Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:02:43PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did anything intensive (ie. compile a port). Googling around and people say they are using nullfs okay, but the manpage ends with: THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. nullfs is fine in 6.0, and the warning has been removed. Good to know it's cool. I'll start playing with it. The warning is still there though... in both 6-stable and 7-current. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nullfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stableformat=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nullfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-currentformat=html Those manpages are out of date. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount_nullfs/mount_nullfs.8 Sweet! MFC: Remove big scary warning about nullfs state :-) I've set it up already and it works great. -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?
I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did anything intensive (ie. compile a port). Googling around and people say they are using nullfs okay, but the manpage ends with: THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. nullfs is fine in 6.0, and the warning has been removed. Good to know it's cool. I'll start playing with it. The warning is still there though... in both 6-stable and 7-current. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nullfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stableformat=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nullfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-currentformat=html Those manpages are out of date. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount_nullfs/mount_nullfs.8 Sweet! MFC: Remove big scary warning about nullfs state :-) I've set it up already and it works great. On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Tim Traver wrote: How did you set it up specifically ? and is it just fixed in 6.0 ? or does it also work in 5.4 ? No idea about 5.4... For 6... /etc/rc.conf: jail_sandbox_rootdir=/local/jails/sandbox/ jail_sandbox_hostname=sandbox.pjkh.com jail_sandbox_ip=123.123.123.123 jail_sandbox_exec=/bin/sh /etc/rc jail_sandbox_devfs_enable=YES jail_sandbox_mount_enable=YES /etc/fstab.sandbox: /usr/ports /local/jails/sandbox/usr/ports nullfs rw 0 0 Then once started with /etc/rc.d/jail start sandbox I have this: % df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/local/jails/sandbox/dev /usr/ports 3.9G1.9G1.7G52%/local/jails/sandbox/usr/ports I also came across this afterward... which I might give a go... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/ezjail/pkg-descr Looks like it null mounts a lot more (ie /bin /sbin, /usr/lib, etc.) -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd kernel guide
hi all, Is anyone aware of a good book that teaches the internals of freebsd kernel? ie. books for understanding kernel internals, kernel module programming and kernel source (tree)guide. I'm sure there are more, but here's some... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/index.html -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get latest and greatest FAMP
I wanted to do a quick test of Apache21, MySQL5 and PHP5
I tried a minimal install of FreeBSD 6.0 then pkg_add -r which
worked fine up until PHP5 where I was told that Apache21
conflicted with Apache13 that was to be installed as aPHP5
dependancy. I pkg_delete and went ahead with installing
PHP5 then Apache13 but when I tried to pkg_delete Apache13
so I could install Apache21 was told that I coudl not remove it ?
If you're talking about /usr/ports/lang/php5, then it's Makefile has this:
.if defined(WITH_APACHE)
.if ${APACHE_VERSION} 13
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-apxs2=${APXS}
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-apxs=${APXS}
.endif
.endif
I haven't done it, but I'm guessing if you install apache21 first, then
set APACHE_VERSION = 21 in your environment, then make, it would do what
you wanted.
-philip
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Re: freebsd hosting
www.LayeredTech.com is good for FreeBSD servers, they are flexable and offers any version of FreeBSD you need. They might. But by default they install 5.3. I just signed up with them and that's what they gave me... I upgraded to 6 though and so far have been happy with them. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rm - Argument list too long
I am getting error Argument list too long. when deleting files from /tmp directory. server20# pwd /tmp server20# ls -l sess* /bin/ls: Argument list too long. server20# rm -f sess* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. server20# Any idea how to correct this ? find /tmp -type f -name 'sess*' -delete Probably worth adding a -mtime +1 in there to only delete files that haven't been modified in 1 day... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache not included
I'm a bit of a new user to BSD from Windows/Linux. But I recently went thru the 5.4 version installer and was pleased at how simple it was to install the Apache web server thru the sysinstall menus. After reinstalling with 6.0 I was surprised to find that apache wasn't an option from this menu. Any ideas if this is an omission or intentional? I would think a webserver would definitely be included in the basic config. I'm guessing it was intentional. I can think of a lot of reasons I wouldn't want a webserver on my box (desktop, mail server, database server, chat server, etc...) Easy to add though via ports or packages. -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc so I can disconnect without disrupting jobs. (Hmm, I wonder if I'll have to add a mouse or keyboard at that point.) /usr/ports/sysutils/screen Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions between windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: generating new passwords
Is there a command in FreeBSD 5.4 that will assign a specified user a new password without having to create one manually using passwd? Is there also a way to generate new passwords for multiple users at once? man pw ... -h fd This option provides a special interface by which interac- tive scripts can set an account password using pw. Because the command line and environment are fundamentally insecure mechanisms by which programs can accept information, pw will only allow setting of account and group passwords via a file descriptor (usually a pipe between an interactive script and the program). sh, bash, ksh and perl all pos- sess mechanisms by which this can be done. Alternatively, pw will prompt for the user's password if -h 0 is given, nominating stdin as the file descriptor on which to read the password. Note that this password will be read only once and is intended for use by a script rather than for interactive use. If you wish to have new password confir- mation along the lines of passwd(1), this must be imple- mented as part of an interactive script that calls pw. If a value of `-' is given as the argument fd, then the password will be set to `*', rendering the account inacces- sible via password-based login. -H fd Read an encrypted password string from the specified file descriptor. This is like -h, but the password should be supplied already encrypted in a form suitable for writing directly to the password database. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for SW Firewall
I am interested implementing a firewall in SW that has similar features as a Cisco PIX firewall. But, I don't want to roll my own ipfw statements. A nice gui would be nice. From the ports index I see things like: dante-1.1.15 A circuit-level firewall/proxy cp2fwb-0.6Checkpoint FW1 to Firewall Builder ruleset converter fwbuilder-2.0.10 Firewall Builder GUI and policy compilers hlfl-0.60.1 High Level Firewall Language libfwbuilder-2.0.10_1 Firewall Builder API pfw-0.6.2 A web frontend for the pf firewall I'm basically looking for a good firewall that has an easy administration interface. Can someone who has experience with this suggest a fw I should try? Never used it, but seems monowall comes up a lot... http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to boot from a slice other than a?
Hi all - I've got a remote server and for one reason or another have it setup like this: Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a248M180M 48M79%/ /dev/da0s1h 14G496M 13G 4%/mnt /dev/da0s1h has an exact copy of /dev/da0s1a using dump/restore. I want to configure things so that the next time I reboot it will automatically boot from /dev/da0s1h without me having to do anything (since it's remote I can't interrupt the boot process). I know I need to modify fstab on da0s1h. And if I was on the console I'd interrupt the boot process and type in 0:da(0,h)/boot/loader, but I'm not. And I'm not entirely sure what files to tweak to make that happen. I've read the boot/loader manpages, but am just not getting it today. Anyone know what files to tweak? -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot from a slice other than a?
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a248M180M 48M79%/ /dev/da0s1h 14G496M 13G 4%/mnt /dev/da0s1h has an exact copy of /dev/da0s1a using dump/restore. I want to configure things so that the next time I reboot it will automatically boot from /dev/da0s1h without me having to do anything (since it's remote I can't interrupt the boot process). I know I need to modify fstab on da0s1h. And if I was on the console I'd interrupt the boot process and type in 0:da(0,h)/boot/loader, but I'm not. are you actually interested of running /boot/loader from partition h or mounting root at /dev/da0s1h Hmm... guess I didn't realize there was a difference :) I want the OS to run from /dev/da0s1h so that I can then completely wipe and replace /dev/da0s1a [1]. if second - add: vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:da0s1h to which file? Thanks! -philip [1] The box is a new 5.3 install. My thought was to boot from da0s1h, buildworld/kernel for 6 with a DESTDIR pointing to the original / (da0s1a). Then reboot and have a clean install of 6. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file
For a while I have been doing remote backups from my little server at home (which hosts some personal websites and also serves as my testing webserver) by tarring everything I wanted to be backed up and piping it to another machine on my network with nc(1), for example: On the recieving machine: nc -l 1 backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz On my server: tar -c -z --exclude /mnt* -f - / | nc -w 5 -o aphax 1 (Some excludes for tar(1) are left out for simplicity's sake) Among the things being backed up are my mysql database tables. This made me wonder wether the backup could possibly get borked when mysql writes to any of the mysql tables while tar is reading from them. Do I really have to use MySQL's tools to do a proper SQL dump or stop MySQL (and any other services that may write to files included in my backup) before doing a backup? Do any of the more involved remote-backup solutions have ways of working around this? Or is it simply not possible to write to a file while it is being read? The short answer is yes. The medium answer is I would if I were you :-) The long answer (at least to the extent I know it) is... You might be able to take a snapshot of the filesystem mysql's files are on and back those up as they'd be consistent to themselves. But everything I've read about backing up a database suggests that doing a proper backup is the way to go. If you really don't want to do that you might also be able to use one of the various LOCK commands in Mysql to block all writes until you've copied them over. But really a mysqldump ... | gzip file should result in a very very small file. And you could pipe that over the network (or even start mysqldump on your backup machine) if you didn't want the temp file issue. You might also consider rsync. That would only copy files that have changed. Might be handy if bandwidth is an issue. You can set it up to keep backup copies of files that have changed as well. And it can run over ssh. -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading a remote box from 5.3 to 6-stable....
Hi all - I recently got a leased server that's running 5.3. It's in Texas. I'm in Washington. I want to upgrade it to 6-STABLE. In the update docs it says that when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. Which obviously is a problem. And I find it hard to believe it's really necessary as this is going to be an issue for a lot of people. Is this similar to the old recommendation of doing this unless your system is relatively quiet? I also read about needing to build a kernel with COMPAT_FREEBSD5 in order for the new kernel to boot and be able to installworld. Anything else? And anyone know if the boot into single user mode is really necessary? Can't really test it on my remote box Thanks! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0, lighttpd not starting up on boot
On 19 Nov 2005 08:39:19 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a 6.0 system with lighttpd installed. I have a lighttpd_enable=YES line in /etc/rc.conf, but lighttpd doesn't start up when the machine boots. I have another machine with the same config (though apparently not exactly the same), and lighttpd starts up with it. There's nothing in the lighttpd error log, and if I use the rc script to start it up it starts fine. How do I find out why it's not starting on boot, and how do I make it start on boot? Is it executable? Try putting an echo or touch command early in the script to see if it's getting run at boot at all. It's definitely executable..it's getting run when I run /etc/rc.d/localpkgs, so it really just makes no sense. Might have already tried this, but... What is the value of PATH when you run it manually vs. on boot? That's what always gets me... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with shell script
Hi. I am writing up a doc for the fbsd community that covers usage of ports. I have two commands that allow me to assertain the amount of disk space being utilized by currently installed ports. I would like to make a shell script (bourne or bash) out of them but I am not sure how. 1. This gives me the amount of space (kB) taken up by the 10 largest ports: $ pkg_info -as | grep ^[0-9] | sort -gr | head -10 | cut -c 1-6 2. Using one figure from above list I produce the details of the corresponding port: $ pkg_info -as | grep -B3 240695 Output: -- Information for linux_base-8-8.0_6: Package Size: 240695 (1K-blocks) -- I would like the output of the script to be the above but for all ten ports (~40 lines; insert a blank line between each?). I know I need some sort of iteration but I am rusty on scripting. Can anyone help? This should get you close... if you want only the top 10 just add more pipes to the end with sort and head... #!/bin/sh newline='\ ' pkg_info -as | \ tr '\n' ' ' | \ sed -e 's/Package Size://g' \ -e s/(1K-blocks)/$newline/g |\ sed -e 's/^ *Information for //' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3 questions
1.i want to know if exist in freebsd something to make flash banners (like macromedia flash in windows?)? it is free to put on website? 2. i want to use one application like macromedia fireworks to slice one image, and many others to make my web site design. But i want to use something free. 3. Give me some solutions to make one super site with free tools!!! Ironically, this just appeared on digg.com... http://vinterstille.dk/free-alternatives-to-macromedia-and-adobe-software -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS caching locally ...
I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching locally. This has to do with enabling the named daemon or something, but I understand that there are some restrictions. Is there a simple recipe explaining how to do this? The FreeBSD handbook has an example. Just skip anything about setting up authoritive name servers. That said, if all you need is caching (ie. you have upstream nameservers you can use), I'd suggest dnrd. It's extremely easy to setup. It's in the ports. http://dnrd.sourceforge.net/ What DNRD is Domain Name Relay Daemon is a caching, forwarding DNS proxy server. Most useful on vpn or dialup firewalls but it is also a nice DNS cache for minor networks and workstations. Features * Caching of DNS requests. * Support for backup DNS servers. * Uses random source port and random query ID's to prevent cache poisoning. * Support for simple routing - specify different forward DNS servers for different domains. * Force authorative or unauthorative answers for specified domains. * Share the /etc/hosts over the network. * Support for openbsd, freebsd and linux. * TCP support * DNS blacklist support -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I programatically eject a live cd?
Hi all - I've built a live CDROM based off of the cdroot package and 4.x. It's designed to be popped into a machine, wipe the hard drive, install a custom image, and that's it. Everything works great with one exception. I would *love* to be able to have the CDROM automatically eject when it's finished (and/or shutdown). This way a user could power on a headless box, pop in the cd, reboot, let it's do it's thing and know it was done when the CDROM ejected. I know the drives can do it because I've seen some other CD's (most recent a seagate disk utility) do it. But the closest I can come is: cdcontrol -f acd0 eject and then I can press the eject button and it will eject. This is fine for me, but I don't want the people doing this to have to know to wait for the disk lights to stop. Any suggestions? Thanks! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:55:18AM -0700, Joe S wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection : product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the user cannot touch : it, : a format will not erase it, and Norton Ghost will not find it. : : 1. Any idea where this info could be stored? : 2. Any way the same thing could be done under FreeBSD? : : Thanks, : : jm : : # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero : : Will overwrite the entire drive. Thanks. What I was wondering is if there is a way to do the same copy protection in FreeBSD, where I could store the data in the same place on the drive where the user cannot access it. Normal, average users yes. But as the above stated... dd will let me (as root) get to any part of the disk I want. If you're users don't have root access, then just make it a normal file owned by root, chmod 400. I seem to remember some software put it's license key in the boot sector (this was way back when and I might be not remembering correctly). But even that can be read using dd... not sure how I'd do it with windows, but I'm sure it's possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd server help
I have only one modem, my doubt is how and where ppp or pppd are started? The Handbook make references to scripts to manage them, but who launch those scripts? I don't know if I make myself understand Thanks for your time... This is what I did... hopefully I'm not forgetting anything... my box has three modems in it so there will be slight differences... we don't use this anymore, but my memory is that you could login as ppp (with a password) or any of the valid users (also with a password) and it the dialup host would appear to be on the network. Hope this helps... I don't start ppp anywhere really... - install the mgetty port. I have mgetty-1.1.31. - set gateway_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf - at the end of /etc/ttys add: ttyd4 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 dialup on insecure ttyd5 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 dialup on insecure ttyd6 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 dialup on insecure The first part will depend on what COM ports your modem gets picked up on. My /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/mgetty.config looks like this: -- port cuaa1 debug 9 fax-id 00 00 00 speed 115200 direct NO blocking NO port-owner uucp port-group uucp port-mode 0660 toggle-dtr YES toggle-dtr-waittime 500 data-only YES fax-only NO modem-type auto init-chat ATS0=0Q0D3C1 OK modem-check-time 3600 rings 1 answer-chat ATA CONNECT \c \r answer-chat-timeout 80 autobauding NO ringback NO ringback-time 30 ignore-carrier false issue-file /etc/issue prompt-waittime 500 login-prompt @!login: login-time 240 diskspace 1024 notify faxadmin fax-owner uucp fax-group modem fax-mode 0660 -- - My /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config looks like this: -- /AutoPPP/ - - /etc/ppp/AutoPPP.sh -- - /etc/ppp/AutoPPP.sh looks like this: -- #!/bin/sh exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $DEVICE -- - /etc/ppp/ppp.conf looks like this. Our office network is 10.28.61/24 btw. -- default: set device /dev/cuaa1 set log TCP/IP Chat Connect Phase Command Warnin Error Alert set speed 115200 set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \\ AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\TTIMEOUT 40 CONNECT set timeout 120 disable ipv6cp enable passwdauth accept dns set dns 10.28.61.20 enable proxy allow users philip ttyd4: set ifaddr 10.28.61.51 10.28.61.52 ttyd5: set ifaddr 10.28.61.53 10.28.61.54 ttyd6: set ifaddr 10.28.61.55 10.28.61.56 -- - Then I have a ppp user that looks like this in /etc/passwd: ppp:*:1003:1003:PPP User:/local/home/ppp:/etc/ppp/ppp-shell.sh and /etc/ppp/ppp-shell.sh looks like this: -- #!/bin/sh IDENT=`echo $0 | sed -e 's/^.*-\(.*\)$/\1/'` CALLEDAS=$IDENT TTY=`tty` if [ x$IDENT = xdialup ]; then IDENT=`basename $TTY` fi echo PPP for $CALLEDAS on $TTY echo Starting PPP for $IDENT exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $IDENT -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POP server that supports virtual users/domains (other than dovecot)?
Hi all - Looking for recommendations for a POP server that supportts virtual users and domains and preferably hooks into PostgreSQL. dovecot does this and I'm looking at it now, but it's got a lot of IMAP stuff that I will never ever use (really I won't). Anyone have recommendations for other packages? I've searched, but would like some actual user experiences... Thanks! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Hi list, can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? How can I do it ?? Is there an example ?? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restore System
I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command: tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz / I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command: tar -xzpf /path to backup file The problem I'm running into is that the original system is has an IDE harddrive, and the new system is SCSI. I'm getting the following errors: dev/ad0: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory dev/ad0s1: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory dev/ad0s1a: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory dev/ad0s1b: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory dev/ad0s1c: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory dev/ad0s1d: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory dev/ad0s1e: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory Is there an easy way around this? Any help would greatly be appreciated. Look into the --exclude option for tar... --exclude pattern Exclude files matching the pattern (don't extract them, don't add them, don't list them). just skip everything beneath /dev/ -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to convert lower case to uppercase in a word in a line ?
On 9/16/05, Jonathan Glaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:16PM +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote: Hello There is a word that consists lowercases. How to change all of letters capital letters in stead of lowercase ? is there any script about that ? Thanks ___ Or you do this using perl: $ perl -e 'chomp system(mv $_ .uc($_)) foreach `ls`;' sed, awk, python, php, ruby, whatever versions are to follow shortly :) Or, just install mmv from ports... from the man page... Mmv moves (or copies, appends, or links, as specified) each source file matching a from pattern to the target name specified by the to pattern. This multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with existing file- names or with other target names. Furthermore, before doing anything, mmv attempts to detect any errors that would result from the entire set of actions specified and gives the user the choice of either proceeding by avoiding the offending parts or aborting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP Permissions
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE and the latest Proftpd. I have a little problem I need help with. I want about 10 users to have access to the same directory/subdirectories on the FTP server and all must be able to upload, delete and retrive (full access) to the files in these directories. I want all users to have different usernames/passwords so I can log them, but all should have full access to the ftp directories. How would I set this up? I've tried making all members of the same group, but I can't overwrite/delete files other uploaded. Not sure exactly how you configure it in proftpd, but make those 10 users part of the same *primary* group (ie, the one in /etc/passwd) then set their umask so that newly created files are group read/write. I think (but am not sure) that you might be able to do this through proftpd. I know that in samba, I can force new files/directory permissions regardless of the user's umask. good luck. -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Doing a modulo in /bin/sh??
I can grab the results of w=$date+%U); in C an use the modulo operator; is there a way to do this is /bin/sh? ot zsh? tia, guys, gary #/bin/sh w=$(date +%U) echo w is $w; (even=$(w % 2 )); ## flubs. echo even is $even; ## flubs. if [ $even -eq 0 ] ## flubs, obv'ly. then echo week is even; else echo week is odd; fi Take a look at 'expr' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % expr 1 % 2 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % expr 2 % 2 0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VNC + SSH question..
Hey guys had a SSH forward question so here goes... I have 2 computers on my lan one of them is a server and the other is my desktop. Desktop 192.168.1.104 Server 192.168.1.103 Now I have port forwarding setup on my crappy linksys router so 22 is pointing to my Server (192.168.1.103) My question is this... Not sure this will help since I'm not sure where exactly you're viewer is, but maybe it will... http://www.pjkh.com/wiki/vnc_through_an_ssh_proxy -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pine alternative?
We have been using pine for years on our Sun Solaris box. We are in the process of moving to FreeBSD. I installed Pine from an updated ports collection and received a message about pine not being very secure. Is anyone using an alternative to pine that can also read pine's folders and addresses? I need it to be compatible as we still have many users with lots of data in pine. Could be wrong, but my understanding was that any issues with Pine weren't an issue if your users had shell access in the first place. That is, one of the problems was if you drop your users right into pine (or via some restricted shell) it's possible for them to drop into a sub shell, etc. from within pine. Could be wrong though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it
2) If all you have to deal with are static files and a not-super-giant-filesystem, use rsync. rsync -avz --delete once a night will mirror your data between drives or between machines without any trouble. The only disadvantage is there is no file retention if you want to restore a corrupt / deleted file after the fact. Actually there is... sort of... The trick is to use the --backup and --backup-dir options: -b, --backup With this option, preexisting destination files are renamed as each file is transferred or deleted. You can control where the backup file goes and what (if any) suffix gets appended using the --backup-dir and --suffix options. --backup-dir=DIR In combination with the --backup option, this tells rsync to store all backups in the specified directory. This is very use- ful for incremental backups. You can additionally specify a backup suffix using the --suffix option (otherwise the files backed up in the specified directory will keep their original filenames). I use this to maintain a one day full archive and a two week archive of dailys. --- # # manage daily directory cleanup # rm -rf $dailysDir-old if [ -d $dailysDir ]; then mv $dailysDir $dailysDir-old fi # # rsync command # rsync=rsync rsync=$rsync --archive# archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD rsync=$rsync --delete# delete files that don't exist on sender rsync=$rsync --delete-after# delete after transferring, not before rsync=$rsync --delete-excluded# also delete excluded files on receiver rsync=$rsync --devices# preserve devices (root only) rsync=$rsync --group# preserve group rsync=$rsync --links# copy symlinks as symlinks rsync=$rsync --owner# preserve owner (root only) rsync=$rsync --perms# preserve permissions rsync=$rsync --recursive# recurse into directories rsync=$rsync --relative# use relative path names rsync=$rsync --safe-links# ignore links outside the destination tree rsync=$rsync --sparse# handle sparse files efficiently rsync=$rsync --stats# give some file transfer stats rsync=$rsync --times# preserve times rsync=$rsync --whole-file# copy whole files, no incremental checks $rsync \ --compress \ --files-from=files/bravo.files \ --exclude-from=files/bravo.exclude \ --backup --backup-dir $dailysDir/bravo \ bravo.mydomain.com:/ $backupDir/bravo $rsync \ --compress \ --files-from=files/foxtrot.files \ --exclude-from=files/foxtrot.exclude \ --backup --backup-dir $dailysDir/foxtrot \ foxtrot.mydomain.com:/ $backupDir/foxtrot --- files/bravo.files looks like this: /etc /local/home /root /usr/local/etc /var/cron /fs and files/bravo.exclude looks like this: /fs/tmp/ /fs/software/ This gives me a backup directory that looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups % ll data drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Mar 19 2004 bravo/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Oct 12 2004 foxtrot/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups % ll dailys/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 19 03:37 Fri/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 12 03:43 Fri-old/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 22 03:37 Mon/ drwx-- 6 root wheel 512 Aug 15 03:37 Mon-old/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 20 03:36 Sat/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 13 03:42 Sat-old/ drwx-- 6 root wheel 512 Aug 21 03:36 Sun/ drwx-- 6 root wheel 512 Aug 14 03:36 Sun-old/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 18 03:36 Thu/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 11 03:39 Thu-old/ drwx-- 8 root wheel 512 Aug 23 03:36 Tue/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 16 03:36 Tue-old/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 17 03:37 Wed/ drwx-- 7 root wheel 512 Aug 10 03:39 Wed-old/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups % ll dailys/Fri drwx-- 3 root wheel 512 Aug 19 03:30 bravo/ drwx-- 3 root wheel 512 Aug 19 03:30 foxtrot/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD
i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD system. The backquote key does not work. I believe the STTY command is used to set the backquote key on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me the STTY command syntax to do this?? I've always used... stty erase CTRL-VCTRL-BACKSPACEKEY seems to work for me... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD dialin server
I have freebsd 5.4 and i want to have dialin server. How can i configure my freebsd as dialin server. I set up a 4.x box to do this for three modems awhile back and while I didn't write down how I did it, here's the various config files which I hope will help. Seems I never learn to write it down while I'm doing it :) - Installed mgetty+sendfax from ports. - /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/mgetty.config looks like this: port cuaa1 debug 9 fax-id 00 00 00 speed 115200 direct NO blocking NO port-owner uucp port-group uucp port-mode 0660 toggle-dtr YES toggle-dtr-waittime 500 data-only YES fax-only NO modem-type auto init-chat ATS0=0Q0D3C1 OK modem-check-time 3600 rings 1 answer-chat ATA CONNECT \c \r answer-chat-timeout 80 autobauding NO ringback NO ringback-time 30 ignore-carrier false issue-file /etc/issue prompt-waittime 500 login-prompt @!login: login-time 240 diskspace 1024 notify faxadmin fax-owner uucp fax-group modem fax-mode 0660 - /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config looks like this: /AutoPPP/ - - /etc/ppp/AutoPPP.sh - /etc/ttys has this addition (remember I have three internal PCI modems): ttyd4 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 dialup on insecure ttyd5 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 dialup on insecure ttyd6 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 dialup on insecure - The /etc/ppp directory looks like this: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 46 Apr 20 12:57 AutoPPP.sh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 258 Apr 20 11:48 ppp-shell.sh* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 486 Apr 21 10:22 ppp.conf - AutoPPP.sh: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $DEVICE - ppp-shell.sh: #!/bin/sh IDENT=`echo $0 | sed -e 's/^.*-\(.*\)$/\1/'` CALLEDAS=$IDENT TTY=`tty` if [ x$IDENT = xdialup ]; then IDENT=`basename $TTY` fi echo PPP for $CALLEDAS on $TTY echo Starting PPP for $IDENT exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $IDENT - ppp.conf: default: set device /dev/cuaa1 set log TCP/IP Chat Connect Phase Command Warnin Error Alert set speed 115200 set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \\ AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT set timeout 120 disable ipv6cp enable passwdauth accept dns set dns 10.28.61.20 enable proxy allow users philip ttyd4: set ifaddr 10.28.61.51 10.28.61.52 ttyd5: set ifaddr 10.28.61.53 10.28.61.54 ttyd6: set ifaddr 10.28.61.55 10.28.61.56 - I added gateway_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf - I also added a ppp user. Or maybe mgetty did. /etc/passwd line looks like this: ppp:*:1003:1003:PPP User:/local/home/ppp:/etc/ppp/ppp-shell.sh - I am pretty sure that the allow users philip line in ppp.conf was just from testing. I think that was all I did... Anyway, hope this helps you out... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to know the file system type [programming]
hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff Parse /etc/fstab? I'm sure there are lots of other ways too... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...
'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this immense file? I'm pretty sure lsof can tell you... either just plain lsof or maybe with the directory name... # lsof +D /tmp COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME postgres 66218 postgres5u unix 0xd9c93680 0t0 /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 sshd 66325 greg7u unix 0xd9d02800 0t0 /tmp/ssh-xIDIHoLn/agent.66325 +D D This option causes lsof to search for all open instances of directory D and all the files and directories it contains to its complete depth. Processing of the +D option does not follow symbolic links within D unless the -x or -x l option is also specified. Nor does it search for open files on file system mount points on subdirectories of D unless the -x or -x f option is also specified. Note: the authority of the user of this option limits it to searching for files that the user has permission to examine with the system stat(2) function. Further note: lsof may process this option slowly and require a large amount of dynamic memory to do it. This is because it must descend the entire directory tree, rooted at D, calling stat(2) for each file and directory, building a list of all the files it finds, and searching that list for a match with every open file. When directory D is large, these steps can take a long time, so use this option prudently. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First post
Dears, I'm newbie.I believe that BSD as server Linux as desktop. Now,I have a machine that i wanna install FreeBSD5.4,Slackware10.1,Debian Sarge windows on it. Of course,I installed slackware WinXP on it. Please explian me on multiboot process. Yours,Mohsen. Hi - Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/index.html FYI - it helps to use a subject that is relevant to the question you're asking. A lot of people won't even look at this because it isn't obvious what you want. Something like can I run multiple OS's on the same computer would be better. Good luck! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Helpdesk/Call tracking software
Never used it, but RT always seems to get good praise... http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/ On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Cezar Fistik wrote: Dear group, Sorry for OT, but I'm sure someone in this group can help me. I'm looking for an open source helpdesk/call tracking application for use in an ISP customer support dept. We need something that will allow us to register all incomming calls, to assign tasks to different admnis/engineers according to customer's problem, to be able to see the status of each opened issue and so on. Nothing unusual. I made a search and found a number of such applications, but there are so many...it wouldn't be possible to test all of them. So please just tell me what you are using and how would you rate it. Thank you very much. -- Best regards, Cezar mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Multiple Internet Connections with FreeBSD
To start off, I have a FreeBSD router running Nat and dhcp, it is currently the router for my LAN. I was wondering if there was a way to aggregate more then one internet connection using FreeBSD? That is, have 2 or 3 internet connections coming in on seperate NICs, and being able to have the box route and nat the packets accordingly to the lan, thus giving the experience of more bandwidth. Is it even possible? Has someone done it before? and if you have, do you have a webpage that you followed instructions from? I haven't done it, but I've saved the following email/posts that talked about this... I've left them intact so you can see the context... good luck! From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 24 09:35:16 2003 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:46:34 -0600 From: Gerd Knops [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Simon Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two ISP's. Two IP. One default route... Simon Nielsen wrote: Hello I currently have two internet connections though two different ISP's. One is a ADSL and another is shared with the rest of my dorm. The shared line is rather slow because many people are using it. I must have an IP on the shared connection since that's the only place where I can be sure to have a non changing IP for my DNS. But the ADSL is much faster so I would like to use that as much as possible. I can give my machine an IP on each connection but I can of course only set one default route. The default route is currently set to the ADSL. The problem is that when a connection is made to IP on the shared connection my computer uses the ADSL IP to respond and that does not work. Is there a solution to this? I thought about maybe it is possible to route differently when a connection is made on the shared connection but I can't find out how to do it. Yes, it can be done (though I have not found it documented anywhere). I really think there should be separate routing tables for each interface, but I don't know of any such feature in any Unix. However ipfw can be abused for the above task. Assuming: - ipfw is set to pass on default - your ADSL IP/network is a.a.a.a/aa - your shared IP/network is s.s.s.s/ss - your ADSL gateway is set as default route - your shared gateway is s.s.s.gw the following ipfw rules do the trick: # Pass anything that should go via normal routes # This rule is really just to speed up the bulk # of the packets add 1000 allow all from a.a.a.a to any # Pass anything to local addresses on ADSL network add 1010 allow all from any to a.a.a.a/aa # Pass anything to local addesses on shared network add 1020 allow all from any to s.s.s.s/ss # And here the trick: if the source address is the one # from the shared network, pass packets to the # gateway on the shared network add 1030 fwd s.s.s.gw all from s.s.s.s to any With the above connections will leave your system on the same route they entered it. Great for redundant mail and dns setup! If you already use ipfw you need to adapt the above rules accordingly. The important part is that packets coming from your host's shared address going to the 'outside' (and only those packets) are forwarded to the shared networks gateway. Gerd From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 24 09:35:23 2003 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:34:48 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Simon Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two ISP's. Two IP. One default route... Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:35:16 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-To: Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Subject: Re: Two ISP's. Two IP. One default route... Simon Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: I currently have two internet connections though two different ISP's. One is a ADSL and another is shared with the rest of my dorm. The shared line is rather slow because many people are using it. I must have an IP on the shared connection since that's the only place where I can be sure to have a non changing IP for my DNS. But the ADSL is much faster so I would like to use that as much as possible. Question: what are you using the static IP for? I.e. - who connects to it, and vice versa? I can give my machine an IP on each connection but I can of course only set one default route. The default route is currently set to the ADSL. The problem is that when a connection is made to IP on the shared connection my computer uses the ADSL IP to respond and that does not work. Is there a solution to this? I thought about maybe it is possible to route differently when a connection is made on the shared connection but I can't find out how to do it. Well, if you can narrow down who connect on the shared connection, you can add a route for those addresses pointing to the shared connection. It's been about five years, but I used to do that, but if the only people connecting to the shared IP are on the campus net, you can add a route
Re: OT: Shell script
All, I am trying to write an SH script that i need some functionality. I want it to be able to get a filename without the extention on the end. for example. file.mp3 i would like it to return 'file'. Probably lots of ways. Use sed in a pipe... sed 's/\$//' -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Shell script
I am trying to write an SH script that i need some functionality. I want it to be able to get a filename without the extention on the end. for example. file.mp3 i would like it to return 'file'. basename(1); it's even POSIX, so it's pretty portable. But only if he knows the file extension before hand... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommended behaviour for example configuration files
Kindly advice what is recommended actions for the example configuration files after the port application install. From the point of package database the removing or moving those files will cause database inconsistency. From the point of administrator to have a lot of useless files in configuration directories is unwanted . Example: after installations of amavis-new port there was 3 sample files in /usr/local/etc/ directory: *amavisd.conf-default *amavisd.conf-dist *amavisd.conf-sample I tend to leave them there unless it's an application I'm really familiar with as I find the samples tend to have pretty good comments and I might want to go back and look at them. I agree though, they do get in the way at times, but when I have removed them, I don't remember pkg_delete every complaining about it... maybe a warning that it couldn't find the file (which might be a problem if you for other pkg_* commands)... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VNC multiplexer
On 6/26/05, Anthony Chavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a client that would like to be able to connect to VNC servers behind a FreeBSD gateway. Said servers are assigned dynamic IPs via DHCP, so port mapping (via pf) is not an option (AFAIK). However, we intend to make use of dynamic DNS, so they will at least have hostnames. I missed the first part of this, but would proxying the VNC connections through an intermediate SSH server help at all? http://www.pjkh.com/wiki/vnc_through_an_ssh_proxy You could setup individual SSH tunnels for each machine in question. The tunnel would stay the same regardless of the IP... and the VNC viewer would connect to localhost so you'd never really need the server IP. Anyway, just a thought... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running Programs from CRON as root
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am not sure how to go about this. If I do not want to touch the system CRON, is it possible to create a personal CRON that could run two programs, both at the super user level Example: I want to update the ports tree and then run portmanager to install the updates. These obviously have to be run as root. Is there a way I can force this to happen without actually leaving the system logged in as root? Sure... as root, type crontab -e and put in your entries according to the crontab format. This will store the entries in root's personal cron file. Not /etc/crontab... Save the file. Logout. I find it helpful to paste this at the top of my crontab files to help me remember the format... ## # # field allowed values # - -- # minute0-59 # hour 0-23 # day of month 1-31 # month 1-12 (or names, see below) # day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) # command /path/to/cmd arg1 arg2 # ## ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...
Hi All, df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... After searching google freebsd.org I am no nearing to figuring this out, other than this is a known problem. Either I or the system managed to get the root partition back to under 100% but only just... I have looked for any large files that might be taking up space but have yet to locate anything over 3meg. Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts gratefully received. cd / du -hsx * -h Human-readable output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte -s Display an entry for each specified file. (Equivalent to -d 0) -x File system mount points are not traversed. Look for the largest directly, cd into that and repeat until you get down far enough to find the offender. Works for me... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system cloning
I have a system that we are running in production that there was an oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that we've tweaked that we would hate to just start over on it. There's a tool for OSX called Carbon Copy Cloner that would take care of this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that takes the filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING important, and then bless the boot volume. If you want two more identical drives then use dump, not tar, but you'd have to have them sliced/partitioned up the same beforehand and it wouldn't do bootblocks. You would? Why? restore doesn't care where you're restoring to... you'd just need to make sure you were in / before restoring and then tweak /etc/fstab to suit... right? -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice? Hi all - Our company has a product such that a small server is installed at each customer site. This server dials up to the Internet every night and exchanges some content with a central server in our data center. Total transaction takes about 5 minutes. Customers can have multiple sites. Our largets to date has three, but some potentials have several hundred. In the cases where the site does not have an existing Internet connection we currently use dialup via a major ISP. This works for now, but won't for the long haul for a couple of reasons: - they all are all sharing the same username and password (yes yes, I know...) - we're moving into canada and this ISP doesn't have many local numbers up there. - Dealing with local numbers and their somewhat frequent changing is a real headache. OK. Now then, am I assuming that if you go the 800 number route then that you will be billing the customers for the LD usage on that or are you going to eat it? What I want is a modem pool with one local number (tied into an 800 number) where I can create as many username/password pairs as needed. I want that local number to never change :-) Totally unnecessary since your using an 800 number. If the local number changes you just repoint the 800 number to the new local number. Mostly, but this way I can configure the local number first (1-xxx-xxx-) and then the 800 number so sites that allow long distance calls get billed for the call instead of us... saves a bit of money... Now... to make it fun... - No, I can't install a dialup server in our corporate datacenter. Why not? This is so calling out for you to run your own dialup server that it is unbelievable. Ah... I am glad I am not the only one who thinks that!!! :-) Believe me... I could write volumes on why this isn't going to happen. Well, it might, but only if I can show that outsourcing is going to cost zillions of dollars.. and that's not even getting to the paperwork process. I've tried before. 1.5 years later I haven't gotten any closer. - No, I can't setup a freebsd server in satellite office. That leaves me with an outsourced solution that needs to work with FreeBSD's PPP. Anyone know of anyone that does this sort of thing? Or an ISP that has a service geared towards this (our current one does not). Most of the major telcos will do outsourced dialup. The problem is this: [snip of solutions] The problem with these is they all require hardware to be placed somewhere... and if I was okay with that, I'd just put it in our office here so it's closer to me when it fails, but hte problem with that is our office loses power and it's just not designed for it. Frankly I think your really being business-stupid by ruling out a dialup server in your datacenter. Heh. I completely agree. I totally understand I'm going about this in the most inefficient way possible. *sigh* :-( If you program your remotes to call in under a staggered pattern rather than all of them at midnight, you can probably go to a ratio of 50-to-1 or even higher. If the data packet is small enough you probably could do all of them on a couple of POTS phone lines. Yep. We could. All you need to do is pick up a used Portmaster, or Ascend Mux or even a Cisco AS2509 and hang external modems on it, setup your RADIUS servers, and your up and running. Ah... and there's the trick :-) If I could do that, I would just do that and put it in corporate's data center :-) Thanks! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system cloning
Here's my scenario: I have a system that we are running in production that there was an oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that we've tweaked that we would hate to just start over on it. There's a tool for OSX called Carbon Copy Cloner that would take care of this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that takes the filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING important, and then bless the boot volume. Is there anything similar I can do on FreeBSD? My boss thinks I should be able to tar up the entire filesystem, create the raid array, and untar the whole thing on the new array. I seem to think this will fail due to block devices that have changed, fstab entries that have changed (though this is correctable), and symlinks that don't nicely come across. Not that I do this a lot, but I think you'll run into problems using tar, cp, and rsync when it comes to various special files or files with holes in them (sparse files). I've always read that dump/restore is the safest way to do something like this. When I have done it, I boot off of a live CD on the server in question. Then somewhere else I have an NFS server running. Mount the share on your live CD box. dump each partition to the share. Then install the new hard disks... Then boot the box off the live cd again, mount the share, do whatever fdisk'ing and disklabel'ing and newfs'ing is necessary to get the partitions you want and restore each of the dumps (in the right order of course). It's worked for me... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice?
Hi all - Our company has a product such that a small server is installed at each customer site. This server dials up to the Internet every night and exchanges some content with a central server in our data center. Total transaction takes about 5 minutes. Customers can have multiple sites. Our largets to date has three, but some potentials have several hundred. In the cases where the site does not have an existing Internet connection we currently use dialup via a major ISP. This works for now, but won't for the long haul for a couple of reasons: - they all are all sharing the same username and password (yes yes, I know...) - we're moving into canada and this ISP doesn't have many local numbers up there. - Dealing with local numbers and their somewhat frequent changing is a real headache. What I want is a modem pool with one local number (tied into an 800 number) where I can create as many username/password pairs as needed. I want that local number to never change :-) Now... to make it fun... - No, I can't install a dialup server in our corporate datacenter. - No, I can't setup a freebsd server in satellite office. That leaves me with an outsourced solution that needs to work with FreeBSD's PPP. Anyone know of anyone that does this sort of thing? Or an ISP that has a service geared towards this (our current one does not). Thanks! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network AV server
Could someone point me in the right direction to create a network server that scans networks systems for Virus and acts on the viruses accordingly. I have a FreeBSD system that I would like to turn into a virus scanner (among other things) but I don't know how or what scanners are available and/or recommended. http://clamav.net/ A GPL virus scanner featuring: * command-line scanner * fast, multi-threaded daemon * milter interface for sendmail * database updater with support for digital signatures * virus scanner C library * on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD) * detection of over 35000 viruses, worms and trojans * built-in support for RAR (2.0), Zip, Gzip, Bzip2, Tar, MS OLE2, MS Cabinet files, MS CHM (Compressed HTML), MS SZDD * built-in support for mbox, Maildir and raw mail files * built-in support for Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, and Petite Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running cronjobs
Check the value of $PATH when run manually and when run via cron. That's what always bites me... the PATH set by cron is usually pretty minimal... -philip On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, ESMTP Admin wrote: Always worked well when I dump a script into the /etc/periodic/daily folder and set permissions to have a script run automatically each night. But this is not working for the Spamassassin rulesdujour script. I can run the script manually, no problem, any ideas? Here is the bottom of that directory, my own scripts prefixed with 'webtent' and the backup and cvsports scripts run perfectly. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel723 Jan 10 2004 500.queuerun -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7432 Dec 14 09:08 800.webtent-backup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 71 Mar 22 12:43 810.webtent-cvsports -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50364 Mar 23 23:41 820.webtent-rulesdujour -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel712 Jan 10 2004 999.local My daily run log shows the cvsports activity and stops right there: ... Edit ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session/Makefile Edit ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session/pkg-plist Finished successfully 666196 bytes transferred in 2.5 seconds (263.32 kBps) -- End of daily output -- -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgrey question
[description of postgrey snipped] The main advantage of this is that spammers and viruses have massive amount of email lists and just try to send it to as many people as possible. They are not going to wait and try to send the e-mail again, thus you effectively block many amount of spam and virus e-mail before it's even being processed by amavis / clamav / spamassasin, saving up system resources. This is also the problem with greylisting... some services only attempt to send the email once and if it fails, give up completely. I don't remember if postgrey comes with a whitelist of IP addresses or not, but I do remember seeing a list that included things such as Southwest Airlines ticket confirmations and some amazon stuff. Anyway, that's something to watch out for if it's relevant for you... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rewinding tapes
I've written a small script that backs up data to a tape, rewinds it, then reads back the data that was stored as a test. The problem I've run into is that 'mt rewind' is asynchronous, and subsequent tape operations will fail until the rewind operation has finished. Is there a way to find out when the tape has finished rewinding, or at least to rewind synchronously? The drive is an ATA Seagate STT2401A. Can you use mt status along with the appropriate *.ctl device? From the man page... Print status information about the tape unit. For SCSI mag- netic tape devices, the current operating modes of density, blocksize, and whether compression is enabled is reported. The current state of the driver (what it thinks that it is doing with the device) is reported. If the driver knows the relative position from BOT (in terms of filemarks and records), it prints that. Note that this information is not definitive (only BOT, End of Recorded Media, and hardware or SCSI logical block position (if the drive supports such) are considered definitive tape positions). Or maybe rdspos? Read SCSI logical block position. Some drives do not support this. The count argument is ignored. -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scripting help
install the 'mmv' port. From the description... This is mmv, a program to move/copy/append/link multiple files according to a set of wildcard patterns. The wildcard matches can be reused in forming the target names. You can i.e. move all *.c.or? files to or?.new.*.c by saying 'mmv *.c.or? or=2.new.=1.c' The multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with existing filenames or with other target names. Furthermore, before doing anything, mmv attempts to detect any errors that would result from the entire set of actions specified and gives the user the choice of either aborting before beginning, or proceeding by avoiding the offending parts. On Thu, 12 May 2005, Chris wrote: I would like some advice on how to script something that will search directories below a named root for all files ending with a certain file extension. Then, mv or cp them to another location. -- Best regards, Chris The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time, the last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: monitoring and alerting software ????
Nagios. http://www.nagios.org/ On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be software that runs on FreeBSD. Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers? In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD servers go down, but also if the router, firewall or switches go haywire. I'm thinking along the lines of getting a cell phone, and have a central server with a modem dial my cell and send a text message, either directly or via a 3rd party service, if anything goes wrong. I am the sole responsible admin for babysitting my network and server farm, and we're setting up critical systems that must be 24x7, so now I must be 'on call' 24x7. Is there anything out there that will assist me with this? Thanks, DW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System clean-up tool / technique?
Hey. I am a very meticulous person. I try to keep my systems as clean as possible. I was wondering that others like me out there do to keep their systems clean for stale files and files with no reference to either the system, its ports and its users. The portupgrade port will install portsclean which can clean up working directories and remove distfiles that aren't referenced by any installed port. There's another port* command I can't recall the name of that will list ports that are not required by any other port which you can then decide if you want to remove. Might be an option to pkg_info, I really don't remember. -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba
On May 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when it comes out]) it should be able to see all space or will I have to carve it up. I would not recommend trying to use greater than 2GB partitions via Samba, or ^^^ You meant 2TB not 2GB right? Cause I've been using samba with 8GB shares for a looong time... I'm guessing so, just thought we should be sure :) even natively, at this time. There are significant issues, such as being able to run fsck against such large partitions without fsck's memory usage consuming excessive resources. If you need to set up such a massive NAS fileserver, you really ought to consider dedicated products from companies like Auspex and NetApp. Another alternative might be an Apple Xserve RAID with Xsan, but this doesn't have the track record of my earlier suggestions. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)
Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on my machine? Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its requirements and what I already have on my machine. If I have 7 out of the 10 requirements I would like the remaining 3 listed for me. Is there something in place which provides this? The portupgrade port can do this. Something like... portupgrade -n -Rr someport The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do. The -r and -R tell it to upgrade any dependencies in both directions. At the end it will print out a little summary of what ports it needs to upgrade, what needs installed, and what you've already got. -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Is there a way to determine exactly what a particular port will install on my machine? Doing a `make pretty-print-run-depends-list` will show me all of its requirements... but I am interested in the difference between its requirements and what I already have on my machine. If I have 7 out of the 10 requirements I would like the remaining 3 listed for me. Is there something in place which provides this? The portupgrade port can do this. Something like... portupgrade -n -Rr someport The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do. The -r and -R tell it to upgrade any dependencies in both directions. At the end it will print out a little summary of what ports it needs to upgrade, what needs installed, and what you've already got. This sounds like what I'm looking for... so I tried it. But its giving me difficulties. I am using `portupgrade -nN -rR x11-fm/rox-filer` for example. I know I have most, but not all, of what is needed by rox-filer. I was hoping to see a concise list of things I am missing (and would therefore be installed). In my example I used the `-N` switch because the man page sounded like that what was needed when the port is not currently installed (which is my situation). But portupgrade reports --- Session started at: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:23:07 -0500 Install 'x11-fm/rox-filer'? [no] --- Session ended at: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:23:07 -0500 (consumed 00:00:00) What am I doing wrong? That I can't help you with... maybe there's more options (verbose mode?) that would show it... I tend to only use portupgrade for upgrading already installed ports... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to delete a not empty directory on FTP Server via ftp on freebsd 5.3
I signed up a account to have a ftp space to upload my web files. And it needs manangered by myself via ftp. But I have to said that I am a newbie on freebsd. when I type ftp at my shell, and successed long in ftp server. But I don't know how to delete directory via the command of ftp. I had searched some information about that, and 'man ftp'. But I only know that there are 'delete(file)' and 'rmdir(empty diretory) command, I tied to typed 'rm -r Diretory-Name' and 'mv -f Diretory-Name'(as on my csh), but I faied. Can you tell me where I can find more information about the command of ftp(I enjoy command better, not GUI ftp client if possible) Once connected via ftp, type help. That will give you a list of commands available. You can then type things like help rmdir, etc. Also, if you like the command line, but want a little more functionality from your ftp client, check out ncftp... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/ftp/ncftp3/pkg-descr -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resizing partitions
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, I've got a 5.3-RELEASE box which has a /usr partition /dev/ad0s1e that is to small by approximately 700 mb. I've got the space on /var /dev/ad0s1d to do a resize, but i am unsure as to the procedure. I tried this once a while back on a test box and lost everything. If anyone has done this or has a procedure i'd be interested. Instead of actually resizing the partition, you can just move some of the stuff to a partition where you have plenty of room and then make sym-links to it. /usr/local and /usr/ports are good candidates. Tar the whole directory tree up and put it where you want and untar it. Then make links and rm the old one. Probably worth making sure you add the 'pS' options to tar as well... -p --same-permissions --preserve-permissions Extract all protection information. -S --sparseHandle ``sparse'' files efficiently. I find whenever I do something like this and forget those -- particularly -p -- I end up regretting it when users whine at me because they can't write to their files :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reusing a port after a crash
From time to time, my torrent filesharing application will crash or need to be killed. The application is configured to listen on a specific port. If I try to restart the application after improper termination, I receive a fatal error message stating that the port is already in use. Before restarting the application, I verify that the application did indeed shut down (via 'ps -aux') and 'sockstat -l' shows that no application is using the port in question, so I don't understand how the port could still be 'in use'. The only way I've found to restart the application after improper termination is to reboot the whole system. Is there something else I could try? Does this kind of thing tend to happen to network applications when they crash or could this be specific to my application? What little tinkering I've done in the socket world reminds me of this: -- % man setsockopt ... SO_REUSEADDR enables local address reuse SO_REUSEPORT enables duplicate address and port bindings ... SO_REUSEADDR indicates that the rules used in validating addresses sup- plied in a bind(2) call should allow reuse of local addresses. SO_REUSEPORT allows completely duplicate bindings by multiple processes if they all set SO_REUSEPORT before binding the port. This option per- mits multiple instances of a program to each receive UDP/IP multicast or broadcast datagrams destined for the bound port. -- Basically, what I remember about this is that if you supply those options when creating the socket and your app crashes, you can start it back up using the same host:port otherwise you get the message you're getting... I'm sure a good networking would be able to explain it better... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). Im at the point now, because Im using that FreeBSD box to host email for myself and some production/development web pages, in case the box fails I want to be able to quickly either rebuild the contents of that boxs hard drive or move the backup server over to replace it. It took a few weeks to get the P4 box configured the way I want, so I dont think its just a simple matter of popping in the 5.3 install disk and re-installing. So Im trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of downtime. I should note that in a few weeks Ill be replacing the current PI backup server with a PIII box. My home network consists of a linksys router with a couple workstations attached and the above mentioned web and backup servers. The web and backup servers do not have cd burners, however I could transfer files to one of the workstations to burn backup disks. I would like to know in general some approaches I could take to create either some redundancy in my network at home with the two FreeBSD servers I have (each has different hardware specs) or more effectively back up the FreeBSD box doing the email/web hosting for myself. I would consider myself a moderately competent amateur system admin. I dont work in the IT industry and I have zero knowledge of things like mirroring boxes or using applications like rsync so Im looking for a guidance on a simple solution. Thank you much in advance. I'm not sure this would work for you, but it works for me for our dev servers at work where we need to get a standard box to a specific state fairly often. Install two drives in the server. Drive A is your primary every day drive. Drive B is big enough to hold both a minimal FreeBSD installation *and* the entire contents of Drive A. Configure the server to allow you to selectively boot either drive, but default it to Drive A. Then, whenever you want to make a backup, boot into Drive B and dump the entire contents of Drive A to disk. Something like: dump 0af drivea.dump /dev/ad0s1a For our dev servers we only have one partition, but you'd want to make sure you grabbed each partition separately. Then if you ever want to restore you can boot into Drive B, disklabel,newfs Drive A, and use restore to put everything back just the way it was. Probably worth saving a copy of Drive A's disklabel while your doing things as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: df question
Hi people I do df -h on my machine and got this RARE ouput %df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a7.7G2.2G4.9G31%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1d 65G9.5G 50G16%/usr/home %df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 8122126 2328406 514395031%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1d 68372608 9940308 5296249216%/usr/home 50G+9.5G=60.5G but the partition size is 65G ... where are my ~5G,? What can i do? Accept it :-) Or change the minimum free space on the drive. Here's the relevant part of the tunefs manpage: -m minfree Specify the percentage of space held back from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is 8%. This value can be set to zero, however up to a factor of three in throughput will be lost over the performance obtained at a 10% threshold. Settings of 5% and less force space optimization to always be used which will greatly increase the overhead for file writes. Note that if the value is raised above the current usage level, users will be unable to allocate files until enough files have been deleted to get under the higher threshold. I haven't checked, but I suspect the FAQ and Handbook at www.freebsd.org have more information on this... -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help! (SOLVED)
So, after getting some pointers from folks (thanks!) I started from scratch this morning twiddling one BIOS setting at a time. Turns out that it's *NOT* the USB controller. Well, maybe it is, I don't really know I guess. By turning off Power Management in the BIOS, I can access all three modems just fine. Strange, but I'm glad it's working :) Thanks all! On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound modem server... Here's what's happening... FreeBSD 4.9 Dell Dimension XPS T450 (ie. several year old dell). Default BIOS settings (switching the PnP OS has no effect). One NIC recognized as fxp0. One IDE drive, one cdrom, one floppy. Three USR 5610B PCI modems (which work fine individually). I can access the first two modems via tip, but tipping to the last one locks up the entire system (network, console, everything). Here's the relevant parts from /var/run/dmesg.boot: pci1: 3Dfx Voodoo 3 graphics accelerator at 0.0 irq 11 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller at 7.2 irq 9 fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x1000-0x103f mem 0xf400-0xf40f,0xf410-0xf4100fff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1070-0x1077 irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1078-0x107f irq 7 at device 15.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio5 sio5: type 16550A sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1080-0x1087 irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio6 sio6: type 16550A fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A I am pretty sure my problem is that the USB controller and the third modem are both using IRQ 9, but I can't think of any way to resolve that. I don't have USB compiled into my kernel and there aren't any settings in the BIOS to shut USB off completely. I've also tried killing off sio0/IRQ4 in hopes the modem would take that IRQ, but no luck there either. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to work? Should I try FreeBSD 5.x? Thanks all! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help!
Hi all - I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound modem server... Here's what's happening... FreeBSD 4.9 Dell Dimension XPS T450 (ie. several year old dell). Default BIOS settings (switching the PnP OS has no effect). One NIC recognized as fxp0. One IDE drive, one cdrom, one floppy. Three USR 5610B PCI modems (which work fine individually). I can access the first two modems via tip, but tipping to the last one locks up the entire system (network, console, everything). Here's the relevant parts from /var/run/dmesg.boot: pci1: 3Dfx Voodoo 3 graphics accelerator at 0.0 irq 11 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller at 7.2 irq 9 fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x1000-0x103f mem 0xf400-0xf40f,0xf410-0xf4100fff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1070-0x1077 irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1078-0x107f irq 7 at device 15.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio5 sio5: type 16550A sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1080-0x1087 irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio6 sio6: type 16550A fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A I am pretty sure my problem is that the USB controller and the third modem are both using IRQ 9, but I can't think of any way to resolve that. I don't have USB compiled into my kernel and there aren't any settings in the BIOS to shut USB off completely. I've also tried killing off sio0/IRQ4 in hopes the modem would take that IRQ, but no luck there either. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to work? Should I try FreeBSD 5.x? Thanks all! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help!
Tip uses /etc/remote and the statements don't define as many modems as you are using. Sorry, I should have mentioned that I already modified /etc/remote and did my MAKEDEV stuff. [snip] If you got that right them move NIC card to different slot to change its irq # I had the NIC card at the other end initially and it didn't work because it conflicted... *sigh* Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:24 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help! Hi all - I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound modem server... Here's what's happening... FreeBSD 4.9 Dell Dimension XPS T450 (ie. several year old dell). Default BIOS settings (switching the PnP OS has no effect). One NIC recognized as fxp0. One IDE drive, one cdrom, one floppy. Three USR 5610B PCI modems (which work fine individually). I can access the first two modems via tip, but tipping to the last one locks up the entire system (network, console, everything). Here's the relevant parts from /var/run/dmesg.boot: pci1: 3Dfx Voodoo 3 graphics accelerator at 0.0 irq 11 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller at 7.2 irq 9 fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x1000-0x103f mem 0xf400-0xf40f,0xf410-0xf4100fff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1070-0x1077 irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1078-0x107f irq 7 at device 15.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio5 sio5: type 16550A sio0: 3COM PCI FaxModem port 0x1080-0x1087 irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio6 sio6: type 16550A fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A I am pretty sure my problem is that the USB controller and the third modem are both using IRQ 9, but I can't think of any way to resolve that. I don't have USB compiled into my kernel and there aren't any settings in the BIOS to shut USB off completely. I've also tried killing off sio0/IRQ4 in hopes the modem would take that IRQ, but no luck there either. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to work? Should I try FreeBSD 5.x? Thanks all! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard drive fullness limits information help request
Hi all I know hard drives tend to not run well when near full. They have trouble performing self adjustments (hardware), self defragging(unix/FFS) etc.. (as I can express it) However, I need to find some documentation or some help in explaining this better. I am working with some people who store loads of files, on many drives and tend to fill the drives to 95% and more and then can't understand why they become unstable. I need to be able to explain it better and I would also like to know more to be able to factually/sanely set a percent full safe limit. Any help would be appreciatted Q: What happens when you fill a cabinet that is designed to hold 100 folders with 95 folders, many of which are crammed full of papers? A: It gets much harder to put more folders in or to put more stuff in the existing folders. And papers start to stick out and catch on the top of the drawer because they no longer fit. And to add to that, when you realize you want to re-organize folder XYZ to make it tidier, but you don't want to do it to the originals since they are important to you, where are you going to get the room to first make a a copy of the folder, then organize it, then replace the original once you've confirmed that you didn't leave any papers on the floor. So you are stuck with an untidy XYS folder. Yuck. Probably not the most accurate analogy, but it's easy to understand... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: too many illegal connection attempts through ssh
shown below is snapshot of too many illegal attempts to login to my server from a suspicious hacker. this is taken from the /var/log/auth.log. my question is, how do i automatically block an IP address if it is attempting to guess my login usernames? can i configure the firewall to check the instances a certain IP has attempted to access/ssh the sevrer, and if it has failed to login for about x number of attempts, it will be blocked automatically? This question is asked on the list ever so often - see the archives for suggestions. These are automated attacks, they come regularly as crackers, black hats or script kidies scan across the net. Does anybody know what robots beeing used? And on what systems? All you mention later in your posting is true of course and I needn't care about these logs, but it's like like somebody unknown puts 10 flyers in your letterbox every night. I'm sure, one night you'll hide and build a trap for that person. I'm too lazy to enter those net-circles for finding these robots, but maybe some other has already done that? I haven't done that, but if you don't like them you can block them fairly easily... I wrote a little script in PHP (not that it would be hard to re-write in perl or whatever) that watches /var/log/auth.log and if it sees an invalid login, it adds a firewall rule to block that IP. Then I've got a separate cronjob that removes those firewall rules a couple minutes later. Yes, I have locked myself out of my own server when I mistype my password, but I just wait a minute and it lets me back in. I thought about modifying it so instead of outright blocking it, it put it into a pipe that limited it's bandwidth to almost nil just to hold the thing up a bit, but this works for me.. http://www.pjkh.com/sshmonitor/ -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recommended search engine for web pages and maybe email?
Hi all - Recently I've found myself searching the freebsd ports web site quite frequently as well as some other online documentation (php, mysql, postgresql, freebsd faq/handbook) and it always bothers me because I know I can mirror that stuff and search it locally and in general cut down on their load. It's been a long time since I've setup any search engines/spiders to do this sort of thing. In the past I've used htdig and mnogosearch. I was hoping someone out there could tell me which one of those (or a third such as openfts?) I should install and get going to save me some time trying them all out. I think the only feature I really care about is being able to limit the search to a particular collection (freebsd ports, php manual, etc.) As an aside, I've got about 60mb (~ 5,000 messages) stored in pine's mbox format that I occasionally grep through, but would be nice if it was little more advanced... I've also thought maybe I should just host it on an external server, and only allow my hosts and google's indexer to crawl it and just rely on google. Suggestions? recommendations? Thanks! -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to be a freeBSD mirror
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, We're the stuff of the free software department at the university of Orléans (France) We'd like to be a mirror of freee BSD (all arches, all branches) What documentation would you recommend us to read about technical tips and admnistrative request to the FreeBSD project team? The server is running Debian/Linux. -- Get a fully managed dedicated server for ¤200/month ($257/month) No time limit for taking care of your server. You keep the root acces if you want. Billing periods are 3 months. See the conditions at http://aspo.rktmb.org/activities/managed_servers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any experience with iPowerWeb.com's dedicated FreeBSD server package?
Hi - I was wondering if any of you have used iPowerWeb.com's dedicated server package that runs on FreeBSD? Seems like a good deal. For $50/mo you get full root access on your own box and can do whatever you want. http://www.ipowerweb.com/products/dedicatedserver/index.html If anyone has used this service and has any insights into how good it really is, please let me know. Or, if you've done something similar with someone else... Thanks! -philip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing PCI modem in machine with 4 serial ports (HELP!)
Hi - I've got a little computer that has four serial ports built-in to the motherboard. I want to add a PCI modem (USR 5610B) and am having a devil of a time. I know this modem works since I've used it (well, another one just like it) in another machine no problem. Here's the computer's board: http://www.orbitmicro.com/products/embedded%20boards/via/EBC-569.htm The last time I did this it just worked. However, this bit from the Handbook has me concerned: --- These are the four serial ports referred to as COM1 through COM4 in the MS-DOS/Windows world. Note: If you have an internal modem on COM4 and a serial port at COM2, you will have to change the IRQ of the modem to 2 (for obscure technical reasons, IRQ2 = IRQ 9) in order to access it from FreeBSD. If you have a multiport serial card, check the manual page for sio(4) for more information on the proper values for these lines. Some video cards (notably those based on S3 chips) use IO addresses in the form of 0x*2e8, and since many cheap serial cards do not fully decode the 16-bit IO address space, they clash with these cards making the COM4 port practically unavailable. Each serial port is required to have a unique IRQ (unless you are using one of the multiport cards where shared interrupts are supported), so the default IRQs for COM3 and COM4 cannot be used. --- I rarely use modems, and am even less proficient at messing around with IRQ stuff. What I'm concerned about is that it seems to say you can only have 4 serial ports (COM1 - COM4) total... which means I'm kind of screwed. I've tried disabling all of the serial ports via the BIOS, but it doesn't help... If anyone out there has any light to shed on how to get this working I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -philip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installing PCI modem in machine with 4 serial ports (HELP!)
Oops... you're right. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. Never tried it with windows. However, I've put this exact card into a different server (with only two serial ports) and it is found as sio4 and works perfectly. In the broken machine the boot message says what you have below, that it's moving it to sio4, and I did make the devices (did the same things I did for the machine that works) but still nothing. For now I'll just use the other machine, but it's irksome... -philip To start with you are very light with details about your environment, like what version of FBSD you are running and when you say the modem works, you failed to say if it worked in an FBSD system or MS/Windows system. For your info many of the PCI modems on the market are manufactured specially for MS/windows and are missing the onboard controller. The controller function is performed by the modem driver you have to load into MS/windows. If you have one of those winmodems but it back in your windows box where it belongs. Lets assume your modem has the onboard controller. Have you reviewed the boot log /var/run/dmesg.boot file? It may be found as (unknown) in that case it may be an winmodem for sure, or you have installed FBSD on an pre Y2K PC and it's bio's are giving FBSD problems. Adding device puc to your kernel source and recompiling your kernel will fix this problem. The other condition is the your modem is found at boot time and is moved to sio4 which is really com5 which in not defined in the 4.x versions of FBSD. sio0: Zoom PCI Modem port 0xe400-0xe407,0xe000-0xe0ff,0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xe200- sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A Sio4 is internal device cuaa4. For some unknown reason this device is not in the device table for 4.x versions You have to create it manually by doing the following commands. cd /dev ls -l /dev/cuaa4shows as not found sh MAKEDEV cuaa4run script to make the device. MAKEDEV must be in caps. ls -l /dev/cuaa4now shows it's there Device cuaa4 is the device you tell user ppp to use to connect with your PIC modem. If you are running 5.x version of FBSD then you do not have to makedev it auto in 5.x. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing PCI modem in machine with 4 serial ports (HELP!) Hi - I've got a little computer that has four serial ports built-in to the motherboard. I want to add a PCI modem (USR 5610B) and am having a devil of a time. I know this modem works since I've used it (well, another one just like it) in another machine no problem. Here's the computer's board: http://www.orbitmicro.com/products/embedded%20boards/via/EBC-569.htm The last time I did this it just worked. However, this bit from the Handbook has me concerned: --- These are the four serial ports referred to as COM1 through COM4 in the MS-DOS/Windows world. Note: If you have an internal modem on COM4 and a serial port at COM2, you will have to change the IRQ of the modem to 2 (for obscure technical reasons, IRQ2 = IRQ 9) in order to access it from FreeBSD. If you have a multiport serial card, check the manual page for sio(4) for more information on the proper values for these lines. Some video cards (notably those based on S3 chips) use IO addresses in the form of 0x*2e8, and since many cheap serial cards do not fully decode the 16-bit IO address space, they clash with these cards making the COM4 port practically unavailable. Each serial port is required to have a unique IRQ (unless you are using one of the multiport cards where shared interrupts are supported), so the default IRQs for COM3 and COM4 cannot be used. --- I rarely use modems, and am even less proficient at messing around with IRQ stuff. What I'm concerned about is that it seems to say you can only have 4 serial ports (COM1 - COM4) total... which means I'm kind of screwed. I've tried disabling all of the serial ports via the BIOS, but it doesn't help... If anyone out there has any light to shed on how to get this working I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -philip ___ [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]
List of absolutely required files for FreeBSD?
Hi - I was wondering if there is a list of absolutely required files for FreeBSD? I'm trying to trim an installation down as small as possible (to put on Compact Flash). If I start out with just the 'bin' directory for the release there's around 100megs of files. Obviously a lot of them like ipfw I don't need. However, what about things like awk? I won't use it, but are there other parts of FreeBSD (ie /etc/rc.* files)? Is there a list somewhere that would help determine what files are used by FreeBSD for normal operation? Thanks! -philip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List of absolutely required files for FreeBSD?
256mb, but I'd like some extra room for some data files. If I could get it down to say 80mb then I could use a 128mb card... On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Sean Hafeez wrote: what size flash? i have 4.9 down to 220mb for a 256mb flash. Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I was wondering if there is a list of absolutely required files for FreeBSD? I'm trying to trim an installation down as small as possible (to put on Compact Flash). If I start out with just the 'bin' directory for the release there's around 100megs of files. Obviously a lot of them like ipfw I don't need. However, what about things like awk? I won't use it, but are there other parts of FreeBSD (ie /etc/rc.* files)? Is there a list somewhere that would help determine what files are used by FreeBSD for normal operation? Thanks! -philip ___ [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]
FreeBSD Motherboard survey...
Hi all - I'm wanting to build my own computer to run FreeBSD, but don't have the slightest idea (well, maybe the slightest :) what motherboard to buy. I'd like one that has built-in lan/audio that works in FreeBSD, but in my searching efforts I've turned up very little. I know the handbook lists chip sets and whatnot, but trying to figure out what chip set is on a given board isn't always easy -- at least not for me. So... I wrote a survey app that I'm hoping lots of you will fill out. It let's you pick the brand/model of motherboard, then indicate what onboard features work (lan, audio, video, usb, firewire, ide, sata, scsi, raid, smp), lets you provide some overall satisfaction ratings, and then provide any additional comments. As a side effect you can input your laptop information which seems to be a frequently asked source of questions. If I get enough responses I'd like to expand this to include other things such as DVD players, USB peripherals, etc. that have varying levels of support in FreeBSD. Perhaps turn it into a companion to the HARDWARE.TXT document... Anyway.. here it is: http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ Thanks! -philip (please cc me on any replies) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...
On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - So... I wrote a survey app that I'm hoping lots of you will fill out. It let's you pick the brand/model of motherboard, then indicate what onboard features work (lan, audio, video, usb, firewire, ide, sata, scsi, raid, smp), lets you provide some overall satisfaction ratings, and then provide any additional comments. As a side effect you can input your laptop information which seems to be a frequently asked source of questions. If I get enough responses I'd like to expand this to include other things such as DVD players, USB peripherals, etc. that have varying levels of support in FreeBSD. Perhaps turn it into a companion to the HARDWARE.TXT document... Anyway.. here it is: http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ This is very nice, and I think it will be helpful to a lot of people who want to move to FreeBSD. I especially like the idea of laptop users being able to contribute. This is a topic that has come up many times on the mobile@ list and I think a structured form where components can be detailed (works/broken) is a great idea. I'm glad you like it. And thanks for cc'ing the mobile group. Completely spaced on that. If any of you have any comments on other features you'd like to see (infrared just came to mind) please by all means send me an email with your thoughts. I've got pretty limited hardware and haven't used FreeBSD on a laptop ever so might be missing things. I'd love for this to take off and become a repository of sorts... -philip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone using a SOYO KT600 Dragon motherboard?
Hi all - Looking at building a new system and was wondering if anyone is using one of the SOYO KT600 Dragon motherboards (either the plus or ultra platinum)? http://www.soyo.com.tw/products/proddesc.php?id=257 http://www.soyo.com.tw/products/proddesc.php?id=256 I've searched, but haven't found these specific models. Their site says it's supported under FreeBSD, but I'd like someone to confirm that :-) I'll be emailing SOYO as well, but figured I'd get this out there in case they take awhile to respond. I'm most interested in knowing if the audio/lan is supported. Both boards use the VIA KT600 / 8237 chipset. The ultra uses CMI 8738 for audio which is listed on freebsd.org as supported. The plus uses VIA 1616 which isn't listed, but Via VT82C686A is... but I can't find any info on that latter chip on Via's site. I also can't find any information on beyond VIA MAC 10/100 Ethernet for the VIA KT600. Any info/stories on this board would be appreciated. Thanks! -philip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp -auto dials immediately? (already tried the usual things)
Hi - I'm setting up ppp for the first time and it works with one exception. It always dials immediately. I've done the usual things and stopped all the processes, etc... What's weird is that logging seems to indicate that this is causing it: tun0: TCP/IP: OUT 0: fe80::230:1bff:feae:22e7 --- ff02::1:ffae:22e7 (72) which looks like ipv6 which I'm *not* using... which makes me, well, very confused. The entire log snippet (about 4k) is at the url below. http://www.adhesivemedia.com/~philip/ppp.log Anyone have any ideas as to what is causing it to dialup? thanks -philip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp -auto dials immediately? (already tried the usual things)
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I'm setting up ppp for the first time and it works with one exception. It always dials immediately. I've done the usual things and stopped all the processes, etc... What's weird is that logging seems to indicate that this is causing it: tun0: TCP/IP: OUT 0: fe80::230:1bff:feae:22e7 --- ff02::1:ffae:22e7 (72) which looks like ipv6 which I'm *not* using... which makes me, well, very confused. You may not be using it, but the log shows that it is configured. Disable it in your kernel. Seriously? There's no other way around it? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
List of popular DNS blacklists for spam?
Hi all - I'm testing the use of some DNS blacklists to cut down on my spam and there are a lot of servers to choose from. I was wondering if there is a list of popular servers. I've seen comparison lists, but I'm hoping for more of a survey of sysadmins and what they use (if anything). If something like that doesn't exist, if I setup the survey would you all take the time to list what servers you use? Thanks! -philip (please cc me on replies as I've unsubscribed while testing my various spam filters) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /kernel: file: table is full
play around with and read up on... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% pstat -T 226/14000 files 0M/1023M swap space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% more /etc/sysctl.conf kern.maxfiles=14000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% -philip On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Worth Bishop wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.2, Apache Webserver, and send ~20k e-mails to opt-in subscribers daily. I am regularly seeing the message /kernel: file: table is full in my messages log. Can anyone tell me what this signifies and how to correct this condition? Thanks, Worth Bishop 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: Help with scripts?
It completely depends on what shell you are using. Under tcsh you would add something like the following to your ~/.tcshrc and then relogin. alias 'on' 'mount /cdrom' it's something similar under bash, but I don't use bash so don't know. On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Earl Larsen wrote: What I would like to know is how I can type like go. And it does the ls -? -? |more comand. Or I can type on and it does the mount /cdrom. I am slowly switching to FreeBSD on my system. And my wife is windows handycap. And I want things to go smothly for her. So she can use it. And for some quick types for me. 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: make
Greetings, I have a silly question.. what is the difference between the following commands: cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw make make install runs cd ... if previous command succeeded runs make if previous command succeeded runs make install cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw ; make ; make install runs cd ... runs make runs make install (regardless of previous success -- meaning the cd command could fail and it would run make from whatever directory you are currently in) cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw make install clean runs cd ... if previous command succeeded runs make install clean (which will build the port, install it, and then clean out the working directory) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? Search the lists for SDDR. It's at home, but I think I have the SDDR-31 which works great. The SDDR-05 *doesn't* work. Search the lists. It's in there. -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
DHCP Server learning name servers since server itself is dhcp'd??
Hi all - I'm setting up a server/gateway on a cable modem whose external interface has to use DHCP. There will be several clients on the internal network and the gateway will be running isc-dhcp. I know I can setup a nameserver on the gateway and configure DHCP to send it's own IP as the nameserver to use, but I was wondering if there is a way to have the dhcp server get the name server values from say /etc/resolv.conf? Alternatively is there a way to dynamically tell BIND to get it's forwarders list from /etc/resolv.conf? thanks! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: saving port settings (Was: stupid question)
# e.g.:
# MAKE_ARGS = {
# 'databases/mysql323-*' = 'WITH_CHARSET=ujis',
# }
That looks like exactly what you're looking for.
Sorry, I didn't see it... Well, this is great ;-)
It only work for portupgrade though, right ? There's no other place to save
those args... like an /etc/make.ports.conf ?
Thank you so so much...
/etc/make.conf
will work, but it will define whatever you set for *everything* you do
with make... works for me though (I set all the various LITE and
WITHOUT_X11 stuff that ports seem to check for)
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Re: samba in a jail
Is there anything in the samba log files that might help? Turn the logging way up one day and see what happens just before it crashes... -philip On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: Anyone successfully running samba inside of a jail on 4.7R? I'm trying te get it to work for a friend of mine. It works ok for a while and then locks the machine up hard every night. Network access is gone. We haven't yet determined if it is the periodic scripts that cause the trouble, or just the type of activity that they represent. How do I run them each (or al of the daily scripts) to see what causes the lock-up? Normal use and even copying large files does not seem to cause the lock-up. Unfortunately, nothing segfaults so I can't get a core dump to do anything with. Sorry I don't have more detail at the moment, I just wanted to know if anyone had it working. I may try a serial console if i can make a null cable. I'll get more details on Sat. Other ideas of things to check? Thanks, Tim 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: SquirrelMail port problems
If you are having the...You must be logged on to view this page error, you might try turning globals = on in php.ini but otherwise what error do you get when you try to logon? Problem was the imap-uw from ports didn't allow plain text logins no matter what I tried. I built it from source myself, works fine. Set one of the following when building the port: WITHOUT_SSL WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT Worked for me (the latter option) about a week ago. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Portable MP3 player integration with FreeBSD?
Hi all - I'd like to get my wife a portable mp3 player, but it seems like they all require Windows and special software... and I'd rather not have a windows box just so she can copy mp3s... I noticed the urio driver, but it's only for a couple of players (not the SONICblue Rio S35S which is the one I like best at this point). So two questions: - What portable mp3 players are you using that work well with FreeBSD (beyond what's in the urio man page)? - Are any of you using mp3 players that just use a standard compactflash card that I can just copy files onto using existing USB umass stuff? (I'm having zero luck finding info about this). Thanks! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Does spamd use Razor?
Spamd might not be running as root so it may not have write access to /var/log/razor-agent.log. Indeed, I have spamd running as the special, unprivileged user spamd. But you were right: spamd did not have access to /var/log/razor-agent.log. I could have sworn that I had done a chown spamd:spamd /var/log/razor-agent.log on it. But when I checked it again, it was owned by root:wheel. I must be going senile. :) Maybe newsyslog (/etc/newsyslog.conf) is changing it when it rotates the file? -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: building a VPN with FreeBSD 4.7p3
http://stuff.adhesivemedia.com/freebsd/vtund.php is what I use... also check onlamp.com for one of dru's articles about ipsec. On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: Hi everybody, Does anyone know where i can find some good documentation on building a VPN between 2 systems running FreeBSD 4.7p3 ? Thanks in advance, Marcel -- It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair. -- George Burns 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: FBSD firewall in front of windows IIS servers HOW
You could do natd it or use a bridged firewall so to everyone else it would appear that the Windows box is on the net. The other nice thing about the bridge is that you can set it up so that it doesn't have an IP address at all... which makes it pretty hard to break into :) Sometimes that can get around some of the issues with self-referencing urls (whether they are private or public) that happens with natd and proxy servers... On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Peter wrote: Hello, Just wondering what would be the best way to do this... INTERNETFBSD FIREWALLWINDOWS IIS SERVER Basically what would be the best way to have freebsd accept incoming connections, run them thru the firewall, and all the packets that pass forward them to internal windows machines. I dont' want the windows boxen directly on the net, I want to put a FBSD firewall in front of them, and so far the best option I've found on how to do this is to have the windows boxen be 192.168.x.x and have the fbsd boxen forward all connections to public_ip to the windows box via natd. Does this seem like a good plan? Or anyone know of another better way to do this? -- Innovation is hard to schedule. -- Dan Fylstra ---FreeBSD The Power To Serve--- 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: Samba and XP?
If you don't want to install samba, find a windows ftp client that is easy to use... seems I've seen some that pretend to be hard drives on your desktop... can't remember the name, but the friend that had it seemed to like it. -philip On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Wilson wrote: Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does. My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host. The downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :) Are there any other alternatives available here? If not, which of the above two 'solutions' would be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP machine. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. - John 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: Make Apache case incensitive
you might try the mod_speling module... On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jonas Fornander wrote: Is it possible to make apache case-insensitive so an image called myimage.JPG will be found even if the link is MyImage.jpg? Jonas Fornander - System Administrator Netwood Communications, LLC - www.netwood.net Find out why we're better - 310-442-1530 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
Need helping lengthening timeouts for sendmail...
Hi all - Two weeks ago nwlink.com upgraded it's mail servers. Ever since that time I can not email anyone whose email is handled by those servers. What's even more frustrating is that my home server, same setup, same DSL (through nwlink.com even), but on a different subnet cause it's in a different city, has no problems whatsoever. The messages I get back from processing the queue manually with a lot of debugging are: Running /var/spool/mqueue/h0THo5Sc018988 (sequence 2 of 11) dowork(/var/spool/mqueue/h0THo5Sc018988) [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx1.pacifier.net. via esmtp... [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx3.pacifier.net. via esmtp... [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx2.pacifier.net. via esmtp... [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx4.pacifier.net. via esmtp... If I telnet to those IP's above on port 25, it does take about 60-90 seconds to connect, but it does connect. I've fiddled with the various Timeout paramaters in my sendmail.cf and submit.cf, but without any luck. I'm running sendmail 8.12.3 on FreeBSD 4.5-stable. I've gone round and round with them (for two weeks now) and they agree there's something wrong, and are now looking into their network issues, but in the meantime, I need help getting mail to send? So... is there anyway to get sendmail to just wait and wait and wait for that connection to appear? Or is there an easy way to tell it that intead of trying mx#.pacifier.net to use smtp.nwlink.com instead? Thanks folks... this is driving me nuts. -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Need helping lengthening timeouts for sendmail...
I found a temporary hack that solves my most immediate problem of sending mail to @nwlink.com addresses by adding the following to /etc/mail/mailertable nwlink.com smtp:[smtp.nwlink.com] Of course any other domains hosted at nwlink.com still fail, but this will get me by till they fix it. What would be really cool is if I could add: mx:mx1.pacifier.net smtp:[smtp.nwlink.com] and have it redirect all mail that would have gone to mx1.pacifier.net to smtp.nwlink.com :-) -philip On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - Two weeks ago nwlink.com upgraded it's mail servers. Ever since that time I can not email anyone whose email is handled by those servers. What's even more frustrating is that my home server, same setup, same DSL (through nwlink.com even), but on a different subnet cause it's in a different city, has no problems whatsoever. The messages I get back from processing the queue manually with a lot of debugging are: Running /var/spool/mqueue/h0THo5Sc018988 (sequence 2 of 11) dowork(/var/spool/mqueue/h0THo5Sc018988) [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx1.pacifier.net. via esmtp... [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx3.pacifier.net. via esmtp... [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx2.pacifier.net. via esmtp... [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Connecting to mx4.pacifier.net. via esmtp... If I telnet to those IP's above on port 25, it does take about 60-90 seconds to connect, but it does connect. I've fiddled with the various Timeout paramaters in my sendmail.cf and submit.cf, but without any luck. I'm running sendmail 8.12.3 on FreeBSD 4.5-stable. I've gone round and round with them (for two weeks now) and they agree there's something wrong, and are now looking into their network issues, but in the meantime, I need help getting mail to send? So... is there anyway to get sendmail to just wait and wait and wait for that connection to appear? Or is there an easy way to tell it that intead of trying mx#.pacifier.net to use smtp.nwlink.com instead? Thanks folks... this is driving me nuts. -philip 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: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog messagewrt inodes)
(skip down) On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: David Bear wrote: I'm getting messages like below that I'm out of inodes on /var. asu.edu kernel log messages: id 25 on /var: out of inodes syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/cron: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/cron: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/cron: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/cron: No such file or directory Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a128990 37232 8144031%1316 149388% / /dev/ad0s1f257998 4 237356 0% 2 325080% /tmp /dev/ad0s1g 2341102 508366 164544824% 37711 256175 13% /usr /dev/ad0s1e257998 25572 21178811%8298 24212 26% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% 255075% /proc Last week my var volume did run out of inodes. I erase some snort logs to free up the inodes. But it appears the kernel or syslogd doesn't know about it. any pointers on letting the kernel know I have enough inodes? Let's see if I remember the details on this. I believe this happens when a file is deleted, but another program still holds a filehandle? to it. Thus, if you delete Apache's log file (for example) but don't restart Apache, the space the logfile is using isn't truely freed. (This is why newsyslog.conf has a column for the PID of a process to restart). So ... if you know which process had the files open, restart it (probably by sending it a -HUP). If you don't know, you can probably cheat and just reboot the machine, but that shouldn't be necessary. lsof can tell you what files are open... and includes the process/pids that have it open. -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: chown and chmod using crontab?
Try using the full paths... /bin/chmod and /usr/sbin/chown On 27 Jan 2003, Jon Reynolds wrote: I have a directory that 2 different groups have access to. When one group writes to the folder it retains the permissions of that group. I need the permissions to change to the permissions of the directory. I thought I could add a crontab in and run a little script every 1 minute to set the correct permissions. The script does what it should when ran by the cmdline but not when I try to run it from the crontab. Is it not possible to run chmod and chown on a folder by using a crontab? The entry into my /etc/crontab file looks like this: 0 * * * root/bin/fixperms My fixperms file looks like this: #!/bin/sh chmod -R 777 /usr/local/ServerFiles chown -R staff /usr/local/ServerFiles Am I doing this right? Jon 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: ZIP Drive
Read... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/x86.html On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Schrodinger wrote: I'm looking for help with mounting a zip drive under FreeBSD. I have Googled around on this but haven't found anyone with the same problem or even better a solution. I leave the ZIP disk in the drive before booting the kernel like all the help files say and it picks it up: da0 at vpo0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 da0: IOMEGA ZIP 100 J.03 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 96C) But when I try to mount it: mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt it gives me : msdos: /dev/da0: Invalid argument Why does this keep happening?? What am I doing wrong? -- It takes two to lie Marge, one to lie and one to listen. PGP Public Key: http://konundrum.org/schrodinger.asc 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
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:11PM -0600, Dave Uhring said: You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes at something like 492 days. from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos -- Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days, exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at that precise point. Thus it is not possible to see a HP-UX, Linux or Solaris system with an uptime measurement above 497 days. -- It's been years since I've used solaris, but if this is really the case then how come there's this entry: 26 www.cravath.com 102 ok892 939 940 Solaris 8 Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 That's certainly more than 492 days... so even if they do reboot, netcraft is ignoring it or accomodating it seems like. -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
