http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/

Could someone help me find the contact information for the person who is responsible for the bigdisk page? I have a suggested update (related to PR kern/84589) that may help other people using multi-terabyte servers get better usability from FreeBSD. ___

Developer's Handbook DDB instructions

I'm trying to track down a background fsck deadlock bug. I've found a thread on groups.google.com about another person having a similar problem but with snapshots. The suggestion made there was to compile a kernel with DDB, and the user was referred to the Developer's Handbook. http://www.freebsd.

sendmail patches

The patches listed in the recent advisory about sendmail don't currently exist on the FTP server. Does this mean: a) They're just not there yet. b) They were there, but they were taken down because of some problem with them. I'm concerned it may be b) because the advisory indicates they're not s

Re: Spash screen will not come up

On 10/18/05, Daniel Rudy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. The problem that I have is that the > splash screen will not come up. I have made sure that the bmp is 256 > colors. I have tried uncompressed and RLE compressed bmps. The RLE > compressed versio

Re: Is dump different?

On 10/18/05, vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new desktop with netbsd 2.0.2 and a portable with freebsd 5.4 (my pet > OS but it didn't boot on the compaq evo 510 box; therefore netbsd!). > Now, I had dumped my previous old desktop with freebsd 5.4 to a > samba share and then

Re: root can't write to NFS mounted directory

On 10/18/05, Mohan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some home directories that is mounted over NFS. > > The users who log in via NIS can write to their respective home > directories, but root on the NFS client can't. > > The NFS directories are exported via a NAS. I know it is not a > conf

Re: fsck woes: no '-b' option?

On 10/18/05, darren david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE THE > -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE > SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8). > > > > > this is all well and good, but according to 'man 8 fsc

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

On 10/20/05, Olaf Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Well, it all seems to be a question of granting users access to the > > right file. Have you checked permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db ? > > These are both 644, owned by root:wheel. > > > These should be world readable while /e

Re: writing to syslog from a shell script?

On 10/23/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How could I write an entry to syslog from a shell script. For > example, I want to write an entry stating that a command worked or > didn't work, along with an error message. Check out logger(1) ___

i386/55603, i386/59959, kern/75850, fixed in 6.0?

Can anyone using the Mylex A352 controller update/merge the following PRs if the bug has been fixed in 6.0? Or confirm whether or not it is still present in 6.0-RC? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/55603 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/59959 http://www.freebsd.org/cg

Re: i386/55603, i386/59959, kern/75850, fixed in 6.0?

On 10/25/05, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:30:49AM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: > > Can anyone using the Mylex A352 controller update/merge the following > > PRs if the bug has been fixed in 6.0? Or confirm whether or not it is > &

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

On 10/27/05, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Must be -- some flag produces unique bits in the executables. I'm a > little surprised there isn't (AFAICT) anything descriptive in > file(1)'s manpage or /u/s/mi/magic that would explain the > discrepancy. Didn't see anything in quick looks thro

Re: increasing mount size

On 10/27/05, eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oops! typo... sorry... output: > nathaniel# du -s /var/* > 2 /var/account > 6 /var/at > 8 /var/backups > 4 /var/crash > 4 /var/cron > 71010 /var/db This is probably because the port uses /var/db/mysql as the database

Re: linux: command not found

On 10/27/05, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to load the linux kernel module to install java. > > When I type linux, I get a command not found error. > > Do I need to install a port or is this an issue with my kernel > configuration? The "linux" script is no longer in Free

Re: build ports without X -- make.conf

On 11/7/05, Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/08/05 02:16 Dan Mahoney, System Admin said the following: > > For some reason this is gone in 5.x -- what's the appropriate way to do > > this now (since WITHOUT_X11 still worked on a couple ports I've tried.) > > am also not sure if th

Re: how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

On 11/8/05, user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I'm not asking "why do I need to sync" ... I understand why I need to > wait, or issue a sync command. No problems there. > > What I am asking is, why is one issuance of `sync` not enough ? Why is > two not enough ? Why do I need to issue 6 or 8

Re: copying standard input to standard output

On 11/12/05, Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am wanting to copy standard output to a file. > > I know that 'tee' will do this fine. > > blah | tee it > > but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output when pipping to > tee. > > other than screen what are some appli

Re: Obtaining release 4.1

On 11/11/05, Dinh C. Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to download release 4.1 from the website and I am unable to > connect to either of the ftp sites from FreeBSD.org. I was wondering if the > server is down because I would like to get a copy of release 4.1. Thank you. > Di

Re: ntpdate

On 11/15/05, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a "ntpdate -b server" rule in my rc.conf before the ntpd daemon > starts up. I get error msgs that the time server cannot be found. > Is named run before or after ntpdate? > Should I change the rule in something like "ntpdate -b ip" ?

Re: Release engineering confusion

On 11/16/05, Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. However, that entire page out of the handbook pretty much > clarifies that a production environment should *not* track either STABLE > or CURRENT. > > So I'm assuming I'm best off with RELENG_6_0 etc, etc? Does anyone here > actual

Re: Release engineering confusion

On 11/16/05, Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of David Kirchner D'oh. I had no idea my From header looked like that. Another gmail frustration. &g

Re: Need urgent help regarding security

On 11/16/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also see a psyBNC server listening on port 7978: > > server# sockstat -l4 | grep psybnc > USER COMMANDPID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS > wicked6 psybnc 15819 3 tcp4 *:7978*:* > > Funny thing i

Re: pausing boot process

On 11/17/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:27 AM, James Bailie wrote: > > > J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > > > > Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is > > > read-able?? > > > > No. After the system boots, log in as, or su to, root, and > >

Re: background fsck

On 11/20/05, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the rule to decide if filesystem may be background checked or not? > > for example my / is checked foreground, while /home checked background. > > can't root partition be background checked too? The root partition is probably checke

Re: php mail()

On 11/23/05, Kim johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cant get the mail function in php to work. If i try to run a script > with the mail() function, the script is just sleeping, doing nothing. > Have enabled debug in php, but dont got any errors. sendmail works > fine if i use it from commandli

Re: how to see process in /proc filesystem???

On 11/24/05, Javier Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I know that /proc filesystem provide an interface to see process in > the computer but the problem is that mi /proc folder is empty and I don´t > know how to enable it. You can mount /proc with: mount -t procfs /proc /proc __

Re: file permission question

/etc/passwd (probably really /etc/pwd.db) are used for several user-land programs including 'ls'. It's highly recommended that /etc/passwd stay readable to the world. Btw, the output of 'ps' can be easily reconstructed via access to the /proc filesystem. You can unmount this partition, but ps will

Re: mysqld startup problems

On 8/29/05, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not directly, but when I find myself in this pickle, I try to see what > exactly is the process doing: > > $ ktrace /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start > > ( wait for it to finish ) > > kdump -f ./ktrace.out | less > > and look for

Re: Turning off file flags during restore

On 8/30/05, Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 www www schg 73 Jul 27 22:04 foo.txt > > I understand that some of the attributes on the NetApp may be confusing > restore. I don't really have a problem with that. Is there a way to not set > the file flags during restore? I don't r

Re: mouse wheel problem

On 8/30/05, Efren Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > Option "Buttons" "5" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4

Re: How to get /etc/ssh back

On 8/30/05, Sean P. Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The system does ask for entropy upon the next reboot but the generation > of the keys and startup of sshd fail since there is no /etc/ssh. > > If the install program doesn't create /etc/ssh, what does and how do I > get it back? > > Thanks!

Re: server name QDN

On 8/31/05, Dark Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > >Well, Im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Fresh installation, and i have a simple > question >Lets say I named my box Xname so in rc.conf the hostname ="xname" > >When the machine start, the logs will start to complain /var/log/mes

Re: Shell scripting question

On 9/12/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I strip the leading character from the string so that I can test to > see if it's zero? This'll strip the 0, while leaving other numbers intact: $ X=09 $ echo ${X#0} 9 ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: tcp connections not showing up anymore on netstat?

On 9/23/05, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I've got a rather strange problem. Yestoday, when I rebooted my box I > was still able to ping the box, but no services started (apache,ssh > etc), nor did they show up on netstat. So I rebooted it again, now I > could connect to the box

Re: Intel 2U server 4GB RAM showing only 3GB

On 9/28/05, Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a new dual Xeon Intel 2U server which I'm configuring with > FreeBSD 5.4 and I can't get it to see more than 3GB RAM. If I try use > the MAXMEM=(4096*1024) option it fails to boot up and just resets > itself. Do I need to use t

Re: sftp connection problems

On 9/30/05, Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just sent a PR suggesting a fix to > http://www.freebsd. > org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86759 > The problem is: > Trying to connect with a > client to an sshd server using sftpd the client fails connection > invariably complaining: > > sftp-se

Re: Weird Real memory reported with 5.4 PAE support

On 9/30/05, Tamouh H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > We have a Supermicro that has Winston 4GB of ECC Registered DDR333 RAM. Dual > Xeon Processors. > > With PAE enabled, it seems the system reports 6GB of realmemory instead of > 4GB, as below: We've seen similar stuff with Supermicro s

Re: Checksum failed

On 10/1/05, Hamza Eraldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it is same: > cat distinfo > MD5 (php-4.4.0.tar.bz2) = e85b606fe48198bfcd785e5a5b1c9613 > I have already updated the ports. > The command was also make install clean distclean. > After a reboot and a new make install, the file (zlib.so) has

Re: Complete hangs while extracting source

On 10/2/05, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I tell? I doubt this to be the problem, since I experience same > problem on two other machines as well. Only thing they share (except same > lousy administrator :-) is that they all run on AMD CPUs (1700+, 1800+ and > 3500+)

Re: Complete hangs while extracting source

On 10/3/05, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The logfile can be found at > . Are you able to parse > anything usable from it? I don't see anything wrong with the figures from that log. The only other thing I can think of t

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

On 10/4/05, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 00:44, Brian John wrote: > > I think I'm having a similar problem with totem (which uses xine) and vlc. > > Can you try installing /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc and see what that does? > > If that gives a bus error as well

sysinstall MEDIA_TIMEOUT pretty high

MEDIA_TIMEOUT is used to determine how long it will wait between retrying a DNS lookup. Would there be any objection to modifying the defaults sysinstall to lower its default MEDIA_TIMEOUT from 300 seconds to something more like 10, and then increasing the retry count from 2 to 30? The net result

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

On 10/4/05, Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It probably is. However, I'm not sure how to go about figuring out > which one of these dependencies it is, let alone how to fix it. Could > you help us troubleshoot this? BTW, I used portmanager to upgrade my ports. I don't know if I can be m

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

On 10/4/05, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I've done that for xine, here's the last bit: > 1935 xine RET read 4096/0x1000 > 1935 xine CALL mmap(0,0x5e000,0x5,0x20002,0x6,0,0,0) > 1935 xine RET mmap 692838400/0x294be000 > 1935 xine CALL mprotect(0x294ec000,0

Re: Security risk associated with a NIC's promiscuous mode?

On 10/7/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A mild one. For example, I believe there was recently a security bug in > tcpdump's string handling which could be exploited by tcpdump seeing a > maliciously-crafted packet. Running the NIC in promisc mode means that packet > just has to go b

Re: Re: Problem upon upgrade ...

On 10/7/05, Aleksandar Kacanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /dev/console problem : > I found a bit more on this issue. > /var/log/messages: > Oct 7 10:42:14 nyfbsds01 kernel: Mounting root from > ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > Oct 7 10:42:16 nyfbsds01 init: can't get /dev/console for > controlling terminal:

Re: NFS no longer works?

On 10/7/05, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No dice, but thanks for trying =). > -Garrett Some other questions then: Is rpcbind running? Does it show mountd registered? Try "rpcinfo p" to check. You should see something like: 151 udp 1022 mountd 153 udp

Re: tunefs problem

On 10/8/05, Sasa Stupar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to enable tunefs for my filesystem but I get the following: > - > # tunefs -n enable / > tunefs: soft updates cannot be enabled until fsck is run > tunefs: /dev/ad2s1a: failed to write superblock > - > > But AF

Re: Patching to FreeBSD 5.4-p7

On 10/9/05, Deepak Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD > 5.4-p7 > > Cheers, > Deepak Naidu. The common response to this is that it's in the handbook. I'm trying to find it there, though, and am having a lot of troub

Re: port version

On 10/9/05, eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I have done some searching but not really found my answer. I was > wondering if there is a way to check port version? I cvsup'd my ports > and id like to check version of some ports before I install them... > I know many have the version in th

Re: Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of this?

On 10/12/05, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am snooping on the squid-users mailing list and something interesting > (maybe not!) is mentioned: > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap6sec73.html > > Do we have an equivalent on this in any branch (4.x, 5.x,

Re: Patch vs. Upgrade

On 10/12/05, Cody Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still pretty new to the BSD world and wanted to throw out a question > to see what kind of responses I get. What is everyones take on what to > do when security vulnerabities are discovered. Do you upgrade your > source (not always the ea

Re: Patch vs. Upgrade

On 10/12/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If things are not too tight on yout hard drive, > consider the cvsup way. It's very easy - and > very clearly described in the handbook. I've seen many people say this, but I suspect they haven't tried looking for information on patching using cv

Re: Patch vs. Upgrade

On 10/12/05, Cody Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the response. I did a terrible job of asking the correct > question to get the response I wanted. I do know to cvsup the source > and build/make world. I currently have 4 FreeBSD servers in production > serving various tasks. Th

Re: Patch vs. Upgrade

On 10/12/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's just not true. Cvsupping to something like > RELENG_5_4 will do exactly the same thing as > a patch, only it's the hassle-free way. You see > a sec-advisory, you type "cvsup -g -L 2 mysup" > recompile what's suggested in the advisory, or >

Re: Patch vs. Upgrade

On 10/12/05, David Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/12/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's just not true. Cvsupping to something like > > RELENG_5_4 will do exactly the same thing as > > a patch, only it's the hassle-free way.

Re: Patch vs. Upgrade

On 10/13/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see a single reason why I shouldn't ask > the BSD daemon to flame the hell out of you :-) > > Try again to verify. And again. Again then. And > if you think that 5 times are enough, you might > be right. But they are not enough for you. Y

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a > for loop. To test, I've written the following: > > for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname > "*.gif" -print` > do > echo

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In the > script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I want. Now I > want to keep track of how many times the loop executes. Thus I included > this line between the '

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, what I'd like my wm to be able to do is > set app (say xload) > > /usr/bin/nice -n -17 xload -g 50x90+0+0 & > > so that I'll be able to nice it down to some low value, > control the placing and

NFS server not responding, new in 6.0

We recently replaced FreeBSD 4.5 with 6.0-RELEASE on a pair of servers. One of the servers runs rsync to copy its contents to the other server, over a NFS mount. Everything worked just fine under 4.5, but with 6.0, we're seeing dozens of these errors every rsync: May 2 14:00:59 xxx1 kernel: nfs