Need help with Supermicro MB
Hello, I'm trying to SMBus to work on my new Supermicro server, but with no luck. It's got a Serverworks III HE chipset, with CSB5 southbridge. My understanding is that this is supposed to be compatible with Intel PIIX4 chip but unfortunately the 'intpm' driver isn't doing it for me. No smb0: line shows up during the boot process. Here's what I've tried in my kernel config: device smbus device iicbus device iicbb device intpm device ichsmb device smb I've also tried the examples from the heathd and lmmon man pages, but those examples are obviously out-of-date. Help would be much appreciated. Any pointers, ideas or musings welcome too. :) Thanks much, Lee Nelson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Please help with SMBus on Serverworks III HE
Hello, I'm trying to SMBus to work on my new Supermicro server, but with no luck. It's got a Serverworks III HE chipset, with CSB5 southbridge. My understanding is that this is supposed to be compatible with Intel PIIX4 chip but unfortunately the 'intpm' driver isn't doing it for me. No smb0: line shows up during the boot process. Here's what I've tried in my kernel config: device smbus device iicbus device iicbb device intpm device ichsmb device smb I've also tried the examples from the heathd and lmmon man pages, but those examples are obviously out-of-date. Help would be much appreciated. Any pointers, ideas or musings welcome too. :) Thanks much, Lee Nelson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: UNIX and Macintosh
Doug, Assuming Imageland is mounted, look for it in the /Volumes folder (corresponds to /mnt on a normal system). /Volumes is a hidden folder - you won't see it in the Finder. Also, type 'mount' with no arguments to see a list of all mounted file systems. By the way, 'rmdir' only works with empty folders, so if you want to delete a whole tree at once, use 'rm -rf'. But be careful, there is no way to recover! Hope this helps, Lee Nelson 11/27/02 2:44:08 AM, Doug Lawhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question pertains to the Unix flavor used in Apple's OSX 10.2 operating system. I have two partitions on my hard drive. The OS startup disk is a partition named Macintosh HD. The second partition is named Imageland. If I understand the commands correctly, then using rmdir /path-to-folder will delete a folder from the Macintosh HD partition. How do I remove a directory or file from the other partition named Imageland? Thanks...Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Apache not killing subprocesses, only on FreeBSD
Hello, I run an database backed website on FreeBSD 4.5 that uses mod_perl. I do things like: open SORTER, |/some/path/to/myprogram.pl; system (/usr/bin/zip zipfile.zip somefile); When I switched to FreeBSD from Linux, I noticed that a lot of dead shells accumulated in the process list - sometimes hundreds. When I restart Apache they all go away. Linux didn't exhibit this behaviour. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? It's embarrassing to have to restart apache every few weeks. :-) The programs that are started all terminate normally, but the shell sticks around forever. The ps -aux looks like this: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND ... nobody2196 0.0 0.0 00 ?? ZThu11AM 0:00.00 (sh) ... myprogram.pl reads a few parameters from STDIN, and then forks to work in the background: my $pid = fork; exit if $pid; die ($pn couldn't fork $!\n) unless defined $pid; POSIX::setsid() or die ($pn can't start a new session: $!\n); Any clues or suggestions welcome. Thanks, Lee Nelson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Advantages over GNU/Linux?
I switched to FreeBSD earlier this year. Advantages that convinced me are: It comes from a single source. There are no arguments over this or that driver, kernel patch, whatnot. This means that I don't have to spend my time figuring out which patches to apply, or who's version of the kernel is best for me. Also security notifications come from a single source, making them easy to keep track of. The code base changes more slowly than Linux. I found it difficult to keep up with the kernel of the week with Linux. This has saved me and my clients a LOT of money. The only Linux versions that I will use are Redhat, Suse, and Debian: FreeBSD is much more up to date than Debian. Redhat make off-the-wall decisions, like building everything with a beta compiler or having every major package require PHP. Suse - well they're not so bad but Yast is a pain. FreeBSD's 'package manager' is simple and civilized. There are no excessive dependencies in the package system. The ports tree has everything you could ever want, preconfigured for installation on FreeBSD, and is dirt simple to use. Lastly, FreeBSD is very well documented, meaning that you are never left wondering, for example, how the init scripts work, or where the source is for this or that. The lack of murky psuedo-proprietary components is also nice. Disadvantages of FreeBSD include less complete support of desktop environments and a monolithic base install. Not to run down Linux - I think it's great. I run Debian on my file server, and love apt/dselect. Redhat 6.2 ran solid for a year on my web and DB servers. And the linux guys have all kinds of cool toys that we don't - cdparanoia and video support are both good examples. But for boring server stuff, I prefer FreeBSD. -Lee P.S. if you need a virus scanner on FreeBSD check out VirusScan from Network Associates. They have a command line scanner that integrates with Amavis and is very simple to install and update. Not affliated, just impressed. 11/16/02 3:20:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, propaganda time. Why should I use FreeBSD instead of GNU/Linux? What advantages does it offer? -Chris Hodapp To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Permissions user/group scheme for webserver?
This is an excellent question, and it's also an enduring problem. It's easy enough to make all files owned by user:nobody, but the problem is that CGI's executing as nobody can go off and read other peoples files! To counter this, I run all CGI's as suid the user. But this requires Apache's suexec code, which is difficult to get working properly, since the Apache folks disapprove and have placed so many restrictions on it. Of course you run the risk of an insecure CGI allowing an attacker to place files in your web tree, or plant trojan binaries. Buy hey, just don't write insecure CGI's! :) I'd love to hear if anyone knows a way to restrict a CGI's access to a particular sub-tree. The suexec stuff really is a pain, and more of risk than I really like to take. -Lee 11/10/02 3:21:23 PM, Johannes Angeldorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD:ers! We are converting an old Windows web server to a new FreeBSD 4.6 webserver with apache and PHP. I could really need some help/tips for securing the server for each user... I want users to be able to FTP in their files to their home directories, and I want the web server to be able to read and execute all users' files... But I _don't_ want users to be able to read each others' files (since they may include for example passwords for MySQL databases). And of course, the users should not be able to read other files on the machine, like /etc/master.passwd. Simply: I want users to only FTP in their own directories, and the web server to be able to read it all... Has anyone a good scheme how to set up user and groups - with suitable permissions - for the webserver, FTP and the users' home dirs? Very grateful for all help on this matter! Sincerely, Smartnet Sverige AB Johannes Angeldorff To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Is Perl Fixed Yet?
Did they ever fix the bugs in the Perl that comes with FreeBSD? In FreeBSD 4.5 for example, setting $0 (the process name) causes a core dump. There are others - ones that I know exist but I can't find. I have an app, Minivend, that crashes after X thousands of hits (every few weeks) on FreeBSD but never crashed in 2 years on Linux. -Lee 11/4/02 10:58:42 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?
JT32255 has a point. It's clear that we're not going to change how people react to the daemon logo. So, if advocacy is a goal, it makes sense to drop the daemon and come up with something more palatable to the general public. But a larger audience for FreeBSD may actually detract from its usefulness. FreeBSD currently does not suffer from the kitchen sink problem that Linux has with its kerrnel. And as a result we don't have kernel patches for critical bugs every couple of weeks. Also, bringing FreeBSD to the masses would divert effort away from it's current goals of stability and correctness. Just look at what Red Hat and Mandrake have done to Linux. -Lee 11/3/02 12:40:04 PM, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it alienates so many. But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims as a little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and tax paid support and availability of BSD. A better symbol might be the statue of liberty, or the creator of the first Library, Aristotle. The Penguin symbol is LINUX' best advantage over BSD, not to mention all the public hostility towards Berkley. Please read http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html. And if the little cute daemon alienates Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone else, my personal opinion is that they should grow up. Take care and I whish you a nice day! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Disk activity leading to hangs
Jason, Just thought I should point out that you are probably seeing network activity from broadcast packets originating elsewhere. Your kernel may well be hung in this situation. -Lee On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:12:09PM -0800, Jeff Jirsa wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Jason Godfrey wrote: still am) leaning towards poor hardware over an OS fault. The only thing leading me to believe it's NOT a hardware issue is that the kernel seems to be running, although nothing responds: network activity lights flash on the NIC and switch, but NOTHING else works (have to powercycle). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
