Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 09:12, John wrote: Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gateway services BIND, Sendmail, etc., etc from FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 22

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 January 2010, at 03:14, Erik Norgaard wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote: To debug pf rules: - always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules - group your rules

Re: pf rules

2010-01-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 January 2010, at 04:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: This is quite interesting. I can't figure out the rules on my system. Maybe try to simplify, clean up and structure your rules :) Here is the pf.conf file with all comments removed: table blackhole persist file

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 January 2010, at 22:42, John wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55:14AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any migration storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just did the

getpwnam

2010-02-25 Thread Doug Hardie
I encountered a situation where sendmail was opening up what appeared to be listening on random UDP ports. In the process of tracking this down I discovered that the culprit is getpwnam. A ktrace of the following simple program show whats happening: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h

Re: Auto update

2010-04-11 Thread Doug Hardie
On 10 April 2010, at 23:14, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Can someone tell me if there is a way of generating an email on the moment that someone logs in to my FreeBSD server? The mail part (phpmail) will be easy; I don't know yet how to trigger and pass parameter to this script or redirect info

Tripwire 1.2

2010-04-12 Thread Doug Hardie
Has anyone successfully got Tripwire 1.2 to work on FreeBSD 8? It compiles fine, but it trips on every file. It decides that the atime has changed. The report shows the observed and expected times are far different. Often off by 10s of years from what the file actually shows. Even more

Purchased Binaries

2011-03-04 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know anything much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the developer, name etc. on Monday. However, thats when he needs to know if I can make it run

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 March 2011, at 14:45, Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 04 Mar 2011 at 13:24:32 PST Doug Hardie wrote: I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know anything much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I suspect its binaries. I will have access

Server not booting

2011-03-08 Thread Doug Hardie
I have been tasked with bringing up a new server. It appears to be fairly old equipment though. I do know it was previously used. Its a Arima NM46X with dual AMD Opteron processors. The unit appears to be working since it has some form of Linux installed on the disks and that boots and

Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Doug Hardie
I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install on another computer. That worked, but now I need to use the built in RAID

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 April 2011, at 16:37, Michael Ross wrote: Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org: I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running on it before, but I had

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Doug Hardie
2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote: I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install on another computer. That worked, but now I need

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Doug Hardie
, but then I end up without having RAID activated. I am trying to get the hardware RAID working. Erich On Saturday 23 April 2011 14:25:13 Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 April

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 April 2011, at 03:04, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote: I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation media: I plug the disk into another machine

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 April 2011, at 12:45, Michael L. Squires wrote: I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard drive. I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but they are all Tyan motherboards. Are Rioworks/Arima still in business? I believe so. Their

Sending a Fax

2011-05-05 Thread Doug Hardie
One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax? I am not finding anything beyond printing for that unit via Google.___

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On 5 May 2011, at 22:19, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, May 05, 2011 a las 07:21:29PM -0700, Doug Hardie escribió: One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax? I am

Re: DNS and file system messed up...

2011-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On 7 July 2011, at 22:58, Gary Kline wrote: Jul 7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: file not found Jul 7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf The first one that fails is looking for /etc/named.conf. The

Re: rsync approach

2009-05-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On 27 May 2009, at 15:03, prad wrote: we have 2 static ip addresses with a machine running 7.2 connected to each. one is the primary server, while the other does only dns and receives bkp dumps from the first. we want to set things up so the 2nd can be brought on line at a moment's

pf vs null route

2009-06-15 Thread Doug Hardie
My web server is always being attacked by people trying to guess our user's passwords. Most of the time the ids they try are not in use so there is only a log entry and a bit of packet time involved. However, eventually they are likely to guess a valid id and password. Some of our users

Re: Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?

2011-09-01 Thread Doug Hardie
On 31 August 2011, at 20:50, Carl Johnson wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com writes: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=107491647 ... I looked at bsdlabel a it's partition f, /home. But what

Hardware booting problem

2011-09-15 Thread Doug Hardie
I encountered a situation today that I do not understand. This is a very old i386 PC that does not have a usable CD drive. The existing drive uses a very funky SCSI connector that I have nothing for. The system disk is SCSI and there was one additional PATA drive used for additional storage.

Re: freeradius on freebsd

2011-11-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On 30 November 2011, at 15:13, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz wrote: I am having issues with freeradius being told system passwords are incorrect by freebsd, where I know they are not wrong. I think it relates to freeradius submitting

Probable Hardware Failure

2012-01-14 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a pretty old desktop that has been around quite awhile. It has started periodic crashes. No log messages. However, the core status files all show double fault. I am confident this is a hardware issue, but is there any easy way to determine if its power or memory related? Those are

Re: Probable Hardware Failure

2012-01-14 Thread Doug Hardie
to it, that would rather point to a software than a hardware related problem. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a pretty old desktop that has been around quite awhile. It has started periodic crashes. No log messages. However, the core status files all

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. I only run servers and set them up with /, /usr, and swap. Other partitions are placed on

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 17 19:56:00 2012 From: Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:50:44 -0800 To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? On Feb 17, 2012

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-20 Thread Doug Hardie
On 20 February 2012, at 22:20, Chip Camden wrote: I believe the 5MB removable were RL01. They also had a 10MB removable RL02, which we used for software distribution. We resold them to our customers at $170 each. yes, this sound familiar. The RL02 came later. I think that tapes were

Debugging Threaded Applications

2005-05-28 Thread Doug Hardie
Are there any working tools available for debugging a threaded application in 5.3/5.4? Ktrace works fine but doesn't identify the threads so its almost impossible to figure out whats going on in a complex threaded application. Strace doesn't show threads either. Pstack causes all sorts

Dynamic Libraries

2012-03-07 Thread Doug Hardie
I have encountered something that I do not understand. Everything works fine. Basically I have a bunch of user modules (low level) that are built into a dynamic library. If I write top level code that calls modules in that library, everything works just fine on i386 and AMD64. However, the

Re: Dynamic Libraries

2012-03-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On 7 March 2012, at 01:40, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: I have encountered something that I do not understand. Everything works fine. Basically I have a bunch of user modules (low level) that are built into a dynamic library. If I write top level code that calls modules

Re: Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On 26 March 2012, at 11:20, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there yet any way to remotely rebuild a FreeBSD system? I have two FreeBSD systems on two remote campuses that presently run FreeBSD6.3. They need to be running FreeBSD9.0 and I don't really care how I get there as long as it can

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On 7 June 2012, at 16:33, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:15:25 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? Check the lines in /var/log/messages. Unless you're not experiencing a newsyslog message

Version Selection

2012-06-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a number of servers that I am about to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.0. The processors all have the ability to run i386 or amd64. The machines all have 2 GB memory which is more than adequate for their intended use. Some of these are replacing very old equipment that is being retired and did

Problem with spamlogd

2012-06-17 Thread Doug Hardie
I am using spamd on several systems and started encountering a problem awhile ago with FreeBSD 7.2 servers, but let it go since I am in the process of upgrading the servers. However, I now am encountering the same issue on FreeBSD 9.0 with spamlogd. It never reads pflog0. pflogd reads the

Re: Problem with spamlogd

2012-06-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On 17 June 2012, at 06:29, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 17/06/2012 11:45, Doug Hardie wrote: I am using spamd on several systems and started encountering a problem awhile ago with FreeBSD 7.2 servers, but let it go since I am in the process of upgrading the servers. However, I now am

Re: Problem with spamlogd

2012-06-17 Thread Doug Hardie
on $ext_if inet proto tcp to $MAILHOSTS port smtp This setup works on FreeBSD 7.2 and 9.0. I couldn't find any other that actually worked including those in the various pf books, man pages, and other writings on pf. On 17 June 2012, at 09:40, Doug Hardie wrote: On 17 June 2012, at 06:29, Matthew

Problem with freebsd-update

2012-06-20 Thread Doug Hardie
I tried to update an amd64 FreeBSD 9.0 p0 system via freebsd-update tonight. It fetched everything fine. However, the install just hung after about 10 minutes. The 2 sh processes are basically doing nothing. Not consuming any processor time and not doing any I/O. I killed it and tried

FreeBSD 9.0 hang

2012-06-29 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a 9.0 p3 system that is in production for about a week and it just plain hung this morning. The console had the last two messages as: link_eif symbol atm_event undefined KLD if_en.ko: depends on utopia - not available or version mismatch. I haven't found anything relevant on those

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hang

2012-07-02 Thread Doug Hardie
On 2 July 2012, at 08:50, Wojciech Puchar wrote: link_eif symbol atm_event undefined KLD if_en.ko: depends on utopia - not available or version mismatch. Those were the last 2 lines on the console before the hang. There is nothing at all in messages about this. I suspect the system was

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hang

2012-07-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On 2 July 2012, at 22:59, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have no ATM interfaces so it shouldn't be loading to my way of thinking. so check while this module is loading at all, no matter if it's unsuccessull. FreeBSD is not random place like windows, everything must have a reason. True it

Re: IPv6 getaddrinfo(3C)

2012-07-12 Thread Doug Hardie
On 12 July 2012, at 07:24, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm playing around with IPv6 code on a FreeBSD 9 system and can't get getaddrinfo(3C) to do what it should do as stated in its man page: accept an IPv6 and IPv4 IP addr, it only works with the IPv6 form: $ ./a.out ::1 host: ::1

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On 25 July 2012, at 23:04, Ryan Noll wrote: Hello, On Jul 25, 2012 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two pieces of metal stuck in it

portconf port

2006-09-07 Thread Doug Hardie
I have been trying to figure out how to configure portconf. The 3 examples given are not much help with complex ports. I am starting with the dspam port (mail/dspam) as if I can figure that one out the rest should be easy. I first tried to use the arguments from the configure command:

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 21, 2007, at 21:59, David Schulz wrote: hey, sure, of course i have checked the cat5 first, but it is clearly not the cable. id say it is as ted has written. what i would like to know now is how exactly happens this hardware incompatibility? The interface chips use a very low

Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 29, 2007, at 14:00, Joe Auty wrote: I've heard of many people having problems with RsyncX and the version of rsync included in OS X crapping out and being unreliable. RsyncX and the patched rsync (the former being a GUI for the CLI rsync) that ships with OS X attempts to preserve

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-02 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 2, 2007, at 17:08, Kurt Buff wrote: Do you receive mail from lists such as this one? Do you receive mail from non-responding mailboxes, such as network notificationss, etc.? Do you care about your new correspondents? If you answer 'yes' to any of these messages, then a

Abit Motherboard

2007-10-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I am planning for replacing one of my servers. I want to upgrade to at least a dual-core machine. I found the Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard at Frys which looks like it has most everything I need. However, I don't find any discussions about that particular board in the archives or Google.

Re: reverse grep

2007-11-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 3, 2007, at 19:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heh I've read (kind of skimmed) the grep man page but i seem to have missed the -v for some reason ^^ The use of grep -v will work as long as the tcpdump output is limited to one line per packet. However, some of the tcpdump options

Lack of Core Dumps on signal 11

2007-09-16 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 The setup I have used for earlier versions to obtain core dumps on processes that receive signals is no longer working. /var/log/ messages no longer shows core dumped for the entries and nothing appears in the core dump directory. sysctl.conf has:

Re: Syslog not logging remote host

2007-04-14 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 13, 2007, at 22:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:48 PM 4/13/2007, you wrote: Janos Dohanics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying capture logs from m0n0wall, but the log file is empty. Here is my configuration: On the logging machine, in /etc/rc.conf: syslogd_flags=-a

Quotas on 6.2

2007-04-28 Thread Doug Hardie
I understand quotas were broken in 6.1. I am testing 6.2 where I thought they were working again. However, it behaves considerably differently from 5.x. I set both a hard and soft limit on a user to the same value. Adding disk usage to that user past that limit succeeds. quota shows

Re: Quotas on 6.2

2007-04-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 29, 2007, at 06:26, Mark Tinguely wrote: I am using quotas in FreeBSD 6.2 with soft limits == hard limits, and the hard limits are being enforsed (mail/ftp etc). This is a non-root filesystem. There is one patch for quota that I supplied and was recently applied to -current that is

Sysinstall

2007-04-30 Thread Doug Hardie
Some time ago I seem to remember being able to use sysinstall from a newer version CD to update an existing system. What I wanted to do was keep the original disk partitioning and just install the new system over the old one. However, with 6.2 release I don't seem to be able to do it

Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

2007-05-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 22, 2007, at 10:46, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 5/22/07, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 5/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect sendmail is reading /etc/hosts.allow # Start by allowing everything (this prevents the rest

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 23, 2007, at 16:27, Jason Lixfeld wrote: So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice. My backup strategy is pretty much I

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 23, 2007, at 19:03, Jason Lixfeld wrote: On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup methodology but the restore methodology. Excellent point. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this way

Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail?

2007-06-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jun 10, 2007, at 21:25, Bjorn Boulder wrote: Doug, Mats Your advice is on the money; thanks. I see this: Jun 10 05:43:40 jake sendmail[15068]: l5AAhekD015068: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=oracle (1004/1005), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30062, relay=[127.0.0.1]

Re: Linksys router and ssh time outs ...

2006-07-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 10, 2006, at 00:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: From: User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just put a linksys router in place, so that we could use our wireless laptop, well, wireless ... now, I seem to be getting timeouts on my ssh connections when they are idle, but timeouts that I

Dell PowerEdge 1900

2008-01-18 Thread Doug Hardie
Has anyone used the 1900 with FreeBSD? The NIC is listed as a Intel® PRO 1000PT Dual Port Server Adapter. I didn't find any reference to that device in the 6.3 hardware information.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2008, at 17:27, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am having problem with /usr/sbin/makemap hash on huge databases under FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.3 while it is working on 4.11. By huge I mean around 380,000 lines in the /etc/mail/access file. After approximately 375,000 lines added into

Re: Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2008, at 18:08, Doug Hardie wrote: I am just under 300K lines in that map at present. While I have always wondered where hash was going to break, I hadn't found the limit yet. However, the time to build the hash table is extremely large with that many entries. I ran some

Re: FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy clients

2008-02-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 26, 2008, at 22:58, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is ftpd changed compared to 6.2? all normal clients (like classic ftp, lftp) works fine, unix mozilla ftp client, and few winftp clients shows empty catalog. i know that's crappy clients, but worked with 6.2 (i think ;) any solution?

Re: FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy clients

2008-02-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 26, 2008, at 23:43, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Hardie Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:12 PM To: Wojciech Puchar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy

Creating a custom install disk

2008-03-02 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a number of servers that I am going to be updating to FreeBSD 7 from 6.2. I have built a new base system with all the configurations and ports and local code that I need. This process takes about 2 days from the distribution CDs. I need a way to clone this machine and install on

C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-14 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a program I was testing with gdb. I was trying to figure out why c.rmonths was always zero when it should have been 6. Stepped through using the gdb n command. Here is the output: (gdb) 215 c.rmonths = (edate - tdate) / toMONTHS; (gdb) 223

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-14 Thread Doug Hardie
There is no code running at that point. Its just sitting there waiting for me to enter a gdb command. On Mar 14, 2008, at 15:16, Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:10 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program I was testing with gdb. I was trying to figure out why c.rmonths was always zero

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-14 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 14, 2008, at 18:31, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:56 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: There is no code running at that point. Its just sitting there waiting for me to enter a gdb command. On Mar 14, 2008, at 15:16, Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:10 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 15, 2008, at 05:59, Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:49 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: On Mar 14, 2008, at 18:31, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:56 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: There is no code running at that point. Its just sitting there waiting for me to enter a gdb command. On Mar

IPv6 Auto Discovery

2008-07-11 Thread Doug Hardie
Mac OS-X does a form of auto discovery on IPv6 where the machines on a local network add the machine name to the ndp table when they see activity from that machine. So far I only have a rudimentary IPv6 configuration on FreeBSD 7 running and it only sees the IP address, and then only

Re: IPv6 Auto Discovery

2008-07-11 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 11, 2008, at 05:47, Steve Bertrand wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: Mac OS-X does a form of auto discovery on IPv6 where the machines on a local network add the machine name to the ndp table when they see activity from that machine. ...FreeBSD does this as well (Neighbor Discovery

IPv6 Host Names

2008-07-13 Thread Doug Hardie
I am using the getnameinfo function to convert an IPv6 IP address to its name. This works properly if the host info is in DNS. However, if its in the /etc/hosts file and not DNS then all getnameinfo returns is the IP address. If i call it with an IPv4 IP address then it looks up the

malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a program that has run correctly since FreeBSD 3.7. However, when upgrading the server to 7.0 I am encountering issues where values just seem to arbirtrarily change. These values are all located in memory allocated by malloc. Malloc was significantly changed with 7.0 and reading

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 26, 2008, at 17:10, Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program that has run correctly since FreeBSD 3.7. However, when upgrading the server to 7.0 I am encountering issues where values just seem to arbirtrarily change. These values are all located in memory

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 26, 2008, at 18:47, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: If you did recompile it and it is behaving differently then it is probably because your program contains bugs in how it manages memory that happened to be working by accident with the old memory allocator. e.g. because you

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in FreeBSD 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed important enough that it is

Re: Loss of Internet Contivity

2008-08-20 Thread Doug Hardie
On Aug 20, 2008, at 01:54, Warren Liddell wrote: Im not sure what has happend, but after my last portupgrade i seem to have lost internet contivity on the network .. ic an get a IP address from the router, can ping the router no worries, all other machine son the network are able to use

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Doug Hardie
On Oct 11, 2008, at 09:46, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:

New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread Doug Hardie
I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its being installed on an old system (Pentium II). The boot process never really starts. It gets in the BIOS to where it checks for drives and hangs with the message searching for the primary drive on the channel. Normally I have

Re: New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Oct 13, 2008, at 14:03, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its being installed on an old system (Pentium II). The boot process never really starts. It gets in the BIOS to where

Re: New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Oct 13, 2008, at 16:03, Michael Ross wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0700 Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 13, 2008, at 14:03, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its

Hardware Problem

2006-10-30 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a hardware problem with a disk drive. Last night I received millions of messages like: Oct 29 23:00:02 zook kernel: ad0: timeout waiting for write DRQ Oct 29 23:00:02 zook kernel: g_vfs_done():ad0s1e[WRITE (offset=39908835328, lengt h=8192)]error = 5 Oct 29 23:00:02 zook kernel: ad0:

Network Setup Question

2006-11-10 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a bit of an unusual network setup situation. I have a machine that is only used to store backups. It gets moved around to different locations occasionally so it has to be able to live on a 192.168.1.x or a 10.0.1.x network without reconfiguration. I also need a fixed last address

Re: Network Setup Question

2006-11-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 10, 2006, at 19:34, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Friday 10 November 2006 19:17, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a bit of an unusual network setup situation. I have a machine that is only used to store backups. It gets moved around to different locations occasionally so it has to be able

Re: Network Setup Question

2006-11-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 10, 2006, at 20:26, Lane wrote: On Friday 10 November 2006 21:56, Doug Hardie wrote: On Nov 10, 2006, at 19:34, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Friday 10 November 2006 19:17, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a bit of an unusual network setup situation. I have a machine that is only used

Another Hardware Issue

2006-11-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I have another machine which will not boot the first time after a power on. It gives the following messages: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c6303000 syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up on 1 buffers Uptime: 16s

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 13, 2006, at 01:28, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Apple also doesen't use the UNIX security model. As near as I can tell their core security model is an ACL model not a user/group model. Once again this is something that's handled elsewhere. The user-group security model is alive and the

Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a medium sized application where the source is all in a CVS repository. Basically it works great as I am able to retrieve any previous version of a module when needed. Most of the changes to the application are quickly resolved, CVS committed and the production system updated in

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 11, 2007, at 18:28, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:35:38 -0800 Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on these approaches will be appreciated. Thanks, I suggest you read the CVS Red book, in particular the section on branch management and merging

Re: BSD Computers

2008-04-20 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 20, 2008, at 19:13, Jerry Rukavina wrote: Hi, I can’t find any out of the box computers that have FreeBSD loaded. Do you know which computer manufactures, both laptop and desktop, which can run FreeBSD? Do you recommend any particular models or know of which ones are more highly

Firewalls

2008-04-27 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls: IPF, IPFW, and PF. Some time ago (perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or more of those was better maintained and higher quality than the others. I don't see any indications of this in the handbook. Several years ago I needed to do

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 6, 2008, at 10:57, Randy Ramsdell wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 6, 2008, at 14:24, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On May 6, 2008, at 10:57, Randy Ramsdell wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases

Unusual use of ssh

2008-05-21 Thread Doug Hardie
I have an unusual situation that I suspect is not practical, but just in case... I have a class C network with a T1 to the internet. There are a number of hosts on that network. Unfortunately the T1 line is just part of a path with several additional links before it gets to the

Use of Com1

2008-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a number of servers that used to run FreeBSD 6.2. On each of them the com1 port was connected via a NAS so that I could access the console remotely. All worked just fine. Then I replaced 2 of the servers with 2 new identical units and upgraded everything to FreeBSD 7.0. One of

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 29, 2008, at 16:55, Sahil Tandon wrote: Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement. I am

Possible bug with IPv6 ICMPv6 handling

2009-08-21 Thread Doug Hardie
I have found what to me seems like a bug with ICMPv6 handling in IPv6. However, before submitting a PR I wanted to check to be sure that its not a misunderstanding on my part. The network setup. A host (A) connected to a router (B) connected to another host (C) on a separate network.

Re: Possible bug with IPv6 ICMPv6 handling

2009-08-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On 21 August 2009, at 11:33, David Horn wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Doug Hardiebc...@lafn.org wrote: I have found what to me seems like a bug with ICMPv6 handling in IPv6. However, before submitting a PR I wanted to check to be sure that its not a misunderstanding on my part.

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