Re: 433au
Mike Cochran wrote: To one of the old DEC nerds: Will an old digital personal workstation take a standard power supply, or do they require a custom one? Mike If you need to replace the power supply you may consider purchasing a whole 433a at ebay. There's a 433 listed currently at $31. Do a search at ebay for 'dec pws' The 600au w/ 1Gb RAM looks nice, too bad the wife would kill me for buying it. Oh well I 'spose I will have to get by with my 433a. - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ntpd assistance
Richard Lynch wrote: Am I doing something wrong here? My time seems to go out of sync after my FreeBSD 4.10 box has been up for a couple of hours. Any help would be greatly appreciated. After your machine has booted and run in multiuser mode for several minutes run ntpdc to query ntpd about its status. The command to see its status with its time servers is 'peers', e.g. ;ntpdc ntpdc peers remote local st poll reach delay offsetdisp === *zeus.csl.sri.co 130.107.2.57 2 1024 377 0.00079 0.000651 0.01483 =plato.csl.sri.c 130.107.2.57 3 1024 377 0.00035 -0.001401 0.01483 =orion.csl.sri.c 130.107.2.57 3 1024 377 0.00032 -0.001799 0.01483 ntpdc It was posted here recenlty that if your security setting is at 1 (?), then ntp can only change the clock by 1 second... init(8) states secure level 2 or above. - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Port: fontconfig
Greetings list, I am having a problem with fontconfig from ports. I wanted to update X11 to xorg on my alpha box. I read the 20040723 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING and proceeded as instructed. Now the port build processing is barfing on the build of fontconfig. [ I didn't have the actual error message from the alpha box since it is at home, but I reproduced it on a FreeBSD/i386 machine ] The error message is : fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFreeTypeQuery': fcfreetype.c:300: syntax error before `psfontinfo' fcfreetype.c:759: `psfontinfo' undeclared (first use in this function) fcfreetype.c:759: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once fcfreetype.c:759: for each function it appears in.) gmake[2]: *** [fcfreetype.lo] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontconfig-2.2.3/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontconfig-2.2.3' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig. Does anyone have suggestions how I can get past this? I have no X11 installed on it now and the console is painful. Host : DEC Alpha Personal Workstation 433a OS : FreeBSD/Alpha 4.10-RELEASE-p2 - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blackberry Sendmail
This is not entirely on-topic for the FreeBSD list (except my mail server is FreeBSD). Does anyone know of a solution to allow secure mail forwarding to a blackberry similar to the enterprise solutions for MS exchange, and Lotus Notes? Thanks - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)
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Re: Linux-Opera problem
When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rehash [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-opera ELF binary type 0 not known. ELF binary type 0 not known. /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera: 1: Syntax error: ( unexpected what does that mean? What should I do? Try doing (as root of course) ; kldload linux ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail Server
I am about to begin the process of building a replacement mail server for our workgroup using FreeBSD and Sendmail. In addition to receiving mail from our primary MX and sending mail out our SMART_HOST, I would like the ability to enable our users to send and receive email directly from this server while at remote locations. My initial thought along the above lines is to enable smtps and/or SSL/TLS for sendmail, and the imap-uw port for imaps/pops. I have read section 21.10 in the FreeBSD handbook, but this only covers SMTP Authentication. I have also found and read http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html and it appears to cover most of what I need to do. Additionally I want to integrate SpamAssassin into the mix. I have found, read, and implemented the SpamAssassin Milter instructions at http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/spamassassin.php This appears to work well. Does anyone have any arguments about why I should do it this way rather than the invoke spamc via procmail method we use now? Lastly, this may seem silly, but how do I generate a certificate signing request for my imaps/pops/sendmail servers? I have generated a self signed certificate and I can accept it and it appears to be working. When I look at information regarding certificates at either Verisign or Thawte I have only found information about web server certificates. Is there any effective difference between a cert used for Apache and imaps/pops/sendmail? If anyone has suggestions, experiences, or pointers to more information I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports Base
Wondering if you could copy the ports base of a FreeBSD server to a CD, then copy the CD to another FreeBSD server of the same version. I searched through many docs on CVSUP, but didn't find the answer to this question. I simply want to streamline the constant building and rebuilding of FreeBSD 4.10 servers. Each time I build one, I have to run the CVSUP to update several ports, etc. This really extends the build time of a server. I figured if I could simply copy the ports tree structure to CD, then copy that to the other servers, I'd save some time. I don't have enough hardware to keep a constant CVSUP mirror locally, I already looked into that. I don't see any reason why this would not work. If the machines are all running the same version of FreeBSD I don't think there will be any problem. This doesn't seem to me to be any different than building/installing ports on host A and then mounting /usr/ports on host B from host A via NFS and doing a make install of the already built ports. - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how-to tell sendmail to mail thru my ISP
I have dynamic IP address and ISP blocks inbound port 25 so any recipients email server that checks back before accepting says I an invalid sender. Going through my ISP email server should fix this. How do I tell sendmail to send, relay my outgoing email through my ISP email server? 1) go to /etc/mail 2) type make 3) edit /etc/mail/hostname.mc 4) locate line containing SMART_HOST 5) remove `dnl' from the start of the line 6) change `your.isp.mail.server' with the name of your ISP's SMTP server. 6a) NOTE NOTE NOTE: make sure your quotes around hostname are right first is ` and second is ' 7) save file and exit 8) in /etc/mail type, make, make install, and make restart That should do it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name?
How can I copy a group of files to a different name. I want to copy all
files starting with 'bacula*' to 'bacula*.old'. So I have these four files:
blacklamb# ll bac*
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 949 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-barcodes
-rw-r- 1 root wheel 5792 May 17 16:52 bacula-dir.conf
-rw-r- 1 root wheel 763 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-fd.conf
-rw-r- 1 root wheel 1909 May 17 16:31 bacula-sd.conf
I want to have copies of these files with '.old' appended to their
names. I've tried 'cp -pv bac* bac*.old' but cp complains. Because
it's only 4 files, I'll do each one independently but I'd like to know
how to do this right for future reference.
Well it may not be right, but there is more than one way to skin a cat.
if using bash as your shell you could do
for b in *
do
mv $b ${b}.old
done
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Re: The correct way to run make
Im giving up for now. Tried to build mozilla with - make -DWITHOUT_MAILNEWS=yes -DWITHOUT_LDAP=yes -DWITHOUT_CHATZILLA=yes instal l and it still has the mail and chatzilla modules installed. Maybe Ill experiment with it later (like when Im sleeping) If you are disabling all of that why not install firefox instead? ( /usr/ports/www/firefox/ ) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NTPD
Can someone shed light on the following error? May 13 09:08:47 rr-spamd-0 ntpd[607]: ntpd 4.1.1b-a Wed May 12 13:55:12 PDT 2004 (1) May 13 09:08:47 rr-spamd-0 ntpd[607]: bind() fd 5, family 2, port 123, addr 130.107.1.31 , in_classd=0 flags=1 fails: Can't assign requested address rr-spamd-0# uname -a FreeBSD rr-spamd-0.csl.sri.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p6 #0: Wed May 12 16:34:45 PDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPARCY sparc64 rr-spamd-0# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Traceroute supporting ICMP ECHO
I'm using 4.7p1 here, and I've had all sorts of fun on occasion with traceroute and my various firewall/routers. The default traceroute will not work since UDP traffic is apparently blocked on the return. Opening up port ranges on my router just doesn't seem right. However, Linux traceroute has a -I option (I think Windows tracert uses ICMP ECHO by default) which allows it to work through a home firewall router. The FreeBSD port for mtr also works. Is there anyone who has considered adding this capability to FreeBSD? I think its already there. ( 4.9-RELEASE-p3 ) From traceoute(8) -P Send packets of specified IP protocol. The currently supported protocols are: UDP, TCP, GRE and ICMP. Other protocols may also be specified (either by name or by number), though traceroute does not implement any special knowledge of their packet for- mats. This option is useful for determining which router along a path may be blocking packets based on IP protocol number. But see BUGS below. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP - DNS producing error with printer
I just got a Brother printer with a built in print server. Im trying to set it up to work in my DHCP updating DNS scheme. Using the printer's default name, Im always getting this DNS error - May 12 15:42:07 hivemind named[84]: owner name BRN_448719.trini0.org IN (primary) is invalid - rejecting May 12 15:42:07 hivemind named[84]: error processing update packet (REFUSED) id 46124 from [192.168.0.1].1265 If I were to change the printer's name to printer, everything works fine. Does anyone have any ideas why DNS doesn't like the hostname? Im trying to setup the printer in its default state before I start modifying its configuration, so any help would be appreciated.. Blame Brother. _ is an invalid character in DNS. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
boot up and shutdown seem alot quicker than linux
arden
Yes. I appreciate FreeBSD's short boot times, especially after I have
done a cvsup make {build,install}{world,kernel}.
- Mike
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Re: Connecting to a headless system
I did get single user up, but I have limited commands and it won't allow me to adduser.?? Do this again. When you get the shell prompt immediately issue the command : mount -a -t ufs The /usr and other partitions are not likely to be mounted in single user mode. adduser is in /usr/sbin/ so isn't available until /usr is mounted. The comand above mounts all (-a) filesystems in the fstab with file system type (-t) ufs. This is very likely to get your /usr partition mounted. - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2.1, Sparc64, Install
Is there a Sparc64 (Ultra5) specific install instructions document? ta, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA Raid
Can anyone recommend a well supported Serial ATA RAID card for FreeBSD? I would like a mirrored drive with one hot spare. Thanks - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing tripwire reports
Read find(1). find is your friend. - Mike I have a need for a script that removes tripwire reports that are over 30 day s old. my /var fills up quickly from them. aany clue on how to write this? - Noah ___ [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]
Re: Silent boot?
Anyone know whether it'd be possible to cleanly disable printing the kernel boot messages (the bold white text)? Meaning, short of commenting out the code that prints this, is there any way? If you dont mind **NOT** having a console **AT ALL** you can comment out the system console device (see below) in the kernel config and rebuild/install a new kernel. From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC : ... device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 ... Advantage : no kernel message on console (in fact, no console! Doh!) Disadvantage : makes single user mode difficult at best :P - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solutions
I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run wel l on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking fo r software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. I use amanda (/usr/ports/misc/amanda-*) on a Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz machine w/ 2Gbytes of RAM running FreeBSD 4.8. The machine contains a 3ware ATA RAID card with 6 120Gbyte disks attached and concatinated into a single volume and is used for temporary holding space for the dump files. The tape and tape changer device is a Dell PowerEdge 122T with an LTO tape drive connected via an Adaptec SCSI controller. I use `mtx' (/usr/ports/misc/mtx) to control the tape changer. To top it off the machine interfaces to the network using an Intel 1000baseSX ethernet over fiber network card which is sub-interfaced using VLANs onto all of the subnets in our switch infrastructure (this means backup traffic doesn't hit the router). This machine backs up approximately 200Gbytes per night. This consists of 157 partitions accross 64 hosts. The hosts are a combination of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, DEC (OFS/1), and AIX machines. I get level zero dumps of each partition every 4 days and sometimes more frequently. Backups start at 7PM and typically run for about 6 to 8 hours. Hope that helps. - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Amanda or Bacula
Yes! For amanda, the tape must be able to store the compressed dump file on one tape. Worst case scenario is that the 120 Gbyte partition is filled with uncompressable data making the dump file 120Gbytes. Amanda will need a tape drive which is capable of storing that on one tape. - Mike So to clarify just so that I understand correctly: 1. Each filesystem per system to be backed up qualifies as a dumpfile. 2. Multiple dumpfiles per backup 3. Multiple tapes per backup, as long as 1 dumpfile isn't larger than the tape. One of my systems has a 120 gig drive with about 36gigs (and growing) of people's images, documents, etc on it (samba server). My single tape drive is only 20 gigs. I am assuming this will be a problem for Amanda unless I get a bigger tape drive. Sincerely, Rick Duvall - Original Message - From: Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Re: Amanda or Bacula Is this a choice of personal preference, or does one actually work better than the other in my scenario? I replied earlier to someone else regarding what I do here for backups. My recommendation is to use amanda. Mostly due to its maturity. Amanda can use multiple tapes (via a changer or multiple drives), but a single dump file can not span two tapes (this is rarely a problem). - Michael Hogsett Below is my response Stephane's question. Date:Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:49:22 PDT To: Stephane Raimbault [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup Solutions I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run wel l on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking fo r software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. I use amanda (/usr/ports/misc/amanda-*) on a Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz machine w/ 2Gbytes of RAM running FreeBSD 4.8. The machine contains a 3ware ATA RAID card with 6 120Gbyte disks attached and concatinated into a single volume and is used for temporary holding space for the dump files. The tape and tape changer device is a Dell PowerEdge 122T with an LTO tape drive connected via an Adaptec SCSI controller. I use `mtx' (/usr/ports/misc/mtx) to control the tape changer. To top it off the machine interfaces to the network using an Intel 1000baseSX ethernet over fiber network card which is sub-interfaced using VLANs onto all of the subnets in our switch infrastructure (this means backup traffic doesn't hit the router). This machine backs up approximately 200Gbytes per night. This consists of 157 partitions accross 64 hosts. The hosts are a combination of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, DEC (OFS/1), and AIX machines. I get level zero dumps of each partition every 4 days and sometimes more frequently. Backups start at 7PM and typically run for about 6 to 8 hours. Hope that helps. - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ports : Mozilla / Mozilla-devel
I have been pulling my hair out over this. I installed a package several days ago that required gettext. The gettext in ports has been updated so I had to deinstall the existing on and install the version from ports. After that mozilla and mozilla-devel (and some other stuff) wont run becuase libintl.so.4 no longer exists. (gettext from ports installs libintl.so.5 now). I pkg_delete'd mozilla and mozilla-devel and rebuilt (have tried both) but even after they build and install they are still asking for libintl.so.4!! How can this be? How can either of these link against a library that is no longer installed? I rm -rf'd /usr/ports and cvsup'd back hoping to clear any cruft that may have remained and rebuilt mozilla-devel, still no dice! Anyone have a suggestion how I can get either of these ports to work again? - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting ext3 to ffs
Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an ext3 partition to an ffs partition? And if so, is it possible to do it without data loss? dump(8) and restore(8)* may do the trick. I would recommend dumping from an os where ext3 is native (e.g. linux) and then restore on a os where ffs is native (e.g. FreeBSD). - Mike [*] umount, dump, disklabel, newfs, mount, restore ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Losing routes !!
I have a machine that has been running 4.8-RELEASE for months flawlessly. I recently CVSup'd to RELENG_4_8 (now running 4.8-RELEASE-p8). The machine is losing routes. Specifically its default route and a route to the lan of one of its own interfaces. I can manually add the default route back, but it only lasts about 20 seconds until it mysteriously disappears. The machine has an Intel 1000baseSX card that is sub-interfaced using VLANs. There are 9 vlan interfaces in use (vlan0 through vlan8). It consistently loses its default route and the route to the lan `connected' to vlan8. Any suggestions how I can diagnose what is happening? Thanks! - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Losing routes !!
I think the patch from the arp SA has broken routing for a few people. ---Mike Any suggestions? This is my backup server. I would like to resolve this as soon as possible. I don't want to have to re-install to 4.8-RELEASE. The machine was running 4.8-RELEASE-p3 fine last week (and not 4.8-RELEASE as I indicated below). Is it possible to blow away /usr/src and cvsup to 4.8-RELEASE-p3 rather than 4.8-RELEASE-p8? Thanks! - Michael Hogsett At 02:11 PM 24/09/2003, Mike Hogsett wrote: I have a machine that has been running 4.8-RELEASE for months flawlessly. I recently CVSup'd to RELENG_4_8 (now running 4.8-RELEASE-p8). The machine is losing routes. Specifically its default route and a route to the lan of one of its own interfaces. I can manually add the default route back, but it only lasts about 20 seconds until it mysteriously disappears. The machine has an Intel 1000baseSX card that is sub-interfaced using VLANs. There are 9 vlan interfaces in use (vlan0 through vlan8). It consistently loses its default route and the route to the lan `connected' to vlan8. Any suggestions how I can diagnose what is happening? Thanks! - Michael Hogsett ___ [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]
Re: Losing routes !!
I think the patch from the arp SA has broken routing for a few people. ---Mike Any suggestions? This is my backup server. I would like to resolve this as soon as possible. I don't want to have to re-install to 4.8-RELEASE. The machine was running 4.8-RELEASE-p3 fine last week (and not 4.8-RELEASE as I indicated below). Is it possible to blow away /usr/src and cvsup to 4.8-RELEASE-p3 rather than 4.8-RELEASE-p8? Ok. I grabbed src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c from a 4.8-RELEASE-p7 box, rebuilt and installed the kernel, and rebooted and it looks ok so far. *phew* - Michael Hogsett At 02:11 PM 24/09/2003, Mike Hogsett wrote: I have a machine that has been running 4.8-RELEASE for months flawlessly. I recently CVSup'd to RELENG_4_8 (now running 4.8-RELEASE-p8). The machine is losing routes. Specifically its default route and a route to the lan of one of its own interfaces. I can manually add the default route back, but it only lasts about 20 seconds until it mysteriously disappears. The machine has an Intel 1000baseSX card that is sub-interfaced using VLANs. There are 9 vlan interfaces in use (vlan0 through vlan8). It consistently loses its default route and the route to the lan `connected' to vlan8. Any suggestions how I can diagnose what is happening? Thanks! - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] g ___ [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]
Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable than FBSD?
I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. You need to define easy. From a GUI perspective, Yes many people will find Windows XP easy. This is often attributable to the fact that many of these people have been using Windows since atleast the Windows95 days. For these people the GUI is familiar and they are comfortable with it. For them this means it is easy. From a maintenance and configuration perspective if find FreeBSD to be easy. If windows more popular and more program work on windows why do you use FreeBSD? Because Windows does not fit my needs in all situations. Say, for example, I need to run a DNS server. FreeBSD fits this need very well at a highly competative price. I am beginner and I don't understand why a lot of people say that FreeBSD it's cool. Why? Again. Cool needs to be defined. I find FreeBSD to be Cool because it fits my (work-related) needs and I find it to be easy to maintain. I find Windows to be Cool at home when I can run that new whizbang 3D shoot-em-up game. What do you prefer FreeBSD or Windows??? This depends on the need (the problem) that you are using an Operating System to solve. I use FreeBSD for my core network services at the office. At home on the other hand I have a Windows XP box so that I can run the games I like to play. - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: du,df tools
first, why does 59375408 + 1348433 != 61337213 df -k /home/henninb Filesystemkbytesused avail capacity Mounted on 61337213 59375408 134843398%/home/henninb I believe your disk has 1% reserved space. See newfs(8) -m free space % The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is defined by MINFREE from ufs/ffs/fs.h, currently 8%. See tunefs(8) for more details on how to set this option. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skey Login, telnet ssh
I have enabled the skey one time passwords login feature to allow telnet access to a machine. Is there a way to require the skey login for telnet but not for ssh? telnet -K ins Trying 130.107.1.41... Connected to ins.csl.sri.com. Escape character is '^]'. FreeBSD/i386 (ins) (ttyp1) login: hogsett s/key 97 in89044 Password: ssh ins s/key 97 in89044 Password: Thanks - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question
What mean BSD in FreeBSD name? Berkeley Software Distribution. This was a distribution of a modified ATT Unix that came out of University of California at Berkeley in the mid to late 1970s. For a family tree that will show how BSD is related to ATT Unix see : http://www.levenez.com/unix/ - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to run a program as a daemon
You can use /etc/ttys for this (despite the name). Oh my! How clever. That had never occurred to me. I chose the crontab entry method to keep the daemon half of SpamAssassin running. This is more elegant. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files
from an sh type shell
for i in *.inc
do
z=`echo $i | sed -e s/inc/htm/g`
mv ${i} ${z}
done
This won't give expected results for a file named fooinc.inc. It will
become foohtm.htm. I realize that based on the file names given in the
original email this doesn't appear to be an issue, but changing the sed
command to
sed -e 's/\.inc$/\.html/'
may give better (more generally useful) results. Also note the ' instead
of so that the shell doesn't perform variable expansion within the sed
command text. The shell will ignore the $ and instead sed uses it to match
end of line or string in this case.
- Mike
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Re: Problem with my FreeBSD
Try (as root): # XFree86 -configure That *should* write a configuration file into root's home directory. Then run : # XFree86 -xf86config /path/to/the/new/config If it works you can tweak it from there (e.g. bit depth, screen resolution, refresh frequency, etc.). If not... um... your problem is beyond the scope of what I have time for in this email at the moment. - Mike This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_3002_5e52_1afd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please help me I will Thankfull Regards, Ricardo _ Las mejores tiendas, los precios mas bajos, entregas en todo el mundo, YupiMSN Compras: [1]Haz clic aquí... References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMMES/2746??PS= --=_NextPart_000_3002_5e52_1afd Content-Type: text/plain; name=XFree86.0.log; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=XFree86.0.log XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 23 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Mon Sep 1 04:35:37 2003 (==) Using config file: /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor My Monitor (**) | |--Device My Video Card (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel microsoft (**) XKB: model: microsoft (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/li b/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X1 1R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1a30 card , rev 04 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,1a31 card , rev 04 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card , rev 05 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,2440 card , rev 05 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,244b card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:2: chip 8086,2442 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,2443 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:4: chip 8086,2444 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,2445 card 8086,4856 rev 05 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0110 card , rev b2 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0a:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 10ec,8139 rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0b:0: chip e159,0001 card 8086,0003 rev 00 class 07,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,2), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x
Re: Setting sysctl variables BEFORE the kernel boots and runs init?
I would like to be able to set certain sysctl variables in the kernel, preferably BEFORE the kernel finishes booting and runs init, etc. (or at the worst case, very shortly after init runs) I thought I remembered that there was a way to do this through the boot loader. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. Although I haven't done this myself, I think a start may be reading the man pages for loader(8), loader.conf(5) and boot(8). - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to stop the ddos ot dos attack ?
i got a DoS attack, how i can stop it ? note: i have a lan network in my home, and DSL connection which is connected to the hub direct, and i have 3 pc's. thanks I use a firewall which allows a block of DoS IPs from any to any also can close ports easily. Plus, if you log, you can then monitor the further attempts Unfortunately anything you do at the local end will not prevent bandwidth from being consumed on your link. Once it hits your local firewall to be dropped the traffic has already consumed bandwidth on your link. This may or may not be a concern. If the DOS is consuming a great deal of bandwidth than it probably is a concern and you may try contacting the abuse@ or other support addresses at your ISP and ask if they can filter this traffic before it hits your link. If you do want to consider a local firewall (which is a very good idea indeed) you may consider using a FreeBSD box in bridging mode between the DSL link and the local LAN. This FreeBSD box can do layer 3 (IP) filtering in bridging (layer 2 forwarding) mode. Some references : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/article.html - Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no root login after changing shell
i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. in the freebsd online handbook i found this command: # echo /usr/local/bin/bash /etc/shells but what i didnt know at this moment, that i have to install bash before. so i logged of as user root and get now on login the following error: su: /usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory can anybody please help me ... thanx Been there, done that, I sympathize with you. The proper way to have done that would be: Install bash As root, type chsh That will open vi, or your configured editor. Then change the shell line to: /usr/local/bin/bash Alternately, you can, as root, type: Chpass -s /usr/local/bin/bash root This aviods opening vi and the editing I mentioned above. As far as recovering from this problem, I'm kinda a newbie myself, when I did that, I finally re-installed. Maybe someone can point you to the easy way to fix it. Reboot the machine. At the `boot:' prompt do : boot -s When it asks for a shell accept /bin/sh (or specify it) Mount all OS partitions (e.g. `mount -a -t ufs') Fix the password file. (us vipw if you can) reboot. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fxp0 only 300Kbits/sec ?
I am having a strange problem. I have this new Cisco Catalyst 2940T-24. On it I have 6 FreBSD/x86 boxes. The first 5 are running great. The 6th is only getting 300Kbits/sec out of its interface, but ... not right away after a reboot. I rebooted the host Saturday afternoon and I was again getting about 80Mbits/sec. Saturday night's backups ran great, and fast. So did Sunday's backups. But last night's backups are still running. My mrtg traffic graphs show that it is only getting 300Kbit/sec out of its interface. I confirmed this with an FTP directly to the host a few minutes ago (after killing off the backups). Nothing is mentioned in /var/log/messages. The switch claims the port is running at 100Mbits, full-duplex, as does the output of ifconfig. Suggestions? - Mike Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD NIS Server/Slave DES
The FreeBSD Handbook section 19.8.11 appears to be out of date. The output of the method shown to see if the FreeBSD box is using DES or MD5 has no resemblance to what I see on my box. How do I configure FreeBSD to use DES? Specifically if I run a FreeBSD NIS master how do I get rpc.yppasswdd and yppasswd to play nice? If I run yppasswd on my FreeBSD NIS client my password entry in our password file on the NIS master ends up with an MD5 password so I can no longer log into my Solaris NIS client. - Mike Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD NIS Server/Slave DES
How do I configure FreeBSD to use DES? Specifically if I run a FreeBSD NIS master how do I get rpc.yppasswdd and yppasswd to play nice? Look in /etc/login.conf: default:\ :passwd_format=des:\ Look in /etc/auth.conf: crypt_default = des Hmmm. Ok. I edited both files to list des rather than md5, but when I run 'passwd -l root' on my local box as a test I still appear to be getting an md5 password in the local master.passwd file. root:$1$/DW5l0iK$rVSJNci3lX3kfIa3w5bK50:0:0::0:0:Charlie :/root:/bin/csh Suggestions? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ZIP Drive
mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt msdos: /dev/da0: Invalid argument Why does this keep happening?? What am I doing wrong? In the past I found that the zip disks had some odd partitioning. I often found the primary partition to be the 4th partition on the disk (the first three being empty/non-existant/zero-size). The first thing that sticks out to me above though is that you are not attempting to mount a partition, but the raw disk. Try mounting one of: da0s1 da0s2 da0s3 da0s4 -- I think it is probably this one. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: projects
Shawn Said: I am currently tryin to learn sysadmin. is there a place were there are projects that I can practice on my box..I have just been searching the web for stuff to do with my box and have learned bits and pieces..but I want a little more structure. I have bought a few books but quickly tire of them just like the projects on the web because I have to search for days on the next step to learn how to do it.. I would like something that is step by step and progressive between steps...am I dreaming or is there something out there??? Thanks Luke Said: As one who has done ( am still doing ) what you are looking for I suggest that the best way is to purchase the FreeBSD handbook ( or if you don't mind reading it over the web get the good oil there ) and go through the chapters one by one and learn to install/config a DHCP server Web server FTP server etc etc. All the books dedicated to Sys Admin work appear to be pretty tedious I thought and the best way is hands on playing with things with the books as a guide only. Take any old piece of garbage machine with a cheap hub and a second client machine and go for it. It can be fun when things are working the way you intended. I would also recommend to treat your first many installs as throw away. That is write them off up front, expect to reinstall. This way you can play with many aspects of the system without the fear of breaking it, you have already decided it will be reinstalled. After you have learned more you can stop this behavior and keep it stable. This has the added benefit that you learn a great deal from breaking things... :) What Luke recommends above is great (making up tasks to do such as installing a web server). You can build on that too. Install an apache web server with ssl, php4, and a mysql or postgresql database and use that to install PHP nuke. Set up a DNS server and learn about zone files, etc. and then run two, or more, PHP nuke websites from one IP address. You can go on and on with this. It becomes alot more fun when you start putting several things together and get your machine to do something cool. The possibilities are endless. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Dell PowerVault 122T
Greetings, Has anyone used a Dell PowerVault 122T tape loader with FreeBSD. Specifically I am interested on how well the tape changing works. - Mike P.S. I would like to use the 122T with the LTO tapes, and Amanda to do our backups. I use two Sony AIT SDX-400C drives now. I have been looking at the 122T as a potential upgrade in capacity for our system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: NIS Server with amd.home
Hey, Hi. I'm getting ready to setup a NIS server for a LAN, and I'd really like to use FreeBSD again. However, the last time I did this with FreeBSD (4.6, so not that long ago), I couldn't get the server to build a map for the home dirs. I tried an awk script in the Makefile that I saw online, but that didn't help. It seemed like it just wouldn't build the map. The only way I could get it to work was to create an amd.home with all of the users in it and put it on all of the client machines... This was too ugly. Indeed. Can anyone help? Perhaps. This may or may not help, but here is the Makefile from /var/yp on our NIS primary. You'll likely need to scroll down and extract our amd.home rules from it and integrate that into yours. After that is the rc.conf entries for amd Good luck. - Mike # # Makefile for the NIS databases # # $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/ypserv/Makefile.yp,v 1.28.2.3 2001/05/18 18:28:02 gshapiro Exp $ # # This Makefile should only be run on the NIS master server of a domain. # All updated maps will be pushed to all NIS slave servers listed in the # /var/yp/ypservers file. Please make sure that the hostnames of all # NIS servers in your domain are listed in /var/yp/ypservers. # # This Makefile can be modified to support more NIS maps if desired. # # If this machine is an NIS master, comment out this next line so # that changes to the NIS maps can be propagated to the slave servers. # (By default we assume that we are only serving a small domain with # only one server.) # #NOPUSH = False # If you want to use a FreeBSD NIS server to serve non-FreeBSD clients # (i.e. clients who expect the password field in the passwd maps to be # valid) then uncomment this line. This will cause $YPDIR/passwd to # be generated with valid password fields. This is insecure: FreeBSD # normally only serves the master.passwd maps (which have real encrypted # passwords in them) to the superuser on other FreeBSD machines, but # non-FreeBSD clients (e.g. SunOS, Solaris (without NIS+), IRIX, HP-UX, # etc...) will only work properly in 'unsecure' mode. # UNSECURE = True # The following line encodes the YP_INTERDOMAIN key into the hosts.byname # and hosts.byaddr maps so that ypserv(8) will do DNS lookups to resolve # hosts not in the current domain. Commenting this line out will disable # the DNS lookups. B=-b # Normally, the master.passwd.* maps are guarded against access from # non-privileged users. By commenting out the following line, the YP_SECURE # key will be removed from these maps, allowing anyone to access them. S=-s # These are commands which this Makefile needs to properly rebuild the # NIS databases. Don't change these unless you have a good reason. Also # be sure not to place an @ in front of /usr/bin/awk: it isn't necessary # and it'll break everything in sight. # AWK = /usr/bin/awk RM = @/bin/rm -f MV = @/bin/mv -f RMV = /bin/mv -f RCAT = /bin/cat CAT = @$(RCAT) UPDATE_DOMAIN = csl.sri.com MKDB = /usr/sbin/yp_mkdb DBLOAD = $(MKDB) -m `hostname` MKNETID = /usr/libexec/mknetid NEWALIASES = /usr/bin/newaliases YPPUSH = /usr/sbin/yppush .if !defined(UPDATE_DOMAIN) DOMAIN = `/bin/domainname` .else DOMAIN = $(UPDATE_DOMAIN) .endif REVNETGROUP = /usr/libexec/revnetgroup TMP = `echo $@.` # It is advisable to create a separate directory to contain the # source files used to generate your NIS maps. If you intend to # support multiple domains, something like /src/dir/$DOMAIN # would work well. YPSRCDIR = /usr/local/nis/$(UPDATE_DOMAIN) .if !defined(YP_DIR) YPDIR = /var/yp .else YPDIR = $(YP_DIR) .endif YPMAPDIR = $(YPDIR)/$(DOMAIN) # These are the files from which the NIS databases are built. You may edit # these to taste in the event that you wish to keep your NIS source files # seperate from your NIS server's actual configuration files. Note that the # NIS passwd and master.passwd files are stored in /var/yp: the server's # real password database is not used by default. However, you may use # the real /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd files by: # # # - invoking yppasswdd with `-t /etc/master.passwd' (yppasswdd will do a # 'pwd_mkdb' as needed if /etc/master.passwd is thus specified). # - Specifying the location of the master.passwd file using the # MASTER_PASSWD variable, i.e.: # # # make MASTER_PASSWD=/path/to/some/other/master.passwd # # - (optionally): editing this Makefile to change the default location. # # To add a user, edit $(YPDIR)/master.passwd and type 'make'. The raw # passwd file will be generated from the master.passwd file automagically. # ETHERS= $(YPSRCDIR)/ethers # ethernet addresses (for rarpd) BOOTPARAMS= $(YPSRCDIR)/bootparams # for booting Sun boxes (bootparamd) HOSTS = $(YPSRCDIR)/hosts NETWORKS = $(YPSRCDIR)/networks PROTOCOLS = $(YPSRCDIR)/protocols RPC = $(YPSRCDIR)/rpc SERVICES = $(YPSRCDIR)/services GROUP = $(YPSRCDIR)/group ALIASES = $(YPSRCDIR)/mail/aliases NETGROUP = $(YPSRCDIR)/netgroup PASSWD=
4.2
For a reason that I have no ability to change I have a customer who needs to install 4.2. Can I check out RELENG_4_2 from cvsup and get the desired results? - or - Are 4.2 Install ISO available somewhere (not ftp.freebsd.org). TIA, - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: SMP kernel installation
Sorry after re-reading my reply one thing I did not make clear Install freebsd as you would with a uniprocessor machine, then boot that install and do what I recommend below - Mike You need to recompile the kernel with the SMP options turned on, install the kernel and reboot. On a reasonable modern machine takes less than 10 minutes. See /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and the FreeBSD Handbook. - Mike Hi, For a multiprocessor machine,to install FreeBSD,is something extra needs to be done from what will be done to install the OS for a uni processor machine?I mean is there anything different to be installed for a symmetric multi processor machine? thanks shubha __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions
portmap is also required for NIS. - Mike From: Adam Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since NIS uses RPC, do I need to configure inetd.conf to allow RPC on the NIS server and clients? The handbook does not make any mention of editing the inetd.conf file. inetd doesn't handle RPC. Use the rc.conf settings suggested in the tutorial and the necessary rpc servers will be started at boot time by /etc/rc Once you've got everything running, you can use ps -ax | grep rpc to see what rpc servers were started. I don't actually remember what's started for NIS, although I believe rpc.statd at least needs to run. -Bill _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail 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: FreeBSD Stability
I haven't seen FBSD 4.7 system with uptime 1000 days, for quite obvious reasons.. Should I recommend everyone to install FBSD 2.2.8 since it has good uptime records? :) Sorry to step into the middle of a thread here, but to me it says that FreeBSD has had, and likely continues to have, a very good development and testing process for several years now, if not longer. This is my justification for using FreeBSD for all of my core services while my users demand Linux on the desktop. # uname -a FreeBSD buzby 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #3: Thu Sep 20 13:16:52 PDT 2001 root@buzby:/usr/src/sys/compile/PRI-NIS i386 # uptime 8:29PM up 433 days, 11:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Upload substantially slower than download
If the full-duplex might be related, how would I set it to half-duplex? If they both live on a switch then full duplex is likely preferable. If they both live on a hub half duplex what you want. Make sure both ends are at the same duplex setting. To manually set the 10/100 half/full duplex settings read the ifconfig(8) man page, specifically the `media' and `mediaopt' sections, and the driver man page for your card, in this case the rl(4) driver. e.g. ifconfig rl0 inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP
No reason not to if you want to. But, you don't need to if you're willing to put up with XP being labeled as '???' in the OS selection menu which the regular FreeBSd boot manager will give you. I also thought the `???' mean Why the fsck would you want to run that! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FreeBSD Stability
[buzby] [hogsett] [~] ; uname -a FreeBSD buzby 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #3: Thu Sep 20 13:16:52 PDT 2001 root@buzby:/usr/src/sys/compile/PRI-NIS i386 [buzby] [hogsett] [~] ; uptime 4:22PM up 415 days, 7:17, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 [buzby] [hogsett] [~] ; To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Netgraph / ng_fec / pseudo-device vlan
I would like to know where I can find more netgraph documentation and examples outside of the man pages. I would also like to know if the pseudo-device vlan and interact with netgraph and would be interested in anyone's experience with ng_fec. Thanks! - Mike Hogsett P.S. What I want to do is use ng_fec to combine two fxps then use the 802.1Q trunking provided by the vlan support to sup-interface the combined fxps. fxp0\ /-vlan0 -??---vlan1 fxp1/ \-vlan2 \-vlan3 \-vlanN To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)
I saw a test a few months ago of several low-end switches, and they were all non-blocking with similar performance. Pretty much a commodity item at this point. On refelection, makes me wonder why I spent $5000 on Cisco 2900 switches 5 years ago. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Screen shots?
Can someone tell me how to take a screen shot using KDE3? I am not sure about KDE3 specific things, but I have taken screen shots with xv. /usr/ports/graphics/xv - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Wireless Sniffing/Auditing (Kismet)
I just acquired a Libretto 70. FreeBSD installed wonderfully onto it Thanks Guys!. I would like to set this box up as a wireless auditing box. Does Kismet work on FreeBSD? Are there other tools that people would recommend? Thanks - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
PCMCIA device timeouts
Greetings, I installed FreeBSD (4.7) on a laptop today. I did a network install using a LinkSys PCMPC100 (shows up as ed1). Install was flawless. Rebooted the machine, performed some additional port installs (over the network) and did a cvsup to RELENG_4_7. Everything was fine. I shutdown the machine and brought it home. Now I am getting messages such as : /kernel: ed1: device timeout I also get a similar messages if I stick in my Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA wireless card. It is not able to arp for its gateway. tcpdump shows no traffic at all. (except originating from this host if I try a ping). The LinkSys card shows link, but its activity light is on solid. I have tried both PCMCIA slots. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: PCMCIA device timeouts
Greetings, I installed FreeBSD (4.7) on a laptop today. I did a network install using a LinkSys PCMPC100 (shows up as ed1). Install was flawless. Rebooted the machine, performed some additional port installs (over the network) and did a cvsup to RELENG_4_7. Everything was fine. I shutdown the machine and brought it home. Now I am getting messages such as : /kernel: ed1: device timeout I also get a similar messages if I stick in my Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA wireless card. It is not able to arp for its gateway. tcpdump shows no traffic at all. Although packets are leaving the interface. If I run tcpdump on my main box, and run a ping from the laptop I see both the echo request and reply from the main box, but the laptop does not see them. (except originating from this host if I try a ping). The LinkSys card shows link, but its activity light is on solid. I have tried both PCMCIA slots. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. - Mike 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
DNS zones to NIS hosts file
Any suggestions for a DNS zone to NIS hosts file conversion utility? I have several domain and several in-addr.arpa zones I would like to generate a NIS hosts file from. Thanks - Michael Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
top dumps core if specific errors in password file
Submitter-Id: current-users Originator:Mike Hogsett Organization: SRI International Computer Science Laboratory Confidential: no Synopsis: top dumps core if specific errors in password file Severity: serious Priority: medium Category: bin Class: sw-bug Release: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 i386 Environment: System: FreeBSD beast.csl.sri.com 4.7-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 #2: Tue Nov 26 16:48:30 PST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEAST i386 Description: If there is an incorrect entry in a NIS netgroup file this netgroup file is used to append specific NIS password database entries to the local password database top will dump core at startup. In gdb it shows top failed inside endpwent(3) (gdb) where #0 0x2810cbd8 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #1 0x2810d421 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #2 0x2810c1da in getpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #3 0x804b28e in free () #4 0x804cb94 in clear () #5 0x8049389 in free () Since this error is appears to be within endpwent(3) I presume that programs using this function may also be unstable. How-To-Repeat: NIS netgroup file [NOTE: user3 entry incorrect] : somegroup (,user2,),(,user2,),(user3) master.password contains : +@somegroup/tmp:/usr/bin/false Fix: Well obviously fix the netgroup file error, but endpwent(3) should not fail so severely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Enabling root ftp access
Silly question. Using ProFTPD, how do I enable access by root via FTP? I need it only for short periods to be able to move and upload/update certain files. I understand the security risks and the server will only need to be up for brief periods of time. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks. I would recommend FTP by a user, ssh to the host as user, become root and move the files. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /usr/bin/top seg faulting
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-03 11:11:24 -0800: I just cvsup'd, buildworld, installworld, etc. this morning to RELENG_4_7. /usr/bin/top is segfaulting... FreeBSD flagg.csl.sri.com 4.7-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 #6: Tue Dec 3 10:42:13 PST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FLAGG i386 -r-xr-sr-x 1 root kmem 32520 Dec 3 03:04 /usr/bin/top bash-2.05a$ top Segmentation fault have you updated the kernel as well? buildkernel/installkernel. ls -l /kernel will tell you if in doubt. Yes (that was implied by `etc.' above) bash-2.05a$ ls -l /kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048739 Dec 3 03:00 /kernel bash-2.05a$ - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /usr/bin/top seg faulting
I think you have corrupted src. I am running basically the same source - util.c from diff and not having any problems. I would clean out /usr/src/contrib/top, recvsup, and rebuild everything. You said rebuild everything. Did you mean world/kernel or just top. I cleaned out top and rebuilt it but it made no difference. - Mike flagg# pwd /usr/src/usr.bin/top flagg# rm * flagg# rm /usr/src/contrib/top/* flagg# cvsup /etc/standard-supfile Connected to cvsup14.freebsd.org Updating collection src-all/cvs Checkout src/contrib/top/ADVERTISEMENT Checkout src/contrib/top/Changes Checkout src/contrib/top/Configure Checkout src/contrib/top/DISCLAIMER Checkout src/contrib/top/FAQ Checkout src/contrib/top/INSTALL Checkout src/contrib/top/Make.desc.X Checkout src/contrib/top/Makefile.X Checkout src/contrib/top/Porting Checkout src/contrib/top/README Checkout src/contrib/top/boolean.h Checkout src/contrib/top/commands.c Checkout src/contrib/top/display.c Checkout src/contrib/top/display.h Checkout src/contrib/top/getans Checkout src/contrib/top/getopt.c Checkout src/contrib/top/install Checkout src/contrib/top/layout.h Checkout src/contrib/top/loadavg.h Checkout src/contrib/top/m-template Checkout src/contrib/top/machine.h Checkout src/contrib/top/metatop Checkout src/contrib/top/os.h Checkout src/contrib/top/patchlevel.h Checkout src/contrib/top/prime.c Checkout src/contrib/top/screen.c Checkout src/contrib/top/screen.h Checkout src/contrib/top/sigconv.awk Checkout src/contrib/top/top.X Checkout src/contrib/top/top.c Checkout src/contrib/top/top.h Checkout src/contrib/top/top.local.H Checkout src/contrib/top/username.c Checkout src/contrib/top/utils.c Checkout src/contrib/top/utils.h Checkout src/contrib/top/version.c Checkout src/usr.bin/top/Makefile Checkout src/usr.bin/top/machine.c Checkout src/usr.bin/top/sigdesc.h Checkout src/usr.bin/top/top.local.1 Finished successfully flagg# pwd /usr/src/usr.bin/top flagg# make clean make make install rm -f top.local.h top.x top.1 top commands.o display.o machine.o screen.o top.o username.o utils.o version.o top.1.gz top.1.cat.gz cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/commands.c Making top.local.h from /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/top.local.H cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/display.c cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/machine.c cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/screen.c cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/top.c cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/username.c cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/utils.c cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER-c /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/version.c cc -O -pipe -DHAVE_GETOPT -DHAVE_STRERROR -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top -I/usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top -I. -DORDER -o top commands.o display.o machine.o screen.o top.o username.o utils.o version.o -ltermcap -lm -lkvm Making top.x from /usr/src/usr.bin/top/../../contrib/top/top.X cat top.x /usr/src/usr.bin/top/top.local.1 top.1 gzip -cn top.1 top.1.gz install -s -o root -g kmem -m 2555 top /usr/bin install -o root -g wheel -m 444 top.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1 flagg# top Segmentation fault flagg# To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /usr/bin/top seg faulting
I think you have corrupted src. I am running basically the same source - util.c from diff and not having any problems. I would clean out /usr/src/contrib/top, recvsup, and rebuild everything. You said rebuild everything. Did you mean world/kernel or just top. I cleaned out top and rebuilt it but it made no difference. flagg# top Segmentation fault flagg# Just as a side note regarding this host, everything else appears to be running fine (apache, postgresql, radiusd, cvsupd, syslogd are its primary services, and the other obvious things like getty's and sshd, etc. are fine). And so there is not confusion... flagg# which top /usr/bin/top flagg# ls -l `which top` -r-xr-sr-x 1 root kmem 32520 Dec 3 13:42 /usr/bin/top flagg# To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
PROBLEM FOUND WAS : Re: /usr/bin/top seg faulting
flagg# top Segmentation fault flagg# I got a core file and ran gdb... I know almost nothing about gdb, but what the heck. (gdb) where #0 0x2810cbd8 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #1 0x2810d421 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #2 0x2810c1da in getpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #3 0x804b28e in free () #4 0x804cb94 in clear () #5 0x8049389 in free () Ok. So this led me to a password file entry. This host is a NIS client with +@vpnusers/tmp:/usr/bin/false at the end of master.passwd (for the radiusd). Some missing commas in the netgroup file... Thanks for everyone's help. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server.
Can't you just go down into /dev and do : ./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 and gain access to the 4 drives on a second (supported) IDE controller? - Mike Hey people, Here's the long and short of it. I have my main server unixhideout.com running samba. All my windows clients programs such as kaZAa and even their My documents save to /mirror /mirror2 /mirror3 and /mirror4 which are writable shares, that way we can reinstall windows weekly if need be (ha) but all important data is safe on FreeBSD. Its working really well for years now. Problem is as you can guess from the subject is i got 4 120 gig hard drives in there, and i would like to have a CDROM and maybe even more disks as needed. A: What is the hardware name of the device i am looking for that will allow more then 4 ide devices to one box. B: do you know of a brand name i should be looking for that you recommend, or even a retailer. *SCSI is expensive and IS better but at this time not an option so please stick with IDE in your suggestions. -- -mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network administrator The unixhideout network http://www.unixhideout.com Need to get a hold of me? finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Free email that kicks ass from UnixHideout The UnixHideout network http://www.unixhideout.com/ 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: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD...
What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? I can't enumarate all the differences, but I know that OpenBSD does not support SMP hardware. Which flavor of BSD is the most secure straight out of the box? The one powered off. I don't know sorry. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: spoof mac address
I want to be able to spoof a mac address of a nic in my machine so i can run a router(bsd) parralel to my router (LRP). The reason i want to spoof the mac address is because i don't want to call my isp and have them change my mac address. can someone tell me where to look or howto spoof a mac address in bsd? ifconfig interface ether DE:AD:BE:EF:DE:AD To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FIGURED IT OUT!!! (was): Can't seem to assign a different port for http (apache)
If I simply type apple in the address bar IE will prefix apple with http://www.; and add the .com suffix, after failing to connect to just apple. I do not find this to be the case. I have a machine (hogx.csl.sri.com) and on my windows box if I enter hogx into the location field it never connects to http://hogx/ despite the fact that both machines are in the same domain (.csl.sri.com) and that the windows box is configured with this domain as its default domain and as a domain to search in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: passwords in /etc/group
Wow! An English right here on FreeBSD-Questions! On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:32:54AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. (Please put blank lines between paragraphs or use bullets or indentation or something. This isn't a Poetry 101 forum. Thanks.) -Neither is it a forum for you to make silly snidy comments. -The above is perfectly readable. -And don't assume everyone is American and knows what the hell a Poetry 101 forum is (surely it should be Forum). And please don't begin an email with parenthetical comments. This is stylistically unforgiveable. You might care to know that in the language of your forefathers a blank line is often ommitted between paragraphs. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] 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
No default realm defined for Kerberos!
How do I get rid of the annoying Kerberos message? Thanks, - Mike [beast] [hogsett] [~] -- telnet switch-a Trying 130.107.2.200... Connected to switch-a.csl.sri.com. Escape character is '^]'. User Access Verification Password: Kerberos: No default realm defined for Kerberos! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: is there an alternate driver to pips-sc880 ?
This may or may not be helpful : http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_dwn_e.html - Mike Hogsett (msg sent twice as I did not get feeback) hi, I have an Epson Stylus Color 880 which I want to run through apsfilter (or any other server) for lp but: # /usr/ports/print/pips-sc880 : make === pips-sc880-2.1 is forbidden: Momentally. Because of copyright violation noted by EPkowa co.. I've installed an older version of pips-sc880 but no way to get my printer printing (it just reacts by a little noise and movement when requested). Do you know of any other driver that could do ? Thank you in advance 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: Thanks guys
I don't think that FreeBSD-Questions is the forum for this discussion. - Michael Hogsett Erik writes: Have you read any of the license agreements normally accompanying commercial software? The big companies generally don't guarantee a bloody thing about the software, least of all that it will work correctly. Yes, they do, and generally they will support what they sell. If they don't, it soon ceases to sell. The extensive disclaimers in licensing agreements are mainly to protect against liability, not to avoid providing support. Additionally, many vendors charge for support beyond a certain minimum. While this is not included with the original purchase, at least it is available--the same cannot be said for most open-source software. Just because you demand it doesn't mean they will even acknowledge that the bug exists, let alone fix it. They will, and they do. Most vendors know who is paying their bills. You can make demands on open source programmers too. It won't do you any good, but you can do it. And that's why open-source software is risky for important applications and large organizations. You can't make the big companies fix their software either. Yes, you can. They want your money, and they know they'll stop getting it if you are dissatisfied with support. For proof of this consider Microsoft and all the viruses targeting Outlook Express. Microsoft didn't write the viruses, and the viruses are not bugs, so I don't see the relevance of this comment. 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: Easter Eggs
void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(); I believe this function can be traced back quite a few years to the original Berkeley releases. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-{gnu,afpl}
Checksum mismatch for ghostscript/eplaser-3.0.4-651.tgz. Suggestions? ( cvsup'd /usr/ports this morning ) - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: NIS gods angry
Definitely sounds like a problem with the + line in the passwd file. Run vipw, and verify that +: is at the bottom. If it still doesn't work, try truss'ing id -u zoomba and verify that it's reading the NIS files and doing network calls. Don't forget to add +::: to /etc/group also. - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: NIS gods angry
Thanks for the replies, guys, it's (freakin' finally) working. Thank the NIS Gods. I don't know if it was the extra blank line before the +: in /etc/master.passwd was the culprit It is likely. or the weird characters in /var/yp/ypservers. I did some reading to try and find out if /var/yp/ypservers was supposed to be garbled/encrypted but I could find out anything useful. Hopefully, I haven't borked some security by entering plain On my NIS master : buzby# pwd /var/yp/NISDOMMAIN buzby# file ypservers ypservers: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) buzby# Good luck, - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cheat sheet? apache, mod_ssl, mod_php, mysql
Sorry to jump into the middle of this thread, but I have recently installed Apache 1.3x, mod_php4, and mysql on a 4.7 box. I simply installed apache from the ports, mod_php from the ports and mysql from the ports. The mod_php port asks what support you want built in before building, an option there was mysql support. It all just worked. I did have to tweak my httpd.conf file a bit but what I had to edit/enter was given to me by the mod_php4 build output. - Mike /usr/ports/databases/mysqlserver323 doesn't seem to build any shared objects.. :-( Could I get the same results by preloading the daemon (program) file? KDK From: Barry Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DaleCo Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:39 AM Subject: RE: cheat sheet? apache, mod_ssl, mod_php, mysql You could try adding something like this in your apache startup file: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so; export LD_PRELOAD Modify for your mysql lib location and add these two lines before the call to start httpd. Cheers, Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of DaleCo Help Desk Good list, but where's MySQL? My current point of failure is that apache can't load mod_php4 because it hasn't been built with MySQL symbols/support Using the supplied docs got me this far, but I've been stumped with this one KDK 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: network config or apache config or neither?
Hmm. Looks to me that they need to change: www.hamanndonald.com10800 INCNAME stimpy to www.hamanndonald.com10800 INCNAME stimpy.hamanndonald.com or to www.hamanndonald.com10800 INA 198.88.146.57 $ host -all hamanndonald.com rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=2 Found 1 addresses for ns2.peak.org Found 1 addresses for ns.peak.org Trying 206.163.129.2 Server failed, trying next server: Query refused Trying 198.88.144.2 hamanndonald.com10800 INSOA ns.peak.org hostmaster.peak.org( 2002101102 ;serial (version) 21600 ;refresh period 900 ;retry refresh this often 360 ;expiration period 43200 ;minimum TTL ) hamanndonald.com10800 INNS ns.peak.org hamanndonald.com10800 INNS ns2.peak.org hamanndonald.com10800 INA 198.88.146.57 hamanndonald.com10800 INMX 5 stimpy.hamanndonald.com stimpy.hamanndonald.com 10800 INA 198.88.146.57 www.hamanndonald.com10800 INCNAME stimpy hamanndonald.com10800 INSOA ns.peak.org hostmaster.peak.org( 2002101102 ;serial (version) 21600 ;refresh period 900 ;retry refresh this often 360 ;expiration period 43200 ;minimum TTL ) I don't know if this means the entry for www.hamanndonald.com is actually a usable entry or not. I do know that when I set a browser to http://hamanndonald.com the web page comes up, if I use www.hamanndonald.com ( I get the cannot find page). The actual name of the machine that handles the internet traffic is named stimpy... Is this an issue with the DNS entry? Is this a problem with my apache config? Is this a problem with some other network setting in FreeBSD? Help? Jeff. Jeff D. Hamann Hamann, Donald Associates, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 Bus. 541-753-7333 Cell. 541-740-5988 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hamanndonald.com 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: Junior hacker assignment :o
- Original Message - From: Carlos Carnero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DaleCo Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Junior hacker assignment :o Hello, --- DaleCo Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose you want to read the code in /usr/src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c in the (appropiately named? :) function die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog() rebooting means sending init a INT signal... I'll heck init (and that's kernel turf right?) Thanks a lot, Carlos. Is that 'check init' or 'hack init'? ifIWasAGoodCProgrammer I might just alter shutdown so it took an additional argument to -r along the lines of shutdown -r [when-die] [when-resurrect] /ifIWasAGoodCProgrammer .but I'm just a converted Windoze Luser and amateur sysadmin, so you're getting beyond me here. If the OS is shut down, then the kernel's shut down, right, and how's it gonna count seconds 'til Resurrection Day? Well whatever function the kernel is in while it loops, polling the keyboard asking press any key to reboot could have additional logic for a countdown timer to reboot. How and where to do this? I don't know. Good Luck, - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Junior hacker assignment :o
Look in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c
static void
shutdown_halt(void *junk, int howto) {
...
}
Looks interesting.
- Mike
Hi,
--- Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well whatever function the kernel is in while it
loops, polling the
keyboard asking press any key to reboot could have
additional logic for
a countdown timer to reboot.
Great!
How and where to do this? I don't know.
Not so great ;)
Thanks a lot,
Carlos.
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Re: License freebsd?
There is not cost for FreeBSD, at all. Use it for whatever you want or need. I was thinking of setting up a server unix n every one else to use os with server inviroment and have paying customers wants to carge to license software. does freeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Apache,PHP and FreeBSD
/usr/ports/www/mod_php4/ I want to host (or whatever) the site myself. I think it would be a good learning experience for me. I know where apache is in the ports but where is php? On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:48:17 -0500 david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 November 2002 15:32, Bryan Cassidy wrote: Hello everyone. I have been messing around with html lately and think its pretty cool. I want to start using PHP with apache and buy my own domain. My question is this: What is a good site to get domains from that has a reasonable amount of space and doesnt cost too much? Does anyone know of I'm confused, are you wishing to buy a webhosting account or run it yoursel f? any good tutorials online for PHP,Apache and FreeBSD? Of course I will be using this on my freebsd machine so docs or tutorials about this related to freebsd would be nice. I am going to start working on this tomorrow s ometime so I would appreciate some info. thanks Setting it up? It's fairly straight forwarding installing from ports and configuring httpd.conf and php.ini to your likeing. - -- E-Mail: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System: FreeBSD 4.6.2 Gaim: bsdsys Yahoo Messenger: bsdsys Please do not simply Reply-To: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is OK to Cc: me as long as you send the Reply back To: the original mailing lists. I have put alot of time in setting up filters so please don't simply reply to me unless I tell you to or send you one directly. _ | ___| __ ___ ___| __ ) ___|| _ \ | | |_ | '__/ _ \/ _ \ _ \___ \| | | | | | _|| | | __/ __/ |_) |__) | |_| | |_| |_| \___|\___|//|/ 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 - -- E-Mail: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System: FreeBSD 4.6.2 Gaim: bsdsys Yahoo Messenger: bsdsys Please do not simply Reply-To: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is OK to Cc: me as long as you send the Reply back To: the original mailing lists. I have put alot of time in setting up filters so please don't simply reply to me unless I tell you to or send you one directly. _ | ___| __ ___ ___| __ ) ___|| _ \ | |_ | '__/ _ \/ _ \ _ \___ \| | | | | _|| | | __/ __/ |_) |__) | |_| | |_| |_| \___|\___|//|/ 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: Apache,PHP and FreeBSD
To find something in the ports collection, do this: $cd /usr/ports $make search key=(keyword) ...in your case, 'php' or 'mod_php' should have done the trick. Although in cases of libraries (or similar ports) where many other ports depend on it this can return way too many results. In these cases $make search name=(name) may workbetter. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: installation question
I don't really think it makes much of a difference. Support for the card will depend much more on the version of X you have installed and whether that version supports the card (assuming you will be running X). If it is just for the system console I don't believe it will matter at all, unless downtime is a consideration. If it is I would combine the card install with the 4.7 upgrade reboot downtime. - Mike I've got a 'new' old video card that i want to put in my bsd box. Should I wait until I've upgraded to 4.7 before i do it or should I do that prior to upgrading? Opinions? Reasons? thanks, Charles Pelletier Tech. Coordinator St Luke's School 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: how do you get a binary
How can you get a precompiled binary version of FreeBSD for the x86 platform? Is it available through downlod? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html Specifically : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html if you want to download it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 2 drives + 2 IDE channels = better?
Is is better to run a 2nd drive on another IDE channel or on the same bus? Eg. IDE channel 1 = ad0 (main OS), IDE channel 2 = ad1 (other data - maybe MySQL and websites?) Yes I would recommend this, but I would also recommend not having a CD drive on the same bus as a heavily used disk (unless the CD is rarely used). I would also recommend putting /usr/src and /usr/obj on different disks to speed up makeworld (if that is important to you). - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Yahoo Messenger problem
Try reinstalling gnu gettext /usr/ports/devel/gettext ( I think that provides libintl.so.2 ) Hello, On FreeBSD 4.7 I installed Yahoo Messenger (both ways: pkg_add and ports) and things don't work at all. Here is the error message I get: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.2 not found Thanks Razvan __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ 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: How to chmod on FAT32 partition?
Since FAT32 has no concept of users and only a rudimetary concept of file meta-data (permission bits, etc) all files will be owned by the owner of the directory on which it is mounted. You can make the entire filesystem contents own by one particular user and/or group. Read mount_msdos(8) HTH, - Mike Hogsett OK, got disk up. (Problem was I didn't know its make. ad3s1 eventually worked.) Now it seems I can't make it writable by anyone but root: diva# ls -l viv.html -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html diva# chmod g+w viv.html diva# ls -l viv.html -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html diva# chmod a+w viv.html diva# ls -l viv.html -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html Same for any files. Is this some sort of FAT32 limitation? Is this documented anywhere? - d. 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: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login
Or perhaps the immutible flag set on /etc/passwd by default and have vipw and adduser (un)set this automagically when used. - Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (10.21.2002 @ 1514 PST): Bsd Neophyte said, in 0.8K: --- DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a passwd for toor? no... i don't... end of Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login from Bsd N eophyte if you're going to edit your passwd file and change shells or whatnot, use the vipw command. if you specify an invalid shell, vipw will tell you. perhaps it'd be useful to have don't edit this directly - use vipw(8) at the top of /etc/passwd... - -Adam - -- Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9tILMo8KM2ULHQ/0RAhKPAJ9H7At4KqTygsjZjKi01lXRRucLjACbBAGX H53fjFExlu+UHXkKJQW2/dc= =cvM+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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: FreeBSD Install question
I haven't done FreeBSD installs on a laptop before, but you may be able to use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to boot the installer and do a network install if you have a supported NIC card. Good luck, - Mike I have an older laptop that doesn't have a bootable CD-ROM. The bay either holds a CD Module or a Floppy module so I can't boot off the floppies and install from the CD-ROM. I have installed a small DOS partition and can access my FreeBSD CD-ROM, is there any way to invoke the install from within DOS. (RedHat has a batch file on the CD-ROM that allows the installer to launch, is there anything I can use to do this for FreeBSD?) Is it possible to boot off the floppies, switch out the Floppy module for the CD module and then use the CD? Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Rich B 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
Mike Hogsett: Re: need software MAC address
Ooops forgot the list... ---BeginMessage--- Instead of replacing the NIC can't he just use the link address family option in ifconfig to assign a different MAC address so that it appears to be a different machine? flagg# ifconfig fxp1 fxp1: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether 00:30:48:11:be:23 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier flagg# ifconfig fxp1 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff flagg# ifconfig fxp1 fxp1: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier - Mike From: Scott M. Nolde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mr. Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: Re: need software MAC address Mr. Darren([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.10.18 09:51:54 +: My isp has partitioned the bandwidth it has assigned me in half.(they assume everyone has 2 computers) If I want to use it, I can buy a switch and add an extra NIC card. I however would prefer to simply create a fake interface, give it a separate MAC address.. and BRIDGE it. any input on this would be helpfull. -Darren Tell them to go piss up a flagpole and give you your other rightful half of your bandwidth. Bitch like hell or get another provider. Remind them that assume is making an ass out of u and me. -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 LOL. He may have the right idea. Hard to believe they'd do such a thang. Here's my thought ... Tell them you bought and run your (two!) computer(s) through a hardware router for security, and have them assign the IP to the router's mac addy, which, I guess, could just be the NIC in the box, what they dunno don't hurt? If that MAC is already on file, I've got a DI-604 I'd sell you cheap, but I like FBSDers, so I'd have to say I wouldn't wish that device on Linus Torvalds.. I guess another NIC don't cost too much, either, AFATG. Just my .02.. Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message ---End Message---
Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.
My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? They spend too much time wondering why they were using Linux. - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.
My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? Ok, time for the honest answer... Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities (ps, ifconfig, route, etc.) are just a wee pit different, nothing too bad and nothing the man pages won't help you with. - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Upgrade recommendations
I would recommend a cvsup, build world, build kernel, etc. upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE personnally. Doing the upgrade this way will keep downtime to a minumum ( perhaps 10 minutes downtime ). - Mike I'm currently running 4.5, and want to upgrade my machine and was wondering what you might have for recommendations. It has dual 333mhz Pentium II cpus, an S3 video card, 256mb RAM and a 20gb hard drive - not cutting edge hardware by any means! All it does is serve my small web sites via Apache and run some low volume mailing lists via Mailman. It isn't kept too busy, but it shouldn't be down for long periods nonetheless. I'm thinking of 3 possible paths: 1] A binary upgrade using the latest 4.x (4.7?) 2] A binary upgrade to 5.0 3] A reformat and complete upgrade to 5.0 - I already have the web site mailing list dbs backed up. As scary as it sounds, I'm leaning towards #3. It seems it shouldn't be too hard to move the Mailman database stuff to a new machine, so my main concern is how stable 5.0 is at this point. I'm willing (heck, even want) to play with some bleeding edge technology, but I do need it to be running with extensive handholding. Is 5.0 at that stage? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater 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: Your remove request has been successfully processed!
Seems to mean that they are hung off of one of Yahoo!'s routers in Exodus's Santa Clara colo site. (which is absolutely gorgeous btw). Why doesn't postmaster put a procmail filter infront of the list software to prevent this abuse? traceroute... 19 g2-1.bas2-m.sc5.yahoo.com (64.56.207.150) 91.545 ms 94.781 ms 92.792 ms 20 vl44.bas2-m.sc5.yahoo.com (66.163.160.222) 92.311 ms 91.559 ms 90.283 ms 21 mx2.freebsd.org (216.136.204.119) 89.862 ms 93.566 ms 93.261 ms What does this mean? The computer is in yahoo's network? 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: Your remove request has been successfully processed!
Why doesn't postmaster put a procmail filter infront of the list software to prevent this abuse? me either, curious. I think these are related to some pumice-brained children's attempts to sign the list up to these other lists. Then someone has to send a thing in to unsubscribe the list from the other lists and thus the unsubscribe messages on the list. jerry --- Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have processed your remove request successfully. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message I haven't asked for any remove request ! -- JFRH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message = the dude abides __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Stable or Current??
'uname -a' will give you the information.. e.g. -- uname -a FreeBSD axp.csl.sri.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #3: Thu Oct 10 14:58:35 PDT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AXP alpha I am running 4.7-RELEASE - Mike Hi fellows , How can I tell what kind of FReeBSD do I have installed in my BOX, I mean HOw do I know if my software is a Current or a STABLE release??. Thanks for your answers Alvaro A. Rosales Rojas. a.k.a. RAZA Proud user of Pegasus Mail Soporte Tecnico de Sistemas Procacao S.A 3368113 ext 260 You'll never know how far you can go until you break the chains that tie your soul 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: How to upgrade from 4.3 to 4.7
Hi fellows , can you tell me how can I upgrade my FreeBSD release 4.3 to 4.7? . Thanks for your help The following is one of several methods to accomplish this. Also I am making several assumptions about your system and its network setup. ** ** BACKUP ALL IMPORTANT DATA BEFORE DOING THIS ** ** ** ** BE FAMILIAR WITH HOW TO BOOT INTO SINGLE USER MODE ** ** ** ** AND HOW TO LOAD ARBITRARY KERNELS FROM THE OK PROMPT ** ** In a nutshell... First read the following : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html and any of the other many good chapters you feel inclined to read. Install CVSUP if you don't already have it installed. Go to /usr/ports/net/cvsup and do a make install. ** NOTE ** It may be necessary to manually install cvsup from a binary package. Old versions of CVSUP have a bug, and your ports tree may be out of date. You can find a cvsup binary package at : ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/cvsup/cvsup-16.1f.tgz ** ** someone please correct the above URL if this is not the correct one ** ** When you have the package do : pkg_add cvsup-16.1f.tgz If all goes well then cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile /etc/standard-supfile edit /etc/standard-supfile change : *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org Set CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org to a close cvsup server. By close I mean one that has either a good ping or the fewest hops in traceroute. Here in Silicon Valley I used to get great speeds from cvsup14.FreeBSD.org until I started running my own cvsup mirror, now I use my mirror. change : *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_7 **NOTE** RELENG_4_7 will likely be different in your copy of standard-supfile. Change it to be RELENG_4_7. This is the 4.7 with patches branch (a good one to track). run : cvsup -g /etc/standard-supfile This should begin the process of updating your /usr/src directory. Depending on your network connection this may take from under an hour to several hours. *** NOTE *** you may want to do the same cvsup procedure using /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to update /usr/ports. Just copy it to /etc, edit the *default host= line to the same as you used before, then run cvsup -g /etc/ports-supfile. This will update all of /usr/ports. After the cvsup has completed you now have the 4.7 sources in /usr/src You might need to completely remove /usr/obj, if so do rm -rf /usr/obj ** NOTE ** check your work. Know what you are doing. I take no responsibility if you lose important files. cd /usr/src ** ** READ /usr/src/UPDATING ** ** To build the 4.7 do : make buildworld make buildkernel Come back in a couple hours or a couple of days depending on the speed of your CPU, how much memory it has, and how fast its disk/s is/are. When that completes do : make installkernel Reboot into single user mode. ** ** NOTE: If the new kernel craps out on you or otherwise fails to boot reset the machine, and at the ok prompt boot with either kernel.GENERIC or kernel.old, Then diagnose why the new kernel failed. DO NOT PROCEED with the remainder of the install until this is resolved. at the shell do : mount -a -t ufs cd /usr/src cd usr.sbin/mergemaster make make install mergemaster -p mergemaster will update your password and group files as necessary. ** NOTE ** be sure to keep your root entry from the installed password file, as well as any other important user entries. Now cd /usr/src make installworld Now run mergemaster again to update the remaining configuration files. mergemaster Reboot. Ta da 4.7-RELEASE, assuming everything went smoothly. Good Luck. - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Root email name?
Edit the gecos field in the /etc/password file How do I change the name of my email from Charlie Root? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FreeBSD/Alpha Browser
I am running Netscape 4.7/OSF1 on Alpha with the osf1.ko compatability module, but I want a better browser. [axp] [hogsett] [~] -- cd /usr/ports/www/netscape7/ [axp] [hogsett] [/usr/ports/www/netscape7] -- make === netscape7-7.0 is only for i386, and you are running alpha. [axp] [hogsett] [/usr/ports/www/netscape7] -- cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla [axp] [hogsett] [/usr/ports/www/mozilla] -- make === mozilla-1.0.1_1,2 is marked as broken: core dumps on alpha during post-build. [axp] [hogsett] [/usr/ports/www/mozilla] -- argh bash: argh: command not found Suggestions? - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
