As with what he said. :) Dump and Restore are your friends.
Also, in a crunch:
tar -z -c -f /path/to/your/backup.tar.gz /filesystem
Do that once for each mounted filesystem, and make sure backup.tar.gz
lives on another system, perhaps on an nfs mount.
Chad Gross wrote:
The handbook is
I'd say use gvinum. It's a bit trickyactually, it's VERY tricky.
You have to get the geometry of the shared volume precisely right on the
120GB drive to match the 80GB drive, then you can allocate the rest of
the free space.
Honestly, you *could* cheat here. :) I think
Set up your
I have to apologize, as I've never had x11 start automatically for me
anyplace. That said, you need to understand that the server/client
relationship for X11 is backwards to what you might expect. The
display, keyboard, and mouse are at the x-server side, and the machine
you connect to is
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I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do.
The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's
communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the gun up and gives
it two devices, /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1. ugen0.1 is a character
device
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I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do.
The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's
communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the gun up and gives
it two devices, /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1. ugen0.1 is a character
device
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I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do.
The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's
communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the gun up and gives
it two devices, /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1. ugen0.1 is a character
device
Sorry for the list spamming. My mail server burped. :(
Also, PS2 as in Playstation 2, not the serial port PS/2.
I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do.
The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's
communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the
I would suggest using portmanager. There is a method in there for
displaying leaves, or installed packages in from the ports tree that
have no dependencies, and allow you to safely remove them.
I'd say uninstall the software you don't want to remove, then have
portmanager show you the leaves
There are ways to do this, but none of them are really good ideas. If
this machine has any uptime requirements at all, I wouldn't do it.
If you *must*, and you have a decent bootloader on the disk you're booting
from now (grub?), and you have a second available disk, then you could
create a
What you're needing is a system, and not a single piece of software.
I would focus on the icalendar calendaring format. Once you have that,
then pick the piece of software you want to run on your local machine to
sync against your palm, and have it publish your calendar to a webdav
share or
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jun 15), Tony Shadwick said:
Are there any good documents out there on managing GnuPG in the
enterprise?
There are basic issues I need to be able to address, such as a
situation when an employee leaves a company. The admin needs
Are there any good documents out there on managing GnuPG in the
enterprise?
There are basic issues I need to be able to address, such as a situation
when an employee leaves a company. The admin needs to have the rights to
revoke that user's public key, and be able decrypt any old messages to
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
I have a system that we are running in production that there was an
oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I
believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct
this, but we have
The only things that come to mind here are to make sure rcp/portmapper is
running, make sure you have all of the appropriate _enable=YES messages
in rc.conf, and to reboot.
That last isn't required, you can -HUP all of the processes involved, but
this way you see what happens upon reboot too.
Here's my scenario:
I have a system that we are running in production that there was an
oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I
believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct
this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config
Except that I still have to re-install all of the packages in /usr/local,
many which have been built from sources. or are you suggesting that I
copy out the /usr/local tree as well? Will that break anything?
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Haulmark, Chris wrote:
Someone broke the silence:
Here's my
Nope, everything is from ports. was just trying to avoide the 2+ days of
compiling needed to rebuild everything. :(
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Haulmark, Chris wrote:
Someone broke the silence:
Except that I still have to re-install all of the packages in
/usr/local, many which have been built
, 10 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Tony Shadwick wrote:
I have a system that we are running in production that there was an
oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I
believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct
this, but we have all sorts
Just be sure that you've cvsup'ed your ports tree in its entirety and done
a make clean before attempting to build from ports. If it fails then,
post to the list and we'll see what is up.
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Eric Ekong wrote:
It looks like we will have the maintainer to update the port. I
I'm not claiming this will fix your issue, but are you running the
absolute latest kernel sources? There is the possibility this issue has
been resolve in a newer kernel.
cvsup your sources and try doing a build. See what happens.
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Steve Richardson wrote:
Hi,
We're
Could someone give me a quick hint on switching from automake14 to
automake19 using the ports tree without wreaking total havock on
dependencies? :)
Thanks.
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in other ports.
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-06-09 11:01, Tony Shadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone give me a quick hint on switching from automake14 to
automake19 using the ports tree without wreaking total havock on
dependencies? :)
If you are asking what
We can also provide this sort of thing for you, but it won't be anywhere
near as cheap as the single ISP account you're using. We have to allow
enough lines for simultaneous connections. The good news is that it is
overnight, and you are correctly staggering the connections, then it might
Only word of advice:
Get ahold of the vendor to make sure they support non-descructive resizing
of an array if you intend to add more space later. You've been warned.
I didn't find this out on mine until after I purchased the card.
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Pettitt wrote:
I'm about to
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Ben Hockenhull wrote:
There's no user information on the local system at all, so every operation
that requires UID/GID information had to do an LDAP lookup to get UID/GID
data. So, for example, every piece of mail delivered
That's what we do here. :)
/sbin/nologin as the shell and if you want to allow ftp use a client that
doesn't require a valid shell.
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, M. Goodell wrote:
Hello,
What is the recommended method to setup E-Mail only accounts? I am running a
server that will host several
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Oxley wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Karel Miklav wrote:
I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc.
remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and
WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings
are
Just curious, what happens if you run the fsck with -f? Since it isn't
production I won't feel bad if it clobbers something. ;)
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
Dear everyone,
this is not an important issue, but I'd like to ask anyway,
just in case the solution was obvious:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote:
On 6/7/2005 at 19:09 Tony Shadwick wrote:
I have a question of theory that has been bugging me that I thought I
would throw at the list.
Presume this configuration: a typical small to medium sized company,
we'll
say 25 workstations, all running some
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote:
On 6/8/2005 at 10:13 Tony Shadwick wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote:
Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local
user,
and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network,
presuming the pptp
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote:
Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user,
and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network,
presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
I thought fsck would be a plausible benchmarking tool.
-bash-2.05b# fsck_ufs /dev/stripe/data
** /dev/stripe/data
cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap
* FILE SYSTEM MARKED DIRTY *
After a forced mount, the 12TB
I'd try something along the lines of pkg_delete -f kdepim-3.4.0 and its
ilk, then continue the portupgrade.
Anyone else?
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Gareth Bailey wrote:
Hi there,
A power cut interrupted my portupgrade -NRP kde task. I ran pkgdb -Fu as
i thought that it would fix any
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Brent Wiese wrote:
I've been searching around for a bootable CD that can virus fix NTFS
partitions. Obviously that means it needs to be able to mount NTFS
partitions as RW.
I've found several CD's based on Linux that will check in RO mode, but none
that will (safely
Hmm
Just based on my past experiences with NIS (working on learning LDAP as
we speak), one would normally have SOME local user data.
For example, a local sendmail user, a local root user, if you're running a
MySQL daemon locally, you'd have a local mysql user.
I think? Someone could
I have a question of theory that has been bugging me that I thought I
would throw at the list.
Presume this configuration: a typical small to medium sized company, we'll
say 25 workstations, all running some version of *nix, for sanity we'll
presume all FreeBSD, but I see no reason some
Take this demon-spawn firefox and point it to this address:
http//www.whatismyip.com
Well, what is it? What is your local IP? Do they match?
point it at a file in your remote filesystem. Does it work?
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Karel Miklav wrote:
I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run
What I suspect is happening is that you're running as a user with
decreased priveleges, but you have a global install of azureus (installed
in /usr/local/bin).
Azureus is probably presuming you have the rights needed to do the update,
and never bothers to check or ask otherwise. :\
If there
Did you cvsup your ports tree before beginning?
Man, I keep saying it, and keep saying it. I really really really
(REALLY) need to set up a wiki covering ports tree best practices. Once
you have it down, it works like clockwork, but there's a huge gap in
understanding what to do for
I concur. You might also want to run chkrootkit (security/chkrootkit) to
see if you've been 0wned so to speak.
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Bob Bomar wrote:
kalin mintchev wrote:
|
| hi all...
|
| i found this 2 lines in the netstat output on one of my machines. we are
| not running ircd and
I can only suggest a workaround, which would be to consider a different
user management system, say LDAP. You're still going to have the issue of
some apps not liking high numbered uid's, but it bypasses the pwd_mkdb
issue. Not to mention once you have it in place managing users and
We also do it here at goinet.com.
Drop me a line.
Tony
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, John Pettitt wrote:
Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for FreeBSD co-located servers on united states or any other
country that have good internet connections, for a secondary backup of
data and
Heh. I see the logic in all of the tiny bsd's (like linux has room to
talk???), but umcould always photoshop Hexley coming up from behind
and tapping Tux on the shoulder. ;)
To be legit, it would have to be a war of dozens of tiny daemons/platipii
vs an army of penguins, but now I'm just
Well, I think it is there under Post Install Configuration, but you can
also handle this manually by editing /etc/rc.conf, ifconfig, and
/etc/resolv.conf.
Of course I'm firewalled off from our only 5.4 machine at the moment, but
I can check when I get into the office.
Tony
On Fri, 3 Jun
Looks to be like p5-Authen-Radius needs updating, or is perhaps corrupt.
Just shooting from the hip though, I've not personally used it. cvsup
your ports tree and do a portupgrade p5-Authen-Radius and let us know how
it goes.
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, RdBSD wrote:
Dear all,
has anyone get
On a side note, the %PREFIX%/etc/rc.d scripts, when you look at them, are
usually well commented as to what needs to be put in rc.conf to get a
successful startup. I'm now in the habit of reading over that for every
new daemon port I install.
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, fbsd_user wrote:
Read the
Be aware that the iPod has some freaky partitioning going on. Even if you
format the 'drive' as fat32, there's still a partition there you're not
seeing.
Read over the info at the ipod linux site. That should clear things up
for you. :)
Tony
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Toomas Aas wrote:
Is
You're not doing anything wrong. The pkgdb apparently has some major
differences that is taking a large amount of time to reconcile. I had one
machine that was way behind and took several hours to catch up.
Run pkgdb and go to bed. :) Next day everything should be fine.
On Sat, 28 May
Just going and taking a cursory glance at the sendmail makefile in ports:
.if exists(${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/mailer.conf) ${PREFIX} == /usr
pre-everything::
@${ECHO_CMD} #
@${ECHO_CMD} # You can't override the base sendmail this way.
@${ECHO_CMD} # your version FreeBSD use
Take a peek at /usr/ports/mail/Sendmail/Makefile. There are tons of flags
to be thrown, and I'm willing to bet that you can make a couple of tweaks
there to get the result you wish.
If it's just throwing it on the command line, you might want to consider
putting the flags in /etc/make.conf.
Just be careful on what card you choose. Aside from simply making sure
there are drivers for it, you also have to check on the little things.
Like, oh, being able to non-destructively grow the size of the RAID5
array.
I bought a Promise SX6000. I have 3 200GB drives that will be in RAID5.
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Hash: SHA1
This is new to me too. :)
Is it a perl library written in c compiled for Linux? If that's the case,
then yes. compat_linux builds a full directory structure beneath
/compat/linux. You'd install it there (I think...)
You're going to have to
I have two ways of doing it. I'm not claiming either/or is the 'right'
way.
1. Go to another machine running an older version from ports, cd to its
directory in the ports tree and type 'make package'. copy the newly
created tbz to your 5.4 box and run pkg_add on it. You'll have to do a
How about run tvtime on FreeBSD? :)
Just a quick glance, but I don't see it in ports. You could grab the
sources and try building it yourself (which, btw if you're successful, I
would suggest following the porter's handbook to add it to ports so that
others can reap the benefits), OR you
Install portdowngrade. Set your CVS_RSH and CVSROOT environment variables
correctly per the handbook.
Then simply type portdowngrade portname. You'll be presented with a
list of older available versions. Simply follow the prompts.
On Wed, 25 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Erik Nørgaard wrote:
Hmmm...that's a really interesting question...
On my Powerbook (I know, not the same thing...), I rip the DVD to a disc
image, then mount the disc image and play back from that.
You could use readcd on your DVD and rip it to a .iso file. You could
also just do dd if=/dev/mydvdblockdevice
My understanding is that any burner will show up and give you a block
device, rather it's the authoring software that has the burden to
recognize the burner for what it really is, and make full use of it.
That said, what authoring software are you intending to use? I've had
lots of luck in
I know it isn't a permanent fix, but could you temporarily use
compat_linux to run the Linux library on FreeBSD?
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Valerio Daelli wrote:
Hello
we have a linux perl program to run in FreeBSD.
We need to convert this library from Linux to FreeBSD:
msparser.so:
Odds are you're doing a make deinstall/reinstall in the wrong place. You
do that to the dependency that fails, not the port you're upgrading.
The best way to handle this is to make sure that your ports tree is
current using cvsup, and if it's not already installed, install
I can confirm here as well, went very smoothly on all counts.
Tony
On Mon, 23 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anybody done this yet? Any gotcha's, or is it a fairly smooth upgrade?
Hi!
Yes, I've done that a week ago, and everything went well. You only have to
be careful with
Are they all going to be running FreeBSD, or do you have a mix of 'nix's
running?
The automounter for osx for example is incompatible with FreeBSD's
automounter. I can't speak for Linux, but the possibility exists.
If you don't have a redundancy environment set up for /home to automount
I'd just boot off of disc 1 of the install set. That way you have a known
(Bgood boot environment. Then you can back things up as per normal. You
(Bcan also get a little bit of a sense of what is where.
(B
(B
(BOn Mon, 23 May 2005, Joel wrote:
(B
(B [...]
(B when i boot either ad6 or
Is there an effective way to manage that list? I mean, it seems to me
that you'd be adding mass routes to /etc/rc.conf. How are you going about
this.
Otherwise, it sounds like very good advice. Of course, I tend to manage a
hardware firewall in front of any of my machines, so the
When it goes stale, what is your output from df?
If it's accurate (ie, missing, or somehow displays that the mount has
otherwise gone stale), then a quick shell script grepping for that info in
a conditional loop should do the trick.
Been a while since I've had any issues with NFS though.
Hmm...hadn't really thought about the config you're suggesting of just
mounting user's homes as needed. Quite the thought. :)
I've always just mounted /home as a whole. Now you're going to have my
mind running.
I'm going to hijack this thread just a bit. Is anyone here other htan me
Not to mention a greivous misuse of throughput of the servers on the other
side. Ick. :(
Might I suggest that this isn't the wisest route to go and manage ports
from sources rather than binaries? Build it on one machine, make sure it
works, then 'make package' and install that binary on the
So far as I'm aware, you don't have to do anything.
A good gesture would be to get some FreeBSD case stickers from FreeBSD
Mall and put them on the machines you sell.
You could also purchase official release cd's from FreeBSD mall and
distribute those with the machines you build.
thanks for any suggestions, short of suicide. :c)
Well, no one's likely to endorse suicide as a technical support technique...
Never worked in a call center, have you? ;)
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I'd like to see it done, but I know just enough sh scripting to be
dangerous. ;)
If it were perl I'd be all over it. Any takers? :)
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Thomas Hurst wrote:
* Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update
is
Try editing xorg.conf and putting your correct screen resolution in as the
only option.
On Sat, 21 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to install get xorg running on my Sony Vaio PCG FX-150, running FBSD
5.4. When I startx, X comes up in the small rectangular box the same as the
scp -pr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/of/dir/you/want/ /path/you/want/it/stored
Tony
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote:
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote:
There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so:
I believe there may be a third way.
Have not done it in a while
compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 is forbidden
http://www.freshports.org/misc/compat3x/
Mark FORBIDDEN because of FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr and
FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath: xdr isn't fixed, and the realpath lib isn't
available precompiled (at least we haven't found one).
So...the question on my mind is do you
Just a thought here. Is ssh blocked? :) You have a machine on the
outside that you trust? You could do an ssh tunnel out and then point
cvsup to localhost:myforwardedport, could you not?
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Julien Gabel wrote:
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall
You're breaking my heart here. :)
emacs /etc/resolv.conf
*ducks*
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Clement Twine wrote:
Charles Lamb wrote the following on 05/19/2005 07:25 PM:
How do you change the DNS server your freebsd machine uses?
the most stupid question is that one which was not asked :)
anyway:
vi
My general thoughts on the matter is that if the bios is happy and letting
you boot up multi-cpu, then you should be fine. The OS is going to throw
instructions at the two cpu's, and those instructions will be run.
The only real difference between any chips that are i386-compatible that
you
Just a point of curiousity here, how are you trying to fetch pine?
pkg_add -r pine, or pkg_add -r pine4 ?
Only the latter works.
That, and if you'r etrying to retrieve it from the default server, no
shock that it fails. That server gets quite overloaded during the day.
I'm getting more and more
Mainboard, cpu or power supply. Take your pick which to test for next. :\
How many devices do you have to power in your system?
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/
Make sure your power supply has enough 'oomph' to power everything you're
trying to power in your system.
Other than that, cpu
Hmm. Is port 80 actually blocked then to everyone but the actual proxy
servers? Just getting a feel for your environment. Try telnet
www.google.com 80. Does it connect? If it does, then I wonder if your
firewall is statefully inspecting non-http traffic across 80. You could
get an ssh
There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so:
create the actually directory locally
ftp to the remote system
cd to the directory
Then type the following:
prompt
mget *
Now, that doesn't recurse. :\
The other way would be to do 'portinstall wget', then 'man wget'.
Tony
On Fri, 20 May
You could install portmanager, use portmanager -u and do excludes on ports
that you suspect might break something else if upgraded.
That, and a portmanager -s will give you a nice view of the state of your
ports tree. Perhaps you'll see something you hadn't caught before?
On Thu, 19 May 2005,
It's time consuming to be sure, but cd /usr/ports make clean?
Just going through anything obvious here.
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Timothy Smith wrote:
Josh Ockert wrote:
a tmp file? thats odd...
looks like you have some cruft hanging about
i would try booting to single-user, rm -Rf ing /tmp,
HmI've worked quite a bit with Webmin and Usermin in the past, and
I've found most problems can be worked around by reconfiguring a specific
module.
What do I mean? I don't have a webmin installation currently, but I had a
site that was NIS and I had a unix-know-nothing that wanted to be
I know this is going to be a hot in the dark for me since I left 4x behind
quite a long while ago, but I seem to remember reading something about
some compatibility issues between nis on 4x and 5x. There were changes
that could be made to work around it, but wow...I just don't remember
where
Does this impact the pkgdb? To be honest, I don't know where the
information that pkg_info returns is stored. :) Probably should have
sought this out a long time ago, but hey, I'm lazy.
Tony
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter
Presuming your dsl provider doesn't use a username and password to connect
(something called PPPoE), then you can just connect using DHCP and you'll
be on.
The more likely scenario is that they do indeed use PPPoE, so you'll need
to install the pppoe client, set up your username and password,
Just out of curiousity...
cat /etc/resolv.conf
nslookup www.freebsd.org
:)
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Gavin R. Putland wrote:
Thanks to those who informed me that www.freebsd.org refers
to versions 4.11 and 5.4 in the right column. I'll take
your word for it -- just as I hope you'll take my word when
I
I don't know if this has been fixed recently or not, but ProFTPD had
issues about a year ago working with NIS, and the commonly suggested fix
across the 'net didn't actually work. :\
I love ProFTPD, but be warned.
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Benjamin Keating wrote:
Running FreeBSD 5.4
Would like to
Yeah, I've done this recently, it works beautifully, albeit a bit time
consuming. I wish I could throw out there a big sign that says more or
less:
cvsup your ports tree, install using portinstall
Rather than people constantly trying to build manually from tarball. :\
That and teach people to
I'm going to butt my nose in where it doesn't belong and insert my opinion
here. :)
Here's the setup we run, and it works incredibly well.
Sendmail
mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
mail/spamass-milter
mail/spamass-rules
mail/spamass-rules_du_jour
sysutils/clamav (built with miltering)
Add to your .mc
Oops, that should be security/clamav. Where my mind is this morning...
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote:
I'm going to butt my nose in where it doesn't belong and insert my opinion
here. :)
Here's the setup we run, and it works incredibly well.
Sendmail
mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
mail
Few really quick questions here:
1. When was the last time you cvsup'd your ports tree?
2. Have you checked to make sure the rest of your ports are current?
If 1. is recently, and 2. is yes, then I'd make clean on it and try to use
portinstall gnome-vfs and see what happens. If you answered
Hmm..having rebuilt kernels for SMP support several times, I can't help
but wonder if this is a clean install you're dealing with, or an upgrade
from a previous release.
In either case, I'd cvsup your src tree with tag=RELENG_5_4, and follow
the handbook kernel building instructions step by
This is driving me nuts. I just downloaded the latest portaudit database
and ran it on my system:
mx02# portaudit -ad
Database created: Tue May 17 13:40:02 CDT 2005
Affected package: wget-1.8.2_7
Type of problem: wget -- multiple vulnerabilities.
Reference:
This may be a 'well duh', so forgive me if it is, but have you tried:
(cvsup the src tree, tag=RELENG_5_4)
cd /usr/src
make clean
cd /usr/obj
chflags -R noschg *
rm -rf *
cd /usr/src
make buildworld
etc etc etc
?
Tony
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Mikeal Clark wrote:
I found some information on google
Hmm...from home, visit http://www.whatismyip.com
Go to work (or whatever the remote site is) and nmap that ip address
ssh open?
You could also pay a visit to http://www.dyndns.org, set up an account
(it's free) and set a client on your freebsd box to update the ip address
as it changes to make
Was this a 5.4 change? Very important since I haven't migrated our
systems from 5.3 to 5.4 yet. I have a test build running on a single cpu
box without smp enabled. Would have sucked if I hadn't known that ahead
of time...
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at
(FYI: 5.3 - 5.4 is the first time I haven't just backed up my home
directory, wiped the system, and installed the new system, so take what I
say with a grain of salt)
I don't think you use snapshots to update your system. You can either do
a binary upgrade using an ISO image, or do a src
To say what he said a bit more nicely, do a quick read on cvsup in the
freebsd handbook. When you've read and understand, make a supfile that
updates your ports tree to your liking with tag=.
Then I'd suggest doing the following:
pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
pkg_add -r fastest-cvsup
pkg_add -r
It did this to me as well. :\
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
Hello Family,
Was installing 5.4 and decided to pick some packages from the
sysinstall menu and found myself being prompted every 2 or 3
packages to take out disk-1 to install disk-2 then take out
disk-1 and install disk-2
I see two ways you can go about this:
1. Get your radius conf file, and your /etc/master.passwd file. Build a
new FreeBSD 5.4 server.
Install the following from ports:
- portinstall
- portmanager
- portupgrade
- portdowngrade
- freebsd-update
Update your ports and src via cvsup. Install your
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