From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 26 00:10:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF11316A46B for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:10:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amin.scg@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC2713C46B for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:10:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amin.scg@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so1512366waf for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:10:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:reply-to:from:to:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:in-reply-to:thread-index:x-mimeole:message-id; b=CjY6AxcNSS5FXWGgN4TTs3zhChSXyQyAlsmfyW/NvygJeRuJvOGw1BrSM+MM9WSWuxKlsoWw9G0ojGifE3sIqX8YNMCTEE++QmSWecfC6m0Isfm9d4qrVijDohYyTMmT8S7Zh/ZkQxB80MX2Qgwygiq2ilQ2RwXNfXddiXjnDWg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:reply-to:from:to:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:in-reply-to:thread-index:x-mimeole:message-id; b=YmBsHKyC+plsND7F8jfiAlgY9jgt2x0cJJr2vId/rvtWFQPBMWvv5PSNMYhTm4Z7usCBXjyTWu4zq7ncsRJ0u/eg+9iNQOgk3qKoAUSytcI1BFVgpSz4dy8JwAhqStRVmHvghsnyKMya2811LYKncwaD5Oszunk1Ht8ZUMYxnCU= Received: by 10.114.24.1 with SMTP id 1mr1386215wax.1188086695083; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dtraaa ( [203.121.47.4]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m34sm4988704waf.2007.08.25.17.04.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:04:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Aminuddin" To: Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:04:35 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <20070825212135.8F66216A4D4@hub.freebsd.org> Thread-Index: AcfnXhGByRVIwLL/RZekCjsXRWNU0wAFm0+Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Message-ID: <46d0c3a4.22bd720a.5b5c.0594@mx.google.com> Subject: RE: Do I need to recompile my standard kernel to enable ipfw? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: amin.scg@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:11:00 -0000 Do I need to do the above if I'm not using the NAT function? I'm using 6.2 release. thanks -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 5:22 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 38 Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-owner@freebsd.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37 (blix) 2. ports/UPDATING instructions and Python 2.4 (Kirk Strauser) 3. ath pccard ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop (Steve Franks) 4. Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot (lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca) 5. update: "Danger Will Robinson" dmesg [ath pccard... ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop] (Steve Franks) 6. Re: load script at bootup (Rob) 7. Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot (Adam J Richardson) 8. Re: /var or /usr for data? (Jerry McAllister) 9. FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs (Zbigniew Szalbot) 10. RE: How to block 200K ip addresses? (Aminuddin) 11. Re: How to block 200K ip addresses? (Bill Moran) 12. Transferring a GEOM array between hosts (Joe Schaefer) 13. Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37 (dgmm) 14. Re: time issue (Bill Moran) 15. fdisk - can't update an in-use partition (Jo?o Pinheiro) 16. FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs (Robert Huff) 17. Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs (Jonathan Horne) 18. MSK Driver -- Unable to get it working on laptop (Mak Kolybabi) 19. Re: fdisk - can't update an in-use partition - solved (Jo?o Pinheiro) 20. Re: time issue (Michael P. Soulier) 21. Re: time issue (Bill Moran) 22. uknd - uhub DRAC woes. (Grant Peel) 23. Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot (Manolis Kiagias) 24. Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs (Derek Ragona) 25. Re: uknd - uhub DRAC woes. (N.J. Mann) 26. Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs (Zbigniew Szalbot) 27. nvidia driver blues (dan sikorsky) 28. Re: ports/UPDATING instructions and Python 2.4 (Nikola Lecic) 29. Re: How to block 200K ip addresses? (Dan Nelson) 30. IPFW and HTTPS problem (Narek Gharibyan) 31. IPFW and HTTPS problem (Narek Gharibyan) 32. Re: Test on FreeBSD site (NetOpsCenter) 33. Re: IPFW and HTTPS problem (Bill Moran) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:12:38 -0400 From: blix Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1188043958.1307.3.camel@bsdpc.centralamerica> Content-Type: text/plain Please help with suggestions on how I can eliminate some console spam. my console and messages file is filling up with these entries: Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): CAM Status: SCSI Status Er ror Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): SCSI Status: Check Conditi on Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): NOT READY asc:3a,0 Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Medium not present Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Unretryable error It jusst repeats over and over again. I need to get rid of them. Question 1: How can I silence these messages so they stop repeating in my logs? Question 2: If they cannot be silenced, how can I keep them from taking over my text console when I go into single user mode? please help with suggestions, thanks Dan ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:15:52 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser Subject: ports/UPDATING instructions and Python 2.4 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I need to keep Python 2.4 on my system to run Zope (which isn't compatible with 2.5). So, I dutifully followed the instructions under /usr/ports/UPDATING starting with "If want to keep 2.4.x installed alongside 2.5.x [...]". When I came back a little later, all of my dependent ports had been upgraded from py24-* to py25-*, effectively killing my webserver. Could someone else take a look at those instructions and see if they make sense - they look a little suspicious to me - or if there is some gotcha that I might have missed? Thanks. -- Kirk Strauser -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20070825/f1 281c55/PGP-0001.pgp ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:15:16 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Subject: ath pccard ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop To: "User Questions" Message-ID: <539c60b90708250815h7942ceafs99fb43a55604ecef@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 So, I don't have any dmesg, because I don't get one at all with my ath0 card that I'm currently typing this on my old dell 600mhz laptop. I also have a wi0 card that works on the 600mhz machine, but it gives a freeze on the new system, and when you remove it, you get "cbb0 ready never happened, staus=00; pccard0 card has no functions". I've done my homework, and I know these topics come up, but I can't seem to google an answer...I really, really, really hate hp/compaq. I love the way it disables the machine if you try to put an atheros card in the internal minipci slot. Shouldn't have bought the $400 laptop. What can I say, I used to be a windows user ;) This is my last windows machine to fall to bsd, at least it is if I can get a NIC in it to work. Thanks, Steve -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:16:47 +0000 From: Subject: Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot To: sonicy@otenet.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi, Manoliis: I took your advice. I copied the burned iso file into a FreeBSD directory and ran md5 and the check digits did not match. I then copied my downloaded iso image from Win98 into FreeBSD and ran md5 and the digits did match. So there was nothing wrong with the iso of disc1 that I downloaded from the web site into Win98. It must have been the burning of the file in Win98 with Nero Express that was the problem. So I burned another copy of the iso in FreeBSd with burncd using: burncd -f /dev/acd1 6.2-RELEASE-i386.iso fixate and it booted just fine. Thanks for all of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending the better part of the weekend doing the installation of 6.2. Wish me luck. Have a great day, Larry >From: Manolis Kiagias >To: >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:34:12 +0300 > >lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have > > downloaded it and burned it three times without success. > > > > I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had > > decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would > > like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and > > burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to > > reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my > > CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the > > 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything > > appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just > > can't seem to boot from it. > > > > 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? > >Could be that you are burning the file as a real file on a disk instead >of burning it as an image? >You need to select the option from your program that is similar to >"create cd from iso image" > > > 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning > > more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) > >No. Instead you should check the file you already downloaded > > > 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? > >Not really, no > > > 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is > > corrupted? > > >Yes. From the site you downloaded the iso files, download the CHECKSUM >files as well. >There are two of them, CHEKSUM.md5 and CHECKSUM.SHA256 >One would be enough to validate your download. For example look at the >CHECKSUM.md5 file: >For disk1, the checksum is: > >MD5 (6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 3d27214700687c0b5390e8b6dd3706e3 > >you can validate this with the md5 command from FreeBSD, or if you don't >wish to reboot from win98, here is and md5 command for windows: > >http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/md5.zip > >use something like: > >md5 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso > >and compare the output to the one on the file. > > BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through > > FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE > > i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. > > > >I've bought stuff from them: copies of the handbook, tshirts, sticker, >beastie dolls :) >Good service. > > > Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Larry > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > >Best of luck, > >Manolis ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:27:26 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Subject: update: "Danger Will Robinson" dmesg [ath pccard... ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop] To: "User Questions" Message-ID: <539c60b90708250827r62146dc2k582e0c053d34c786@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 update: several minutes after I pulled the ath0 out, I got a dmesg reading: "cbb0: Danger Will Robinson: Resource left allocated! This is a bug... (rid=0, type=1, addr=11)" "cbb0: Danger Will Robinson: Resource left allocated! This is a bug... (rid=0, type=4, addr=a100)" Steve On 8/25/07, Steve Franks wrote: > So, I don't have any dmesg, because I don't get one at all with my > ath0 card that I'm currently typing this on my old dell 600mhz laptop. > I also have a wi0 card that works on the 600mhz machine, but it gives > a freeze on the new system, and when you remove it, you get "cbb0 > ready never happened, staus=00; pccard0 card has no functions". I've > done my homework, and I know these topics come up, but I can't seem to > google an answer...I really, really, really hate hp/compaq. I love > the way it disables the machine if you try to put an atheros card in > the internal minipci slot. Shouldn't have bought the $400 laptop. > What can I say, I used to be a windows user ;) This is my last windows > machine to fall to bsd, at least it is if I can get a NIC in it to > work. > > Thanks, > Steve > > -- > Steve Franks, KE7BTE > Staff Engineer > La Palma Devices, LLC > http://www.lapalmadevices.com > (520) 312-0089 > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:28:47 -0400 From: Rob Subject: Re: load script at bootup To: Narek Gharibyan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <46D04AAF.7030007@xxiii.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Narek Gharibyan wrote: > 3. Is there a program, script or any way more appropriate to track the > packet loss and ping availability.? You might try the "APinger" port in: ports/net/apinger I started using it a couple weeks ago to locate some connectivity problems, and it's impressive for a small simple utility. It has a startup script, if you wish to run it automatically. -R ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:30:17 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson Subject: Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot To: lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca Cc: sonicy@otenet.gr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <46D04B09.8050400@crackmonkey.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca wrote: > So I burned another copy of the iso in FreeBSd with burncd using: > burncd -f /dev/acd1 6.2-RELEASE-i386.iso fixate > and it booted just fine. > > Thanks for all of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending > the better part of the weekend doing the installation of 6.2. Wish me > luck. Hurrah! :) Better part of a weekend, though? Oh well, mine not to reason why... It occurs to me now that under Win98 you would have had to use the ASPI layer to burn your CD. Much as I loathe Nero, I found it was the ASPI layer that caused my problems. The ASPI layer [for whatever reason] tends to degrade over time until it's unusable. When I finally upgraded my systems to Windows 2000, I was able to use the SPTI layer, which I found far superior to ASPI. It might be a good idea not to use Win98 for burning CDs any more. If you did decide to use a more recent version of Windows, I can recommend the freeware project Burnatonce, which is fully SPTI-capable. ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:43:22 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: /var or /usr for data? To: rloefgren@forethought.net Cc: Wojciech Puchar , Brad Waite , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825154322.GB71640@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:20:16PM -0600, rloefgren@forethought.net wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >>It would appear that the "proper" allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is > >>to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for > >>years. > > > >my favourite "proper" allocation is to make ONE partition (/) and nothing > >more. and forget all problems about how to partition your drive right... > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I've made a quick look-see through my copies of "The Complete FreeBSD" and > "Absolute BSD" and can't find the reference, but I recall reading > somewhere in my 4.x days that FreeBSD used a different algorithm to write > to the /var directory, if it was on its own filesystem, because /var was > written to a lot (holding logs and all.) Because of this, and all the way > up to 6.2 today, I put /var on its own filesystem, after / and swap. > Where the old AIX wonks used to call the "outer middle" of the disk. Was > this different algorithm really the case? And, now with UFS2, is it still > the case? I still put pgsql/data on /var. I think you may be confusing var with swap. A different algorithm is used for managing and writing/reading swap. I haven't heard of any difference with /var. ////jerry > > r > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:15:34 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot Subject: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs To: Freebsd questions Message-ID: <19b45665395c7bf4ad37b40b0c3efca4@szalbot.homedns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello, I am going to get a UPS device for my home freebsd gateway/router and wonder if there is anything that you would recommend? At work I use APC units and there is a dedicated software to manage it (apcupsd). Not sure if that's the case with other manufacturers? I'd like to get something that could be managed by software and at the some time not too expensive... you know home budget...erm... Well, many thanks for all recommendations! Zbigniew Szalbot ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:50:17 +0800 From: "Aminuddin" Subject: RE: How to block 200K ip addresses? To: Message-ID: <46d05dcf.0abd720a.60a8.fffff7d0@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, How do you block this large range of ip addresses from different subnet? IPFW only allows 65536 rules while this will probably use up a few hundred thousands of lines. I'm also trying to add this into my proxy configuration file, ss5.conf but it doesn't allow me to add this large number. IS this the limitation of IPF or FreeBSD? How do I work around this? -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 8:00 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37 Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org You can reach the person managing the list at freebsd-questions-owner@freebsd.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS? (Kris Kennaway) 2. RE: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list (Ted Mittelstaedt) 3. Re: READ_DMA Error (Bahman M.) 4. Re: best way to keep track of new developments (Michel Talon) 5. Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list (Andrew Gould) 6. Re: /var or /usr for data? (rloefgren@forethought.net) 7. Mouse suddenly gets detached and reattached (Bahman M.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:56:59 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS? To: Norberto Meijome Cc: User Questions , Roger Olofsson Message-ID: <20070825055659.GA42274@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:26:50PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:29:59 +0200 > Roger Olofsson wrote: > > > Turns out ImageMagick was called through php to resize the .JPG and most > > likely, the server runs out of memory/disk space. /var/tmp fills up and > > console spews as follows: > > > > Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28 > > Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 32768 > > at 62620 > > Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: pid 29 (syncer), uid 0 inumber 49382 on > > /var: filesystem full > > :) having been bitten by that in several unix-like OS (pick any Linux distro, and freebsd too), i just remove /var/tmp and make a smylink to /tmp , which is big enough for my foreseeable needs. I like to keep my /var clean of tmp rubbish. > > and yes, configuring PHP and it's libraries helps too :) That's not an answer obviously. Error 28 is #define ENOSPC 28 /* No space left on device */ This seems like a bug to me: when a filesystem fills you shouldn't be getting this behaviour. Can you please follow the directions in the developers handbook chapter on kernel debugging, and when you trigger a hang, break to DDB from the console and force a dump, then file a PR and make the core file available to the developers. Unfortunately unless a developer can replicate the behaviour, providing access to a core is the only real debugging option. Thanks, Kris ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:34:30 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Subject: RE: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list To: "Erik Trulsson" , "fbsd2" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Erik Trulsson > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:52 AM > To: fbsd2 > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG > Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list > > > For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and > explicitly the case that one does not need to be subscribed to post here. > This is because it is the main support forum for FreeBSD, and much > documentation exists directing people to ask their questions here. > > The list admins do have their priorities straight - they just > have different > priorities than you do. > Probably the list admins figure that anyone who posts here is an advanced user type who understands how to setup spam filters that work. Ted ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:52:30 +0330 From: "Bahman M." Subject: Re: READ_DMA Error To: "Tamouh H." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <6d62f69a0708250122l1bf53d84p73d64f17837a535@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > During FreeBSD 6.2 installation, the process failed because > > of errors like the one below: > > READ_DMA UDMA .... ICRC error LBA=37505132 > > > > I managed to install by setting hw.ata.ata_dma=0 at boot time > > but the same errors occur after installation and at boot time > > so I had to put hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in loader.conf and now the > > system is working. > > > > I checked my hard disk which a 80GB Western Digital+ > > thoroughly and there were no errors reported (using fsck in > > single user mode). Also I used to install Fedora Linux on > > this disk without any problems. > > > > It looks that disabling DMA caused my disk to work with lower > > performance. Am I right? If yes, are there any solutions to > > eliminate those READ_DMA errors while DMA is enabled? > > > > PS: > > Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-X > > CPU: Athlon XP 2500 at 1833MHz > > $ uname -ai > > FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 > > UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > i386 GENERIC > > Typically, I've seen the READ_DMA error when a hard drive is going bad or > something wrong with the hardware (power supply is failing). But it could be > as you've described. I tested with another hard disk, the one on which I'd installed FreeBSD in the past. I put it on another IDE channel but the same things happened. Now I wonder if it's my IDE controller which has problems. Some information about the hardware: # dmesg | grep -E "^ac?d[[:digit:]]" ad0: 76319MB at ata0-master PIO4 ad1: 19540MB at ata0-slave PIO4 acd0: DVDR at ata1-master UDMA66 acd1: DVDROM at ata1-slave UDMA33 # sysctl -a | grep ata_dma hw.ata.ata_dma: 0 # sysctl -a | grep atapi hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1 Bahman ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:41:42 +0200 From: Michel Talon Subject: Re: best way to keep track of new developments To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825084142.GA5233@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > intel 3945 wireless > ati x1300 graphics I have the intel 3945 on my Sony laptop. Works for me with Damien Bergamini driver 20070121-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz and FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE. There are a lot of error messages but it works nonetheless. However i suspect that it produces memory corruption in conjunction with the display card, which freezes from time to time when the 3945 is activated and i am running X. I have never seen a crash when the 3945 is shut down or i am running on console. The most recent driver by B. Close is 20070715-wpi-freebsd-7.0-current.tgz but it works only with FreeBSD-7 so i cannot test it. I have tested other B. Close drivers, none worked. As for the video, an Intel card is highly recommended, it works very well on laptops and is sufficiently powerful to run things like compiz. There are very good available video modes on console, contrary to many other models. -- Michel TALON ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:10:06 -0500 From: "Andrew Gould" Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 8/25/07, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Probably the list admins figure that anyone who posts here is an > advanced user type who understands how to setup spam filters that > work. > > Ted > _______________________________________________ > Or doesn't; but wants to. I tell people that if they "just want a Windows replacement", they should stick with Windows or use a Mac because they want better service from the computer without any growth in skills or responsibilities on their part. A core strength of the *nix operating systems and communities is the administrator/users' desire for control and acceptance of responsibilities that come with that control. System administration is not a spectator sport. Andrew ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:20:16 -0600 (MDT) From: rloefgren@forethought.net Subject: Re: /var or /usr for data? To: Wojciech Puchar Cc: Brad Waite , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070824192101.Y36415@auden.jmla.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> It would appear that the "proper" allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is >> to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for >> years. > > my favourite "proper" allocation is to make ONE partition (/) and nothing > more. and forget all problems about how to partition your drive right... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I've made a quick look-see through my copies of "The Complete FreeBSD" and "Absolute BSD" and can't find the reference, but I recall reading somewhere in my 4.x days that FreeBSD used a different algorithm to write to the /var directory, if it was on its own filesystem, because /var was written to a lot (holding logs and all.) Because of this, and all the way up to 6.2 today, I put /var on its own filesystem, after / and swap. Where the old AIX wonks used to call the "outer middle" of the disk. Was this different algorithm really the case? And, now with UFS2, is it still the case? I still put pgsql/data on /var. r ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:05:16 +0330 From: "Bahman M." Subject: Mouse suddenly gets detached and reattached To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <6d62f69a0708250435x3e1e56f0ne869556e373f23a5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi all, I just installed X (xorg 7.2) and am using FluxBox. It's working well and there are no problems. However, the mouse gets suddenly detached and immediately reattached. I can't say exactly how often this happens, roughly about 6~7 times a day. # dmesg | tail -n 4 ums0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ums0: detached ums0: vendor 0x05e3 USB Mouse, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir. # sudo sysctl -a | grep ums dev.ums.0.%desc: vendor 0x05e3 USB Mouse, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 dev.ums.0.%driver: ums dev.ums.0.%location: port=0 interface=0 dev.ums.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x05e3 product=0x1205 devclass=0x00 devsubclass=0x00 release=0x0100 sernum="" intclass=0x03 intsubclass=0x01 dev.ums.0.%parent: uhub0 # uname -ai FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 GENERIC Is it sign of a problem? In fact I don't care about the hardware as it can be easily replaced, I'm afraid that there's something wrong with software. Thanks in advance for your help. Bahman ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" End of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37 ************************************************** ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:56:57 -0400 From: Bill Moran Subject: Re: How to block 200K ip addresses? To: amin.scg@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825125657.d7b18741.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In response to "Aminuddin" : > Hi, > How do you block this large range of ip addresses from different subnet? > IPFW only allows 65536 rules while this will probably use up a few hundred > thousands of lines. > > I'm also trying to add this into my proxy configuration file, ss5.conf but > it doesn't allow me to add this large number. > > IS this the limitation of IPF or FreeBSD? How do I work around this? Not sure if this is a limitation of ipf, but you should be able to do what you want with pf and pf tables. As long as you're using a relatively recent version of FreeBSD, you'll have pf as an option. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:43:48 -0400 From: Joe Schaefer Subject: Transferring a GEOM array between hosts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <87ir738szf.fsf@gemini.sunstarsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have an external JBOD array that is a mirror of two stripes. What I'd like to do is plug that array into a new/different freebsd host machine. Is there anything I need to do to prepare the new machine for the array? Naively, I'd hope that the new machine will pick up the geom configuration from the drives themselves, so I won't have to run any gmirror or gstripe commands on the new machine after the JBOD has been plugged into it. Can anyone who has done this before give me a few tips on how to plan appropriately for such a move? -- Joe Schaefer ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:11:52 +0100 From: dgmm Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <200708251811.52316.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" On Saturday 25 August 2007, blix wrote: > Please help with suggestions on how I can eliminate some console spam. > > my console and messages file is filling up with these entries: > > Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): READ CAPACITY. > CDB: 25 60 > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): CAM Status: SCSI > Status Er > ror > Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): SCSI Status: Check > Conditi > on > Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): NOT READY asc:3a,0 > Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Medium not present > Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Unretryable error > > It jusst repeats over and over again. I need to get rid of them. > > Question 1: How can I silence these messages so they stop repeating in > my logs? > > Question 2: If they cannot be silenced, how can I keep them from taking > over my text console when I go into single user mode? > > please help with suggestions, Step 1. Create a new message to start a new thread or you emails will get lost in other, unrelated threads. Step 2. Unplug the USB device da3 or stop whatever is trying to automount it from running -- Dave ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:13:17 -0400 From: Bill Moran Subject: Re: time issue To: "Michael P. Soulier" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825131317.609d2b45.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In response to "Michael P. Soulier" : > Hello, > > I recently noticed that my clock was running a few minutes slow, even though I > have ntpd running on the box. Now I'm seeing this on occasion. > > Aug 24 20:17:10 kanga dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 105 seconds. This > might c > ause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMov > edBackwards > > > Does this suggest a hardware clock issue? In addition to the other suggestions, FreeBSD may have chosen a crappy clock. Believe it or not, most motherboards have multiple clocks. Depending on the type of clock and the quality of the mobo, not all of these clocks are good for keeping time. FreeBSD tries to choose the best clock at boot time, but doesn't always get it right. For some interesting discussions on this topic, search the list archives for "calcru" or check out this FAQ entry: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#LAPTO P-CLOCK-SKEW -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:16:43 +0100 From: Jo?o Pinheiro Subject: fdisk - can't update an in-use partition To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <46D063FB.5070602@pontosi.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, I have freebsd 6.2 installed on a disk with a 260Gb partition with only a 30Gb label (don't ask :P) and I'm trying to resize the active partition to the size of the existing label, so I can create another partition. I've already set kern.geom.debugflags=16 to be able to write to mbr, but fdisk doesn't update my disk and gives the following error: fdisk: conflict with open slices Does anywone know a way to force fdisk to update the partition table? This is a remote machine so I can't boot from CD to correct the partition table and/or reinstall the SO. Thanks in advance, Joco Pinheiro ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:53:19 -0400 From: Robert Huff Subject: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs To: Freebsd questions Message-ID: <18128.27791.491938.844812@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Zbigniew Szalbot writes: > I am going to get a UPS device for my home freebsd gateway/router > and wonder if there is anything that you would recommend? At work > I use APC units and there is a dedicated software to manage it > (apcupsd). Not sure if that's the case with other manufacturers? > I'd like to get something that could be managed by software and > at the some time not too expensive... you know home > budget...erm... Assuming the manufacturer does not provide a program - and few do - the preferred software for APC (and compatible) units is "apcupsd"; for others, it seems to be "nut" (sysutils/nut). Check carefully to make sure it works with your UPS. Robert Huff ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:00:11 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne Subject: Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <200708251300.11373.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Saturday 25 August 2007 12:53:19 Robert Huff wrote: > Zbigniew Szalbot writes: > > I am going to get a UPS device for my home freebsd gateway/router > > and wonder if there is anything that you would recommend? At work > > I use APC units and there is a dedicated software to manage it > > (apcupsd). Not sure if that's the case with other manufacturers? > > I'd like to get something that could be managed by software and > > at the some time not too expensive... you know home > > budget...erm... > > Assuming the manufacturer does not provide a program - and few > do - the preferred software for APC (and compatible) units is > "apcupsd"; for others, it seems to be "nut" (sysutils/nut). > Check carefully to make sure it works with your UPS. > > > Robert Huff > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ill put in another vote for an APC with sysutile/apcupsd. here is some example output of the what the software pulls from the unit: [jhorne@athena ~] $ apcaccess APC : 001,037,0912 DATE : Sat Aug 25 12:57:45 CDT 2007 HOSTNAME : athena.dfwlp.com RELEASE : 3.14.1 VERSION : 3.14.1 (04 May 2007) freebsd UPSNAME : Athena APC RS 1500 CABLE : USB Cable MODEL : Back-UPS RS 1500 UPSMODE : Stand Alone STARTTIME: Sat Aug 25 07:56:21 CDT 2007 STATUS : ONLINE LINEV : 118.0 Volts LOADPCT : 18.0 Percent Load Capacity BCHARGE : 100.0 Percent TIMELEFT : 49.0 Minutes MBATTCHG : 5 Percent MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes MAXTIME : 0 Seconds SENSE : High LOTRANS : 097.0 Volts HITRANS : 138.0 Volts ALARMDEL : Always BATTV : 27.1 Volts LASTXFER : Low line voltage NUMXFERS : 0 TONBATT : 0 seconds CUMONBATT: 0 seconds XOFFBATT : N/A SELFTEST : NO STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag MANDATE : 2006-09-19 SERIALNO : BBlalalalalalalalala BATTDATE : 2001-09-25 NOMINV : 120 NOMBATTV : 24.0 FIRMWARE : 8.g9 .D USB FW:g9 APCMODEL : Back-UPS RS 1500 END APC : Sat Aug 25 12:57:49 CDT 2007 (as you can see, its USB connected too, which is a nice convenience) cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com ------------------------------ Message: 18 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:58:06 -0500 From: Mak Kolybabi Subject: MSK Driver -- Unable to get it working on laptop To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825175803.GA19094@brisbane> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've been trying to get FreeBSD -CURRENT installed on my laptop for several days now. Although most things work fine, I cannot get my ethernet card to function. I have searched for similar issues on the web and mailing list archives and found nothing. The card identifies as: > mskc0@pci2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01101025 chip=0x435211ab rev=0x14 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' > device = 'Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller' > class = network > subclass = ethernet The relevant portion of dmesg is: > pcib1: irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0 > pcib1: secondary bus 2 > pcib1: subordinate bus 2 > pcib1: I/O decode 0x0-0x0 > pcib1: no prefetched decode > [snip] > pcib1: matched entry for 2.0.INTA > pcib1: slot 0 INTA hardwired to IRQ 16 > mskc0: irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 > pcib1: mskc0 requested unsupported memory range 0-0xffffffffffffffff (decoding 0-0, 0-0) > mskc0: 0x4000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff). > mskc0: Lazy allocation of 0x4 bytes rid 0x14 type 4 at 0x1080 > mskc0: unknown device: id=0x00, rev=0x00 > device_attach: mskc0 attach returned 6 I've posted full versions of all the relevant configuration info I could think of at pastebin: DMESG: http://pastebin.org/1136 PCICONF: http://pastebin.org/1137 SYSCTL: http://pastebin.org/1138 And finally, here's the web page with the laptop's specs: http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=540&formid=3404 &website=AcerPanAm.com/canada&siteid=7297&words=all&keywords=&areaid=17 Any help would be much appreciated. -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions ------------------------------ Message: 19 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:38:10 +0100 From: Jo?o Pinheiro Subject: Re: fdisk - can't update an in-use partition - solved To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <46D07712.4030405@pontosi.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Joco Pinheiro escreveu: > Hi, > I have freebsd 6.2 installed on a disk with a 260Gb partition with > only a 30Gb label (don't ask :P) and I'm trying to resize the active > partition to the size of the existing label, so I can create another > partition. I've already set kern.geom.debugflags=16 to be able to > write to mbr, but fdisk doesn't update my disk and gives the following > error: > > fdisk: conflict with open slices > > Does anywone know a way to force fdisk to update the partition table? > This is a remote machine so I can't boot from CD to correct the > partition table and/or reinstall the SO. > > Thanks in advance, > Joco Pinheiro > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It seems fdisk updates the partition table anyway, it only displays a notice. Joco Pinheiro ------------------------------ Message: 20 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:04:40 -0400 From: "Michael P. Soulier" Subject: Re: time issue To: Modulok Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825190440.GB9340@piglet.digitaltorque.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On 24/08/07 Modulok said: > Is this a system that is left running 24/7 connected to the Internet, > or a system which is frequently turned off? If the latter, you might It's the former. I'll try the suggested ntp sync option anyway. I'm adding more sources too, in case the one that I'm syncing too isn't good enough. Ah, in fact I think that it is not. Perhaps the NRC isn't permitting public access to their time servers anymore. [msoulier@kanga ~]$ ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================ == time.nrc.ca .INIT. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00 tick.usask.ca .GPS. 1 u 9 64 1 111.674 27760.6 0.002 tock.usask.ca .GPS. 1 u 8 64 1 107.417 27759.2 0.002 boudicca.tux.or 65.212.71.102 2 u 7 64 1 95.680 27758.6 0.002 LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 10 l 6 64 1 0.000 0.000 0.002 Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If this turns out to be your problem, I recommend using pool.ntp.org. Read up a bit, it should be much more reliable on a consistent basis. Also, OpenNTP has support built in to automatically talk to all of ntp.org's servers without any funky configuration: http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ------------------------------ Message: 22 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:05:26 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" Subject: uknd - uhub DRAC woes. To: Message-ID: <002001c81742$62d22a00$6501a8c0@GRANT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, Whenever I reset my DRAC cards on my Dell machines, I can no longer use the remote terminal applet to access the console. The error I see is this: ukbd0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ukbd0: detached Is there any way to reinit the keyboard? (through ssh). i.e can the uhub and/or the ukbd drivers be restarted. (short of powering down/up the whole server. -Grant ------------------------------ Message: 23 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:49:06 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias Subject: Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot To: lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <46D04F72.2050709@otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca wrote: > Hi, Manoliis: > > I took your advice. I copied the burned iso file into a FreeBSD > directory and ran md5 and the check digits did not match. I then > copied my downloaded iso image from Win98 into FreeBSD and ran md5 and > the digits did match. So there was nothing wrong with the iso of > disc1 that I downloaded from the web site into Win98. It must have > been the burning of the file in Win98 with Nero Express that was the > problem. > > So I burned another copy of the iso in FreeBSd with burncd using: > burncd -f /dev/acd1 6.2-RELEASE-i386.iso fixate > and it booted just fine. > > Thanks for all of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending > the better part of the weekend doing the installation of 6.2. Wish me > luck. > > Have a great day, > Larry > > Glad I could be of help! Make sure to get some pizza and beer for your install party :) I believe you will find 6.2 to be an excellent release, as most of us on this list do. Take care, Manolis ------------------------------ Message: 24 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:36:45 -0500 From: Derek Ragona Subject: Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs To: Zbigniew Szalbot , Freebsd questions Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070825153524.02687ec0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:15 AM 8/25/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: >Hello, > >I am going to get a UPS device for my home freebsd gateway/router and >wonder if there is anything that you would recommend? At work I use APC >units and there is a dedicated software to manage it (apcupsd). Not sure if >that's the case with other manufacturers? I'd like to get something that >could be managed by software and at the some time not too expensive... you >know home budget...erm... > >Well, many thanks for all recommendations! > > >Zbigniew Szalbot I use nut from the ports. I have had no problem with UPS's that have a serial interface. Some USB interfaces work, some do not. So I would use a UPS with a seral interface assuming you have a free serial port on the server. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ------------------------------ Message: 25 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:46:04 +0100 From: "N.J. Mann" Subject: Re: uknd - uhub DRAC woes. To: Grant Peel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825204604.GB31483@oberon.njm.f2s.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In message <002001c81742$62d22a00$6501a8c0@GRANT>, Grant Peel wrote: > > Whenever I reset my DRAC cards on my Dell machines, I'm sorry but I can't help you with your problem. But, you do need to reset your clock, since you appear to have reached October two months before the rest of us. I noticed this, because my spam filters flagged your message as probably spam, where of course it wasn't. Cheers, Nick. -- ------------------------------ Message: 26 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:46:55 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot Subject: Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs To: Freebsd questions Message-ID: <4b154dd73e0ceaa63c6dc049067bbeea@szalbot.homedns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello, >>that's the case with other manufacturers? I'd like to get something that >>could be managed by software and at the some time not too expensive... > you >>know home budget...erm... > I use nut from the ports. I have had no problem with UPS's that have a > serial interface. Some USB interfaces work, some do not. So I would use > a > UPS with a seral interface assuming you have a free serial port on the > server. Thank you - thank you very much for all the responses. Very helpful. Have a nice week-end. Regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.lcwords.com ------------------------------ Message: 27 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:55:32 -0400 From: dan sikorsky Subject: nvidia driver blues To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <46D09744.5060705@cupid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed freebsd 6.2 i386 generic geforce 7300gt fresh install.. have updated source, and new ports tree.. installd x11, and then nvidia drivers no luck, all i get is [root@green /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver]# make install ===> Building for nvidia-driver-100.14.11 ===> src (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"100.14.11\" -D__KERNEL__ -DNVRM -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -O -fno-common -msoft-float -fno-unit-at-a-time -minline-all-stringops -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99 -nostdinc -I/src -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c nvidia_ctl.c cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-pointer-sign" *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-100.14.11/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-100.14.11. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver any ideas? ------------------------------ Message: 28 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:56:41 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic Subject: Re: ports/UPDATING instructions and Python 2.4 To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <200708252101.l7PL1ME1018080@eunet.yu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:15:52 -0500 Kirk Strauser wrote: > I need to keep Python 2.4 on my system to run Zope (which isn't > compatible with 2.5). So, I dutifully followed the instructions > under /usr/ports/UPDATING starting with "If want to keep 2.4.x > installed alongside 2.5.x [...]". When I came back a little later, > all of my dependent ports had been upgraded from py24-* to py25-*, > effectively killing my webserver. > > Could someone else take a look at those instructions and see if they > make sense - they look a little suspicious to me - or if there is > some gotcha that I might have missed? Thanks. Hello Kirk, A couple of thoughts that could be useful. The instructions explain how to keep both 2.4 and 2.5 versions of _Python_itself_, that's all. The "PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION=python2.5" line of /etc/make.conf serves as an indicator to all new applications to avoid confusion if python-2.4 is installed alongside. You now probably have something like: # ls -d /var/db/pkg/py* /var/db/pkg/python24-2.4.4_1 /var/db/pkg/python25-2.5.1 /var/db/pkg/py25-cairo-1.4.0_1 /var/db/pkg/py25-chardet-1.0_3 [... etc., py25-* only ...] Zope feels fine in this situation: # cd /usr/ports/www/zope3 # make configure [...] ===> Patching for zope-3.3.1 ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for zope-3.3.1 ===> zope-3.3.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.4 - found ===> Configuring for zope-3.3.1 Configuring Zope installation Using Python interpreter at /usr/local/bin/python2.4 (The same for other py-* ports that are fixed to 2.4 interpreter (i.e. www/py-pylons).) Now, I'm trying to understand what happened to your webserver: you said that changing py24-* to py25-* broke it. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I see just 7 py-* ports that have any relationship with Zope. These are: databases/py-psycopg [WITH_ZOPE optional] devel/py-zopeInterface devel/py-twistedCore [dependent on devel/py-zopeInterface] lang/py-mx-base [WITH_ZOPE optional] x11-toolkits/py-kiwi [optionally linked with devel/py-zopeInterface] devel/py-zconfig [not sure about this one] textproc/py-zpt [not sure about this one] The presence of 'WITH_ZOPE' flag will force the port to use correct version of Python: # cd /usr/ports/lang/py-mx-base/ # make USE_ZOPE=yes ===> py23-mx-base-2.0.6 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.3 - not found ===> Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/python2.3 in /usr/ports/lang/python23 (ZOPE_VERSION is also available.) So where is the connection between zope and py-* ports that crashed your webserver? Please elaborate on this, i.e. how does you webserver depend on py24-*? In meantime, if you just need py24- versions of several ports, you can do something like this: # portupgrade -f -r -m "PYTHON_VERSION=2.4" py25-imaging This will install py24-imaging and rebuild ports dependent on it (e.g. graphics/skencil). Use '-n' flag to see what will happen first. This is a quick and non-elegant help to get your webserver working again. If you provide more information you will surely get more in-depth explanation and more elegant solution from someone, preferably from other Zope users. Nikola LeD iD ------------------------------ Message: 29 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:13:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: How to block 200K ip addresses? To: Aminuddin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825211352.GB25055@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the last episode (Aug 26), Aminuddin said: > How do you block this large range of ip addresses from different > subnet? IPFW only allows 65536 rules while this will probably use up > a few hundred thousands of lines. > > I'm also trying to add this into my proxy configuration file, ss5.conf but > it doesn't allow me to add this large number. > > IS this the limitation of IPF or FreeBSD? How do I work around this? Even though there are 65536 rule numbers, each number can actually have any amount of rules assigned to it. What you're probably looking for, though, is ipfw's table keyword, which uses the same radix tree lookup format as the kernel's routing tables, so it scales well to large amounts of sparse addresses. man ipfw, search for "lookup tables". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com ------------------------------ Message: 30 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:15:58 +0500 From: "Narek Gharibyan" Subject: IPFW and HTTPS problem To: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <01d201c7e75d$21950ea0$180ca8c0@arm.synisys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" I enabled https for my webmail. It works for LAN client but doesn't work for Internet clients. I checked with tcpdump ipfw filters the incomping https packets unless the rule Ipfw add allow tcp from any to ${webmail} 443 Ipfw add allow tcp from ${webmail} 443 to any Even I tried Ipfw add allow all from any to ${webmail} keep-state Ipfw add allow all from ${webmail} to any keep-state Nothing helps. Any comments? Are there any specific ipfw configurations related to https? Thank you in advance Narek ------------------------------ Message: 31 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:15:58 +0500 From: "Narek Gharibyan" Subject: IPFW and HTTPS problem To: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <01d201c7e75d$21950ea0$180ca8c0@arm.synisys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" I enabled https for my webmail. It works for LAN client but doesn't work for Internet clients. I checked with tcpdump ipfw filters the incomping https packets unless the rule Ipfw add allow tcp from any to ${webmail} 443 Ipfw add allow tcp from ${webmail} 443 to any Even I tried Ipfw add allow all from any to ${webmail} keep-state Ipfw add allow all from ${webmail} to any keep-state Nothing helps. Any comments? Are there any specific ipfw configurations related to https? Thank you in advance Narek ------------------------------ Message: 32 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:18:32 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter Subject: Re: Test on FreeBSD site To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <46D09CA8.2090701@hdk5.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Bill Moran wrote: >In response to NetOpsCenter : > > > >>Aloha, >> >>How long does it take for a test to be accepted or rejected on the >>FreeBSD test mail box? >>Is three minutes normal for a test to pop up? >>I had some FreeBSD 7 config issues and this nearly caused me to think I >>hadn't cleared the problem because it took quite a while to pop up. >> >> > >It depends on how busy the server is at the time you send it, among >other factors. I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing >greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. > >In this day and age, with the spam scourge and all the alleged "solutions" >that everyone's mail servers use, anything less than 10 minutes for a >delivery should be considered successful. > > > Thanks for the reply. FreeBSD 7 is excellent. Applause to the Developers. I have been using FreeBSD since 2. something. Is there a good how to set up spam assassin for FreeBSD? Most I have tried have no FreeBSD specific file placements listsed and I can't get it to work. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol ------------------------------ Message: 33 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:21:24 -0400 From: Bill Moran Subject: Re: IPFW and HTTPS problem To: "Narek Gharibyan" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070825172124.6295f597.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII [Any reason you posted to the same list twice?] In response to "Narek Gharibyan" : > > I enabled https for my webmail. It works for LAN client but doesn't work for > Internet clients. I checked with tcpdump ipfw filters the incomping https > packets unless the rule > > Ipfw add allow tcp from any to ${webmail} 443 > > Ipfw add allow tcp from ${webmail} 443 to any > > > > Even I tried > > > > Ipfw add allow all from any to ${webmail} keep-state > > Ipfw add allow all from ${webmail} to any keep-state > > > > Nothing helps. > > > > Any comments? Yes. Please provide your entire ruleset. It's impossible to assist in debugging a ruleset with only a partial ruleset. Do not trim or edit the ruleset, as you may trim away the part that is causing the problem. On your own, the output of 'ipfw show' can be useful for determining which rules are blocking traffic, as it shows counters of how many packets have matched each rule. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" End of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 38 **************************************************