Re: driver question
At 05:09 PM 2/21/2006, Jeffrey Shi wrote: Hi, I am new to freebsd. My question is for my motherboard and VGA CARD to work with freebsd, should I use linux driver or unix driver? The freebsd I am thinking to install is version 6.0. What do you plan to run on this system? Any video card is supported in plain VGA mode. You don't need a driver unless you're trying to get X-windows running. There's a how-to on the web site or the online handbook. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem connecting a freebsd server using ssh
At 03:50 AM 2/23/2006, Lei Sun wrote: 1. ssh from Freebsd_A to Freebsd_B: I got "Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer" error. 2. ssh from windows xp (putty) to Freebsd_B: logs me in fine 3. try to ssh from Freebsd_A to Freebsd_B again, got the same error I didn't did through your logs extensively. But when I've run into similar problems recently, it's usually because one of the clients is using an older ( < v2) of the protocol. At some point back in fBSD 5.x support for the less-secure v1 ssh protocol became disabled by default. Try editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config and look for a "Protocol" option. Try setting it to "Protocol 1,2" However, the level one supposedly has some security holes, and you might not want to use it over the public Internet. I just use it with my stupid windoze client that only does level one, to connect over our own LAN, so I don't care. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Solved, thanks! And a hot software tip (was: How to remove Boot Menu)
Hi thanks to everyone who responded, Esp Tim D. on my question about removing the FBSD boot manager. A plain old DOS FDISK /MBR zapped it, and left my BSD installation untouched. Problem is yet again, I needed a dang DOS boot disk. I've been thinking for years it would be cool to have a boot CD-Rom instead, that could load up into a ram disk, yada, yada Well someone already did it, and did a damn thorough job: The Ultimate Boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ is a must-have piece of free-ware for anyone maintaining "win-tel" PCs, regardless of the operating system in use. See the site for a complete list. But basically the guy has pulled together dozens of manufacturer specific diagnostics, firmware flashers, etc onto one CD that can run them directly, or get you a shell in dos or linux, and be able to mount pretty much any file system out there. Good Stuff! Check it out. And [maybe] finally trash those floppies for good. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Recommended Web Mail software
Hi All... I'm looking to install a web-email package on our FreeBSD 6.0 system. Sendmail, Dovecot IMAP, and Apache 2.0 are already installed. I'll be installing from ports or packages. Was wondering what you recommend. We have a small 5 person user base on a [fairly] screamin' new Dell box, so performance isn't an issue. Just easy to use, reliable, basic, low maintenance web mail. I'm leaning toward SquirrelMail, as I set it up on a test server a couple years ago and was pleased. Any other suggestions? -Thanks, Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: SATA to SCSI Raid Enclosure ...
At 03:53 PM 3/1/2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm looking for something 'cheap' that I can plug into a SCSI controller on my desktop machine that will allow me to house multiple SATA drives in it ... I don't need a lot of fancy features on it, and performance isn't a big issue ... Anything anyone out there using that they'd recommend, or know of manufacturers that do this? SCSI and SATA are two completely different animals, with their own controllers and cabling; although SATA has some features and performance that used to come only with SCSI. I think Adaptec makes an external drive unit that takes hot-swappable drives of both sorts in any slot. But being Adaptec, I'm pretty sure it won't meet your "cheap" criteria! -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ENOUGH ALREADY!! [WAS: Re: Where am I? :)]
WHY!!! Do we have to keep seeing a dozen messages a day about this?! You found a bug. Congrats. Thanks. Report it and quit beating the dead horse. -Wayne At 05:59 AM 3/5/2006, you wrote: The reason I didn't send any PR back then I didn't know if it's a bug or feature. Since there was virtually no response from list I assumed it's not a bug (at least not a serious one) and I just made a personal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ENOUGH ALREADY!! [WAS: Re: Where am I? :)]
At 10:28 AM 3/5/2006, you wrote: Wayne, you are over-reacting. Yeah, you're right. My bad :( I've just been deleting them, but I looked at a couple and it seemed like silly repetition from my statistically invalid sample. Sorry... -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Power adapter question (off topic, sorry)
At 11:57 PM 3/6/2006, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: I've lost my Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 power supply. The Access Point states it needs 9volts-DC @ 1.1amps. All I can find at Radio Shack is 9volts-DC @ 1.0amps. I did some quick googling, and it looks like the same unit is sold under HP and some other brands. Maybe you can find one on EBay with a power adapter? Otherwise... buy the Radio Shanty adapter and give it a try. I found a pic' of the internals of the unit, and it looks like it further filters and regulates the 9V to a lower level, so the slightly lower current output probably isn't a problem. Worst case, it just won't work; I doubt you can damage it trying. (disclaimer - I've been a hardware hobbyist for 30 or so years, but I flunked out of EE @ Univ of Cincinnati 21 years ago!) -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Setting fbsd up as a router?
At 04:28 PM 3/6/2006, Huy Ton That wrote: Would anyone happen to know where I may find tutorials on setting up my FBSD 6.0 Release box as a router with the intention to add firewall services? It is not 'BSD based [wish it was] but rather than reinvent the wheel, I would strongly recommend you try out IP-Cop http://ipcop.org/ A mere 20MB download gets you a CD ISO image that installs the whole Linux based firewall on a PC. Up to 4 interfaces, web configuration, traffic statistics, snort, transparent squid proxy, DHCP, VPN, just about anything you would probably want. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: per-user ftp traffic accounting ... possible ?
At 03:49 PM 3/6/2006, Ensel Sharon wrote: I am using the standard, stock FreeBSD ftpd, running out of inetd. Is there any way to keep track of how much ftp traffic is generated by each individual user ? See man ftpd for the "-l" option. You can bump up the log level to record file details. However, I don't know of any scripts to report from it, and the format is not too parser-friendly. Have you searched ports? Might be a reporting utility there. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question
At 05:30 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux system. I am Perhaps I'm not understanding the whole scenario, but are you trying to compile it BSD native, or compile and run it in Linux compatibility mode? If you're trying to use Linux compatibility mode, you need to make sure your session is really running in that mode. It's been a year+ since I tried it, but it wasn't real obvious in the handbook IIRC. You need to get a shell running in Linux mode first; that gets the "union" file system going, so the stuff in /compat/linux is "overlayed" on the root filesystem. The uname command is probably the most simple confirmation, eg: $ uname -a FreeBSD meddle.xxiii.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #8: Tue Jul 26 13:28:17 EDT 2005 $ ls /compat/linux/bin basenamedateksh pwd stty bashdd ln rm sync bash2 echols rmdir touch chgrp egrep mkdir rpm true chmod false mknod setserial uname chown fgrep mv sh cp grepnicesleep $ /compat/linux/bin/bash bash-2.04$ uname -a Linux meddle.xxiii.com 2.4.2 FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #8: Tue Jul 26 13:28:17 EDT 2005 Once you have an executable running in compatibility mode (the shell in this case), it will search the directory in /compat/linux first, and failing that look in the real root system. So if you type "make" and the first directory in your path is /usr/bin, it really looks in /compat/linux/usr/bin first, then the real /usr/bin. I doubt the standard Linux mode on FBSD has all the stuff to compile & link native Linux code, however. Hope I'm not re-stating the obvious, but once I figured this out, the compatibility mode made a BUNCH more sense. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
How to start a script running at boot time?
Hi, I have a script I would like to launch at boot time, as a non-root user, to remain running in the background. What is the best way to accomplish this? I looked through the rc* stuff, and it looks like overkill for what I need, plus my scripting isn't that strong either. I know I can do something like: su - user -c "script_to_run" But I don't even know what's the best place to include that. Any suggestions, or examples? -Thanks, Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Indiana goes to DST
At 11:08 AM 3/28/2006, you wrote: Selections 5 through 8 will no longer be valid in April. The list of counties changed. More counties than #6, #7, #8 are going to Central TZ, one county is going with "Commerce Time", and item #5 (most locations) is switching to DST. Crikeys! When is Indiana just gonna realize they are far enough west, they SHOULD all be Central time?! I grew up in western Ohio, and I remember it was light till nearly 11pm at the solstice. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Motherboards & Flaky Caps (was: 4.11 Server Locks Up)
At 04:23 PM 3/28/2006, Mark Cullen wrote: Upon further inspection of the motherboard, just before looking to buy a new one, I noticed bulging / leaking capacitors around the CPU socket. It looked like *all* of the most important caps were knackered. I am suprised it managed to turn on and stay up (for a while) at all. Yup, agreed. Caps are really the only components that go bad just from age. And on Intel Pentium 2 & up mobo's, as well as AMD stuff >= Athlon, they're heavily stressed and often marginal quality from the start. On any mobo's that support different CPU voltages, you'll see a bunch of caps, coils, etc usually adjacent to the CPU socket. It's a DC-DC power converter to generate all the required voltages. Lots of folks are also running later models CPUs that draw more power than the board was designed to work with, stressing they further. Thanks for the BadCaps.net tip -- I see *lots* of kits for ABIT [crap] -- why am I not surprised? -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Soekris Net4801 performance
At 10:19 AM 3/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just bought 2 soekris net4801-60 boxes and am having trouble getting them to perform under FreeBSD. They are on a 100Mbit network and the network works fine for other machines I've had trouble in the past with NICs using the "Ethernet autoselect" option. Check "man sis" to see how to set it manually, and try disabling full-duplex. Might also try ftp-ing via localhost, if that's fast, there's a good chance the problem is in the sis0 adapter and not the IP stack or OS. I'm curious to try to Soekris boxes myself; let us know what you figure out, please. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ssmtp
At 11:08 AM 3/29/2006, Andy Greenwood wrote: I'm having some trouble setting up ssmtp . but when I try to use /usr/bin/mail, I get logs in my maillog trying to use sendmail, which is set to none in rc.conf. How do I set this up so that all mail sends out through ssmtp? Edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf to use ssmtp instead of sendmail. "man mailer.conf" if you're not sure what's going on. If you installed via ports, you can just use "make replace". You'll also want to completely disable sendmail (easier said than done.) In rc.conf, add: sendmail_enable="NONE"# Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE). sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_submit_enable="NO"# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.
At 11:33 AM 3/30/2006, you wrote: File /etc/hosts looks like: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com mailsrv xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com. don't have duplicate names to different IP's. Also be sure you have dotted fully qualified names for both IP's. FWIW, the double entries are what sysinstall creates. I just loaded a new box yesterday and was wondering about that myself. Here's what it crated: # uname -a FreeBSD newb.xxiii.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0 # cat /etc/hosts ::1 localhost.xxiii.com localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.xxiii.com localhost 192.168.0.14newb.xxiii.com newb 192.168.0.14newb.xxiii.com. So what' with the doubles. anyway? -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ASCII files becoming double lined
Vaaf wrote: I pointed out a flaw in FreeBSD's methodology. The fact that it doesn't have one. I thought you were using DragonFlyBSD now. Why are you complaining on this list then? If there is one thing Vaaf does well, it's annoying all of you. If you judge it based on the number of responses he's generated, he not just good, HE'S A FREAKING CHAMPION! Go Vaaf! Much as I hate to use the term, all the attention is just "empowering" him. You know, like a bratty child. What do you say we all just ignore him, and hope he goes away? -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: ATA Drive Issues
At 05:52 PM 3/31/2006, fbsd_user wrote: Hay I am ran ata HD on 5.4 and now on 6.0 with out any problems. Your problems may be caused by your HD starting to go bad. You didn't say if you're running plain [parrallel] ATA or Serial ATA. Nearly two years ago I tried to replace our Samba file server with a new box running SATA with the Adaptec controller (1210??) based on the SiI 3112 chipset (same one ragged on here a couple days ago) and FBSD 5.something. Never made it into production -- same hangs you describe. I filed this issue: kern/70379: System hangs under heavy disk IO with SiI 3112 SATA150 There were a couple related fixes, but none completely cured it. I switched to a Promise SATA controller, and the problem was lessened to the point the machine was usable. But I can still make it hang just tar'ing a file system to a tar file on the same drive. Just bought a new Dell SC430 with SATA to replace the whole thing. Running 6.0 for a week now, and it seems solid. It's all Intel electronics: atapci0: . Don't know if the controllers are junk, or it's a FBSD issue. Once the new machine is swapped in, I plan to experiment with 6.0 on the old one to see. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: DHCPD config
At 04:43 PM 3/31/2006, you wrote: Your saying that dhcp client has no built in way to communicate to dhcpd the dns ip address it receives at boot time or during the normal lease update process? Not that I've seen. The script is pretty one-minded. Impression I get is you're expected to edit it to your requirements. Well I looked at that script code and it's way above my ability to write script code at that level. I'm pretty lousy at shell programming, but I managed to hack mine up as needed. Well, really just commented out all the stuff that mods resolv.conf and the routing. It's not all that complex as scripts go. other suggestion of adding my own LAN DNS server is over kill because my LAN just has 2 pc's on it and the only purpose of the LAN is to share a single dynamic IP address from my ISP. If that's all you're using the machine for, I'd suggest using IP-Cop: www.ipcop.org It's Linux, not BSD, but it's a very impressive near "turn key" firewall / nat router. Or you could hit Best Buy for a $40 Linksys box. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to upgrade samba version to 3.0.22
At 07:11 AM 4/1/2006, you wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6 and install samba from ports collection /usr/ports/net/samba3. The "make install" download and install samba 3.0.14a. I noticed samba has new version 3.0.22. How can I install the new version? You need to update your ports. Read the handbook. I would strongly suggest the "portsnap" utility, now standard equipment with 6.x. I feel like a dumb shit because I just discovered it yesterday, and had been using the much slower and ackward cvsup method. Basically, delete your current /usr/ports; portsnap fetch; portsnap extract; portsnap update. Repeat the fetch & update as needed in the future. Ports currently has 3.0.21b but '22 should be available in a couple days. I forget the details, but it was a fairly obscure security patch I wasn't worried about. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Server time doesn't want to stay set (help!)
At 10:37 AM 4/3/2006, Steve Douville wrote: My server time is off by exactly 4 hours. (EDT) I've reset it at the BIOS level, only to have it changed somehow during the boot process. I've tried setting and resetting it through sysinstall, but nothing helps. This sounds like an issue of the bios clock being set to UTC/GMT rather than local time. If you're bios is set to the actual local time, then you need the file /etc/wall_cmos_clock present. If it's set to universal time, make sure there is no such file. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Asus P3B-F MoBo -> Invalid partition table (5.x, 6.x)
At 11:35 AM 4/3/2006, Ewald Jenisch wrote: o) Has anybody else experienced this behavior - possibly also on a PC with Asus P3B-F motherboard? I have a few systems around with that board, and have never experienced such troubles with 4, 5, or 6. Just use the "auto" setting. What do you have set in the bios' boot menu for device boot order? If you hit "esc" on the keyboard, this mobo will offer a menu of boot devices, allowing you to completely override the bios setting. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Update from Ports removes dependency data
Hi All, I recently noticed if I update a package from ports, the package manager looses the dependency data for the package. eg: updating old version of gettext # pkg_info -R gett* Information for gettext-0.14.5_1: Required by: libgpg-error-1.1 libgcrypt-1.2.2 gnutls-1.2.9 p5-gettext-1.03 gmake-3.80_2 [[[ update from ports - make ; make deinstall ; make reinstall ]]] # pkg_info -R gett* Information for gettext-0.14.5_2: Is my procedure incorrect, or is this normal behavior? -Thanks, Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help? (unix as windoze replacement)
At 09:49 AM 4/6/2006, you wrote: Don't use FreeBSD. I know this will be an unpopular post on this list, but you've said a number of things that tell me that you will be unsuccessful with FreeBSD: Unpopular, perhaps. But good advice. If you're looking for a nearly effortless desktop unix, you might try Mepis Linux http://www.mepis.org/ It's designed to be what you seem to be looking for (a turn-key graphic desktop OS.) Runs or loads directly from CD; comes with browser, email, printing, OpenOffice, etc. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive
At 07:40 PM 4/6/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should be operated in read-only mode most of the time? I've only heard that on this list. I've read it on some linux lists too. Apparently there is some truth to it. It's supposedly not so bad that it's gonna fail in a week but don't put a swap slice on a flash device. Also, Crucial / Micron (memory manufacturers) address it in their FAQ at www.crucial.com and state that it is a real concern, but if you buy their flash devices, they are covered by their lifetime warranty, even if such a failure should occur. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: stop/start services
At 04:36 PM 4/12/2006, Pete Slagle wrote: "Service" instead of daemon? Our assimilation by the Borg proceeds apace. C'mon don't be so paranoid. There's been an etc/services since, well, probably since Billy Boy was living check to check ;) -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: CVSup/Ports Question
At 11:09 PM 4/12/2006, you wrote: question on . ports collection. I read in the handbook that the cvsup tag for the ports-* collection should be ".". "In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections." As I understand it, there is no "most recent version of port that still works with my very old FBSD version". You either get the ports snapshot that was out at the same time your release was released. Or you get the *most* recent version of the port, with no guarantee it will work on an exceedingly old FBSD version. In any case, don't screw with cvsup for ports; look into portsnap. It's included in 6.x and available in ports for older releases. It's easier, faster, and lower bandwidth. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Proper Method of Time Sync?
At 11:40 AM 4/14/2006, Jonathan Horne wrote: i have read about 2 methods to sync the time on a freebsd box. ...i have a workstation and a server, which i originally did method 1 on, but soon enough, time drifted quite a bit. so i switched it to the 2nd method, and they appear to be sync'd perfectly. a third box i set up, i did only method 2, and this one did not stay synced at all. after i manually ran 'ntpdate -v -b us.pool.ntp.org', this box straightend up. First off, ntpdate is obsolete, and will be retired "sometime in the future". Its functionality has been incorporated into ntpd. I think your problem is a limit in ntpd that's enabled by default. There is a limit on how large a correction ntpd will make at one time, even at boot up. ntpdate isn't that picky and always just syncs, even if the offset is large. Try some rtfmp on ntpd, ntpdate and ntpd.conf. I run ntpd on one server, with a flag (-g) set to always sync, eg: rc.conf: ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"# Sync time on ntpd startup, even if offset is high ntpd_flags="-A -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" And ntp.conf: server rolex.usg.edu driftfile /etc/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntpd.log restrict 208.62.177.32 mask 255.255.255.224 nomodify notrap My other servers and desktops are similarly configured, but sync off the first server. Be sure to specify the driftfile; ntpd will "learn" how fast or slow your clock is and record it, so it can apply corrections when/if an internet connection isn't up. Be sure the file exists and has some number. You can initialize with: echo "0" > /var//db/ntp.drift ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Unsubscribe me please
At 07:13 AM 11/18/2006, Andreas Rudisch wrote: I would appreciate it if you would remove me from your mailing list. Read the last line on _any_ email on this list. Aww c'mon guys! He asked very nicely, and he's obviously a non-techie. I sent an un-sub for him; hopefully he can handle the confirmation part, if there is one. -W ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x)
At 05:59 PM 12/11/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Besides, how hard is it to subscribe to a list, post your question and hopefully receive a satisfactory response and then terminate your association with the list if you are so inclined. Wasn't going to say anything, but... I agree totally that you should have to be subscribed to post. This isn't "AOL 101" -- some pittance of technical competence is a prereq'. "Try Googling before posting" is a repeated several times daily; why not make 'em subscribe first? Might cut down on some of that, as well as the spam & scam emails. I can't recall any other mailing lists I've been on in the last 10 years that allow non-subscribed posts. And from a more personal view, the "no subscription required" has bitten me at least once -- I always use alias addresses for publicly archived lists, since they will inevitably be scrapped up by the spammers and abused. I forgot to select the correct "From" on a post a few weeks ago; now a "real" address is chiseled in granite on the web archive, and I'll probably have to abandon it soon. Would have much rather had it bounced back at me. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x)
At 07:49 PM 12/12/2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The reason that questions doesen't require a subscription ought to be obvious to anyone with any experience with FreeBSD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is used as the default contact e-mail address for most non-financial FreeBSD dealings, such as on CD cases, NOPE. Disagree Completely. You are way out of touch. Those people don't comprehend a "mailing list". They do "web pages" and "web forums" and other clumsy devices. Put it on www.freebsd.org if you want it easily accessible to such people. They DON'T think they are dealing with a bunch of hayseeds sitting on their computers wanking at each other. I have some gripe with the list and its membership, but have never accused it of being a circle-jerk. Until then STFU you ungrateful bastards. All you once were dumb newbies Shut Up. Those guys are in the windoze or linux 'fest. -WC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Anything to recode mp3 files in the ports?
At 09:08 AM 4/15/2006, you wrote: I have a sizable collection of mp3 files (most of my CDs, actually) encoded at high ratio for archiving. I'd like to put some of them on a low-capacity player. Is there a utility (preferably -- a ported one), that can reencode an existing mp3 file at lower quality settings Check out sox: "sox - Sound eXchange : universal sound sample translator" I strongly suspect it will do what you want. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Trunking connections
At 05:19 AM 4/21/2006, Michael Landin Hostbaek wrote: In a branch office, I've got two ADSL lines setup (with two different ISPs) - one of them are supposed to work as backup line, but since it is a ADSL flat fee line, I was wondering if there's a way of setting up some sort of a trunk with FreeBSD, so I can make use of the extra bandwith. I came up with a hack that has worked well for us. We have a frac-T1 line (12/24 ths) that is very reliable, but costs ~$600/month and only gets about 70KB/sec. We also have a connection from the local cable company; it's not terribly reliable, but it's only $40/month, and gets 460KB/sec. I setup squid proxy with the option "tcp outgoing address 12.x.x.x" where the address is that of the cable NIC. Then configured ipfw to forward any packets with the 12' address to the cable gateway. We get very fast proxied speed for web browsing, ftp, and other bulk transfers. But the regular traffic still goes over the T1 line. Sorta kludgy, but since I'm no routing expert, I was pleased with the results :) -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: account maintenance and verification ( Your account is suspended )
WHY does this mailing list allow non-subscribed addresses to post ?!?!?!?!? At 08:38 PM 4/25/2006, Some Low Life Spammer / Scammer wrote: PayPal Security Measures! In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Restore your online bank account
Dang it!! Read the Fn HANDBOOK! This belongs under [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! (yeah, I top-posted. But I edited.) At 01:52 AM 4/29/2006, you wrote: Security Update Notification Dear Valued Customer : As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the Bank of America Online Bank system. We recently contacted you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Fwd: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org
At 07:01 AM 5/9/2006, you wrote: I have to agree with the original poster. The logo is crap, and so is the font they've started to use since the announcement of FreeBSD6.1-RELEASE. At Me Too. At first I thought it was just a petty complaint. But if you're trying to "sell" FreeBSD to a boss or customer, a serious, business-like web site surely helps. The new one seems to borrow too much from the "hax0r" community's appearance. And the font overflows and looks like complete shit on my browser; usually this would just be blamed on using a "Non Microsoft Browser" (FireFox on windoze) but until we have IE for FBSD, it seems a legit complaint. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....
At 04:25 PM 5/12/2006, you wrote: inetd running is discouraged. Instead run the daemons on boot using rc scripts. If you look back in the history, inetd running is a security risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases. Is that still really true? Waaayyy back when, inetd would have all kinds of dangerous services enabled by default (allowing DOS stuff like spewing "chargen" into "discard"). But that was a configuration issue, and issues with the services it launched; not with inetd itself. The authentication is still done within ftpd. You're just saving the tiny overhead of running it all the time for occasional use. And inetd does allow the tcpwrappers for anything it launches (obviously the wrappers are compiled into many other things now, ftpd included.) -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....
At 08:42 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele wrote: You say tcpwrappers are compiled into ftpd? Are you sure? How can I "enable" or otherwise use them? If I add things to hosts.allow they seem to have no influence. This would solve my problem as I would not need inetd. My Bad. It seems it does not. It's running from inetd on the box I regularly edit hosts.allow on. The performance benefit inetd once offered -- not having a lot of background process for seldom used services -- is not a big deal today. But security-wise, spawning other programs that would just be directly listening on a port otherwise doesn't seem terribly insecure. Could it even be argued beneficial? -- you have a single, simple piece of code accepting the initial connections, instead of 20 processes doing the same thing with 20 different pieces of code, any one of which could have an exploit. If an exploit was conceived that could take advantage lots of programs listening on any old socket, it seems the vulnerability would be lessened, or at least easier to fix. I don't claim to be an expert security guy or OS programmer, but so far I haven't heard an explanation besides "don't do that". -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Cvsup verses Portsnap
At 01:35 PM 5/13/2006, Tom Moore wrote: Which program is best for retrieving and keeping the ports tree up to date? What are some pros and cons of each approach? Is one method better than the other? I just discovered portsnap a couple months ago after loading a couple new machines with 6.0. It is AWESOME (thanks, Colin! (the guy that developed it)). Do not even screw with cvsup for your ports. portsnap is faster, easier, and (I'm told) even lower bandwith and server overhead. About the only downside, is it has a directory in /var/db that was about 50MB with a bunch of little files last I looked, and I suspect it grows with time. But what's disk space these days? -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X?
> I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories > (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( textproc/meld ) > can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing You said "for X" -- check out Kdiff3 -- it rocks if you're looking for a visual comparison tool (though I've only used it under windoze) http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ or /usr/ports/textproc/kdiff3 -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ports upgrade question
On 6/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run "make index && make readmes" after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup ports You don't need to run make index... just cd into /usr/ports and type Better yet, don't screw with cvsup. "Portsnap" is standard equipment in 6.x. It's much faster, uses less bandwidth, and is even less load on the update server. And it does the indexes automatically. Just "man portsnap" or search the archives. -Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
