Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches
Hi Damien (I'm sorry for delay) Thanks for your comments (specially for the tips / experience with your -STABLE boxes) Regards, Pablo Carboni. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: However minor the issue seems, I think it warrants a PR, if at least so the entry is added for the next revision of 8.4-RELEASE. Regarding -STABLE, while I respect your decision to be conservative and run -RELEASE, I'd like to point out we've not run into any problem here, in over 3 years with ~40 firewall boxes. On 4 September 2013 17:48, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Damien, I use to install and update 'Releng' releases (plus patches, but not stable releases) in our production servers (Ok, I agree stable is fine, but my main reason is to be conservative under some circunstances). (BTW, You're right, on 8-STABLE branch, it appears the 'missing' line I was looking for) Just as a last comment, I've found this 'normal line' on stable branch (but not on release/releng): http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=log Revision *251500*http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisionrevision=251500 - (viewhttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500view=markup) (downloadhttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500view=co) (annotatehttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?annotate=251500) - [select for diffs]http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=logr1=251500log_pagestart=0 Modified *Fri Jun 7 15:52:33 2013 UTC* (2 months, 4 weeks ago) by * pluknet* File length: 74494 byte(s) Diff to previous 251026http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?r1=251026r2=251500 Add the entry for 8.4-RELEASE. (I think it should be added by someone to 8.4 releng branch). If this is the case, shouldn't be sent this 'missing entry' to anyone by the means of 'PR' ? Thank you very much for your patience :) Regards, Pablo. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Note that, as opposed to you, I'm tracking 8-STABLE and not 8.4-RELEASE ! UPDATING: $FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.632.2.39 2013/08/23 15:21:39 svnexp Exp $ newvers.sh: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.83.2.25 2013/08/07 08:26:07 svnexp Exp $ I'll check our clusters of firewalls to see if I've got any 8.4-RELEASE box lying around, but don't hold your breath, we almost universally track 8-STABLE... On 4 September 2013 00:49, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Damien, (First at all, thanks for your response). I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but(just in case) I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and: (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3) -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 74967 Sep 3 12:11 /usr/src/UPDATING The 'grepped' lines, shows me: 8.3-RELEASE [...] 8.0-RELEASE (But 8.4 still doesn't appear). (However, while grepping first lines in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh shows me: # $FreeBSD: releng/8.4/sys/conf/newvers.sh 254632 2013-08-22 00:51:56Z delphij $ TYPE=FreeBSD REVISION=8.4 BRANCH=RELEASE-p3 (Same svn id for UPDATING/newvers.sh). Any clues? (What's your svn $Id for UPDATING? - I mean, the whole line, the last) Thanks a lot! Regards, Pablo Carboni. P.S.: The same happens for svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING. http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING (Maybe I'm afraid for local syncing problems on my fbsd server) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revision=251259view=markup (RELEASE branch) nor http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING?view=markuppathrev=254632 (RELENG branch, currently last revision). (This 'little detail' includes sources for 8.4-RELEASE and branch 8.4-RELEASE-p3, which I've downloaded recently). A quick dirty search I've did on a 8.4-RELEASE-p3 box: grep 8\..*-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING (There is no reference for '8.4') Thanks in advance! Regards, Pablo Carboni ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
Re: question
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:41:31 +0200, Pawel Sulewski wrote: How to recognize kernel panic and dump memory state onto USB device using C language? The kernel has its own crash handling and will initiate the writing of the proper image automatically. It will be stored on the partition designated by the /etc/rc.conf setting dumpdev=device, usually a swap partition, and at next boot time that image will be written to a file in /var/crash, if nothing else has been defined with dumpdir=directory (same file; see man rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf for details). If you want to coredump to a USB device, you need to configure this accordingly. You can find more information about this topic in the following manual pages: man 2 sigaction, man 8 crash, and man 5 core. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 21:30:29 +0800 (SGT), Patrick Dung wrote: I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. Actually what do those numbers mean? Those numbers show you how many buffers have to be synced until the system is ready to finally shut down and power off. This makes sure no pending hard disk operations will be left and forgotten in memory. The important text displayed prior to the numbers is: Syncing disks, buffers remaining... You can find it here: /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c around line 330 (8-STABLE/i386 here). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync
Thanks for the answer. That is cool and unique. From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Patrick Dung patrick_...@yahoo.com.hk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 9:42 PM Subject: Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 21:30:29 +0800 (SGT), Patrick Dung wrote: I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. Actually what do those numbers mean? Those numbers show you how many buffers have to be synced until the system is ready to finally shut down and power off. This makes sure no pending hard disk operations will be left and forgotten in memory. The important text displayed prior to the numbers is: Syncing disks, buffers remaining... You can find it here: /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c around line 330 (8-STABLE/i386 here). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches
Note that, as opposed to you, I'm tracking 8-STABLE and not 8.4-RELEASE ! UPDATING: $FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.632.2.39 2013/08/23 15:21:39 svnexp Exp $ newvers.sh: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.83.2.25 2013/08/07 08:26:07 svnexp Exp $ I'll check our clusters of firewalls to see if I've got any 8.4-RELEASE box lying around, but don't hold your breath, we almost universally track 8-STABLE... On 4 September 2013 00:49, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Damien, (First at all, thanks for your response). I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but(just in case) I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and: (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3) -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 74967 Sep 3 12:11 /usr/src/UPDATING The 'grepped' lines, shows me: 8.3-RELEASE [...] 8.0-RELEASE (But 8.4 still doesn't appear). (However, while grepping first lines in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh shows me: # $FreeBSD: releng/8.4/sys/conf/newvers.sh 254632 2013-08-22 00:51:56Z delphij $ TYPE=FreeBSD REVISION=8.4 BRANCH=RELEASE-p3 (Same svn id for UPDATING/newvers.sh). Any clues? (What's your svn $Id for UPDATING? - I mean, the whole line, the last) Thanks a lot! Regards, Pablo Carboni. P.S.: The same happens for svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING. http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING (Maybe I'm afraid for local syncing problems on my fbsd server) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revision=251259view=markup (RELEASE branch) nor http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING?view=markuppathrev=254632 (RELENG branch, currently last revision). (This 'little detail' includes sources for 8.4-RELEASE and branch 8.4-RELEASE-p3, which I've downloaded recently). A quick dirty search I've did on a 8.4-RELEASE-p3 box: grep 8\..*-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING (There is no reference for '8.4') Thanks in advance! Regards, Pablo Carboni ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches
Dear Damien, I use to install and update 'Releng' releases (plus patches, but not stable releases) in our production servers (Ok, I agree stable is fine, but my main reason is to be conservative under some circunstances). (BTW, You're right, on 8-STABLE branch, it appears the 'missing' line I was looking for) Just as a last comment, I've found this 'normal line' on stable branch (but not on release/releng): http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=log Revision *251500*http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisionrevision=251500 - (viewhttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500view=markup) (downloadhttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500view=co) (annotate http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?annotate=251500) - [select for diffs]http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=logr1=251500log_pagestart=0 Modified *Fri Jun 7 15:52:33 2013 UTC* (2 months, 4 weeks ago) by *pluknet* File length: 74494 byte(s) Diff to previous 251026http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?r1=251026r2=251500 Add the entry for 8.4-RELEASE. (I think it should be added by someone to 8.4 releng branch). If this is the case, shouldn't be sent this 'missing entry' to anyone by the means of 'PR' ? Thank you very much for your patience :) Regards, Pablo. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Note that, as opposed to you, I'm tracking 8-STABLE and not 8.4-RELEASE ! UPDATING: $FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.632.2.39 2013/08/23 15:21:39 svnexp Exp $ newvers.sh: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.83.2.25 2013/08/07 08:26:07 svnexp Exp $ I'll check our clusters of firewalls to see if I've got any 8.4-RELEASE box lying around, but don't hold your breath, we almost universally track 8-STABLE... On 4 September 2013 00:49, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Damien, (First at all, thanks for your response). I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but(just in case) I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and: (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3) -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 74967 Sep 3 12:11 /usr/src/UPDATING The 'grepped' lines, shows me: 8.3-RELEASE [...] 8.0-RELEASE (But 8.4 still doesn't appear). (However, while grepping first lines in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh shows me: # $FreeBSD: releng/8.4/sys/conf/newvers.sh 254632 2013-08-22 00:51:56Z delphij $ TYPE=FreeBSD REVISION=8.4 BRANCH=RELEASE-p3 (Same svn id for UPDATING/newvers.sh). Any clues? (What's your svn $Id for UPDATING? - I mean, the whole line, the last) Thanks a lot! Regards, Pablo Carboni. P.S.: The same happens for svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING. http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING (Maybe I'm afraid for local syncing problems on my fbsd server) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revision=251259view=markup (RELEASE branch) nor http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING?view=markuppathrev=254632 (RELENG branch, currently last revision). (This 'little detail' includes sources for 8.4-RELEASE and branch 8.4-RELEASE-p3, which I've downloaded recently). A quick dirty search I've did on a 8.4-RELEASE-p3 box: grep 8\..*-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING (There is no reference for '8.4') Thanks in advance! Regards, Pablo Carboni ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches
However minor the issue seems, I think it warrants a PR, if at least so the entry is added for the next revision of 8.4-RELEASE. Regarding -STABLE, while I respect your decision to be conservative and run -RELEASE, I'd like to point out we've not run into any problem here, in over 3 years with ~40 firewall boxes. On 4 September 2013 17:48, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Damien, I use to install and update 'Releng' releases (plus patches, but not stable releases) in our production servers (Ok, I agree stable is fine, but my main reason is to be conservative under some circunstances). (BTW, You're right, on 8-STABLE branch, it appears the 'missing' line I was looking for) Just as a last comment, I've found this 'normal line' on stable branch (but not on release/releng): http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=log Revision *251500*http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revisionrevision=251500 - (viewhttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500view=markup) (downloadhttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500view=co) (annotatehttp://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?annotate=251500) - [select for diffs]http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=logr1=251500log_pagestart=0 Modified *Fri Jun 7 15:52:33 2013 UTC* (2 months, 4 weeks ago) by *pluknet * File length: 74494 byte(s) Diff to previous 251026http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?r1=251026r2=251500 Add the entry for 8.4-RELEASE. (I think it should be added by someone to 8.4 releng branch). If this is the case, shouldn't be sent this 'missing entry' to anyone by the means of 'PR' ? Thank you very much for your patience :) Regards, Pablo. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Note that, as opposed to you, I'm tracking 8-STABLE and not 8.4-RELEASE ! UPDATING: $FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.632.2.39 2013/08/23 15:21:39 svnexp Exp $ newvers.sh: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.83.2.25 2013/08/07 08:26:07 svnexp Exp $ I'll check our clusters of firewalls to see if I've got any 8.4-RELEASE box lying around, but don't hold your breath, we almost universally track 8-STABLE... On 4 September 2013 00:49, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Damien, (First at all, thanks for your response). I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but(just in case) I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and: (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3) -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 74967 Sep 3 12:11 /usr/src/UPDATING The 'grepped' lines, shows me: 8.3-RELEASE [...] 8.0-RELEASE (But 8.4 still doesn't appear). (However, while grepping first lines in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh shows me: # $FreeBSD: releng/8.4/sys/conf/newvers.sh 254632 2013-08-22 00:51:56Z delphij $ TYPE=FreeBSD REVISION=8.4 BRANCH=RELEASE-p3 (Same svn id for UPDATING/newvers.sh). Any clues? (What's your svn $Id for UPDATING? - I mean, the whole line, the last) Thanks a lot! Regards, Pablo Carboni. P.S.: The same happens for svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING. http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING (Maybe I'm afraid for local syncing problems on my fbsd server) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revision=251259view=markup (RELEASE branch) nor http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING?view=markuppathrev=254632 (RELENG branch, currently last revision). (This 'little detail' includes sources for 8.4-RELEASE and branch 8.4-RELEASE-p3, which I've downloaded recently). A quick dirty search I've did on a 8.4-RELEASE-p3 box: grep 8\..*-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING (There is no reference for '8.4') Thanks in advance! Regards, Pablo Carboni ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches
From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revision=251259view=markup (RELEASE branch) nor http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING?view=markuppathrev=254632 (RELENG branch, currently last revision). (This 'little detail' includes sources for 8.4-RELEASE and branch 8.4-RELEASE-p3, which I've downloaded recently). A quick dirty search I've did on a 8.4-RELEASE-p3 box: grep 8\..*-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING (There is no reference for '8.4') Thanks in advance! Regards, Pablo Carboni ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches
Hello Damien, (First at all, thanks for your response). I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but(just in case) I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and: (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3) -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 74967 Sep 3 12:11 /usr/src/UPDATING The 'grepped' lines, shows me: 8.3-RELEASE [...] 8.0-RELEASE (But 8.4 still doesn't appear). (However, while grepping first lines in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh shows me: # $FreeBSD: releng/8.4/sys/conf/newvers.sh 254632 2013-08-22 00:51:56Z delphij $ TYPE=FreeBSD REVISION=8.4 BRANCH=RELEASE-p3 (Same svn id for UPDATING/newvers.sh). Any clues? (What's your svn $Id for UPDATING? - I mean, the whole line, the last) Thanks a lot! Regards, Pablo Carboni. P.S.: The same happens for svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING. http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING (Maybe I'm afraid for local syncing problems on my fbsd server) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revision=251259view=markup (RELEASE branch) nor http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING?view=markuppathrev=254632 (RELENG branch, currently last revision). (This 'little detail' includes sources for 8.4-RELEASE and branch 8.4-RELEASE-p3, which I've downloaded recently). A quick dirty search I've did on a 8.4-RELEASE-p3 box: grep 8\..*-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING (There is no reference for '8.4') Thanks in advance! Regards, Pablo Carboni ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question, following error Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by fortune
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:48:38 -0400, Rev Herbert Miller wrote: I was trying to use the content management system for our website. I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know if this is something I can fix. In worst case, notify your system administrator. Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by fortune This kind of error often indicates an incomplete system update were libraries are out of date or missing. What way of system update has been performed? root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # bin/startup.sh Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program That can be a side effect, maybe some accidentally overwritten configuration file or a program that's unable to run due to a missing dependency? What happens if you manually define those variables to the proper valies and try again, e. g. # setenv JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/where your JAVA stuff is # setenv JRE_HOME=/usr/local/where your runtime lives # bin/startup,sh Does this produce a different result? root@psumc:/usr/local/tomcat5.5 # su -c 'killall -9 java' That command doesn't make sense. The prompt indicates that you are already root. The -c parameter for the su command is missing an argument, the class. See man su for details, no programming knowledge required. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on manpages/hier(7)
In the last episode (May 09), Paul Beard said: Where should site-specific, ie local, man pages live? For instance, I have: /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3597 May 6 00:38 /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3383 Dec 20 19:54 /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz My understanding is that the older one is in the right place. The newer one is registered as belonging to php5.4-14 while the old one is orphaned. I don't have a /usr/local/share/man/ directory at all, and have 7300 files in /usr/local/man/man?/ , so I'd say /usr/local/man/ is the correct location :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on manpages/hier(7)
On May 9, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: I don't have a /usr/local/share/man/ directory at all, and have 7300 files in /usr/local/man/man?/ , so I'd say /usr/local/man/ is the correct location :) I wish it were that simple here. /etc/manpath.config is unmodified so I have no idea how this is getting all futzed up. I am finding files in /usr/local/share/man/man1 that were updated yesterday with others dating back to 2007. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question installing 9.1
On Mon, 6 May 2013, doug wrote: I installed 9.1-release amd 64 from the DVD. I intended to leave the obligatory windows 7. I shrunk the primary windows partition and installed FreeBSD. I never got an option to install the multi-partition boot record. Rather the install overwrote the MBR with a boot record to boot FreeBSD. While I appreciate the irony is there a way to make that option appear or is the only solution to rewrite it after the fact? boot0cfg -B /dev/ada0 (ada or what ever your disk dev is) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:52:05 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the vice versa - tell make to link to the shared version, not the static one. To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org This can be done by addressing the linker through $LDFLAGS. I think man ld will be helpful. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library
On 16/12/2012 17:22, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the vice versa - tell make to link to the shared version, not the static one. Add -static to the ld command line to produce a staticly linked binary: this forbids ld(1) from doing any dynamic linking. Otherwise ld will default to dynamic linking, but fall back to linking staticly against libraries where there isn't a dynamic shared object available. Actually, there are about 4 different linker flags you could use that mean 'produce a staticly linked binary.' They don't have any different effect; the reason they exist is for historic compatibility with versions of ld(1) from many different sources. It's also an all-or-nothing option. If you wanted to use static linkage for one particular library out of all the libraries used by your program, then you'ld need a very different command line. But that, as they say, is left as an exercise for the student. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library
On 16-Dec-12 23:12, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/12/2012 17:22, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the vice versa - tell make to link to the shared version, not the static one. Add -static to the ld command line to produce a staticly linked binary: this forbids ld(1) from doing any dynamic linking. Otherwise ld will default to dynamic linking, but fall back to linking staticly against libraries where there isn't a dynamic shared object available. Actually, there are about 4 different linker flags you could use that mean 'produce a staticly linked binary.' They don't have any different effect; the reason they exist is for historic compatibility with versions of ld(1) from many different sources. It's also an all-or-nothing option. If you wanted to use static linkage for one particular library out of all the libraries used by your program, then you'ld need a very different command line. But that, as they say, is left as an exercise for the student. Cheers, Matthew Thanks Matthew. That saved me a lot of time, and the man page for ld (as suggested by Polytropon) is not as informative on this particular subject as your response. -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:47:06 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Rats:: xvidtune gave me Video modes are not settable on this chip. how cheap can you get? no, the question is: what chip/video card do I need that will get me [at least] 1920x1280? Unless you wish to get the the KMS stuff working like Warren Block suggested, I strongly advise getting a Nvidia card as of currently that is the easiest and most reliable way to get good 3D under FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:05:50AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 10/12/2012 00:31, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:38:06AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? Do you have a DVI connector on your current graphics card, or just the old style VGA connector? Pretty much all modern widescreen monitors will have a DVI connector as well as the legacy VGA. actually, I have both. the KVM dates from 2010 and came with four cables and eight plugs. Ahah! You're using a KVM switch. That can block the monitor from sending its configuration information to the X server. It's easy to tell: just try connecting directly to the monitor temporarily. If that works, you can use xrandr to extract the monitor details, write a mode line for your xorg.conf and put the KVM back in the loop, while keeping the optimum configuration. Cheers, Matthew the thing is that I had this working before--twice--one running Gnnome, once KDE and both thru theKVM switch. the last time I re-reinstalled from a DVD [gnome], the kde from a CD: nojoy. gary PS I managed to get both ssh's [bi-directionally] within a few hours. ive run every diagnostic I can think of. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:26:43AM -0600, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:47:06 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Rats:: xvidtune gave me Video modes are not settable on this chip. how cheap can you get? no, the question is: what chip/video card do I need that will get me [at least] 1920x1280? Unless you wish to get the the KMS stuff working like Warren Block suggested, I strongly advise getting a Nvidia card as of currently that is the easiest and most reliable way to get good 3D under FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org thanks; I will check into this! ... . -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? Do you have a DVI connector on your current graphics card, or just the old style VGA connector? Pretty much all modern widescreen monitors will have a DVI connector as well as the legacy VGA. If you don't know what those are, see this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DVI_Connector_Types.svg Most DVI monitor cables have a DVI-D dual link plug on them, but anything matching those patterns is proof positive of DVI. VGA connectors looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vga-cable.jpg Anyhow, the point is if you're using a DVI connector, X will be able to query the monitor and find out its preferred resolution etc. automatically. Whereas with a VGA connector, it will default to using one of the standard VGA series of resolutions. All monitors will support some sort of VGA resolution for backwards compatibility -- typically 1024x768@60Hz -- and many will support higher, but all of the VGA series resolutions are 4:3 aspect ratio which doesn't look very nice on a widescreen monitor. There's two ways to fix the problem. 1) Get a video card with a DVI connector, or at least a DVI-to-DVI monitor cable if your card already has that. Apart from the hassle of getting a new video card that will work happily with X, this should be pretty painfree. 2) Edit your Xorg.conf to add a custom mode that matches what your monitor expects. Back in the days of CRTs this was a potentially risky thing to do, as configuring the video mode wrongly could phsically damage your monitor. Modern flatscreens however will just put up a message saying the input is incompatible. Working out what the right parameters are to put in the mode definition is the tricky bit. You may be able to use xrandr to pull them out (but if xrandr could do it, then X would do it automatically too...) There should be documentation that comes with the monitor, or you may find a kind soul online with the same make and model of monitor who will send you some xrandr output. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DVI_Connector_Types.svg Most DVI monitor cables have a DVI-D dual link plug on them, but anything matching those patterns is proof positive of DVI. VGA connectors looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vga-cable.jpg Anyhow, the point is if you're using a DVI connector, X will be able to query the monitor and find out its preferred resolution etc. automatically. Whereas with a VGA connector, it will default to using one of the standard VGA series of resolutions. Actually, DDC works on VGA connectors also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel These limited resolutions are almost certainly due to the KMS Intel driver being needed but the system not being built to support it. So the vesa driver is loaded instead, offering only a few legacy resolutions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 05:24:27AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:23:31 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? There are two factors involved: The question of video memory is usually selectable in the CMOS setup of the BIOS. Defaults will allocate several (and sufficient) MB for common resolutions. However, this is a usually automated process that does not involve user action. It should just work(TM)(R)(C). :-) Holy Crud =no=. the 3010 has that screwy bootloader UEIF [?] that took me 79 years to get past that. the box just-boot. but not into widescreen. actually, I have two optiplix models; the older is a Dell dual and works at widescreen. I dont know why or how. The question of the support for the current display is handled by the GPU driver (usually brought by X itself or an additional package, like for nVidia drivers). You can easily obtain what resolution your display _natively_ has (in case it's a LCD, which I assume), and the driver should automatically initialize the display for _that_ display size (because physically, there is only that one, in contrast to CRTs that can support different display characteristics). you lost me. how can I easily obtain the resolution? FWIW:: im using my KDE switch ... ssh works going out; I get no route to host going back from this dell dual to tao my new quad. I have been trying for around three hours to get ssh working bidirectionally. nutshell, there is no way I can get Perry's or your xorg.con file onto tao wwithout a shit*oad of typing. censored In case it does _not_ work automatically, you can always setup things using xorg.conf (which you normally do _not_ need). For example, Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 24 Visual TrueColor Modes 1920x1280 EndSubSection EndSection would require 1920x1280 to be initialized regardless of what the integrated magician might think. For dynamic testing, you can use the xrandr command. Issue those commands from an X terminal: xrandr --fb 1920x1280 xrandr --size 1920x1280 HMMM. I Just buttoned over: the --size says that the 1920x1280 isnt found in the modes. I'll use locate and see where the heck that configuration file is. ...WEll, the xorg.conf is only three lines long. it's in the usual place, /etc/X11 . and there are a bunch of related files in /usr/share/X11/* without a Mode line anywhere. You can use xvidtune (usually _not_ used for LCDs, only for CRTs and tuning) to verify. In worst case, put those two commands in your X initialization file (usually ~/.xinitrc, sometimes ~/.xsession, if not cascaded). It's a dirty hack, but it should work. :-) everything in my to-be desktop is standard. so is KDE and Gnome. I'll see in xvidtune is there. thanks for the help. gary -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 07:21:17PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 ... Probably 1280x1024 -- a common size before widescreen. The largest commonly seen back then was 1600x1200. ... whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. Probably 1920x1200. see enclose snapshot. I was right. nonetheless, howi get that here on my old deall dual and do not on my dell quad is the mystery. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? Dunno about currently-supported versions, nor your particular display hardware, but 1920x1200 works for me on an ancient Dell Optiplex GX1 with ATI Mach64 under 6.1. Maybe something in the (attached) conf and/or log will help. I'll check, thanks. I had linux as my desktop --and the worst of the bunch, IMO, fedora. have to use locate to find the Xorg stuff. /* I wonder if the 1900 line isn't there and commented ... hmm. */ Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/psm0 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 520 320 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName IQT ModelNameHDIT24W DSUB ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync31.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 59.0 - 76.0 # Modelines that actually worked on the BTC LM-1702, for reference. The first is known # to also work on the IQT (Hyundai) HDIT24W, but it is stretched in the X dimension. # Modeline 1280x1024 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1024x76865.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # Modeline 800x60040.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 640x48025.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync # Modeline reported as working (via DVI) on a 24 Eizo FlexScan: # Modeline 1920x1200 162.00 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 +HSync -Vsync # Modelines implied by Xorg.0.log, but not reported by autoconf, for # the HDIT24W (aka IQT 9001, IQT = ImageQuest, www.imagequest.co.kr) #+W = wider aspect ratio than (HDIT24W native) 1920x1200 Modeline 1920x1200 154.128 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 +hsync +vsync #+W Modeline 1920x1080 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 # Widescreen resolutions claimed as supported in Xorg.0.log, but no details given: # Modeline 1680x1050 # Modeline 1440x900 #+W Modeline 720x400 # Other widescreen resolutions of the same aspect ratio as 1920x1200: # Modeline 1600x1000 # Modeline 1280x800 # Modeline 1229x768 # Modeline 960x600 # Modeline 720x450 # Modeline 640x400 # Modelines reported by autoconf for the HDIT24W -- these are not widescreen: # Modeline 1792x1344 204.80 1792 1920 2120 2448 1344 1345 1348 1394 -hsync +vsync # Modeline 1600x1200 175.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1600x1200 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1400x1050 155.80 1400 1464 1784 1912 1050 1052 1064 1090 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1400x1050 122.00 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1052 1064 1082 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1280x1024 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1280x1024 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1280x960 108.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1152x864 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1024x768
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:38:06AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? Do you have a DVI connector on your current graphics card, or just the old style VGA connector? Pretty much all modern widescreen monitors will have a DVI connector as well as the legacy VGA. actually, I have both. the KVM dates from 2010 and came with four cables and eight plugs. If you don't know what those are, see this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DVI_Connector_Types.svg Most DVI monitor cables have a DVI-D dual link plug on them, but anything matching those patterns is proof positive of DVI. VGA connectors looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vga-cable.jpg Anyhow, the point is if you're using a DVI connector, X will be able to query the monitor and find out its preferred resolution etc. automatically. Whereas with a VGA connector, it will default to using one of the standard VGA series of resolutions. All monitors will support some sort of VGA resolution for backwards compatibility -- typically 1024x768@60Hz -- and many will support higher, but all of the VGA series resolutions are 4:3 aspect ratio which doesn't look very nice on a widescreen monitor. There's two ways to fix the problem. 1) Get a video card with a DVI connector, or at least a DVI-to-DVI monitor cable if your card already has that. Apart from the hassle of getting a new video card that will work happily with X, this should be pretty painfree. 2) Edit your Xorg.conf to add a custom mode that matches what your monitor expects. Back in the days of CRTs this was a potentially risky thing to do, as configuring the video mode wrongly could phsically damage your monitor. Modern flatscreens however will just put up a message saying the input is incompatible. Working out what the right parameters are to put in the mode definition is the tricky bit. You may be able to use xrandr to pull them out (but if xrandr could do it, then X would do it automatically too...) There should be documentation that comes with the monitor, or you may find a kind soul online with the same make and model of monitor who will send you some xrandr output. here's the Whole story. last summer I dedided to switch to all linux`in order to make upgrades simple[r]. since my brother engineer [a retired ME] was too ill to help i hired a technician. my old-tao (a homebrew AMD quad-CPU) had a broken USB. this was how I realized that the USB was broken. with a new KVM the home-brew still failed. I could ssh to- from, but not watch it boot. So I finally decided it was time to buys another Dell, new. somebody gave me a used Dell dual. my server is a new dual from '09. used and refurb'd and home-brew is not the optimal way. so my tech said he would look for the best Dell quad he could find, and after 6 weeeks he brought over the 3010. [fact: this chap is self-taught. but he got me a new kvm and blindly pluged things together.]] whether the 3010 has ye-olden VGA jack =plus= the DVI, I dont know. my guess is that the technician knows the diff. nutshell, looks like whatever ghaphic chipset the computer had maxes out a 5:4 screen-size ratio. I =will= try adding the mode line info. thanks, gary Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 17:00:17 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:08:38AM +, james wrote: Are you sure you mean 1920x1280??? I mean: 1280*800, or 1920*1200, those are more normal. (My older portables have the former, my Dell 24 has the latter) I can believe 1920x1280 might cause problems. I sent a screen shot, snapshot7.png. ill resend with this mail. Both the content and the dimensions of the screenshot say it's 1920x1080. If the phsyical display has a different size (measured in pixels), it should communicate that fact to X, and as long as X loads the proper driver (maybe the Intel GPU driver? - has to match what's installed on your mainboard or in your machine!) the correct screen size should be initialized, at least _for_ X. Note that problems might occur _prior_ to X due to KMS (kernel mode switching) which can happen to have less good support. Also from the content of the screenshot, it's visible that the display is connected via VGA. That's sub-optimum. If possible, connect per DVI cable, so it stays all digital all the time. Even though both VGA and DVI have a data channel to transmit data (like monitor pixel size) to the GPU, DVI seems to be the preferred solution for flatpanels, especially wide ones. 1920x1080 is already widescreen. Does it match the size description of the physical monitor, or should it be something different? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On 10/12/2012 00:31, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:38:06AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? Do you have a DVI connector on your current graphics card, or just the old style VGA connector? Pretty much all modern widescreen monitors will have a DVI connector as well as the legacy VGA. actually, I have both. the KVM dates from 2010 and came with four cables and eight plugs. Ahah! You're using a KVM switch. That can block the monitor from sending its configuration information to the X server. It's easy to tell: just try connecting directly to the monitor temporarily. If that works, you can use xrandr to extract the monitor details, write a mode line for your xorg.conf and put the KVM back in the loop, while keeping the optimum configuration. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:23:31 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? There are two factors involved: The question of video memory is usually selectable in the CMOS setup of the BIOS. Defaults will allocate several (and sufficient) MB for common resolutions. However, this is a usually automated process that does not involve user action. It should just work(TM)(R)(C). :-) The question of the support for the current display is handled by the GPU driver (usually brought by X itself or an additional package, like for nVidia drivers). You can easily obtain what resolution your display _natively_ has (in case it's a LCD, which I assume), and the driver should automatically initialize the display for _that_ display size (because physically, there is only that one, in contrast to CRTs that can support different display characteristics). In case it does _not_ work automatically, you can always setup things using xorg.conf (which you normally do _not_ need). For example, Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 24 Visual TrueColor Modes 1920x1280 EndSubSection EndSection would require 1920x1280 to be initialized regardless of what the integrated magician might think. For dynamic testing, you can use the xrandr command. Issue those commands from an X terminal: xrandr --fb 1920x1280 xrandr --size 1920x1280 You can use xvidtune (usually _not_ used for LCDs, only for CRTs and tuning) to verify. In worst case, put those two commands in your X initialization file (usually ~/.xinitrc, sometimes ~/.xsession, if not cascaded). It's a dirty hack, but it should work. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 ... Probably 1280x1024 -- a common size before widescreen. The largest commonly seen back then was 1600x1200. ... whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. Probably 1920x1200. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? Dunno about currently-supported versions, nor your particular display hardware, but 1920x1200 works for me on an ancient Dell Optiplex GX1 with ATI Mach64 under 6.1. Maybe something in the (attached) conf and/or log will help. Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/psm0 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 520 320 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName IQT ModelNameHDIT24W DSUB ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync31.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 59.0 - 76.0 # Modelines that actually worked on the BTC LM-1702, for reference. The first is known # to also work on the IQT (Hyundai) HDIT24W, but it is stretched in the X dimension. # Modeline 1280x1024 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1024x76865.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # Modeline 800x60040.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 640x48025.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync # Modeline reported as working (via DVI) on a 24 Eizo FlexScan: # Modeline 1920x1200 162.00 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 +HSync -Vsync # Modelines implied by Xorg.0.log, but not reported by autoconf, for # the HDIT24W (aka IQT 9001, IQT = ImageQuest, www.imagequest.co.kr) #+W = wider aspect ratio than (HDIT24W native) 1920x1200 Modeline 1920x1200 154.128 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 +hsync +vsync #+W Modeline 1920x1080 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 # Widescreen resolutions claimed as supported in Xorg.0.log, but no details given: # Modeline 1680x1050 # Modeline 1440x900 #+W Modeline 720x400 # Other widescreen resolutions of the same aspect ratio as 1920x1200: # Modeline 1600x1000 # Modeline 1280x800 # Modeline 1229x768 # Modeline 960x600 # Modeline 720x450 # Modeline 640x400 # Modelines reported by autoconf for the HDIT24W -- these are not widescreen: # Modeline 1792x1344 204.80 1792 1920 2120 2448 1344 1345 1348 1394 -hsync +vsync # Modeline 1600x1200 175.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1600x1200 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1400x1050 155.80 1400 1464 1784 1912 1050 1052 1064 1090 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1400x1050 122.00 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1052 1064 1082 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1280x1024 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1280x1024 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1280x960 108.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1152x864 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1024x768 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync # Modeline 1024x768 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # Modeline 1024x768 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # Modeline 896x672 102.40 896 960 1060 1224 672 672 674 697 doublescan -hsync +vsync # Modeline 832x624 57.28 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync # Modeline 800x600 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync # Modeline
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's something like 1280x1014 ... Probably 1280x1024 -- a common size before widescreen. The largest commonly seen back then was 1600x1200. ... whereas my widescreen Dell needs 1920x1280 or close to that. Probably 1920x1200. do I need to go out and find a videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving it to the video? Dunno about currently-supported versions, nor your particular display hardware, but 1920x1200 works for me on an ancient Dell Optiplex GX1 with ATI Mach64 under 6.1. Maybe something in the (attached) conf and/or log will help. Core i5 has new Intel graphics, which needs 9.1 or 9-stable for the KMS support, a couple of entries in make.conf, and the newer xorg. http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=187947postcount=3 If you don't do that, xorg will use the vesa driver, which supports only a few common resolutions, usually not widescreen ones. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about svn
SOn Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith step...@missouri.edu wrote: I was looking at http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ What are csrg and socsvn? my best educated guess without taking a look: csrg == Berkley's Computer Systems Research Group historical(?) code socsvn == Google Summer of Code FreeBSD related projects. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
Hi Adam, Olivier, Erich, and the rest, Thank you for your replies. It sounds like the best thing to do is to migrate the contents to a server with new versions of all softwares. I'll make further discussions with my boss about this matter. Thank you again, Rei Okamoto Hello to all, My name is Rei Okamoto posting from Japan. I'm very new to FreeBSD and please pardon and caution me if anything I post is in any way inappropriate. Here's a problem I'm facing right now. I started working for a company this month as a sole engineerer, given all my tasks with virtually no manuals other than IP addresses, IDs and PWs. (Dangerous, but not such a rare case in this country) One of the clients is running the web site using FreeBSD 4.7. Although it is surely the best to renew the server to newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so because of money. So a long story short, because I need to do some testing, I've installed FreeBSD 4.11 to the VirtualBox as a test server in my local PC and got the network connected. I want to build the test server as close to the actual server as possible, such as considering the OS's version 4.11 to be close enough to 4.7, but as I try to install PHP4 with a following command, pkg_add -r php4-4.3.6.tgz I get an error message below. Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/php4-4.3.6.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) So you probably can figure out the rest of the story, it is all too old to make a near duplication of the server. Is there any suggestion on what I can do other than convincing the client to renew the server? (which I am doing but already been politely refused) Pardon me for the long message, and thank you in advance for all replies. Thank you, Rei Okamoto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:15 +0900 Rei Okamoto okam...@mix-net.co.jp wrote: Hi Adam, Olivier, Erich, and the rest, Thank you for your replies. It sounds like the best thing to do is to migrate the contents to a server with new versions of all softwares. this is the ideal solution. But do not forget that it could be possible to run a supported FreeBSD version on the current hardware. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
On Mon 2012-10-22 11:31:36 UTC+0900, Rei Okamoto (okam...@mix-net.co.jp) wrote: I want to build the test server as close to the actual server as possible, such as considering the OS's version 4.11 to be close enough to 4.7, but as I try to install PHP4 with a following command, Like others have said, if at all possible you should at least try to upgrade to supported versions of FreeBSD PHP 4. FreeBSD 7.x should have similar system requirements as 4.7, except for needing more disk space. Having said that though, support for FreeBSD 7.4 is estimated to end in February 2013, just four months away, and I can't see any signs on the FreeBSD web site that there is a 7.5 release being planned. So perhaps switching to 8.3 is the more sensible option if your hardware will allow it. I should point out that it should be possible to use 'pkg_create -a' on the existing system to create tarballs of every installed package, then install FreeBSD 4.7 under VirtualBox, copy the tarballs to the virtual machine, then install all of them with 'pkg_add *.tgz'. It may also be possible to use rsync to synchronise the VM's filesystem with the actual server machine, although I think rsync will need to be installed on both. Also, sshd will probably need to be temporarily enabled on the original server if it's not already. There is also the 'dump' and 'restore' programs in FreeBSD that could be used for cloning a FreeBSD system over a network, although I'm not at all familiar with their usage. Is there any particular reason you went with 4.11? Is it because it was the last of the 4.x series? (I don't recall offhand.) I vaguely recall there were some ABI changes over the lifetime of the 4.x series which meant binaries built for, say, FreeBSD 4.0 would not run under later versions (4.8 perhaps). I only mention this because you might encounter problems running binaries built for FreeBSD 4.7 under FreeBSD 4.11. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:31:36 +0900 Rei Okamoto okam...@mix-net.co.jp wrote: One of the clients is running the web site using FreeBSD 4.7. this is not a real fresh installation. Although it is surely the best to renew the server to newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so because of money. There is still the option to use a supported version of FreeBSD. You can have a try with 7.4. Some hardware support was taken out with 8. But if 8 works, take 8.3. as I try to install PHP4 with a following command, I doubt that you will get this anywhere anymore. Is there any suggestion on what I can do other than convincing the client to renew the server? (which I am doing but already been politely refused) Just try a newer FreeBSD version. 7.4 is currently still supported. Of course, it also could be that 9.1 is running on this hardware. This would be perfect. But I do not know if you can get the client's web sites running on a current PHP version. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
Dear Rei, One of the clients is running the web site using FreeBSD 4.7. [...] pkg_add -r php4-4.3.6.tgz I get an error message below. Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/php4-4.3.6.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) I believe that PHP4 (and most of the ports used in the server of your client) are not supported anymore. You would be able to download it from somewhere, there must exist archives, but you'd have to build everything by hand. Is there any suggestion on what I can do other than convincing the client to renew the server? (which I am doing but already been politely refused) 1) build a new system, with new Apache, new PHP, etc. and port the web site of your client to the new system. Let the client test and approve it, an install that on his old hardware. 2) get your boss approve the fact that the server of the client is ou of date and cannot be maintened anymore. Then you charge the client for colocation (electricity and internet) but the client is responsible for the maintenance. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Rei Okamoto okam...@mix-net.co.jp wrote: Hello to all, My name is Rei Okamoto posting from Japan. I'm very new to FreeBSD and please pardon and caution me if anything I post is in any way inappropriate. Here's a problem I'm facing right now. I started working for a company this month as a sole engineerer, given all my tasks with virtually no manuals other than IP addresses, IDs and PWs. (Dangerous, but not such a rare case in this country) One of the clients is running the web site using FreeBSD 4.7. Although it is surely the best to renew the server to newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so because of money. So a long story short, because I need to do some testing, I've installed FreeBSD 4.11 to the VirtualBox as a test server in my local PC and got the network connected. I want to build the test server as close to the actual server as possible, such as considering the OS's version 4.11 to be close enough to 4.7, but as I try to install PHP4 with a following command, pkg_add -r php4-4.3.6.tgz I get an error message below. Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/php4-4.3.6.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) So you probably can figure out the rest of the story, it is all too old to make a near duplication of the server. Is there any suggestion on what I can do other than convincing the client to renew the server? (which I am doing but already been politely refused) Pardon me for the long message, and thank you in advance for all replies. You can find an archive of packages released with FreeBSD 4.11 here: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/4.11-RELEASE/packages/All/ However, you'll find the packages are different than those released with your original version. A move from 4.7 to 4.11 doesn't really gain you much. Better off to start a migration strategy or leave it alone. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question for ipfw2 experts
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Darrel levi...@iglou.com wrote: Can someone please send an exmaple of how to properly use tables? Quick, trivial example - this doesn't help you understand tableargs, this is just efficiently to handle a very large list of sparse nets. PEERS=/etc/ipfw/permitted_hosts.txt cat $PEERS | awk '/^[1-9][0-9\.][0-9\.]*/ { print ipfw table 1 add, $1 }' | sh $FW add 01000 check-state [ a bunch of rules ] $FW add 05000 allow tcp from table\(1\) to me 7514 in recv $OUTSIDE_IF setup keep-state $FW add 06000 deny tcp from any to me in recv $OUTSIDE_IF Now, if you want to atomically change tables without altering instantiated dynamic rules, you can use separate tables and swap rulesets. You can use tableargs (the second parameter when adding an entry to the table) as a rule number to skipto, or as a tag in logging, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question?
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:49:17 +0300, Hamed M wrote: Can I run PS3 games on the system FREEBSD? I don't think this is possible first due to licensing restrictions, and I also assume there is no PS3 emulator available in The Ports Collection. But check it out yourself. So even if a way of PS3 emulation existed, I'm not sure you're legally allowed to run PS3 games outside of a real Sony PS3. Anyway, I'm not a typical gamer, so my short statement is ready to be corrected by someone who knows better. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about install from ports
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Mr U wrote: hi all I want to install openbox from ports collection. freebsd attempting to download libxml2 from fr.rpmfind.net but I don't know why connection speed slow down after a while and finally failed. is it possible to change download location (mirror) or is it possible to download file manually and add file in openbox dir? Temporarily set RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about install from ports
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:45:35AM -0700, Mr U wrote: hi all I want to install openbox from ports collection. freebsd attempting to download libxml2 from fr.rpmfind.net but I don't know why connection speed slow down after a while and finally failed. is it possible to change download location (mirror) or is it possible to download file manually and add file in openbox dir? If you can find the file on a faster site, you can download it and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/i386/fedora/10/ and restart the OpenBox build, or you can put these two settings in /etc/make.conf: MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?=\ ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} Change the uk to point to a site near to your geographical location. With these lines, your ports system will first look for distfiles on the FreeBSD mirror site, and will only go to the MASTER_SITE in a port's Makefile if the FreeBSD site doesn't have the required file. This is sometimes faster than going to the MASTER_SITE first. Or, as RW suggested, try setting RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpbbi9WCa4Im.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Question about install from ports
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:00:37 -0700 (PDT), Mr U wrote: is it possible to change download location (mirror) or is it possible to download file manually and add file in openbox dir? It is possible. First check the port's Makefile for where to obtain the required files from. There are typically more than one source listed. If one fails, try the next one. Then place the file in /usr/ports/distfiles and restart the build. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about install from ports
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:08:47AM -0700, Mr U wrote: thank you dan but how i can use RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES temporary? i tried google but i didn't find any info about this!!! It's just a shell variable, so you can temporarily set it by defining it on the command line for which you want it to apply. In this case, you'd want to go back to the OpenBox directory, and type RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES=1 make all install clean (That's the number one after the `='. It doesn't really matter what value it is set to - the important thing is that it's set) For this one command, RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES is in effect. Looking at this again, it seems I got myself confused as to where you should download the distribution file. I think your system is trying to download a plain tbz file, and not an RPM. If that's the case, the downloaded file will actually go in /usr/ports/distfiles. The fact you mentioned fr.rpmfind.net was enough to send me off down the wrong path... Sorry for making things more complicated than they needed to be! Dan - Original Message - From: Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 6:29 PM Subject: Re: Question about install from ports On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:45:35AM -0700, Mr U wrote: hi all I want to install openbox from ports collection. freebsd attempting to download libxml2 from fr.rpmfind.net but I don't know why connection speed slow down after a while and finally failed. is it possible to change download location (mirror) or is it possible to download file manually and add file in openbox dir? If you can find the file on a faster site, you can download it and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/i386/fedora/10/ and restart the OpenBox build, or you can put these two settings in /etc/make.conf: MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \ ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} Change the uk to point to a site near to your geographical location. With these lines, your ports system will first look for distfiles on the FreeBSD mirror site, and will only go to the MASTER_SITE in a port's Makefile if the FreeBSD site doesn't have the required file. This is sometimes faster than going to the MASTER_SITE first. Or, as RW suggested, try setting RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpBLKGxZjMLX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: question
On 07/23/12 21:21, Andy Recker wrote: do u answer questions about y computer aftwer trying to install your program -- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about gmirror priorities
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Ross g...@ross.cx wrote: Hi, the manpage says for ``gmirror label'': The order of components is important, because a component's priority is based on its position (starting from 0 to 255). so I would expect to have different priorities for the components, yet both are listed with a priority of 0: I would expect components to have a different priority if I assigned them one. Otherwise I would assume they have the default priority. I don't know if makes it makes any difference for the algo you are running anyways. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about missing posix shared mutex
Daniel Ylitalo wrote: Hi guys! According to the sphinxsearch dev-team freebsd does not support posix pthread shared mutex but later on i found this post that gave some pointers that it might been implemented into freebsd 9: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/What-is-the-status-of-thread-process- shared-synchronization-td4224458.html However 9.0-RELEASE doesnt have it so i tried out 9-STABLE but it isnt in there either. There is also a pretty long bugthread on sphinxsearch's bugtracker about it: http://sphinxsearch.com/bugs/view.php?id=1041 Basically my question is if there is work being done on this and if we will see it in 9.1? Or should i abandon freebsd for our sphinxhosts? :( Sorry not to answer your question, but have you tried installing any of the following from the ports system to see if they work? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=sphinxstype=all I do not use this and have no experience with it, but if these ports are indeed broken it might be nice for the port maintainer to know about. If they work, then why fuss over theoretics? -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about prblem with raid 1 for freeBSD
On 6/22/12 11:11 AM, dude golden wrote: HI there, hope my email find you well, i recently order a server with below configuration INTEL 1x Quad-Core i5-2500 3.3GHz, 6M Cache 16GB DDR3 2x 500GB SATAII then ask from my COLOCATION to install FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 with RAID 1, after many times of fail in installation from colocation they said that we have problem with RAID 1.we suggest them to play with different kind of RAID like RAID 5 and they said as our requested server only have 2 HDD, its not possible to set up RAID 5. now they said us that the only way for having backup of DATA in this condition is set up a scheduled task to put back up of data in the second HDD . now i really need to know if there is a only way for having data back up in this condition or you have better idea according to your experience.also if its the only way , would it be a good level of data security ? looking forward to hear from your side soon. Regards, Smartelcom Team Hi, Your colleagues are correct about the RAID levels, you can only do RAID5 with a minimum of 3 disks. Your available options with 2 disks are JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1. You obviously want RAID1. How have they tried to install the server ? I've had no problems ever installing 8.2 or 8.3 as a RAID using either gmirror, or hardware RAID. Does the server have a hardware RAID controller or are you trying software RAID ? Do you have remote console access to the server ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about prblem with raid 1 for freeBSD
On 22/06/2012 10:11, dude golden wrote: INTEL 1x Quad-Core i5-2500 3.3GHz, 6M Cache 16GB DDR3 2x 500GB SATAII then ask from my COLOCATION to install FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 with RAID 1, after many times of fail in installation from colocation they said that we have problem with RAID 1.we suggest them to play with different kind of RAID like RAID 5 and they said as our requested server only have 2 HDD, its not possible to set up RAID 5. Correct. RAID5 requires at least 3 drives. The only way to have resilience against disk failure with just two drives is to use RAID1 (mirroring). How exactly are your colleagues attempting to set up RAID1. There are several different ways of doing it, but these are the most popular: * Using the built-in ATAPI RAID provided by many motherboards * gmirror * ZFS ATAPI RAID is perhaps the least effective, and may require downtime in order to rebuild the system after a disk failure. I suspect this is what is causing your colleagues problems. For setting up a gmirror RAID see this article: http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html (That will work fine with 8.2 or older and the old sysinstall; needs to be adapted if using the new bsdinstall with gpart) For setting up a ZFS mirror, see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror or I wrote a similar piece assuming use of bsdinstall: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/articles/install-on-zfs/ Both of the gmirror or ZFS procedures involve going beyond what the installer provides and doing at least part of the work from the command line. If that is too scary to contemplate, then try using the PC-BSD installer to install FreeBSD -- it lets you set up mirrors or ZFS from a menu system, and can install plain FreeBSD as well as PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org/index.php?option=com_zooview=itemItemid=98 now they said us that the only way for having backup of DATA in this condition is set up a scheduled task to put back up of data in the second HDD . Well, this is really unsatisfactory and your colleagues should be ashamed. First of all, RAID1 is not *backup*. If you accidentally delete a file, it will be removed from both of the mirrored drives. The thing that RAID1 gets you is resilience to disk failure: one of your drives going 'pop' will not result in the system crashing or any service interruption. Backup of the system should be arranged through some other means: there are many programs available to do the job in the base system or the ports -- personally I like tarsnap, which will backup your data to the cloud (Amazon flavoured cloud, that is) for a very reasonable rate. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Question about GEOM_ELI` root partition automount
The problem need to solve: Need have end system, when keyfile when boot will be created automatically, and erased securelly just after root crypto` partition mounts (by dd with of=keyfile, for example) That need to do because freebsd have remote hosting. Needs: To make key not (at least EASELY!) catched by unautorised personnel, and noone cat pass password there after reboot or power fail/restore cases. Maby you can give me tip, what pard of src (and maby how, maby /boot/loader src) need to change? how do you want to enter that key? i would make system bootable and ssh-able but with secure data unmounted and very small malloc based md device created. then you upload keyfile to it, run geli to attach encrypted device, overwrite md device and destroy md device. if i understand correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about FreeBSD for IA-64 software
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Denis Guzanov guzanov...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD Team, Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your really good job and the best system for us, small IT staff. Second, I would like to ask you about some problem with FreeBSD source. I've downloaded .iso Image from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/following .iso file: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-release.iso And when I tried to install it I have nothing I did it many times, but have no result. When I've downloaded 8.3 version Installation was completed successfully. Dear FreeBSD Team, could you, please, check your .iso file for IA-64 systems or maybe consult me what I need to do? Thanks and Best regards, Denis. From your question , it is not possible to understand which 8.3 version is used . It is very unlikely that 9.0 fails completely but 8.3 succeeds completely . ia64 is for Itanium 64 processor , amd64 is Intel and AMD 64-bit capable desktop or notebook processors . They are different processors , and one can not execute code for the other . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about FreeBSD for IA-64 software
Hi, Reference: From: Denis Guzanov guzanov...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:45:54 +0400 Message-id: CAMUH=P1HGivtRUsgSz9_XYt-wLBh-8cFvq=i5fs6hn1ittk...@mail.gmail.com Denis Guzanov wrote: Dear FreeBSD Team, Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your really good job and the best system for us, small IT staff. Second, I would like to ask you about some problem with FreeBSD source. I've downloaded .iso Image from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/following iso file: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-release.iso did you check the MD5 ? And when I tried to install it I have nothing You'll need to be more specific. I did it many times, but have no result. When I've downloaded 8.3 version Installation was completed successfully. Dear FreeBSD Team, could you, please, check your .iso file for IA-64 systems or maybe consult me what I need to do? Thanks and Best regards, Denis. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on SYN_SENT
On May 11, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: 'Should not' does not mean 'is not'. and unfortunately, it -is- attempting to go out. There are at least a couple of possible explanations, none of them good. 1) the jail is attempting a DoS (or participating in DDoS) against an Israeli _government_ network/machine. 2) the jail is 'owned' by a botnet, and is trying to 'phone home' for instructions. Sorry for the delay in response. Did not mean to ignore this. Was busy figuring out and correcting this (and then the other normal day to day stuff that comes up). Yes, it looks like a customer's JBOSS installation had been hacked. It was running in its own jail with RO mounting of /usr (except /usr/local) and /bin /sbin and other system directories. It was basically scanning for more open JBOSS stuff. The attack had just barely happened (the server had just been installed). I disabled the JBOSS and cleaned everything up and scanned the jail for problem files etc. Customer fixed the JBOSS vulnerability (well known one) and decided to leave it off for now. Thanks for all the help on this Chad -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about milter software
I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. But what you're looking for is pretty complicated when you start having to deal with multipart messages; the messages have to be completely processed and separated into respective parts, and then once the rich part is found, you've got to parse the HTML and insert the footer into the right spot, and then recompile the message. And if the message is plain text only, you can't insert HTML and have it be displayed as such. In short, I doubt you'll have much success in doing this well. It would be better to configure this in the email client and lock that down somehow. Patrick On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Does anyone know milter software (or maybe anything else) to add to sendmail that can rewrite outgoing mail and add HTML footer automatically? Please do not tell me about how stupid HTML mail is at all - i know it, it is not my idea. thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about milter software
I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. you are actually wrong in that statement. In spite of hype that postscript started with, i am still using sendmail because it is actually easiest if you learn it. But what you're looking for is pretty complicated when you start having to deal with multipart messages; the messages have to be this is unfortunately true, because i could quickly do myself a filter that would trivially append footer, but it will not work. That's the reason of my question - IF such (quite complex) software is already written. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about milter software
At 08:21 AM 5/25/2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Does anyone know milter software (or maybe anything else) to add to sendmail that can rewrite outgoing mail and add HTML footer automatically? Please do not tell me about how stupid HTML mail is at all - i know it, it is not my idea. thanks I have used milter with sendmail. You can add an outgoing email footer. If you need more information, email me directly. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about milter software
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. you are actually wrong in that statement. In spite of hype that postscript started with, i am still using sendmail because it is actually easiest if you learn it. I guess it's pretty subjective, which is how I should have originally prefaced my statement. I used sendmail for a long time, and always hated working with m4 or direct sendmail configuration files. For me, Postfix is so much easier, but to each his own. For your immediate need, I'd look at http://www.ledge.co.za/software/disclaimermilter/ or MIMEDefang (http://www.mimedefang.org/) which appears to be able to add disclaimers. Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about milter software
I guess it's pretty subjective, which is how I should have originally prefaced my statement. I used sendmail for a long time, and always hated working with m4 or direct sendmail configuration files. well i just used README file and sometimes google. For me, Postfix is so much easier, but to each his own. it's mostly personal preferences. both are rather configurable, just different way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on SYN_SENT
On May 11, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 11, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: it is my understanding that SYN_SENT is when MY SIDE sends out a request and is awaiting a reply? That's right. One of the jails we run for a customer had hundreds (if not thousands) of attempts to connect from the 147. address you see below. It was exhausting resources so that new tcp connections could not be made until some closed. You have/had your jail opening connections to the webserver at IP 147.237.76.155, not that IP trying to connect to you. I added that address to a pf block statement to stop it but now we get a rolling connections in a netstat -a as show below (host. being a generic name used in place of actual host on our side). I am wondering if this shows something on our side trying to connect out? That is what it appears to me to be, which does not make sense. tcp4 0 0 host.52562 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52561 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT Yes, your side is trying to connect out. Unless you know better, it seems reasonable to gather that it's doing a DoS attack against: Hi Chuck! Thanks. I am investigating as this side should not be going out at all, but the SYN_SENT made me think it was. Thanks Chad % whois 147.237.76.155 [ ... ] inetnum: 147.237.0.0 - 147.237.255.255 netname: IL-GOVT-NET descr:Israeli Government Network country: IL admin-c: AT979-RIPE tech-c: TT441-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PI mnt-by: GOV-IL-DNS mnt-lower:GOV-IL-DNS mnt-routes: AS8867-MNT { ANY } mnt-routes: AS9116-MNT { 147.237.232.0/24^24-24 } source: RIPE # Filtered person: Admin Tehila address:Israel Ministry Of Finance address:1 Netanel Lorech st address:Jerusalem Israel phone: +972 2 6664666 fax-no: +972 2 6664650 remarks:For ABUSE and security issues please contact remarks:email: ab...@tehila.gov.il remarks:or contact CERT.gov.il at rep...@cert.gov.il nic-hdl:AT979-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on SYN_SENT
On May 11, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: it is my understanding that SYN_SENT is when MY SIDE sends out a request and is awaiting a reply? That's right. One of the jails we run for a customer had hundreds (if not thousands) of attempts to connect from the 147. address you see below. It was exhausting resources so that new tcp connections could not be made until some closed. You have/had your jail opening connections to the webserver at IP 147.237.76.155, not that IP trying to connect to you. I added that address to a pf block statement to stop it but now we get a rolling connections in a netstat -a as show below (host. being a generic name used in place of actual host on our side). I am wondering if this shows something on our side trying to connect out? That is what it appears to me to be, which does not make sense. tcp4 0 0 host.52562 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52561 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT Yes, your side is trying to connect out. Unless you know better, it seems reasonable to gather that it's doing a DoS attack against: % whois 147.237.76.155 [ ... ] inetnum: 147.237.0.0 - 147.237.255.255 netname: IL-GOVT-NET descr:Israeli Government Network country: IL admin-c: AT979-RIPE tech-c: TT441-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PI mnt-by: GOV-IL-DNS mnt-lower:GOV-IL-DNS mnt-routes: AS8867-MNT { ANY } mnt-routes: AS9116-MNT { 147.237.232.0/24^24-24 } source: RIPE # Filtered person: Admin Tehila address:Israel Ministry Of Finance address:1 Netanel Lorech st address:Jerusalem Israel phone: +972 2 6664666 fax-no: +972 2 6664650 remarks:For ABUSE and security issues please contact remarks:email: ab...@tehila.gov.il remarks:or contact CERT.gov.il at rep...@cert.gov.il nic-hdl:AT979-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on SYN_SENT
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 11 17:19:29 2012 From: Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC c...@shire.net Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:15:48 -0600 To: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on SYN_SENT On May 11, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 11, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: it is my understanding that SYN_SENT is when MY SIDE sends out a reques t and is awaiting a reply? That's right. One of the jails we run for a customer had hundreds (if not thousands) o f attempts to connect from the 147. address you see below. Correction. As Chuck pointed out it is your box attempting to connect *TO* that address. It was exha usting resources so that new tcp connections could not be made until som e closed. You have/had your jail opening connections to the webserver at IP 147.237 .76.155, not that IP trying to connect to you. I added that address to a pf block statement to stop it but now we get a rolling connections in a netstat -a as show below (host. being a ge neric name used in place of actual host on our side). I am wondering i f this shows something on our side trying to connect out? That is what it appears to me to be, which does not make sense. tcp4 0 0 host.52562 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52561 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT Yes, your side is trying to connect out. Unless you know better, it seems reasonable to gather that it's doing a D oS attack against: Hi Chuck! Thanks. I am investigating as this side should not be going out at all, bu t the SYN_SENT made me think it was. 'Should not' does not mean 'is not'. and unfortunately, it -is- attempting to go out. There are at least a couple of possible explanations, none of them good. 1) the jail is attempting a DoS (or participating in DDoS) against an Israeli _government_ network/machine. 2) the jail is 'owned' by a botnet, and is trying to 'phone home' for instructions. The webserver on the IP address listed has -extremely- 'suspicious' content, to wit; html body script document.cookie='fff=ee0333b9fff_ee0333b9; path=/'; window.location.href=window.location.href; /script /body /html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question regarding geom labels
On Fri Mar 30 12, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote: i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 i get the following warning: GEOM: da1: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA. which is obvious, because the label is being written into the last LBA and thus the backup GPT header gets written into the last-1 LBA. Right. Don't do that, the GPT backup header needs to be at the end of the physical device. If you're using that whole disk for swap, there's no need for a partition anyway. if i create the partitioning scheme before labeling the device, like this: gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 or gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0p1 the label gets written into da0 or da0p1 and is at constant risk of being overwritten by userdata. No. The swap device entered in /etc/fstab would be /dev/label/swap, which is one block smaller than da0p1. That's the last-block metadata, it's safe. thanks for the info. :) But if the whole disk is for swap, skip the partitioning entirely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question regarding geom labels
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote: i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 i get the following warning: GEOM: da1: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA. which is obvious, because the label is being written into the last LBA and thus the backup GPT header gets written into the last-1 LBA. Right. Don't do that, the GPT backup header needs to be at the end of the physical device. If you're using that whole disk for swap, there's no need for a partition anyway. if i create the partitioning scheme before labeling the device, like this: gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 or gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0p1 the label gets written into da0 or da0p1 and is at constant risk of being overwritten by userdata. No. The swap device entered in /etc/fstab would be /dev/label/swap, which is one block smaller than da0p1. That's the last-block metadata, it's safe. But if the whole disk is for swap, skip the partitioning entirely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about SMTP-authentication (2nd )
Dear Matthew, According to your recommendation (as following). When I do make at /usr/src/sur.sbin/sendmail it show as following. ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake clean rm -f sm_os.h sendmail alias.o arpadate.o bf.o collect.o conf.o control.o convtime.o daemon.o deliver.o domain.o envelope.o err.o headers.o macro.o main.o map.o mci.o milter.o mime.o parseaddr.o queue.o ratectrl.o readcf.o recipient.o savemail.o sasl.o sfsasl.o shmticklib.o sm_resolve.o srvrsmtp.o stab.o stats.o sysexits.o timers.o tls.o trace.o udb.o usersmtp.o util.o version.o mailq.1.gz newaliases.1.gz aliases.5.gz sendmail.8.gz mailq.1.cat.gz newaliases.1.cat.gz aliases.5.cat.gz sendmail.8.cat.gz ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake ln -sf /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include/sm/os/sm_os_freebsd.h sm_os.h cc -O2 -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include -I. -DNEWDB -DNIS -DTCPWRAPPERS -DMAP_REGEX -DDNSMAP -DNETINET6 -DSTARTTLS -D_FFR_TLS_1 -I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL=2 -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -c /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:135:25: error: sasl/sasl.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:136:29: error: sasl/saslutil.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:607: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before ':' token /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:691: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'sasl_conn_t' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail. then I try to find where is sasl.h ns1:kamolpat:/usrfind . -name sasl.h ./local/include/sasl/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h What should I do next? Shold I just copy the sasl.h to /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail ? Thanks Kamolpat On 3/9/2012 12:34 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 08/03/2012 15:55, kamolpat wrote: Setup Reference == 1. I read the how to setup from FreeBSD Handbook (online)- Chapter 29 Electronic Mail - 29.10 SMTP Authentication from freebsd.org 2. setup for cyrus-sasl2 was fine (setup via usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2) 3. setup for openssl was 90% fine (setup via port) reference to FreeBSD Handbook (online)-Chapter 15 Security - 15.8 OpenSSL accept the STARTTLS line doesn't appear as mention on the last part of article. Did you rebuild sendmail with the right flags so that it would enable all the SASL bits? Apart from that you seem to have done all the right stuff that I can see. You need to add this to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 and then rebuild sendmail -- assuming you have system sources installed: # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail # make clean # make # make install If you haven't got the system sources installed, then you can get them easily enough with csup(1) or freebsd-update(8) or several other ways. Or you could just install sendmail from ports -- obviously, make sure to choose the option to enable SASL in the config dialogue. If you use the ports sendmail, so long as you set up mailer.conf(5) to point to the ports version -- like so: lucid-nonsense:/etc/mail:% cat mailer.conf # $FreeBSD: stable/8/etc/mail/mailer.conf 93858 2002-04-05 04:25:14Z gshapiro $ # # Execute the real sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail hoststat/usr/local/sbin/sendmail purgestat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail and put the following in /etc/make.conf so it uses the latest configuration file bits: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf MAKEMAP=/usr/local/sbin/makemap then the ports sendmail is pretty much a drop-in replacement for the system one, and you can use all the config bits in /etc/mail in exactly the same way as normal. Cheers, Matthew E-mail message checked by Internet Security (7.0.0.508) Database version: 6.19440 http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about SMTP-authentication (2nd )
On 12/03/2012 13:26, kamolpat wrote: According to your recommendation (as following). When I do make at /usr/src/sur.sbin/sendmail it show as following. ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake clean rm -f sm_os.h sendmail alias.o arpadate.o bf.o collect.o conf.o control.o convtime.o daemon.o deliver.o domain.o envelope.o err.o headers.o macro.o main.o map.o mci.o milter.o mime.o parseaddr.o queue.o ratectrl.o readcf.o recipient.o savemail.o sasl.o sfsasl.o shmticklib.o sm_resolve.o srvrsmtp.o stab.o stats.o sysexits.o timers.o tls.o trace.o udb.o usersmtp.o util.o version.o mailq.1.gz newaliases.1.gz aliases.5.gz sendmail.8.gz mailq.1.cat.gz newaliases.1.cat.gz aliases.5.cat.gz sendmail.8.cat.gz ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake ln -sf /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include/sm/os/sm_os_freebsd.h sm_os.h cc -O2 -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include -I. -DNEWDB -DNIS -DTCPWRAPPERS -DMAP_REGEX -DDNSMAP -DNETINET6 -DSTARTTLS -D_FFR_TLS_1 -I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL=2 -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -c /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:135:25: error: sasl/sasl.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:136:29: error: sasl/saslutil.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:607: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before ':' token /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:691: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'sasl_conn_t' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail. then I try to find where is sasl.h ns1:kamolpat:/usrfind . -name sasl.h ./local/include/sasl/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h What should I do next? Shold I just copy the sasl.h to /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail ? No. Don't do that. It won't help anything. You need to follow my instructions correctly. Specifically this line needs to be in /etc/make.conf in order to pick up the SASL header files: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 Where, you will note, this does *not* say /usr/local/include/sasl, which is what appears in your compiler output. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: question about SMTP-authentication (3rd )
Dear Matthew, Ok, I got sendmail complied. Thanks. But seem like ... POP3 still working in clear text usr/pwd sending to Server (but it work, I can get mail from server normal). When I chose option in ThunderBird to another mode, it doesn't work (accept connection security: none, authentication method: password transmitted insecurity this is the option that TB dectected during setting mail account) SMTP doesn't work it declare from Thunder Bird: Send Message Error The Kerberos/GSSAPI ticket was not accepted by the SMTP server mail.dmaccess.co.th Please check that you are logged in to the Kerberos/GSSAPI realm. (event I change authentication method: Kerberos/GSSAPI, it still inform this message) from /var/log/maillog Mar 12 22:38:04 ns1 sendmail[93331]: q2CMc4jF093331: ppp-58-8-130-33.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.130.33] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA this is my test on server = ns1:kamolpat:/etctelnet dmaccess.co.th 25 Trying 202.170.122.33... Connected to dmaccess.co.th. Escape character is '^]'. 220 ns1.dmaccess.co.th ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.4/8.14.4; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:23:14 GMT ehlo dmaccess.co.th 250-ns1.dmaccess.co.th Hello ns1.dmaccess.co.th [202.170.122.33], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP quit 221 2.0.0 ns1.dmaccess.co.th closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. this is my /etc/mail/freebsd.mc = Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=78 dnl Uncomment the first line to change the location of the default http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=78down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=78up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=79 dnl /etc/mail/local-host-names and comment out the second line. http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=79down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=79up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=80 dnl define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=80down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=80up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=81 define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=81down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=81up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=82 http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=82down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=82up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=83 dnl Enable for both IPv4 and IPv6 (optional) http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=83down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=83up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=84 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv4, Family=inet') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=84down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=84up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=85 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=85down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=85up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=86 http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=86down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=86up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=87 define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=87down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=87up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=88 define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=88down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=88up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=89 define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=89down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=89up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=90 http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=90down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=90up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=91 GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericdomains'); http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=91down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=91up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=92
Re: question about SMTP-authentication (3rd )
On 12/03/2012 15:47, kamolpat wrote: Dear Matthew, Ok, I got sendmail complied. Thanks. But seem like ... POP3 still working in clear text usr/pwd sending to Server (but it work, I can get mail from server normal). When I chose option in ThunderBird to another mode, it doesn't work (accept connection security: none, authentication method: password transmitted insecurity this is the option that TB dectected during setting mail account) SMTP doesn't work it declare from Thunder Bird: Send Message Error The Kerberos/GSSAPI ticket was not accepted by the SMTP server mail.dmaccess.co.th Please check that you are logged in to the Kerberos/GSSAPI realm. (event I change authentication method: Kerberos/GSSAPI, it still inform this message) from /var/log/maillog Mar 12 22:38:04 ns1 sendmail[93331]: q2CMc4jF093331: ppp-58-8-130-33.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.130.33] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA what are you using as the authentication method for sasl? there are multiple authentication mechansims available for sasl(2), simplest is probably saslauthd *In /etc/rc.conf *saslauthd_enable=yes In /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf have: pwcheck_method: saslauthd make sure its running /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd start add a user with saslpasswd2 Test your u/p locally with testsaslauthd testsaslauthd -u user -p PASS (if thats not working it won't work over the network either) have TB set to conn security to STARTTLS and password security set to normal password, (for non encrypted password obv) Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546PLEASE NOTE NEW MOBILE e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about SMTP-authentication
On 08/03/2012 15:55, kamolpat wrote: Setup Reference == 1. I read the how to setup from FreeBSD Handbook (online)- Chapter 29 Electronic Mail - 29.10 SMTP Authentication from freebsd.org 2. setup for cyrus-sasl2 was fine (setup via usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2) 3. setup for openssl was 90% fine (setup via port) reference to FreeBSD Handbook (online)-Chapter 15 Security - 15.8 OpenSSL accept the STARTTLS line doesn't appear as mention on the last part of article. Did you rebuild sendmail with the right flags so that it would enable all the SASL bits? Apart from that you seem to have done all the right stuff that I can see. You need to add this to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 and then rebuild sendmail -- assuming you have system sources installed: # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail # make clean # make # make install If you haven't got the system sources installed, then you can get them easily enough with csup(1) or freebsd-update(8) or several other ways. Or you could just install sendmail from ports -- obviously, make sure to choose the option to enable SASL in the config dialogue. If you use the ports sendmail, so long as you set up mailer.conf(5) to point to the ports version -- like so: lucid-nonsense:/etc/mail:% cat mailer.conf # $FreeBSD: stable/8/etc/mail/mailer.conf 93858 2002-04-05 04:25:14Z gshapiro $ # # Execute the real sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail hoststat/usr/local/sbin/sendmail purgestat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail and put the following in /etc/make.conf so it uses the latest configuration file bits: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf MAKEMAP=/usr/local/sbin/makemap then the ports sendmail is pretty much a drop-in replacement for the system one, and you can use all the config bits in /etc/mail in exactly the same way as normal. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: question about SMTP-authentication
kamolpat wrote: To whom it may concern: I hope you get a more useful reply than mine later, no time here, sorry but I've had SASL-1 running fine for years FreeBSD both ends. Documented here, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sasl.html There's various URLs there to SASL-2 Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding SPF records
On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com wrote: I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different opinion of what should be included and what should not be included. Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help me out. My domain is: test.com My mailserver hostname is: mail.host.com which also has a MATCHING PTR record mail.host.com (for example) resolves to 50.1.1.1 and 50.1.1.1 resolves to mail.host.com This is a STANDALONE mail server which will receive and send email without any VIP's or load balancing. There is however one additional host that will send out mail from the domain but it wont be receiving mail, it will only be used as an SMTP (outbound only) server attached to a website automailer which is on a seperate webserver... It only generates error reports and sends them out... so technically it isn't a full mail server but it will be sending (outbound only) mail on behalf of the domain. The additional host is: mail2.test.com which resolves to 50.2.2.2 and there is a Matching PTR. These are the ONLY mail servers and IP addresses that will be sending out mail from the test.com domain. Some websites say I should use -all and others say -all will cause some MTA's to reject and ~all is better to use even if those are the only two hosts sending out mail. Would you be able to assist with a solid SPF record? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I usually choose soft fail because a user might decide to use a mobile device for email. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding SPF records
On 2/18/2012 12:18 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com mailto:juvi...@gmail.com wrote: I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different opinion of what should be included and what should not be included. Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help me out. My domain is: test.com http://test.com My mailserver hostname is: mail.host.com http://mail.host.com which also has a MATCHING PTR record mail.host.com http://mail.host.com (for example) resolves to 50.1.1.1 and 50.1.1.1 resolves to mail.host.com http://mail.host.com This is a STANDALONE mail server which will receive and send email without any VIP's or load balancing. There is however one additional host that will send out mail from the domain but it wont be receiving mail, it will only be used as an SMTP (outbound only) server attached to a website automailer which is on a seperate webserver... It only generates error reports and sends them out... so technically it isn't a full mail server but it will be sending (outbound only) mail on behalf of the domain. The additional host is: mail2.test.com http://mail2.test.com which resolves to 50.2.2.2 and there is a Matching PTR. These are the ONLY mail servers and IP addresses that will be sending out mail from the test.com http://test.com domain. Some websites say I should use -all and others say -all will cause some MTA's to reject and ~all is better to use even if those are the only two hosts sending out mail. Would you be able to assist with a solid SPF record? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I usually choose soft fail because a user might decide to use a mobile device for email. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA Waitman, Fair enough statement. I also generated the following SPF using a wizard. Let me know if this looks correct: teamwarfare.com. IN TXT v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all I wouldn't need an include: or ptr statement in this right? I would told include: was to include OTHER domains that are allowed to send e-mail, but then again I see some people writing the domain again as an include. Also is PTR good to use or not? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding SPF records
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:34:09 -0500 Jonathan Vomacka wrote: teamwarfare.com. IN TXT v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all I wouldn't need an include: or ptr statement in this right? I would told include: was to include OTHER domains that are allowed to send e-mail, but then again I see some people writing the domain again as an include. Also is PTR good to use or not? If you can specify the servers with ip addresses then that's all you need. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question on select() : why am I getting absurd output ?
Sometimes I do wonder how much stupid I can be. Thanks MJ On 15-Jan-12 22:49, ss griffon wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Manish Jaininvalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I was trying to write a small demo code using the select() system call. Here are the sources : #includesys/types.h #includeunistd.h #includefcntl.h #includeiostream #includecstring #includecassert int nice_child(int * fd, int * fd_close) { close(fd[0]); close(fd_close[0]); close(fd_close[1]); char buffer[32]; while (1) { sleep(3); strcpy(buffer, I love my wife !); write(fd[1], buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1); } return 0; } int naughty_child(int * fd, int * fd_close) { close(fd[0]); close(fd_close[0]); close(fd_close[1]); char buffer[32]; while (1) { sleep(4); strcpy(buffer, I love your wife !); write(fd[1], buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1); } return 0; } int main() { int fd_nice[2]; int fd_naughty[2]; pipe(fd_nice); pipe(fd_naughty); if (fork() == 0) { return nice_child(fd_nice, fd_naughty); } else { if (fork() == 0) { return naughty_child(fd_naughty, fd_nice); } } close(fd_nice[1]); close(fd_naughty[1]); fd_set fdset; char buffer[64]; int fd = (*fd_naughty *fd_nice) ? *fd_naughty : *fd_nice; FD_ZERO(fdset); FD_SET(fd_nice[0],fdset); FD_SET(fd_naughty[0],fdset); while (1) { int result = select(fd + 1,fdset, 0, 0, 0); assert(result 0); if (FD_ISSET(fd_nice[0],fdset)) { int result = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); buffer[result] = 0; std::cout Nice child sent : buffer std::endl; } if (FD_ISSET(fd_naughty[0],fdset)) { int result = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); buffer[result] = 0; std::cout Naughty child sent : buffer std::endl; } } return 0; } I was expecting the output to be like : Nice child sent : I love my wife ! Naughty child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love my wife ! But what I actually get is : Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Nice child sent : I love your wife ! Can somebody throw some light on what might be wrong ? Thank you Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org It looks like you are always reading from the same file descriptor 'fd'. Instead you should read from fd_naughty[0] or fd_nice[0] based on your FD_ISSET checks. Also, don't forget to wait() for your child processes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about hardware support
On 07/12/2011 05:34, Ammar Shaarbaf wrote: Are there any FreeBSD drivers for Acer Aspire 3610? This is the closest hardware match I could find: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_detaillaptop=12882 Drivers in FreeBSD are generally described in terms of the specific components (motherboard chipset, NIC, SATA controller, etc. etc.) rather than in terms of a specific whole machine produced by a manufacturer. Laptops are particularly tricky in this regard, and if no-one else has reported on your particular model, generally the best procedure is to try booting the device using a USB or CD-Rom image, and see what does and doesn't work. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Question about hardware support
El día Wednesday, December 07, 2011 a las 12:54:35PM +, Matthew Seaman escribió: Drivers in FreeBSD are generally described in terms of the specific components (motherboard chipset, NIC, SATA controller, etc. etc.) rather than in terms of a specific whole machine produced by a manufacturer. Laptops are particularly tricky in this regard, and if no-one else has reported on your particular model, generally the best procedure is to try booting the device using a USB or CD-Rom image, and see what does and doesn't work. One good method is to let it boot a recent Knoppix DVD and see what chips it 'sees'; it will not touch the installed OS; matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11 | UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2 | FreeBSD since 2.2.5 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about hardware support
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, December 07, 2011 a las 12:54:35PM +, Matthew Seaman escribió: Drivers in FreeBSD are generally described in terms of the specific components (motherboard chipset, NIC, SATA controller, etc. etc.) rather than in terms of a specific whole machine produced by a manufacturer. Laptops are particularly tricky in this regard, and if no-one else has reported on your particular model, generally the best procedure is to try booting the device using a USB or CD-Rom image, and see what does and doesn't work. One good method is to let it boot a recent Knoppix DVD and see what chips it 'sees'; it will not touch the installed OS; Along those lines, PC-BSD (pcbsd.org) has a live DVD or live USB mode.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question
On 10/10/2011 18:06, Kiril Georgiev wrote: Hi, is it possible to make me a subdomain ( A HOST ) by type kiril.FreeBSD.org What benefit would that bring to the FreeBSD project? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Question about regular expressions
On Wed, July 20, 2011 10:33 pm, dave jones wrote: Hi, I have a config file below: $user= 'root'; // This is the username if $user is found, I want to display root. Anyone knows how to programming in C or some other language? thank you. I'm not quite sure what you are asking here. Found where? Display where? Are we just reading through the config file? Are we processing some other file with it's config? It should be simple in Perl or some similar scripting language, if I knew what you meant. (Except for the comment, that could be a Perl file. If so, one way to 'process' the config file would be to execute it in your main program, and then just use the variables assigned in it as regular variables.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about regular expressions
On 7/21/11 4:33 AM, dave jones wrote: Hi, I have a config file below: $user= 'root'; // This is the username if $user is found, I want to display root. Anyone knows how to programming in C or some other language? thank you. Regards, Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Let us assume you want to read your file, then display each entry for $user1 , $user2 and so on: grep $user my_file | awk '{ print $3}' | sed -e s/\'// | sed -e s/;// 1/ open my_file and only display lines containing $user 2/ display the 3rd item on the line 3/ remove the single quotes and the ; I'm sure it can be optimized a bit but basically, that'll do what I assume you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about NIC link state initialization
Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: I was able to fix the single-user mode behavior (which I agree, isn't necessarily broken) and get it to bring up the links by simply patching init(8) to call system(/sbin/ifconfig) before prompting for the single-user shell. It works, but I feel dirty. I see no particular objection to adding a way of running something ahead of the single-user shell, but system(3) is not necessarily the best mechanism to use for the purpose because it invokes a shell. It would be both more efficient and more robust to call fork(2) and exec(3) (or execve(2)) directly. It would be more general to fork/exec /etc/rc.single instead of /sbin/ifconfig, expecting /etc/rc.single to be an executable script (with an appropriate shebang line) and ignoring the failure which would occur if it did not exist. (In your case, instead of a script, you could make /etc/rc.single a link to /sbin/ifconfig.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about NIC link state initialization
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into single-user mode, the links on the interfaces never come up, and therefore the LOM becomes inaccessible. ... all one has to do is run ifconfig to cause the NIC's links to come up ... why do we have to run ifconfig(8) to bring the links up on the attached interfaces? When trying to troubleshoot a problem that was known or suspected to involve the network or its hardware, one might not _want_ the NICs Well, maybe, but if the system needs to boot into multi-user mode for the LOM to be available, what is the need for the LOM? At that point you can do everything you might need through the OS interface. Can I ask what is the brand of this so-called LOM? Is there any documentation implying something more useful? Do they describe doing a bare metal install of an OS? Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about NIC link state initialization
On 6/30/2011 6:49 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into single-user mode, the links on the interfaces never come up, and therefore the LOM becomes inaccessible. ... all one has to do is run ifconfig to cause the NIC's links to come up ... why do we have to run ifconfig(8) to bring the links up on the attached interfaces? When trying to troubleshoot a problem that was known or suspected to involve the network or its hardware, one might not _want_ the NICs Well, maybe, but if the system needs to boot into multi-user mode for the LOM to be available, what is the need for the LOM? At that point you can do everything you might need through the OS interface. Can I ask what is the brand of this so-called LOM? Is there any documentation implying something more useful? Do they describe doing a bare metal install of an OS? They are the Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRACs). Now, they do have their own dedicated NIC, which we use for anything that really needs the attention. However, the shared feature saves us a switchport per server we use it on. When both on-board NICs are cabled (i.e. for lagg(4) failover), then the DRAC's shared NIC mode *also* supports automatic failover between both on-board NICs. This doesn't help however if the operating system never turns on the links to either on-board NIC. I was able to fix the single-user mode behavior (which I agree, isn't necessarily broken) and get it to bring up the links by simply patching init(8) to call system(/sbin/ifconfig) before prompting for the single-user shell. It works, but I feel dirty. - Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about NIC link state initialization
On 6/30/2011 1:10 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Steve Polyackkor...@comcast.net wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into single-user mode, the links on the interfaces never come up, and therefore the LOM becomes inaccessible. ... all one has to do is run ifconfig to cause the NIC's links to come up ... why do we have to run ifconfig(8) to bring the links up on the attached interfaces? When trying to troubleshoot a problem that was known or suspected to involve the network or its hardware, one might not _want_ the NICs alive. Short of patching init(8) (or perhaps the NIC drivers?), I don't see another way for me to ensure the links come up even when the system drops into single-user mode on boot. Something in /root/.profile, perhaps? That should get run when the single-user shell starts up, if it's started as a login shell. This won't work. When the system kicks you into single-user mode, you are prompted to enter the name of a shell or press enter for /bin/sh. If no one is there to press enter, or enter the path to an alternate shell, then a shell never starts. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about NIC link state initialization
Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into single-user mode, the links on the interfaces never come up, and therefore the LOM becomes inaccessible. ... all one has to do is run ifconfig to cause the NIC's links to come up ... why do we have to run ifconfig(8) to bring the links up on the attached interfaces? When trying to troubleshoot a problem that was known or suspected to involve the network or its hardware, one might not _want_ the NICs alive. Short of patching init(8) (or perhaps the NIC drivers?), I don't see another way for me to ensure the links come up even when the system drops into single-user mode on boot. Something in /root/.profile, perhaps? That should get run when the single-user shell starts up, if it's started as a login shell. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:44:22PM -0700, Stefan N typed: Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? There is a distinction. eg PC-BSD is a derivative while DragonFlyBSD is a fork. What do you want? How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. I think you want to read the release(7) manpage. make release BUILDNAME=StefanBSD will get you what you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com wrote: My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? You change the source code and compile How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. The method is really simple, actually. You change the source code and compile. Good luck! -- chs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Le Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:44:22 -0700 (PDT), Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com a écrit : How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. # setenv UNAME_s PatrickBSD # setenv UNAME_r 1.0-RELEASE # setenv UNAME_v PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 # uname -a PatrickBSD net.lamaiziere.net 1.0-RELEASE PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 i386 forked! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Hi The FreeBSD from scratch article has a lot of good ideas on how to do this. The article is somewhat dated, however, so your going to have to check that some of the methods are still current, and adapt them to your taste: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/article.html Regards, Traiano From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] on behalf of Stefan N [stefanbsd...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. Thank you in advance. Regards, Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Hi Christer, As there are many parts of the source code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? Regards, Stefanus From: Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com To: Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 7:51:50 PM Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com wrote: My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? You change the source code and compile How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. The method is really simple, actually. You change the source code and compile. Good luck! -- chs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Hi Patrick, Thanks for your usefull hints!!! I will try that as soon as possible. Regards, Stefanus From: Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org To: Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 9:15:39 PM Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. Le Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:44:22 -0700 (PDT), Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com a écrit : How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. # setenv UNAME_s PatrickBSD # setenv UNAME_r 1.0-RELEASE # setenv UNAME_v PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 # uname -a PatrickBSD net.lamaiziere.net 1.0-RELEASE PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 i386 forked! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 06:56:53AM -0700, Stefan N wrote: Hi Christer, As there are many parts of the source code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? That is a strange question. I guess the answer is 'Yes' It depends on what you want to be changed in your new version. For example, I would guess that you would take an interest in making your own user environment/interface. Well, that would involve doing stuff from X11 most likely and most probably more of configuration changes than code changes. Then there is a whole long list of things people want added/fixed/ modified on the system. You might want to check that out for ideas. Probably you need to learn a lot more about the existing system before you go to making a custom version. jerry Regards, Stefanus From: Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com To: Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 7:51:50 PM Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com wrote: My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? You change the source code and compile How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. The method is really simple, actually. You change the source code and compile. Good luck! -- chs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, April 11, 2011 9:56 am, Stefan N wrote: Hi Christer, As there are many parts of the source code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? That would depend. What is your derivative going to do differently than FreeBSD? Which brings in the more general question: Why? What's the purpose of your derivative? Why should people use yours over FreeBSD? Not that there aren't possible good reasons. ;) But answering that will probably tell you what you need to do to create your derivative. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Traiano Welcome traiano.welc...@mtnbusiness.co.za wrote: Hi The FreeBSD from scratch article has a lot of good ideas on how to do this. The article is somewhat dated, however, so your going to have to check that some of the methods are still current, and adapt them to your taste: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/article.html Regards, Traiano From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [ owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] on behalf of Stefan N [ stefanbsd...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. Thank you in advance. Regards, Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Please, no top posting. Also, thanks for the article. May make an interesting read. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about nethack and setgid
On 03/03/2011 02:49, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:51:45 +0100 From: David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about nethack and setgid Hello, I don't understand how nethack can store the score in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile. the real binary is here /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack And the mode is -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1793635 25 Jan 2011 /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack So that means people in games group will run nethack as games user (owner of file) Actually, it means that the program will run with the _group_ id of the file -- i.e. the 'games' group. _That_ 's' is the 'sgid' or 'set groupID' bit. but I'm not in games group ! and I can save the file located in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile which mode is -rw-rw-r-- games games Lo and behold! The file _is_ writable by the games group. I'm writing a game that will store file too, because I can't make it works like nethack I was planning using the setuid mode but I don't like much this .. What am I misunderstanding? the function of the 'setgid' bit.grin. Okay, that's why the program was running on my user but with games group. I didn't see that the file was writable by games group neither. I understand everything now and my game is working too :-) Thanks, Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- David Demelier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about nethack and setgid
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:51 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I don't understand how nethack can store the score in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile. the real binary is here /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack And the mode is -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1793635 25 Jan 2011 /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack So that means people in games group will run nethack as games user (owner of file) but I'm not in games group ! and I can save the file located in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile which mode is -rw-rw-r-- games games I'm writing a game that will store file too, because I can't make it works like nethack I was planning using the setuid mode but I don't like much this .. What am I misunderstanding? Cheers, -- David Demelier Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/permissions.html#AEN4027 I believe that it will demystify the behavior you're seeing. -Brandon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about nethack and setgid
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:51:45 +0100 From: David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about nethack and setgid Hello, I don't understand how nethack can store the score in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile. the real binary is here /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack And the mode is -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1793635 25 Jan 2011 /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack So that means people in games group will run nethack as games user (owner of file) Actually, it means that the program will run with the _group_ id of the file -- i.e. the 'games' group. _That_ 's' is the 'sgid' or 'set groupID' bit. but I'm not in games group ! and I can save the file located in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile which mode is -rw-rw-r-- games games Lo and behold! The file _is_ writable by the games group. I'm writing a game that will store file too, because I can't make it works like nethack I was planning using the setuid mode but I don't like much this .. What am I misunderstanding? the function of the 'setgid' bit. grin. Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on access to res utility
Joanne, I did a quick which and search of the ports that yielded nothing concrete regarding this command. I believe that this a proprietary Juniper utility. I found similar reference to this at this url: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?23,124019,124019 As much as I hate passing the buck, I'd have to punt this back to someone familiar with the changes to FreeBSD made in JunOS. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking On Sep 10, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Joanne McClintock wrote: I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the res utility, he gets the following: -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5 -bash: res: command not found In giving the uname -a command he gets: -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/ src/sys/compile/bigpink i386 We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any other information? Thanks. Joanne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on access to res utility
As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the underlying FreeBSD OS. Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing. What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this is NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely idiotic emails to this list. Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press the ON button on a kettle? Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.netwrote: I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the res utility, he gets the following: -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5 -bash: res: command not found In giving the uname -a command he gets: -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink i386 We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any other information? Thanks. Joanne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on access to res utility
It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Alessandro Dellavedova alessandro.dellaved...@ifom-ieo-campus.it wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the underlying FreeBSD OS. Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing. What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this is NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely idiotic emails to this list. Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press the ON button on a kettle? Please don't be so rude, maybe she's a Press Office employee, looking for a bit of help here. Working at Juniper does not mean being a JunOS developer or a tech guru. It's just one e-mail on hundreds that you get per day, and it does not hurt. Just my opinion, peace Alessandro On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.net wrote: I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the res utility, he gets the following: -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5 -bash: res: command not found In giving the uname -a command he gets: -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net: /usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink i386 We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any other information? Thanks. Joanne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on access to res utility
On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the underlying FreeBSD OS. Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing. What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this is NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely idiotic emails to this list. Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press the ON button on a kettle? Please don't be so rude, maybe she's a Press Office employee, looking for a bit of help here. Working at Juniper does not mean being a JunOS developer or a tech guru. It's just one e-mail on hundreds that you get per day, and it does not hurt. Just my opinion, peace Alessandro On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.netwrote: I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the res utility, he gets the following: -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5 -bash: res: command not found In giving the uname -a command he gets: -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink i386 We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any other information? Thanks. Joanne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on access to res utility
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@unix.net wrote: It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. True but juniper has given a great of IP to BSD. Gracefully handling some runoff seems appropriate. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question on access to res utility
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:58:46PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. And not the first time some idiot rude reply caused much more harm than good. jerry Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Alessandro Dellavedova alessandro.dellaved...@ifom-ieo-campus.it wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the underlying FreeBSD OS. Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing. What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this is NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely idiotic emails to this list. Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press the ON button on a kettle? Please don't be so rude, maybe she's a Press Office employee, looking for a bit of help here. Working at Juniper does not mean being a JunOS developer or a tech guru. It's just one e-mail on hundreds that you get per day, and it does not hurt. Just my opinion, peace Alessandro On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.net wrote: I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the res utility, he gets the following: -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5 -bash: res: command not found In giving the uname -a command he gets: -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net: /usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink i386 We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any other information? Thanks. Joanne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org