s2: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a:8388608 166698084.2BSD0 0 0 b:83180641048576 swap c: 1759551255 0unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 20971520 250584164.2BSD0 0 0 e:8388608 460299364.2BSD0 0 0 f: 104857600 544185444.2BSD0 0 0 g: 209715200 1592761444.2BSD0 0 0 h:8388608 3689913444.2BSD0 0 0 In my desparate effort to understand these informations/data, i have put them into a spreadsheet and rearranged them - including some of my own calculations and assumptions. bsdlabel output - sorted by sector offset: #size offset (GB*) c 1.759.551.2550839 b 8.318.0641.048.576 4 a 8.388.608 16.669.808 4 d 20.971.520 25.058.416 10 e 8.388.608 46.029.936 4 f 104.857.600 54.418.544 50 g 209.715.200 159.276.144100 h 8.388.608 368.991.344 4 gpart show output - sorted by sector offset: (#) (size)(offset) (GB) (offset*) (GiB*)(i) 1.048.57600,5 01 free b 8.318.0641.048.576 4 1.048.5764 2 7.303.1689.366.6403,5 9.366.6403 free a 8.388.608 16.669.808 4
Re: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/12 A. Wright and...@qemg.org On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another drive, use gpart to create enough partitions and then dd the old content back. I could easily use a standard disk layout, but the other approach will add some to my FreeBSD knowledge.. Just pointing out a rabbit hole here . . . You should be aware, too that if you want to _change_ the size (or any of several other params) of the filesystem, you don't really want dd, you want to dump(8) the filesystem and then use restore(8) -- as the man page says, this is the only reliable way to change various filesystem params. Using dd will be fine only if the sizes and all other params are to be identical (which is the case in Chris' comment, but not in the general case). Andrew. Thanks again That was a very good point. I think I'll wait until tomorrow. But I'll get back here if I run into troubles. :-I Regards, Jon ___ 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: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # sizeoffset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like gpart: index '9': No space left on device I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? I believe that FreeBSD does support more than 8 partitions on a disk (apparently up to 20 using gpart), but that you need sufficient entries for these partitions to be created in the disklabel, viz. gpart create -n 20 ... Some testing seems to indicate that you can manually override this by changing by byte 0x28a of the disk from 0x08 to 0x14, and that bsdlabel / gpart will then allow you to create further partitions on the disk. Kind regards, Christopher Key Thanks Christopher I am not sure if I understand all of if. And I wouldn't like to wipe the drive to test if is possible to mass produce partitions like that. Could be useful in another situation, though. My knowlodge of GEOM and its utilities is very limited. Since I have succeded in creating the two slices with fdisk and subsequently populate them with bsdlabel, my only problem is how to create the last partition from the unpartioned space on da0s2. As mentioned in the beginning of this post, I have tried with both bsdlabel (from a file) and by issuing the gpart add command. With no luck. Would it be any help to give more specific about the drive/slice? The output of df -h | grep dev/da0 is: /dev/da0s2a 3.9G 630M2.9G17%/ /dev/da0s2g97G 160K 89G 0%/home /dev/da0s2e 3.9G 129M3.4G 4%/tmp /dev/da0s2f48G 6.6G 38G15%/usr /dev/da0s2d 9.7G 151M8.8G 2%/var /dev/da0s2h 3.9G 1.5M3.6G 0%/var/log and of gpart show da0: = 0 1759551255 da0s2 BSD (839G) 0 1048576 - free - (512M) 1048576 8318064 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) 9366640 7303168 - free - (3.5G) 16669808 8388608 1 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 2505841620971520 4 freebsd-ufs (10G) 46029936 8388608 5 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 54418544 104857600 6 freebsd-ufs (50G) 159276144 209715200 7 freebsd-ufs (100G) 936891344 8388608 8 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 377379952 1382171303 - free - (659G) and, finaly, of bsdlabel da0s2: # /dev/da0s2: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a:8388608 166698084.2BSD0 0 0 b:83180641048576 swap c: 1759551255 0unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 20971520 250584164.2BSD0 0 0 e:8388608 460299364.2BSD0 0 0 f: 104857600 544185444.2BSD0 0 0 g: 209715200 1592761444.2BSD0 0 0 h:8388608 3689913444.2BSD0 0 0 In my desparate effort to understand these informations/data, i have put them into a spreadsheet and rearranged them - including some of my own calculations and assumptions. bsdlabel output - sorted by sector offset: #size offset (GB*) c 1.759.551.2550839 b 8.318.0641.048.576 4 a 8.388.608 16.669.808 4 d 20.971.520 25.058.416 10 e 8.388.608 46.029.936 4 f 104.857.600 54.418.544 50 g 209.715.200 159.276.144100 h 8.388.608 368.991.344 4 gpart show output - sorted by sector offset: (#) (size)(offset) (GB) (offset*) (GiB*)(i) 1.048.57600,5 01 free b 8.318.0641.048.576 4 1.048.5764 2 7.303.1689.366.6403,5 9.366.6403 free a 8.388.608 16.669.808 4 16.669.8084 1 d 20.971.520 25.058.416 10 25.058.416 10 4 e 8.388.608 46.029.936 4 46.029.9364 5 f104.857.600 54.418.544 50 46.029.936 50 6 g209.715.200
More than 8 partitions
Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # sizeoffset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like gpart: index '9': No space left on device I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Fwd: More than 8 partitions
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. You should create a new slice (da0s3) and then create new partitions on it or use the whole slice (ad0s3c). Regards Alberto Mijares Thanks Alberto So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. The next problem is that i made fdisk create the two slices covering all the space of the disk. Can I somehow - using FreeBSD tools - shrink the size of da0s2 without data loss? Regards, Jon - reposting this to the list... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Fwd: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/1 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # sizeoffset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like gpart: index '9': No space left on device I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? Use vinum - thats what I needed to do. Mind I had around 15 partitions to work out so it is effective... Maybe I should consider that too. But this installation is quite experimental, and I just thought that it would be a simple task to make a few extra partitions, since that was what I read about when 8.0 was released. But I haven't found any documentation on the issue. I guess I either have to use some non-FreeBSD tool to change the size of my slices or backup the installation to another drive, rerun fdisk etc., and copy the system back. 'Regards, Jon ___ 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: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(8) supports only 8 partitions (including the whole disk): http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabelsektion=8 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabelapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASEformat=html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ I am very far from being an expert on these issues. And this link is certainly not documentation: http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible. Regards, Jon ___ 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: More than 8 partitions
2010/5/1 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible. Obviously, this refers to the possible letters a, b, c, ..., z as partition identifiers instead of numerical ones (e. g. ad0p7). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... Sure. It could be so. All I know is that the bdslabel error message tells me that I can't add a label outside the range a-h. And I must admit that I can't find any official documentation saying that I should be able to do so. I guess it has been the intention, but that it hasn't been implemented (yet). Regards, Jon ___ 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: RAID 5 - serious problem
2008/10/15 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:32:25PM +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Dear list, Something happened that I don't think should be possible. I lost all three disks in my RAID 5 array simultaneously after approx. two years without any problem. And I fear I will never see my data again. But I really hope some of you clever persons can give me some hints. My system is: FreeBSD 7.0-Release Intel D975XBX2 motherboard (Intel Matrix Storage Technology) Are you using the Matrix Storage Technology? If so, immediately stop. FreeBSD's support for this is very, very bad, and will nearly guarantee data loss. There are many of us who have tried it, and it's known to be buggy on FreeBSD. http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting I recommend you stop using this feature and start using ZFS or gvinum for what you need. 3 WD Raptor 74 GB in a RAID 5 array 1 WD Raptor 150 GB as a standalone disk / and /var mounted on the standalone,, /usr on the RAID 5 I believe what happened was that one of the disks didn't respond for such a long time, that is was marked bad. And afterwards the same thing happened for the other disks. When I try to boot the system, all three disks are marked Offline. The BIOS utility for the host controller has no option to force the disks back online. I have another machine with a S5000XVN board and Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology II. The BIOS configuration utility on this board has the option to force offline drives back online. Any embedded RAID is usually BIOS RAID managed by either a software RAID IC (e.g. an IC on the motherboard that handles LBA/CHS addressing for creating a pseudo-array, but the OS still does all of the management and does not off-load anything). I am very desperate not to lose my data, so I don't know if I dare moving the drives to the other machine and try to make them online again. Do you think I should try? No, but you might not have any choice. It honestly sounds like the metadata on your disks is in a bad state. I would recommend you try booting Linux, since their support for MatrixRAID is significantly better/more advanced. Ideally, you should be able to bring the RAID members back online using their tools, then reboot into FreeBSD and cross your fingers that your data becomes accessible. Once accessible, offload it somewhere immediately, and follow my above recommendations. In general, are there any procedures I can try to recover my RAID array? Or is the offline status definitive ? and all data definitely lost? I guess some specialized companies have the expertise to recover lost data from a broken RAID array, but I don't know. And I don't know the price of such a service. I would really, really appreciate any kind of help. I have backups of most user data, but not of the system configuration (and maybe even not the databases). This is of course pretty stupid. In the future, I will not rely on RAID 5 as a foolproof solution? RAID 5 is a fine solution, but you have learned a very valuable lesson, one which I will enclose in asterisks to make it crystal clear: ***RAID DOES NOT REPLACE BACKUPS***. Repeat this mantra over and over until you accept it. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | Hi Jeremy, Thanks for your advice. As I understand you, the best bet is to boot from Linux and try to repair. And that trying with my other controller might be the second best. Would it be an idea to try to run som sort of Linux live cd? I have no machines with Linux installed. Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RAID 5 - serious problem
Dear list, Something happened that I don't think should be possible. I lost all three disks in my RAID 5 array simultaneously after approx. two years without any problem. And I fear I will never see my data again. But I really hope some of you clever persons can give me some hints. My system is: FreeBSD 7.0-Release Intel D975XBX2 motherboard (Intel Matrix Storage Technology) 3 WD Raptor 74 GB in a RAID 5 array 1 WD Raptor 150 GB as a standalone disk / and /var mounted on the standalone,, /usr on the RAID 5 I believe what happened was that one of the disks didn't respond for such a long time, that is was marked bad. And afterwards the same thing happened for the other disks. When I try to boot the system, all three disks are marked Offline. The BIOS utility for the host controller has no option to force the disks back online. I have another machine with a S5000XVN board and Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology II. The BIOS configuration utility on this board has the option to force offline drives back online. I am very desperate not to lose my data, so I don't know if I dare moving the drives to the other machine and try to make them online again. Do you think I should try? In general, are there any procedures I can try to recover my RAID array? Or is the offline status definitive – and all data definitely lost? I guess some specialized companies have the expertise to recover lost data from a broken RAID array, but I don't know. And I don't know the price of such a service. I would really, really appreciate any kind of help. I have backups of most user data, but not of the system configuration (and maybe even not the databases). This is of course pretty stupid. In the future, I will not rely on RAID 5 as a foolproof solution… Regards, Jon -- *Jon Theil Nielsen* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID 5 - serious problem
2008/10/15 Nejc Skoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, the drives to the other machine and try to make them online again. Do you think I should try? If I were you, I would first buy/get a XXX GB SATA drive, create a filesystem there and copy all three disks block-by-block as three separate files (which will be the size of the disks). This way you'll still have the backup of your screwed up drives somewhere in case something goes even more wrong. However, I don't think your data is *physically* lost. I am almost sure that it is still on that drives, only the metadata could be fscked up. Now how to get the data back is another thing. In worst case scenario you could analyze the specification of the metadata format for you controller and then write a C program which would somehow put the bits together again using syscalls. Bye, Nejc Hi again, There are a lot of interesting statements and arguments in this thread. I am impressed. But you have to understand that I am not a very advanced user of FreeBSD and especially Linux. So I have to try to keep it simple. Thanks to the low dollar course and the technological development, I think it is reasonable for me to buy an extra disk just to try to fix my problems. Actually, a 300 GB Raptor will do. And then I can install some Linux flavour (which one should I prefer) to copy the contents of my sick disks bit-by-bit. And then I can somehow try to bring the disks back online again. Could you please spell it out for me, which tools I should use for that? My board has both the Intel controller and a Marvell one. Can I just keep the disks on the Intel one and disregard the offline status (if I understand you right, I might lose all metadata if I try to change anything)? AFAIK, the discussion of hardware vs. software RAID has been going on for a very long time. And it really seems to be complicated. I recognise the argument of having to stick with the same hardware. At the same time, it seems at little pessimistic that a lot of people will end up with lots of useless disks because the vendors decide to cut backward compatability. I don't know. Best regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vpn + samba
Hi, I use FreeBSD 7.0-Release and mpd4. The setup is rather uncomplicated. The only problem is that I have had to create a mpd.secret file to authenticate users instead of using the UNIX password or alternatively the Samba password. I'm not quite sure, but it migth be solved by also setting up a Radius server. My setup works for both Windows and Mac clients. Regards, Jon 2008/4/21 alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no problem (yet) just trying to get a word from someone who has an experience in both to share their knowledge which one is better and why. so far i see that mpd has more recent release vs poptop On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i need to get vpn + samba working by vpn i mean a remote user being on the road can connect to box and use samba file sharing, most of our users use vista, some xp so do it. what a problem? -- http://alexus.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A general purpose LDAP solution?
I asked this on freebsd-net@ but got no replies. So now I ask the same question here. Hi list! I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do it. I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-Release with some different server applications - Samba PDC - Virtual mail server (Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP) - VPN (currently with mpd4) - Apache-2.2.8 web server (with PHP and MySQL) I would like to implement LDAP for: - authentication of UNIX/login users - authentication of Samba users - authentication/authorization of virtual mail users For the first part, I got useful information from a previsous thread (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-02/msg01047.html) and for the second part, i guess there is sufficient howtos to make it work. My biggest question right now is if is possible to combine all three things in one data structure. And which in which order I should make the different implimentions. Excuse my total lack of understanding, but is it possible to have a structure with a superior unit such as OU=some organization which could contain several virtual domains and the actual doamin for my PDC? -- Jon Theil Nielsen Oh, i forgot one more thing: I would also like to be able to authenticate VPN users the same way. -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mpd pptp server?
2008/3/23, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:43:58AM +0100, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: I have tried some different ways to make a working VPN server on FreeBSD 7.0. The main goal is to make it possible for Windows clients to access their Samba home shares. I'm not sure if mpd is the best solution, but I will give it a try. I have installed /usr/ports/mpd4 and have the following configuration: I run openvpn on FreeBSD and Windows XP. -- Alex I have now succeeded in establishing connections from Windows to a VPN server based on mpd4. But it has some severe limitations: I have to define every single connection in the conf file (not a major problem). And I don't see any option to authenticate against neither UNIX or Samba passwords. Is that different through openvpn? Could you give some brief hints on the configuration or maybe a reference to a useful howto? Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mpd pptp server?
2008/3/20, Alexander Motin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:43:58 +0100 Jon Theil Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to have a customized kernel to make it work? Or are there any obvious errors in the above configuration? Mpd4 should work without special system tuning. The best way to find the problem is to read it's logs. Mpd writes detailed logs using syslog (you should configure syslog.conf for it alike to ppp) and to the stdout if running in foreground. I finally got it working with mpd4 (can only check it from my own private network right now). Files are as follow /usr/local/etc/mpd4/mpd.conf startup: default: load pptp1 pptp1: new -i ng0 pptp1 pptp1 set iface disable on-demand set iface enable proxy-arp set iface idle 0 set iface enable tcpmssfix set bundle enable multilink set link yes acfcomp protocomp set link no pap chap set link enable chap set link keep-alive 10 60 set ipcp yes vjcomp set ipcp ranges 192.168.1.4/32 192.168.1.151/32 set ipcp dns 195.184.96.2 213.173.225.86 set ipcp nbns 192.168.1.4 set bundle enable compression set ccp yes mppc set ccp yes mpp-e40 set ccp yes mpp-e128 set ccp yes mpp-stateless /usr/local/etc/mpd.links pptp1: set link type pptp set pptp enable incoming set pptp disable originate Hope I can access my (Samba) homedrive from the outside. Line compression doesn't seem to work, but that has something to do with some proprietary MS stuff or what? There is now way I can authenticate via my Samba or system passowrds? Thanks for the advices so far...! Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mpd pptp server?
Oops, there was a typo. The path is of course /usr/local/etc/mpd4/ /usr/local/etc/mpd.links pptp1: set link type pptp set pptp enable incoming set pptp disable originate Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pptpd server on a Samba PDC
My goal is to make our PDC (FreeBSD 7.0 - Samba 3.0.28) available through VPN from Windows clients so clients can authenticate via Winbind, join the domain and access there home shares. I have tried to follow the instructions by Andrew Bartlett ( http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/lorikeet/pppd/final-report.pdf) - without success. My main configuration file /usr/local/etc/httpd.conf looks like option /etc/ppp/options.pptp localip 192.168.1.4 remoteip 192.168.1.150-155 pidfile /var/run/pptpd.pid # TAG: bcrelay if bcrelay eth0 And the /etc/ppp/options.pptp: lock noauth nobsdcomp lcp-echo-failure 10 lcp-echo-interval 10 I have another file /etc/ppp/options: lock noauth nobsdcomp lcp-echo-failure 10 lcp-echo-interval 10 mflserver3# less /etc/ppp/options name mflserver3 noipdefault noauth lock local lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 lcp-max-configure 60 lcp-restart 2 idle 600 noipx file /etc/ppp/filters proxyarp ms-dns 192.168.1.4 ms-wins 192.168.1.4 refuse-chap refuse-mschap Finally, I have both pap-secrets and chap-secrets. With the existence of a /etc/ppp/ppp.conf looking like: pptp: set timeout 0 set log phase chat connect lcp ipcp command set dial set login enable mssfixup set ifaddr 192.168.1.4 192.168.150-192.168.1.155 255.255.255.0 set server /tmp/loop 0177 disable pap # Authenticate against /etc/passwd enable passwdauth disable ipv6cp enable proxy accept dns enable MSChapV2 enable mppe disable deflate pred1 deny deflate pred1 set dns 195.184.96.2 set device !/etc/ppp/secure I got the following in my log: ppp[67205]: Warning: Label /etc/ppp/options.pptp rejected -direct connection: Configuration label not found When I removed ppp.conf, I got: ppp[67267]: Warning: Label /etc/ppp/options.pptp rejected -direct connection: /etc/ppp/ppp.conf : File not found I am a bit confused. It seems that the reference to the options file makes something go wrong. And it seems that pptpd needs the ppp configuration file to work. Does anyone have a working example of poptop-based vpn server for FreeBSD that can make workstations join the domain? Best regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pptpd server on a Samba PDC
Yes, this configuration guide you've read is for Linux, thus it will use pppd by Paul Mackeras. pppd is in the base system(/usr/sbin/pppd), but it's an older version than the Linux one, since most people on FreeBSD use user-ppp(/usr/sbin/ppp). So, bad news first: pppd probably won't work(at least won't work by copying a configuration file you've found on the internet). I have many doubts that FreeBSD's pppd can be used with pptp. The good news are, that poptop is supported(it's in the ports), you just have to use user-ppp(which you seem to already use, since the name of the process above is ppp). Isn't the pptp entry on /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, installed from the port??? Did you search the package for configuration samples? Does anyone have a working example of poptop-based vpn server The pptp server/client of preference for a FreeBSD system, is in my humble opinion net/mpd. I suggest you to use that. There many guides on pptp and mpd lying around on the net. HTH, Nikos Okay, I tried to install mpd, but now i doesn't seem to work ===/usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.conf default: load pptp1 pptp1: new -i ng0 pptp1 pptp1 set iface disable on-demand set iface enable proxy-arp set iface idle 0 set iface enable tcpmssfix set bundle enable multilink set link yes acfcomp protocomp set link no pap chap set link enable chap set link keep-alive 10 60 set ipcp yes vjcomp set ipcp ranges 192.168.1.4/32 192.168.1.151/32 set ipcp dns 192.168.1.4 set ipcp nbns 192.168.1.4 set link disable pap set bundle enable compression set ccp yes mppc #set ccp yes mpp-e40 set ccp yes mpp-e128 set ccp yes mpp-stateless #set bundle enable crypt-reqd ===/usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.linksf pptp1: set link type pptp ## define the link type protocol as PPTP set pptp self 192.168.1.4## define the IP address on which MPD will run set pptp enable incoming ## define the connection as Incoming set pptp disable originate ## enables PPTP connection for communication with the client ===/etc/rc.conf mpd_enable=YES gateway_enable=YES And a /usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.secret is also there. I can start the service, but don't see any port 1793 by typing netstat -an And ifconfig doesn't show any pptp1 Are there any obvious errors in this configuration? Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mpd pptp server?
I have tried some different ways to make a working VPN server on FreeBSD 7.0. The main goal is to make it possible for Windows clients to access their Samba home shares. I'm not sure if mpd is the best solution, but I will give it a try. I have installed /usr/ports/mpd4 and have the following configuration: ==/usr/local/etc/mpd4/mpd.conf startup: don't know what to put in here... default: load pptp1 pptp1: new -i ng0 pptp1 pptp1 set iface disable on-demand set iface enable proxy-arp set iface idle 0 set iface enable tcpmssfix set bundle enable multilink set link yes acfcomp protocomp set link no pap chap set link enable chap set link keep-alive 10 60 set ipcp yes vjcomp set ipcp ranges 192.168.1.4/32 192.168.1.151/32 set ipcp dns 192.168.1.4 set ipcp nbns 192.168.1.4 set link disable pap set bundle enable compression set ccp yes mppc #set ccp yes mpp-e40 set ccp yes mpp-e128 set ccp yes mpp-stateless #set bundle enable crypt-reqd ==/usr/local/etc/mpd4/mpd.linksf pptp1: set link type pptp ## define the link type protocol as PPTP set pptp self 192.168.1.4## define the IP address on which MPD will run set pptp enable incoming ## define the connection as Incoming set pptp disable originate ## enables PPTP connection for communication with the client And then I also have a mpd.secrets file of course. I can start the service, but I don't see any pptp interface after an ifconfig command. And netstat -an does not show any port 1723 listening. Do I need to have a customized kernel to make it work? Or are there any obvious errors in the above configuration? Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP user authentication?
I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful howto on this issue. Well, there is http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it _should_ be possible - and indeed very useful (especially combinde with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable mail server). So please, if you have any experiences or knowledge of a useful description..! Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen 2008/2/14, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am far from an expert, in fact i'm still learning. I don't know a lot of the jargon, that is i still get the more intense terms mixed up, but i've been banging my head against ldap for about a month now and am starting to show results. Right now i'm using ldap in jails on freebsd 6.2 as i don't have all the bugs worked out to go production. I've got a directory that is a user addressbook as well as handles authentication of users, both for the jailed ldap server, but for two other jailed environments, one the ldap client, the other just a test machine. I've also authenticated a linux box against this server that works fine with a few tweaks. Right now i've got a jail specifically for testmail setup i'm going to try to hook in email services, pop/imap, smtp, etc. in to ldap. If you have im abilities i can talk more there, but basically it's definitely not trivial to get going, in my opinion others might differ. Dave. I have some experience with FreeBSD but not with running in jails. I migth be a solution, but I don't know. What I would really like was a thorough desription of setting LDAP authentication up for the wholw system. But I might read up on jails. Thanks anyway. Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP user authentication?
2008/2/14, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Actually i'm only using jails, because i haven't got all the bugs worked out yet and when i do i'm going to just copy the files over and go production. Other than that these files will work for a freebsd system. In brief you'll need openldap server and client ports, i'm using 2.4, pam_ldap port and nss_ldap port. Go configure all that and that'll do it, take it in stages, slapd first, the ldap client next, then either pam_ldap or nss_ldap, one thing you'll definitely want is tls encryption, can't help with that as i'm still trying to get that working. If you need any help let me know, i'll do what i can. Dave. - Original Message - From: Jon Theil Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:20 AM Subject: Re: LDAP user authentication? I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful howto on this issue. Well, there is http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it _should_ be possible - and indeed very useful (especially combinde with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable mail server). So please, if you have any experiences or knowledge of a useful description..! Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen 2008/2/14, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am far from an expert, in fact i'm still learning. I don't know a lot of the jargon, that is i still get the more intense terms mixed up, but i've been banging my head against ldap for about a month now and am starting to show results. Right now i'm using ldap in jails on freebsd 6.2 as i don't have all the bugs worked out to go production. I've got a directory that is a user addressbook as well as handles authentication of users, both for the jailed ldap server, but for two other jailed environments, one the ldap client, the other just a test machine. I've also authenticated a linux box against this server that works fine with a few tweaks. Right now i've got a jail specifically for testmail setup i'm going to try to hook in email services, pop/imap, smtp, etc. in to ldap. If you have im abilities i can talk more there, but basically it's definitely not trivial to get going, in my opinion others might differ. Dave. Thanks a lot. That might be interesting. TLS might not be that vital, since I'm mostly thinking of a solution on my own servers and primarily only on the central one. When I was on Linux, PAM was almost a most, but I think it is different on FreeBSD, so I guess I would prefer the solution with nss_ldap. Your are right, nothing severe will happen if I try to get the LDAP server and client up and running in the first place. As far as I remember, the most critical issue was how to initialize the database and how to make a reasonable structure suited for both user authentication, Samba and some mail server. Right now I have to parallel structures, one for Samba/system users and one for (virtual) mail users. I still wonder why a universal implementation of LDAP authentication on FreeBSD is not described anywhere. But if I find the time and energy, I migth try to experiment on my own and might also return to you if a have more specific issues. Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP user authentication?
2008/2/14, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Actually i'm only using jails, because i haven't got all the bugs worked out yet and when i do i'm going to just copy the files over and go production. Other than that these files will work for a freebsd system. In brief you'll need openldap server and client ports, i'm using 2.4, pam_ldap port and nss_ldap port. Go configure all that and that'll do it, take it in stages, slapd first, the ldap client next, then either pam_ldap or nss_ldap, one thing you'll definitely want is tls encryption, can't help with that as i'm still trying to get that working. If you need any help let me know, i'll do what i can. Dave. Hi again, I don't know what happened, but now I found some seemingly useful descriptions of LDAP authentication on FreeBSD. The one that appeared must relevant is this one: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-49221.html Maybe it could be useful for you too. Obviously, I haven't had the time to work trough the description yet, but I will give it a try. Best regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP user authentication?
2008/2/14, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:10:57PM +0100, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful howto on this issue. Well, there is http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it _should_ be possible - and indeed very useful (especially combinde with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable mail server). So please, if you have any experiences or knowledge of a useful description..! The first thing for you to do is to set up your LDAP tree, with your users using objectClass=posixAccount, and your groups with objectClass=posixGroup. Then make the following changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf: group: files ldap passwd: files ldap You then have to install the ports net/nss_ldap and security/pam_ldap. The strategy you should adopt is to first get nss_ldap working before looking at pam_ldap. To configure nss_ldap: cp /usr/local/etc/nss_ldap.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/nss_ldap.conf When editing the nss_ldap.conf, the entries of particular interest are bind_timelimit and bind_policy, which will need to be changed so that the system will still allow you login locally even if the LDAP server is not running. I've got mine set to: bind_timelimit 3 bind_policy soft Make sure your nss_base_passwd and nss_base_group are set correctly. I foudn that I didn't need have to set rootbinddn or provide a ldap.secret file, YMMV. You can then test with getent group or getent passwd. However, getent(1) is only available with FreeBSD-7 onwards. If you aren't using FreeBSD-7, the simplest way to test is to create a file whose user and group ownership refers to the LDAP entries, and then see if a simple ls -l displays correctly. Once you've verified that this is working, you can then configure pam_ldap: cp /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf.dist /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf Again, set the bind_timelimit and bind_policy to ensure you don't hang your system if the LDAP server isn't up. To configure PAM, you have to add a reference to pam_ldap in the appropriate PAM files in /etc/pam.d. Here's my snippet in /etc/pam.d/login to allow a console login: # auth auth sufficient pam_self.so no_warn auth sufficient /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so no_warn try_first_pass auth include system ... The pam_ldap.so reference will need to be added to other pamd.d files as required, eg: imap, gdm, kde, xdm. Hope this helps. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I must say that this is almost more than I could imagine to get out of my request..! I will absolutely try this method as soon as possible. I hope I can make it work, and I will report back with experiences (and hopefully not) problems/questions. Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LDAP user authentication?
I have googled for a very long time, but I haven't found any useful howto on this issue. Well, there is http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html but that seems to be a bit confusing an not up-to-date. I guess it _should_ be possible - and indeed very useful (especially combinde with Samba PDC and an easily maintainlable mail server). So please, if you have any experiences or knowledge of a useful description..! Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba: changing UNIX passwords from Windows
Hello We have a FreeBSD server (7.0 BETA3) running as PDC (Samba 3.0.28) passwords stored in tdbsam. Theres are no problems for users and machines to log on to the network as long as they use the passwords I have made by smbpasswd -a username. But I cannot make a working configuration which allows users to change their own passwords on the server. They are told something like You do not have permission to change your password. I guess the problem is the communication between Samba and the server, the passwd chat, but I'm not sure. I have the following lines in smb.conf passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u unix password sync = Yes passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*passwordn* %n\n I'm not sure the chat is correct and would like to hear about what migth be more correct for this version of FreeBSD. I have tried to set passwd chat debug = Yes, but that did not provide any useful (to me, at least) information on the nature of the problem. I haven't been able to find much information on this issue between FreeBSD and Samba, bur I'm sure there must be a solution. I don't know if the solution is to use another password database (e.g. LDAP), but this seems to be a rather complicated issue too. Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Libtool cannot find correct libraries
System: FreeBSD 8.0 Current (!) Made a classic UNIX mistake and entered rm -R * in the wrong directory. Stopped it very quickly, but have been in troubles ever since. I have made a rebuild of the system - both userland and kernel, but still having the same problems. The problem seems to be in libtool no longer being able to find the correct version of the libraries (even after having rebuild libtool itself without problems). For example, when I need to install xorg-drivers from the ports, it ends up with libtool: link: unknown library version type 'freebsd-' (obviously missing something after the hyphen). When looking af the libtool configuration: libtool --config: ... # Library versioning type. version_type=freebsd- I don't know how to manually set the correct versioning type, and I dont know from which configuration file it tries to determine the type. Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
